Anyone else got / seen one of these?

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gareth · #1 Post by **gareth** » Mon 03 Sep 2007, 3:50 pm

Afternoon folks

Been having a tidy up today and unearthed this laminate tag........

It was, in 1987 or 88 from memory, attached to a pair of PSB Xmas socks (long disappeared unfortunately) and was sent to me as an Xmas gift from the boys. The reverse is printed with "Best Wishes" (written by Chris I think) and both their signatures, a la the Christmas cards we all know so well now. Found a load of those today as well incidentally - including the mobile and the advent calendar!

Just wondered if anyone here had seen one before? Could be thousands of them for all I know!

Thanks

Gareth

agent doris · #2 Post by **agent doris** » Mon 03 Sep 2007, 3:56 pm

Yep i've got one... and the socks!

Dipso · #3 Post by **Dipso** » Mon 03 Sep 2007, 3:58 pm

I think the 1987 "tour pass" laminated card is fairly rare. I have all the cards from 1988 onwards, but alas not the 1987 one.

gareth · #4 Post by **gareth** » Mon 03 Sep 2007, 4:09 pm

agent doris wrote:Yep i've got one... and the socks!

Hi Doris

I seem to remember them having holly and Xmas trees on - or is my memory playing festive tricks on me?!

G

greenmile · #5 Post by **greenmile** » Mon 03 Sep 2007, 5:11 pm

I got one too. Didn't get any socks with it but did get a navy coloured woolly hat with 'Pet Shop Boys' in red around the edge of it.

gareth · #6 Post by **gareth** » Mon 03 Sep 2007, 5:13 pm

greenmile wrote:I got one too. Didn't get any socks with it but did get a navy coloured woolly hat with 'Pet Shop Boys' in red around the edge of it.

Recently sold my accompanying wooly hat on Ebay!

gareth · #7 Post by **gareth** » Mon 03 Sep 2007, 5:18 pm

They don't do mailers like they used to any more eh- those were the days......:

Nice promotional card from photographer Andy Earl too:

Amazing what you find lying around - I appear to have kept a heap of mailed cards for Performance, Can you forgive her?, Go West, Bilingual, Se A Vida E, Somewhere etc. It was always a treat when they popped through the letterbox - and often the first confirmed news of a release - unless you'd read it on teletext!

G

Riikka · #8 Post by **Riikka** » Mon 03 Sep 2007, 6:11 pm

Sigh... How lucky you are! Every time I see those Christmas cards of the Boys, I start to miss them so much and only wishing I was a fan earlier on!

agent doris · #9 Post by **agent doris** » Mon 03 Sep 2007, 6:32 pm

The socks had the old Pet Shop Boys logo in red with a little sprig of holly on the corner of the logo! Very nice indeed...

df118junkie · #10 Post by **df118junkie** » Mon 03 Sep 2007, 9:34 pm

Another of those passes lives with me....

greenmile · #11 Post by **greenmile** » Mon 03 Sep 2007, 10:10 pm

Still have some of the old A4 newsletters that were sent out before the fanclub was setup too1

Pet Shop Girl · #12 Post by **Pet Shop Girl** » Tue 04 Sep 2007, 4:30 am

I had not seen those, really nice they are!

psb-freak · #13 Post by **psb-freak** » Tue 04 Sep 2007, 5:52 am

Can you show us the backside of the 1988-card ?
They showed that card on a tv show where they did a competition to win some PSB-stuff.

agent doris · #14 Post by **agent doris** » Tue 04 Sep 2007, 11:10 am

greenmile wrote:Still have some of the old A4 newsletters that were sent out before the fanclub was setup too1

I've got some of them too! Not sure how they survived this long...!

gareth · #15 Post by **gareth** » Tue 04 Sep 2007, 12:44 pm

Is any of this stuff worth anything? At 34 years old with enough clutter to last a lifetime I'm thinking of trying to get rid of it - possibly along with a pretty huge collection of PSB vinyl which is just collecting dust these days - sad but true!