Happy Birthday to Mal Holmes for today. You can post up your birthday greetings for Mally here on the OMD Forum :)

Remember that you can order items from Mal's Muzic2burn label via the OMD Merchandise pages.

Andy McCluskey is off on a trade mission to Tokyo next week to promote his White Noise record and publishing label. The aim of the trip will include not only pushing the artists on the label but also possible new OMD material for 2006.

An interview with Peter Saville explores what the former OMD designer is up to these days. Thanks to omj for the link.

Another volume in the Retro:Active series arrives. This compilation of rare and remixed songs taken from a broad span of 80's/90's synthpop features the original 12" mix of Secret. Retro:Active 4 is due for release next month. Thanks to elmo for flagging this up.

Rip It Up And Start Again is a new book by author Simon Reynolds which explores the post-punk scene of 1978 to 1984. Among the bands mentioned is, of course, OMD.