Pet Shop Boys played the first date of their new “Electric” tour last night at the Cumbre Tajin festival in Mexico. Although the tour doesn’t really get going until May, this show was a preview of much of the music and visuals and included two songs from the forthcoming “Electric” album: “Axis” and “The last to die”. This was the full set list:
Axis
One more chance/Face like that
Opportunities
Memory of the future
Fugitive/Integral
(Sample of “The Rite of Spring” by Igor Stravinsky.)
I wouldn’t normally do this kind of thing
Suburbia
I’m not scared
Invisible
The last to die/Somewhere
West End girls
Domino dancing
Love etc
It’s a sin
Always on my mind
Go west
First Electric date
On this day 20 years ago, Pet Shop Boys premiered their new score to Eisenstein’s classic 1925 Russian silent film “Battleship Potemkin” in front of an estimated audience of 20,000 at London’s Trafalgar Square. PSB performed behind gauze with the Dresdner Sinfoniker conducted by Jonathan Stockhammer, playing orchestrations by Torsten Rasch while the movie is projected on a giant screen above the performers. Listen to the score at the link below. Photo: Open Culture
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