Go to the link below for an interesting feature about Farrow and the design of “Yes” and the influence of Gerhard Richter etc.
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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.
Go to the link for a thoughtful review of “Yes” in this week’s New Statesman magazine.
A kind apology from Gay Times for a mistake which is quite funny…
Rolling Stone in Germany have two covers this month: one featuring Depeche Mode; the other featuring Pet Shop Boys.
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.
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
Pet Shop Boys will be appearing on the Graham Norton Show on BBC2TV this Thursday, March 26th, at 10 pm.
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.
Links below to some reviews of “Yes” and a couple of new interviews.
“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”.
Pet Shop Boys’ interview with the German magazine Spex is online at the link below.
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).
Pet Shop Boys will be guests on “The One Show” tonight between 7 and 7.30 pm on BBC1 TV.
Pet Shop Boys’ interview on Radio 5 with Simon Mayo can be heard on his podcast at the link below.
Go the the link below for an interesting interview with Pet Shop Boys’ biographer and editor of their “Literally” magazine, Chris Heath.
Below are links to some new interviews with Pet Shop Boys.
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.
Johnny Marr interviews Pet Shop Boys in the Observer Music Monthly out today. Go to the link to read the full interview.
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.
Pet Shop Boys are interviewed with new photographs in The Guardian Weekend magazine today.
“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”.
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.
Welt am Sonntag, the German Sunday newspaper, will include a long feature about Pet Shop Boys this Sunday with Chris and Neil interviewed separately.
From The Sun today.
Pet Shop Boys are on the cover of this month Record Collector with a very interesting interview inside.
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!
Here’s a link to a review of the new film, “Bronson”, which features “It’s a sin” in its soundtrack.
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.
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.
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…)
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.
And here’s Mr PJ himself asking the questions. (Another Twitpic.)
Really liking DJ Hell’s single, “Angst”, and looking forward to his new album after reading about it in the Guardian Music blog.
Check out the HISTORY section of this site which has just been updated!
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.