{"id":519258,"date":"2026-04-08T09:27:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T09:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/519258\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T09:27:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T09:27:08","slug":"pet-shop-boys-review-no-hits-show-is-a-concept-primed-to-underwhelm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/519258\/","title":{"rendered":"Pet Shop Boys review: &#8216;No hits&#8217; show is a concept primed to underwhelm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rare is the crowd who whoop and holler the news that there will be \u201cno hits\u201d over the coming two hours, just \u201cB-sides, album tracks and what we\u2019re calling \u2018fan favourites\u2019.\u201d Because rare is the band that can carry off such an affront to civilised entertainment. You could count them on the fingers of one hand after a major industrial accident: The Smiths, yes, Suede, yes, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/culture\/music\/oasis-noel-gallagher-britpop-royal-albert-hall-b1276172.html\" title=\"Liam and Noel Gallagher shown having a laugh in Oasis tour photography book\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Oasis<\/a>, yes, but\u2026 Pet Shop Boys?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rare is the crowd who whoop and holler the news that there will be \u201cno hits\u201d over the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":519259,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[180898,96,128,25867,263,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-519258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-electric-ballroom","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-pet-shop-boys","tag-review","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=519258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519258\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/519259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}