MUSIC: Pet Shop Boys confirm Dublin theatre date

AFTER the huge success of the first part of their Super World Tour last autumn, the Pet Shop Boys have just announced a concert date for Ireland.  

Following sold-out concerts in the USA, Canada, Germany, Holland and Denmark, the band have confirmed they will play a concert date at the Bord Gais Energy Theatre on Tuesday, September 5.

The band will play songs from their entire career as well as from their current album ‘Super’.

The Super tour was staged by long-term Pet Shop Boys designer Es Devlin and choreographer Lynne Page.

Live arrangements were created together with Stuart Price, who produced the Super album.

When the show was premiered last summer in a sold-out season at the Royal Opera House in London, it was described by The Independent newspaper as “a vivid, laser-laden spectacular”.

The Daily Telegraph raved that “the show encompasses high culture, club culture, theatre, cinema, political satire and a mind-bending laser show”. 

For over 25 years the Pet Shop Boys have been regarded as innovators of the modern live music show, incorporating multimedia and theatrical elements into their productions.

And they have worked with Derek Jarman, Zaha Hadid and Sam Taylor-Johnson. 

Super entered the UK album charts at at number 3, making it their sixteenth Top 10 recortd.

The first single ‘The Pop Kids’ reached the number one spot on Billboard’s US Dance Club Charts in which Pet Shop Boys are the most successful duo and male artists ever. 

The Pet Shop Boys (Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe) are the most successful duo in UK music history.

Since signing to Parlophone Records in 1985, they have achieved 42 Top 30 singles in the UK including 22 Top 10 hits and four number ones. They have released 13 studio albums all of which have made the UK Top 10 as well as album charts around the world.

 As writers, producers and remixers, Tennant and Lowe have collaborated, remixed or written for a wide range of artists including Dusty Springfield, Lady Gaga, Liza Minnelli, Madonna, David Bowie and Girls Aloud.