Pet Shop Boys announce the publication of Volume

Pet Shop Boys announce the publication of Volume, a 592-page hardback book published to coincide with the 40th anniversary of the release of their 1986 debut album, Please.

Pet Shop Boys Volume updates, in a different format (234 x 156 mm), the 2006 publication, Catalogue, with a full creative retrospective of everything visual produced by PSB with their designers, Farrow, in the 20 years since then. Volume is therefore the complete visual record of Pet Shop Boys from 1984 to 2024.

The 592-page book includes PSB’s entire visual output in chronological order including sleeve artworks, video stills, film and performance images, stage sets and costumes, photoshoots, publications, merchandise and more.

It also features photographs, designs and productions by celebrated collaborators including Farrow Design, Eric Watson, Wolfgang Tillmans, Martin Parr, Sam Taylor-Johnson, Zaha Hadid, Derek Jarman, Es Devlin and Tom Scutt which are accompanied by short commentaries and captions by writer and long-term PSB collaborator Chris Heath and comments from Pet Shop Boys and Farrow, plus the original 2006 text by author Philip Hoare.

The book also features a new conversation between PSB and Chris Heath, a new introduction by art and design historian Libby Sellers and a foreword by Turner Prize-winning artist Jeremy Deller.

Volume will be published by Thames & Hudson on 7 April 2026 and is available in both a standard hardback edition and a signed and numbered limited edition presented in a slipcase.

Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe commented: “To compile all of our artwork, stage designs and video productions into one book seemed like a daunting prospect but we are delighted with the resulting book. Volume is indeed an impressive volume and also a tribute to the long creative relationship between ourselves and Farrow Design.”

The news follows the recently announced Obscure concerts at London’s Electric Ballroom, running 6-10 April, where the duo will perform a setlist featuring only non-single album tracks and B-sides from across their career.

The 8 April show will be a benefit concert in aid of the charity War Child. Clare Sanders-Wright, Head of Live Music at War Child UK, said: “We’re incredibly grateful to Pet Shop Boys for their generosity and support. The money raised from their show will provide vital funds for War Child’s work protecting, educating and standing up for the rights of children living through the horrors of war.”

Fans who pre-order Volume via the official Pet Shop Boys store or on the Volume site, will also receive exclusive priority ticket access for the shows.

The priority ticket access commences on Wednesday 19 November at 10am GMT here with tickets going on general sale on Friday 21 November at 10am GMT.

Volume is available to pre-order here.

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