The Pet Shop Boys Thread

[big screen satellite]

well you know i love the Pet Shop Boys, and we already have a kinda New Order thread, and other band related bits here and there, so I thought i'd start one for Chris & Neil....

anyway here's the latest news, direct from http://www.petshopboys.co.uk/

Pet Shop Boys "Maxi-Mix" of Madonna's new single "Sorry" is now released on CD and can also be purchased on iTunes and other download sites.

An hour-long documentary about Pet Shop Boys is currently being filmed and will be shown on Channel 4 (in the UK) in May. A longer version will subsequently be released on DVD.

Pet Shop Boys will be performing their "Battleship Potemkin" music with the Northern Sinfonia orchestra at a free (but ticketed) event in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne on May 1. Full details on the pet shop boys site when available



i'd certainly got to this if i was in Newcastle...hopefully they will tour the Fundamental album after it comes out (now due May 22nd 2006) so expect some dates at the back end of the year, i reckon.

Matt

[Dirty0900]

Originally Posted by big screen satellite

Pet Shop Boys will be performing their "Battleship Potemkin" music with the Northern Sinfonia orchestra at a free (but ticketed) event in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne on May 1. Full details on the pet shop boys site when available

i'd certainly got to this if i was in Newcastle...hopefully they will tour the Fundamental album after it comes out (now due May 22nd 2006) so expect some dates at the back end of the year, i reckon.

Matt

I'll have to keep my eyes peeled for this one, thanks for the heads up! I'm guessing they'll do this in the Sage where the orchestra usually playes, which is in Gateshead btw

[koisk]

I'm immensely excited and worried about 'Fundamental'. When I got into the PSB it was after Release had come out, so this is the first real "new PSB" album I've experienced. The fact that Trevor Horn is producing it worries me.

[big screen satellite]

Originally Posted by koisk

I'm immensely excited and worried about 'Fundamental'. When I got into the PSB it was after Release had come out, so this is the first real "new PSB" album I've experienced. The fact that Trevor Horn is producing it worries me.

well i've not heard it but here are some reactions:

“The forthcoming Pet Shop Boys album is on the headphones, and it's a cracker. 'The Sodom and Gomorrah' show in particular, a great Friday night song if ever there was one.” Caspar Llewellyn Smith, The Observer

“The electro godfathers diss ID cards, the war on terror and dim celebrity boyfriends over thunderous Trevor Horn production on their best album for over a decade.” NME

“Already a candidate for song title of the year (‘The Sodom and Gomorrah Show’), this sees Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe return to the magnificently OTT disco pop of their heyday.” Q magazine



i actually like a lot of their recent stuff, but also wish they'd nip back a few years and this sounds like they may have done that...

who knows, its gonna sound like a Pet Shop Soys album, if we're honest, if you like Neil's voice and Chris's doodlings on the keyboard, then well i reckon we'll like it...

[EuroZeroZero]

i'm always the odd man out when it comes to PSB. I think nightlife was their last great album. everything since has sounded like garbage. except *maybe* for Home and Dry

[koisk]

Originally Posted by big screen satellite

well i've not heard it but here are some reactions:

“The forthcoming Pet Shop Boys album is on the headphones, and it's a cracker. 'The Sodom and Gomorrah' show in particular, a great Friday night song if ever there was one.” Caspar Llewellyn Smith, The Observer

“The electro godfathers diss ID cards, the war on terror and dim celebrity boyfriends over thunderous Trevor Horn production on their best album for over a decade.” NME

“Already a candidate for song title of the year (‘The Sodom and Gomorrah Show’), this sees Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe return to the magnificently OTT disco pop of their heyday.” Q magazine



i actually like a lot of their recent stuff, but also wish they'd nip back a few years and this sounds like they may have done that...

who knows, its gonna sound like a Pet Shop Soys album, if we're honest, if you like Neil's voice and Chris's doodlings on the keyboard, then well i reckon we'll like it...

True - My plan is to be as pessimistic as possible so when it does actually come out I'll be dead wrong.

[koisk]

Originally Posted by EuroZeroZero

i'm always the odd man out when it comes to PSB. I think nightlife was their last great album. everything since has sounded like garbage. except *maybe* for Home and Dry

I got nightlife but with the exception of I don't know what you want... and You only tell me you love me... I'm not to keen on it.

I also don't really like Release either, except 'Home and Dry' and 'I Get Along'.

Disco 3 was pretty good though.

[big screen satellite]

more psb news:

Stupid mixes
Pet Shop Boys have done their own "PSB Maxi-Mix" of "I'm with Stupid". Other remixes of the new single are by Melnyk, Max Tundra and Abe Duque.

The first "official" play of Pet Shop Boys' new single, "I'm with Stupid", will on the Ken Bruce Show on BBC Radio 2 on Friday 31st March between 9.30am and 12pm. At 12pm the track will become available to all radio stations to play.

plus tour news:

DATE CITY EVENT

June
17 - Sat Copenhagen, Denmark Zulu Rocks
28 - Wed London, UK Tower of London Festival

July
9 - Sun Novi Sad, Serbia EXIT Festival
14 - Fri Gräfenhainichen, Germany MELT Festival
17 - Mon Bonn Germany Museumsplatz

August
12 - Sat Almeria, Spain Creamfields Andalucia

September
2 - Sat Ludwigslust, Germany Schlossgarten Ludwigslust
3 - Sun Stradbally, Co. Laois, Ireland Electric Picnic
9 - Sat Isle of Wight, UK Bestival

plus theres is this one too:

A show in a forest
Pet Shop Boys will be playing a show at Thetford Forest, High Lodge, Suffolk, on Friday, July 21.The show is promoted by the Forestry Commission (www.forestry.gov.uk/music). Tickets priced £26 (subject to booking fee) will go on sale from 9am on Friday, March 31 from the box office (Tel 01842 814612). Tickets can also be booked online.


all info is taken from the official www.petshopboys.co.uk website


i might try and get tix for the Tower of London show...should be quite good i hope...

Matt

[jOHN rODRIGUEZ]

Tower of London Fesitival, just saying those words gives me chills.

[dubnobasswithme]

thanks for all the info matt! while i certainly hop on over to the main PSB site from time to time, occasonaly i forget, so it's nice to see the info posted here too