Pet Shop Boys are happy to announce that they will be performing on TV tonight in “The Big New Years & Years Eve Party”. Hosted by Olly Alexander/Years & Years, the music extravaganza will also feature live performances by Kylie Minogue and other very special guests on BBC One. More information is available at the links below.
Previously only available on VHS, this is the first time that fans will be able to experience this classic concert on DVD and listen to the audio on CDs.
BPI awards a U.K. gold record to 'West End Girls.'
On the newstands this month—Out magazine has the Pet Shop Boys on the cover. Inside they lead off the article on the 'Out 100' people who 'defined the year 1999.'
Worldwide New Year celebrations begin with PSB music: the fireworks show in Sydney, Australia, broadcast around the world, starts with the intro to the Boys' recording of 'Numb'.
About 4½ minutes into the official synchronized soundtrack to London's New Year's fireworks spectacular, the familiar strains of 'West End Girls' begin to play. But it proves to be a mashup of WEG with Florence + the Machine's 'You Got the Love,' which then plays only briefly before switching to another track altogether.
The Pet Shop Boys ring in the new year by performing in front of Berlin's famed Brandenburg Gate shortly after midnight New Year's Eve (so, yes, it is on New Year's Day).
The German radio station WDR2 broadcasts a special program devoted to the Pet Shop Boys, featuring highlights from their concert in Köln (Cologne) the previous November as well as PSB hits and selections from their most recent albums, Electric and Super.
Once again PSB music serves as the musical soundtrack to the post-midnight New Year's fireworks in Sydney, Australia: this year it's the strains of their version of 'Go West.'
To help kick off the new year, the film of the Pet Shop Boys' Inner Sanctum show at London's Royal Opera House in July 2018 has its world television premiere (in an edited edition) in the very early morning hours (0:25 a.m.) on Germany's 3Sat network.
Sad robot world
They can manufacture
what you want to capture
in a robot world
Management decisions
Technical provisions
It can take your breath away
the silent dedication
A mechanical ballet
of slow deliberation
Sad robot world
taking a position
of their own volition
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The official playlist for Pet Shop Boys' new studio album, “Hotspot”, which is out now on x2 Records/Kobalt.
All friends of Russia will be disturbed by this decision. Neil x
We are both very sad to hear of the death of radio DJ Janice Long who was always so enthusiastic about new music and such fun to be around. She was very supportive to us in the early days of PSB
Neil and Chris are taking over BBC Radio 2 this evening between 9 pm and midnight to play their own eclectic choice of music. Link below.
An hour-long edit of “Performance”, the film of PSB’s 1991 tour, will be broadcast on BBC4 tonight (December 20) at 9.30 pm, 30 years after it was first shown. Link below.