They’re back! Polly and Sophie will be dancing with us on The Jonathan Ross Show on Saturday. Neil x
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Pet Texts archive: October 2013
Pet Shop Boys will be interviewed today by Graham Norton on his BBC Radio 2 show between midday and 1 pm. Link below.
Click on the link below to hear a new remix of “Thursday” by the German House DJ, Tensnake. According to Shortlist.com, it’s “relaxed, minimal and very cool”!
An interview with Neil Tennant will be broadcast on BBC Radio 3 tomorrow evening, October 25th, at 8.10 as part of the Free Thinking Festival of Ideas based at the Sage in Gateshead. Link below.
Yesterday at the Grosvenor House Hotel. It was a fun afternoon. Neil x
The new PSB single, “Thursday” (featuring Example), has just been added to the BBC Radio 2 A List. The full playlist is at the link below.
There’s a bit of an end-of-term atmosphere backstage at the Mexico City Arena tonight as it’s the last show of the 2013 Electric tour. This is the full cast and crew and what a lovely bunch they are! Neil x
We stopped for lunch halfway between Las Vegas and Los Angeles. Neil x
The USA leg of the tour ended splendidly last night in LA at The Shrine. Wonderful venue and audience! Thanks to all who came along (particularly the people in the pit…). Neil x
Last “Electric” USA show tonight in LA! Neil x (Photo by Genaro Molina/LA Times — link to interview below.)
Janice Long interviews Neil Tennant on her BBC Radio 2 show today, October 10th, between midnight and 2 am. Listen at the link below.
Chris and I with Jason Bentley, presenter of “Morning Becomes Eclectic”, outside the KCRW studios yesterday. (Photo by Pete Gleadall.) Neil x
Before our concert in San Diego on Monday, it was great to meet Victor Willis, founding member of The Village People, and one of the writers of “Go West”! Neil x
Pet Shop Boys will be performing live on the famous Californian radio show, “Morning Becomes Eclectic”, this morning, October 9th, from 11.15 am on KCRW. More details at the link below.
Drowned In Sound, the online music magazine, has announced the list of nominations for its annual Neptune prize (an alternative to the Mercury music prize). It includes “Electric” by Pet Shop Boys. More details at the link below.
Our friend Joel Gibb of The Hidden Cameras has just released an excellent single and video. Check it out at the link below.
Thank you so much for all the lovely birthday greetings. We’re now in San Francisco. Flew in over the Golden Gate Bridge! Looking forward to the show tonight. Love, Chris xxxx
…From Pet Shop Boys Lyrics. Go to the link below to read an entertaining list by ShortList magazine of “40 pieces of advice, courtesy of the Pet Shop Boys, that you could live your life by’.
Oakland tonight.
It’s Chris’s birthday today, October 4th, and he’ll be travelling from Vancouver to Portland, Oregon, where PSB play a concert tonight. If you’d like to leave a birthday greeting for him, go to the link below kindly set up by a fan.
Rock and roll! Chris x
Pet Shop Boys are featured in a new book, “Isle Of Noises”, about British songwriters and their working methods, alongside Bryan Ferry, Sting, Noel Gallagher and many others. More details at the link below.