Prom 8 - 23.07.14: Pet Shop Boys Prom

[Radio64]

Why not see what the young people thought?

https://www.facebook.com/petshopboys?fref=ts

Majority not in accordance with Ferret. Obviously.

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

I haven't checked to see if the broadcast made any better sense, and full marks to the hard working performers, but I'm afraid this was a pretentious failure.

Just checked - really unbearable i found .... but that is just an old jazbo moanin innit ... i preferred the earlier broadcast by Jasdeep Singh Degun

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Majority not in accordance with Ferret. Obviously.

Generally concerts are attended by those who want to hear them, so the statistics mean very little.

[Ferretfancy]

Majority not in accordance with Ferret. Obviously.

I'm glad they enjoyed it, it's always very friendly and enthusiastic in the Arena, but I stick by my judgement, for what it's worth.

[french frank]

Why not see what the young people thought?

https://www.facebook.com/petshopboys?fref=ts

STOP PRESS: Pet Shop Boys fans thought Pet Shop Boys concert great. I bet Listen Again gets a lot of requests too.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

STOP PRESS: Pet Shop Boys fans thought Pet Shop Boys concert great.

I noticed that too.

[Padraig]

Pet Shop Boys fans thought Pet Shop Boys concert great.

How dare they!

[teamsaint]

Why not see what the young people thought?

https://www.facebook.com/petshopboys?fref=ts

I'm surprised to hear that most of their fans are 'young people'.

But I suppose it is possible.

[french frank]

I'm surprised to hear that most of their fans are 'young people'.

But I suppose it is possible.

SNAP, team! One will be 55 this year, the other 34. Justin Bieber they ain't.

Edit: I mean one of the Pet Shop Boys, not one of their (two) fans. :-/

[french frank]

How dare they!

On the contrary: it is absolutely natural.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Generally concerts are attended by those who want to hear them, so the statistics mean very little.

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So ... all those people who attended Furtwangler's concerts ... their expressed opinions "mean very little"? (I ask merely for edification, as I'm unclear what you meant by your comment, Alpie.)

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

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So ... all those people who attended Furtwangler's concerts ... their expressed opinions "mean very little"? (I ask merely for edification, as I'm unclear what you meant by your comment, Alpie.)

Put like that, my statement made little sense. I was meaning that people who choose to attend a particular type of concert are in general likely to have a positive view of it.

[french frank]

Or: the Pet Shop Boys Facebook page has 1.3m 'Likes', ergo they have a lot of fans

Their concerts are likely to attract many of their fans, who like them.

The concert comments of the Facebook page (which has 1.3m 'Likes') are likely to be enthusiastic.

So stats such as a sell-out concert and lots of enthusiastic fans who enjoyed the concert only mean what we already know: the Pet Shop Boys are hugely popular.

(I was looking at the wrong dates, above. One is 60, the other 54; they have been going for over 30 years.)

[pilamenon]

SNAP, team! One will be 55 this year, the other 34. /

34 can't be right - they met in the early 80s! Anyway, not for the 'young people', but for a younger generation than predominates on here.

For what it's worth, as a former fan of their work when I was younger, I gave it a go and found the opera intermittently satisfying, though it did drag after the Gordon Brown apology sequence. There were no problems hearing the narrator on the radio. Chrissie Hynde's interpretations of their songs were more interesting, both the arrangements and the vocal depth of expression that is absent from Neil Tennant's reedy/weedy voice. Not a great concert, but I was glad to have heard it. Sounds as if radio broadcast balanced the elements much better than in the hall.

[french frank]

34 can't be right - they met in the early 80s!

Corrected in the previous post - 60! 34 was how long ago thet met they met.

Chrissie Hynde is 62.