An amateur production of the Pet Shop Boys/Jonathan Harvey musical, “Closer to Heaven”, will be performed by the City Theatre Company in Brighton, UK, from September 22nd-26th. Tickets go on sale today. Full details from the link below. A percentage of ticket money goes to support the Sussex Beacon, a clinical care centre, providing specialist care and support for those living with HIV.
A production of “Closer to Heaven” by the Uptown Players is also planned for Dallas, Texas, next year.
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Pet Texts archive: July 2009
EMI have set up a Tour Tracker where you can follow PSB tour dates and leave your own comments and photos. Go to the link below to sign up.
Well that’s the summer leg of the tour over! Thanks to everyone who came along from St Petersburg to Tel Aviv. We start again in Montreal on August 29. There are some links below to some reviews of last night’s concert.
We did a press conference yesterday in Tel Aviv yesterday. This is Maariv newspaper today.
At “Pop Idol” rehearsal in Israel. On the right is Jeffrey Bryant who designed and made Chris’s mirror jacket.
Neil and Chris gave the BBC permission to film part of their T in the Park set last weekend. It’s still available to watch at the link below.
Pet Shop Boys can be heard talking to Dermot O’Leary this afternoon on BBC Radio 2 and he’ll also be playing some PSB songs from last night’s Latitude Festival performance.
Link below to a report from last night at Latitude.
Great show in Paris last night at the Olympia. Fantastic audience. Shame we get no support from the record company there…
Stopped off in Manchester yesterday to see Rufus Wainwright’s opera, “Prima Donna”, at the Palace Theatre. As you can see, Rufus came dressed as an opera composer (Verdi, possibly).
I enjoyed the opera, particularly the performance of Janis Kelly.
Links below to reviews of Pet Shop Boys at T in the Park and Oxegen.
Hi. Thanks for all the birthday messages and cards yesterday. Much appreciated! Neil x
Listen to Pet Shop Boys’ original demos of “Beautiful people” and “This used to be the future” on this site now. Go to the Product section and then the Exclusive Tracks folder.
Go to the links below for reviews of this week’s concerts in Barcelona and Madrid.
Go to the link to read an interview with Pet Shop Boys in yesterday’s Scotland On Sunday newspaper.
UPDATE: Neil and Chris point out that only the lyrics for “Nothing has been proved” were written before Pet Shop Boys existed. The music was completely new. And Neil would never say “Christ Almighty!”
It’s a beautiful day in Copenhagen. Looking forward to Roskilde tonight.
