The original idea was based on Paul McCartney and Wings just upping off and playing universities during the lunch break and stuff. We’d never done it before so I thought it would be a laugh, says Chris. Whatever your reason may be for needing such a list, just know that we got you covered. On 6th February 6 2002, the Pet Shop Boys begin a brief tour of English colleges. That is one of the many reasons why we created this list. Art on your sleeve is also available on several other popular platforms including Spotify and Soundcloud.Īrt on your sleeve now has a growing Facebook group which you’re welcome to join.If you have ever wanted to know every single band that starts with the letter P, you’ve come to the right place. I hope you enjoy this episode, if you do, please subscribe at Apple Podcasts HERE and if you’re very nice, you could even leave a review. When Being Boring was 10 years old, this tribute website was set up by designer, writer and typographer, Marcin Wichary, it contains so much additional information for those wishing to dig even deeper into the development and cultural impact of the song. The remarkable video for the single is also briefly mentioned in the podcast which was shot by Bruce Weber in Long Island, USA. I mean, with Pet Shop Boys, we do that in the realm of commercial pop. If you look at Bob Dylan, he doesn’t care what anyone thinks.
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Paul Weller is still a mod and I think that those are the artists that survive. In the third verse I am a Pet Shop Boy recording in Munich, while back in London my friend has died and other friends are ill.” 26K views, 2.1K likes, 373 loves, 81 comments, 159 shares, Facebook Watch Videos from Pet Shop Boys: Pet Shop Boys have done a twelve-minute remix of Paul Weller’s recent album track, Cosmic. We’ve created something of our own and we all still have our integrity. The teenage party referred to in the first verse was in July 1974 (actually, I had just ceased being a teenager) and the invitation quoted Zelda Fitzgerald, the wife of Scott Fitzgerald, from an article, ‘Eulogy on the Flapper’, published in Metropolitan magazine in 1922: ‘She was never bored mainly because she was never boring.’ In the second verse I leave Newcastle on the train to study in London wearing platform shoes (it was 1972) and assuming I would never move back. I liked the bouncy rhythm of this phrase and confronting the criticism of our famously deadpan presentation.
“An autobiographical elegy for my best friend from Newcastle whom I’d known since we were teenagers he died in 1989 aged only thirty-four… The title was inspired by a Japanese review which said we were ‘being boring’. The remix is now available on vinyl and in digital format at the link below. The single also includes a further remix by Primal Scream ’s Andrew Innes. You can learn more and see their work at: and they also share images old and new on Instagram Tennant has spoken in detail about what Being Boring is about and this is included in the podcast, but to quote from his book, One hundred lyrics and a poem published by Faber & Faber in 2018: Pet Shop Boys today release their Triad Remix of Paul Weller ’s song, Cosmic Fringes. It is always recognisable as they have a unique signature style that harks back to photographic pioneers of yesteryear such as Eadweard Muybridge and Julia Margaret Cameron.
The photography of the Douglas Brothers has featured on the record sleeves of a diverse roster of artists including: Alison Moyet, Prefab Sprout, Bryan Ferry, Paul Young, Claudia Brücken, Toyah and Texas. It is the Douglas Brothers’ photography that was used on the cover designs for the single, all laid out by regular Pet Shop Boys graphic designer, Mark Farrow, in 1990. In the episode I talk about the photography of The Douglas Brothers, an English duo that featured in my Pop Article for issue 38 of the magazine in March 2018, and still available digitally from the publisher at THIS LINK. These podcasts often complement articles that I’ve written for Classic Pop magazine and this episode is no exception. What better way than with an episode of Art on your sleeve. It is one of my favourite songs by one of my favourite pop groups and as such, I felt I needed to mark the occasion. Being Boring, a single by Pet Shop Boys is 30 years old today.
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