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Homecoming gig for music legends
AS HOMECOMINGS go there can't be many bigger ones than that afforded to South Shore's Pet Shop Boy Chris Lowe in Blackpool's mighty Empress Ballroom last night.
For almost more years than he, musical partner Neil Tennant and a large percentage of the duo's older fans care to admit, he has been the modest man of electro pop – happy to hide behind his bank of keyboards.
But even he must have been moved to emotion by the response given to Pet Shop Boys' first Blackpool visit in what the urbane Tennant had to admit was "a long gap".
In return for their reaction to the long overdue return those who hadn't left after the official encore were, in turn, thanked by a special, rather ad hoc, version of Blackpool FC's goal scoring anthem Glad All Over.
The 100 minute tour set has been honed to perfection – starting with the likes of the recent Pandemonium from the Yes album and working haphazardly through mostly familiar material before ending with their debut number one, West End Girls.
In their 25 years of hits the Pet Shop Boys have become masters of making art pop by incorporating the influences of pop art.
FOR THE FULL REVIEW SEE WEDNESDAY'S GAZETTE.
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