LGBT Related Radio and TV Programmes, 15th - 21st November

We seek them out so you don't have to. This is our weekly non-exhaustive round up of upcoming LGBT programmes on the radio and television. Inclusion of a programme is not a recommendation.
Enjoy!

Some of the radio programmes listed below can be listened to again via the Listen Again facility of the BBC's website while some of the television programmes will remain available also for a week on the BBC's iplayer.



Radio
Saturday 15th
BBC Radio 2 - 1pm: Alan Carr’s Comedy Outings
BBC Radio 2 - 5pm: Paul Gambaccini. US hits
BBC Radio 4 - 12.30pm: The News Quiz. Sandi Toksvig presents

Sunday 16th
BBC Radio 2 - 2pm: Dale Winton’s Pick of the Pops ’65 and ‘74
BBC Radio 4 - 7.15pm: Go For It. Free thinking Festival in Liverpool
BBC Radio 4 - 8.30pm: Last Word
BBC Radio 7 - 10.30pm: News Quiz
6 Music - 1am: BBC Introducing. Tom Robinson
BBC Radio 7 - 10pm: The News Quiz
Classic FM - 9pm: Paul Gambaccini’s Hall of Heroes

Monday 17th
BBC Radio 3 - 11am: Bernstein. Symphony No. 2
BBC Radio 3 - 7pm: Performance on 3. Includes Gershwin
BBC Radio 7 - 10.30pm: Intimate Contact with Julian Clary. From1992

Tuesday 18th
BBC Radio 2 - 10.30pm: Come in From the Cold; Joni Mitchell interview from 2007
BBC Radio 3 - 11.02am: Tchaikovsky: Manfred Symphony
BBC Radio 3 - 1.08am: Britten: St Cecilia
BBC Radio 4 - 1.30pm: Celebrating Cecilia! Don’t know where I’m going with this one. St Cecilia is the Patron Saint of Music
BBC Radio 7 - 7.30pm: Counterpoint. With the late Ned Sherrin

Wednesday 19th
BBC Radio 3 - 10.22: Britten: Winter Words
BBC Radio 3 - 9.15: Night Waves
BBC Radio 4 - 11am: The Lament of the SS Mendi; remembered by Jackie Kay

Friday 21st
BBC Radio 1 - 6-1: Floor Fillers; Pete Tong; Annie Mac; Judge Jules
BBC Radio 2 - 7pm: The Judy Garland trail
BBC Radio 4 - 3pm: Ramblings. With Clare Balding
BBC Radio 4 - Last Word
BBC Radio 4 - 6.30pm: News Quiz. Sandi Toksvig presents.
6 Music - 7pm: Tom Robinson. New acts
BBC Radio 7 - 7pm: Hinge and Bracket

Local
BBC London - 94.9 and online
Sunday 9am-12noon: Lesley Joseph and Christopher Biggins
Monday – Friday 3-5pm: Danny Baker. With Amy Lamé or Baylen Leonard

Gaydar Radio 24/7 - Brighton, London DAB and online

BBC Three Counties (and online), Cambs, Essex, Norfolk, Northants., Suffolk
10pm-1am: Ern and Vern. Kenny Everett meets Round the Horn in a bucketful of innuendo

Television

Entertainment and documentaries
Saturday 15th
BBC1 - 5.35pm: Hole in the Wall. Dale Winton presents
BBC1 - 6.05: Strictly Come Dancing
BBC2 - 8.05pm: Stephen Fry in America 4/6 Mountains and Plains. South Dakota and Kansas
BBC HD - 6pm: Strictly Come Dancing
BBC HD - 7.20pm: Torchwood (rpt)
ITV1 - 7.20pm and 9.35pm: X Factor
ITV1 - 8.35 and 10.20: We Are Most Amused. Comedy variety to celebrate His Maj to be’s 60th. Includes Joan Rivers and maybe others
ITV2 - 3.40pm: Britannia High
Gold - 10pm: Absolutely Fabulous
Gold - 10.40: Gimme Gimme Gimme
Gold - 11.20: French and Saunders
Gold - 12midnight: Absolutely Fabulous
Living - 9am and 4.40am: The Golden Girls
Living - 6pm: Will and Grace
Living2 - 2am: GMT Queer Eye for the Straight Guy
Sky Arts 2 - 7.30pm: Tim Marlow on Francis Bacon

Sunday 16th
BBC1 - 7.15pm: Antiques Roadshow. From The Sage Gateshead. Includes a tablecloth illustrated by Francis Bacon
BBC1 - 8.15: Strictly Come Dancing
BBC1 - 9pm: Stephen Fry in America. 6/6 Pacific
BBC2 - 11.50: Graham Norton Uncut. Thursday’s edition extended
ITV1 - 2.15pm: X Factor
ITV1 - 9pm: I’m a Celebrity Get me out of Here. I can’t believe this is here
Gold - 12.40am: Gimme Gimme Gimme
More4 - 4.40pm: Come Dine with Me. Omnibus
Living - 9am and 4.40am: The Golden Girls
Sky Arts - 11.40am: What the Dickens? Sandi Toksvig presents
Sky Arts 2 - 1.30am: Francis Bacon
Biography - 5pm: Psychic Therapy with Pete Burns

Monday 17th
BBC1 - 11am: To Buy or Not To Buy. With Kristian Digby
BBC2 - 10pm: QI. Repeat of Friday’s special Children in Need edition
BBC3 - 7pm: Dr Who
ITV1 - 7.30 and 8.30: Coronation Street. Hayley’s back – or is she?
ITV1 - 9: I’m a Celebrity…
ITV2 - 12noon: Coronation Street
ITV2 - 10pm: I’m a Celebrity…
C4 - 12.50pm: Will and Grace
C4 - 5pm: The Paul O’Grady Show
E4 - 11.10pm: Derren Brown: Something Wicked this way Comes
Gold - 11pm and 1.45am: A Bit of Fry and Laurie
Sky Arts1 - 1.30pm: Tim Marlow on Francis Bacon. For the billionth time

Tuesday 18th
BBC1 - 11am: To Buy or Not To Buy
BBC2- 10pm: The Culture Show
ITV1 - 9pm: I’m a Celebrity…
ITV2 - 10pm: I’m a Celebrity…
C4 - 5pm: Paul O’Grady
E4 - 11pm: Skins
More4 - 9pm: Come Dine with Me
Dave - 12.20am: QI
Gold - 11pm: Fry and Laurie
Living - 3pm: Grey’s Anatomy
Living - 7pm and 1am: Will and Grace
Living2 - 10pm: The L Word
Watch - 6pm: Dr Who

Wednesday 19th
BBC1 - 11am: To Buy or Not To Buy. With Kristian Digby
BBC3 - 7pm: Dr Who. Two hour marathon
ITV2 - 10pm: I’m a Celebrity. ITV1 show’s shelved because of football
C4 - 5pm: Paul O’Grady
Dave - 10.40pm: League of Gentleman
Living - 7pm & 1am: Will and Grace
Living - 3pm and 8: Grey’s Anatomy
Sky Arts1 - 7.30pm: What the Dickens? Arts quiz with Sandi Toksvig
Sky Arts2 - 11.45am: Tim Marlow on Francis Bacon
Sky Arts2 - 1.05am: Tim Marlow on Francis Bacon
Biography - 9pm and 12midnight: Elton John

Thursday 20th
BBC1 - 11am: To Buy or Not To Buy
BBC1 - 9pm: Apparitions. Martin Shaw does the Exorcist
BBC2 - 9.30pm: The Graham Norton Show. Alan Carr guests
ITV1 - 8pm: I’m a Celebrity…2 hour edition
ITV2 - 10pm: I’m a Celebrity…
C4 - 5pm: Paul O’Grady
Dave - 10pm: Batteries not Included. Gadget show features Sue Perkins
Watch - 6pm: Dr Who
Living - 7pm & 1am: Will and Grace
Living - 3 and 10pm: Grey’s Anatomy
Sky Arts1 - 1.30pm: What the Dickens?

Friday 21st
BBC1 - 11am: To Buy or not to Buy
BBC2 - 10pm: QI.
BBC2 - 11.35: The Culture Show
BBC3 - 7pm: Dr Who
ITV1 - 7.30pm: Coronation Street. Jonathan Harvey scripts
ITV1 - 8.30: Coronation Street. Ditto. Lots of Roy/Hayley stuff
ITV1 - 9pm: I’m a Celebrity… Will Zulu or Paddick still be there?
ITV1 - 10: Now That’s What I Call 1983. Show that attempts to reactivate the news, songs and singers
ITV2 - 10pm: I’m a Celebrity…
C4 - 5pm: Paul O’Grady
C4 - 8: Come Dine with Me. Aberdeen
C4 - 10.35: Eddie Izzard: Dress to Kill. Stand-up recording from San Francisco
Living - 3pm: Grey’s Anatomy
Living - 7pm and 1am: Will and Grace
Watch - 6pm: Dr Who
Sky Arts1 - 1.30pm: Francis Bacon
Sky Arts1 - 11.45: What the Dickens?

Film and drama
Sunday 16th
C4 - 10.45: Fight Club. Nihilistic satire with Brad Pitt
five - 12.30: The Woman in Question. Old British nasty starring Dirk Bogarde
TCM - 8.45am: Ziegfield Follies. Gene Kelly and Judy Garland
Family - 8pm: Hairspray 2007 version
Classics - 9pm: The Blob

Tuesday 18th
Modern Greats - 6.10pm: My Best Friend’s Wedding

Wednesday 19th
Classics - 9pm: Psycho. Original version

Thursday 20th
Indie - 11.10am: Fire. Indian lesbian drama

Friday 21st
Modern Greats - 8pm Rocky Horror Picture Show. Don’t get hot and flustered; use a bit of mustard

Protest against Proposition 8

I hope you're familiar with Proposition 8 in California and the news that it passed, which is very bad news for the LGBT Community. Three other states passed legislation that denies our community equal rights.

A grass roots effort was started last Friday that has grown into an international protest this Saturday, 15th November. This is no longer a 4-state issue in the US--they are taking it national and international. Protest events are organised in 49 US states and in countries around the world.

There is an event organised for London outside the US Embassy at 1:30 p.m. this Saturday, 15th November to coincide with the hundreds of other events happening.

Come if you can. If you can't please at least pass this information along to your LGBT friends and allies.

More information online:

Protest Website (with history of the movement): jointheimpact.com

London's page: jointheimpact.wetpaint.com/page/UK

Facebook page for London protest: www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=44135912525

First Ever Gay Couple in a Boyband Video

More than a decade after the height of the boy band's vogue, Boyzone, who have just recently reformed and released their first new single in nine years, have just released what is thought to be the first ever music video by a boy band featuring a gay couple.

In the video for the song Better, the members of the band are paired up with actors. Stephen Gately, who came out in 1999 and lives in with his civil partner, decided that he wanted to be seen with a male actor.

He told the BBC's Newsbeat: "For me, it's just me being me and I don't think there should be a real big issue about the whole thing anyway. I just think it's just a beautiful video and I think it works superbly for the song. I'm hoping this video will have a good, positive, all-round reaction."

Find out more and view the video on the BBC News website here.

Talk: Romantic Forerunners of Gay Liberation

John Lauritsen, US campaigner, author, scholar, long-time member of the Gay and Lesbian Humanist Association draws on his work on the Shelley/Byron circle, Jeremy Bentham, and early German and English spokesmen for homosexual emancipation.

All Welcome.

Friday 14th November, 7.30pm.
Library - Conway Hall
25 Red Lion Square
London WC1
GALHA

US City Elects Country First Trans Mayor

The recent American elections have been qualified of historic by many commentators.

Despite the dark moments for LGBT rights brought in California, Arizona, Florida and Arkansas by voters expressing themselves against gay marriage, the city of Silverton, Oregon is bringing a little light and another reason to call the elections historic.

On the 4th November, it elected the country's first openly transgender mayor.

Stu Rasmussen, 60, served as mayor twice before, elected in 1988 and again in 1990, but that was before he underwent breast enhancement surgery and started to be more open about his trans status. He unseated incumbent mayor Ken Hector by 1,988 votes to 1,512.

Dozens of openly lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender candidates won election to public offices across the US on Tuesday, according to the Gay & Lesbian Victory Fund. The group, which endorsed a record-breaking 111 candidates in 2008, said more than 70 percent of its endorsed candidates had won their races.

With thanks to PinkNews,

Write Queer London Competition

What does your queer London look like? And how does it compare with queer London of yesteryear?

The website www.untoldlondon.org.uk are launching a new annual queer history writing prize in association with Chroma Queer Arts Journal. The competition is entitled Write Queer London and accept submissions of stories, non-fiction and poems about queer London, past, present and future.

Where do lovers meet? What are some of the delights and dangers of queer London? Tell them those untoldtold stories of clubbing and dating, cruising and marching, loving and breaking up. Bring an alternate queer history of London alive.

What if Hadrian and Antinous had had a civil partnership in ancient Cheapside? Was there a thriving scene of African sailors and Indian lascars down at the docks in the 18th century? Take inspiration from museum collections as Marguerite Yourcenar did when she wrote her modern classic, Memoirs of Hadrian, after visiting the British Museum. Or don’t. Just make it up!

Stories and Non-fiction: no longer than 2500 words
Poems: no longer than 30 lines

Deadline: 8th January 2009
Entry Fee: £5
Prizes: £100 for winning story for each category (and £25 in book tokens from Gay is the Word bookshop)

More information here on the Untold London website. You can also download a flyer here (pdf file - 880Kb).

LGBTQ histories at the V&A

As part of a new programme the V&A is seeking to unearth previously hidden LGBTQ histories in its collections, researching the objects and their histories that surround them. Equally, these investigations look at the ways in which visitors themselves understand and make sense of these objects on the basis of their own identities and lived experience.

Oliver Winchester, Research Assistant - Postmodernism: Design 1970-90, said: "This is an exciting and complex task that is fraught with political, moral and personal challenges. Perhaps the most complex question stems from the inherent contradiction that lies at the centre of the gay liberation movement and its legacy – the desire to eradicate discrimination whilst enshrining difference. Any investigation into this area is charged and throws up many questions and provides only partial answers. We look forward to progressing through future projects and events."

For more details please see www.vam.ac.uk or email Oliver at o.winchester@vam.ac.uk

Forthcoming events

Write Queer London
17 November 2008
11.00-13.00
What does your queer London look like? And how does it compare with the queer London of yesteryear? Write Queer London is looking for stories, non-fiction, and poems about queer London, past, present and future. Competition entrants are invited to get their creative juices flowing with a warm up workshop focusing on LGBTQ objects in the V&A collections.
For more information and to enter the competition see www.untoldlondon.org.uk

World AIDS Day
1 December 2008
Seminar Room 3
13.00-14.00
The 20th World AIDS Day takes place this year. To mark the occasion the V&A will host a lunchtime talk investigating the cultural impact of the virus. Join curators as they discuss the significance and meanings behind the AIDS quilt as a collective expression of grief and discuss examples of graphic design prompted by political and educational fallout of AIDS.
Free event, no ticket required

2009 events to be announced shortly

Image: Clementina and Isabella Grace, 5 Princes Gardens
by Viscountess Clementina Hawarden
ca.1863-64. Albumen print.
PH.356-1947
© V&A

LGBT Related Radio and TV Programmes, 8th - 14th November

We seek them out so you don't have to. This is our weekly non-exhaustive round up of upcoming LGBT programmes on the radio and television. Inclusion of a programme is not a recommendation.
Enjoy!

Some of the radio programmes listed below can be listened to again via the Listen Again facility of the BBC's website while some of the television programmes will remain available also for a week on the BBC's iplayer.



Radio
Saturday 8th
BBC Radio 2 - 1pm: Alan Carr’s Comedy Outings
BBC Radio 2 - 5pm: Paul Gambaccini. US hits
BBC Radio 4 - 12.30pm: The News Quiz. Sandi Toksvig presents
BBC Radio 4 - 2.30pm: Saturday Play: Von Ribentrop’s Watch. A Jewish businessman is put to the test by a family heirloom. Stars Miriam Margolyes
BBC Radio 4 - 4pm: Weekend Woman’s Hour. Jane Garvey presents. May include Ruth Hunt on lesbians coming out at work, which featured on Tuesday
BBC Radio 4 - 5.30pm: The Bottom Line. Evan Davis
BBC Radio 4 - 8pm: Adventures in the BBC Archives. Stella Rimington on Burgess, Hunt and Maclean
6 Music - 12midnight: BBC Introducing. Tom Robinson

Sunday 9th
BBC Radio 2 - 1pm: Paul O’Grady
BBC Radio 2 - 2pm: Dale Winton’s Pick of the Pops ’79 and ‘90
BBC Radio 3 - 10.15pm: Words and Music. War Poems including Wilfred Owen
BBC Radio 4 - 4.30pm: Nobody Told Me To Oil My Boots. Following the remembrance theme, Anthony Sher on WW1 poet Isaac Rosenburg
6 Music - 1am: BBC Introducing. Tom Robinson
BBC Radio 7 - 10pm: The News Quiz
Classic FM - 9pm: Paul Gambaccini’s Hall of Heroes

Monday 10th
BBC Radio 4 - 9.45am: Book of the Week (same time every day this week) Florence Nightingale: The wham and her legend. Mark Bostridge biography
BBC Radio 4 - 10am: Woman's Hour - with Tracy Chapman
BBC Radio 7 - 10.30pm: Intimate Contact with Julian Clary. From1992
BBC Radio 4 - 10.45pm: Book at Bedtime: The Ruling Passion.

Tuesday 11th
BBC Radio 7 - 7.30pm: Counterpoint. With the late Ned Sherrin
BBC Radio 4 - 10.45pm: Book at Bedtime: The Ruling Passion.

Thursday 13th
BBC Radio 7 - 6.30pm: The House on the Strand. By Du Maurier
BBC Radio 4 - 10.45pm: Book at Bedtime: The Ruling Passion.

Friday 14th
BBC Radio 2 - 7pm: The Judy Garland trail
BBC Radio 4 - 3pm: Ramblings. With Clare Balding
BBC Radio 4 - 6.30pm: News Quiz. Sandi Toksvig presents.
BBC Radio 4 - 10.45pm: Book at Bedtime: The Ruling Passion. Final episode
6 Music - 7pm: Tom Robinson. New acts

Local
BBC London 94.9 and online
Sunday 9am-12noon: Lesley Joseph and Christopher Biggins
Monday – Friday 3-5pm: Danny Baker. With Amy Lamé or Baylen Leonard

Brighton, London DAB and online: Gaydar Radio 24/7

BBC Three Counties (and online), Cambs, Essex, Norfolk, Northants., Suffolk
10pm-1am: Ern and Vern. Kenny Everett meets Round the Horn in a bucketful of innuendo

Television

Entertainment and documentaries
Saturday 8th
BBC1 - 10am: Ready Steady Cook. Guest John Barrowman
BBC1 - 10.45am: Lord Mayor’s Show. Presented by Clare Balding
BBC1 - 5.30pm: Hole in the Wall. Dale Winton presents
BBC1 - 6pm: Strictly Come Dancing
BBC2 - 12.30am: Beautiful People (rpt)
BBC2 - 1pm Stella Street. Cult Comedy with input from John Sessions
BBC HD - 6pm: Strictly Come Dancing
BBC HD - 7.20pm: Torchwood (rpt)
ITV1 - 7.20pm and 9.35pm: X Factor
ITV2 - 2.50pm: Britannia High
More4 - 10pm: Prince Eddy: The King We Never Had. Profile of Prince Albert Victor, an alleged homosexual who died before he reached the throne
Living - 9am and 4.40am: The Golden Girls
Living - 6pm: Will and Grace
Living2 - 2am: GMT Queer Eye for the Straight Guy
Sky Arts 2 - 2pm: The Art of Francis Bacon

Sunday 9th
BBC1 - 8.15pm: Strictly Come Dancing
BBC1 - 9pm: Stephen Fry in America. 5/6 South West including Arizona
BBC2 - 8pm: Top Gear. Not an obvious candidate for the LGBT listings. Will Young does the celebrity road test
BBC2 - 11.10pm: Graham Norton Uncut. Thursday’s edition extended
ITV1 - 4.15pm: X Factor
ITV1 - 7pm: Britannia High. Brit version of Fame. Two and a half decades later
More4 - 4.40pm: Come Dine with Me. Omnibus
Living - 9am and 4.40am: The Golden Girls
Sky Arts - 9am: The Art of Francis Bacon

Monday 10th
BBC1 - 11am: To Buy or Not To Buy. With Kristian Digby
ITV2 - 7pm: Britannia High (rpt)
C4 - 5pm: The Paul O’Grady Show
Dave - 9pm: QI
Living - 7pm: Will and Grace
Watch - 6pm: Dr Who

Tuesday 11th
C4 - 5pm: Paul O’Grady
E4 - 11pm: Skins
More4 - 9pm: Come Dine with Me
Gold - 11pm: Fry and Laurie
Living - 3pm: Grey’s Anatomy
Living - 7pm and 1am: Will and Grace
Living 2 - 10pm: The L Word
Watch - 6pm: Dr Who
Sky Arts - 12.02pm and 6.05pm: Rufus Wainwright
Sky Arts - 1pm: Francis Bacon

Wednesday 12th
BBC1 - 11am: To Buy or Not To Buy. With Kristian Digby
C4 - 5pm: Paul O’Grady
Living - 7pm & 1am: Will and Grace
Living - 8pm: Grey’s Anatomy
Sky Arts1 - 12noon: Francis Bacon
Sky Arts1 - 7.30pm: What the Dickens? Arts quiz with Sandi Toksvig
Biography - 6 and 11am: Montgomery Clift

Thursday 13th
BBC1 - 11am: To Buy or Not To Buy
BBC1 - 9pm: Apparitions. Martin Shaw does the Exorcist
BBC2 - 9.30pm: The Graham Norton Show
C4 - 12.30pm: Will and Grace
C4 - 5pm: Paul O’Grady
C4 - 8pm: Celebrity Come Dine with Me
Dave - 10pm: Batteries not Included. Gadget show features Sue Perkins
Watch - 6pm: Dr Who
Living - 7pm & 1am: Will and Grace
Living - 3 and 10pm: Grey’s Anatomy
Sky Arts 1 - 10.15am: Tim Marlow on Francis Bacon

Friday 14th
BBC1 - 11am: To Buy or not to Buy
BBC1 - 7pm: Children in Need
BBC2 - 10pm: QI. New series
BBC3 - 7pm: Dr Who Christmas edition
ITV1 - 12.30pm: Loose Women. Guest Pam Ann
ITV2 - 9pm: Get Me out of Here! Biggins Goes Back. What it says on the box
ITV2 - 10pm: Ghosthunting with Christopher Biggins
C4 - 12.30pm: Will and Grace
C4 - 5pm: Paul O’Grady
C4 - 11.15pm: The Big Fat 25th Anniversary. Guests Alan Carr. Yes; Channel 4 is 25.
Living - 3pm: Grey’s Anatomy
Living - 7pm and 1am: Will and Grace

Film and drama
Saturday 8th
ITV - 1.05pm: Sweet Charity. Camp as it gets
Classics - 12.50pm and 9pm: West Side Story
Film4 - 1.45am: Talk to Her. Almadóvar

Sunday 9th
Sky Arts 1 - 9pm Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
Premiere - 10.20pm The Brave One. It’s Jodie Foster but it’s a nasty revenge-based film
Sci-Fi - 9pm: X-Men

Monday 10th
Indie - 9am and 4.30pm: Fire. Powerful Indian drama about a lesbian relationship
Film4 - 11.05pm: Talk to Her. Almadóvar again. Two men look after two women in a coma. Chain of concidences…

Wednesday 11th
ITV2 - 10.30pm: Silence of the Lambs. Jodie Foster

Friday 14th
C4 - 9pm: Four Weddings and a Funeral. Simon Callow and Stop All The Clocks

Pet Shop Boys' Outstanding Contribution to Music

By a happy coincidence, it is during LGBT History Month, next February, that Neil Tennant and Chrls Lowe, the members of Pet Shop Boys, will be honoured with the Outstanding Contribution To Music Award as part of the Brit Awards 2009.

Pet Shop Boys Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe have sold 50 million records since they signed to Parlophone in 1985 with four No 1 singles, 22 top 10 hits and a staggering 39 top 30 singles making them one of the most successful pop duos ever.

In 1986 their first hit single, “West End Girls”, topped the charts all over the world and the following year their single “What Have I Done To Deserve This?” relaunched the career of Dusty Springfield.

Pet Shop Boys have also worked as producers or remixers with artists including Robbie Williams, Liza Minnelli, David Bowie, Madonna, Kylie, Yoko Ono, The Killers and, as part of the group Electronic with Johnny Marr and Bernard Sumner.

The Boys were awarded their first BRIT in 1987 winning Best British Single for ‘West End Girls’. The duo went on to pick up the coveted Best British Group Award in 1988 and performed their hit single Go West with the accompaniment of a 200 piece Welsh male choir in 1994 while being lowered onto the stage by two huge cranes.

Ged Doherty, Chairman of The BRITs Committee said, “Since their first BRIT Award over 20 years ago, Neil and Chris have produced a fantastic body of work with songs that truly were the soundtrack to a whole generation’s lives. The Pet Shop Boys have since become one of the most influential groups of the modern era and are deserving recipients of the award.”

Previous recipients of the Outstanding Contribution To Music Award include Paul McCartney, Oasis, U2, Paul Weller, Tom Jones, Sting. David Bowie, Eurythmics, The Beatles and The Who.

The ceremony which will also feature a performance with the band will take place on Wednesday 18 February.

Gfest 08

see email from wisetniran
http://www.gaywisefestival.org.uk/
10 - 28 nov