15 November 2011
VVN Music
The Pet Shop Boys recently talked to Jack Carrington at Varsity, the independent Cambridge student newspaper and, in the course of the conversation, accidentally announced an upcoming compilation of b-sides.
The duo had been discussing their ballet, The Most Wonderful Thing, and the choice of their song Being Boring to Time magazine's greatest songs when Neil Tennant said "I was listening to some of our old songs recently, because we’re putting out another B-sides album in February, like an Alternative part two. But we’re calling it Format."
When Chris Lowe said "We're not announcing that yet, are we?", Tennant replied "Well why not - these things are usually leaked through some Japanese website anyway. I’d rather it came out here."
Further into the conversation, they revealed that the album would be all of their b-sides from 1996 to 2009 starting with The Truck Driver and His Mate. Neil added "Actually I think some of our best songs are b-sides because on a B-side you can do what you like."
