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”.
BBC radio broadcasts an ‘In Concert’ special featuring the Pet Shop Boys’ DiscoVery show.
The Boys perform at the Primavera Sound Festival in Barcelona. The show goes well despite the fact that Neil had earlier been suffering from food poisoning and had been, in his own words, ‘throwing up all day.’
The Electric Tour comes to the U.K. city of Brighton.
After driving roughly 300 miles (about 470 km) north through the British countryside to Scotland, the Boys perform this evening in Glasgow.