Welcome to the Panic Manual, where one post about hip hop star du jour Taio Cruz leads to one about reality show band N-Dubz which ultimately leads to a post about the king of UK pop - Robbie Williams . Are we an indie blog or an English teen beat? You decide. This post came because I saw the previous post's song title and thought it was a cover of the Robbie Williams song of the same name. Then I thought about how weird it was that his song had such a dynamic [...]
Photo by G. Neil Tennant Happy birthday to Neil Tennant, lead singer of my beloved Pet Shop Boys. My life is a better place because of the music he's created. In the Pet Shop Boys' 25 plus year career, they've fused rock, disco and classical music seamlessly. On today's play list, I'll listen to "Left To My Own Devices," "It's Alright," "It Must Be Obvious," and one of my favorite songs of all time "Being Boring." Happy birthday Neil! Thanks for all the great music, past, present [...]
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Photo by G. Neil Tennant of Pet Shop Boys Pet Shop Boys have accepted the invitation to join Take That on their Progress Live 2011 tour as the opening act. The Boys will be performing a truncated version of their amazing Pandemonium show, featuring set designs by Es Devlin. Robbie Williams (of Take That) commented: "I'm a huge Pet Shop Boys fan so for me it will be an absolute joy to be able to watch them every night." Jason Orange added: "I'm flattered and [...]
Connect with PSB | Twitter | Facebook | Myspace | Website The 2011 release from Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe (AKA Pet Shop Boys ), the music for their first ever full-length ballet, The Most Incredible Thing is a collaboration with choreographer Javier De Frutos and Britain's leading contemporary dance theatre, Sadler's Wells . Based on the Hans Christian Anderson story of the same title. Tennant and Lowe proposed Andersen's story [...]
Those darling Pet Shop Boys. Twenty five years have elapsed since the release of their debut, but somehow they seem to have escaped being tagged in any way as 80's icons. Not for them the revival circuit, recycling their hits in front of a "Freedom" t-shirt clad crowd. Instead, Tennant and Lowe have been raised above all this, somehow wiser and cooler than their peers. They have also been productive, their tenth album "Yes" seeing the light of day in early 2009. But haven't we been here before? As pointless releases go, this one certainly earns it place [...]
"Now my heart is beating fast Time is short, the die is cast I can keep a secret If you can really mean it and Feel the luck beside us and so much love inside us Whatever we have to do I'm gonna be with you" Hey look! It's a brand new single by Neil and Chris! It's called Together ! It's in 3/4 time which is a time signature that we rarely hear in pop music these days but it's always refreshing to hear when [...]
Filed under: News , New Music , Exclusive In late 2007, Scissor Sisters main man Jake Shears was busy gearing up for a holiday dinner with friends and his mom when he took a little time away from the preparations to enthuse about work on his band's third album with Spinner. The record was still in its early stages, but the singer was excited while discussing an unusual cover the band were working on and noting that a song he'd recently [...]
For all of my talk about the great songwriting tandems in my opinion of the last thirty years including Morrissey and Marr or Tennant or Lowe, it's a crime that I always tend to neglect another immensely gifted and influential pair. I honestly don't know exactly what made it uncool to consider them as such. I probably missed the memo that deemed Daryl Hall and John Oates as "uncool" and it's just as well. These two were a serious force to be reckoned with from the late 70s into the mid 1980s. Their songs were perfectly crafted and had an [...]
L'uscita del disco album live Pandemonium doveva prevedere un tour, e questa volta anche noi italiani siamo fortunati. I Pet Shop Boys saranno a Pavia il prossimo 23 giugno per l'unico live previsto in Italia. La musica dei Pet Shop Boy ha segnato un' epoca e ha dato vita al genere synthpop fin dai primi anni '80, assieme ad altri gruppi inglesi come i mitici Frankie Goes to Hollywood e i Bronski Beat Il duo britannico composto da Neil Tennant e Chris Lowe ci ha lasciato [...]
"Why don't we share a place, the two of us? Just a quiet life without much fuss With our love we'd make the most of it You must admit You agree" Blur weren't the only ones to do something for Record Store Day. The Pet Shop Boys also took part by releasing an exclusive vinyl single for the song Love Life . A tried and true disco stomper the boys write in their sleep and just perfect to blast on their stereo before a night on the town. [...]
When we last left the young dynamic duo better known as Hurts, they treated us to a splendid video for their track Blood Tears & Gold . A beautiful song that gave us a brief glimpse into the range and breadth of the band's songwriting prowess in contrast to the seductive beauty that was Wonderful Life . What we've now come to learn is that those two songs were merely teasers. Warm-ups, if you will. Friends, we are now treated to what will be the official first single from the duo's as yet untitled debut record which is [...]
Filed under: News , UK , New Releases Forty years after their much-lamented demise, the Beatles are to release a limited edition vinyl edition of 'Paperback Writer' backed with the psychedelic classic 'Rain' in celebration of this year's Record Store Day on April 17. Presented in a vintage-style paper Parlophone house bag, the single is limited to a run of just 1,000 copies. Joining the Fab Four will be a host of Parlophone artists including Pet Shop Boys , Bat for Lashes , chart-topper [...]
Filed under: News , UK , New Releases Forty years after their much-lamented demise, the Beatles are to release a limited edition vinyl edition of 'Paperback Writer' backed with the psychedelic classic 'Rain' in celebration of this year's Record Store Day on April 17. Presented in a vintage-style paper Parlophone house bag, the single is limited to a run of just 1,000 copies. Joining the Fab Four will be a host of Parlophone artists including Pet Shop Boys , Bat for Lashes , chart-topper [...]
An excellent performance of an upbeat, hits-laden show from a duo that still sounds well within their prime.
Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News , UK Electro pop duo Pet Shop Boys have performed a surprise gig in a fan's front room, in a stunt celebrating 30 years of the Brit Awards . A competition won by fan Lorraine Sands in Twickenham, south west London, saw Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe recreate a mini version of their 'Pandemonium' stage set in the house. Pet Shop Boys -- who won the Outstanding Contribution to Music Award at the 2009 Brit Awards -- [...]
"It's something That look in your eyes tonight Like magic it's changing everything in sight I hear it all around me every day in the music that you play" The new EP from the Pet Shop Boys is out tomorrow via Astralwerks. I can hardly wait! To celebrate the release, Parlophone presents with a promotional video of All Over The World with footage from the recent Pandemonium tour. A brilliant song from a brilliant record. Enjoy! [...]
Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News , Live It Out , Canada For those at Toronto's Virgin Festival waiting for a full-on, festival-size performance, UK dance legends Pet Shop Boys delivered in spades. On a day when the crowd made it clear most of the acts on the bill were time-fillers before headliners Nine Inch Nails -- the wave of ticket holders pushing through the gate at dusk was the biggest tip-off -- Pet Shop Boys were the only band to [...]
I yield to nobody in my admiration of Neil Tennant, but a grumbly interview about why Top of The Pops isn't on any more and people "stealing" music makes him sound like something out of a different era. Mind you, the BBC News site suggests that Tennant has "slammed" the corporation, which is perhaps putting it a bit strongly: He added he thought as part of the BBC's public broadcasting, the corporation should be keeping its "astonishing archive" of musical footage up-to-date. "[That is] why we like the BBC, because they do [...]
MUSIC NEW - The British electropop duo, THE PET SHOP BOYS have announced a "Pandemonium on Tour" run of the USA and Canada for four weeks. The tour will start on August 29 at Metropolis in Montreal, QC, and end on September 26 in Las Vegas, NV with a gig at The Joint; tickets for most shows on sale now. (full itinerary is below) Pet Shop Boys vocalist Neil Tennant and keyboardist Chris Lowe are touring to promote their recent, tenth studio album, " Yes ," which had a USA release on April 21, 2009 [...]
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