New York, NY (Top40 Charts) Pet Shop Boys will release their new single 'I don't wanna' on April 24th. It will be available on CD, digitally and on vinyl, via x2/Kobalt.
The 'I don't wanna' single packages include remixes by Mano Le Tough and
David Jackson and also a bonus song, 'New boy', originally written by
Pet Shop Boys in 1984 and recently finished and recorded. Full tracklisting for single packages as follows:
CD and Digital:
1. I don't wanna (radio edit)
2. New boy
3. I don't wanna (Mano Le Tough remix)
4. I don't wanna (David Jackson remix one)
5. I don't wanna (David Jackson remix two)
Vinyl:
A1. I don't wanna (album version)
A2. I don't wanna (Mano Le Tough remix)
B1. I don't wanna (David Jackson remix one)
B2. I don't wanna (David Jackson remix two)
'I don't wanna' is taken from the recent album 'Hotspot', which was released to widespread critical acclaim in February. The album entered the UK albums chart at number 3, matching the chart entries of its predecessors in the trilogy of albums produced by
Stuart Price. It is Pet Shop Boys' 17th top ten album in the UK. It also reached number 3 in the German and Spanish album charts and number 1 in the USA on Billboard's Top Dance/Electronic Albums chart, making it the fourth Pet Shop Boys' album to accomplish this.
The duo will perform across the UK and
Europe for their first-ever greatest hits tour - Dreamworld: The Greatest Hits Live - in May/June 2020. Beginning on Friday, May 1st at Berlin's Mercedes Benz Arena, the tour will see PSB perform at arenas across the continent and UK. Full tour schedule below:
Friday May 1st - Mercedes Benz Arena, Berlin
Saturday May 2nd - König-Pilsener, Oberhausen
Tuesday May 5th - Forest
National Arena, Brussels
Wednesday May 6th - AFAS Live, Amsterdam
Friday May 8th - Leipzig Arena, Leipzig
Sunday May 10th - Porsche Arena, Stuttgart
Tuesday May 12th - Gasometer, Vienna
Wednesday May 13th - Forum Karlín, Prague, Czech Republic
Thursday 14th - Saturday 16th May - Mallorca Live Festival, Calvià, Mallorca, Spain
Tuesday May 19th - Olympiahalle, Munich
Wednesday May 20th - Jahrhunderthalle, Frankfurt
Friday May 22nd - Barclaycard Arena, Hamburg
Sunday May 24th - Torwar Arena, Warsaw
Thursday May 28th - The O2, London
Friday May 29th - Manchester Arena, Manchester
Saturday May 30th - Resorts World Arena, Birmingham
Tuesday June 2nd - BIC Arena, Bournemouth
Wednesday June 3rd - Motorpoint Arena, Cardiff
Friday June 5th - Utilita Arena, Newcastle
Saturday June 6th - SSE Hydro, Glasgow
Tuesday June 9th - Live at the Marquee, Cork, Ireland
Wednesday June 17th - Ericsson Globe, Stockholm
Friday June 19th - OverOslo, Oslo
Sunday June 21st - Paradepladsen Viborg, Denmark
Wednesday 24th June - Hull Arena, Hull, UK
Wednesday 1st July - Palaio Faliro Athens, Greece
Friday 3rd July - PSM Caz Festivali, Istanbul, Turkey
Saturday 11th July - Bilbao BBK Live
Music Festival, Bilbao, Spain
Pet Shop Boys and
New Order have confirmed a co-headlining tour of North America. The two British electronic bands have announced that 'The Unity Tour' kicks off on
September 5th in Toronto and sees both bands play venues including Madison
Square Garden in New York, Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles and more. Both bands will play full sets, with the headliner alternating each night.
On March 19th,
William Heinemann is publishing
Pet Shop Boys Versus
America and Pet Shop Boys, Literally, two candid books by Chris Heath originally published in the early 90s which observe
Pet Shop Boys around their 1989 and 1991 tours. These reissues include new introductions from Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe and new afterwords by Chris Heath.
The BFI has announced it is to release a restored version of Pet Shop Boys' 1988 feature film, It Couldn't Happen Here, directed by Jack Bond and starring Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe alongside Joss Ackland and
Barbara Windsor. Unavailable worldwide for the last 30 years, the film has been newly remastered by the BFI from a 4K scan, for release as a limited-edition Blu-ray/DVD set on June 15th. The re-release will be launched with a special preview screening at BFI Southbank on 3rd April 2020, preceded by an on-stage Q&A with Neil Tennant, Jack Bond and choreographer Arlene Phillips.
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