PET SHOP BOYS ANNOUNCE SPECIAL SAGE GATESHEAD SHOW AS PART OF THEIR AMAZING 2014 ‘ELECTRIC’ WORLD TOUR

“They’ve been reinventing the pop concert as a modern art spectacle for decades” - The Independent

“Snap, crackle and perfect pop. This glorious show confirmed Pet Shop Boys’ membership of a select club. Like Madonna, Lady Gaga and Kate Bush they are proper pop stars who understand how to fuse the mainstream with the avant garde” - The Times

On September 2^nd, Pet Shop Boys will play a special show at Sage Gateshead as part of their spectacular 2014 “Electric” Tour. The show also acts as the first in a run of concerts and special announcements that will celebrate Sage Gateshead’s 10^th Anniversary year. Neil Tennant of Pet Shop Boys, who grew up in Newcastle, commented: “It always feels special to come home and perform a show and the Sage has established itself in the last ten years as one of Europe’s very best venues for all genres of music.” The show will feature PSB classics and also new tracks from ‘Electric’, the first Pet Shop Boys album to be produced by Stuart Price, the dance music wunderkind behind Madonna’s ‘Confessions on a Dance Floor’ and club-smashing remixes for The Killers, as well as his own Les Rhthymes Digitales project. Audiences at Sage Gateshead are guaranteed a world-beating spectacular live show to go with the club-centred sound of ‘Electric’, with lighting and set design created in collaboration with award-winning creative director and designer Es Devlin (who has worked with Lady Gaga, Kanye West & Jay Z, Take That and the 2012 Olympics' Closing Ceremony). The show features extraordinary interactive visuals, original choreography, amazing costumes, a spectacular light and laser show and – of course – lots of hits. To go with the mood of the show, the seats will be taken out of the pit area of Sage Gateshead for dancing. SEPTEMBER 2                        SAGE GATESHEAD

Pet Shop Boys tickets go on-sale Wednesday 11 June priced at £39.50 - £45 (subject to per-ticket booking fee) and are available from www.sagegateshead.com, www.ticketmaster.co.uk or www.seetickets.com