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 record ‘Somewhere’ and ‘Disco Potential.’
For the first of what turns out to be four days in a row, they work on music that at the time they expect will serve as the concluding segment of A Man from the Future.
The Boys bring their Electric Tour show to ‘Austin City Limits Live’ at the Moody Theater in Austin, Texas.
This afternoon Neil and Chris attend the first run-through of the upcoming revival of Closer To Heaven at London’s Union Theatre.
Neil is interviewed this evening about his cultural influences on BBC Radio’s This Cultural Life.
Pet Shop Boys: Then and Now, a new 90-minute film for the documentary series Imagine, debuts this evening on BBC One.