Couldn't find the hotel so we got a couple of rickshaws. This is Neil with Pete Gleadall somewhere in Copenhagen.
Pet Texts Archive: May 2007
Just got the train down from London to Brighton for our show here tonight. Went to see Rufus Wainwright in concert last night at The Old Vic theatre which was very entertaining
Hi. Apparently we've had several fans asking what time we go on stage. In British shows, we'll normally be on between 8 and 8.15 pm. So now you know… N x
After Wolverhampton, we thought that an audience couldn't get any louder. But the Manchester audience response measured 112 decibels making them now the loudest audience of the tour! Neil x
Our sound engineer, Colin, who mixes our live sound, always measures the level of the reaction from the audience
Walking to our soundcheck at the Sage across the Tyne on the Millennium Bridge.
We're in a very busy phase of the tour. Stuttgart on Sunday, Paris last night, Amsterdam tonight. Then the British tour starts in Newcastle-Gateshead on Thursday
We arrived in Stuttgart just as their football team was winning the Cup. They've been celebrating ever since.
A big cube in Hamburg. It's a tribute to the Soviet artist Malevich.
There's a building here by Zaha Hadid (who designed our Nightlife tour set).
Autostadt, Wolfsburg, where Volkswagen cars are made. We're playing here tonight.
Wolfgang Flur, one of the original members of Kraftwerk, came to our show in Dusseldorf last night.
We've had asparagus every day since we arrived in Germany. It's the "spargel" season.
The UK government still hasn't given up on ID cards…Click on the link for the latest horror.
Apparently someone has thrown her "Pet Shop Boys CD collection into the Baltic Sea". The quote from me is accurate.
Greetings from Chemnitz! (It was called Karl-Marx-Stadt under the DDR. Hence the postcard.) Always interesting to see how former Communist places have changed. Nice audience tonight. x
We had a great day in Berlin yesterday with both the book-signing and the concert
40 minutes to showtime. Thanks to everyone who came to the booksigning.
It's a lovely morning in Berlin and we have the day off! Arrived here yesterday evening and had dinner with Rufus Wainwright who happened to be be in town. Neil x
Ivan (a.k.a. Swan), one of our dancers, has nipped back to London to perform with his dance company Birdgang at Sadlers Wells theatre tonight.
Border control from Latvia into Lithuania is painfully slow. It took us two and a half hours to get through. Consequently, the start of the show was delayed.
Two and a half hours to cross the border into Lithuania! There won't be a soundcheck today.
This is the Russian war memorial statue, now in a military cemetery in Tallinn, which was moved from the city centre, provoking the recent troubles in Tallinn.