Some news
If you missed the BBC radio-show ‘The Pet Shop Boys really’, you may listen to it again on their website at
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/r2music/documentaries/petshopboys.shtml 🙂
EMI France decided to re-record ‘New York City Boy’ with French lyrics and called it ‘Paris City Boy’. It’s going to replace NYCB on the French release of PopArt.
The unofficial PSB forum at Aimoo was hacked and moved to a new server. It’s not going to be Aimoo again, so check http://www.petshopboys-forum.com – thanks to the gardner for setting it up 🙂
PSB received the ‘World Arts Award 2003’
Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe received the ‘World Arts Award 2003’ ‘for their extraordinary dedication to art, their social engagement and their unique contribution to popular music as well as their overall patronage of the arts.”
Check the Pics section for some pics!
Pre-order ‘Miracles’ and ‘PopArt’
This seems to be the official cover the ‘Miracles’ commercial releases:
Pre-order your copy of the upcoming Pet Shop Boys releases at amazon.co.uk:
[ Miracles CD1 ]
[ Miracles CD2 ]
[ PopArt CD ]
[ PopArt Vinyl ]
Thanks for supporting Pet Shop Boys O N L I N E!
PSB in Hamburg / WORLD ARTS AWARD 2003
Pet Shop Boys will receive the ‘WORLD ARTS AWARD 2003’ on Wednesday, October 20th. The event takes place in Hamburg / Germany and will be broadcasted worldwide:
23rd October: ARD (Germany), 11pm
24th October: NDR (Germany), 11am
23rd October: ORF (Austria)
More than 400 TV stations will show this event. So check your program magazines 🙂
Other nominees:
– World Actor Award: Michael Douglas
– World Artist Award: Morgan Freeman
– World Arts Award: Pet Shop Boys
– World Fashion Award: Karl Lagerfeld
– World Achievement Award: Placido Domingo
– World Media Award: Larry King (CNN)
– World Social Award: Yusuf Islam (Cat Stevens)
– World Entertainment Award: Siegfried & Roy
– World Business Award: Heinrich von Pierer (Siemens)
– World Future Award: Dietrich Grönemeyer
– World Tolerance Award: Lech Walesa
– World Connection Award: Jan Ullrich
– Männer des Jahres: Die Ă„rzte in Irak
– Livetime Achievement Award: Christopher Reeve
– World Artist Award for Lifetime Achievement Award: Bee Gees