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Pet Shop Boys @petshopboys.co.uk · 5d

He’s 66 today. Happy Birthday, Chris!

Photo: Tate Modern

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Pet Shop Boys @petshopboys.co.uk · 7d

MUSIK - Starring Frances Barber - Wilton's Music Hall

MUSIK by Jonathan Harvey and Pet Shop Boys Starring Frances Barber Billie Trix. Icon. Rock star. Screen goddess. Drug addict. Billie has lived a life of excess and shares it all in her new one-woman...

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Pet Shop Boys @petshopboys.co.uk · 7d

“Musik” by Jonathan Harvey with songs by PSB, starring Frances Barber as Billie Trix and directed by Terry Johnson, is opening soon at Wilton’s Music Hall in London! The first night is on October 14th and it runs until October 25th. Tickets are selling fast - check out the link below.

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Pet Shop Boys @petshopboys.co.uk · 8d

Pet Shop Boys are happy to announce their first #Dreamworld UK headline show for the coming year at Lytham Festival on Saturday, July 4 2026.

The ticket pre-sale starts this Friday from 5pm BST, while tickets go on general sale this Saturday at 10am at the link below.

lythamfestival.com

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Pet Shop Boys @petshopboys.co.uk · 9d

Pet Shop Boys’ forthcoming “Disco 5” collection of remixes and dance tracks will be available as a special limited edition orange vinyl, which is now exclusively available from the official PSB store. Link to pre-order below.

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Pet Shop Boys @petshopboys.co.uk · 9d

Neil was recently interviewed for “Music, Money & Mayhem”, a new BBC podcast series that chronicles the collapse of EMI Records and the struggle to save it. The first episode is now available to stream, with new episodes releasing every Monday.

podcastingtoday.co.uk/new-podcast-...

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Pet Shop Boys @petshopboys.co.uk · 10d

Sven will be joined at Westminster Central Hall by famed opera singer René Pape, the London Contemporary Orchestra and no less than four choirs! Full details and ticket information at the link below.

www.svenhelbig.com

Sven Helbig: Welcome

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Pet Shop Boys @petshopboys.co.uk · 10d

Composer Sven Helbig (who PSB worked with on “The Most Incredible Thing”, “A Man from the Future” and several other projects) will present the UK premiere of his new “Requiem A” on Saturday, October 4th, in London.

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Pet Shop Boys @petshopboys.co.uk · 15d

The album also features the duo's remix of @sleafordmods.bsky.social’s cover of Pet Shop Boys’ iconic "West End girls" and the PSB/SoftCell collaboration "Purple Zone".

“Disco 5” will be available on black or orange vinyl and CD, as well as digitally.

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Pet Shop Boys @petshopboys.co.uk · 15d

The PSB-produced "I’m in Love With a German Film Star" by Sam Taylor-Johnson, originally released on Kompakt in 2008, is included along with Carroll Thompson’s "Let the Music Play" which was produced by PSB in the early 90s when it appeared in the soundtrack for the hit film, "The Crying Game".

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Pet Shop Boys @petshopboys.co.uk · 15d

The 12-track collection features PSB’s recent remixes of songs by artists including Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds, Primal Scream, @paulwellehq.bsky.social, Tina Turner, Claptone, Wolfgang Tillmans and more, as well as a remix of their own track "Dreamland" featuring @ollyalexander.bsky.social.

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Pet Shop Boys @petshopboys.co.uk · 15d

Pet Shop Boys are pleased to announce “Disco 5”, the latest instalment of their continuing "Disco" album series of dance tracks and remixes which started in 1986. The new album will be released on 21 November via Parlophone Records and is available to pre-order now.

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Pet Shop Boys @petshopboys.co.uk · 20d

Soundtrack composer Bryce Miller has created a stunning new mix of “It’s a sin” for the trailer of the upcoming @netflix.com series, “Monster: The Ed Gein Story”. The trailer is available to watch on YouTube at the link below.

youtu.be/EDBmpfbnLGk

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Pet Shop Boys @petshopboys.co.uk · 20d

Neil Tennant on It Couldn't Happen Here and Battleship Potemkin | BFI Q&A

YouTube video by BFI

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Pet Shop Boys @petshopboys.co.uk · 20d

During the double PSB-screening event at BFI Southbank, I joined Paul Tickell on stage to discuss making “It Couldn’t Happen Here” and writing the score for “Battleship Potemkin”. The conversation and the Q&A that followed it are now available to watch on YouTube at the link below. Neil x

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Pet Shop Boys @petshopboys.co.uk · 24d

The legendary Russian superstar, Alla Pugacheva, now living in exile, has spoken out against Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. If only more prominent Russians showed the same courage! Full details at the Substack link below.

zygaro.substack.com/p/the-russia...

youtu.be/D6rFxVPz7UI

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Pet Shop Boys @petshopboys.co.uk · 27d

Pet Shop Boys’ remix of “How Do You Love?” is included on the CD version of The Hidden Cameras’ excellent new album,“Bronto” which is released today. Link below.

bfan.link/BRONTO

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Pet Shop Boys @petshopboys.co.uk · Sep 10

Terry Johnson Will Direct New Production of MUSIK at Wilton's Music Hall

Six years after its sold out critically acclaimed world premiere at the Edinburgh Fringe and London transfer, outrageous MUSIK by writer Jonathan Harvey and Pet Shop Boys Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe.

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Pet Shop Boys @petshopboys.co.uk · Sep 10

MUSIK - Starring Frances Barber - Wilton's Music Hall

MUSIK by Jonathan Harvey and Pet Shop Boys Starring Frances Barber Billie Trix. Icon. Rock star. Screen goddess. Drug addict. Billie has lived a life of excess and shares it all in her new one-woman...

wiltons.org.uk

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Pet Shop Boys @petshopboys.co.uk · Sep 10

We are delighted to learn that the distinguished theatre director and playwright, Terry Johnson, will be directing the revival of “Musik”, starring Frances Barber, which opens at Wilton's Music Hall in London on October 14th. More information at the links below.

Photo: @theguardian.com

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Pet Shop Boys @petshopboys.co.uk · Sep 6

...The restored print of “Battleship Potemkin” is a revelation and it was nice that “It Couldn’t Happen Here” got a much warmer reception than it did from critics on its original release in 1988! BFI blu-rays of both films are available now. Neil x

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Pet Shop Boys @petshopboys.co.uk · Sep 6

Thanks to the BFI for hosting a double-PSB screening of “It Couldn’t Happen Here” and “Battleship Potemkin” yesterday, including a conversation between me and film writer/director Paul Tickell...

Photo: JW

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Pet Shop Boys @petshopboys.co.uk · Sep 6

Last year, Pet Shop Boys released a souvenir clip from their intimate show at ‪Funny Girls‬ club in Blackpool, in which the audience provided the vocals for "It's a sin". Some fans have made a video adding phone footage to PSB’s video of that performance, now available to watch on YouTube.

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Pet Shop Boys, It's a sin. Funny Girls, Blackpool, 2024, anniversary fan mix.

YouTube video by JCtinyfilms

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Pet Shop Boys @petshopboys.co.uk · Sep 5

Simultaneously, Parlophone are releasing the score on remastered CD and on vinyl for the first time on a double LP today. All three formats are now available at the link below.

wmg.lnk.to/psb-battlesh...

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