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”.
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.