On April 22, the Pet Shop Boys musical Closer to Heaven is performed in London for the first time in fourteen years, in a sold-out month-long run at The Union Theatre. (It will return for a further five weeks beginning on October 21.). For this revival, at the Pet Shop Boys’ request, the musical’s original final number, “Positive role model”, is replaced by “Vocal”.
On August 15, the final date of the much-extended Electric tour – which began in March, 2013 – takes place at the Flow Festival in Helsinki. The tour has visited over forty countries.
On December 2, the Pet Shop Boys appear at MAMA – the Mnet Asian Music Awards – in Hong Kong. They are given the Worldwide Inspiration award and play a lengthy live medley, joined for their final two songs, “What have I done to deserve this?” and “Vocal”, by the K‑Pop artist f(x). At the organisers’ request, they wear the Electric tour straw jackets for, possibly, the final time.
The Pet Shop Boys appear in concert in Zurich, Switzerland.
Chris and Neil bring their Fundamental Tour to Hamburg, Germany.
2008: Neil appears at the Brighton Festival for a ‘discover the man behind the music’ talk/interview session with writer and cultural commentator Michael Bracewell.
Neil attends a performance of the new ballet Cleopatra (scored by Claude-Michel Schönberg, best known for Les Miserables and Miss Saigon) at London’s Sadler’s Wells Theatre, where his and Chris’s own ballet The Most Incredible Thing had debuted two months before. On this same day, both Concrete and Battleship Potemkin are released in the U.S. several years after their release in many other countries.
Chris and Neil arrive in Asunción—their first visit to Paraguay—for their Electric Tour concert there the following evening. They hold a press conference shortly after their arrival and expect to do some sightseeing during their stay.
In the studio with Pete Gleadall, the Boys continue working on the Musik tracks. Afterward they meet with Hanif Kureishi and Nikolai Foster of Leicester Curve Theatre to discuss writing music for a new stage production of My Beautiful Laundrette.
The Boys bring their Dreamworld Tour show to Brussels.