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GIG REVIEW: Pet Shop Boys at Hyde Park for BBC Radio 2 Live

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By Neil Pugmire

WHERE? Hyde Park (press ticket)

WHEN? 15/9/19

If you had to choose the perfect headliners for a Radio 2 festival, it might be the Pet Shop Boys. Famous for matching intelligent lyrics with irresistible synth-pop hooks, and with a 30-year back catalogue to plunder, they could easily entertain thousands of 30 to 50-somethings gathered in Hyde Park on a balmy Sunday evening.

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PREVIEW: Eurovision Song Contest semi-final 2

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WHEN: 8pm (UK time) 12/5 (link below)

WHERE: BBC4 (link below) and Stockholm’s Ericsson Globe

We’ve revised our predictions with the 1st week of rehearsals over for the semi-finalists – and it’s two in and two out.

  • Who’s through and who’s on the first plane out of Stockholm? Read on for our semi 2 predictions

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