The 2020 edition of Pet Shop Boys Annually will be published on April 17th and is available to pre-order now from the link below. This year’s 64-page, hard-backed book includes:
* The making of PSB’s newly released album “Hotspot”.
* A behind-the-scenes report with photos from the “Monkey business” video shoot.
* A year of theatre: “Closer to Heaven”, “My Beautiful Laundrette” and “Musik”, the Billie Trix one-woman cabaret, all open in the same year to excellent reviews.
* Plus news and photographs, your letters answered, and more.
* A 7‑track CD of PSB’s music for “My Beautiful Laundrette”, the recent stage play based on the film, is packaged with this issue of Annually and is not available anywhere else. Pre-order your copy of Pet Shop Boys Annually with the “My Beautiful Laundrette” CD exclusively from the official store at the link below. The full track-listing of the “My Beautiful Laundrette” CD is as follows:
1. Omar’s theme
2. Angelic thug
3. Johnny’s dark side
4. Night sings (Popa’s theme)
5. Johnny’s theme
6. Beautiful laundrette
7. No boundaries
Annually
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”.
Recent News
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.