On this day 20 years ago, Pet Shop Boys premiered their new score to Eisenstein’s classic 1925 Russian silent film “Battleship Potemkin” in front of an estimated audience of 20,000 at London’s Trafalgar Square. PSB performed behind gauze with the Dresdner Sinfoniker conducted by Jonathan Stockhammer, playing orchestrations by Torsten Rasch while the movie is projected on a giant screen above the performers. Listen to the score at the link below. Photo: Open Culture
Pet Shop Boys are happy to reveal a special signed and numbered seven-inch vinyl of “Hymn (In memoriam Alexei Navalny)”, which is released today.
Recent Pet Texts
We had a brilliant night at the Hardwick Festival in County Durham. Thanks to all who came along and sang so enthusiastically! x
Photo: Instagram/@barwickmrs
We really enjoyed last night’s show in Sandringham. And it was such fun getting to duet with Jake Shears of the fabulous Scissor Sisters! x
Photo: J. Robbins
Pet Shop Boys had the pleasure of playing more spectacular festival venues in Spain, Italy, Wales, Belgium and Sweden over the past few weeks. The “Dreamworld” tour continues in the UK this week, before finishing in Warwick at the end of August. Thanks to all who came and danced with us so far this summer! xx Neil & Chris
Photo: Lucca Summer Festival
Punk Rock Cartoons artist David Worth decided to make an animated video for the Soft Cell/Pet Shop Boys 2022 collaboration, “Purple Zone”. We like it and so do Soft Cell! You can watch it now on Vimeo at the link below. xx Neil & Chris
Scottish singer/songwriter Hamish Hawk has just released an EP of covers which includes an excellent version of “So hard”. You can hear it on streaming services now.
Nice to be back in Belgium. Here’s an aerial shot of us on stage last night at the Lokerse Festival. Impressive! Special thanks to our crew for putting together a great production after some technical problems during the day.
Photo: Lokerse Festival
A beautiful show at Cardiff Castle last night. Great singing from the audience! Thank you, Cardiff. x