On August 19th, Neil and Chris meet by chance in an electronics shop on the Kings Road. Realizing they have a common interest in dance music, they begin to write together. Initially they call themselves West End; later they come up with the name Pet Shop Boys, a name derived from some friends who work in a pet shop in Ealing. “We thought it sounded like an English rap group”.
BBC radio broadcasts an ‘In Concert’ special featuring the Pet Shop Boys’ DiscoVery show.
The Boys perform at the Primavera Sound Festival in Barcelona. The show goes well despite the fact that Neil had earlier been suffering from food poisoning and had been, in his own words, ‘throwing up all day.’
The Electric Tour comes to the U.K. city of Brighton.
After driving roughly 300 miles (about 470 km) north through the British countryside to Scotland, the Boys perform this evening in Glasgow.