The 2020 edition of Pet Shop Boys Annually will be published on April 17th and is available to pre-order now from the link below. This year’s 64-page, hard-backed book includes:
* The making of PSB’s newly released album “Hotspot”.
* A behind-the-scenes report with photos from the “Monkey business” video shoot.
* A year of theatre: “Closer to Heaven”, “My Beautiful Laundrette” and “Musik”, the Billie Trix one-woman cabaret, all open in the same year to excellent reviews.
* Plus news and photographs, your letters answered, and more.
* A 7‑track CD of PSB’s music for “My Beautiful Laundrette”, the recent stage play based on the film, is packaged with this issue of Annually and is not available anywhere else. Pre-order your copy of Pet Shop Boys Annually with the “My Beautiful Laundrette” CD exclusively from the official store at the link below. The full track-listing of the “My Beautiful Laundrette” CD is as follows:
1. Omar’s theme
2. Angelic thug
3. Johnny’s dark side
4. Night sings (Popa’s theme)
5. Johnny’s theme
6. Beautiful laundrette
7. No boundaries
Annually
On this day 20 years ago, Pet Shop Boys premiered their new score to Eisenstein’s classic 1925 Russian silent film “Battleship Potemkin” in front of an estimated audience of 20,000 at London’s Trafalgar Square. PSB performed behind gauze with the Dresdner Sinfoniker conducted by Jonathan Stockhammer, playing orchestrations by Torsten Rasch while the movie is projected on a giant screen above the performers. Listen to the score at the link below. Photo: Open Culture
Recent News
Pet Shop Boys today reveal a special expanded edition of their latest album, “Nonetheless”.
The official video for Pet Shop Boys’ new single “Feel”, directed by acclaimed young British artist Corbin Shaw and Rawtape, is now available to watch on YouTube at the link below.
BBC Radio 2 listeners have voted “West End girls” their favourite Pet Shop Boys song of all-time.
Neil has contributed spoken vocals to a new Superchumbo (Tom Stephan) remix of Bronski Beat’s “Why?”, which is out now.
Brand new merchandise for Pet Shop Boys’ acclaimed Royal Opera House residency is now available from the official PSB store.
Pet Shop Boys are playing the first of five sold-out shows at the Royal Opera House in London tonight. Each performance starts at 8pm. It’s going to be an exciting week!
Pet Shop Boys return to Chris’ hometown of Blackpool for an intimate performance at the legendary Funny Girls cabaret bar on Friday, 6th September.