Pet Shop Boys coming to SA as headliner for Sónar

Cape Town – Synth-pop pioneers Pet Shop Boys are heading to South Africa to headline Sónar Cape Town and Johannesburg in December.

Festival organisers announced the news on Twitter on Thursday. They tweeted:

Pioneers of synth-pop global music icons @PetShopBoys will headline #sonarcapetown & #sonarjhb http://t.co/p3upY10plt pic.twitter.com/1CV5To6kYY

— Sonar Cape Town (@SonarCapeTown) October 30, 2014

Pet Shop Boys have sold over 50-million records worldwide, have achieved an overwhelming twelve top 10 studio albums, forty top 20 singles, four number one records, received three Brit Awards and seven Grammy nominations. Last year Pet Shop Boys headlined two nights at Sónar Festival in Barcelona and now, for the first time in music history, the pioneers of synth-pop will perform to audiences in South Africa.  

Pet Shop Boys will headline the Sónar Cape Town opening night on 15 December 2014 at the city’s Good Hope Centre, as well as A Taste of Sónar at Johannesburg’s Nasrec Expo Centre on 12 December. Their latest, spectacular live show forms part of their sold-out Electric 2014 world tour and showcases some of the most cutting-edge production design and creative direction in the world.

The iconic pair, made up of Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe, has always been ahead of their contemporaries and pioneered the electronic music landscape on a global scale with their ability to redefine the pop and dance music genres.

Considered to be the most successful duo in UK music history, Pet Shop Boys have a massive local fan base and have sold over 300 000 albums in South Africa alone. In Cape Town and Johannesburg fans can expect to hear songs from across their entire career including global chart-toppers like West End Girls, It’s a Sin and Always on My Mind, songs from their recent acclaimed Stuart Price-produced album Electric, and classics like Suburbia and Go West.

Pet Shop Boys will also be performing a standalone show in Durban at the Moses Mabida Stadium on Friday 19 December. For more information click here.

Line-up for Sónar:

Sónar Cape Town opening night
15 December 2014
Pet Shop Boys (headline)
2manydjs (DJ Set)
Christian Tiger School

Sónar Cape Town
16 December 2014
The Bloody Beetroots (live)
Jon Hopkins
Ten Walls
UZ
Uner
Sibot & Toyota
Spoek Mathambo presents Fantasma
PHFAT
Trancemicsoul
Sir Vincent
Fever Trails

A Taste of Sónar Johannesburg
12 December
Pet Shop Boys
2manydjs (dj set)
The Bloody Beetroots (live)

Tickets:

Sónar Cape Town
Good Hope Centre
One-Day Pass for 15 December 2014 (opening night): R495
One-Day Pass for 16 December (public holiday): R595
Two Day Pass: R895
PRO Pass (Two-Day): R1350
Click here for tickets and information.

A Taste of Sónar in Johannesburg
Nasrec Expo Centre
Friday 12 December 2014
General Pass: R595
PRO Pass: R895
Click here for more information.