Electronic Beats by Telekom presents Pet Shop Boys live in Berlin!

“Elysium”

The most successful pop duo of all time play a short set at the Hebbel am Ufer on 05.09.2012! The Pet Shop Boys new album “Elysium” will be released just some days after the concert. KALTBLUT is inviting 2 of our readers to the event. Win 1×2 tickets here.

Pet Shop Boys: “We wrote many of the ‘Elysium’ songs in Berlin so it seems very appropriate to give them their first live performances there. We’re looking forward to a very special event just days before the new album is released.”

Exclusive World Premier of songs from their new studio album “Elysium” and it is your chance to be part of it. Send an email to [email protected] till August 27th.2012 And tell us : Why your are the one to see The Pet Shop Boys in Berlin.

Live-Stream of the 30 minute showcase on www.electronicbeats.net The album “Elysium” is released on 07.09.2012!

What? Where? When?

Pet Shop Boys Album Release www.electronicbeats.net/petshopboys
Electronic Beats by Telekom

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September 05.2012 at the Hebbel am Ufer

Stresemannstr 29, Hallesches Ufer 32, Tempelhofer Ufer 10
10963 Berlin www.hebbel-am-ufer.de or Facebook
Win 1×2 Tickets: [email protected]

Electronic Beats:

The international music program by Deutsche Telekom, presents a very special short performance by Pet Shop Boys live in Berlin. The British pop duo will play a selection of songs from their new album “Elysium” on September 5, 2012, the first time songs from the album will have been played live. The 30 minute show is to be held in the small and exclusive environs theatre at Hebbel am Ufer (Hau 1).

Pet Shop Boys have especially selected the Hebbel am Ufer because of the theatre’s reputation as one of the most innovative event locations in Berlin for young, international and experimental art. Tickets to the performance cannot be purchased, but can be won on the Electronic Beats website (www.electronicbeats.net/petshopboys). The entire performance will also be streamed live over the Electonic Beats website.

“Elysium” is the Pet Shop Boys’ eleventh studio album and was recorded in Los Angeles at the start of this year with producer Andrew Dawson, who has previously worked with Kanye West. The album is already being hailed as one of the duo’s finest whilst the single “Winner” (released on August 6) was recently deemed “triumphant” in the Daily Telegraph.

“Elysium” is released on September 7.

Pre-order album and single here:

iTunes Deutschland
Amazon.de
iTunes UK
Amazon UK
Elysium pre-order on Amazon UK
Elysium pre-order on Amazon.de

Biography:

Pet Shop Boys are the UK’s most successful pop duo with 12 Top Ten studio albums and 40 Top 20 singles, including four number one records. Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe first met in 1981 and began writing songs together. Their first single “West End girls” was released in 1984 as a one-off single but the following year they signed to Parlophone/EMI Records and a new version of “West End girls” climb

ed to the top of the charts. The single went on to reach number one in nine countries, including the USA. Their success continued with the release of further UK number one hits, “It’s a sin”, “Always on my mind” and “Heart”. They won Brit awards for Best Single in 1987 and Best Group in 1988. Other awards have followed, including Ivor Novello awards for songwriting in 1987 and 1988 and, in 2000, a third Ivor for Outstanding Contribution to British Music. In 2009 they were presented with the Brit Award for Outstanding Contribution to Music. Their musical collaborations have included duets, productions or remixes for Dusty Springfield, Liza Minnelli, David Bowie, Elton John, Blur, Yoko Ono, Electronic, Rammstein, Madonna, Lady Gaga and The Killers. They have written or co-written songs for, amongst others, Shirley Bassey and Girls Aloud.

Pet Shop Boys’ visual presentation has always been strikingly original. Their record sleeves, mostly created in collaboration with designer Mark Farrow, would, in their early and influential use of white space, lead to a re-evaluation of the art of record and CD design. This keen visual sense informs everything presented under the group’s name, from books to tour merchandise to newspaper adverts. Video directors have included Eric Watson, Derek Jarman, Howard Greenhalgh and Bruce Weber.

Pet Shop Boys have long had a dedicated interest in combining music with theatre and film. Their first tour in 1989 was conceived with artist/director Derek Jarman, and on subsequent tour productions their collaborators included David Alden and David Fielding from the ENO, architect Zaha Hadid, theatre designers Ian MacNeil and Es Devlin and artist/director Sam Taylor-Wood. In 2001 their musical, Closer to Heaven, written with playwright Jonathan Harvey, was produced in the West End by The Really Useful Group. In 2004 they wrote a soundtrack to the classic silent film, Battleship Potemkin, which was first performed with the Dresdner Sinfoniker orchestra in a free concert in Trafalgar Square, presented by the Mayor of London and the ICA. This spectacular event has subsequently been repeated at various outdoor settings in Germany, Spain and again in the UK at the Swan Hunter shipyard on Tyneside.

In 2009 Pet Shop Boys’ tenth studio album, “Yes”, entered the UK charts at number four. It was followed by their 18-month Pandemonium tour of the UK, Europe and the Americas, including a headlining Saturday night slot at the Glastonbury Festival, and garnered some of the best reviews of their career with The Times calling it “the ravishing pop spectacle of the year”.

In March 2011 Tennant and Lowe’ ballet,The Most Incredible Thing, choregraphed by Javier De Frutos was premiered in a 10-night season at Sadler’s Wells in London.