Now That's Entertainment - June 2000 Neil Tennant: How're you doing? Robbie Williams: I'm good. I'm just recording some vocals for my next album. Did you ever go through a section of your life where you were paranoid for about ten years? NT: (laughs) No, I don't think I did. RW: Well, I'm in that now. I think everybody's out to get me. NT: Don't be ridiculous. RW: No, I do. But they're not all out to get me, are...
In a frozen – by the air condition- basement at Technopolis in Gazi, where soon after they played live, Pet Shop Boys singer, Neil Tennant, welcomed me with a cheer for the t-shirt I wore, which read ‘Never being boring’. “It’s too cold down here”, I say, forgetting his British routes that lead him to define heat wave at 28 C degrees. “It surely is much better than outside”, he answers, and lies in...
Pet Shop targets EminemBoys new CD, Release, features a single about rap star's secret gay lifeThe Province Pet Shop Boys Chris Lowe (left) and Neil Tennant were in London last week to promote their new album Release. Tennant wrote the Eminem track 'The Night I Fell in Love.' Eminem is getting a taste of his own medicine. The controversial rapper, who likes to mock others in his rhymes, is the subject of a new tune by the...
Double Cream They once vowed never to play live, but this summer pop icons the Pet Shop Boys are headlining the dance extravaganza Creamfields. What have they done to deserve this? When Chris Lowe looks back upon his life, it's always with a sense of...
"It was full of plastic palm trees - BRILLIANT!" Pet Shop Boy Chris Lowe opens his sweaty box of clubbing nostalgia Chris Lowe is the world's biggest secret clubber. While Neil Tennant is out talking bollocks and wearing silly clothes, Chris queues up to get into clubs like Cream and Strawberry Sundae, and hangs out in New York with David Morales. He's been doing it for years, so it's no surprise that the Pet Shop Boys have...
Pet Shop Boys Q&A:By RICHARD JOHN -- JAM! Showbiz During rehearsals for the new North American Pet Shop Boys tour, Chris Lowe took time out to talk to JAM! about the tour, the new album and the musical that he and musical partner Neil Tennant have been working on for the last few years. He also manages to name drop a modern British architect. Here is the conversation, in its entirety. JAM!: So where are you currently? CHRIS:...
The vitriol. The loathing. Pet Shop Boy Chris Lowe is angry. 'I blame the public,' pop's leading grump tells Sylvia Patterson. Street style: do people look good to you, on the streets?I liked it when it was really tribal. Now it's merged into one mushiness, hasn't it? Get your bloody vintage jeans out. I don't know. Fashion; it's all over, isn't it? D'you know what it is? You just see the same old things going...
Slim Shady, Here We Comeby Eric Solomon I didn't ask why / though he seemed like such a / regular guy / he said we could be / secret lovers / just him and me / Then he joked / "Hey man! / Your name isn't Stan, is it? / We should be together!" / And he was passionate / I guess I would rate / him a nine out a ten / by then...
The Pet Shop Boy on married men, being sick on flowers and receiving Alvar Altoo umbrella stands from fans...
An album called "Nightlife" marks the return of Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe to the centre of things. Have they changed? Have they hell. Gary Terratzo takes his gerbil by the paw and meets the Pet Shop Boys. Upstairs in the tattered splendour of London's St Pancras Railway Station, Neil Tennant is grappling with one of the great questions of the modern age - are boybands any bloody good? The answer is no, of course,...