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”.
Chris had been out quite late the night before and couldn’t make it into the studio, so Neil works by himself on a new track, ‘Silver Age.’
Filming for the ‘Integral’ video takes place this afternoon at Whitefield Memorial Church in central London, where the Pet Shop Boys have encouraged fans to turn up as extras, of whom about 200 are needed. Neil and Chris themselves, however, don’t attend since their own parts in the video have already been filmed.
The Boys perform at the V Festival at Weston Park, Staffordshire, U.K.