I went to see the PET SHOP BOYS live!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So it finally happened. I went to see the Pet Shop Boys, my favorite band, playing live in Buenos Aires. They played here before, in 1994 I think, but I didn't go on that ocassion and I truly regretted not having gone. So when I read that they were coming to play at a festival called PersonalFest (sponsored by a cellular phones company) I went and bought the ticket (and with the money I paid for it I could have bough 35 live DVD's of them to see in the comfort of my house).

OK, this time of year it is supposed to be warm, it is springtime after all, but for some reason it was very cold, almost like a winter night, and being so close to the River (Rio de la Plata) it was windy. Before the boys there was a Brazilian show, a woman called Bebel Gilberto who played a strnge mix of Brazilian rithms with some funk, bossa nova and folk influences, half in English and half in Portuguese. It was noticeable that she was very cold, she wore a large leather coat, maybe to cover the fact that she was a little overweighted. (Brazilian people are used to the hot Brazilian weather and when they walk by Buenos Aires in a cold night they dress like they were in Antarctica). It was a strange show, she was very nice and shown lots of sympathy but the show was long and no one was there to see her and when she tried to talk in Spanish she said these weird words no one understood. She claimed she was a Pet Shop Boys fan and went out of the stage. For some reason I felt that her show lasted a month and a half.

In contrast, the Pet Shop Boys entry lasted a little more than six minutes, in my inner clock. OK, it was around 70 minutes, but I was complately lost and didn't realize time was passing. They appeard onstage and played a version of "Rent" followed with "Flamboyant" (that hardly anyone knew).

Tennant was dressed in black, wearing a strange black cape like he was an 18th's century gentleman. Lowe wore a silver jacket and was sat behind two keyboard stands, which were a little thing I couldn't notice, two Nord Leads (one seemed to be an octave bigger than the other one) and the other stand had a Korg Triton and some Korg Electribe module. There was a Mac laptop next to the keyboards, and there was a stand with more keyboards and modules and laptops on one side of the stage.

After those two songs they started playing the hits. I remember "West End Girls", "Suburbia", Go West", "New York City Boy" and some more I knew they played but cannot recall. On "Go West" the back of the stage opened and some musician appeared and played as a kind of backing band, two guitars players and a percussionist (that seemed to use the same percussion set as the Brazilian girl before). After that they played, live with guitars, "Love Is A Catastrophy" ("a song about the pains of love"). Tennant changed his clothes to white and in a certain moment they said they loved Buenos Aires and blah blah and they said goodbye. People asked them to come back, (I started shouting how much I had paid to be there) and they gladly came back, Tennant now in black again, and sung "Left To My Own Devices" and they left after playing "It's A Sin". As I said before, that happened extremely ast for me, and maybe it was because I had two 17 years old girls rubbing their butts against me while they danced (before the show I was afraid of being there surrounded by gay men in their 30's, but that dind't happened). So it was a nice show and I was 5 minutes away from my place so I came home by walking.