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 Pet Shop Boys perform in Barcelona, Spain.
2002
They play the second of two successive nights’ concerts at the Hammerstein Ballroom in New York City.
2006
Fundamental is released in the U.K. Continuing their associated promotional rounds, Chris and Neil are interviewed today on both TV (The New Paul O’Grady Show) and radio (BBC Radio Five Live).
2007
The Boys bring their Fundamental Tour to Amsterdam.
2009
The Pet Shop Boys are among a number of artists (including a‑ha, the Black Eyed Peas, and the All-American Rejects) who perform in front of a large audience at the Munich Olympiahalle, recorded for broadcast about eight days later on the German TV show The Dome. The Boys perform ‘Love etc.’
2013
The Electric Tour comes to São Paulo, Brazil.
2022
The Pet Shop Boys bring their Dreamworld Tour show to London’s O2 Arena.
- Facts collated by geowayne.com
Oh, I learned a lesson
from the twentieth century
I don’t think we should just dismiss
After one hundred years
of inhumanity
the lesson that I learned was this
Sometimes the solution
is worse than the problem
Let’s stay together
Well I bought a ticket
to the revolution
and I cheered when the statues fell
Everyone came
to destroy what was wicked
but they killed off what was good as well
Sometimes the solution
is worse than the problem
Let’s stay together
Stay with me
this century
Together we’re better
…
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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
In the latest issue of “Annually”, there’s a history of PSB in 20 objects found in the basement of our studio. Here are three that didn’t make it! Ivor Novello Awards for International Hit of the Year in both 1986 (“West End girls”) and 1987 (“It’s a sin”) and for Outstanding Contribution to British Music (presented in 2000). The awards are presented every year to recognise excellence in songwriting.