Fantastic night in Amsterdam! Dank je wel. xx

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Thank you Isle of Wight Festival (and Sky Arts)!

Photo: David Walliams

Tomorrow at 5 pm BST, Absolute Radio will be broadcasting highlights from PSB’s Isle of Wight Festival headline set. Link below.

Pet Shop Boys are headlining the Isle of Wight Festival tonight. Their complete performance can be viewed on TV at 11 pm BST on Sky Arts. Link below.

Arseny Turbin, a 15-year-old boy in Russia, has been sentenced to five years in prison for opposing Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.  Such is the regime’s fear of any criticism of Putin’s war crimes. Link below to the full story. 

A new documentary, “Pet Shop Boys — A Celebration”, airs tonight at 9pm BST on Absolute Radio. Presented by Matt Lucas, this unofficial hour-long special shows how PSB have left their mark on British music and culture over the last 40 years, with contributions from Neil and Chris, Bernard Butler, Peter Tatchell, Tim Rice-Oxley, Skin and Tim Burgess. Further details at the link below.

We finally got to see the electric new production of “Closer to Heaven” which opened at the Turbine Theatre in London last month and has just had its run extended. Excellent cast and immersive staging (which is what we imagined when we were writing it with Jonathan Harvey 25 years ago). And it was lovely to meet the cast afterwards. We’re going again next month! Neil and Chris xx

Thanks to Absolute Radio for making “A new bohemia” their track of the week.