Songs That the Pet Shop Boys Have Performed Live
- Dark blue cells = Performed in all of the shows of that tour.
- Red cells = Performed in only some of the shows of that tour
- Green cells = Performed at one or more "one-off" shows.
- Pale blue cells = Performed as a medley or "mash-up" with another song in all shows of the tour.
- Pink cells = Performed as a medley or "mash-up" with another song in only some shows of the tour.
- Yellow cells = Performed live only by Neil "solo" without Chris's active participation. (Please note, however, that only PSB songs Neil has performed live without Chris are listed here. Other songs Neil has performed live, such as covers of songs by other artists, aren't included.)
- Orange cells = At least one live recording of this song has been officially released on physical media (CD, DVD, VHS, and/or Blu-ray) (but merely lip-synched "live" renditions don't count)
- Gray cells = Played as a recording as an "introduction" to the concert.
Note: This table does not include performances of the entire Battleship Potemkin score. It does, however, include individual selections from Potemkin if they were performed outside the context of the full score. Nor does this list draw upon live TV appearances where the Boys performed just one or two songs. The 2009 Pandemonium Tour included brief segments of certain songs "mashed up" with other songs. If lyrics/vocals from those songs were used, then I display them in the following table using the color code above. If, however, no lyrics/vocals from those songs were used, then I don't cite them in the table itself, although I do make note of them in the Pandemonium Tour setlist following the table.
*Both Neil and Chris have together performed "Disappointed," "Getting Away with It," and "The Patience of a Saint" on at least one (and perhaps more than one) occasion live onstage with Electronic.
**"Together" was performed at the Boys' December 8, 2010 charity performance at London's Hammersmith Apollo, which employed the Pandemonium Tour's stage show. It was also included in the Boys' opening set for Take That's 2011 reunion tour, which was otherwise just a subset of the Pandemonium Tour's setlist. For these reasons, I've included "Together" in the Pandemonium Tour's setlist with these asterisks.
The Tour Setlists
Note: Songs that the Pet Shop Boys performed at every date of the tour are listed in ordinary black text, whereas songs that they performed at only some dates of the tour appear in red text. The songs that were performed at every date are listed in the order in which they were most often performed in the show, but the songs performed at only some dates are listed in order only if I know it. If the order changed frequently or if I simply don't know the order, those songs are grouped together at the end. Please note that setlist orders do change, so the following lists and orders should certainly not be taken as "absolute." This is especially true for the Uni/Release Tour, where the order of the songs changed significantly between the two legs of the tour.
1989 MCMLXXXIX Tour
- One More Chance
- Opportunities (Let's Make Lots of Money)
- Left to My Own Devices
- Rent
- Heart
- Paninaro
- Love Comes Quickly
- Nothing Has Been Proved
- The Sound of the Atom Splitting
- It's a Sin
- Shopping
- Domino Dancing
- Occupy Your Mind
- King's Cross
- Always on My Mind
- West End Girls
- It's Alright
- Later Tonight
1991 Performance Tour
- This Must Be the Place I Waited Years to Leave
- It's a Sin
- Losing My Mind
- What Have I Done to Deserve This?
- My October Symphony
- I'm Not Scared
- We All Feel Better in the Dark
- So Sorry, I Said
- Suburbia
- So Hard
- Opportunities (Let's Make Lots of Money)
- How Can You Expect to Be Take Seriously?
- Rent
- Where the Streets Have No Name (I Can't Take My Eyes Off You)
- West End Girls
- Jealousy
- Always on My Mind
- Your Funny Uncle
- Being Boring
1994 DiscoVery Tour
- Tonight Is Forever
- I Wouldn't Normally Do This Kind of Thing
- Always on My Mind
- Domino Dancing
- To Speak Is a Sin
- One in a Million/Mr. Vain (medley)
- Paninaro*
- Rent
- Suburbia
- To Face the Truth
- King's Cross
- So Hard
- Where the Streets Have No Name (I Can't Take My Eyes Off You)
- Left to My Own Devices/Rhythm of the Night (medley)
- Do I Have To?
- Absolutely Fabulous
- Liberation
- West End Girls
- Can You Forgive Her?
- Girls and Boys
- It's a Sin/I Will Survive (medley)
- Go West
- Being Boring
- Euroboy
*Note: The rendition of "Paninaro" in the DiscoVery shows appears to represent a "transitional phase" between the original "Paninaro" and "Paninaro '95." The arrangement and instrumentation more closely resembles "Paninaro," but it includes the new lyrics that would be added by Chris for "Paninaro '95." The tracklist on the DiscoVery VHS/DVD itself states "Paninaro," so that's what I'm listing here despite my own inclinations otherwise.
1997 Somewhere Shows
- Yesterday, When I Was Mad
- The Truck-Driver and His Mate
- Se A Vida É (That's the Way Life Is)
- Some Speculation
- Hello Spaceboy
- To Step Aside
- Go West
- The Theatre
- It's a Sin/I Will Survive (medley)
- The Man Who Has Everything
- Discoteca
- Friendly Fire
- Love Comes Quickly
- Can You Forgive Her?
- Somewhere
- Rent
- Domino Dancing
- West End Girls
- Being Boring
- Before
- Left to My Own Devices
1999 Nightlife Tour
- For Your Own Good
- West End Girls
- Discoteca
- Being Boring
- Closer to Heaven
- Happiness Is an Option
- Can You Forgive Her?
- Only the Wind
- What Have I Done to Deserve This?
- New York City Boy
- Left to My Own Devices
- Young Offender
- Vampires
- You Only Tell Me You Love Me When You're Drunk
- Was It Worth It?
- Se A Vida É (That's the Way Life Is)
- I Don't Know What You Want But I Can't Give It Any More
- Always on My Mind
- Shameless
- Opportunities (Let's Make Lots of Money)
- It's a Sin/I Will Survive (medley)
- It's Alright
- Footsteps
- Go West
2000 Summer Tour
- I Don't Know What You Want But I Can't Give It Any More
- Suburbia
- Can You Forgive Her?
- Se A Vida É (That's the Way Life Is)
- Rent
- You Only Tell Me You Love Me When You're Drunk
- Was It Worth It?
- Paninaro
- Young Offender
- New York City Boy
- Domino Dancing
- Being Boring
- Positive Role Model
- Opportunities (Let's Make Lots of Money)
- Always on My Mind
- It's a Sin/I Will Survive (medley)
- West End Girls
- Go West
2002 Uni/Release Tour
- Disco Potential
- Home and Dry
- Where the Streets Have No Name (I Can't Take My Eyes Off You)
- A Red Letter Day
- I Get Along
- Love Comes Quickly
- London
- You Only Tell Me You Love Me When You're Drunk
- The Night I Fell in Love
- Domino Dancing
- New York City Boy
- Always on My Mind
- Was It Worth It?
- Sexy Northerner
- Birthday Boy
- West End Girls
- Love Is a Catastrophe
- Go West
- Being Boring
- Left to My Own Devices
- It's a Sin
- You Choose
- Philadelphia
- Here
- Do Anything You Wanna Do
2004 Summer/Fall Shows
- Rent
- Flamboyant
- West End Girls
- Se A Vida É (That's the Way Life Is)
- Love Comes Quickly
- Domino Dancing
- Being Boring
- New York City Boy
- Always on My Mind
- Sexy Northerner
- Where the Streets Have No Name (I Can't Take My Eyes Off You)
- Love Is a Catastrophe
- Go West
- Home and Dry
- Left to My Own Devices
- It's a Sin
- Suburbia
- Try It (I'm in Love with a Married Man)
2006 Fundamental Tour
- God Willing
- We're the Pet Shop Boys*
- Psychological
- Left to My Own Devices
- I'm with Stupid
- Suburbia
- Can You Forgive Her?
- Minimal
- Shopping
- Rent
- Dreaming of the Queen
- Heart
- Opportunities (Let's Make Lots of Money)
- Integral
- Paninaro
- Numb
- Se A Vida É/Domino Dancing (medley, with a very brief portion of "Discoteca" used in the transition)
- Flamboyant
- Before
- Home and Dry
- Always on My Mind
- Where the Streets Have No Name (I Can't Take My Eyes Off You)
- West End Girls
- The Sodom and Gomorrah Show
- So Hard
- It's a Sin
- Go West
- Being Boring
*On the German, French, and Spanish dates of the tour, Neil respectively sang "We're the Pet Shop Boys" in German as "Wir Sind Die Pet Shop Boys," in French as "Nous sommes les Pet Shop Boys," and in Spanish as "Somos los Pet Shop Boys."
2009-10 Pandemonium Tour
The setlist for this show is complicated by the fact that it includes several medleys, mashups, and brief "allusions" to other songs. Because of the long break between the 2009 and 2010 legs of the tour, I would have been tempted to divide them into two separate tours, calling the latter the "2010 Summer Festival Tour," or something like that. But the format, stage design, and setlists for the two legs were virtually identical, so I'm listing them here as parts of the same tour. Also, since the Boys' opening-act stint as the "special guests" on Take That's 2011 reunion tour was an abbreviated set of "highlights" from the Pandemonium Tour (with the addition of "Together"), I'm not listing it separately here, either.
- Instrumental Intro - More Than a Dream (Magical Dub Mix), segueing into…
- Heart
- Did You See Me Coming?
- Pandemonium/Can You Forgive Her?
- Love Comes Quickly
- Love etc.
- Building a Wall (incorporating elements of "Integral")
- Go West (incorporating instrumental elements of "Paninaro")
- Two Divided by Zero
- Why Don't We Live Together? (incorporating elements of "In the Night")
- New York City Boy
- Always on My Mind (opening with a very brief bit of "Left to My Own Devices")
- Closer to Heaven/Left to My Own Devices (incorporating instrumental elements of "So Hard")
- Do I Have To?
- King's Cross
- The Way It Used to Be
- Jealousy
- Suburbia (sometimes incorporating a couple lines of lyric from "A Little Black Dress")
- What Have I Done to Deserve This?
- All Over the World
- Se A Vida E/Discoteca/Domino Dancing/Viva la Vida
- It's a Sin
- Being Boring
- My Girl
- West End Girls
- It Doesn't Often Snow at Christmas
- Glad All Over
2013-15 Electric Tour
If a song wasn't performed in the initial, highly preliminary advance show in Veracruz, Mexico on March 22, 2013, I'm not indicating it in red below. But if it was performed there but not on subsequent dates, it does appear in red—that one song being "Go West."
- Axis
- One More Chance/A Face Like That (medley)
- Opportunities (Let's Make Lots of Money) (opening with just a bit of the 1995 version of "In the Night")
- Memory of the Future
- Fugitive
- Integral
- [Sample of The Rite of Spring by Igor Stravinsky, serving as an introduction to the following number]
- I Wouldn't Normally Do This Kind of Thing
- Suburbia
- I'm Not Scared
- Fluorescent
- Invisible
- The Last to Die
- Somewhere
- Leaving
- Thursday
- Love etc.
- I Get Excited
- Rent
- Miracles
- It's a Sin
- Domino Dancing
- Love Is a Bourgeois Construct
- Go West
- Always on My Mind
- Being Boring
- West End Girls
- Vocal (sometimes incorporating bits of "It's Alright")
2016 "Inner Sanctum" Royal Opera House Shows (2016 & 2018) & 2016-19 Super Tour
All but one of the songs listed below (the exception being "Winner," which was deleted from the 2018 list) were performed in all of the Royal Opera House shows. Those in red text, however, were performed in most but not all of the Super Tour concerts, although precisely which songs were absent from certain sets varied from one venue to another.
- Inner Sanctum
- Opportunities (Let's Make Lots of Money)
- West End Girls
- The Pop Kids
- In the Night
- Burn
- Love Is a Bourgeois Construct
- New York City Boy
- Se A Vida É (That's the Way Life Is)
- Twenty-something
- Love Comes Quickly
- Love etc.
- The Dictator Decides
- Inside a Dream
- Winner
- Home and Dry
- The Enigma (from A Man from the Future)
- Vocal
- The Sodom and Gomorrah Show
- It's a Sin
- Left to My Own Devices
- Go West
- During the 2016 Super Tour shows, Neil would often sing a brief "tease" of "Opportunities" during the lead-in to "Go West." During the 2017 shows, for which "Opportunities" became a full-fledged part of the setlist, a brief bit of "Heart" replaced it during the the lead-in to "Go West."
- Domino Dancing
- Always on My Mind
- The Pop Kids (Reprise)
2022-26 Dreamworld "Greatest Hits" Tour / Unity Tour
- Suburbia
- Can You Forgive Her?
- Opportunities (Let's Make Lots of Money)
- Where the Streets Have No Name (I Can't Take My Eyes Off You)
- Rent
- I Don't Know What You Want But I Can't Give It Any More
- So Hard
- Left to My Own Devices
- Single / Se A Vida E (performed as a medley)
- Domino Dancing
- Monkey Business
- New York City Boy
- You Only Tell Me You Love Me When You're Drunk
- Jealousy
- Dancing Star*
- Loneliness*
- The Pop Kids
- A New Bohemia*
- Love Comes Quickly
- Losing My Mind
- Paninaro
- Always on My Mind
- Dreamland
- Heart
- It's Alright
- Vocal
- What Have I Done to Deserve This?
- Go West
- It's a Sin
- West End Girls
- Being Boring
*One or more of these singles from Nonetheless were added to the setlist for the 2024 shows of the Dreamworld Tour.
2026 Obscure/Obskur Shows
- Music for Boys (introductory recording April 6)
- Euroboy (introductory recording April 7)
- Time on My Hands (introductory recording April 8)
- Inner Sanctum (introductory recording April 9)
- We're the Pet Shop Boys (introductory recording April 10)
- Night Falls (introductory recording July 12)
- God Willing (introductory recording July 13)
- Positive Role Model
- Will-o-the-Wisp
- Two Divided by Zero
- Jack the Lad
- A Certain Je Ne Sais Quoi
- The Truck Driver and His Mate
- I Didn't Get Where I am Today
- Up Against It
- To Face the Truth
- After the Event
- Hit and Miss
- Always
- Do I Have To?
- Sexy Northerner
- In His Imagination
- Young Offender
- Happiness Is an Option
- Through You
- It Couldn't Happen Here
- Miserablism
- Bet She's Not Your Girlfriend
- The Theatre
- One in a Million/Mr. Vain (medley)
- New Boy
- Party in the Blitz
- The Resurrectionist
- King of Rome
- King's Cross
- Love Is the Law
- Requiem in Denim and Leopardskin
- Why Don't We Live Together?
- The Performance of My Life
- Your Funny Uncle
- The Way It Used to Be
- Later Tonight
- I Dream of a Better Tomorrow
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