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”.
Actually is released.
Boy George’s ‘The Crying Game’ single, produced by PSB, is released.
The Pet Shop Boys perform at the Rock ‘n’ Coke Festival in Istanbul—the largest outdoor music festival in Turkish history.
They perform at a free concert in the city square of Skopje, Macedonia.
Elysium is released in Germany. It will subsequently be released in various other countries over the next few days.
The Pet Shop Boys perform their one-hundredth Electric Tour show this evening at the Portmeirion Festival in Wales. To help commemorate the occasion, they’re joined onstage by the Brythoniaid Male Voice Choir for an especially powerful climactic performance of ‘Go West.’