Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark are celebrating their 40th anniversary with a box set and tour. Singer Andy McCluskey spoke to DUNCAN SEAMAN. Mid-jaunt across the United States, OMD frontman Andy ...

Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark are celebrating their 40th anniversary with a box set and tour. Singer Andy McCluskey spoke to DUNCAN SEAMAN. Did you know with a Digital subscription to Yorkshire ...

Had Andy McClusky and Paul Humphreys formed Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark today, their chances of success might be slim, something they freely admit. “Never, ever would we get a record contract ...

It’s the fag end of the 1970s and pop is on the brink of a revolution. Punk may have killed off the worst excesses of prog rock, but in the clubs a new sound is taking over — thrilling, pulsing, and ...

For an electronic pop duo who started out wanting to be both Karl Stockhausen and Abba, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark haven’t done too badly. For starters, after 45 years as a (mostly) functioning ...

Though the members of Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (OMD) are known for being one of Britain’s top selling synth pop pioneers, a far different sound can be found on one of the best songs from ...

American music fans of a certain age know Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark — OMD, for short — as the English duo that soundtracked Pretty in Pink‘s prom scene with their 1986 top 5 hit “If You Leave.

In 2010, English synth-pop pioneers Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark (OMD) released a brilliant comeback album, History Of Modern, that stunned fans and critics alike. Now, three years later, OMD, ...

On Tuesday, British synth-pop legends Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark are releasing English Electric, their 12th studio album. “It’s not bad going for a band that was only going to do one gig,” ...

For an act that started out as an “utterly bonkers idea”, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark have certainly had staying power. In fact, it is nearly 40 years since frontmen Andy McCluskey and Paul ...

Their music was everywhere in the Eighties, even in America. If You Leave was a top five smash there, and on the soundtrack to “Brat Pack” movie Pretty In Pink, while their singles Enola Gay, Souvenir ...

But after 18 years in OMD, I thought I knew the music business. I had no idea just how nasty, dodgy, backstabbing and dirty the manufactured pop industry is.” After one album, McCluskey was deemed ...