I wonder what the story behind this is.

First of all, my most sincere apologies. I’ve got notes and stuff here, but as I said in my last post, it’s been hellacious around VeryPSB headquarters. Here’s some bullet points.

• Pet Shop Boys , as I typed this, are doing the Battleship Potemkin thingwith the BBC Radio Orchestra at the Barbican. A text from a reader who attended stated just this: “Beautiful. Tears. This movie, this music.” I really hope we see a proper release of the film with their score, as the CD release has been truncated and it doesn’t fit the film properly. Here’s a link to the program for the event and another link to the Time Out interview with Tennant that, once the chestnuts about pop irony are shoved aside, offers a few new anecdotes about the Potemkin events.

• There are some new demos available for your perusal on the official site. I can’t link directly, but if you go to the Product section and click on “Exclusive Tracks,” you’re all set.

• Beloved (at least by me) cover act West End Girls have a second album on the way according to the wags at Pop Justice. One of the singles released before Shoplifters streets will be a version of “Little Black Dress,” a song best known as “One of the ones that didn’t get into the musical that nobody saw.”

• You need to buy the headphones pictured below and listen to Concrete. Trust me.