- Concrete (Pet Shop Boys album)
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Concrete Live album by Pet Shop Boys Released 23 October 2006 Recorded May 8, 2006 Genre Pop Label Parlophone Producer Trevor Horn Pet Shop Boys chronology Fundamental
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(2007)Concrete is the seventeenth album by the British band Pet Shop Boys. It was released on 23 October 2006. Due to be called Concert, on 20 September 2006, Pet Shop Boys announced that the album was going to be called Concrete, which was the title that they originally wanted for the album. It is the first live concert to be released by the band on Audio CD.
Contents
The concert
The performance recorded for the album took place at the Mermaid Theatre on May 8, 2006, as an exclusive for broadcast on BBC Radio 2's Sold on Song program. Attendance, totaling 600, was by invitation or through winning competitions held by Radio 2 and the band's official website. The event was hosted by the BBC's Stuart Maconie.
The May 27 Radio 2 broadcast included an interview conducted by Maconie, but excluded four songs from the running order ("You Only Tell Me You Love Me When You're Drunk", "After All", "Numb", and "Dreaming of the Queen"). The full concert was later broadcast on BBC 6 Music on August 28.
Song selection
Due to the presence of the orchestra, the setlist was composed to consist of songs originally recorded with an orchestra. Consequently, aside from an extensive selection of songs from Fundamental, various non-studio album tracks were chosen, including the arrangement of "Rent" from the Liza Minnelli album Results, originally arranged by Angelo Badalamenti; "After All", the portion of the band's Battleship Potemkin soundtrack that accompanies the Odessa Steps sequence from the film (performed with the scene projected on a screen in the background); "Friendly Fire", from the Closer to Heaven musical; and "Nothing Has Been Proved", the theme song from Scandal, also arranged by Badalamenti.
"West End Girls" and "It's a Sin" were the only exceptions to the rule, and were reworked to integrate the orchestra.
Personnel
Pet Shop Boys are:
Other musicians:
- Trevor Horn – music director, bass and backing vocals
- The BBC Concert Orchestra
- Pete Gleadall – programming
- Nick Ingman – conductor
- Anne Dudley – piano, keyboards
- Phil Palmer – guitar
- Steve Lipson – guitar
- Paul Robinson – drums
- Lol Creme – backing vocals
- Andy Caine – backing vocals
- Lucinda Barry – backing vocals
- Sylvia Mason-James – backing vocals
- Sally Bradshaw – opera singer
Guest singers:
Track listing
CD one
- "Left to My Own Devices" (8:37)
- "Rent" (3:56)
- "You Only Tell Me You Love Me When You're Drunk" (3:31)
- "The Sodom and Gomorrah Show" (5:33)
- "Casanova in Hell" (sung by Rufus Wainwright) (3:40)
- "After All" (7:56)
- "Friendly Fire" (sung by Frances Barber) (3:57)
- "Integral" (4:01)
CD two
- "Numb" (5:03)
- "It's Alright" (5:03)
- "Luna Park" (6:21)
- "Nothing Has Been Proved" (4:40)
- "Jealousy" (sung by Robbie Williams) (5:57)
- "Dreaming of the Queen" (5:28)
- "It's a Sin" (5:18)
- "Indefinite Leave to Remain" (2:59)
- "West End Girls" (4:55)
References
- "Radio 2 Concert". Literally (Pet Shop Boys fanclub magazine). July 2006. http://www.petshopboys.net/html/literallys/literally_30/page2.htm. Retrieved 2006-09-10.
External links
The concert
- Pet Shop Boys official site All official announcements
- BBC Radio 2 - Sold on Song Concert page, with photos
- Boywatch Fan review
Studio albums - Please
- Actually
- Introspective
- Behaviour
- Very
- Bilingual
- Nightlife
- Release
- Fundamental
- Yes
Compilation albums - Discography: The Complete Singles Collection
- Alternative
- Essential
- PopArt: The Hits
- Story: 25 Years of Hits
- Party
- Ultimate
- Format
Remix albums Live albums - Concrete
- Pandemonium
Extended plays Soundtracks and scores - Closer to Heaven
- Battleship Potemkin
- The Most Incredible Thing
Singles - "West End Girls"
- "One More Chance"
- "Opportunities (Let's Make Lots of Money)"
- "Love Comes Quickly"
- "Suburbia"
- "Paninaro"
- "It's a Sin"
- "What Have I Done to Deserve This?"
- "Rent"
- "Always on My Mind"
- "Heart"
- "Domino Dancing"
- "Left to My Own Devices"
- "It's Alright"
- "So Hard"
- "Being Boring"
- "How Can You Expect to Be Taken Seriously?"
- "Where the Streets Have No Name (I Can't Take My Eyes off You)"
- "Jealousy"
- "DJ Culture"
- "Was It Worth It?"
- "Can You Forgive Her?"
- "Go West"
- "I Wouldn't Normally Do This Kind of Thing"
- "Absolutely Fabulous"
- "Liberation"
- "Yesterday, When I Was Mad"
- "Paninaro '95"
- "Before"
- "Se a vida é (That's the Way Life Is)"/"To Step Aside"
- "Single-Bilingual"
- "A Red Letter Day"
- "Somewhere"
- "I Don't Know What You Want But I Can't Give It Any More"
- "New York City Boy"
- "You Only Tell Me You Love Me When You're Drunk"
- "Break 4 Love"
- "Home and Dry"
- "I Get Along"
- "London"
- "Miracles"
- "Flamboyant"
- "I'm with Stupid"
- "Minimal"
- "Numb"
- "She's Madonna"
- "Integral"
- "Love etc."
- "Did You See Me Coming?"
- "Beautiful People"
- "Love Life"
- "Together"
Other songs - "King's Cross"
- "The Loving Kind"
- "The Night I Fell in Love"
- "I'm Not Scared"
- "In Private"
- "Nothing Has Been Proved"
- "So Sorry, I Said"
- "Don't Drop Bombs"
- "Euroboy"
Film, stage and television - It Couldn't Happen Here
- Closer to Heaven
- Pet Shop Boys: A Life In Pop
- The Most Incredible Thing
Notable tours and concerts - MCMLXXXIX Tour
- Performance Tour
- Discovery Tour
- Somewhere Shows
- Nightlife Tour
- Summer Tour
- Uni/Release Tour
- Summer Tour/Fall '04 Tour
- Fundamental Tour
- Pandemonium Tour
- Progress Live (as special guests)
Related articles - Discography
- Spaghetti Records
- Reputation
- Results
- Electronic
- Back to Mine: Pet Shop Boys
- West End Girls
Categories:- Pet Shop Boys albums
- Albums produced by Trevor Horn
- 2006 live albums
- Double live albums
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