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Pet
Shop Boys performed 'Drunk On
Ant & Dec Show 2000
which would enter the UK singles chart at number 8 the following day. Then
Declan Donnely (of Ant and Dec) interviewed Neil.
A transcript of the interview follows. Pictures from the performance and
interview come courtesy of Jon and his website Baseheads UK, where you can
find more screen grabs from other recent PSB TV appearances. {scroll down
for more pictures}
DD: One man who has made a big impression on the charts over the last 15
years is Mr Neil Tennant [who] is with me now. How are you sir?
NT: I'm very well thank you, happy new year.
DD: Welcome back to CD:UK. Happy new year to you. Since we last saw you
you've been on a world tour, haven't you.
NT: Yeah, in fact we're still in the middle of it. We've been to..just after
[unintelligible] we've been to America. We went to Palm Beach to do our
reherasals (We got stuck in a hurricane, which was very exciting). And then
we toured America, and we've been to Europe, been to Britain, and on Friday
we go back to Spain to start the second European leg.
DD: Lovely. And then you're off to Portugal, Austria.
NT: Er Yeah, Germany...Switzerland.
DD: What's your favourite place?
NT: Well, actually, where we're going to on Friday is somewhere I've been
to on holiday before, it's San Sebastian in Spain, which is a really lovely
town on the sea, and we're there for 3 days, so i look forward to that.
DD: And you get good audiences there?
NT: Yeah, this album and the last album Bilingual, have done particularly
well...They're our biggest selling albums actually in Spain.
DD: Really?
NT: Well the last album Bilingual had a couple of Spanish flavoured songs
on it, and it went down really well there.
DD: So, as I said, happy new year. What did you do for the new year?
NT: For New Year, actually i've got a house in County Durham, in the north
of England. And um, we had a party, a bonfire, fireworks, a few drinks,
a few fizzy drinks.
DD: As you do. Because you performed last year at the eclipse, didn't you?
NT: We did. Which was fun apart from the fact, you know, it was in Cornwall
- it was raining, there was 100% cloud cover, so I watched the eclipse in
the BBC broadcast tent.
DD: Which was nice.
NT: Which was nice.
DD: So you didn't fancy performing over the millennium?
NT: Ah, no. At one point we were going to play in Copacobana(?) beach in
Brazil, which was, you know, going to be rather nice, but the mayor of Brazil
(sic) wouldn't give Brazilain tv permission to broadcast from the beach,
so it all fell apart.
DD: Blimey, not very fair.
NT: So I was in Durham instead,
DD: Which was just as nice.
NT: Which was just as nice, really. Not quite as warm. {laughs}
DD: Now listen, you've just performed the new single for us, You Only Tell
Me You Love me When You're Drunk, are you purposefully making the song titles
longer?
NT: Well we've always done quite long song titles, What have I Done To Deserve
This? I like it when a song title is like a real sentence, when it's like
something someone might say. And also, it's a sort of funny song and it's
a sad song at the same time. And we nearly called the song Drunk, but I
think the long title gives the song more of an aura really.
DD: And it's a great new look as well in the video as well (sic) and it's
something you've done throughout the years. For new albums and new singles
you've done different looks.
NT: Well yeah, in the last ten years pop music has tended to be very naturalistic,
people just wearing jeans and t-shirts, or you now, boybands wearing suits
and stuff like that. We try to do something that's a little more extreme
than that.
DD: Well we can have a look at some of the looks from the past.
NT: Oh we can! Let's have a look. Shows WEST END GIRLS video clip:
DD: This is your first number 1. The first single that got to number 1.
NT: Yes, this is, um...I've got a lot of hair gel in there, a lot of hair
gel. Shows GO WEST video clip:
DD: September '93.
NT: Go West, yes. This was the first popular kind of theatrical look. When
we do concerts, loads of people turn up wearing these hats.
DD: Do they still?
NT: They do yeah, and the pointy hats. We get quite a lot of them. Some
of this was filmed in Moscow as well. Shows I WOULDN'T NORMALLY DO THIS
KIND OF THING video clip:
NT: This was meant to be kind of like a computer game as you can see.
DD: Right, yeah.
NT: The only way you can get Chris and me to dance was in a computer. Shows
I DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU WANT BUT I CAN'T GIVE IT ANY MORE video clip:
DD: And what's this? This is the new one.
NT: The first video from the latest album. This is where you see us being
transformed into these weird creatures, with this outrageous hair, and the
huge trousers and all the rest of it. I don't know. I don't see why you
should be yourself in pop music.
DD: No.
NT: Why can't you just create a different image. And that's what we like
to do. As well as make music, we like to create imagery to go with it.
DD: And you're going to be around for a long time to come?
NT: I hope so, we'll see.
DD: Brilliant. Fantastic. Let's hope so. Mr Neil Tennant everyone. Thanks
for coming in.
NT: Thank you. |
