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”.
While Chris is in Paris for an Arsenal football match (that’s ‘soccer’ to my fellow Americans)—the finals for the Cup Winner’s Cup—Neil records an early demo version of ‘For All of Us.’
Trevor Horn begins working with the Pet Shop Boys on their next album, which eventually will be titled Fundamental. Later that evening Neil attends a performance of Shostakovitch’s Seventh Symphony at the Royal Albert Hall.
The Boys perform in Chemnitz, Germany.
They appear at the Sandance Festival at Nasimi Beach in Dubai.
During a telephone interview this morning on BBC Radio 6, Neil reveals that he and Chris are currently in Berlin recording material for their next as-yet-unnamed album.