Neil plays in a group in Newcastle called Dust: Their most popular song is a preposterous affair he has written called “Can you hear the dawn break?”. They are heavily influenced by The Incredible String Band. “We were convinced we would become terribly famous. It was a very kind of stoned seventies but we used to think it was absolutely brilliant at the time”.
Chris first plays for Neil the tracks that he and David Morales had created for ‘New York City Boy,’ and Neil begins work on the lyrics.
The Pet Shop Boys appear this afternoon on U.K. television’s The Paul O’Grady Show, where they perform ‘Vocal.’ They’re pleased to note afterward on their website that a member of the show’s TV crew had appeared as one of the babies in their music video for ‘It’s Alright’—roughly a quarter-century before!
They work on the track ‘Dreamland.’