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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.
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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He should do a version of the Birds of a Feather theme tune.
Hehe, Birds of a Feather Pet Shop Boys Caged mix...
If they were to release a new B-sides album, which song should they use to promote it?
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They should release the 3rd b-sides compilation in order not to lose momentum. And maybe reissue the 2 previous ones.
Not keen on the Obscure name, the setlist also included album tracks so it won’t be accurate at all. Leave it for a future concert release, my bet is that it could be very wellcomed!
Composer Richard Niles has brought out a book titled "Hits & Happiness: A Musical Memoir".
Covered is his involvement with PSB, with first hand anecdotes of how his contributions came about.
Richard Niles worked on Left To My Own Devices, Can You Forgive Her, Go West and Overture To Performance....
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Richard Niles is a good musicians and it would be nice if they wanted to work together again.
I just got the christmas cards I ordered from the PSB store. They come in a red box with a logo printed on it. The back of the christmas cards also have this logo. It says "Pet Shop Boys since 1984":
Does this mean next year will be a festive year? 40 years of Pet Shop Boys?
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When I placed an order for the sweat shirt I got that message during check out and wouldn't let me proceed. That was the first time I have had trouble purchasing from the UK store. I have always got my Annually from the UK as well as other assorted items.
PSB are excited to announce “Obskur Pet Shop Boys”, two exclusive live concerts at Huxleys Neue Welt in Berlin on 12th and 13th July 2026. Tickets go on sale this Friday, 29th May at 11 am local time via the link below.
In contrast to the duo’s “Dreamworld” show at Waldbühne Berlin on 11th July,...
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therefore....>>..... >>>>>> ...Subject copied over and topic closed
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.
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I wonder whether Neil Hannon would do it if asked. He's a busy man but this could sound terrific...
Would love that! I also thought about Bob Stanley/Pete Wiggs now that Saint Etienne are splitting up.
On this forum, we have many fans of PSB all over the world. I'd like to know if you consider PSB are still recognizable in your country.
I mean, when you talk with people from your country and say you are a fan of PSB, you see they don't usually know who are them or they more or less recognize...
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I’m from Germany, and everyone I know in their fifties and older knows PSB. But when I fly to England for a concert, I hear people ask suprised, ‘Are they still going?’ When I tell them they’re still releasing new albums and playing big concerts, many look at me in disbelief.
"Next time you’re in a bookshop, look out for “Mighty Real” by Barry Walters, an excellent history of LGBTQ music, its artists and audiences, which includes a chapter on Pet Shop Boys, Dusty Springfield and Liza Minnelli. It was published this week. Neil x"
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I've just read the chapter in question - it's excellent. Barry Walters is a great journalist and also a fan boy for the Pets, This quote from Neil is on the back of the dust jacket:
''Barry Walters has been writing about music from an American queer perspective for five decades. This is his...
I've found this on Youtube and I think it could be an interesting way to go deeply on the movements that made PSB a non successful pop duo in US:
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That's essentially it. They're not nearly *as* successful in the States as in Europe and various other countries, and their big success with singles (at least outside the dance charts) ended after "Domino Dancing." But, yes, they certainly do have a large and loyal American fanbase. It's not just...
Go on then, which of us "wins" for most PSB minutes for 2025?
26,748 minutes for me, putting me in top 0.001% of global fans. This doesn't include the times I switched to YouTube music and the downloaded versions when my data was getting a bit low on holiday ;)
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I asked Google AI who that is in case anyone else is curious:
Probably not the best discussion to have but does anyone else ask themselves "how much further will Pet Shop Boys continue?". We have had periods (not many thankfully) that Neil & Chris have probably thought about calling it a day ; "Pet Shop Boys to close shop" was headlines in a tabloid paper...
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There are so many bands and artists carrying on into their 80's now. Maybe a few who need the money, many who don't, they just enjoy it. Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, The Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, this week Paul Simon... what's to say they won't still be making great music in 10-15 years? I truly...
I think they lost an opportunity when they didn't release "Somewhere" as a single from Nightlife and they didn't choose Kylie for a single potential song.
I know they wanted to promote concerts that had the same name of the song but I think there was no need and they could have saved Somewhere...
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Track listing
1) Radiphonic ("In the air...)
2) Closer to Heaven
3) I Don't Know...
4) Silver Age
5) You Only Tell Me You Love Me
6) Boy Strange
7) The Only One
8) Footsteps.
9) Being Boring 1999
And that's it. Happiness is an Option, Vampires, In Denial, For Your Own Good and New York City Boy...
I’ve been watching some snooker on tv and every player has their own walk on music as they do in darts. I was thinking has anyone used music by Chris and Neil. If I had to choose a song it would be paninaro. What song would you choose?
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To walk onto what, a snooker or darts tournament?
The Sodom & Gomorrah Show to scare the hell out of them.
Sun, sex, sin and snooker! The Four Horsemen of a perfect British Saturday night! :mrgreen:
(Edit: typo)
I remember this thing called snooker. Even met Cliff Thorburn once (thus showing...
We keep on talking about producers on this thread:
But I'd like to know if you like the idea of PSB making an album with a K-pop producer, just something different apart from European or American producer. It could be nice give PSB a youthful sound with it.
A fascinating thread on the Facebook group PSB, Please... The Hangout
Someone who knew Chris and Neil before they became famous with some more info on the origins of the name.
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Fair point. It looks like Chris has two handwriting styles - the quicker spikier style seen here and the flowing cursive style we see in the animal illustrations book and the West End demo tape.
It definitely looks like his writing to me.
You've just reminded me of a time when I was standing on a...
Gloomy.jpeg Pet Shop Boys released their debut album, Please, on 24th March, 1986 so we're throwing a special 40th anniversary party dedicated to our favourite gloomy duo.
We'll be playing all our fave tracks from this classic album, which includes hits such as, West End Girls, Surburbia,...
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An evening with Pet Shop Boys and Nirvana. Sure, why not?
Hehe!
We had a far from gloomy night! I stayed till the bitter end at 3am, the DJ had already played West End girls the Bobby O version and he bowed out with the Stephen Hague version.
On a non PSB night I would go again but maybe leave at 1 or...
Leicester’s Curve has today announced its critically acclaimed Made at Curve production of Hanif Kureishi’s My Beautiful Laundrette will return with a spring 2024 tour as part of the Theatre Nation Partnerships initiative.
Set in London during the Thatcher years, My Beautiful Laundrette tells the...
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I missed this updated production unfortunately.
Here's my re-ordered continuous mix of the My Beautifull Laundrette EP - "My Beautiful Mix"!"
Appropriately I have mixed feelings,about some of the Boys' tracks here but it's a good effort. I'd like to see a longer collaboration with a credible...
Pet Shop Boys announce the theatrical release of "Dreamworld: The Greatest Hits Live At The Royal Arena Copenhagen", coming to cinemas worldwide for two nights only on 31 January and 4 February 2024. Tickets go on sale on 6 December.
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Happy to part from my copy of the Dreamworld BLURAY/2CD without GW on it, just PM me in case someone is interested.
Top 10 Duos by Estimated Worldwide Record Sales (Albums + Singles)
1- The Carpenters (Karen & Richard Carpenter, USA)
Over 100 million records (some estimates reach 100–120+ million, with strong singles sales in the 1970s — around 40 million physical singles cited in detailed analyses). Their...
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I think Pets is in the Guinness Book of World Records as the English duo with the most records sold in history. Therefore, Eurythmics couldn't possibly be ahead of them. In fact, I'm only sure that The Carpenters are ahead of them on that list. I'm not so sure about Hall & Oates and Simon &...
Did not know where to put this, but here a link to a recent photo comic by Ype Driessen, a Dutch photo comic maker and author, who often uses gay topics. He is also a huge Pet Shop Boys fan (in fact a friend reminded me after I sent him this comic that we were standing next to him at the Electric...
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Of course the original version of Paninaro is waaay superior to the '95 remix!
Lots of energy in the forum coming off the Obscure Show. Thought I would re-share the files I had from 1997 Equality Show to keep this party going. Cover versions from Sound of Music + It’s Not Unusual by Tom Jones. Not the greatest quality, but only versions known to exist.
Links should be good...
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Files available through 4/30 to download. Enjoy fellow petheads!
A friend recommended this female artist from my hometown Cologne, Germany, to me. She just released an EP with four PSB covers. The lead single "Heart" isn't that extraordinary - but I quite like her version of "A man could get arrested". If anyone's interested - she's playing live at the "Kölner...
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Greetings,
From the extracts, side A is not bad at all - they're quite faithful arrangements, albeit somewhat stripped back.
The deadpan vocals are pleasant enough too.
On the downside, I do not really understand the point, as nothing here is in any way unique or innovative. It's all very clean...
About Neil's letter to NME after going to a Sex Pistols' concert where the band beat up the audience!
Oh, how one wishes that Neil had got a record deal in the 70's. A song about this concert would've been his equivalent to Smoke on The Water.
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Taught the band to play?
He attended a punk concert and wrote about it to the local press who published his writings.
I don't get why this thread is titled as suck.
I know there have been a lot of megamixes of PSB tracks shared recently, but I do have a soft spot for these kind of things so I thought I'd finally create my own.
It turned out to be 6 1/2 hours long and includes all my favourite "mid tempo to bangers" from the last 40 years. I tried to make the...
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Despite listening at pretty high volumes whilst striding from the Albert Hall to Putney this evening, I don't have a "splitting" headache.
The louder the better - even for that penultimate song!
DAVID BOWIE - TWO SPECIAL RELEASES FOR RECORD STORE DAY 2026
HALLO SPACEBOY 12" NEON PINK EP - FEATURING MIXES BY PET SHOP BOYS, DAVE BALL AND INGO VAUK, AND A PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED REMIX BY TIM SIMENON
EXCERPTS FROM OUTSIDE...
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I'm not on commission but I love the indie store Banquet records in Kingston-upon-Thames who are also very enterprising as live music promoters attracting big names like Tears for Fears. They've even taken over the local ''Spuds'' as they needed more room for their operations.
At the time of...
Neil suggested there is nothing that makes us think we'll see "Naked" on a near future. The only one think they are planning for the future is a revised version of A Man from the Future wich I don't know is something you are really wanting.
But the plans for the new album set the release date in...
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If they want to play live to 50 people in a pub in Newcastle, or 250000 people in a stadium in the Prague, that's fine with me.
If they get 250000 people in a stadium wherever it takes place, that's fine with the whole community. :mrgreen:
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...
I do not wish to be negative in such exciting times, but the phrase from the article on the iTunes release, ' it's release date ' is bad grammar, and I am certain, just a slip from the person who wrote the piece. This slip, (or possibly a lack of awareness of the rules and reasons behind...
In an interview with Frances Barber, she says she’s hoping to film a version of Musik.
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I had my helping of Soup in Wimbledon today. I attended alone (long story I do have friends!) as did three women and one other man. The women ended up on the same row and were interesting to talk with. Two of them had been to Obscure. One to all 5 nights as I had. I was that one other man! Sorry I...
As a certain song goes…’Do you think they will put you in the rock n roll hall of fame?’
I noticed in the news that Sinead O’Connor and A tribe called quest !? have been shortlisted for the ‘hall’.
Have Psb ever been shortlisted, maybe the above lyrics have designated them as un-listable?
Maybe...
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I used to get super confused on a Saturday watching The Chart Show on TV but realised that Erasure were considered "indie" simply because they were on a independent record label (Sire maybe?). PSB were not because they were on Parlophone. Same for NO at Factory. It made it all a bit of a nonsense...
Super was released ten years ago today. I have very fond memories of getting this on vinyl, having started purchasing records again shortly before this. Collecting-wise, we were truly spoilt with the singles on this one. Four released on vinyl, with Inner sanctum being the loveliest of all, and a...
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Also to me the artwork seemed a bit too cheap.
I feel like Super is their cheapest album in every respect.
I have to agree. It's still my least favourite PSB album by far. Unlike all their other albums, I can't find a single 10/10 song with just "The pop kids" and "Burn" coming close. The title...
I have started a weekly blog that will feature all of the studio albums by the Pet Shop Boys.
Each week detailed information is provided about the album and the tracks each album features, with every track rated, and album given a score based on the track ratings, culminating in a weekly chart...
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Available over on our blog page is week number Fifteen and the final week of our ongoing feature, in which we write about and rate every Pet Shop Boys studio album, and week by week we build up our ultimate Pet Shop Boys album chart.
We finish the final part with the duo's last studio album...
Very good article summing up their carrer. Starts talking about Obscure and ends with fashion and Volume. A few mistaken facts in the middle, like their legendary chronicle about touring China in the 90s (lol). But good article, all in all. This a very prestigious newspaper in Spain.
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40 Years of Hits, Reinvention and Risky Decisions: How Pet Shop Boys Became the Best Band in the World
Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe are nearing seventy, but show no signs of slowing down. After the Obscure event celebrating their forty years in the business, they will return to Spain...
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