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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.
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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Track 160 : Kazak
Chronology: Release FL CD1:14
A minor rarity for the group—simply a curiosity. It is a practically instrumental track intended for a project concept featuring Cossacks and Russians dancing to techno, which never came to fruition.
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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Just asking: who was Sarah Sumner? I really don't know.
Answered myself: his wife, recently died.
So sorry for her, for him, for their family.
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 think that if it is going to be a recurring tour, they shoud notably update it (stage design, technology, costumes, set list etc) or change some ingredients (less band and maybe more backing singers?).
Altough as a long term fan, I would prefer a brand new studio album with a proper new tour...
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...
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.
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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Really looking forward to the recorded version of A man from the future. As they said, more electronic with “only” the Manchester Camerata instead of a full orchestra; interesting.
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.
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 got back from a holiday in Magic Natura in Benidorm. The restaurant had Domino Dancing and Always on my mind over the tannoy. What was REALLY weird though was they were both shortened. Second verses and bridge cut out.
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!
Does anyone have a dimeadozen Account ? I ask because one guy recorded both Obskur Shows in Berlin !
They said to me in a private message "this should hopefully be uploaded here soon."
He didn't share the files but it sounds like a proper torrent is being prepared. Here's hoping.
I'll try check...
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?
This has been touched on in other threads but let's put this together a bit:
I'd hope for:
A repeat week next year
At least one presentation of this in a more comfortable venue (a theatre)
Maybe a mini tour.
An official release either from these shows or at least of the tracks which have beefed...
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I reckon they should play another five Obscure shows and keep up the habit of introducing a couple of live debuts each time. That would give them another 10 songs, meaning they’d have performed 46 Obscure tracks in total over the course of the tour. They could then put on two special concerts where...
NOTE - I posted this same question on the InDepth podcast thread as a suggestion for a future episode.
How is the PSB live set-up configured?
Using Obscure as a reference (but my question applies to Dreamworld too):
- How were the recorded studio tracks reworked for a live performance?
- Which...
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They have a rack of MacBook Pros running Apple MainStage, which is a sort of version of Logic optimised for live performance. I’m pretty sure it’s all plugins nowadays and that there are no hardware synths or samplers in the rig anymore.
Pete started programming the Obscure shows back in...
1) To create their last three new albums:
The first one: going deep in other pop music styles from all over the world, PSB don't usually play. A mixture of songs with different styles, including rock, latin, gospel, k-pop, etc in only one album.
The second...
Pet Shop Boys have a short article published today in Die Welt magazine -
The article basically says Neil and Chris prefer West Berlin to East Berlin, and that they have had a flat in Wilmersdorf for about 16 years. Chris says West Berlin is “much cooler” and typically said he likes the...
For obvious reasons I hear a lot of sonic similarities between Madge's Confessions 2 and Super / Electric, anyone else get that?
Shame there wasn't a collaboration including the boys, especially as the album seems quite retrospective around the 80's and clubbing etc.
I posted this on our podcast socials ( but thought it might be worth sharing here too.
The evolution of The Clothes Show theme
The BBC series The Clothes Show ran from 1986-1998. During that time its theme music went through a number of different incarnations - and you may not know them all....
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I prefer the E-Smoove to the original tbh, totally different of course. Would quite like to hear this In the Night remix over a full 4 mins, don't think it works great as opening or closing credits
Why wasn't CTH that good in the end? Well, the creation of more or less two albums at the same time (NF and R) and the story.
They should've waited with the musical until they had a great story. The "Young Irish man coming to London to perform, realising he's gay" isn't very unique story. Creating...
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It's not as if they didn't fail before CTH.
It Couldn't Happen Here (the film) was a failure as well.
Mind you, there was nothing wrong with making a film in 1988. It's just that it was done in the wrong way.
There was nothing wrong with a musical in 1999-2001, it's just that they failed with the...
Lets look at a few of the Pet Shop Boys single and album titles, based on what is on the cover of each.
Pet Shop Boys “It’s a sin”
“What have I done to deserve this”
Pet Shop Boys, Actually.
“Always on my mind”
Behaviour. Pet Shop Boys
Being Boring. Pet Shop Boys
Yesterday, When I Was Mad.
Love...
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The albums are still called Please , Actually and Yes . The full sentences have never meant to be the actual titles, right? Especially "Yes, Pet Shop Boys etc" has always bugged me. How is that supposed to be said, really? The album is Yes with the bonus disc etc.
Hello!
Who has ever appeared in one of the group's concert films?
I’ve appeared in two of them: eight times in the film 'Pandemonium: Live at the O2 Arena, London' and six times in 'Pet Shop Boys: Inner Sanctum'.
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I was at the Birmingham 1991 Performance filming, the 2004 Battleship Potemkin show, the 2018 ROH show, though I am tiny dot on screen on most of these at best.
I'm also the guy in the white boiler suit pointing at the camera during "It's A Sin" at Glastonbury 2000 that was on TV. I decided that,...
Since 2011 BBC4 has been airing Top of the Pops episodes, in chronological order from 1976 onwards. This week the episode originally aired on 08 August 1985 will be shown, which means PSB'S first appearence from November 1985 is just around the corner, and from that point they will be making...
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No Live promotion for DJ Culture and Was it worth it?? when you've got a greatest hits to promote is a wild stance!
Indeed. A very odd approach.. Maybe they were tired after the Performance tour a few months previously and wanted a break. But I was surprised at the time that EMI didn't insist on...
One day, out of curiosity, I decided to check which Pet Shop Boys songs were the most listened-to on Spotify. I don't use the platform myself, and I like to think that the bulk of these streams don't come from the die-hard fans; that’s why I wanted to look—I was curious to see which songs the world...
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New York City Boy is a rework of a big hit "Turn the beat around" by Gloria Estefan, I'm sure David Morales has a big influence in the song as it sounds. It has a latin and happiness feeling PSB don't usually have in their songs sadly.
When the song is played on tours people recognize it, even...
So!
The Liberace and Liza show currently running at the Harold Pinter theatre has "Liza" (Jillian Snow) opening the second half with Losing my mind with Libby (David Saffert) on the keys and live backing band. It's worth the price of admission money to see this (!). Seriously if you like or love...
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Replying to my own post but it'll bump this up for a while.
The Liberace and Liza show also has a bit of a throwaway joke about ''Rent'' where Liberace starts an intro and asks Liza to guess the song which is obviously not ''Rent'' but that's her guess.
Apologies if already mentioned (I searched but couldn't see anything) and I'm sure a lot of you might already know about it but Petheads who love 80s Italo disco, enjoyed HRH Princess Julia's Monday set, like the French language version of I'm not scared, etc might want to investigate the Histoire...
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For anyone following this thread, and interested, there's a second volume that has just been released, again on CTR records. If you want the CD, you have to buy the vinyl too. Bah.
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