The Pet Shop Boys played a “preliminary” show for their 2013 Electric Tour on Saturday nght at the Cumbre Tajin Festival in Varacruz, Mexico.
The “preliminary” label is used as the tour doesn’t really start until June and the set was abbreviated to fit into the festival schedule.
It was still a chance to see some of the stunning new visuals that the band will be using for the upcoming trek and to get a preview of two songs from their new album, Electric (Axis, The Last to Die).
The abbreviated set list:
Main Set
- Axis (from Electric, 2013)
- One More Chance / Face Like That (from Actually, 1987 / from Elysium, 2012)
- Opportunities (Let’s Make Lots of Money) (from Please, 1986)
- Memory of the Future (from Elysium, 2012)
- Fugitive / Integral (from Fundamentalism, 2006) / Fundamental, 2006)
- I Wouldn’t Normally Do This Kind of Thing (from Very, 1993)
- Suburbia (from Please, 1986)
- I’m Not Scared (from Introspective, 1988)
- Invisible (from Elysium, 2012)
- The Last to Die / Somewhere (from Electric, 2013 / from Bilingual: Special Edition, 1997)
- West End Girls (from Please, 1986)
- Domino Dancing (from Introspective, 1988)
- Love Etc. (from Yes, 2009)
- It’s a Sin (from Actually, 1987)
- Always on My Mind (from Introspective, 1988)
Encore
- Go West (from Very, 1993)