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”.
Dusty Springfield records most of her vocals for ‘What Have I Done to Deserve This?’
Chris and Neil begin working on their remix/re-production of David Bowie’s ‘Hallo Spaceboy.’
They travel to Paris for a brief round of meetings with continental EMI staff, playing them tracks from their next album Fundamental.
The Pet Shop Boys’ Christmas EP is digitally released today in several countries in Europe and Asia as well as in Australia. (Its staggered release, both digitally and on CD, will continue in various other countries over the next several days.) The Boys also perform this evening in Magdeburg, Germany.
The first of four consecutive days during which the Boys work on ‘The Trial,’ a segment of their Alan Turing project.