The world-class pop hit mesmerized the sold-out Jäähalli with a buzzing warm spirit and cleverly constructed. Neil Tennant, who is turning 69 years old, shone on stage, throwing himself with extraordinary generosity.
Pet Shop Boys at the Helsinki Ice Hall on Tuesday 4 July 2023
British veteran pop duo Pet Shop Boys has been seen repeatedly over the years on different stages in Finland. Nevertheless, the band’s tenth concert in Finland could be previewed with a special titillation.
The instructions could have been like this: now if ever you should drag your bones to Nordis’ sweltering hall, if you want to experience the top band in its old days in all its glory.
More than forty years ago, they found each other in a synthesizer shop in London Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe are known as masterful pop writers, whose series of first five albums spanning from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s is unmatched.
In their peak years, the duo wrote a unique series of chart hits, the essential gift of which can be found in 1991 Discography– from the compilation album.
Even though the peri-British duo famously never won a Grammy award, Kimara can be considered in the field of pure melodic pop music and as an expression of its era, even the best in history. It’s almost the same level Madonna The Immaculate Collection – collection.
The ice hall concert was sold out.
Ice rink Tuesday’s sold-out concert was part of one that started last year Dreamworld-tour, based for the first time on the greatest hits.
In a generous concert of just under two hours, the exceptions to the expected hit line were mainly brought by the energetic kickers of the latest album Dreamlandstupidly Domino Dancing -cut the masterpiece to a pulp and unnecessary Monkey Businessthe hit track of the last decade that received a more energetic reception than expected Vocal and the beginning of 1986 Suburbia-released as the b-side of the single Paninaro-whimsy.
Hedonistically Italian-influenced, added to the repertoire only during the tour Paninaro seemed to have passed by the slowly warming Finnish audience. However, the song offered one of the treats of the evening, when Lowe, the epitome of coolness, who is known to be left in the background, listed the lyrics of the song robotically from the podium: ”Girls, boys, art, pleasure…”
Pet Shop Boysin the expression is built from a combination of hugely entertaining pop carnival and thoughtful, restrained, androgynous and even minimalist linearity. The rotation created a handsome and stylish setting for Tuesday’s great concert as well.
As a description of a relationship, which caused cold shivers and broke out from Thatcherian harshness into unadorned flourishing Rent opened handsomely directly Where the Streets Have No Namen and I Can’t Take My Eyes off You’n about American-style singing together.
Roaring from symphony to piano house It’s Alright glowed with “the music plays forever” lyrics unexpectedly as one of the most fulfilling moments of the evening.
The band started of the concert, discreetly hiding behind some kind of space-age rabbit masks. Two stage light poles and a video wall that reflected the barrack game aesthetic created the frame for the band’s trademark suburban romance.
Love Comes Quickly The opening verses from the song could be regarded as a warm-hearted sneer to the middle-aged audience as much as to the band itself: “Sooner or later this happens to everyone. To everyone.”
After a stiff start, the atmosphere was clearly relieved when the video wall raised to the ceiling revealed the background band behind it.
A little later, Tennant and the keyboard player Clare Uchiman performed the choreography Lo-lo-London-spiritual duet What Have I Done to Deserve This? from the song.
Much of the concert’s brilliant vitality and happiness-filled atmosphere went to Tennant, who turns 69 next Monday. In the light of the previous concerts, the singer’s radiant self-deprecation could be considered exceptionally energetic.
Chris Tennant, soon to be 69, performed with extraordinary energy.
The last two songs during this time, there was a kind of moving homecoming to the low-gesture style and the band’s spiritual core, when the duo returned to the stage to present the artistic peaks of their careers and perhaps their most essential moments.
Old black-and-white videos in bits and pieces West End Girlsin during the crowd’s screams, it was perhaps not heard how the band changed the “Finland Station” lyrics from the tour to the more current form “from Mariupol to the Kyiv Station” as usual.
Umpilohdullisen Being Boringin while playing, the pop uncles strutted on stage in their iconic outfits like two pet store boys in the 1980s – Tennant in his stylish long coat, ultra-cool Lowe Boy cap, gray hoodie and leather horses.
Pet Shop Boys song list in Helsinki 4.7.
1. Suburbia
2. Can You Forgive Her?
3. Opportunities
4. Where the Streets Have No Name (I Can’t Take My Eyes off You)
5. Rent
6. I Don’t Know What You Want but I Can’t Give It Any More
7. So Hard
8. Left to My Own Devices
9. Single-Bilingual / Se a vida é (That´s the Way Life Is)
10. Domino Dancing
11. Monkey Business
12. New York City Boy
13. Jealously
14. Love Comes Quickly
15. Paninaro
16. Always On My Mind
17. Dreamland
18. Heart
19. What Have I Done To Deserve This
20. It’s Alright
21. Vocal
22. Go West
23. It’s A Sin
24. West End Girls
25. Being Boring