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”.
The Pet Shop Boys are the focus of a feature story and interview in the latest issue (dated today) of the U.K. magazine Flipside.
‘Minimal’ is released as a single.
The live Cubism DVD is released in the United States, two months after it had been released in the U.K. and various other countries.
The Boys perform at Nottingham’s Splendour Festival.
Let’s hope they didn’t develop writer’s cramp: Neil and Chris sign 500 prints for the very limited special vinyl edition of The Most Incredible Thing.