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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On this day
1991
The PSB medley of ‘Where the Streets Have No Name (I Can’t Take My Eyes Off You)’ debuts on the U.S. singles chart.
1999
Neil is one of many celebrities who attend Ian McKellen’s 60th birthday party at London’s Royal Garden Hotel. There he meets Monica Lewinsky, who has become a friend and frequent guest of Sir Ian’s.
2000
The Pet Shop Boys receive the Ivor Novello Award for Outstanding Contribution to British Music.
2002
They appear on NBC’s Today show in New York City and then travel to Philadelphia for their evening concert there. After the show they meet with fans, signing autographs and responding to questions.
2005
Working in Pete Gleadall’s studio, they edit the Potemkin track ‘Men and Maggots’ to reduce its length on the album. Meanwhile, Trevor Horn continues production work on Fundamental at Sarm West, during which he plays bass on ‘Luna Park.’
2007
The Boys perform at the Wolverhampton (U.K.) Civic Hall.
2009
Chris and Neil guest on BBC Radio 2 in a program titled Pet Shop Boys: Wired, in which they choose and play their favorite electro-pop music of the past decade.
2013
They conclude the Latin American leg of their Electric Tour with a concert in Bogotá, Colombia.
2020
Chris begins composing a track he calls ‘Avant Garde,’ which will soon evolve into ‘A New Bohemia.’
2022
The Pet Shop Boys perform tonight in Bournemouth, U.K.
- Facts collated by geowayne.com
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Did you ever talk the whole night through
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so excited by someone new
you forgot you never slept?
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A kiss and it’s begun
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Did you walk on a stormy night
oblivious to the rain?
Did you ever decide that the time was right
and you’d never go home again?
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There will be a special preview screening of Sergei Eisenstein’s “Battleship Potemkin” with music by Pet Shop Boys at the Max Linder cinema in Paris, France on Friday, 5th June. First released in 1925, the newly restored centenary edition of Eisenstein’s masterpiece with the PSB score is coming to French cinemas for the first time on 17th June 2026. All details at the link below.
The first preview of the Jonathan Harvey/Pet Shop Boys musical, “Closer to Heaven” was performed on this day in 2001 at the Arts Theatre in London, with the official press night following on May 31st. The original cast album was released several months later and is still available on streaming services.
Neil and Chris had originally started writing the musical together with Jonathan Harvey in 1996. “We wanted to write something that wasn’t Les Mis or Rent,” says Chris. “A play about contemporary life with contemporary music that was not long and boring.”
Since its first run of shows in 2001, “Closer to Heaven” has returned to London theatre stages several times, most recently at the Turbine Theatre in 2024. It also premiered in Brisbane, Australia in 2005, in Brighton, UK in 2009 and in Dallas, USA in 2010. And one of its main characters, Billie Trix, returned in 2019 with her own one-woman show, “Musik”, also written by Jonathan Harvey with some new Tennant/Lowe songs.
Next time you’re in a bookshop, look out for “Mighty Real” by Barry Walters, an excellent history of LGBTQ music, its artists and audiences, which includes a chapter on Pet Shop Boys, Dusty Springfield and Liza Minnelli. It was published this week. Neil x
Some signed copies of Pet Shop Boys’ recently published retrospective book, Volume, are available today at Dover Street Market as part of Photo London.
Photography by Jack Ashley