April 1984
The first version of ‘West End girls’ is released. It is a club hit in Los Angeles and San Francisco and a small hit in France and Belgium.
History
October 1984
They make their first ever stage appearance at the Fridge Nightclub in Brixton, singing and playing over tapes.
On this day
2000
The Pet Shop Boys perform the first of two consecutive nights’ concerts in Osaka, Japan.
2002
The Release Tour comes to Athens, Greece.
2009
The Boys bring their Pandemonium Tour to London’s O2 Arena—a sold-out performance. After the concert, they host a small party for family and friends, including a number of celebrities. Neil is especially pleased to find that his eight-year-old nephew enjoyed the show.
2011
The second of two PSB/Take That shows in Dublin.
2013
The British Film Institute in London screens the classic silent film Battleship Potemkin, accompanied by the recorded Tennant-Lowe score from 2004—the first public screening of the film with their score in a cinematic venue. Neil puts in an appearance to provide a brief introduction.
2018
Neil attends David Byrne’s performance this evening at London’s Hammersmith Apollo, which afterward he describes enthusiastically on the PSB website as ‘exhilarating and beautifully staged.’
2019
Currently in France, the Pet Shop Boys perform an essentially unpublicized ‘private’ concert at the 2019 Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity. Meanwhile, today’s issue of The Times Literary Supplement offers a glowing review of Neil’s recent book One Hundred Lyrics and a Poem.
2022
The Pet Shop Boys perform in Frankfurt, Germany.
2023
They bring their Dreamworld Tour show to Dublin, Ireland.
2025
They headline this evening at the Kalorama Festival in Lisbon, Portugal.
- Facts collated by geowayne.com