Live music review: Pet Shop Boys - An all too-rare Irish concert

Pet Shop Boys at the BGE Theatre, Dublin - 4/5

The air was thick with irony and vintage electronic beats as pop’s pithiest power couple, the Pet Shop Boys, played an all too-rare Irish concert.

Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe materialised wearing elaborate metal head-pieces and crisp suits. As dry ice billowed across the stage, they resembled two walking pieces of performance art.