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1970 — 1971

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”.

History

On this day

1999

Chris, Neil, and their entourage travel by bus from London to Liverpool to perform the following evening at the Creamfields Festival.

2010

After midnight (so technically it’s the following day, August 28) the Pet Shop Boys appear at the Xacobeo 2010 Festival at Monte do Gozo, Santiago de Compostela, Spain—the last scheduled date of their more than year-long Pandemonium World Tour.