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 are the focus of a feature story and interview in the latest issue (dated today) of the U.K. magazine Flipside.
‘Minimal’ is released as a single.
The live Cubism DVD is released in the United States, two months after it had been released in the U.K. and various other countries.
The Boys perform at Nottingham’s Splendour Festival.
Let’s hope they didn’t develop writer’s cramp: Neil and Chris sign 500 prints for the very limited special vinyl edition of The Most Incredible Thing.