Neil plays in a group in Newcastle called Dust: Their most popular song is a preposterous affair he has written called “Can you hear the dawn break?”. They are heavily influenced by The Incredible String Band. “We were convinced we would become terribly famous. It was a very kind of stoned seventies but we used to think it was absolutely brilliant at the time”.
The Pet Shop Boys perform in Granada, Spain.
They work in their London studio on ‘For Every Moment’—a song that would remain unreleased for nearly 15 years.
Neil is interviewed in the third part of BBC4’s Pop Britannia, a documentary concerning the struggle between art and commerce in British popular music.
The Boys announce via Twitter that they have now finished mixing and mastering the music for their ballet The Most Incredible Thing in preparation for CD release in March.
They work on the song ‘Invisible.’
Chrissie Hynde of the Pretenders notes on her Facebook page that she’s in the studio recording with Neil, dropping a broad hint that it has something to do with her recent song ‘Let’s Get Lost.’ But it’s not clear at the time precisely what the outcome will be. (It ultimately proves to be a remake, released as a single, in which she duets with Neil.)