Andy McCluskey is being interviewed for a TV documentary on the Deeply Vale Festival ? a 70's music event that featured the pre-OMD band Pegasus. The documentary is being produced by Granada Television and is due for broadcast on November 19th.

The Messages Preview Pages have now been updated and are live. If you are not currently subscribed, these pages will provide details on what you can expect in issue 3 which includes interviews with Andy McCluskey, Paul Humphreys, Martin Cooper and Mal Holmes discussing the remastered Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark album. The new issue also features separate interviews with Paul Humphreys discussing One Two and ex-OMD manager Paul Collister chatting about his work with OMD.

If you choose to subscribe, you will be sent the new magazine, along with issues 1 and 2. Click here for the details: Messages Preview Pages

If you're already a Messages subscriber then you don't have to worry. Issue 3 will be sent out to all current subscribers first. The new issue will also feature details on re-subscribing for issues 4 to 6.

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The OMD Event is a large scale OMD Fan Gathering function scheduled for April 2005. The event is being organised by Neil Taylor in conjunction with the Official OMD Website and promises to be 3 days of dedicated OMD-themed activity. A website flagging up more details is currently under construction and we will also post up more information here on the OMD news page in due course.

As previously reported, Mal Holmes has been busy producing two new Smile releases featuring remixes by K-KLass : The second release is a special white label pressing (M2BCD02) featuring 4 tracks while the third release (M2BCD03), aimed at the club market, boasts 5 versions including a mix titled, perhaps appropriately, the Dark Manoeuvres mix(!)

Copies of all the Smile releases are available to buy on the Muzic2Burn section via the OMD Merchandise pages here on the site.

Neil Taylor's Motion & Heart website has been updated with some OMD audio and video extras. The site now features streamed video and MP3 files, including live material. Visit www.motionandheart.co.uk for more details.