Chris Lowe
Chris Lowe
Christopher Sean "Chris" Loweis an English musician and songwriter, and co-founder of the synthpop duo Pet Shop Boys which he formed with Neil Tennant in 1981...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPianist
Date of Birth4 October 1959
came context dance good house music serious tech time
Dance music is about having a good time, and a lot of dance music is very serious now. When progressive house and progressive tech came along, it was kind of serious, but it's all context as well.
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There's a great club in London called The Secret Sundays, and it's on a Sunday afternoon and it's outdoors, and it's mainly Italians that go, and they all look great, and they're dancing on the tables, and life's a party, and they're totally into the music, going mental, and that's when dance music is really fantastic, I think.
life shameless
Shameless self-publicity works, of course: living your life as a soap opera.
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Ex-transport is only barely up, and the decline last month was only marginally revised, so it's a bit disappointing, because it marks essentially the fourth month with no orders growth at all.
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It appears the fear of temporary inflation pressures associated with disrupted energy supplies and rebuilding outweighed the fear of temporary economic distress.
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He does not want a rapid break in bond prices to snuff out the jobs recovery before it has a chance to catch hold.
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We suspect that if the economy remains as soft as it has been lately, the Fed may very well decide a break is in order somewhere along the way.
expensive hugely rebuilding
For the moment, the big thing is rebuilding and it's going to be hugely expensive and acrimonious.
letting-go writing scary
We never let go. Ever. Even with punctuation. It's frightening. I can't see anyone from any record company ever writing an email to Neil and not getting it back, with corrections.
mean people trying
Yes, it's a very difficult thing to do, to promote a record, do television shows, and to still want to remain private, it's really quite difficult to explain to people what you're trying to do. I mean I'd actually quite like to be a recluse, but you know, you've got to promote the record as well.
strong eye thinking
I always have a very strong sense of shaming oneself, and you can do that a lot in the public eye, so it's best avoided at all costs I think.
radio internet feels
I feel like the Internet has really freed everything up to an extent, hasn't it? That radio maybe doesn't have quite the power that it had before.
thinking artist sight
I think sometimes an artist can really lose sight of what made them popular in the first place.
thinking mad gone
I don't think you ever know in yourself whether you have gone mad. You exist in a bubble. There comes a point where you suddenly feel not really a part of the world, you're just passing through.