Neil Tennant would love for Pet Shop Boys to collaborate with other artists on new material.
The singer, along with bandmate Chris Lowe, has remixed a new track from Noel Gallagher’s forthcoming High Flying Birds album – and he’s keen to work on more musical crossovers.
Speaking to students at the University of Cambridge, he said: “We have just remixed Noel Gallagher. All collaborations are interesting.
“The aim is to work with someone who makes you sound ten times better. I would like more good singers to sing more of our songs, as I think they have great potential.
“As you get older you learn how music works. In the beginning you don’t really know, but now I think we know a little bit.”
Although keeping his options open, Neil went on to insist he has no interest in working with anyone who is too eager to be cool.
“I wouldn’t say no. Who knows? Ed Sheeran might suddenly come up with some- thing. Like, if he approached us about it and had something in mind that might work,” he added (via The Sun).
“So we might do it. We won’t do ‘being cool’ and Ed Sheeran certainly isn’t ‘cool’.
“We have never really cared about doing ‘cool music’. It is really about euphoric pop music. Never say never.”
Pet Shop Boys will release their brand new EP ‘Lost’ this spring as part of their forthcoming ‘Annually’ edition, featuring four previously unreleased songs.
Recorded in 2015 for their 13th album ‘Super’, it features the tracks The Lost Room, I Will Fall, Skeletons In The Closet and Kaputnik, with Neil Tennant revealing the tracks were left off the LP “not because we didn’t like them, but because they didn’t fit the album”.
“They all sit together quite well, production-wise, they’re all super-electronic,” he said in an announcement for the project, due April. “Some of them are sort of relevant to the world at the moment.”
Explaining the title of the collection, he continued: “It also seems to represent a sort of larger, philosophical or political point, where there’ve been times recently where the world feels a bit lost in terms of the direction it’s going in.”
The 2023 edition of ‘Annually’ comes as a 64-page hardback book and features journal entries and unseen photos from the first leg of Pet Shop Boys’ ‘Dreamworld’ greatest hits tour.
‘Annually 2023’ is out April 14 and available to pre-order now.
Last year, Pet Shop Boys announced additional dates for the 2023 leg of the tour, with new shows kicking off in Rome on June 13, ahead of stops in Dublin, Brighton, Paris, Helsinki, Copenhagen and Gothenburg.
They sit alongside previously-announced dates in London, Aberdeen, Liverpool and Leeds.
Tickets are on general sale now.
