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”.
An interview with Neil runs in the U.K. publication Woman.
The Boys perform in Karlstad, Sweden.
Continuing their summer Fundamental Tour, they perform at the Exit Festival in Novi Sad, Serbia.
The last of eight PSB/Take That concerts at Wembley Stadium—and the final show of the tour in the British Isles—takes place this evening.
The Pet Shop Boys perform in Freiburg, Germany.
Having received Jean-Michel Jarre’s backing track for what will soon become ‘Brick England,’ Chris and Neil spend the first of several days adding musical parts and vocals to it.
The Boys continue work on ‘No Boundaries,’ restructuring it and revising the lyrics.
They bring their Dreamworld Tour to Spain’s Bilbao Live Festival.
They conclude the brief continental European leg of their current tour with a show in Gothenberg, Sweden.