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 Oslo, Norway.
Neil is at home, sick in bed with the flu. But that doesn’t stop him from starting to work on the lyrics for ‘I’m with Stupid.’
Using lyrics already written by Neil, he and Chris compose a new song, ‘This Used to Be the Future.’
Neil and Mark Farrow are interviewed onstage this evening by artist and art director Scott King at the Barbican Centre in London, focusing on the Pet Shop Boys’ ‘visual image,’ especially their album and single sleeve designs. It’s part of a series of presentations on the subject of ‘The Look of Music’ sponsored by the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art.
Neil posts both on the PSB website and on their Facebook page that he and Chris have just returned from Los Angeles, where they had been working with producer Stuart Price on their next album.
It’s a major PSB day. Their concert film Dreamworld: The Greatest Hits Live at the Royal Arena Copenhagen debuts in special-event screenings in movie theaters around the world. They also digitally release ‘Loneliness,’ the first single from their upcoming (April) album Nonetheless along with two new ‘b‑side’/bonus songs.