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We will performing a few songs in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin right after midnight on New Year’s Eve on the ZDF TV show, “Willkommen 2013 – Silvester live vom Brandenburger Tor”. Neil x

I recently did an interview for a radio programme about my time as assistant editor of Smash Hits magazine in the early 80s. It’s been packaged as “Neil Tennant’s Smash Hits Christmas” and includes contributions from many other former staff members of the magazine. BBC Radio 4 will broadcast it tomorrow, December 20^th, at 11.30 am. More details at the link below. Neil x

Both formats of the new single, “Memory of the future”, are now available to pre-order from iTunes. That’s the new single mix, three bonus tracks and five remixes!

How good does this sound???

Last night’s concert with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra was a wonderful experience for us. The orchestra played with such luxurious power and conviction, conducted by Dominic Wheeler, and the Manchester Chamber Choir brought ethereal beauty to, for instance, “Miracles” and “He dreamed of machines” (from our new piece about Alan Turing). To hear Johnny Marr playing the guitar riff from “This must be the place I waited years to leave” was a real thrill so many years after he played on the original record; his acoustic guitar playing on “Breathing space” was gorgeous. Other highlights for me were performing live for the first time “It couldn’t happen here”, “The survivors” and “For all of us”. Sven Helbig’s orchestral arrangements were both magnificent and subtle: “New York City boy” was returned to Broadway; “He dreamed of machines” had a pale beauty. Many thanks to everyone at the BBC, Parlophone and our management and tour personnel for making it happen, to Pete Gleadall for programming and to Jo Whiley for introducing it. The concert can be heard on BBC Radio 2 tonight at 8 pm. I hope you enjoy it. Neil x (Photograph by Kate Southall/BBC.)

Hi. We’re just about to have our final rehearsal for tonight’s concert. Exciting! Neil x