Over the past four decades — give or take a decade break — the illustrious and critically acclaimed Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark (OMD) have sold over 40 million records worldwide, establishing ...

British music stars often struggle when it comes to getting American audiences to embrace their songs. It often takes some compromise, which can cause a lot of stress on an act used to doing something ...

UK synthpop greats OMD were scheduled to begin their 2024 North American tour in September, but they’ve now postponed the shows “due to health issues around the band requiring treatment.” “We are ...

Suppose you were to ask Andrew McCluskey of Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark the inspiration behind 2023’s “Bauhaus Staircase,” OMD’s most recent and likely final studio album. In that case, it’s ...

Back in October of 1978, Andy McCluskey and Paul Humphreys planned to play a one-night gig at a small Liverpool club called Eric’s, so the duo came up with a band name, an unusual one, on a whim the ...

They sound also like they’re having fun. There’s a looseness and eclecticism, a willingness to wander off the WE-HEART-KRAFTWERK path, perhaps encouraged and assisted by co-producer David Watts (the ...

Famed sociologist Sherry Turkle once said, “Boredom is your imagination calling to you.” And while it’s unclear if Andrew McCluskey of Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (OMD) ever heard this quote, ...

When the group Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (OMD) released their first single “Electricity” in 1979, they were seen as Britain's synthpop answer to the popular and influential German collective ...

When Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark co-founders Paul Humphreys and Andy McCluskey decided to reunite and record their first new album together in two decades, they had one worry: Did they have ...

OMD, who scored hits with snyth-pop classics "If You Leave" and "Dreaming," are coming back to Houston. The duo performs May 11, 2022 at Bayou Music Center in downtown Houston. Tickets go on sale at ...

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