At 8.30 pm tonight, Saturday March 29th, Sky Arts will broadcast a new documentary “Discovering: Pet Shop Boys” which explores “the 30-year success of Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe’s synth-pop band, including their most influential albums, wittiest lyrics and most theatrical videos.” It is followed at 9 pm by “Pet Shop Boys — Live at the O2”, a 60-minute film of the 2009 Pandemonium tour production. Both programmes will be shown again over the next few days.
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Pet Texts archive: March 2014
The new issue of Literally, the magazine devoted to all things PSB, will be shipping to subscribers in the next few days.
There’s a different mix of “Oppressive (The best gay possible)” accompanied by a video at the You Tube link below so you can see and hear Panti Bliss giving that remarkable speech.
Check this out. Neil x
Released this week, “Vibrate: The Best of Rufus Wainwright”, a collection of singles and favourite tracks from Rufus’s catalogue, which was hand-picked by Neil Tennant and Rufus. The PSB/Wainwright connection goes back a few years: Neil was the executive producer of Rufus’s 2007 album, “Release The Stars” and Rufus performed with Pet Shop Boys in 2006 at their “Concrete” concert and on the subsequent live album.