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Pet Shop Boys have announced an outdoor UK show as part of their 2025 ‘Greatest Hits’ tour. Find all the details below.The synth-pop duo – comprising Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe – will take to the stage at the Royal Sandringham Estate in Norfolk on Thursday August 14.

Primal Scream have announced details of a new remix album of their latest LP ‘Come Ahead’. Check out the details below.Titled ‘Come Ahead: The Remixes Vol 1 (Vocals)’, the new album is set for release on March 28 via BMG. It sees the band share 11 remixes of the music that featured in their critically acclaimed album.With new spins on tracks like ‘Love Insurrection’ and ‘Ready To Go Home’, the new version of Primal Scream’s 12th LP features remixes from numerous artists.

Pet Shop Boys have shared a new remix of the Primal Scream track ‘Innocent Money’, featuring Neil Tennant on vocals.The release comes as part of the ongoing ‘Come Ahead’ remix project – which sees Primal Scream share re-imagined versions of each song from their latest album.The latest addition tackles the ‘Innocent Money’ track, and sees iconic band Pet Shop Boys put their own distinctive mark on the song, complete with Neil Tennant’s signature vocals. Check it out below to hear the Chicago-influenced acid house charm it puts on the original.“When we were discussing possible remixers for the ‘Come Ahead’ album with our producer David Holmes I had a gut feeling that asking the Pet Shop Boys to remix ‘Innocent Money’ might be a good idea,” said Bobby Gillespie.“I felt that the song’s marriage of a socially conscious lyric sung over an ecstatic, discofied string-laden stomping rhythm track might appeal to Neil and Chris’s sense of pop aesthetics.

Pet Shop Boys, FKA Twigs, Jorja Smith, Father John Misty and more have been announced as performers for MEO Kalorama 2025.The upcoming edition of the festival will see the event return to Lisbon over the summer and will be held at the usual Parque da Bela Vista. A new change is that the festival will now take place between June 19, 20 and 21, rather than its usual end-of-summer slot.

Pet Shop Boys have announced a string of huge outdoor shows in the UK for this summer – see all the details below.The duo’s ‘Dreamworld: The Greatest Hits Live’ tour has been extended into 2025, and will now include a show at Cardiff Castle on July 31, followed by appearances at Hardwick Festival in County Durham on August 16 and Warwick Castle on August 30.Tickets for Cardiff go on general sale at 9am on Friday (February 28), with Warwick tickets going on sale one hour later – you can get yours here. Hardwick Festival tickets are on sale now.The shows come in addition to Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe’s already announced performances at Lucca Summer Festival in Tuscany on July 20 and Lokerse Feesten Festival in Belgium on August 2.The ‘Dreamworld’ tour kicked off back in 2022 and a show in Copenhagen was captured in the documentary film Pet Shop Boys Dreamworld: The Greatest Hits Live at the Royal Arena Copenhagen, which hit cinemas in January 2024.In a five-star review of a ‘Dreamworld’ gig in Hull in 2022, NME praised “the band’s infallible greatest hits collection, and their ability to constantly stay ahead of the pack”.It added: “[The concert] shows the range of styles and subjects tackled in their canon, and is a two-hour joyous celebration of their decades of holding pop to a higher standard.”Pet Shop Boys released their 15th album ‘Nonetheless’ in 2024 and in an interview with NME back in April, they described it as their “queer album” and Neil Tennant, who came out as gay in 1994, discussed how things have changed for the queer community in pop culture since then.“What I think now is that what you might call gay culture has become mainstream,” Tennant said.

Pet Shop Boys have confirmed that they will be attending a Ukraine rally in London later today (February 24).The event is scheduled for Trafalgar Square and will be taking place from 6:30pm GMT tonight. Dubbed ‘Heart-Broken But Unbroken’, it will be taking place on the third anniversary of the war on the country and is backed by a coalition of Ukrainian organisations.“We unite, not just for ourselves, but for Ukraine’s sovereignty, freedom, and future.

Pet Shop Boys have shared their cover of ‘All the young dudes’ and electro-pop single ‘New London boy’.The double-A side single is available in two digital bundles, and forthcoming CD singles are set for release on November 15. You can pre-order and pre-save here.The first five-track format includes a new radio edit of ‘New London boy’ and the synth-legends’ version of the David Bowie-penned ‘All The Young Dudes’, which they originally performed in a performance for BBC Radio 2 in February.The lyrics of ‘New London boy’ are about Neil Tennant moving to London in its 1970s glam-rock heyday when Bowie’s track was a hit – “Follow the style, plastic and showy / Everyone’s dancing to Roxy and Bowie” – broadly linking the two songs.A post shared by Pet Shop Boys (@petshopboys)The bundle also includes a different ‘Delinquent’ version of ‘All The Young Dudes’ produced by Pet Shop Boys, as well as an extended remix by Richard X and previously unreleased song, ‘Beauty Has Laid Siege To The City’.The second four-track format features a Richard X edit and I.

Pet Shop Boys have announced a new fine bone china tea set, to celebrate four decades since their first release.The range is set to be launched as part of the new ‘Pet Shop Boys Since 1984’ range, which celebrates 40 years since the duo released their breakthrough single ‘West End Girls’.It was designed by the band’s long-term collaborators, Farrow with Tennant and Lowe, and manufactured by Duchess China in Stoke-on-Trent. The limited-edition range includes a teapot, cups and saucers, a milk jug, and a sugar bowl.All of the items in the collection come in a classic royal blue and white colourway and are packaged in a bespoke box.

Lord of the Rings marathon on March 22, 2025 at the BFI IMAX which will be introduced by three-time Oscar-winning composer Howard Shore.Shore will also join Canadian film director and screenwriter in introducing screenings of the 1996 film Crash as well as 1998’s Dead Ringers.

Pet Shop Boys have shared that Drake‘s team were “very apologetic” about the rapper’s unauthorised sample of ‘West End Girls’ in one of his tracks.Last October, the UK pop duo claimed that the Canadian rapper sampled their 1985 hit without their knowledge or permission.On Drake’s track ‘All The Parties’ from latest album ‘For All The Dogs’, the artist sings: “East End boy and West End girls.”The lyrics and melody mirrored the Pet Shop Boys’ own track, in which they sing: “In a West End town, a dead end world/ The East End boys and West End girls.”“Surprising to hear Drake singing the chorus of ‘West End Girls’ in the track ‘All the Parties’ on his new album. No credit given or permission requested,” the band wrote on Twitter after the release.Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe shed more light on the beef in an interview with NME, sharing that it has all been resolved.

Pet Shop Boys have revealed that their track ‘Feel’ was originally offered to The Killers‘ frontman Brandon Flowers.While speaking to Record Collector in an interview, duo Chris Lowe and Neil Tennant shared that the second track from their latest release ‘Nonetheless‘ was offered to Flowers while he was working on his solo album.“We sent it to him when he was making his solo album with Stuart Price, but we don’t know if it reached him – and then, during lockdown, I read a book about the spy, George Blake, escaping from prison,” he said. “For some reason, it inspired me to return to this, so now it’s about visiting a loved one in prison.”The Killers frontman teamed up with Price back in 2010 for his debut solo LP ‘Flamingo’.

Pet Shop Boys’ Neil Tennant has said that the duo’s performance at Glastonbury in 2022 was the “worst moment” of his life.The electronic duo’s performance on The Other Stage on the Sunday of the festival was marred by technical difficulties which saw Tennant have to perform solo for six songs.Although they also delighted fans by bringing out Olly Alexander to perform ‘It’s A Sin’, Tennant has now reflected on how difficult that moment was in a new interview.“In our show there’s a screen and the screen goes up briefly, Chris and I appear and walk forward,” he told BBC Breakfast. “Glastonbury of course is live on television, we were headlining the Other Stage on the Sunday night, there’s 70,000 people there.“And the screen rose by about 10 inches and stopped and we just looked at each other and we couldn’t talk because you have the music in your headphones then.“So we both made a dash for it and ran around the front, Chris couldn’t get to his front keyboard in time so he went to a second keyboard positioned at the back and suddenly I run around and I think “I’m here by myself on live on television”.’He continued: “I didn’t know what had gone wrong, no one tells you and I had to do the first six songs by myself with an empty keyboard next to me.”“There’s was a real adrenaline rush off that.

Pet Shop Boys‘ Neil Tennant has admitted that he finds Taylor Swift‘s music “disappointing” following the release of her new album ‘The Tortured Poets Department’. Despite Swift’s massive success in recent years, with her new double album becoming the fastest-selling of 2024, Tennant said in a Guardian Live event An Evening with Pet Shop Boys that he thought the quality of her music didn’t hold up to her popularity.“What is Taylor Swift’s ‘Billie Jean’?” he asked.

Pet Shop Boys have spoken out about their namecheck in Eminem’s diss track ‘Can-I-Bitch’, joking about the good “humour” of the rapper.Released on ‘Straight from the Lab’ bootleg album, Eminem’s ‘Can-I-Bitch’ – a diss track aimed at fellow rapper Canibus – included Eminem mimicking the sound of a car hitting someone and the lyric, “What was that? Pet Shop Boys”, implying he and producer/mentor Dr Dre had mowed down the 2017 NME Godlike Genius award recipients.‘Can-I-Bitch’ is thought partly to be an answer-song to Pet Shop Boys’ ‘The Night I Fell in Love’, the penultimate song on their 2002 album ‘Release’ – detailing the story of a teenage boy who has a one-night-stand with his rap idol after a gig.Despite Eminem never being explicitly mentioned by name, it includes lyrical references that appear to point to Marshall Mathers as inspiration – including ‘Over breakfast made jokes about Dre and his homies’, and ‘Then he joked: ‘Hey man, your name isn’t Stan, is it?’ (as a nod to Eminem’s 2000 chart-topping single). Reacting to ‘The Night I Fell In Love’ in 2002, Dr Dre hinted at Eminem’s forthcoming response-track when he commented: “We needed another song anyway.

Pet Shop Boys have responded to the recent comparisons of their classic single ‘It’s A Sin’ to Olly Alexander’s Eurovision entry ‘Dizzy’.Alexander released the track last month ahead of the Years & Years singer representing the UK at the Eurovision Song Contest in Malmö, Sweden next month.‘Dizzy’ was co-written by Alexander and electronic producer Danny L Harle (Charli XCX, Dua Lipa, Caroline Polachek). Upon the track’s release, the former explained that it was “inspired by a lot of music we love from the ’80s like Erasure, Adamski and of course Pet Shop Boys”.Some listeners have pointed out similarities to Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe’s 1987 hit specifically.

Olly Alexander is set to make an appearance on EastEnders next month.The Years & Years singer is this year’s UK Eurovision Song Contest entrant, and will be visiting Walford as part of his rehearsal process.According to the BBC, Alexander will be heading to the fictional Queen Vic pub after finishing up rehearsals for his Eurovision performance nearby.Alexander has spoken about the opportunity to feature on the UK’s most popular TV soap, saying: “I’m thrilled to be making my first appearance on EastEnders and in the most iconic pub in the UK.”The It’s A Sin star continued: “I’m so happy I got to meet some true screen legends and spend time on set with the brilliant cast and crew.”Alexander shared how he had initially wanted the appearance to be kept secret from his mum: “I wanted to surprise my mum as it’s her favourite show but I guess the cat is out of the bag now, she’s gonna love it!”

Pet Shop Boys have spoken out about Drake’s unauthorised sample of one of their tracks in a new interview.The comments come after the band claimed last October that the rapper used a sample of their hit ‘West End Girls’ without their knowledge or permission.The alleged infringement was included in Drake’s latest album ‘For All The Dogs’, on a track called ‘All The Parties’ in which the Canadian artist sings: “East End boy and West End girls.” The lyrics and melody mirrored the Pet Shop Boys’ own song, in which they sing: “In a West End town, a dead end world/ The East End boys and West End girls.”Following its release, the London duo took to X/Twitter to write: “Surprising to hear Drake singing the chorus of ‘West End Girls’ in the track ‘All the Parties’ on his new album. No credit given or permission requested.”Now, in a new interview with NME, Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe have shed more light on the debate, and said that it has all been resolved.They began by making a nod towards the topic, recalling the differences between modern and ‘80s rap.

Pet Shop Boys have announced an intimate show at London’s Koko next month – find out all the ticket details and information below.The 80s synth pop legends recently announced the details of their new album ‘Nonetheless’, and shared lead single ‘Loneliness’. The album comes out on April 26, with James Ford acting as producer.The band will celebrate the release of the show with a small show at London’s Koko on May 26.

Pet Shop Boys have covered David Bowie’s ‘All the Young Dudes’ in a performance for BBC Radio 2 – check out the video below. The duo played a session at Maida Vale Studios on Friday (February 23) with the BBC Concert Orchestra for the station, also playing their new single ‘Loneliness’ and their 1988 classic ‘Left to My Own Devices’. The 80s synth pop legends recently announced the details of their new album ‘Nonetheless’, and shared lead single ‘Loneliness’.

Paul Mescal lead romantic fantasy film All Of Us Strangers.Written and directed by Andrew Haigh (Weekend, 45 Years), the film is the second screen adaptation of the 1987 novel Strangers by Taichi Yamada.A synopsis for the film reads: “One night in his near-empty tower block in contemporary London, Adam (Andrew Scott) has a chance encounter with a mysterious neighbor Harry (Paul Mescal), which punctures the rhythm of his everyday life.“As a relationship develops between them, Adam is preoccupied with memories of the past and finds himself drawn back to the suburban town where he grew up, and the childhood home where his parents appear to be living, just as they were on the day they died, 30 years before.”During a scene set a few days before Christmas, Adam (Scott) joins his parents at the tree to help put up some decorations, when a radio can be heard playing the Pet Shop Boys‘ cover of ‘Always On My Mind’.The track, which Elvis Presley made a hit in 1972, was released by the Pet Shop Boys in 1987.