![]() Release was a significant departure from the norm, and I now get why they went out on that type of tour at the start of 2002. It’s maybe a reminder to their long-term fans that, while they may have gone out on tour in the UK with some guitars to the fore, house/club/dance music was still very much in the DNA of the Pet Shop Boys.Ī few weeks later, on 1 April, the eighth studio album hit the shops. The single was not released in the United Kingdom but was a B-side to CD 2 of their single, “Home and Dry”. In 2001, Break 4 Love was covered by Peter Rauhofer (an Austrian-American DJ/remixer who passed away in 2013) and Pet Shop Boys, released under the name “Peter Rauhofer + Pet Shop Boys = The Collaboration”. It is still considered a classic of the early house music genre. The single peaked at number 28 on the UK Singles Chart and topped the US Billboard Hot Dance Club Play chart in 1988. The song, the group’s only significant US hit, featured vocals by Keith Thompson and Vaughan Mason, as well as sexual sound samples by Erique Dial. There was one ‘new’ track included on CD2.īreak 4 Love is a song written, produced and recorded by Vaughan Mason, the principal member of American house music group Raze, the song’s original credited performer. It’s another wonderful Radio 2 record, with a hint just after the three-minute mark of the same synthetic trumpet blast that was found on West End Girls. The latter, while not as outstanding as Sexy Northerner, is one that would have raised hopes for the quality of the next studio album, given it was ‘deemed’ only good enough as an additional track on the lead single. Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty must surely have given this a listen and been proud that their influences were still very much to the fore. The former is yet another superb b-side, full of humour and delivered with a knowing wink. It got to #14 on the singles chart, which is a decent performance, given that a move to Radio 2 tends to come at a time when singers/groups are now seen as being more about their albums and live shows.Ģ x CDs and a DVD version were put on sale. It’s a song that it is very hard to date as there are all sorts of 80s influences on it, but it has the crisp production standards of the 21st century. The station is the most listened-to in the UK, and its DJs have the task of broadcasting a very wide range of content, including hits from bygone eras. ![]() ![]() This is not meant as an insult, but Home and Dry is a perfect Radio 2 song and PSB were very much an ideal Radio 2 group. It is interesting that the BBC, and indeed Chris and Neil, now saw their natural home as being Radio 2 and not Radio 1, which is the station aimed at younger listeners with its playlists, certainly during the day, concentrating on the current chart hits. Two days later, a new single is released. On 16th March, they record a live concert for BBC Radio 2 with their live band, playing a shortened version of their college tour set. The tour is completed by a one-off date in Cologne, Germany, on February 16. “We’ve always presented ourselves within a visual context on stage, which has been what we’ve become well-known for, and all of a sudden we thought it would be quite interesting to present ourselves as musicians.”Īt one concert, in Middlesborough, they encore with a version of Eddie and the Hot Rods’ “Do Anything You Wanna Do”. “It was quite interesting because the Pet Shop Boys have never presented themselves as being musicians before on stage, with the exception of when we played at the ICA in 1984,” says Neil. “It was really good having a band – noisy,” says Chris. Neil plays guitar, Chris plays keyboards are there are two other guitarists and a percussionist onstage. ![]() It just seemed like a nice way to play lots of songs off the new album. “The original idea was based on Paul McCartney and Wings just upping off and playing universities during the lunch break and stuff. “We’d never done it before so I thought it would be a laugh,” says Chris. On 6th February 6 2002, the Pet Shop Boys begin a brief tour of English colleges. This is all from the ‘History’ section of the Pet Shop Boys official website. A little bit of background as it’s something I was very much unaware of.
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