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 the third of three consecutive nights’ shows at Wembley Arena in London.
The Boys headline the ‘Garden Party’ at Ballinlough Castle in Ireland. That same evening, the exclusive concert that they had recorded at the BBC Radio Theatre in London five nights before is broadcast on BBC Radio 2.
The track ‘Invisible’ is purposefully ‘leaked’ to the Internet as an advance promotional teaser for the Pet Shop Boys’ next album.
Continuing the European leg of their Electric Tour, the Boys perform this evening in Copenhagen.
They appear in concert in Porto, Portugal.
Their ongoing Dreamworld Tour comes to Manchester.