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In the last days I recognise some emails about Tickets for PSB@ROH which I THINK could be a money trap. After we have to hold this email open for user requests and alerts via the contact link (at the...
I know yesterday (13th March) was the first time a new PSB track had been played in ages, but (as per the long standing forum rules) in future all public requests for copies of any new track, PSB or otherwise, will be deleted and/or threads containing requests closed. We will officially...
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Thank you for the link leesmapman. I was already aware of them and found the last one does not include the first song they played (the Blur song Girls and Boys (PSB Remix)). For some reason it has been omitted from the youtube recording hence why I asked if anyone has their own recording.
There are lots of PSB Vids (Fan vids or otherwise) on Youtube..
Thought there could be a unified thread of all the links :)
Let me start off with this one..
Mini-Pet Shop Boys "Go West"
Very cute (and the miming is perfect! Even Sylvia-Mason James'!! ) but are they the Future PSB?? :o
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I've never seen this performance of Suburbia before. Taken from a Spanish TV show in 1986. Chris chewing on gum throughout and Neil looks like he's throwing pens out into the audience..
It was taking from an old Spanish TV show called "Entre Amigos" and the host is José Luis Moreno (director,...
2 signed cards from the PSB store. 2 different Neil signatures. I'm wondering if they had a work experience person in on one of the days :lol:
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That's interesting to notice even Chris' signature has variation.
We've observed this before though, their signatures vary but hold the same core characteristics.
There's basically a scale from low effort and rushed into the more detailed and accurate signatures.
This thread is for daily discussion of a Pet Shop Boys track, selected in chronological order, from studio albums starting with Please – including Further Listening – to the new album. The idea is to allow a 24-hour period of discussion for each track – then we move on to the next one. The first 11...
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one of my favourite singles of theirs of the 00s along with Minimal. Its a great track, nice video and image at the time as well
I do like the demo version a lot as well - again really sticky, harsh electro. I probably prefer the single mix overall but its nice to have the demo included as well...
I dont want to read the threads because I don't want any set list spoilers. But I do want to know in advance what merch there is please, if anyone could help?
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Maybe it has to do with some agreement with. Warners who run the PSB store.
Chris celebrated Arsenal's Premier League championship today with an Instagram post set to a PSB remix of Louis Dunford's "Angel", aka Arsenal's latest terrace anthem.
Never heard of the chap before today but now I'm down a rabbit hole with Billy Flynn of Bethnal Green! :dance:
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As an American bringing no baggage to the table, I think this is great. Nice song and one of their better mixes.
In an interview with a Chilean Radistation Neil has confirmed that A man …. will be released later in the year, and then they will start work on a new album which will. Be out in 2028,
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That's the bombe!
I cracked the code. :mrgreen:
Wow. Great spot. The design just delivers more as we learn more. I'm now tempted by the tshirt.
Yeah, better buy that shirt before it goes eighty-six! :lol:
Not sure if I fancy a t-shirt with 108 holes in it, especially as we head towards winter.
There will be a special preview screening of Sergei Eisenstein’s “Battleship Potemkin” with music by Pet Shop Boys at the Max Linder cinema in Paris, France on Friday, 5th June. First released in 1925, the newly restored centenary edition of...
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Just watched it in Paris with three (3) other people.
Possibly the first long-form television documentary about Pet Shop Boys. Some of you might not have seen it before.
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I know we would never hear them, but I always imagined Neil and Chris knocking up their own private versions of the Raw Sex and Spitting Image parody songs for their own amusement...
Does anybody know if there is a good quality full set video of the Obscure night at Electric Ballroom on Wednesday April 8th? I only went on that one night (Johnny Marr was guest) and I’d love to be able to re-live it all over again!
I know it’s unlikely but thought I’d ask anyway!...
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Haven't seen a full-length recording for Wednesday the 8th, but there's a scattered bunch of individual songs' videos on YT which I've mapped here:
So you could watch pretty much the whole of it except for Hit and miss and New boy .
Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe have contributed to Bernard Sumner's charity fundraiser. How lovely of them.
They gave £2000, making their contribution among the highest. (Amount is hidden but you can figure it out)
I do feel for Bernard, losing his partner of 36 years. Especially now, with his...
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This is very sad news indeed. I've been working my way through both Bernard Sumner and Peter Hook's books about New Order and there are indeed numerous mentions of Sarah and photos of her in Bernard's book, as one would expect.
Don't know what else to say. Nice of the lads to contribute to this...
I've come to doubt Disco's status as a "remix album".
In The Night was a b-side of the failed first 7'' of Opportunities. Disco was released early in the PSB history so their format of releasing albums, singles and b-sides (which never appear on albums) was not set in stone and not common...
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I'd also say that half of West End girls is new, the extra verse and the long outro "no one knows your name".
Having extra lyrics and/or music on a remix is "a thing". Doesn't make it "not a remix". PSB have done this with remixes of both their songs and remixes of other people's songs.
Is This What We Want? is a 2025 album by various artists. It consists of silence, recorded in recording studios. It was released in protest at the potential impact of artificial technology on music. The message "The British government must not legalise music theft to benefit AI companies" is spelt...
Move over x2 perfume line, here's some competition.
A cinematic story, encapsulating Valentino Vendetta.
Valentino Beauty Brand Ambassadors Dakota Johnson and Alexander Skarsgård are at the heart of the new campaign, propelled toward discovery and freedom by an unstoppable passion.
Nice It's a...
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PSB posted this ad in their Instagram story today.
I've been thinking for a while that Neil and Chris should back to their roots and get Stephen Hague, Julian Mendelson, Trevor Horn, Harold Faltermeyer or even Bobby Orlando to produce their next album.
Sorry if this has been a topic before, but living in Canada, as I do, you don't often hear PSB except perhaps the odd radio play of West End girls on a retro radio station, or similarly popular Please/Actually era songs in various stores (What have I done to deserve this? and Always on my mind pop up from time to time).
Today I was really...
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Just off a cruise and they played (a few times); West End girls Bobby O 12” version, I don't know what you want but I can't give it any more and Where the streets have no name (I can't take my eyes off you) but oddly missing the ICTMEOY part!
Oh… and in the transfer taxi; West End Sunglasses!...
Mark Picchiotti has made a social media post regarding his remixes of Se A Vida E.
He says people have been asking for his PSB remixes because they aren't available on digital platforms.
He's decided to distribute the files himself, free of charge. It's only available for a few days.
In light of recent government advice in relation to the ongoing situation and threat of COVID-19 globally, Pet Shop Boys’ Dreamworld tour can no longer commence as planned in May 2020 and the dates are being rescheduled. The European leg of the tour was...
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I suppose the festival determines the length of time they're allotted.
In their last post about the tour, they said "See you in 2027", so onward...
Spent a lovely afternoon finally reading the gorgeous hardcovers that come with the New Order box sets, and I have to plead with the universe for something similar from the Pet Shop Boys. I know they (claim to) dislike looking backwards, but imagine a box for each album with the album on CD and...
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I have the New Order boxsets too. I know they haven’t been universally popular with the fanbase. Mixing formats as part of the set does feel slightly odd.
I think the thing with PSB is that they consider the Further Listening reissues as “definitive” - it’s (supposedly - we know there are gaps)...
Pet Shop Boys Music Special
Forty-five years ago, on August 19, 1981, the Pet Shop Boys met for the first time. Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe struck up a conversation in a London music store, discussing instruments and accessories. The rest is history: fifteen studio albums and over seventy singles...
The smell of solder, a mutual interest in much of the same music, and (shall we say?) a shared overall sensiblity - yes the anniversary of Chris and Neil's first encounter has come round again.
As I’ve posted before, I have Spotify “Further listening” style playlists for their four most recent albums, where I’ve sequenced available tracks in the order in which they were recorded, according to Neil’s Literally/Annually diaries, as per the Further Listening “rules”. I know some of you have...
Today there's a solar eclipse so it is a day for playing Casting a shadow, the track they recorded for the total solar eclipse of 1999. What an understated epic track.
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DopeFiend is a textbook example of Bean Soup Theory, or as I like to call it
1976: Neil Tennant was 22 years old and 10 years away from the release of the first Pet Shop Boys album.
He was working as an editor at the British division of Marvel comics, his first job after getting a degree in History.
Here’s a photo of him in...
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Gosh, remember when you had a whole room to store the file pictures in (and for people to hide in).
One for the Northerners and there’s a few tickets left m, £15. You can also pay £5 for the livestream (presumably from anywhere in the world). It’s part of a local book festival. Details and tickets here -
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I've inquired about streaming outside of the UK and received this response:
Yes, if you buy a livestream ticket you will be able to watch it live at 7pm BST on Saturday 10 October and can access this even if you're not in the UK. You'll be able to watch the event again for up to 30 days after this...
Myself (Graham) and Dog (Chris) have made the brave (or foolish!) move to record a series of Pet Shop Boys fan podcasts.
Prior to recording, we had only met once ‘on a wet Wednesday night’ in a pub near where we both live in West Yorkshire in the north of England. But we thought it might be fun...
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Btw one essential difference between Neil and Jarvis is...class. Hence is would be absurd for PSB to do Common People. Unless maybe Chris sang it.
Madonna and Kylie Minogue (min 22) singing "Sorry" with the voice of Neil Tennant:
Madonna included the voice of Neil Tennant in their concerts with "Sorry" and Kylie included the voice of Neil Tennant in their concerts with "In Denial".
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I think Stuart Price have wanted to connect PSB and Madonna again. He put the remix of PSB with Madonna and Kylie on stage. I'm sure he wanted Neil's voice to be there in some way like a fan of PSB he is.
Maybe the next album from PSB could have Madonna on it. It was a surprise to see Kyle taking...
Channel 4's "deeply affecting" "masterpiece" It's a Sin getting spin-off
Russell T Davies teams with legendary pop duo Pet Shop Boys and Glyn Fussell.
Russell T Davies' beloved Channel 4 drama It's a Sin is being adapted for the stage by Rambert, the UK's leading contemporary dance company,...
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:roll: Anyone else get the Rambert security breach email? :roll:
It's one thing to be "in the know" by signing up, but I think places have to dial back on how much information they gather from us. An email should suffice. I don't need to give up my first born just to get updates on your stuff....
I was making an order yesterday from a fairly reputable online store, and as I was searching through the Pet Shop Boys section I encountered this live CD I'd never heard of previously, which looks to be a bootleg.
After a quick look on Discogs and seeing that it was rated 4.11/5, I...
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ah, i missed the tabernacle gig (it is one teeny weeny space) but luckily got to see them at irvine and lax
Madonna has a new album coming in July, Confessions II produced by Stuart Price. Today the full tracklist has been announced and the last song seems to be a nod to West End girls: it's called Lower East Side Girl and reportedly it will be about her early days in NYC.
Also there's a rumor that a veteran male...
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Everything reminds me of Shouting in the Evening for some reason...
C2 is surely a good album, but not as great as C1 for sure
Just imagine if we saw something like this on the official site.
Obscure Covers
Pet Shop Boys have been in discussions about a series of dates where they perform a changing set list of songs they have chosen to perform from their favourite record choices from Literally/Annually.
I'm delighted that my publisher has given me the go-ahead to provide details about my upcoming books. I've written two books in Fonthill Media's excellent "Song by Song" popular music series. Past "Song by Song" books have focused on such artists as ABBA, Bruce Springsteen,...
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Just got a notification that my copy has shipped and is arriving on Saturday!
My orders have been delivered so it seems that Amazon has entered the chat!
Wishing you a speedy delivery!
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