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Pet Texts March 2009
Press
Go to the link for a thoughtful review of "Yes" in this week's New Statesman magazine.
New Statesman
Message from Neil
There's been a lot of Twittering today. This is me at the radio station SWR1 in Baden Baden, Germany, this morning. Link to more Twitter stuff is below.
Twitter
Press
Go to the link below for an interesting feature about Farrow and the design of "Yes" and the influence of Gerhard Richter etc.
Creative Review
Press
Rolling Stone in Germany have two covers this month: one featuring Depeche Mode; the other featuring Pet Shop Boys.
Rolling Stone Germany
Message from Neil
Thanks to everyone who came to the HMV signing session in London this evening. Nice to see you all. (Twitter pic by Chris of the view from the signing desk.) Neil x
Twitter
Press
From the British music industry journal, "Music Week": Pet Shop Boys are facing a close battle with Ronan Keating as they look to score their first number one album in the UK in more than 15 years. The duo’s new Parlophone-issued album "Yes" is presently around 1,200 units ahead of Keating’s Polydor release "Songs For My Mother", according to early retail reports, but the story is made more complicated by the PSB album having accidentally ended up on iTunes three days early last week. It is understood around 2,500 sales of the album achieved on the Apple site following its premature release there last Friday will not count towards this coming week’s chart as they will be recognised as sales from last week instead. Pet Shop Boys, who won the outstanding contribution award at this year’s Brits, have only topped the albums chart once before. "Very" reached number one in October 1993.
Music Week
Media
Pet Shop Boys will be appearing on the Graham Norton Show on BBC2TV this Thursday, March 26th, at 10 pm.
Graham Norton Show
Press
Go to the links below for more reviews of "Yes". Pet Shop Boys are enjoyed by the Independent on Sunday and patronised by The Observer but they both make it CD of the week.
Independent On Sunday
The Observer
Sunday Times
Press
Go to the link for a new German interview with Pet Shop Boys.
Spiegel Online
Faz.net
Media
"Newsnight Review" on BBC2 TV tonight at 11 pm will include an interview with Pet Shop Boys and a discussion of the new album, "Yes".
Newsnight Review
Press
Links below to some reviews of "Yes" and a couple of new interviews.
The Times
The Guardian
The Independent
The List
The Sun
The Quietus
Digital Spy
Music OMH
Gigwise
Message from Neil
Me and our make-up artist, Jackie, at the BBC yesterday before "The One Show". More photos at the Twitter link below (if you're a Twittering type).
Twitter @petshopboys
Press
Pet Shop Boys' interview with the German magazine Spex is online at the link below.
Spex
Spex PSB update
Radio
Pet Shop Boys' interview on Radio 5 with Simon Mayo can be heard on his podcast at the link below.
Mayo podcast
Media
The video for "Love etc." was the number one most viewed video on You Tube today!
You Tube
Media
Pet Shop Boys will be guests on "The One Show" tonight between 7 and 7.30 pm on BBC1 TV.
The One Show
Press
There's a piece in today's Sun newspaper about "We're all criminals now", one of the bonus tracks with the new "Love etc." single
The Sun
iTunes
Media
Go the the link below for an interesting interview with Pet Shop Boys' biographer and editor of their "Literally" magazine, Chris Heath.
Pop Matters
Media
Pet Shop Boys will be interviewed on GMTV (ITV1) this morning shortly after 8.30 am.
UPDATE: The interview can be now viewed at the link below.
GMTV
Press
Below are links to some new interviews with Pet Shop Boys.
BBC News
El Mundo
CBC
News Of The World
Metro
Press
Johnny Marr interviews Pet Shop Boys in the Observer Music Monthly out today. Go to the link to read the full interview.
Observer Music Monthly
Media
Tomorrow, Monday (March 16th), Pet Shop Boys will be talking to George Lamb on BBC Radio 6 at midday and Simon Mayo on BBC Radio 5 at 2 pm.
BBC 6 George Lamb
BBC 5 Live
Media
"With Xenomania at the controls, orchestral flourishes from Owen Pallett and Johnny Marr back with guitar, Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe have made an insanely catchy album with barely a dull moment." Go to the link for a new online review of "Yes".
musicOMH
Press
Pet Shop Boys are interviewed with new photographs in The Guardian Weekend magazine today.
The Guardian
Site update
Thanks to Tom Stephan for mixing the medley of tracks from "Yes" currently on our splash page. You can download the medley for free at the link below.
EMI
Press
Welt am Sonntag, the German Sunday newspaper, will include a long feature about Pet Shop Boys this Sunday with Chris and Neil interviewed separately.
Welt Online
Welt in English
Press
Pet Shop Boys are the guests on this week's Guardian Music Weekly podcast. Neil and Chris are also interviewed on Sky News. Links to both are below.
Guardian Music Blog
Sky News
Message from Neil
Here's a link to a review of the new film, "Bronson", which features "It's a sin" in its soundtrack.
This is London
Site update
We've had a problem recently with uploading Pethead images. This is now solved so, if you haven't already, why not register as a Pethead and upload a photo? We want to see what you look like!
Press
Pet Shop Boys are on the cover of this month Record Collector with a very interesting interview inside.
Record Collector
Press
This is the cover of last Friday's El Pais EP3 supplement in Spain: "PET SHOP BOYS, 25 YEARS OF REIGN... YES, their stunning 10th studio album testifies that they have much more to offer.”
El Pais
Press
In the Observer Music Monthly, out this Sunday, Johnny Marr interviews Neil and Chris.
There's an interview with Pet Shop Boys in Attitude, out on Wednesday.
The German news magazine, Spiegal, has given "Yes" a 10 out of 10 review - see link below.
Rolling Stone magazine in Germany has given "Yes" a 4.5 out of 5 review.
Spiegal
Observer Music Monthly
Message from Neil
We recorded radio interviews today. Chris took this photo at Radio 2 of me with DJ Janice Long who we've known since the 80s. More Twitterpics at the link below.
Twitter/Pet Shop Boys
Message from Neil
Nice to be on the cover of the latest issue of The Word magazine which is on sale now in the UK. Very lively interview inside as well - although I'd like to point out that we've never considered having pole-dancing lessons (a friend of ours did) or had a party at a lap-dancing club (we went to look at one as a venue and decided against it) or found writing with Xenomania "fist-bitingly embarrassing" (maybe a little bit embarrassing at first). Just like to keep the record straight! (If this doesn't make any sense, you need to get a copy of The Word...)
Message from Neil
Really liking DJ Hell's single, "Angst", and looking forward to his new album after reading about it in the Guardian Music blog.
You Tube: Angst by DJ Hell
Guardian Music blog
DJ Hell My Space
Message from Neil
And here's Mr PJ himself asking the questions. (Another Twitpic.)
Twitter/Pet Shop Boys
Message from Neil
We enjoyed the Q&A session at the ICA in London last night. This is a photo of the audience I've taken from Twitter (see link below). Thanks to Pop Justice and Parlophone for organising the event.
Twitter/Pet Shop Boys
Message from Neil
I spent yesterday afternoon at the Convention on Modern Liberty in London listening to many illuminating and inspiring speeches and discussions on how our liberties are under threat from the growth of the "database state", anti-terrorist measures, CCTV surveillance etc. This is an issue we feel strongly about (our song "Integral" and a new song, "We're all criminals now" were inspired by it). Full details at the links below.
The Guardian
Speech by Philip Pullman
Convention on Modern Liberty
NO2ID
Inspiring speech by Lord Bingham
Henry Porter
Tour dates
- 25 March 2012
The Most Incredible Thing (Sadlers Wells), London, United Kingdom - 27 March 2012
The Most Incredible Thing (Sadlers Wells), London, United Kingdom - 28 March 2012
The Most Incredible Thing (Sadlers Wells), London, United Kingdom - 29 March 2012
The Most Incredible Thing (Sadlers Wells), London, United Kingdom - 30 March 2012
The Most Incredible Thing (Sadlers Wells), London, United Kingdom - 31 March 2012
The Most Incredible Thing (Sadlers Wells) matinee, London, United Kingdom - 31 March 2012
The Most Incredible Thing (Sadlers Wells), London, United Kingdom - 01 April 2012
The Most Incredible Thing (Sadlers Wells) matinee, London, United Kingdom - 01 April 2012
The Most Incredible Thing (Sadlers Wells), London, United Kingdom - 03 April 2012
The Most Incredible Thing (Sadlers Wells), London, United Kingdom
Releases
06 February 2012Format
A double-CD collection of 38 b-sides and bonus tracks originally released between 1996 and 2009. Released on February 6th, 2012.
Headlines
- 6 February 2012
- Format released
"Format" is released and Neil and Chris talk about the new b-sides album on a special website.
- 24 January 2012
- Format prize draw
Order "Format" now and you could win a Fundamentally fabulous jacket.
- 1 January 2012
- The Most Incredible Thing returns
To Sadler's Wells in the spring.
- 28 December 2011
- New Year's Eve in Sydney
Pandemonium returns for a New Year party in Australia.
- 23 December 2011
- Merry Christmas
Seasonal greetings to you all.