Andy McCluskey and Paul Humphreys started Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (better known as OMD) in 1978 to showcase their innovative ideas pertaining to minimalist electronic music and coolly ...

Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark (OMD) have announced a national tour of Australia for February 2025. It will mark their first tour of Australia since the late 80s, where they toured the country with ...

Among the great musical treasures of this year is The Punishment of Luxury, the 13th full-length album from electronic pop pioneers Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (or OMD, to use their ...

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 ever heard this quote, ennui ...

Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark came to the attention of a wide audience through early singles like "Enola Gay" and an appearance in the 1981 documentary Urgh! A Music War. For American audiences, ...

Andy McCluskey isn’t sure if he’d call himself a romantic. The frontman and bassist for Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (OMD) has spent his career in constant motion, leaving little time to analyze ...

Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark — or simply OMD — is Exhibit A in New Wave’s final evolutionary leap toward synth-pop. While many people had only just heard the Sex Pistols two years before OMD ...

A string of April shows leads up to Coachella%3B the band returns to the States in July The band%27s new album%2C %27English Electric%2C%27 comes out April 9 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, ...

It’s difficult to shake the feeling that if Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark had split up after the release of their fourth album, 1983’s Dazzle Ships, then they’d be a far more fondly remembered and ...

The British band Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark is sort of a rare breed these days in that it's one of the few surviving electropop groups from the '80s that is still recording and drawing an ...

In this month's subscriber podcast, Luke Turner and John Doran go deep on two albums from the magnificent OMD As we approach the 40th anniversary of OMD's self-titled debut, Kristen Gallerneaux ...