Showing posts with label Pet Shop Boys. Show all posts
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Sunday, August 24, 2014

Pet Shop Boys to Make Guest Appearance in British Radio Soap Opera 'The Archers'

The Pet Shop Boys with Archers actors Ian Pepperell, Alison
Dowling and Carole Boyd.
The Pet Shop Boys are going to save the day at Loxfest, the fictional music festival featured in BBC Radio 4's farming soap opera The Archers.

It has been one disaster after another for Loxfest, as all-girl band Honey Storm pulled out and headlining act Quaintance Smith was cut from the bill after accusations of domestic abuse. In Thursday's episode of the drama , Elizabeth Pargetter, owner of the Lower Loxley estate, and fellow organizer Roy Tucker were despairing over the future of their food and music festival when the bruises appeared on the arm of the girlfriend of Quaintance Smith's lead singer.

Friday's episode announced the Pet Shop Boys would step in as the festival's last-minute headliners, alongside a mixture of fictional bands such as the Velvet Cowshed and Hideous Wellies.

Listen to the moment Roy gave Elizabeth the news:

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