Whether you view Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe as the masters of deadpan disco or (gasp) just think of them for “West End Girls” or “Opportunities,” the duo has been making a staggering amount of enduring electronic pop in their 40 years as recording artists, songwriters and producers.
The Dreamworld Tour was conceived as a way of easing back into the global music circuit as the planet was trying to figure out how to manage the continuing fallout of the COVID pandemic, gathering the hits together (but, as they always do, reworking the arrangements and finding new thematic structures) and showing envious rockists that traditional band forms are neither necessary nor required.
If the heaps of awards (including the Novello!) and scads of records sold don’t have you intrigued, think of the concert film Dreamworld as a luxury one-off club night with some of the greatest-written pop songs of the past four decades.
