Pet Shop Boys performed several songs live and were interviewed yesterday morning on the Los Angeles radio station, KCRW, during the show “Morning Becomes Eclectic”. The session and interview can be heard at the KCRW link below or by downloading the KCRW app. The show’s presenter, Jason Bentley, will also be DJ-ing at PSBs’ Los Angeles show this coming Saturday at The Shrine.
Earlier today, an interview with Neil Tennant was broadcast on the Janice Long show on BBC Radio 2. Also, as part of the show’s regular “Spoken Word” feature, Neil chose to read an excerpt from “Bleak House” by Charles Dickens. Listen at the Radio 2 link below or on the BBC iPlayer app.
Finally, we are pleased to report that the new PSB single, “Thursday”, has gone straight on to the BBC Radio 2 playlist.
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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.