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.
Neil and Chris have dinner with Kylie Minogue, during which they discuss recording ‘In Denial’ with her as a duet.
The Boys finish the music for ‘I Get Along’ and begin writing ‘My Night’ for their musical.
Neil attends a Morrissey concert at the Roundhouse in London.
They take a break from work in L.A. on their next studio album (eventually titled Elysium) to drive down South La Cienega Boulevard to visit the local art galleries. At one of them they see, for the second time, a show by artist Brian Bress, whose work has sufficiently impressed them that they will later ask him to create the video for ‘Invisible.’