From tomorrow at 10 am Eastern Time in the USA, Pet Shop Boys take over the weekend on 1st Wave on Sirius XM. “Starting with an exclusive Town Hall with subscribers, hosted by 1st Wave’s Richard Blade…Then listen as we play a different song every hour from their latest album “Electric” plus more of the great synth dance pop hits, including song intros from both Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe!”
To mark the centenary of Sergei Eisenstein’s legendary silent film, “Battleship Potemkin”, a restored version made by Deutsche Kinemathek, featuring the celebrated score by Tennant and Lowe of Pet Shop Boys, will be released for the first time in cinemas and on a two-disc Blu-ray and CD package by the BFI.
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Nice to be back in Italy! Concert in lovely Lucca tomorrow. Neil x
Pet Shop Boys’ summer tour continues at Starlite Occident Festival in Marbella tonight, with further “Dreamworld” shows scheduled in Italy, Spain, Wales, Belgium, Sweden and England throughout July and August. The Cardiff Castle show is sold out now and details on all other PSB dates are available at the link below.
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Looking forward to our show in sunny Marbella tomorrow! xx
Pet Shop Boys’ remastered score for “Battleship Potemkin” will be released on CD and, for the first time, on double vinyl via Parlophone on 5 September.
A special bundle, available from the official Pet Shop Boys store, includes the double vinyl along with the BFI’s two-disc edition, featuring a Blu-ray of the newly restored film and a CD of the remastered score.
All formats are available to pre-order now.
Wishing Neil a happy 71st birthday today!
The first six PSB studio albums, “Please”, “Actually”, “Introspective”, “Behaviour”, “Very” and “Bilingual”, have been updated on CD from jewel case to gatefold card sleeves for the first time since their original release. Featuring 2018 remastered audio, all of them will be made available in the official Pet Shop Boys store this Thursday, 10th July.
Pet Shop Boys enjoyed a beautiful start to their summer tour with festival shows in Seville, Lisbon and Madrid over the past week. After a short break, the “Dreamworld” tour is set to continue in Spain, Italy, Wales, Belgium and Sweden, before finishing in England at the end of August. All details at the link below. Photo: sirbermejo/Instagram