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Pet Texts archive: April 2024

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29 April 2024

Very happy to read the first “Nonetheless” album reviews and all your kind messages about our new album this week. x

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29 April 2024

Pet Shop Boys’ “Dancing star” is this week’s Track of the Week on Absolute Radio. You can hear it playing on the “Evening Show” all week long from 7pm BST today.

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27 April 2024

Thanks to everyone at the John Rylands Library, Manchester, for hosting our “Nonetheless” launch event in their spectacular building and to Jon Savage for interviewing us. And of course to everyone who attended the event!

(Photo: Jon Savage)

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27 April 2024

The Amazon UK “CDs and Vinyl” chart this morning, the day after the release of “Nonetheless” Thanks to everyone who has bought the new album!

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27 April 2024

This Sunday, 28th April at 4pm BST, Greatest Hits Radio will air “When Jackie Brambles met Pet Shop Boys”, a one-hour special featuring PSB music and an interview with Neil and Chris. Further details at the link below.

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26 April 2024

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A new “Lunch with Pet Shop Boys” feature, including an interview with Neil and Chris, is now available to online subscribers of the Financial Times. Link to read below. The article will also be published in Saturday’s print edition.

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26 April 2024

Thanks to BBC Radio 2 for choosing “Nonetheless” as their new Album of the Week. x

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26 April 2024

PSB will be chatting to Lauren Laverne on BBC Radio 6 Music this morning, the day their new album “Nonetheless” is released. Tune in now at the link below.

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26 April 2024

Neil and Chris discuss creating their new album in an interview with Russell Tovey and Robert Diament on the “Talk Art” podcast, which can be listened to now.

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25 April 2024

Neil and Chris will be co-hosting “An Evening In with Pet Shop Boys” along with Jo Whiley on BBC Radio 2 tonight. Tune in from 8pm BST at the link below.

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23 April 2024

Great chat with Alexis Petridis at Kings Place in London last night. Thanks to everyone who came or watched online and to The Guardian for hosting. Neil and Chris xx

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22 April 2024

Spotted in a London Underground station today.

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22 April 2024

Pet Shop Boys will be in conversation with Alexis Petridis at Kings Place London tonight, with livestream tickets available at the link below. The sold-out in-person event begins at 6:30pm BST with an exclusive “Nonetheless” album playback. See you all very soon!

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19 April 2024

It’s going to be a late night! “Pet Shop Boys: Then and Now” documentary feature presented by Alan Yentob will be shown again on BBC Four tonight at 10:30pm, along with three other PSB programmes: “Pet Shop Boys at the BBC”, “Pet Shop Boys live in Hyde Park” and “Reel Stories: Pet Shop Boys”. Full schedule at the link below.

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17 April 2024

Thanks to Alan Yentob, Louise Lockwood, Tanya Hudson and all the BBC Imagine crew who made the “Then and Now” film about us that was broadcast on BBC1 last night. We’d also like to thank all of our collaborators and friends who appeared in it. It will be repeated on BBC4 on Friday evening as part of a Pet Shop Boys Night and is available now on the BBC iPlayer.

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17 April 2024

Next Monday, April 22nd, Pet Shop Boys will appear live at Kings Place London for a conversation with Alexis Petridis, presented by The Guardian Live. The event can be attended from anywhere in the world via livestream and viewers will be able to submit questions for Neil and Chris in real-time from 7:30pm on Monday, 22nd April. Livestream tickets are available at the link below.

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16 April 2024

“Pet Shop Boys: Then and Now”, the first intimate look inside the world and creations of PSB, airs tonight at 10:40pm on BBC One. For this “Imagine” documentary feature, presenter Alan Yentob and his camera team accompanied Pet Shop Boys backstage on their Dreamworld tour and also talked to Neil and Chris about their new album “Nonetheless”, as well as the duo’s creative evolution over the past four decades. Preview clips and further details are available at the link below.

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16 April 2024

Dusty Springfield was born 85 years ago today. Her voice lives on in her classic records which are always playing on the radio somewhere and we’re so proud of our collaborations with her. Happy Birthday, Dusty!
Photo: Vivienne/NPG

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15 April 2024

The new issue of Record Collector magazine in the UK has PSB on the cover and an interview and complete discography inside.

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15 April 2024

Very pleased to see “Dancing star” is now on BBC Radio 6 Music’s A‑List! x

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13 April 2024
  1. It was such fun singing two songs with Johnny Marr and his wonderful band at Hammersmith Apollo last night: “Rebel Rebel” and “Getting away with it”. Neil x
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11 April 2024

Part 2 of Neil’s chat with Mark Ellen and David Hepworth in the “Word In Your Ear” podcast can be heard now at the link.

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9 April 2024

Neil discusses his music press past and much else with his former Smash Hits colleagues, Dave Hepworth and Mark Ellen, on their podcast “Word In Your Ear” which can be listened to now at the link below.

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5 April 2024

BBC Radio 2’s “Rylan On Saturday” this weekend will start with an hour of Pet Shop Boys music and a chat with Rylan. Tune in tomorrow, 6th April from 3pm BST at the link below.

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5 April 2024

Very happy that our new single “Dancing star” has been added straight to BBC Radio 2’s A‑List. Rotation of the New Music Playlist starts this Saturday, 6th April. x

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3 April 2024

Pet Shop Boys’ new single “Dancing star” includes two previously unreleased bonus tracks, a remix and extended remix of the title track by Solomun and a Superchumbo (Tom Stephan) remix of “Party in the Blitz” featuring Clubland legend Princess Julia. Out now digitally at the link below.

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2 April 2024

Livestream tickets for “An evening with Pet Shop Boys”, a conversation hosted by The Guardian’s Alexis Petridis set to take place at Kings Place in London on 22nd April, are available at the link below. Those with a livestream ticket will be able to join the event from anywhere in the world from 7:30pm BST on 22nd April and will also have the opportunity to put forward their questions in realtime to be answered by Neil and Chris.

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2 April 2024

BBC Radio 2 will give the world premiere of Pet Shop Boys’ new single “Dancing star” on BBC Radio 2 tomorrow morning, Wednesday 3rd April. Tune in from 11am at the link below when Gary Davies will be sitting in for Vernon Kay.