Chris goes to Liverpool University to study architecture. During 1981 ‑1982 he spends a year gaining practical experience in a London architectural practice, designing a staircase in an industrial development in Milton Keynes. “It’s not a remarkable staircase”, he comments when visiting it in 1988, “It’s just a functional staircase”.
The Boys perform in Stockholm, Sweden.
They begin working on a new song, ‘Mid-life Crisis,’ for Closer to Heaven, but eventually decide not to include it.
An original musical built around acoustic renditions of Tennant-Lowe songs, Seriously: Pet Shop Boys, Reinterpreted, opens for a limited run in Melbourne, Australia. (Neil and Chris are not directly involved, but they give the show their blessing.)
They write a new instrumental, which they call ‘Pedal.’
Chris, Neil, and Andrew Dawson spend the entire day working on ‘Requiem in Denim and Leopardskin.’
A busy day in the studio working on several new tracks and searching for old demos for possible release on upcoming album reissues.