On April 22, the Pet Shop Boys musical Closer to Heaven is performed in London for the first time in fourteen years, in a sold-out month-long run at The Union Theatre. (It will return for a further five weeks beginning on October 21.). For this revival, at the Pet Shop Boys’ request, the musical’s original final number, “Positive role model”, is replaced by “Vocal”.
On August 15, the final date of the much-extended Electric tour – which began in March, 2013 – takes place at the Flow Festival in Helsinki. The tour has visited over forty countries.
On December 2, the Pet Shop Boys appear at MAMA – the Mnet Asian Music Awards – in Hong Kong. They are given the Worldwide Inspiration award and play a lengthy live medley, joined for their final two songs, “What have I done to deserve this?” and “Vocal”, by the K‑Pop artist f(x). At the organisers’ request, they wear the Electric tour straw jackets for, possibly, the final time.
Chris had been out quite late the night before and couldn’t make it into the studio, so Neil works by himself on a new track, ‘Silver Age.’
Filming for the ‘Integral’ video takes place this afternoon at Whitefield Memorial Church in central London, where the Pet Shop Boys have encouraged fans to turn up as extras, of whom about 200 are needed. Neil and Chris themselves, however, don’t attend since their own parts in the video have already been filmed.
The Boys perform at the V Festival at Weston Park, Staffordshire, U.K.