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 Boys perform at the LifeBeat AIDS charity concert in New York City.
Neil and Chris perform the first of two consecutive nights’ shows in San Francisco.
Tonight is the fifth show of PSB’s eight non-consecutive nights opening for Take That in Manchester. Earlier in the day, Neil and Chris visited the University of Manchester’s Whitworth Art Gallery.
The Boys enjoy another ‘day off’ while in Denmark on their Electric Tour. For his part, Neil visits the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek sculpture museum in Copenhagen.
This evening the Pet Shop Boys conclude their three-night run of concerts at Carriageworks in Sydney, Australia.
They wind up their three-date Spanish ‘mini-tour’ with a show tonight in Barcelona.
Chris and Neil arrive in Israel for their Super Tour concert two nights later in Tel Aviv.
As an Oxford ‘Visiting Fellow,’ Neil appears onstage ‘in conversation’ with principal Alan Rusbridger at the university’s Lady Margaret Hall.
The Boys bring their Dreamworld Tour show to Prague.br>
They perform this evening in Birmingham, UK.