Pop intellectuals go HI-NRG on beat-tastic hook-up and produce best work in years

The Pet Shop Boys’ Dublin show this Hallowe’en promises to be an extravagant theatrical event with typical pet sounds.

The full lineup for the Some Days Never End festival has been announced.

After their storming performance at the Electric Picnic last year, the Pet Shop Boys are to come back to Ireland to headline the Garden Party.

After two decades of electro-pop hits, the PET SHOP BOYS have gone back to basics with their new album Fundamental – and thrown some timely...

You do begin to wonder how the Pet Shop Boys keep managing to court critical favour, then you hear a record like ‘Minimal’ and that godfathers-of-electro...

How do they manage it? Few acts have thrived doing exactly the same electroclash thing over two decades and nine studio albums, but the Pet Shop Boys seem...

There’s no way anyone can sing ‘stupid’ without sounding so themselves, as proved by our favourite stony-faced duo. But it’s forgiven as it’s...

Okay Placebo, pay attention – this is how you fashion a graceful, plaintive electro-ballad with a side order of singalong-friendly chorus.

Okay Placebo, pay attention – this is how you fashion a graceful, plaintive electro-ballad with a side order of singalong-friendly chorus.

You know that your pop star interviewee is confident about the quality of his splendid new album, when he's happy to talk about everyone else under the sun....

This is a quintessential Tennant and Lowe album and among the best of their creations

PET SHOP BOYS: "Very" (Parlophone).