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
Pet Shop Boys today release “A man from the future” via Parlophone Records.
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Neil will be visiting Durham Book Festival this Saturday, where he will talk to Durham University chancellor Fiona Hill about how growing up in Newcastle shaped his life as a musician. The conversation is part of Fiona Hill’s “Forged in the North” podcast series and will also be live-streamed at the link below.
Thanks to the Imperial War Museum, Manchester, for hosting last night’s “A man from the future” playback and then a discussion with us and Andrew Hodges, excellently chaired by Jonathan Swinton (author of “Alan Turing’s Manchester”). We’re excited that the album is released today and you can all hear it!
Photo: Vita Spalding
Thanks to Ian McKellen for introducing us at the Attitude Awards in London last night with a wonderful speech! We’ve known him since we made the “Heart” video in 1988 and it was lovely to see him again. x
Photo: Vita Spalding
In a new BBC Bitesize interview, PSB and Andrew Hodges discuss their new collaborative album, “A man from the future”, which is out this Friday, and share the advice they would give their younger selves. Neil and Chris also remember their first days at school and explain how the technology that Alan Turing pioneered is at the heart of the Pet Shop Boys sound. Available to watch in the UK and to read at the link below.
The original cast recording for “Closer to Heaven” by Jonathan Harvey and Pet Shop Boys was released 25 years ago this week, following several months of shows at the Arts Theatre in London throughout 2001. The musical features Frances Barber as Billie Trix and has since returned to London theatre stages several times, most recently at the Turbine Theatre in 2024.
Pet Shop Boys would like to thank Stuart Maconie for giving “A man from the future” its world premiere on BBC 6 Music tonight. The album was played back in full, while Neil, Chris and Andrew Hodges enjoyed chatting to Stuart about Alan Turing, Kraftwerk and the Beatles, among other things. Available to listen via BBC Sounds.
Happy Birthday, Chris!
Photo by Eva Pentel
In advance of Sunday evening’s broadcasts of “A man from the future” on Radio 6 Music and Radio 3, BBC 4 TV in the UK tonight will be showing three PSB shows: “Pet Shop Boys at the BBC”, “Reel Stories” and “Radio 2 in the Park” (2024 PSB concert). And streaming on the BBC iPlayer is the 1997 film, “Breaking the Code”, a factual drama about Alan Turing. Links below.