The Christmas card sent to all members of the Pet Shop Boys Club this year takes the form of a DVD featuring a short film of highlights of the September 12 Trafalgar Square performance of “The Battleship Potemkin”. The film is edited to the opening theme of the score, “Comrades!” North American members have been sent an NTSC version to suit their region DVD players.
Pet Shop Boys would like to apologise to Club members for the non-appearance of the “Literally” magazine this year. This was due to the overwhelming commitments of Chris Heath (who writes the magazine) who this year wrote and had published the best-selling biography of Robbie Williams, “Feel”. In 2005 “Literally” will reappear. We would like to reassure Club members that they will receive three issues of the magazine for each subscription paid.
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”.
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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.
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
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.
Pet Shop Boys are pleased to announce DJ support acts for their “Dreamworld” shows in Germany this summer.
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.