Pet Shop Boys in conversation at John Rylands Library

15 Apr 2024

Jon Savage, Professor of Popular Culture, will interview Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe on Friday, 26 April 2024

The special event will begin with a full playback of the Pet Shop Boy's new album, Nontheless, which is released on the same day. Jon Savage will then interview Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe before they answer questions from the audience.

Tickets for the event sold out in minutes when they went on sale on Friday, 5 April 2024.

Professor Christopher Pressler, John Rylands University Librarian and Director of The University of Manchester Library, said: "This will be one of the highest profile events in the history of the Library and follows the successful launch of the British Pop Archive in 2022 and a series of events, not least the launch of Johnny Marr’s new book. We’d like to thank Parlophone Records, Crash Records, Pet Shop Boys and their management for making it happen at the Library."

Jon Savage’s aclaimed books include Teenage, 1966: The Year the Decade Exploded and England’s Dreaming, which is seen as the classic book about punk. His new book, The Secret Public: How LGBTQ Performers Shaped Popular Music, will be published in June.