Concrete (Pet Shop Boys album)
Concrete is a live album by the British band Pet Shop Boys. It was released on 23 October 2006. Due to be called "Concert", on 20 September 2006, Pet Shop Boys announced that the album was going to be called "Concrete", which was the title that they originally wanted for the album. It is the first live concert to be released by the band on Audio CD. The concert. The performance recorded for the album took place at the Mermaid Theatre on 8 May 2006, as an exclusive for broadcast on BBC Radio 2's  Sold on Song programme. Attendance, totalling 600, was by invitation or through winning competitions held by Radio 2 and the band's official website. The event was hosted by the BBC's Stuart Maconie. The 27 May Radio 2 broadcast included an interview conducted by Maconie, but excluded four songs from the running order ("You Only Tell Me You Love Me When You're Drunk", "After All", "Numb", and "Dreaming of the Queen"). The full concert was later broadcast on BBC 6 Music on 28 August. Song selection. Due to the presence of the orchestra, the setlist was composed to  consist of songs originally recorded with an orchestra. Consequently, aside from an extensive selection of songs from "Fundamental", various non-studio album tracks were chosen, including the arrangement of "Rent" from the Liza Minnelli album "Results", originally arranged by Angelo Badalamenti; "After All", the portion of the band's "Battleship Potemkin" soundtrack that accompanies the Odessa Steps sequence from the film (performed with the scene projected on a screen in the background); "Friendly Fire", from the "Closer to Heaven" musical; and "Nothing Has Been Proved", the theme song from "Scandal", also arranged by Badalamenti. "West End Girls" and "It's  a Sin" were the only exceptions to the rule, and were reworked to integrate the orchestra. Personnel. Pet Shop Boys are: Other musicians: Guest singers: