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”.
Sinead O’Connor gets married, capping a bizarre sequence of events in which she had been slated to take part in the Boys’ ill-fated Wotapalava Festival and then dropped out.
2008: Neil attends the Leeds Festival performances of the Cribs (with guitarist Johnny Marr, who has often played with the band of late) and the Last Shadow Puppets. Afterwards he meets the members of the latter group.
The Pet Shop Boys perform at the V Festival at Hyland Park, Chelmsford, Essex, U.K.
The Electric Tour comes to Beijing, China.
Neil attends this evening’s BBC Proms concert at Royal Albert Hall by the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Simon Rattle. The program consists of several works by Stravinsky.
A century after the film’s debut and two decades after the release of the Tennant-Lowe score for Battleship Potemkin, the film complete with their score begins playing for the first time in select cinemas in the U.K. and Ireland.