In Depth Pet Shop Boys Podcast

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An unofficial Pet Shop Boys fan podcast. Join Graham & Chris - two Pet Shop Boys fans who ’wouldn’t normally do this kind of thing’ - who chat about everything PSB from singles, albums, tours, sleeves, outfits and remixes. If you are a fan of the world’s greatest synth duo - then this is the podcast for you. Subscribe now and never miss an episode.

  1. 1h ago

    12RX045 Singles

    Graham and Chris celebrate episode 45 by turning their attention to a subject that has defined so much of Pet Shop Boys’ career: the single. From the birth of the 7-inch 45rpm record and the golden age of chart countdowns to the streaming era, they explore how the pop single evolved across seven-inches, twelve-inches, cassingles, CD singles, and digital downloads, tracing four decades of changing music culture through the lens of Pet Shop Boys. Running through the episode are two very different Top 10 countdowns, as Graham and Chris each reveal their personal favourite Pet Shop Boys singles. They revisit classics from every era, debate the difference between a great song and a great single, and uncover the memories, stories and emotions attached to records ranging from Always On My Mind and It’s A Sin to Vocal, The Pop Kids and Dancing Star. The discussion expands into Pet Shop Boys’ lifelong relationship with formats, chart success and collectability, from Smash Hits flexi-discs and limited-edition vinyl to deluxe CD singles and the streaming revolution. Along the way there are reflections on first record purchases, cover versions, time signatures, coloured vinyl, orchestral hits, Christmas number ones, and the enduring magic of the perfectly crafted PSB pop single. Support our crowdfunder and get your name mentioned in a future episode: https://gofund.me/8521670c9   Check out our T-shirt store - all profits from our exclusive designs go towards supporting the podcast: https://in-depth.teemill.com   We’re also on YouTube: In Depth Pet Shop Boys Podcast - YouTube    And there’s additional In Depth content on our social media channels: Facebook: http://tiny.cc/3jhcvz Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/indepthpsbpod

    12RX045 Singles

  2. Oct 1

    12RX044 A Man From the Future (pt2)

    Graham and Chris go back to …The Future as Pet Shop Boys unveil the newly recorded and expanded version of their Alan Turing project. They explore Turing as an architect of artificial intelligence, and the tension between his pursuit of truth and today’s world of deepfakes, misinformation and machine‑generated confusion.  They celebrate the collaborators who bring the new recording to life: Sven Helbig’s contemporary arrangements, Juliet Stevenson’s commanding narration, and the Manchester Camerata’s pioneering spirit. They also trace Pet Shop Boys’ long relationship with classical music, from Borodin and Strauss to Shostakovich, Handel and Purcell. And they decode the sleeve, linking the green‑and‑amber design to early computer terminals and Bletchley Park’s codebreaking machines. Inspired by Turing and Hodges, the second half glitches down a metaphysical wormhole to uncover Neil’s fascination with time. It’s GCSE science meets dreamworlds, memory, grief, clocks, teacups, collapsing chronology, reverse causality, and a final journey to the very edge of forever - unravelling how A Man From The Future sits within a wider Pet Shop Boys tradition of bending spacetime itself!   Support our crowdfunder and get your name mentioned in a future episode: https://gofund.me/8521670c9 Check out our T-shirt store - all profits from our exclusive designs go towards supporting the podcast: https://in-depth.teemill.com We’re also on YouTube: In Depth Pet Shop Boys Podcast - YouTube  And there’s additional In Depth content on our social media channels: Facebook: http://tiny.cc/3jhcvz Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/indepthpsbpod

    12RX044 A Man From the Future (pt2)

  3. Sep 24

    12RX043 A Man From The Future (pt1)

    Graham and Chris begin their deep dive into A Man From The Future - Pet Shop Boys’ ambitious musical portrait of Alan Turing. They trace the origins of the project from Andrew Hodges’ biography to the Proms premiere, exploring how Neil and Chris built a hybrid of orchestral writing, electronic textures and spoken‑word narrative. Along the way they revisit Turing’s childhood, schooldays, wartime brilliance and tragic end, and how Pet Shop Boys turned those chapters into music. They unpack the creative partnership with Hodges, examine his earlier writings about PSB, and look at the influence of Battleship Potemkin and The Most Incredible Thing. The episode becomes a journey through mathematics, memory, machines and morality - and a celebration of how Pet Shop Boys transformed one man’s life into a modern electronic oratorio.    Support our crowdfunder and get your name mentioned in a future episode: https://gofund.me/8521670c9 Check out our T-shirt store - all profits from our exclusive designs go towards supporting the podcast: https://in-depth.teemill.com We’re also on YouTube: In Depth Pet Shop Boys Podcast - YouTube    And there’s additional In Depth content on our social media channels: Facebook: http://tiny.cc/3jhcvz Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/indepthpsbpod

    12RX043 A Man From The Future (pt1)

  4. Sep 3

    12FL002 Trilingual (Bonus Content)

    To mark 30 years of Bilingual, Graham and Chris unveil a bonus previously unreleased “further listening” segment from their double deep dive into the album. Here they explore its visual identity, packaging quirks, marketing strategy, and the critical reaction which greeted it on release.  It’s a compact companion to their full anniversary celebration episodes!

  5. Aug 6

    12RX042 Bilingual (parte 2)

    Graham and Chris return to Bilingual for the second half of their deep dive - exploring how the album became a record of dualities: international yet introspective, sun-lit yet deep in shadow, Latin‑infused yet completely anchored in New York dance culture. After revisiting the album’s many far-flung inspirations, they dig into how the record was actually made - and discover a fragmented process that spanned years, continents, producers and studios, ultimately shaping an album that was proudly and aggressively un-British. Graham reflects on his own long journey with the record, from feeling alienated by its sunshine in 1996 to finally unlocking its “warmth and light” decades later. Chris, meanwhile, argues that Bilingual has always been two albums at once. Together they explore the album’s emotional and musical range - from dislocation, miscommunication and AIDS-era survivalism, to Euro-business satire and bossa-nova romance - a thoughtful, funny journey through an album shaped by resilience, metamorphosis and the will to survive.   Want to show your love for the Pet Shop Boys In Depth podcast?  Visit our new Crowdfunder - anything appreciated! Get your name mentioned in a future episode: https://gofund.me/48226059c Check out our T-shirt store - all profits from our exclusive designs go towards supporting the podcast: https://in-depth.teemill.com We’re also now on YouTube! In Depth Pet Shop Boys Podcast - YouTube  And there’s additional In Depth content on our social media channels: Facebook: http://tiny.cc/3jhcvz Bluesky: http://tiny.cc/jc7h001 X: http://tiny.cc/lc7h001

    12RX042 Bilingual (parte 2)

  6. Jul 30

    12RX041 Bilingual (parte 1)

    Graham and Chris return to 1996 for the first half of their Bilingual exploration - a summer of Britpop swagger, Spice Girls hysteria, Euro ’96 euphoria, and their own very different lives in northern Britain. They stand again at Pet Shop Boys’ post‑Very crossroads: older, out of step with the charts, paranoid about the rise of Pulp and Blur, yet still pushing forward as Before takes shape in New York - with a little help from Danny Tenaglia and OJ Simpson. Then the album’s Latin heart bursts open: the multicultural heat and nudity of the Sound Factory Bar, SheBoom’s Glaswegian beer-swigging drummers, the exotic excitement of the Discovery tour, Olodum’s samba‑reggae beats and the birth of Se A Vida É. It’s a celebration of rhythm, reinvention and the album that saw Pet Shop Boys open the door to a whole new world. Come outside and feel the morning sun!   Want to show your love for the Pet Shop Boys In Depth podcast?  Visit our new Crowdfunder - anything appreciated! Get your name mentioned in a future episode: https://gofund.me/48226059c Check out our T-shirt store - all profits from our exclusive designs go towards supporting the podcast: https://in-depth.teemill.com We’re also now on YouTube! In Depth Pet Shop Boys Podcast - YouTube  And there’s additional In Depth content on our social media channels: Facebook: http://tiny.cc/3jhcvz Bluesky: http://tiny.cc/jc7h001 X: http://tiny.cc/lc7h001

    12RX041 Bilingual (parte 1)

  7. Jul 23

    12RX040 Summer

    Pod Cast Boys celebrate their 40th episode by diving into 40 summers of Pet Shop Boys’ fandom - from bedroom mixtapes and sunlounger listening, to festivals, raves, summer jobs and water‑parks. They revisit the summers that shaped them: 1986 camping trips spent listening to Opportunities, Algarve holidays soundtracked by It’s Alright, plastics‑factory glue fumes mixed with Can You Forgive Her?, Manchester Paninaro promo‑hunting, and the thrill of hearing PSB’s 90s Radio 1 residencies with Sasha, Frankie Knuckles and 808 State. Plus they bring us bang up to date with Dreamworld tales from Lytham and Paris. There’s a forensic look at Pet Shop Boys’ own summer adventures too: the Miami heat of Domino Dancing, the 1989 tour and its legendary Bingobangobongo party, Chris’s love of rave culture and sunglasses, and the pure sunshine of Se A Vida É - with Bruce Weber’s Wet ‘n Wild Florida video, Rupert Brooke’s poetry and Mark Farrow’s brightest sleeve. From Somewhere at the Savoy to Nightlife at Creamfields, from total eclipses to total reinventions, get ready for a nostalgic, funny, affectionate journey through the summers that made Pet Shop Boys - and the summers that made Graham and Chris.   Want to show your love for the Pet Shop Boys In Depth podcast?  Visit our new Crowdfunder - anything appreciated! Get your name mentioned in a future episode: https://gofund.me/48226059c Check out our T-shirt store - all profits from our exclusive designs go towards supporting the podcast: https://in-depth.teemill.com We’re also now on YouTube! In Depth Pet Shop Boys Podcast - YouTube  And there’s additional In Depth content on our social media channels: Facebook: http://tiny.cc/3jhcvz Bluesky: http://tiny.cc/jc7h001 X: http://tiny.cc/lc7h001

    12RX040 Summer

  8. Jul 16

    12RX039 Museum

    Graham and Chris open the doors to Pet Shop Boys Legacy - their fantasy museum celebrating over 40 summers of PSB history. From the pulsating Electric‑style entrance tunnel to the Newcastle and Blackpool origin story settings, they build an immersive world of childhood bookshelves, mind-expanding youth theatres, Pleasure Beach big wheels, tropical disco dancefloors and early synthesisers.  The tour moves through London bedsits, the Chelsea Record Centre, Ray Roberts’ Camden studio and the Applejack Diner where Neil first met Bobby O. Then it expands into a full-blown Mark Farrow-designed PSB universe: iconic outfits, sleeves, videos, stage designs, deep‑cut artefacts and fan memories - all reimagined as a playful, over‑the‑top exhibition only the Pod Cast Boys could dream up. At its core, the museum becomes a new way of understanding the Pet Shop Boys story - a map of where they came from; a celebration of the breadth of their creativity; and a reminder that their history is very much still being written. Step inside for a summer celebration of imagination, fandom and four decades of Pet Shop Boys!   Want to show your love for the Pet Shop Boys In Depth podcast?  Visit our new Crowdfunder - anything appreciated! Get your name mentioned in a future episode: https://gofund.me/48226059c Check out our T-shirt store - all profits from our exclusive designs go towards supporting the podcast: https://in-depth.teemill.com We’re also now on YouTube! In Depth Pet Shop Boys Podcast - YouTube  And there’s additional In Depth content on our social media channels: Facebook: http://tiny.cc/3jhcvz Bluesky: http://tiny.cc/jc7h001 X: http://tiny.cc/lc7h001

    12RX039 Museum
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An unofficial Pet Shop Boys fan podcast. Join Graham & Chris - two Pet Shop Boys fans who ’wouldn’t normally do this kind of thing’ - who chat about everything PSB from singles, albums, tours, sleeves, outfits and remixes. If you are a fan of the world’s greatest synth duo - then this is the podcast for you. Subscribe now and never miss an episode.

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    InDepth
  • Years Active
    2023 - 2026
  • Episodes
    49
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    Clean
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