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”.
Exhausted from their recent summer tour, Chris and Neil are reportedly relaxing at their homes and will soon depart for separate summer holidays.
As their big summer tour together nears its conclusion, PSB and Take That perform in Dusseldorf, Germany.
The Boys perform at the Traffic Festival in Turin, Italy. As Neil cleverly notes the next day on their official website, ‘Touring, Turing, and Turin’ all in the same week!’
They’re in Sweden in anticipation of a pair of concerts in that country within the next several days. Today, in Stockholm, Neil visits ‘ABBA: The Museum.’
Tonight is the first of four consecutive nights’ shows by the Pet Shop Boys at the Royal Opera House in London—their second such ‘residency’ there, the first having been slightly more than two years earlier, in July 2016.
They visit Mark Farrow’s office to see the ‘Dreamland’ single artwork, after which they have dinner with their manager, Angela Becker.
2025Pet Shop Boys perform this evening at the Low Festival in Benidorm, Spain.