Things To Do This Weekend, May 25-27: Country boys and punk rock girls Bangor Daily News PS: With that headline, I made a reference that was simultaneously referring to John Denver, the Dead Milkmen and the Pet Shop Boys. If you picked up on that, you get to drink from the firehose. And if you got THAT reference, you might be my new best ...
Live Nation Joins the Dance Party, Buying Promoter of Creamfields New York Times (blog) By BEN SISARIO Francisco Bonilla/ReutersNeil Tennant of The Pet Shop Boys performs at a Creamfields festival in Almería, Spain, in 2006. In a deal that demonstrates how important electronic dance music has become to the concert industry, ...
Lenny Henry finds his laugh track New Zealand Herald However, he was warned off the idea by music producer Trevor Horn, the man who co wrote the song Video Killed the Radio Star and has done records with the likes of Frankie Goes to Hollywood, Pet Shop Boys and Seal. "He said to me, 'If you want to do ...
Seance Tour 7 June, Club Anything: God Module, Twitch the Ripper, Mordacious OnMilwaukee.com (blog) Having had their sound compared to the likes of New Order, Depeche Mode, and the Pet Shop Boys, these two have previously toured with My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult and 16 Volt, and filled opening slots for legends such as Nitzer Ebb. EBM/harsh ...
Dance music that gets feet and emotions moving Los Angeles Times Given a lush orchestral sweep by the brilliant UK production team Xenomania, the Pet Shop Boys' 2009 single sounds like a dream. But its lyric -- about the lie of consumer-culture perfection -- turns the music melancholy.
Evening News launches Edinburgh's Cup Final song Scotsman Released on YouTube yesterday, Go East by the Paper Shop Boys is a spoof of the Pet Shop Boys' 1993 hit Go West, first recorded by the Village People. The video has already attracted 15000 views, and prompted responses from football fans as far away as ...
Album Review: Gossip ? A Joyful Noise Consequence of Sound Teaming up with British producer Brian Higgins (founder of production group Xenomania, writer/co-writer of songs with both Minogue Sisters, the Pet Shop Boys, and others), A Joyful Noise is Gossip's stumbling step into the world of shiny, ...
Kings of the Beach Unite Wall Street Journal Imagine U2 hanging out with Pet Shop Boys in the '90s and thinking a couple decades into the future. Bandleader Jon Philpot also worked as an editor on the bizarre hit television enterprise "Wonder Showzen" and "Xavier: Renegade Angel," an even ...
Albums of the week | New records from Paul McCartney, Joey Ramone, St. Etienne ... Time Out Chicago It's quaint, but like all St. Etienne, too studied and clinical in its homages?something between Pet Shop Boys and a cocktail lounge act. Sarah Cracknell's breathy singing melts over the polished disco. Still, it's the group's catchiest batch of songs ...
Trio VD: Maze Financial Times By Mike Hobart The Leeds-based guitar sax and drums trio hit the ground running with ?Brick's? fractured loops, distorted gibberish and brief breaks, and keep the energy high to the final, dancey ?Pet Shop Boys?. Chris Sharkey's grasp of power chords ... trio VD: Maze ? reviewThe Guardian
Exclusive Interview: Raquel Redd Drives Us "Right On Track" with New Music Video Technorati Reminding us of the days when Boy George, Duran Duran and Pet Shop Boys ruled the scene, Redd throws into the mix some Mariah Carey glamor and fans are eating it up. Raquel Redd debuted the epic music video for the cover version of the Breakfast Club's ...
Music for Silents - Vampyr (Salford) WhatsOnStage.com Battleship Potemkin, rescored by the Pet Shop Boys, received great acclaim, but former Siouxsie and the Banshees bassist Steven Severin has been quietly doing this sort of thing for several years. For his latest 'Music For Silents' project, ...
Long live disco The Guardian Throughout the 90s, disco anthems provided hits for Take That (Dan Hartman's Relight My Fire), the Pet Shop Boys (the Village People's Go West) and All Saints (Labelle's Lady Marmalade). Meanwhile house music's disco-lust grew ever stronger with the ...
Busson's London Hedge Fund Charity Raises 14.5 Million Pounds Bloomberg British rock band Mumford & Sons and electronic music duo Pet Shop Boys performed at the Kensington Palace Gardens event, which Princess Beatrice of York also attended. ARK founder Busson, 49, started EIM SA, a Nyon, Switzerland-based manager that ...
Interview: Latitude and Sadler's Wells Programmer Emma Gladstone Huffington Post UK (blog) This year, London's premiere dance venue, Sadler's Wells returns with a stellar line up: Jonzi D, Cando Co, and excerpts from the fabulous collaboration between the Pet Shop Boys and the infant terrible of dance, Javier de Frutos, among others.
Spotlight on . . . Edinburgh Evening News Using the Pet Shop Boys' cover of The Village People's 1979 disco classic Go West, we had the weekend to come up with a song to celebrate Hibs and Hearts reaching the Scottish Cup final. The remit was simple. It had to praise Edinburgh and the Lothians ...