Following the UK tour we're delighted to announce that we will be performing on Later with Jools Holland for the first time ever. A live broadcast will take place on Tuesday 28th May and the full show will broadcast on Friday 31st.
We have launched a competition in partnership with Classic Pop Magazine via our facebook page with a very special top prize: A special one off silver tin boxset containing the original test pressing for the Our System 7" and original master CDr of English Electric along with the original boxset contents (Album, DVD, demo CD, lyric book and artwork prints). The boxset contains signed certificate number #0001.…
On a non musical note, I see that Mr Humphreys's favourite manager is retiring after 27 incredibly successful years. It just makes you wonder how Bob Paisley, who won 6 league titles, 3 European cups and a total of 17 trophies in just 9 years as Liverpool manager, was never Knighted! Andy
Over the past 35 years Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark have written songs covering a vast and eclectic range of topics, creating both catchy and poignant melodies to go with them. These melodies often belie the serious issues which have been covered; ‘Enola Gay’ being the most well-known of this genre, however others such as ‘Genetic Engineering’ and ‘88 seconds in Greensboro’ have equally weighty topics. Other subjects would initially appear rather ‘strange’ to…
