We plunge down tunnels.

Tunnels of light, tunnels of night, down and down digital wormholes to see two figures -spiky-bodied, cone-headed figures. Clowns from a mash-up of the dreams of David Lynch and William Gibson - coming towards us on screen and in person as the music rises and rises.

I think this is what's called an entrance.

The Pet Shop Boys have arrived in Glasgow with their Electric tour, accompanied by two dancers,mostly dressed as huge-horned, skeletal buffalo people … I think.

It's a show of flash and wit designed by acclaimed designer Es Devlin and demonstrates a firm belief that the album it's promoting is worthy of its place in the Pet Shop Boys canon.

This is not by any means a greatest hits gig.

If anything, it delights in exploring odd corners of the duo's back catalogue.

They open with One More Chance - their second-ever single - and even have a go at I'm Not Scared, a song written for Patsy Kensit.

The show also plays up the dancier side of Tennant and Lowe. Crisp beats rise to pummelling for a version of It's A Sin.

The staging is smart and funny and if it's now harder than ever to imagine Neil Tennant "running with the dogs tonight" as he sings on Suburbia (the trendy geography teacher look is, I'm afraid, his default position), he's clearly enjoying himself.

What's missing perhaps is the duo's melancholy.

Even their Thatcherite love song Rent is ramped up here. But as ever they remain balanced between irony and immersion in the face of pop's idealism.

They are brave - and right - to finish with Electric's standout track Vocal

Then they morph into their cover of Sterling Void's House classic It's Alright, a title that encapsulates the consoling lie of pop.

Tennant and Lowe are as open to its seduction as the rest of us.