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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.
Look, it's only one word - how hard can it be? Let's all brainstorm this thread.
I'll start...
Shoelaces
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Finale.
I remember reading an interview with them way back around the time of “Actually” or possibly “Introspective” where Neil commented that they had already written their final album which would be entitled “Posthumously.” I’m certain he was being facetious. Having said that, a few years back...
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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I've seen this but don't own it nor have I heard it.
However I was at this Atlanta performance.
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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Dreamworld is so boring 2026. I can't understand why people wanna still see it. Enough is enough after 4 years
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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Greetings,
Worth remembering that there are two versions of this song. The RSD seven-inch had the spoken word bit from Neil.
Interesting. I would probably have known this had the person I purchased the 7" from off eBay actually honoured the transaction (which they assumed they were going to get...
The Obscure residency finally kicks off tonight ... let's post set lists, reviews and reactions from the gigs here ...
Fellow fans wanting to keep things a surprise for other nights should look away!
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I find myself obsessed with the video recordings of Obscure and the Dreamworld Viňa del Mar performance.
Having seen other Dreamworld videos, the Viña performance exceeds the others by far, although the songs are essentially the same each time, and regularly performed over the years.
The Obscure...
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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New episode…
Episode 40 – Summer
Pod Cast Boys celebrate their 40th episode by diving into 40 summers of Pet Shop Boys’ fandom - from bedroom mixtapes and sunlounger listening, to festivals, raves, summer jobs and water‑parks.
They revisit the summers that shaped them: 1986 camping trips spent...
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...
Sorry if this video was posted here before, I've just found it by chance:
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Who knows?
He just might be one of those Tall Thin Men!
Maybe Neil does have a pair (or two!) of stilettos in his closet but we'll never see them to know for sure!
Now there's a visual we never knew we needed. :shock:
I had to go back and fact-check myself after this discussion but I can still...
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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At a funeral. Not as part of the service but whilst waiting for the procession to arrive It’s Alright came on the radio from a nearby office.
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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Stuart Price just 'DJ-ed' at the World Cup Final with Fat Ronaldo and the Muppets.
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.
Looks like the rest of the bands catalogue up to Elysium is getting reissued in May in the same gatefold soft packs as the previous bunch.
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I ordered mine from Townsend Music where they offer a bundle.
How did you order go? I’ve never used them before, thanks.
Ultimately, I ordered from AmazonUK.
Dispatched the same day and arrived in 6 days.
Price was the same.
However, I'll keep Townsend in my repertoire for future reference....
Pet Shop Boys new hardback book – Volume – is down to £23 on Amazon UK as part of Prime day! :clap:
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And to add, I'm less annoyed by the people who went for five nights than I am the people who dragged their bored partners along, who would rather have been anywhere else, and the folks who yakked incessantly throughout the gig and couldn't enjoy a gig for two hours without constantly running to the...
Pet Shop Boys today announce the forthcoming publication of “Volume”, a 592-page hardback book published to coincide with the 40th anniversary of the release of their 1986 debut album, “Please”. The book will be published by distinguished art publishers Thames & Hudson on April 7th 2026 and is...
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The format is the main thing I dislike about Volume. I personally love coffee table books. Volume is too much like a novel.
A pity they didn't insist on the same layout for Volume. They actually insisted on the changed layout, Neil says in the "World In Your Ear"-podcast (near the end of the...
Any educated guesses or facts on how much Chris or Neil might be worth? I remember reading not long ago that Neil mentioned they were surprisingly underpaid for having sold 70 million worldwide.
It's interesting (and by the time I'd got towards the end of the thesis, moving) to read this bachelor's thesis by Ada Palin of the University of Turku.
We all love the boys but sometimes ( rarely) they record songs that just ain’t up to their normal standards, so which do you dislike, skip etc can be album tracks singles
Mine are
Winner ,
I absolutely detest this song , it’s just cheesy and makes me cringe
You only tell me you love me when...
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Love is a bourgeois construct???? One of the best tracks!!! :shock:
It's usually around this time we start to hear from the Boys about Annually for the next year, so thought I'd start the thread.
Be nice to get more info on AMFTF, Naked and maybe some teaser of work on a new album.
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So, have we all got our books yet? Is it time to go full book club on this bad boy? Because I have opinions about people climbing on hotel furniture armed with sticking plaster in the middle of the night.
Or maybe that's one for the "how much further can two go" thread. :mrgreen:
Everyone remembers the mistake made in Smash blu ray. Being boring being censored. Some of you, not me, might have received that replacing BR with the uncensored version.
But I wonder, are new copies now sold with the uncensored version, if you buy them through the mayor providers?
Like, if I buy...
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You see his face plenty. Perhaps your memory is playing tricks on you because something else caught your attention.
On Discogs, it shows that PSB are producers on the official The Crying Game Soundtrack. There are 15 tracks on the album - does anyone know how many of the tracks on the album were actually produced by the Boys?
Ed Sheeran played four shows in one night in 2011 while Elbow, Biffy Clyro, Snow Patrol, The Strokes, Kasabian, Sam Fender The Pet Shop Boys and Maroon 5 were among the acts tipped for big things who earned their stripes on the Barfly stage.
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The writer oif the piece was old enough to know that PSBs already were 'big things'.....
Indeed - I was hoping someone would pick up on that!
Sadly I missed the Barfly gig, due to low energy that day didn't even rock up there with the hope of getting a tickets on the pavement....
No dishing, just some interesting background. Apologies for any scanning/transcription errors.
From Chapter 8 of Kids, Wait Till You Hear This!
And Now, for Something Completely Different...
As "The Ultimate Event" rolled into London in early 1989, I took a musical leap into synth-pop that some...
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I expected more about the studio sessions, hitting the clubs, meeting SDJ and FS, being on Wogan etc.
Who's the author of the book again, cos it ain't Tennant or Lowe.
You're aware Liza was slightly famous before she met PSB and knew SDJ and FS from childhood?
I was looking for a relevant existing thread and couldn't find anything.
Taking a lead from Wayne's wonderful list of celebrity PSB fans (link here - I've long thought that many well known people were less keen to come forward as PSB fans earlier in their careers - my supposition that the Boys...
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And is that THE Lloyd Cole in the comments underneath?
Wouldn’t it be great if Angela (PSB Manager) was to to advise some sort of update on what’s in the pipeline. I really enjoyed the interview she did a few years ago and gave us a few crumbs about what could develop. Neil has said they don’t look that far ahead and I’m not demanding a daily itinerary...
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I forgot they've mentioned an album in the works.
The exact quote is:
Interviewer: After Nonetheless, is there any new music coming from Pet Shop Boys?
Neil Tennant: Yes, we've written some new songs. We also have an album coming out later this year, although it's not really a pop album. It's a...
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