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 Somewhere in Concert video of the Boys’ Savoy Theatre show is released.
PopArt is released in the U.K.
Chris and Neil have dinner with Es Devlin and discuss the staging of their upcoming performance at the BRITS Awards show.
The PSB media blitz continues surrounding the release of Ultimate. This evening they’re interviewed on Simon Mayo’s BBC Radio 2 show.
After a third day working on ‘Any Longer’ and then developing an earlier track, ‘The One I Want’ (which eventually becomes ‘You Are the One’), they head out to see the Christmas lights on the Kurfürstendamm, the famous Berlin thoroughfare known colloquially as Ku’damm.
Neil is among the celebrities in attendance at a launch dinner for A Magazine curated by Erdem at London’s Sessions Arts Club.