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Saturday, July 22, 2006

Last night, Richard, Steve, Robin and I went to see Pet Shop Boys in concert at Thetford Forest.

I wasn't entirely sure what to make of the venue - what I wasn't expecting was picnic rugs and picnics!? This gave the event a very English feel - what could be more English than the Pet Shop Boys in the forest on a balmy summers evening?

The set was brilliant and Neil sang the best I have heard him.

THere were lots of tracks from Fundamental and a liberal dash of popular singles from the back catalogue. NOtably for me they missed out three of my favourite songs (Domino Dancing, What Have I Done the Deserve This? and Being Boring) and the set instead included different songs such as Dreaming of the Queen and Shopping.

This made for a very varied set though and the whole concert absolutely flew by.

We got a great view of the stage, thanks to all the gaps created by the picnic sets! It was quite a show too - the dancers were brilliant and the set was very clever - a king of giant Rubix cube with each twist providing a new function or feature.

I have uploaded a host of photographs that we took last night and hope (if I can clean up the sound), to put some of the videos together at some point.

[Listening to: The Sodom And Gomorrah Show - Pet Shop Boys - Fundamental (5:19)]


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