Electric Ballroom, London
The era-defining duo’s ultras are suitably spoiled in the first of this intimate five-day run, showered with rarities that put a different spin on their well-known history
‘To…
You are not logged in so some information on this page has been withheld. To see more, please log in or sign up.
Pet Shop Boys
since
auto-detected in 9 stories
3 months ago
‘Barbara Windsor smacked our bottoms!’ Pet Shop Boys on showstopping visuals, horrified bosses – and snubbing the queen ⊕
As a 600-page doorstopper celebrates their groundbreaking costumes, gigs, sleeves and videos, the duo talk about ‘side-stepping the pop-star thing’ – and the naked trampolinist EMI had to censor
In 19…
9 months ago
Radiohead X Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror review – musical mash-up tries for new approach ⊕
found
a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International
This new approach to silent cinema is like trying to watch a movie while your neighbour has their music on too loud
How should we watch silent films now? When they were first produced and consumed, th…
13 months ago
Butt-naked Milton and a spot of fellatio: why William Blake became a queer icon ○
found
a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International
How did an ancient poet and painter who died in obscurity come to obsess everyone from Oscar Wilde to David Hockney, Robert Mapplethorpe, Derek Jarman and David Bowie? The writer of a new book explai…
14 months ago
The worst gig-goers aren’t phone-wielding teens. It’s creepy blokes zooming in on female musicians ○
found
a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International
At a Kylie Minogue gig last Friday, the man next to me spent the entire show filming her in close-up. This unsettling behaviour leaves women – artists and audience alike – feeling surveilled
Kylie Min…
Kylie Minogue review – house, techno… doom metal? This is a thrilling reinvention of a pop deity ○
OVO Hydro, Glasgow
Her Tension world tour reaches the UK, and it’s the work of a relaxed but inherently flamboyant singer with a bold new vision for her back catalogue
The lights go down in Glasgow, an…
15 months ago
Real Lies: We Will Annihilate Our Enemies review – lad laureate meets euphoric synths ○
(Tonal)
Kevin Lee Kharas’s muttered musings about love and life are given a sumptuous electronic backdrop by producer Patrick King
The third album by London electronic duo Real Lies might be the perfec…
16 months ago
‘We swept into Moscow in Gorbachev’s limousine’: Neil Tennant’s love affair with Russia – before the ‘cancer of Putin’ ○
found
a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International
- Moscow ■■■■
- Gorbachev ■■
- Neil Tennant ■■■
- Russia ■■■■
- Putin ■■■■
- Red Square ■■
- MTV Russia ■■
- Pet Shop Boys ■■
- Singer Neil Tennant ■■
- Andrey Sapozhnikov ■■
- Europe ■■■■
- Russian ■■■■
- Latvia ■■
- Pet Shop ■■
- Pussy Riot ■■
- Guardian ■■■
- Soviet Union ■■
- Stalin ■■
- Terrible ■■
- Soviet ■■■
- Shostakovich ■■
- Prokofiev ■■
- West End ■■
- Lake Geneva ■■
- Finland Station ■■
They played Red Square, launched MTV Russia and got driven home from a gay club by the police. But the freedoms witnessed by Pet Shop Boys have been crushed. Singer Neil Tennant relives those heady d…
17 months ago
Olly Alexander: Polari review | Alexis Petridis's album of the week ○
(Polydor)
The actor-singer’s solo debut proper looks to 1980s gay clubland for inspiration, but plays it too safe under all the retro synths and stammered-vocal effects
It isn’t melodramatic to say tha…
page 1 of 1