Check out the new “Since 1984” merchandise items which have just been added to the official PSB store, including T‑shirts, a hoodie and a cap. All available now at the link below.
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Pet Shop Boys are happy to announce that they will return to Norway this summer for a “Dreamworld” show at Oslo’s Unity Arena on 20th August.
Pet Shop Boys are pleased to confirm that they will be headlining this year’s edition of Suset Festival in Esbjerg, Denmark on Saturday, 22nd August
Pet Shop Boys Volume, the complete visual record of PSB from 1984 to 2024, is published by Thames & Hudson today.
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1982
The new issue of Smash Hits features Neil’s interview with Vince Clarke and Alison Moyet of Yazoo.
2006
‘I’m with Stupid,’ the first single from the upcoming PSB album Fundamental, is released. On the same day, the Pet Shop Boys (with guest vocalists Robbie Williams, Rufus Wainwright, and Frances Barber) perform an exclusive concert of both old and new material with the BBC Concert Orchestra. It’s recorded for transmission on BBC Radio 2 later in the month, and it will subsequently appear on CD as Concrete.
2007
The Boys perform in Frankfurt, Germany.
2008
Neil is sick, so Chris works with Pete Gleadall on a remix of the MGMT track ‘Kids.’
2012
After having spent about six weeks in Berlin, the Boys fly back to London.
2013
They fly to Los Angeles, where they will meet with Stuart Price making the finishing touches on Electric.
2014
Chris and Neil are in Dubai today in anticipation of their concert there the following evening. Today they go sightseeing, visiting (among other things) the world’s tallest skyscraper, the Burj Khalifa.
2020
Coleridge’s The Rime of the Ancient Mariner is being read in daily installments in an online ‘Big Read’ production by the University of Plymouth. Today’s segment, ‘Episode 21,’ is read by Neil Tennant.
2022
Chris and Neil are in Milan, Italy in preparation for the first show, two evenings from now, of their much-delayed Dreamworld Tour.
- Facts collated by geowayne.com
After being for so many years
the life and soul of the party
it’s weird
I’m invisible
Whatever I
have said and done
doesn’t matter in this chatter
and hum
I’m invisible
I’m here
but you can’t see me
I’m invisible
It’s queer
how gradually
I’ve become
invisible
Look at me
the absentee
disappearing finally
Goodbye
Is it magic or the truth?
Strange psychology?
Or justified
by the end of youth?
Can you hear me?
Can you see me?
Am I really even here?
…
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Stormzy’s 2019 Glastonbury vest is just one item in the excellent new exhibition, “The Music is Black: A British Story”, at the V&A East museum which has just opened in Stratford, London. Definitely worth a visit! More information at the link below. Neil x
50 years ago today, I went with my friend Eric Watson to see a gig by a new rock group called the Sex Pistols at the Nashville pub in West Kensington. The Pistols were impressive — they reminded me a little of The Ramones whose first album I had heard — but then a member of the audience was beaten up by one of the group’s friends in a horrifying incident. Eric and I left the gig stunned and I wrote a letter to the NME about it. To my surprise, the NME printed my letter as a little news piece with a photo by Joe Stevens. Later in 1976, the Pistols achieved notoriety in a controversial TV interview. A series of brilliant and subversive singles and an album followed which resonate to this day. Neil x
Pet Shop Boys Volume has officially entered the Sunday Times bestseller list at number two. Earlier last week, the book went straight to number one in the UK Independent Bookshop Top 20. Thanks to everyone who has bought a copy of “Volume” so far. xx
If you weren’t able to go to any of last week’s five PSB shows in London, or you just want a memento of those special concerts, “Obscure Pet Shop Boys” merchandise, including a sweatshirt and three different T‑shirts, is now available in the official PSB store at the link below.