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 ...
It’s the fag end of the 1970s and pop is on the brink of a revolution. Punk may have killed off the worst excesses of prog rock, but in the clubs a new sound is taking over — thrilling, pulsing, and ...
SYNTH pop band Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (OMD) are continuing their 40th anniversary with a UK tour which visits Bournemouth Pavilion on Tuesday, November 19. The band formed in the late 70s ...
Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Over the past four decades — give or take a decade break — the illustrious and ...
What do bands The Killers, The XX, The LCD Sound System and Glasvegas have in common? OMD, or Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, that’s what. The British new wave/synth pop band’s brooding vocals and ...
35 years ago, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark started as an attempt to capture the future. At the respective ages of 16 and 15, Andy McCluskey and Paul Humphreys started wrangling synthesizers in ...