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 Boys perform at the Equality Show at the London Palladium. (Months later, Chris will tell an interviewer that he was ‘excessively drunk’ at the time. ‘I wasn’t quite at the stage of throwing up in a bucket behind the monitors, but I was pretty close.’)
They’re in St. Louis, Missouri, for the first time. Perhaps indulging Chris’s interest in architecture, they play tourist at the St. Louis Arch. Then, in the evening, they perform their Fundamental show.
They perform at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre in Vancouver, British Columbia—one of only two Canadian dates on the Super Tour.