Blog
Nov10
History of Modern Tour
The UK section of the HoM tour is complete and was wonderful. Thanks to all who came to the shows and made them such great evenings. We hope that we got a reasonable balance between old and new material. Shame about Bristol.. that has been the only downside but obviously ruined 90 people's evening. It will never happen again. My knee now needs icing every day and cortisone is my new friend.. may be getting too old,…
Oct27
See you on the road…
Packing the bag and getting ready to go to Wakefield...really! That's where the production rehearsal is. Then down to Brighton for the kick off. I hope the tour is fantastic for all concerned..it needs to be, as we don't plan to tour the UK for another 2-3 years. I'm really looking forward to meeting and hearing Villa Nah and Mirrors. We will record the tour for a limited edition CD through the website. See you all…
Oct11
Rehearsals / Off to China!
Monday 11th.. finally a day off... just enough time to pack our bags for China! The Liverpool Wondrous City concert at the Philharmonic went very well. I think that both Paul and I were much more relaxed than last summer with the orchestra. Nice to see a few friendly faces there.. sorry we only did 4songs. All four of us had been locked away last week rehearsing the new songs for the upcoming…
Sep27
Album Out / German instores / Next album title…
Well... History of Modern is finally out... at least in most territories. It seems to be getting very favorable reviews... even from people on this site ;-0 We are certainly happy that it is a great collection of songs... and a few wonderfully odd OMD moments as well. I had hoped to post a blog at the beginning of the week but things have been rather crazy. We just returned from a…
Aug02
Our First Video Since ‘Dreaming’...
We are looking forward to Wednesday when Paul and I are making our first video together since 'Dreaming'! August is going to be very busy with further band rehearsals, interviews and promotion. I had forgotten what this was all like...But I'm enjoying it!