Pet Texts

Visiting the extraordinary Ryoji Ikeda show in London this morning. Neil x

With all this talk of the performance of “It’s a sin” at this year’s Brits, go to the link below for a reminder of Derek Jarman’s extravagant production of it at Wembley Arena in 1989.

And talking of the late, great Derek Jarman… 29 years ago today, PSB performed “Go West” for the first time at a concert in the legendary Haçienda club to celebrate the opening of Derek’s art show at Manchester City Art Gallery. (Original set list pictured.)

The Sun newspaper is reporting that Pet Shop Boys “pulled out” of the Brits. This is not true.
It is true that Pet Shop Boys had been asked to be part of the performance of their song ‘It’s a sin’ with Years & Years and Elton John and that they co-produced the new version for the Brits with their long-term producer Stuart Price.
It is not true that “creative differences” led to them not appearing. The staging and casting ideas were approved by PSB along with Olly Alexander and Elton John. The non-appearance of PSB was ultimately due to a contractual issue that proved unresolvable.

Amazon are bizarrely crediting the “Discovery” DVD/CD release to James Taylor and with artwork showing a German singer… We’re still waiting for them to correct it and apologise.

Neil Tennant is a guest on the fifth anniversary episode of the podcast “Bigmouth”. Link below.