Missing video?

[dequesi]

An old video for Did you see me coming? came to mind, and the only online reference I can find is on geowayne's amazing website:

Did You See Me Coming? (experiment)
2009 - "Directed" by Pet Shop Boys and Andy Crookston

Chris and Neil got their tour manager, Andy Crookston, to use his cell phone to capture them walking around the German film studio Babelsberg. Neil appears to be singing into his own cell phone, though perhaps he's just listening to the song so as to facilitate his lip-synching. Apparently they thought the resulting low-quality footage might serve as all or part of the single's video. But it turned out to be too low in quality to use.

Thanks, mate, for a moment I thought I had dreamed it!

I remember finding the "experiment" awful.
Funnily enough - it's nowhere to be found!
Things DO disappear from the internet, despite all claims to the contrary.
... or does anyone still have it?

Also, can you think of any other PSB videos that have disappeared off the face of the earth?

[tottenhammattspurs]

Think I might still have that on a hard drive actually. I’ll take a look.

[tottenhammattspurs]

Here you go.. I've uploaded it to one of the Pet Shop Boys Facebook pages in all its pixelated glory....
https://www.facebook.com/share/v/17dJXRhY95/

[leesmapman]

I looked up the original Pet Text for this, they linked to youtube, and yes, they removed it. This was the original youtube URL:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuEu8maWi1U
and the Pet Text:
https://www.petshopboys.co.uk/pet-texts ... m-neil-335

[leesmapman]

@tottenhammattspurs : I don't use facebook, is there any other place to watch this?

[madsnielsen]

An old video for Did you see me coming? came to mind, and the only online reference I can find is on geowayne's amazing website:

Did You See Me Coming? (experiment)
2009 - "Directed" by Pet Shop Boys and Andy Crookston

Chris and Neil got their tour manager, Andy Crookston, to use his cell phone to capture them walking around the German film studio Babelsberg. Neil appears to be singing into his own cell phone, though perhaps he's just listening to the song so as to facilitate his lip-synching. Apparently they thought the resulting low-quality footage might serve as all or part of the single's video. But it turned out to be too low in quality to use.

Thanks, mate, for a moment I thought I had dreamed it!

I remember finding the "experiment" awful.
Funnily enough - it's nowhere to be found!
Things DO disappear from the internet, despite all claims to the contrary.
... or does anyone still have it?

Also, can you think of any other PSB videos that have disappeared off the face of the earth?

I seem to recall that they had to pull the video because they hadn't sought permission to film at the Babelsberg Film Studio.

[dequesi]

Here you go.. I've uploaded it to one of the Pet Shop Boys Facebook pages in all its pixelated glory....
https://www.facebook.com/share/v/17dJXRhY95/

Thanks a ton for finding and sharing it!
Unfortunately I'm in the same situation as...

@tottenhammattspurs : I don't use facebook, is there any other place to watch this?

Maybe you can find a way to upload to Youtube or such?
(I wouldn't want to infringe any forum rules about sharing copyrighted materials... That's not the intention here!)

And yes:

I seem to recall that they had to pull the video because they hadn't sought permission to film at the Babelsberg Film Studio.

I was under the same impression, but it was such a vague memory that I didn't trust it enough to share. But if we both have the same idea, then it must be true, or at least that must have been the rumour at the time.