Pet Texts

What a a fantastic audience in Rome tonight! Grazie! Thanks to everyone who was there. Neil xx (Photo from the soundcheck.)

A quite interesting article from Electronic Beats magazine can be read at the link below.

I think Taylor Swift makes a just point very eloquently in this statement (link below). Neil x
Update: Apple have backed down. See BBC link below.

War Child are auctioning two tickets to House Festival 2015 in London this July, which Pet Shop Boys will perform at alongside Rudimental, The Vaccines, Years & Years, Chaka Khan, James Bay and many more. The proceeds will go to War Child’s efforts to protect children affected by conflict and their rehabilitation. You can bid on the tickets at the link below.

Last night I sang a song with Rufus Wainwright at his concert in the grounds of the Royal Hospital, London. Inevitably, it’s on You Tube! Link below. Neil x

Pet Shop Boys’ tour manager, Andy Crookston, is pictured here handing over a keyboard used on a previous PSB tour to Blackpool Music Academy. The Blackpool Gazette has launched an appeal to donate instruments to the Academy and approached Chris Lowe as he is a Blackpool native. Chris suggested donating this keyboard, a Korg Triton Studio, which is no longer being used by PSB. More information can be found at the link below.

I will be giving a reading at an event to support the Belarus Free Theatre, (the radical underground theatre company founded under Europe’s last surviving dictatorship) on October 18. “I’m With The Banned” will be at Koko in London and will also feature performances by Dave Gilmour, Pussy Riot, Kim Cattrall and many others. Full event and ticket details are at the links below. Neil x

Nice review in La Vanguardia newspaper of last night’s concert in Barcelona. Links to this and other reviews below.

We really enjoyed our three concerts in Badajoz, Pamplona and Barcelona over the last few days. Beautiful cities, wonderful weather, great audiences! Gracias, Neil x

We’re having a great time in Spain. The audience for the show in Badajoz was wonderful. Yesterday we stopped off in Valladolid for the night and I enjoyed wandering round the old city. Now on our way to Pamplona and looking forward to tonight’s show. Neil x

31 years after it was first released, someone has acknowledged that “West End Girls” is a rap record (which is nice). Go to the link below for an interesting online feature about PSB’s first hit.