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 Pet Shop Boys perform the third of three consecutive nights’ shows at Wembley Arena in London.
The Boys headline the ‘Garden Party’ at Ballinlough Castle in Ireland. That same evening, the exclusive concert that they had recorded at the BBC Radio Theatre in London five nights before is broadcast on BBC Radio 2.
The track ‘Invisible’ is purposefully ‘leaked’ to the Internet as an advance promotional teaser for the Pet Shop Boys’ next album.
Continuing the European leg of their Electric Tour, the Boys perform this evening in Copenhagen.
They appear in concert in Porto, Portugal.
Their ongoing Dreamworld Tour comes to Manchester.