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 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.