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28th Feb 2020

Pet Shop Boys coming to Cork this summer for Greatest Hits show

Darragh Murphy

The latest act for Live at the Marquee has been confirmed and it’s none other than Pet Shop Boys.

Pet Shop Boys will bring their ‘Dreamworld – The Greatest Hits Live’ show to Cork’s Live at the Marquee on June 9.

Tickets for the show, which are priced at €65, go on sale next Friday, March 6, at 9am via Ticketmaster.ie and the Cork date will be the Pet Shop Boys’ only Irish date of 2020

Pet Shop Boys join the likes of Sinead O’Connor, Diana Ross and Dido for what will be the final Live at the Marquee series at the current Docklands venue.

Talks are understood to be underway between promoter Peter Aiken and Cork City Council to identify a potential new site for the popular annual event.

Pet Shop Boys are listed as the most successful duo in UK music history by The Guinness Book of Records, with three Brit Award wins, six Grammy nominations and over 100 million records worldwide since signing to Parlophone Records in 1985.

Made up of Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe, Pet Shop Boys have 42 Top 30 singles to their name, 22 of which were top 10 hits in the UK singles charts.

Their hits include West End Girls, It’s a Sin and a cover version of Go West.

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