This weeks Observer

Johnny Marr: What do you remember about Electronic's first shows at Dodger Stadium in 1990?

Neil Tennant: This was after Chris and I had co-written The Patience of a Saint and Getting Away With It. You invited us to go because you were supporting Depeche Mode for two nights at the Dodger Stadium. It's very big, about 60,000 people. I just remember Chris and I had a different expensive designer outfit for each day, we were so different from you. We had a make-up artist, we were pop stars. You and Bernard turned up in what you were wearing. On the second night, in the Winnebago, backstage, Bernard was lying on the bed with a sign on his chest: "Don't wake me up until it's time to go on stage." He used to have to drink Pernod to fire him up. And a bucket beside him to be sick into.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/mar/15/johnny-marr-pet-shop-boys

Excellent

Shyness is nice but shyness can stop you from doing all the things in life you'd like to...

linus sulanki wrote: Johnny Marr: What do you remember about Electronic's first shows at Dodger Stadium in 1990?

Neil Tennant: This was after Chris and I had co-written The Patience of a Saint and Getting Away With It. You invited us to go because you were supporting Depeche Mode for two nights at the Dodger Stadium. It's very big, about 60,000 people. I just remember Chris and I had a different expensive designer outfit for each day, we were so different from you. We had a make-up artist, we were pop stars. You and Bernard turned up in what you were wearing. On the second night, in the Winnebago, backstage, Bernard was lying on the bed with a sign on his chest: "Don't wake me up until it's time to go on stage." He used to have to drink Pernod to fire him up. And a bucket beside him to be sick into.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/mar/15/johnny-marr-pet-shop-boys

Funny story

Acutally the whole Q&A is quite n-joyable to be honest...

Where's county durham??