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ELECTRIC PET SHOP BOYS LIVE IN JAKARTA
Saturday, August 17, 2013
Plenary Hall, Jakarta Convention Center
BIOGRAPHY :
Pet Shop Boys are the UK’s most successful electronic dance and pop duo consisting of Neil Tennant, who provides main vocals, keyboards and occasional guitar, and Chris Lowe on keyboards with 12 Top Ten studio albums and 40 Top 20 singles, including four number one records.
One of the world’s best-selling music artists, Pet Shop Boys have sold over 100 million records worldwide, and are listed as the most successful duo in UK music history by The Guinness Book of Records.
Three-time Brit Award winners and six-time Grammy nominees, since 1986 they have achieved 42 Top 30 singles and 22 Top 10 hits in the UK Singles Chart, including four number ones: “West End Girls”, “It’s a Sin”, “Always on My Mind” and “Heart”. At the 2009 BRIT Awards, Pet Shop Boys received an award for Outstanding Contribution to Music. The duo’s latest studio album, Yes (continuing their tradition of single word titles) was released on 23 March 2009.
Pet Shop Boys’ visual presentation has always been strikingly original. Their record sleeves, In 2009 Pet Shop Boys’ tenth studio album, “Yes”, entered the UK charts at number four in Europe and the Americas.
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.
And garnered some of the best reviews of their career with The Times calling it “the ravishing pop spectacle of the year”.
Pet Shop Boys recorded ‘Elysium’ in early 2012 in Los Angeles, the first time they have recorded an album in America.
‘Elysium’ features twelve new songs which display a warm, deep electronic sound, and includes orchestral arrangements by Joachim Horsley, Andrew Dawson and Ben Leathers. Backing vocals are provided on many of the tracks by veteran singers Oren, Maxine and Julie Waters (whose long career spans sessions with The Jackson Five to Adele), and singer/songwriter James Fauntleroy.
Pet Shop Boys said: “It was inspiring to make an album in Los Angeles, and to work with a producer from a different musical genre, who has brought a new dimension to our music”.
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