An evening with the Pet Shop Boys and album preview

[petshopgrrl]

I can't believe they didn't know what they did when putting this song at the end. I see it as a kind of joke from the boys.

My headcanon is that they were trying to pry the wedding reception market away from “Oops Upside Your Head”.

[Old Soak]

I've uploaded the audio from the stream. I assume this isn't copyrighted or whatever so I'm giving it to you all. Hopefully this doesn't cause any issues with the administrators given the event is now over and it's not music!...

https://tinyurl.com/yxx466yz

Thank you, that was a wonderful listen, tons of little snippets there and a great way to spend an evening. Chris doesn't say much but almost always brings the house down with his dry humour and/or forgetfulness.

[Tom Angel]

Sounds like the album is a mix of:
Release b-sides (an era in which the B-sides easily outshone most of the album tracks),
Dreaming of the Queen
and Requiem in leopard skin.. excited.

The postman has no idea what he's delivering! No, that's not an old PSB demo.

[Tom Angel]

I am going to the event in Manchester on Friday, any suggestions for a question to ask (should I get the chance)

I was going to ask ‘Is being a northerner like being an east end boy in a west end world?’

But now it sounds pretentious.

Extremely pretentious

"When will you release A Man From The Future?"
"Why don't you release live recordings/concerts like Hacienda, Creamfields, BBC with Johnny Marr etc?"
"When will we hear the songs by Neil from the 1970s?"

Please do ask these - particularly the first 2! There mist be stems for these live versions..?

[leesmapman]

Independant wrote an article on the event:

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-ente ... 33441.html

Pet Shop Boys reveal artist they most wish they’d worked with during 40-year career

The Eighties band spoke at album launch event of their huge collaborations

From Liza Minnelli to Robbie Williams, the Pet Shop Boys have collaborated with the biggest stars in the music industry over their four decade long electronic pop career.

But Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe, who penned 44 UK top 40 hits including “Suburbia” and “West End Girls” have admitted there’s one huge name they still wish they could have made music with.

Speaking at The Guardian Live “An evening with Pet Shop Boys” event in London on Monday 22 April, where their new album Nonetheless was played publicly for the first time, Tennant and Lowe expressed regret over never having worked with jazz legend Nina Simone.

Simone, who died in 2003 at her home in France at the age of 70, became known for her blend of jazz, gospel and blues, including singles “I Loves You, Porgy”, “My Baby Just Care for Me”, and the Screamin’ Jay Hawkins cover “I Put a Spell on You”.

Tennant and Lowe also revealed they had planned a full album with Dusty Springfield but the "Son of a Preacher Man" singer passed away in 1999 before they could start recording the follow up to their collaboration on her thirteenth studio album, Reputation.

It comes after the Pet Shop Boys accused Drake of singing the lyrics to their 1983 hit “West End Girls” in his track, “All the Parties”, without permission last October.

In the song, which features on Drake’s new album, For All The Dogs, the “One Dance” rapper sings: “East End boys and West End girls, yeah/ East End boys and West End girls.”

On the day of the album’s release, the Pet Shop Boys tweeted: “Surprising to hear @Drake singing the chorus of ‘West End Girls’ in the track ‘All the Parties’ on his new album. No credit given or permission requested.”

Speaking with NME this week, Tennant and Lowe said the dispute has now been resolved but didn’t outline specifics.

“It’s all sorted now,” Tennant said. “But I must say I thought it was a really nice bit in the record. He sang it very well.”

[Nickname]

'An evening with Pet Shop Boys' 22-04-2024 - FULL INTERVIEW ON VIDEO:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=um3o8CUgHRc

[TallThinMan]

Amazing that ‘West End girls’ was a hit in 1983, the year before it was released!

[Sandy Shaw]

Did i miss the context or did Neil say he sees the Film and the Musical as mistakes/failures?

It looks so.

Well for supposed failures, the film did well on the BFI Blueray version and the musical keeps getting small scale revivals as Neil mentioned. So it's all relative!!!

[Nickname]

Did i miss the context or did Neil say he sees the Film and the Musical as mistakes/failures?

It looks so.

Well for supposed failures, the film did well on the BFI Blueray version and the musical keeps getting small scale revivals as neil mentioned. So it's all relative!!!

I thought the film had won a cinema festival in Houston or something like that.

[james23_uk]

For some reason the background music before the start and during the interval were all PSB collaboration songs.

At least the following were played, and presumably there were more.

Blur - Girls and Boys (PSB 12" mix)
PSB with Kylie - In Denial
Elton John - In Private
Claptone - Queen of Ice (PSB mix)
Jean-Michel Jarre - Brick England
Sam Taylor-Wood - I'm in Love with a German Film Star

The music played before the event was the Spotify playlist called “Pet shop sounds”. I could see the playlist when looking over my shoulder as I was sitting in front of sound booth on the last row.

Thanks for the info

[CSL]

'An evening with Pet Shop Boys' 22-04-2024 - FULL INTERVIEW ON VIDEO:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=um3o8CUgHRc

Thank you! Tried to listen to the recording on my way to work but the environment was too noisy. This will be a nice treat to watch at home.

[Vintage Youth]

Hi, does anyone know anything about the seating allocation on Friday, tickets are numbered, but wondering if it's a queuing/first come first served deal? Thanks

[petshopgrrl]

Speaking at The Guardian Live “An evening with Pet Shop Boys” event in London on Monday 22 April, where their new album Nonetheless was played publicly for the first time, Tennant and Lowe expressed regret over never having worked with jazz legend Nina Simone.

Simone, who died in 2003 at her home in France at the age of 70, became known for her blend of jazz, gospel and blues, including singles “I Loves You, Porgy”, “My Baby Just Care for Me”, and the Screamin’ Jay Hawkins cover “I Put a Spell on You”.

I bet PSB could do an utterly delectable version of “My Baby Just Cares for Me”. I imagine it would sound somewhere between "It Always Comes As A Surprise" and their version of "Try It (I'm In Love With A Married Man)", both of which never fail to make me melt.

[new_love]

Hi, does anyone know anything about the seating allocation on Friday, tickets are numbered, but wondering if it's a queuing/first come first served deal? Thanks

They’re stopping admittance to that part of the library from about 1pm to set up and I have word that it’s seated and yes will be a first come first served. They’ve had to bring more chairs in and I believe around the 300 mark. A gorgeous venue.

[Vintage Youth]

Hi, does anyone know anything about the seating allocation on Friday, tickets are numbered, but wondering if it's a queuing/first come first served deal? Thanks

They’re stopping admittance to that part of the library from about 1pm to set up and I have word that it’s seated and yes will be a first come first served. They’ve had to bring more chairs in and I believe around the 300 mark. A gorgeous venue.

Thank you!