Pet Shop Boys Restage Battleship Potemkin
Author: Jonty Skrufff
Thursday, July 1, 2004
The electro-pop duo will be performing their new soundtrack alongside the 26 piece Dresden Sinfoniker as part of the Trafalgar Square Summer 2004.
"It's wonderful to be given the opportunity to write a complete soundtrack to this classic film and then to perform it as a free concert in the heart of London," the duo said in a statement.
"The music is a combination of electronics and strings and, although mainly instrumental, includes three new songs."
The Russian movie focused on the Russian Revolution, specifically the Potemkin sailors' mutiny of 1905 and was initially banned in England for being subversive when it was released in 1925. Appropriately, the Pet Shop Boys' new soundtrack is reported to take into account the 'symbolism of Trafalgar Square, a place simultaneously of protest and dissent', presumably reflecting Chris Lowe's increasing dissatisfaction with the mainstream status quo.
"I'm disillusioned by politics and politicians particularly, I don't like the way the world is at the moment and I'm very stressed about it, I feel quite restless," Chris told Skrufff several months ago.
"We're all building ourselves into a state of absolute hysteria (over the war on terror) which isn't going to get us anywhere," he said.
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