Pet Shop Boys performed 'Drunk', 
which would enter the UK singles chart at number 8 the following day. 
Then Declan Donnely (of Ant and Dec) interviewed Neil. 

DD: One man who has made a big impression on the charts over the last 15 years is Mr Neil Tennant [who] is with me now. How are you sir?

NT: I'm very well thank you, happy new year.

DD: Welcome back to CD:UK. Happy new year to you. Since we last saw you you've been on a world tour, haven't you.

NT: Yeah, in fact we're still in the middle of it. We've been to..just after [unintelligible] we've been to
America. We went to Palm Beach to do our reherasals (We got stuck in a hurricane, which was very exciting). And then we toured America, and we've been to Europe, been to Britain, and on Friday we go back to Spain to start the second European leg.

DD: Lovely. And then you're off to Portugal, Austria.

NT: Er Yeah, Germany...Switzerland.

DD: What's your favourite place?

NT: Well, actually, where we're going to on Friday is somewhere I've been to on holiday before, it's San Sebastian in Spain, which is a really lovely town on the sea, and we're there for 3 days, so i look forward to that.

DD: And you get good audiences there?

NT: Yeah, this album and the last album Bilingual, have done particularly well...They're our biggest selling albums actually in Spain.

DD: Really?

NT: Well the last album Bilingual had a couple of Spanish flavoured songs on it, and it went down really well there.

DD: So, as I said, happy new year. What did you do for the new year?

NT: For New Year, actually i've got a house in County Durham, in the north of England. And um, we had a
party, a bonfire, fireworks, a few drinks, a few fizzy drinks.

DD: As you do. Because you performed last year at the eclipse, didn't you?

NT: We did. Which was fun apart from the fact, you know, it was in Cornwall - it was raining, there was 100% cloud cover, so I watched the eclipse in the BBC broadcast tent.

DD: Which was nice.

NT: Which was nice.

DD: So you didn't fancy performing over the millennium?

NT: Ah, no. At one point we were going to play in Copacobana(?)  beach in Brazil, which was, you know, going to be rather nice, but the mayor of Brazil (sic) wouldn't give Brazilain tv permission to broadcast from the beach, so it all fell apart.

DD: Blimey, not very fair.

NT: So I was in Durham instead,

DD: Which was just as nice.

NT: Which was just as nice, really. Not quite as warm. {laughs}

DD: Now listen, you've just performed the new single for us, You Only Tell Me You Love me When You're Drunk, are you purposefully making the song titles longer?

NT: Well we've always done quite long song titles, What have I Done To Deserve This? I like it when a song title is like a real sentence, when it's like something someone might say. And also, it's a sort of funny song and it's a sad song at the same time. And we nearly called the song Drunk, but I think the long title gives the song more of an aura really.

DD: And it's a great new look as well in the video as well (sic) and it's something you've done throughout the years. For new albums and new singles you've done different looks.

NT: Well yeah, in the last ten years pop music has tended to be very naturalistic, people just wearing jeans and t-shirts, or you now, boybands wearing suits and stuff like that. We try to do something that's a little more extreme than that.

DD: Well we can have a look at some of the looks from the past.

NT: Oh we can! Let's have a look.

 Shows WEST END GIRLS video clip:

DD: This is your first number 1. The first single that got to number 1.

NT: Yes, this is, um...I've got a lot of hair gel in there, a lot of hair gel.

 Shows GO WEST video clip:

DD: September '93.

NT: Go West, yes. This was the first popular kind of theatrical look. When we do concerts, loads of people turn up wearing these hats.

DD: Do they still?

NT: They do yeah, and the pointy hats. We get quite a lot of them. Some of this was filmed in Moscow as well.

 Shows I WOULDN'T NORMALLY DO THIS KIND OF THING video clip:

NT: This was meant to be kind of like a computer game as you can see.

DD: Right, yeah.

NT: The only way you can get Chris and me to dance was in a computer.

 Shows I DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU WANT BUT I CAN'T GIVE IT ANY MORE video clip:

DD: And what's this? This is the new one.

NT: The first video from the latest album. This is where you see us being transformed into these weird creatures, with this outrageous hair, and the huge trousers and all the rest of it. I don't know. I don't see why you should be yourself in pop music.

DD: No.

NT: Why can't you just create a different image. And that's what we like to do. As well as make music, we like to create imagery to go with it.

DD: And you're going to be around for a long time to come?

NT: I hope so, we'll see.

DD: Brilliant. Fantastic. Let's hope so. Mr Neil Tennant everyone. Thanks for coming in.

NT: Thank you.