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”.
‘Opportunities’ debuts on the U.S. singles chart.
‘Can You Forgive Her?’ is released as a single.
The official opening night of Closer to Heaven at the Arts Theatre in London.
Neil and Chris attend the U.K. premiere of Torsten Rasch’s composition My Heart Is on Fire (based on the music and lyrics of the band Rammstein) at London’s Royal Festival Hall. It was their exposure to this work several years earlier that had led the Pet Shop Boys to tapping Rasch to orchestrate their score for Battleship Potemkin.
The fourth and final night of Take That’s string of shows at the Sunderland Stadium of Light featuring PSB as their opening-act ‘special guests.’
The Pet Shop Boys are in Frankfurt, Germany for their concert there this evening.
Still developing what later will become ‘An Open Mind’ (which, at this time, bears an earlier title, ‘One Track Mind’), Chris and Neil also work on the unreleased song ‘He’s Not Coming Home.’ After dinner, they watch a couple of episodes of Frasier.
The Pet Shop Boys conclude the U.K. leg of their Dreamworld Tour with their first-ever concert in city of Hull.
They kick off the Summer 2023 continuation of their Dreamworld Tour with a show at the Primavera Sound festival in Barcelona.
Pet Shop Boys headline the O Son do Camiño Festival in Santiago de Compostela, Spain.