Neil Tennant is coming to Durham Book Festival on Saturday 10 October to talk to Fiona Hill about how growing up in Newcastle shaped his life as a musician. Fiona Hill is the Chancellor of Durham University and this talk follows on from her podcast series “Forged in the North”.
Tickets and live stream passes for the in-conversation event, which will take place at Durham’s Gala Theatre Main House from 7–8pm, are on sale now at the link below.
A special double feature of the PSB film “It Couldn’t Happen Here” and the centenary version of Sergei Eisenstein’s “Battleship Potemkin” with the Pet Shop Boys score will be shown on October 11 at the Tyneside Cinema, Newcastle.
Pet Shop Boys are about to play four dates in four days in Germany, starting in Mönchengladbach this Friday and continuing at Berlin’s Waldbühne on Saturday.
The Boys debut ‘Always on My Mind’ during the taping of a U.K. television tribute to Elvis Presley titled Love Me Tender. (The show will be broadcast two days later, on August 16.)
The Pet Shop Boys headline the Bilbao Festival in Bilbao, Spain.
Still in Prague following their concert there the night before, Neil and Chris get to play tourist, including a visit to the DOX Centre for Contemporary Art.
They perform this evening at the Way Out West festival in Gothenburg, Sweden.
With Neil in attendance, Tim Young creates the masters for ‘No Boundaries’ and ‘Burning the Heather’ at Metropolis Studios. At this point, the Boys consider the album Hotspot finished.
The Pet Shop Boys bring their ongoing Dreamworld Tour to the Royal Sandringham Estate near England’s North Sea coast. Scissor Sisters are the support act, and their lead singer Jake Shears guests onstage with the Boys to sing Olly Alexander’s part in the song ‘Dreamland.’
Together we’ll go all the way
Tell me what you want from me
Give me what I need from you
Anything you want to do
I’m gonna need to follow through
Everything I have is yours
I pray you understand because
Whatever you want to do
I’m gonna be with you
Together’s amazing
Together we’re blazing
Together we’ll go all the way
Together
I’ll cry with you
Together
I’ll die with you
Together we’ll go all the way
Now my heart is beating fast
Time is short, the die is cast
I can keep a secret
If you can really mean it and
Feel the luck beside us
and so much love inside us
Whatever we have to do
I’m gonna be with you
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Pet Shop Boys’ most iconic hits, as well as some of their most loved single releases in one place.
Pet Shop Boys’ “Se a vida é (That’s the way life is)” was released as a single on this day 30 years ago. A video for the song was filmed at the Wet ‘n’ Wild theme park in Orlando, Florida, directed by photographer and filmmaker Bruce Weber who also made the videos for “Being boring” and “I get along”.
Spain, you’ve been wonderful! Gracias a todos en Valencia y Santander. After a short break, Pet Shop Boys’ “Dreamworld” tour will resume in August in Norway and Denmark for its final 2026 shows. Remaining tickets are available at the link below.
Photo by: kindofviews/Instagram
A rainy day in Santander! Apparently the weather is going to improve later for our concert. 🤞🤞
Thanks to the wonderful “Dreamworld” and “Obskur” audiences in Berlin who came out to dance with Pet Shop Boys over the last 3 days. A special thanks to Princess Julia and The Hidden Cameras for performing at the sold-out shows at Huxleys Neue Welt. After a short break, the “Dreamworld” summer tour continues in Spain and Norway before finishing in Denmark.
Photo: Theresa Heyd
