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PSB are excited to announce “Obskur Pet Shop Boys”, two exclusive live concerts at Huxleys Neue Welt in Berlin on 12th and 13th July 2026.
Pet Shop Boys’ “Since 1984” range has just been updated with new items, including three “Suburbia” and “Leaving” T‑Shirts and a “Since 1984” sweatshirt.
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.
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On this day
2000
It’s officially announced that the Boys will be among the performers at the upcoming 30th annual Glastonbury Festival.
2002
Neil and Chris tape a live performance in Madrid for broadcast on Spanish TV and radio.
2007
On a break from touring, the Boys split up for two very different afternoons in London. Neil visits the BBC Television Centre to record an interview for the TV series Pop Britannia, while Chris attends The Queen’s Club to watch a preliminary championship match in lawn tennis.
2010
Neil is among the artists who take part this afternoon in a special London concert paying tribute to Kate McGarrigle—Canadian singer-songwriter and mother of his friend Rufus Wainwright—who had succumbed to cancer the preceding January. Neil performs Kate’s song ‘I Cried for Us.’ Among the other performers are Emmylou Harris, Nick Cave, Jenni Muldaur, Richard and Linda Thompson, Anna McGarrigle, and Rufus and his sister Martha.
2011
The final night of PSB’s extended string of shows in Manchester as the ‘special guests’ of Take That.
2012
Believing their accidentally muted audio equipment is still malfunctioning, Neil and Chris visit the German town of Wittenberg, including the church where Martin Luther had posted his Ninety-Five Theses in 1517.
2015
Neil makes a surprise guest appearance onstage this evening at Rufus Wainwright’s concert on the grounds of London’s Royal Hospital. They duet on ‘Poses,’ which Neil introduces as the song that made him a Rufus fan.
2020
Neil records a rough guide vocal for ‘Love Is the Law.’
- Facts collated by geowayne.com
Typical day
Cars being towed away
Junk mail through the door
joins the post on the floor
Drilling
always someone drilling
somewhere in the city
authorised by committee
Permission is bestowed
according to postal code
Terms and conditions may vary
It’s nothing out of the ordinary
Sometimes someone gets upset
doesn’t hear the laughter
takes it as a threat
but it’s different after
After the event
looks like someone’s smiling
happy to be here
Blue skies, heaven-sent
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Tickets for the first three “It’s a sin” dance shows to be held in 2027 in Manchester, Edinburgh and Cardiff are on sale now at the link below. The show, developed by Rambert and executive-produced by PSB and Russell T Davies, will also be visiting Luxembourg, Liverpool, Birmingham, Plymouth, Southampton, Norwich, Newcastle, Truro, Glasgow and Sheffield throughout 2027. Information on tickets for these dates will be released in due course.
Tickets for both “Obskur Pet Shop Boys” shows at Huxleys Neue Welt in Berlin on 12th and 13th July go on sale today at 11 am local time. All details at the link below.
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.
