Pet Shop Boys’ “Discography” is being reissued on vinyl for the first time since its original release in 1991. Out on 30th May, the limited edition transparent blue vinyl has 2023 remastered audio and is available to pre-order now at the link below.
“Discography” features all PSB singles released from 1985 to 1991, which include four No. 1s and a further eight Top 10 hits, as well as two new tracks, “DJ Culture” and “Was It Worth It?”.
Pet Shop Boys can announce a new UK summer tour date. On Thursday, August 14th they will be performing in the grounds of the Sandringham Estate with very special guests, Scissor Sisters.
Composer Mark Springer’s forthcoming new album, “Sleep of Reason”, which includes a collaboration with Neil Tennant, is now available to pre-order on double vinyl and CD exclusively at the Bandcamp link below.
“Love comes quickly (Live at the Royal Arena Copenhagen 2023)” is now available to watch on YouTube.
Electronic’s ‘Getting Away with It,’ co-written by Neil and with him on background vocals, debuts on the U.S. singles chart. This same afternoon, an ill Derek Jarman is visited at home by Neil and several other friends. Jarman records in his diary, ‘We had a wild half an hour with Neil at his best.’ Neil notes that he and Chris are about to head off to Germany to work on their next album.
The limited-edition Essential CD is released in the U.S. and Japan.
The Pet Shop Boys arrive in Sydney for their first visit to Australia since 1994. Their first day there, they perform at Sydney’s V Festival along with Beck, Gnarls Barkley, the reformed Pixies, and various other artists. Unfortunately, someone enters Neil’s dressing room just before the show and steals his custom-made black long-tailed Dior coat, valued at more than £1,500, which he would otherwise have worn during their performance.
In addition to completing their remix of the Hidden Cameras’ ‘Colour of a Man,’ started the day before, they begin work on a brand new song, ‘Night and the City.’
In a ceremony in Durham Cathedral, Neil receives an Honorary Doctorate of Letters from Durham University.
(Everybody E‑E-Everybody
Everybody E‑E-Everybody
Everybody E‑E-Everybody
Everybody jump to attention…)
Each morning after Sunblest
Feel the benefit, mental arithmetic
I waited by the staffroom
in time for benediction
Living a law just short of delusion
When we fall in love there’s confusion
This must be the place I waited years to leave
To our voices nobody’s listening
We shiver in the rain by the touchline
Then a coach ride to the station
‘My lord, the carriage awaiteth!’
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Pet Shop Boys’ most iconic hits, as well as some of their most loved single releases in one place.
Tickets for Pet Shop Boys’ “Dreamworld” show at the Royal Sandringham Estate on 14th August are now on sale at the link below.
I loved performing three songs at last night’s London Soundtrack Festival concert at the Roundhouse in London with the Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra arranged and conducted by Anne Dudley. In this photo Jake Shears and I are duetting on “Rent”. I also sang “Nothing has been proved” and “Everybody’s Talkin’” (from “Midnight Cowboy”). A great experience. Neil x
Photo: Julie Edwards
“Phantoms and Monsters”, composed by Mark Springer, with Neil Tennant on vocals and the Sacconi Quartet on strings is out now digitally at the link below.
This quintet piece is the opening track of Mark Springer’s forthcoming new album, “Sleep of Reason”, which will be released along with a solo piano piece and a quartet piece on 25th April 2025.
Neil discusses Pet Shop Boys’ relationship with Russia in an interview with the independent Russian newspaper, Novaya Gazeta, now also published in The Guardian. Links below.
