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 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.