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"Deb, I think that you gotta take your family out of this. Now, if you want to keep the baby, keep the baby, but if you don't or you can't, then you want to make sure he goes to somebody who's gonna love him, who's gonna want him, and know that you're not abandoning your baby. You're creating a family."
Pet Shop Boys in my own style 🐶
It’s Neil & Chris!!
heated rivalry gif meme: ↳ [1/7] kisses
So as we were saying... Chris: Well, it's still true! I never wanted an extraordinary life. Neil: Chris would be quite happy living with someone in suburbia. Chris: When you said that, I just got a real pang. I'd like the suburban life. Quite a nice car. Sports car. Actually, my sister's got some friends who have got the life I want. They spend all day playing golf, going to watch Arsenal, going on holidays, tennis, socializing. Neil: Drinking white wine. Chris: A sip of white wine. They've a rather glamorous life. Is that too much to ask for? Neil: [laughs] Apparently, yes. And this has been a terrible second best that you've stumbled into? Chris: Well, I think this has only happened because I wanted something different. Because that's what he's like, isn't he? So, just to clarify: God punished you by giving you the Pet Shop Boys' career? Chris: [laughs] It's been one long punishment! Why do you think I've looked so miserable the entire time? Did I show you the advert for someone to play me in a tribute band? [He finds the advert on his phone. It is a replacement member for the band Pet Shop Boys, Actually. The advert reads 'We're on the lookout for our next Chris Lowe -- could that be you?' then lists the three essential qualifications for the job: 'A love of PSB', 'Under 6ft 2in', and 'A miserable disposition'.] Neil, would you like to offer a counterbalance? Neil: Well, in the eighteen years since the previous conversation, I think we have carried on with expanding the world that we were talking about. And you, unlike your partner in music, have been glad to be doing this? Neil: Yes, absolutely. I think my partner in music has also been quite glad to, really. The problem with Chris is that he thinks he wants a normal life, but he's not a normal person. Chris: [laughing] How dare you! Neil: No, but that's the problem. He's actually not a normal person in any way, shape, or form. That's why the suburban life was doomed. He's a creative person who doesn't really follow a lot of normal rules of behaviour or pursue the way of life that would have led to that. Remember, Chris left college with a lot of student debts -- which were considerable, shockingly large! -- and paid them off by becoming a pop star. Chris: It's not cheap when you're doing architecture. It's not just pen and paper, like historians. We have costs. Neil: I mean, it seemed inconceivable he would get a job as an architect, which could have led to the suburban bliss. Chris: No, I don't think I'd have been very good at architecture. Neil: Well, it's too much responsibility. Something you can't bear. Chris: I know. You can't have someone like me in the office. Neil: You can't even ask someone for a piece of bread in a restaurant! Chris: [laughing] 'Neil, are you going to get some bread?' Neil: I mean, that person can never be an architect. Chris: Well, I just don't like making decisions. Do you recognize Neil's description of you? Chris: Yeah. So maybe it's good this happened? Chris: Looking back, it probably is.
"A further conversation with Chris Heath, October 2024" in Volume (2026)
Pet Shop Boys • Obscure: Live at Electric Ballroom, London | April 6th, 2026.
Intro Music for Boys
1. Will-o-the-wisp (Live debut)
2. Two Divided by Zero (First time since 2012)
3. Jack the Lad (Live debut)
4. To Face the Truth (First time since 1994)
5. After the Event (Live debut)
6. Hit and Miss (Live debut)
7. Always (Live debut)
8. Do I Have To? (First time since 2012)
9. Sexy Northerner (First time since 2004)
10. Young Offender (First time since 2000)
11. Happiness Is an Option (with Sylvia Mason-James)(First time since 2000)
12. The Theatre (with Sylvia Mason-James)(First time since 1997)
13. One in a Million / Mr. Vain (with Sylvia Mason-James)(First time since 1994)
14. New Boy
15. King of Rome (Live debut)
16. King's Cross (First time since 2012)
17. Love Is the Law (Live debut)
18. Why Don't We Live Together? (First time since 2012)
19. The Performance of My Life (Live debut)
Encore:
20. Your Funny Uncle (Acoustic; Neil solo on piano; first time since 1991)
21. The Way It Used to Be (First time since 2010)
22. Later Tonight (First time since 2017)
23. A Dream of a Better Tomorrow (Live debut)
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When a set-list can an' bloomin' will make ya weep your blinkin' eyes out through every single pore. Proper waterfall, it is. If this was only the first night, I ain't lookin' at what's happenin' the rest of the week at the Ballroom—not if I want to keep my loaf of bread screwed on straight, for the sake of my bleedin' health!
Guess I'll be right here, crying my soul out on loop to THE ONE AND ONLY QUEEN AND GODDESS OF ALL OF US, PETHEADS, SYLVIA MASON-JAMES —and each and every «Everybody!» in The Theatre— in particular and everything that the very first journey and milestone of an evening has brought and been in general.
Trying to process Jack The Lad, After The Event, Always, Do I Have To?, The Theatre, Happiness Is An Option, King's Cross, Your Funny Uncle Acoustic + Neil's solo on Piano and The Way It Used to Be, most specifically bawling to Jack The Lad, Happiness Is An Option, After The Event, The Theatre, King's Cross and Your Funny Uncle because even if I've have had the opportunity to listen to a few of them live in past tours, why the fuck haven't I been there to witness them again, plus witnessing the ones that have been played live for the very first time! THE DEVASTATING REASON WHY: not having accessed tickets.
King's Cross, Jack The Lad, Your Funny Uncle and After The Event have been played TODAY while I'm not there bawling fucking KILLS ME!!!!🤷🏻♀️
Might delete later: having been joking about and imagining Bubadubadubadum (All My Wasted Time) being played live, even if only for a fragment of a second can —and most probably will— kill me, because WTF and IF ONLY so I hope they don't have the audacity because everything and anything can happen and I'm not ready for some things, this being one of them. ALL I EVER NEEDED WAS MY FUCKING TICKET!!!!!! *disintegrates*
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FUCK IT, WE CRY LIKE IT'S COMPLETELY OUT OF FASHION, DAY ONE.
Happiness Is An Option with Sylvia Mason-James • PSB: Obscure
The Theatre with Sylvia Mason-James • PSB: Obscure
Jack The Lad • PSB: Obscure
The Performance Of My Life • PSB: Obscure
Your Funny Uncle • PSB: Obscure
After The Event • PSB: Obscure
King's Cross • PSB: Obscure
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Get ready with me, lot, for the everlasting dehydration of one very Pethead without tickets to see PSB Obscure: Live At Electric Ballroom is upon me and it's only the very beginning.
°°Onwards, (this post will be edited later as Obscure days happen).
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Chris Lowe of the Pet Shop Boys!! 🧢
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Drawing inspired by the album cover of nightlife by petshop boys :p.............
So, I'm a fan of this English duo, right? They're both gay. And like, back when they first started their careers, neither of them were out. They wanted keep their private lives private, you know? They still do, in fact. But even back then, the fans knew. They had a pretty solid reputation for being queer even before anyone officially knew that they were gay. Anyway, they do eventually come out. And for their whole careers, they do basically everything together. Keep a good relationship the whole time. You know, with a lot of these groups there's the inevitable messy breakup, but not them. In fact, they're still making stuff together to this day. Yeah, they're still going in 2025. Who would have thought?
And look. I know that you shouldn't assume two people are together just because they're very close and both gay. But like... neither of them have dated anyone in a while. Like, no official partners for either of them in years. And they own a house together. And also have owned that house for years. So yeah, maybe they've always said publicly that they aren't a couple, but what do you think? If two gay guys still get along very well after all these years, own a house together, go on tour together, and are both officially single, are you really going to tell me that they aren't an item?
... Who the hell are Dan and Phil? No, no, I'm talking about the Pet Shop Boys.
kinda need someone to make a 6 hour long breakdown of Neil Tennant x Chris Lowe cause like I believe it but petheads are expert level documenters and analysts and I am not so it feels like I'm on the outside looking in
Pet Shops Boys performing Domino Dancing on Top of the Pops in 1988 moment 👯♂️🪩🎹
Ngl I’ve been on and off working on this for months; it’s taken waaay too long to push myself to finish pieces lately. Art block has been kicking my ass all year 🫠
But hey, it’s finally done! Yippeeeee 🤸
New Order - Get Ready
just some sketches :)
happy anniversary to the duo of all time <3
