Today marks exactly 25 years since we supported Depeche Mode at their Concert For The Masses at the Pasadena Rose Bowl. You can watch some footage from the day here, there is footage of us both backstage and on stage from 4:47.
We are playing 3 radio concerts in Germany this week. The first will be broadcast on HR1 this evening at 8pm. Tomorrow we will be on SWR1 and on Wednesday we will be on SR1.
The summer edition of the magazine Atomic Ranch has a short interview with Andy about the song of the same title and his interest in architecture and history. Next week sees Andy and Paul return to the Germany, Paris and Amsterdam for radio concerts.
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…
