The British showed a repertoire with legendary songs that made Mount Kobetas dance
Pet Shop Boys has offered an extraordinary concert tonight at Bilbao BBK Live in which the inexhaustible British duo has aroused nostalgia and made the festival audience dance with the successes harvested throughout their career. Supported by an attractive visual montage, Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe have reviewed their greatest hits in front of a dedicated audience that has proven that the songs of Pet Shop Boys are timeless and that they have the ability to make anyone dance, regardless of their age. .
However, that timelessness has had a point of nostalgia for many of the attendees, as has been verified as soon as the performance began when the guys from the pet store have performed ‘Suburbia’, the single from their first album ‘Please’, published in a distant 1986. From then on, there have been a succession of songs that have inoculated the nostalgic dance virus in the public that has come to Mount Kobetas on this third and last day of Bilbao BBK Live, such as ‘Can you forgive her?’ and ‘Opportunities (Let’s make lots of money)’. The duo continued with their version of ‘Where the streets have no name’, by the Irish U2, suitably mixed with ‘Can’t take my eyes off you’ by Frankie Valli, to the delight of the thousands of people who danced in the dance floor which was by then the festival site.
‘Rent’, ‘I don’t know what you want but I can’t give it anymore’, a theme with a long title but equally danceable, and ‘So hard’, have continued along the same lines until a change has occurred on stage to show three support musicians and continue with ‘Left to my own devices’. With ‘Domino dancing’, the public has accompanied the duo in the chorus at full throttle, before the short break that has meant a delicious ‘Love comes quickly’, which has given way to ‘Losing my mind’ and ‘You were always on my mind’, another of the outstanding songs of the night. There were still some of the British duo’s hits that came after ‘Dreamland’, a single published in 2019 and that has escaped the nostalgia that has enveloped Pet Shop Boys’ time at Bilbao BBK Live. It was then that ‘Heart’ was played, a song that reached the top of the charts, ‘It’s alright’ and, in the final stretch of the performance, ‘Vocal’, followed by ‘Go West’, one of the most popular of the night, and ‘It’s a sin’, which has sounded very powerful and has unleashed madness among the public. After a moment of pause, and a new change on stage, the duo has returned with the iconic ‘West end girls’, a song that launched the duo to fame, and ‘Being boring’, with which they have said goodbye to the public of the festival.
Just before the Pet Shop Boys performance, he climbed onto the second stage of the festival Nathy Peluso, which has displayed Latin intensity on stage to encourage the large audience that has gathered wanting to dance. The Argentine, who has started with ‘Celebré’ and ‘Sana Sana’, has given a magical night with that mix of Latin and urban rhythms of her songs and has made people enjoy, and dance, with songs like ‘Puro poeta’, ‘Ateo ‘, his success with C. Tangana, ‘Mafiosa’ and ‘Corashe’.
Before, on the main stage, Rigoberta Bandini has set up a festival party, because there is nothing more festival-oriented than singing along with thousands of people the ‘La, la, la’ with which Massiel participated in Eurovision as the Catalan did this afternoon at Bilbao BBK Live. They have not missed ‘In Spain we call it solitude’, ‘Perra’, ‘Ay mama’, to the cry of “vivan las mamas y las madres” y con mamas al aire, and ‘ Así bailaba’, based on the children’s song by Los Payasos de la Tele that she has launched together with Amaia, who has jumped on stage to perform it together with Bandini.