Pet Shop Boys talked to German newspaper 'Tagesspiegel' about what they did when terror hit London, Battleship Potemkin and being gay in the seventies in Britain. Revealing! Unfortunately only available in German: http://archiv.tagesspiegel.de/archiv/24.07.2005/1912987.asp

Just bought the Q magazine for September and has note From Russia With Love about PSB in Russia. Neil says: 'Emma Freud /wife of co-organizer Richard Curtis/ approached me at a party and asked if we'd headline the Live 8 show in Moscow. I've never linked it when pop stars tell the public about politics and sell records on the back of it. But she answered my concerns very well, so I sat down with Chris and he said: We've got to do it! We had the most dramatic backdrop of all, with St. Basil's Cathedral looming over us'.

Questions for 'Literally' - 26 July '05 A new issue of “Literally', the Pet Shop Boys Club magazine is being prepared. Any club members who would like to submit questions for Neil and Chris to answer in the magazine please send them to: Questions PSB Club, P.O. Box 102, Stanmore, Middlesex, HA7 2PY, UK :CHURCH: amen

Neil and Chris are currently working on a new batch of four songs for their next album with producer Trevor Horn, making a total of nine tracks. The latest four are described as 'more electro--pop' than the first 'epic' five Horn has produced. The Dianne Warren composition, 'Numb', originally recorded for the 'PopArt' compilation and produced by Trevor Horn, will also feature on the new album to be released in Spring, 2006. credit: www.petshopboys.co.uk

This is the cover of the Battleship Potemkin release ... probably released on September 5th. Here's the tracklist: 1. Comrades 2. Men and maggots 3. Our daily bread 4. Drama in the harbour 5. Nyet 6. To the shore 7. Odeassa 8. No time for tears 9. To the battleship 10. After all (The Odessa Staircase) 11. Stormy meetings 12. Night falls 13. Full steam ahead 14. The squadron 15. For freedom