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Sound engineer, Bob Kraushaar, has stated that he is currently mixing the soundtrack for the new PSB live DVD. The Fundamental Tour was recorded in Mexico City late last year. No release date has been announced.

Pet Shop Boys will shortly be announcing details of a European tour, planned for April/May 2007, including concerts in Scandanavia, Germany, France and the UK.

Check this site, or the official site frequently for updates.

The Boys are soon to be back on tour! In March they are going to delight the lucky fans of South America and New Zealand. The dates and locations are as follows:-

Wed March 14th – Claro Hall, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil
Fri March 16th – Credicard Hall, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Sat March 17th – Credicard Hall, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Wed March 21st – Porto Alegre,Brazil
Fri March 23rd – Buenos Aires, Argentina
Sun March 25th – Santiago, Chile
Thurs March 29th – Auckland, New Zealand

Check out www.petshopboys.co.uk for further info about venues and tickets.

On Sunday February 4th don’t miss Neil on BBC Radio 4′s ‘Desert Island Discs’, a well-loved programme in which each week a guest chooses a selection of records they would want with them on a desert island. The programme airs between 11.15am and 12 noon but if you fail to catch it then it will be repeated on Friday February 9th between 9am and 9.45am.

On Friday 26th January, the National Portrait Gallery in London will be hosting ‘Pet Shop Boys – SQ Style’. Nick Squires, known as SQ, will be remixing Pet Shop Boys tracks for an exclusive show. From ambient electro through to trance, with live electric cello and effects, the event will be accompanied by live visual portraits.

The event starts at 1830 GMT.

Neil Tennant will join the Scissor Sisters onstage for one song at an exclusive charity gig at London’s Koko on February 18th in aid of the charity Body & Soul which supports children, teenagers and families in the UK living with or closely affected by HIV.
As part of Body & Soul’s ‘A Smile Is A Gift’ campaign, the concert at will highlight the fact that HIV is an issue affecting the UK, as well as raising vital funds for Body & Soul’s brand new, state-of-the-art centre in London.
Hosted by Ben Elton, the event will also feature Pete Tong and DJ Sammy Jo.
Tickets are being sold for £100 each of which will include noodles, a complimentary drink, and a goody bag.

Click here to order tickets for the event.

Click below for the video for “She’s Madonna”, the third single from Robbie Williams’ “Rudebox” album. “She’s Madonna” features Neil Tennant on backing vocals and the track is produced by Pet Shop Boys.

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Approximately one hundred people attended the sold out ‘Neil Tennant in Conversation’ event at the National Portrait Gallery on Thursday 11th January 2007. Guests on stage were Phillip Hoare, Chris Heath, Michael Bracewell and of course Neil Tennant. The four were up on a small stage, with a projector screen behind and PSB pictures on the right hand side. In the audience was iconic PSB photographer, Eric Watson. As expected, Chris Lowe was not in attendance.

Michael Bracewell led the discussion, giving the audience a background talk about most of the pictures that were projected on the screen, before asking Neil, Phillip and Chris questions. The discussion lasted just over one hour, due to restrictions placed by the National Portrait Gallery.

The last ten minutes of the discussion were open to questions, all aimed at Neil. When asked “what next?” (and a variety of other questions) Neil said that he and Chris were going back into the studio to record/write some new tracks, and that they are considering writing a ballet for ‘a friend’. The 1989 tour is being considered for release on DVD. The concert was recorded on high density tape, as the record label were too financially restrained to record it on any other format. Neil also answered a question about their work with Brian Eno. He said that they had recorded ‘Something Special’, and that they had planned to record the entire ‘Closer to Heaven’ soundtrack, but nothing came of that.

I was fortunate enough to be sat on the second row, and had a fantastic view. The theatre we were in seemed like a small Savoy Theatre, with the stage very close to the audience. After the event Neil, Chris and Phillip went down to the PSB exhibition area and signed books, posters and probably everything else that was thrown at them. I asked Neil how Chris felt about performing ‘Paninaro’ last week, to which he replied ‘He felt good. It’ll probably be kept in [the setlist]‘.

A fantastic, special evening. Hello to Andrew, Tom, the female who flew from another country just for this event, and the others (who’s names I have forgotten..!)

Promotional CD’s for ‘She’s Madonna’, the third single from Robbie Williams’ ‘Rudebox’ album have been dispatched. The track is credited to ‘Robbie Williams with Pet Shop Boys’, and the CD has the radio edit, album and instrumental versions of ‘She’s Madonna’.

The front sleeve is bright pink, and has ‘She’s Madonna’ in the same font used on the ‘Rudebox’ single sleeve.

The single is expected to be released at the end of February.