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Isotype

12" single label

**Isotype** is the title of an OMD song first released as the group's 37th single, and the lead single to the album *The Punishment of Luxury* in May 2017.

The original release, on streaming platforms, was the full length version. A shorter 'single mix' was made available for radio play (via a promo CD) and later included on the *The Punishment of Luxury: B-Sides & Bonus Material* compilation.

A limited edition 12" single was released in August, again featuring the longer album version, plus a new track Skin on the B-side.[1]

Isotype (short for International System of Typographic Picture Education) is a method of showing social, technological, biological, and historical connections in pictorial form (see Wikipedia).

## Versions and availability

* *The Punishment of Luxury (deluxe)* (2017)
* streaming single Spotify, YouTube
 single mix (3:49)
 live
* Live at the Hammersmith Apollo
* Live From Your Sofa
* Atmospheric & Greatest Hits
November 1981

**November 1981**

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## OMD

* *Architecture & Morality* album released, all reviews favourable; UK chart positions 5 - 3 - 4.
* Architecture & Morality tour begins.
* Joan of Arc single reaches UK no.5 for two weeks running.
* *Record Mirror* feature and interview, "Playing the Game"
* NME feature "Orchitecture"
* *Organisation* UK album chart pos. 72 - 94.
Ceramic Hello

**Ceramic Hello** was an unrealised side project of Peter Saville cohort and ex-SPOONS member Brett Wickens with Roger Humphreys (no to Paul).

Produced by William Orbit, the pulsatingly uptempo ‘Sampling The Blast Furnace’ featured guest vocals from Andy McCluskey alongside vocodered voices and chants by Martha Ladly. While this version remains unreleased, the slower McCluskey-less demo was on the reissue of CERAMIC HELLO’s only album *The Absence Of A Canary V1.1*.

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*Source*: theelectricityclub
Liverpool, 23 November 1978

Eric's gig with The Teardrop Explodes.

## Location

Date: Thursday 23 November 1978

City: Liverpool, UK

Venue: Eric's Club

Tour: -

## Notes

* Advertised in *Record Mirror*
* Extract from AM's diary: "*A minor disaster. Foldback amp burned out so we played without foldback. New songs that we could not play..A reporter from the Echo was there + says he will come and see us again".*
* BBC Radio frequency changeover day.
Melody Maker

**Melody Maker**

	+ "FOUR DIVERSE SAMPLES of current Mancunian Factory products: dopey comedian John Dowie; a cute pop duo called Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark; A Certain Ratio of young men desperately portraying themselves as artists; and finally Joy Division.."
	+ "In contrast [to ACR] Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark, a keyboardsman and bassist/vocalist, played airy electronic pop, like Kraftwerk during their lighter moments. Cute at the moment. Hope they don't get coy with it." (source)
* issue dtd. 09 May 1981: interview with Depeche Mode: "Their only peers, in fact, are early Orchestral Manoeuvres. “You’re the first person to mention that,” says Vince semi-sarcastically. “It doesn’t sound nothing like it to us. Orchestral Manoeuvres use flowing keyboards and poppy tunes, I suppose, but we like different things, y’know.." (source)
* issue dtd. 05 March 1983 - *Dazzle Ships* album review
* issue dtd. 16 April 1983 - OMD mentioned on cover (content unknown)
* issue dtd. 07 May 1983 - OMD mentioned on cover (content unknown)
* issue dtd. 14 May 1983 - OMD live review
* issue 28 April 1984 - OMD mentioned on cover (content unknown)
* issue dtd. 17 September 1983 - OMD live review
* issue dtd. 22 September 1984 - OMD review the singles
* issue dtd. 18 May 1985 - 'A month of Manoeuvres', tour details
* issue dtd. 22 June 1985 - *Crush* album review
* issue dtd. 29 June 1985 - OMD mentioned on cover (content unknown)
* issue dtd. 30 January 1988 - Dreaming in Singles reviews
* issue dtd. 16 July 1988 - live review of Pasadena show with Depeche Mode, Thomas Dolby, Wire
London, 03 October 1984

Source: radio broadcast

Youtube video notes:

Taken from Japanese NHK "The Concert"

Lineage: analogue master tape - CDR (DAO) - YouTube

Courtesy of Japanese NHK / BBC transcription services

Taper: M. F. Many thanks to the taper.

## Location

City: London, UK

Venue: Hammersmith Odeon

Date: 03 October 1984 (two shows)

Tour: Junk Culture tour

Support: The Reverb Bros (evening perf. only)

## Line-up

* Andy McCluskey, Paul Humphreys, Malcolm Holmes, Martin Cooper, Graham Weir, Neil Weir.

## Notes

* second of two consecutive nights and final night of UK leg of tour.
* see also Jimmy Rae, ex-Reverb Brthers in Houghton, 2018 ppp.193-195
Life Moves Pretty Fast - The Music and Movies of John Hughes

**Life Moves Pretty Fast - The Music and Movies of John Hughes** is a 2022 6-part podcast series that celebrates the music and movies of the film director John Hughes. Featuring interviews with those who knew, loved and worked John, alongside some of the artists whose music featured in those decade-defining films. A box-set of music from these films, *Life Moves Pretty Fast: The John Hughes Mixtapes*, was also released on 11 November 2022.

## Links to OMD

Two OMD tracks feature in ***Life Moves Pretty Fast: The John Hughes Mixtapes***.

* CD1 - If You Leave (from the 1986 movie *Pretty In Pink*)

* CD2 - Tesla Girls

If You Leave also features on the limited edition 14-track cassette included in the deluxe edition of the release.

Other contemporary recording artists such as Echo and the Bunnymen, Simple Minds, New Order and Psychedelic Furs also feature on the compilation.

## External links

* Podcast
* Box-set details
Joan Of Arc (Rough Mix)

**Joan Of Arc (Rough Mix)** is a demo version of the OMD song which would later be released as Joan of Arc in 1981. The rough mix was released on the album *Architecture & Morality The Singles* in 2021, marking its fortieth anniversary.

Although this mix/version contains many elements of the finished version, it is shorter and does not feature the break beginning with "*Listen Joan of Arc..*" and the final verse "*Now she's on her way..*".
Leicester, 19 September 1984

**Leicester, 19 September 1984**

## Location

City: Leicester, UK

Venue: De Montfort Hall

Date: 19 September 1984

Tour: Junk Culture tour

## Line-up

* Andy McCluskey, Paul Humphreys, Mal Homes, Martin Cooper.

## Setlist

* Junk Culture
* The Romance of the Telescope
* Messages
* Tesla Girls
* Love and Violence
* Julia's Song
* Motion and Heart
* White Trash
* She's Leaving
* Joan of Arc
* Maid of Orleans
* Talking Loud and Clear
* Hard Day
* Souvenir
* Telegraph
* Radio Waves
* Enola Gay
* Locomotion
* Pretending to See the Future
* Electricity
* Waiting for the Man
* Stanlow

## Notes

*No.1* 'In the Flesh' feature
* Concert featured in No.1 magazine 'in the flesh' live concerts feature by Debi Voller, with photos by Kerstin Rodgers. Includes fans' 'instant reactions' after the gig. Photos of AM singing (in black T-shirt).
* This is listed as their '59th gig'
* Short interview with AM in the hotel afterwards.
Night Of The Proms 2006

**Night Of The Proms 2006** is a compilation album issued in 2006 featuring artists who took part in the Nokia Night of the Proms concerts which took place in Germany and The Netherlands in December 2006.

## Connections

* The album features two tracks by OMD: Maid Of Orleans and Sailing On The Seven Seas. These are live recordings although which night the recordings are from is unknown.
Glasgow, 20 September 1979

Tour: The Touring Principle

Venue: Apollo, Glasgow

Date: Thurs., 20 September 1979

Andy McCluskey mentions this special performance in an interview on glasgowapollo.com :

> "*Our first show at the Apollo was actually supporting Gary Numan. That was a great show as it was the first night of the tour. Having just finished the production rehearsals in London, we then all drove up to Glasgow. We were nervous and he must have been crapping himself as it was his first big gig. We were nobodies at the time and had just had one record out on an Indi label, a song called Electricity. So we played and did alright and then I remember watching Gary's set from the balcony where the mixing desk was*."
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## Bootleg

This cassette omits Stanlow, which was always played at the beginning of each concert on the tour. Electricity and Enola Gay played twice.(source: discogs.com)
American Bandstand

**American Bandstand** was an American music-performance and dance TV programme that aired in various versions from 1952 to 1989. It was hosted from 1956 until its final season by Dick Clark (1936-2012).

The show gave many new music artists their first exposure to national audiences in the US.

## Links to OMD

* OMD appeared and performed on the show on 14 December 1985. They performed So In Love and Secret and were interviewed by Clark. (metacritic.com)
4-Neu

B side label

**4-Neu** is the title of an OMD song first released as a B-side in 1983 to both the 7" and 12" versions of the Genetic Engineering single release.

The recording remained exclusive to this release until being included on the *Navigation The OMD B-Sides* compilation (2001) and later on the re-issue of the *Dazzle Ships* album (2008).

## Live performance

4-Neu was not included on the set-list during the original Dazzle Ships tour. The song finally had its first live outing at both the Dazzle Ships at the Museum of Liverpool gigs in 2015 and Architecture & Morality / Dazzle Ships – Live at the Royal Albert Hall performance in 2016.

## See also

* In Heaven Above (4-Neu Demo)
* Ambient 1
* 01 February (2023)
Atmospheric & Greatest Hits

**Atmospheric & Greatest Hits** - OMD live album released in September 2022 via liveherenow.co.uk

The album was released as a Deluxe Edition hardback A5 book featuring 80 pages of full colour live and backstage photos, together with 4 CDs featuring both shows in their entirety as they were performed at the Royal Albert Hall on the 14 & 15 March 2022.

It was also issued as 2 x CDs packaged in a 6 panel digisleeve with enclosed 12-page booklet. This release featured tracks selected from the best performances over the two nights. The same tracks were also released on a 3xvinyl LP set. Due to delays in production, a 26 track digital download bundle was also given free to those who had pre-ordered the physical releases. The digital downloads were later made available for regular purchase.

## Tracklist

### Part 1

1. Atomic Ranch
2. Stanlow
3. Pretending to see the Future
4. Messages
5. Red Frame / White Light
6. Julia's Song
7. Isotype
8. Statues
9. Almost
10. The Punishment of Luxury
11. Bunker Soldiers
12. Electricity

### Part 2

1. Please Remain Seated
2. Ghost Star
3. History of Modern
4. Forever Live and Die
5. If You Leave
6. Souvenir
7. Joan of Arc
8. Maid of Orleans
9. Our System
10. So in Love
11. Sailing on the Seven Seas
12. Enola Gay
13. Walking on the Milky Way
14. Romance of the Telescope
Front Row

**Front Row** is a radio arts programme that has been broadcast regularly since 1998 on BBC Radio 4. The BBC describes the programme as a "live magazine programme on the world of arts, literature, film, media and music".

## Connections

* Andy McCluskey appeared on the show broadcast on 16 December 2010 as a guest reviewer of an a joint retrospective at Tate Liverpool and FACT of the South Korean artist Nam June Paik, regarded as the father of video art. He was also a composer and a performance artist fascinated by the possibilities of new technology.[1]
January 1982

**January 1982**

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## OMD

* *Smash Hits* front cover and Q&A feature
* Maid of Orleans single released on 7"/12"; two new tracks Navigation, Of All The Things We've Made.
* Single enters UK charts at no.31, *Top of the Pops* appearance, then moves up to no.17.
* The *Architecture & Morality* album goes back into the UK Top 10.
* European tour begins: France, Switzerland, Italy.
30 January

**30 January**

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## OTD

### OMD

* **1982**: PRESS - *Record Mirror*. Maid of Orleans Songwords. (UK singles charts no.17)
* **1988**: RADIO - Piccadilly Radio
* **2002**: TV - *TOTP2* (BBC2) - Maid of Orleans [1] (rpt. of TOTP: 04 February 1982)
* **2019**: LIVE - The Punishment of Luxury tour (S. America) Lima Domos Art, Peru - *first ever live gig in South America.*
* **2020**: LIVE - Souvenir tour Alexela Concert Hall, Estonia - *first ever performance in Estonia*.
* **2021**: TWITTER - Tim Burgess Listening Party: *Sugar Tax* (replay here)
Dazzle Ships (Parts I, IV, V & VI)

**Dazzle Ships (Parts I, IV, V & VI)** is an OMD track recorded in 2014 and released in 2015. It was written and recorded especially for the Dazzle Weekend on 01 and 02 November 2014, which also gave rise to the live performances by the band in the museum's atrium. It can be considered as an accompanying piece to Dazzle Ships (Parts II, III & VII) released on the *Dazzle Ships* album in 1983.

## Video

The accompanying video was first shown at the Dazzle Weekend at the Museum of Liverpool, in November 2014. The group were initially asked to create something visual to accompany Dazzle Ships (Parts I, IV, V & VI) just in case of inclement weather and for those who may have struggled to access the ship's engine room. The short film was created by Hambi entirely from stills taken on the Edmund Gardner ship.

The video was posted on the official OMD YouTube channel on 06 November 2014.

## Official release

Originally advertised as a bonus track on the *Dazzle Ships at The Museum of Liverpool* CD release, the track was not included either on the CD or digital download. Pledge Music admitted the omission a few days after the release and made this track available as a free digital download in .mp3 and .flac formats via the Band page / 'AccessPass'.

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The track was eventually released as part of the *Dazzle Ships At The Museum Of Liverpool (EP)* released in December 2014.

In December 2023 it was made available on streaming servces as the final or 'bonus' track to the *Dazzle Ships at The Museum of Liverpool* album.
Motion and Heart

Organisation - Side one

Souvenir 10" tracklisting

**Motion and Heart** (sometimes written **Motion & Heart**) is the title of an OMD song, first released as part of the *Organisation* album in October 1980. An early version of the song had also been recorded for the group's second John Peel session in April 1980.

Another version, recorded at Amazon studios after the release of the *Organisation* album, produced by the band themselves, was produced as a possible single release in 1981. The plan was however abandoned and the track later featured as a B-side to the Souvenir single in August of that year.

## Versions

Each version is slightly different from the other.

* **Peel session version**: the track begins with some radio recordings and continues with some plain keyboard chords and riffs over a slow beat machine-generated rhythm. The lyrics are similar to the later completed version, although are almost ad-libbed. The recording fades out at the end.
* ***Organisation* album version:** a little faster (but still mid-tempo) compared to the early version although drum beat would seem to be machine-generated with some manual high-hat playing. A piano riff melody is added, as well as a middle section. Lyrics are more defined, finishing with mo-mo-mo-mo-motion and heart..*.etc." to and the track finishes on one organ chord rather than the whole track fading out completely.*
* **Amazon version**: slightly faster again (more up-beat - intervening live versions had also been faster paced) with 'real' drums playing the back beat. Lyrics and structure remain as per album version.

## Availability

 Peel session version
 Amazon version
* *Architecture & Morality* (2003 expanded ed.)
 live
* Live At The Theatre Royal Drury Lane (live 1971, rel.1982 - video)
* *Architecture & Morality The Singles* (audio of the above, rel. 2021) *(McCluskey remarks: "This is for those wearing thin ties")*

## See also

* Peel sessions
* Organisation tour
	+ Los Angeles, 14 & 15 April 1981 ‎
* Sacred Heart
* Navigation (song)
* Architecture & Morality tour
	+ Toronto, 24 April 1981 ‎
* Junk Culture tour
	+ Birmingham, 08 February 1986
Broken (As We Open, So We Close demo)

**Broken (As We Open, So We Close) [04-10-16]** is the title of a demo track that would later be released as As We Open, So We Close on the album *The Punishment of Luxury* in 2017. The parenthesised date suggests a recording date of 04 October 2016.

The demo was released on CD2 of *The Punishment of Luxury (deluxe).*
Graham Weir

**Graham Weir** (b.1960) is a British musician who recorded and played live with Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark in the 1980s. He is the brother of Neil Weir.

Graham first came into contact with OMD as a member of Fiction Factory's live band, who were the support act on the Junk Culture tour. The Weir brothers ended up playing brass parts for both bands on the tour. They had also appeared on *Top of the Pops* miming to the brass parts on Locomotion.

The Weirs went on to record in the studio on OMD's next album *Crush*, again playing on the relative tour, and again on *The Pacific Age* where they had effectively become full group members.

The brothers have writing credits with Paul Humphreys for the OMD track (Forever) Live and Die.
BBC TV Performances (DVD)

**BBC TV Performances**

DVD available with Souvenir box set (2019).

1. Messages (The Old Grey Whistle Test 15/04/1980)

2. Messages (Top Of The Pops 08/05/1980)

3. Messages (Top Of The Pops 29/05/1980)

4. Enola Gay (Top Of The Pops 09/10/1980)

5. Souvenir (Top Of The Pops 03/09/1981) - *TOTP2 recording, with captions*

6. Joan of Arc (Top Of The Pops 29/10/1981)

7. Maid Of Orleans (Top Of The Pops 14/01/1982) \*

8. Genetic Engineering (Top Of The Pops 03/03/1983)

9. Locomotion (Top Of The Pops 19/04/1984)

10. Locomotion (Top Of The Pops 03/05/1984)

11. Talking Loud and Clear (Top Of The Pops 05/07/1984)

12. Tesla Girls (Top Of The Pops 13/09/1984)

13. So in Love (Top Of The Pops 30/05/1985)

14. La Femme Accident (The Old Grey Whistle Test 22/10/1985)

15. (Forever) Live and Die (Top Of The Pops 18/09/1986)

16. Dreaming (Wogan 27/06/1988)

17. Sailing on the Seven Seas (Top Of The Pops 02/05/1991)

18. Pandora’s Box (It’s a Long, Long Way) (Top Of The Pops 11/07/1991)

19. Pandora’s Box (It’s a Long, Long Way) (Top Of The Pops 25/07/1991)

20. Call My Name (Pebble Mill 11/12/1991)

21. Stand Above Me (Top Of The Pops 13/05/1993)

22. Walking on the Milky Way (Top Of The Pops 16/08/1996)

23. Enola Gay (Later With Jools Holland 31/05/2013)

* error in date; broadcast 21 January 1982
30 May

**30 May**

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* **1988**: LIVE - DM support: Cleveland Blossom Music Festival, Cuyahoga Falls, OH, USA
* **1993**: CHARTS - Stand Above Me down to no.56 (final chart pos.)

## Related

* **2008**: Blank & Jones release Miracle Cure single, with vocal by Bernard Sumner and a remix by Paul Humphreys as Onetwo.[1]
Manchester, 03 August 1979

**Live concert**

**Date**: Friday, 03 August 1979

**Venue**: the Factory (Russell Club), Manchester UK

**Tour**: one-off

**Line up**: Andy McCluskey, Paul Humphreys, Winston

**Notes**: OMD's first single has been released on Factory records FAC6 and they play a 'headlining' gig in support of that.

## Setlist

*unconfirmed*

1. Messages
2. Bunker Soldiers
3. Julia's Song
4. VCL XI
5. Almost
6. Red Frame/White Light
7. Mystereality
8. Electricity
9. Waiting for the Man

## Media

Kevin Cummins was at the gig to take pictures. All photos (c) Kevin Cummins and are available via Getty images
31 December

**31 December**

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	+ "..*we found ourselves going on stage at 3 o'clock in the morning on New year's Day after watching everyone else around indulging in rather an excess of New Year spirits*." (Fan Club Newsletter, Spring 1981)
* **1985**: LIVE - Thompson Twins support: Toronto Maple Leaf Gardens, Canada.
* **1986**: LIVE - TPA tour Selina's Coogee Bay Hotel, Sydney, Australia
* **2015**: LIVE - Rynek Glowny, Wroclaw, Poland (short set, The Stranglers also on the bill)
Neil Weir

**Neil Weir** (b.1961) is a British musician who recorded and played live with Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark in the 1980s. He is the brother of Graham Weir.

Graham first came into contact with OMD as a member of Fiction Factory's live band, who were the support act on the Junk Culture tour. The Weir brothers ended up playing brass parts for both bands on the tour. They had also appeared on *Top of the Pops* miming to the brass parts on Locomotion.

The Weirs went on to record in the studio on OMD's next album *Crush*, again playing on the relative tour, and again on *The Pacific Age* where they had effectively become full group members.

The brothers have writing credits with Paul Humphreys for the OMD track (Forever) Live and Die.
Bibliography

List of printed books and magazine articles which are referred to in the pages of this Wiki.

## Books

* **Kneale**, Julia - *Moods, Memories and other Manoeuvres - A Memoir*, Acorn Independent Press (2014)
* **Houghton**, Richard - *OMD Pretending To See The Future*, This Day In Music Books, Huntingdon. (2016)
* **West**, Mike - *Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark* (an unauthorised biography), Omnibus Press, London. (1982)

## Music Magazines & Weeklies

links to online scans or transcripts are given where possible
Middlesborough, 08 March 1980

Source: Bootleg, audience recording, available here

## Details

Date: Saturday 08 March 1980

City: Middlesborough, UK

Venue: Rock Gardens

Tour: OMITD tour

## Line-up

* Andy McCluskey, Paul Humphreys, Malcolm Homes, Dave Hughes

## Setlist

1. I Betray My Friends (Intro tape)
2. Bunker Soldiers
3. Pretending To See The Future
4. Almost
5. Mystereality
6. Julia's Song
7. Two Chameleons
8. Red Frame/White Light
9. Dancing
10. Messages
11. Enola Gay
12. Waiting For The Man
13. Electricity

*Encores unknown*
Gary Barlow

**Gary Barlow** (b. 20 January 1971) is a British singer, songwriter, record producer and recording artist. He first became well-known in pop-culture as a member of boy-band Take That and later established himself as a solo artist and also as songwriter for other artists.

## Links to OMD

* Barlow collaborated with Andy McCluskey in writing and recording the song Thrill Me which features on the album *Fly (Songs Inspired by the Film Eddie The Eagle)*. Other 'eighties' artists such as Holly Johnson, Martin Fry, Kim Wilde and Paul Young also collaborated with Barlow for the album.
* quotes from: "*Gary Barlow didn’t just meet his ’80s heroes, he made a retro album with them*" - interview with Mike Mettler, for digitaltrends.com, 17-06-2016

> MM: What other songs from that era (*eighties*) are personal touchstones for you?
> *GB: You know what? The very old OMD stuff — the original Enola Gay (1980), Souvenir (1981) — that was the real lightbulb going off.*
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> MM: I’ll bet *Electricity* (1979) was also a key OMD track for you.
> *GB: Absolutely, absolutely! Pretty much anything from ’79 is when the musical lightbulb went off for me — when I just started realizing, “That’s what I want to be.” Those sounds were what I dreamed of making.*
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Access All Areas

**Access All Areas** is the title of an OMD live album documenting the Rockstage TV show, a live band performance at the Royal Court Theatre in Leicester, UK, on 28 July 1980, and first broadcast on ITV on 22 April 1981. A joint CD/DVD package was issued on 25 September 2015. A vinyl LP picture disc was also issued on 05 February 2016.

"Access All Areas" is actually the umbrella title for a series of live concert performances, issued by Edsel Records/Demon Music Group on CD/DVD and in some cases on vinyl. Other band performances issued to date include artists as varied as Buzzcocks, Rick Wakeman, Joe Jackson and Uriah Heep. (full list here)

The CD only, with different artwork, was also issued in the US under the *British Live Performance Series* in 2016.

## Background

The recording is an interesting document in OMD history as it shows the band's in their transition phase between their OMITD tour set-up ("grill" panels are still used on the synth stands and Dave Hughes is still part of the live band) to the 'smarter' look and tighter sound. Two new songs are also played: Motion & Heart and Enola Gay, still both 'work in progress' especially regarding their respective lyrics. Enola Gay is still notably missing the drum machine intro as well as the Mal Holmes' drum break as middle eighth. The song is, however, already a rousing show-closer and crowd favourite, despite being relatively unknown. Both tracks have been developed considerably, however, since their first outing on the second Peel session earlier in the year.

## Tracklisting

CD/DVD Edsel AAACDVD043

1. Messages
2. Mystereality
3. Bunker Soldiers
4. Motion & Heart
5. Red Frame/White Light
6. Enola Gay
7. Electricity

The DVD has the same tracks

The inner booklet erroneously lists Enola Gay twice as tracks 06 and 07, therefore giving a total of eight tracks.

LP / pic disc Demon Records DEMREC36

* Side 1 above tracks 1-3
* Side 2 above tracks 4-7

## External links

* Discogs
* Spotify
* YouTube
August 1993

**August 1993**

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August 1982 | August 1984

## OMD

* Interview with AM in *Sound On Sound* magazine (read here)
	+ discusses recording the *Liberator* album, working with Phil Coxon and Stuart Kershaw, the Pink Museum, Amazon Studios, various technology, Christine (song). Some contributions from Coxon. Stuart Kershaw "couldn't make the interview due to a car crash".
* 08 - Dream of Me makes final UK Top 100 placing at no.64.
* 25 - Live performance at Royal Court Theatre, Liverpool UK before going on to Rock Over Germany.
Albums (categories)

**Albums** entered into the OMD Wiki should be categorised as follows:

* Albums - includes OMD albums and albums by other artists
	+ OMD albums
		- Studio albums (OMD only)
		- Compilation albums (OMD only)
		- Compilation albums with other artists
		- Live albums (OMD only)
	+ Non-OMD albums (only sub-category for albums not issued by OMD)

* Year (of release, or of performance if live album)

## Notes

Album title must also bear its own category and should be applied to related singles, tours, etc.
Album titles quoted in articles must be written in *italics*.
ABC Auto-Industry

Dazzle Ships Side One, track 3.

**ABC Auto-Industry** is the title of a track written and recorded by OMD, originally released on the *Dazzle Ships* album in 1983.

The track was one of the album's more 'experimental' moments, and is a sound collage of a sampled spoken "A B C" and "1 2 3" over more sampled spoken clips of an Eastern European English language radio programme, presumably on the subject of robotics in the automotive industry. Sampled clips include, "*Robotics, a science tried in some factories...functions and adaptability,..in its own terminology.*.". A sampled kettle drum beat also "plays" a simple melody, made of four notes.

> *“ABC Auto-Industry is a song about machines taking over the manufacturing industry,” Humphreys says. “We were talking about that in ’83, and now most cars are made by robots, as are may other things...*" - PH, 2023
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As with the rest of the album, ABC Auto-Industry was produced by Rhett Davies and OMD.

**ABC Auto-Industry** was first heard as part of OMD's performance on Channel 4's *The Tube* on 04 February 1983, and again as part of the group's fourth Peel session, first broadcast on 21 February 1983, before being released as part of the album the following month.

The track was also part of the opening of the Dazzle Ships tour live set, with group members performing movements such as moving objects with a 'robot' hand, waving flags and showing the 'lyrics' on a hand-driven rolling screen (see *The Tube* performance in Media, below). It was also used in the intro sections of live performances of *Dazzle Ships* in 2014 and 2016 (with a band 'performance' using just flags), and partially in the intro section of dates of the Souvenir tour, 2019-20.

## Availability

 Album version (2:06)
 Peel session version (2:31)
 Live versions
* *Dazzle Ships At The Museum Of Liverpool* (2015)
* *Architecture & Morality / Dazzle Ships – Live at the Royal Albert Hall* (2016)
* *Live at The Empire Theatre Liverpool* (2019) (part)

## Cover versions

* Circa Tapes - album *Love and Venom* (2017) [1]

## Notes

1. ↑ *OMD: 'We became fascinated with the Cold War*', yorkshirepost.co.uk, 2023-03-30
Drift

**Drift** is the title of an instrumental track written, recorded and released by OMD as the B-side to the Secret single in July 1985.

It is one of the few 1980s B-sides not to have been included on the *Navigation The OMD B-Sides* complation CD.

## Origins

The origins of Drift are unknown although some similarities with the song Talking Loud and Clear and the fact that it was produced by Brian Tench suggest that it came out of the *Junk Culture* sessions (1984).

## Style & content

Drift is a relaxed, slow moving instrumental puctuated only by a few bars of a sharp snare drum, occurring twice in the first half of the song. The second half features an alto-sax motif, probably played by Martin Cooper.

## Release

Drift was released on the B-side of the standard UK issues of both the 7" and 12" of Secret on 08 July 1985. The recording is identical on both formats, with a running time of approx 4:00.

The track was not included on the *Navigation* b-sides compilation and has never been released in digital format. It remains therefore unique to the vinyl issues. It des not feature on any studio album

US issues of Secret feature Firegun instead of Drift as b-side.

## Availability

* Secret 7" single, Virgin VS796
* Secret 12" single, Virgin VS796-12 (also on the special edition which includes DIN 6-12)
La mitrailleuse

**La mitrailleuse** is a song included on the album The Punishment of Luxury (2017). It was one of the first tracks to be previewed from the album with the online publication of an animated video. The track was also made available on streaming sites.

## Origins

The inspiration for the song comes from a painting by the artist C.R.W. Nevinson, one of the most famous war artists of World War I. His 1915 painting *La Mitrailleuse*, (French, "the machine gun”), shows three soldiers in the trenches wearing metal Adrian helmets, one firing a machine gun. The subjects are abstracted into angular geometric blocks becoming dehumanised components in a machine of death. The artist later wrote: "To me the soldier going to be dominated by the machine ... I was the first man to express this feeling on canvas."

## Style

The OMD song is composed of a droning sound intro which leads to a rhythm track emulating machine-gun fire and explosions. Andy McCluskey's treated single vocal line *“Bend your body to the will of the machine”* blends in with the synthetic sound collage.

## Availability

* One version only, available on The Punishment of Luxury album, as a single track on music streaming sites and as video (see above).
Now That's What I Call Music 5 (VHS)

**Now That's What I Call Music 5** is a 30-track various artists compilation album, part of the NOW.. series, originally issued in August 1985.

An accompanying VHS video cassette with the same title was also released around the same time.

## OMD

Although the original LP/MC, and 2020 CD, releases did not feature any OMD tracks, the VHS featured the promo video of So In Love.

## See also

* Now That's What I Call Music 3
* Now That's What I Call Music 4 / Now That's What I Call Music 4 (CD)
* Now That's What I Call Music 8
* Now That's What I Call Music 25
Unused 1

**Unused 1** in the title of a short demo track by OMD, originally recorded in December 1980, and eventually released on Unreleased Archive Vol I in 2019.

The track uses a synthesizer riff, and other sounds, which would later form another 'previously unreleased' track, Submarines, on the Architecture & Morality The Singles compilation in 2021.
Messages: Greatest Hits

**Messages: Greatest Hits** is a compilation album released by OMD on 29 September 2008. A joint CD/DVD release, it was the group's most comprehensive 'hits' anthology to date, featuring 20 audio tracks on the CD and 31 videos (thirty promo videos plus one TV appearance). It came ten years after the previous compilation *The OMD Singles* (1998) and twenty years after *The Best of OMD* (1988).

The album takes its title from OMD's 1980 breakthrough hit, which also opens the track listing. It is therefore the first, and to date only, hits compilation not to begin with Electricity.

While still omitting some singles (see below), the CD reinstates Genetic Engineering, Telegraph (bonus tracks only on *The Best of..*, both omitted from *The OMD Singles*) and Secret (omitted from *The OMD Singles*). The DVD included all the thirty single releases to that date, plus a video for Hold You which had been considered as a possible single. The long lost video for Red Frame/White Light also finally saw the light of day after many years of obscurity.

## Artwork

*Messages*' cover and artwork are credited to Ian M Hazeldine, who had also designed the artwork for Onetwo releases. The cover bears the word 'messages' written in Morse code, also reproduced vertically on the back and in the booklet, which also features the 1981 black and white photograph of PH & AM in close-up by Eric Watson, with a replica up-to-date version by (?). The orange/black colour scheme is reminiscent of the debut album design.

## Track notes

### Audio

* OMD's first hit single Messages is the opening track, followed by Electricity, although the rest of the track listing is in chronological order of release. Electricity opens all other OMD singles compilation albums.
* Red Frame/White Light is, again, omitted although Genetic Engineering and Telegraph, not included on *The OMD Singles*, are re-instated.
* Locomotion, Talking Loud and Clear and Tesla Girls are placed in correct order.
* Secret and Pandora's Box are both re-instated (left off The OMD Singles)

### Video

* This was the first DVD/digital release for most of the promo videos. Some had been released on *The Best of OMD (VHS)* in 1988.
* The video for Red Frame/White Light had been particularly elusive during the band's history and is released here for the first time.
* There was no promo video made for Joan of Arc so the Top of the Pops performance features in this release.
* Hold You was never released as a single but a promo video was made and features on this release. It had also been included on *Crush - The Movie* (1985)
* Videos for Never Turn Away, Shame and from Sailing On The Seven Seas onward were released here for the first time.

## Tracklisting

CD
*tbc - for now, see discogs*
Cologne (Köln, DE), 09 April 1983

Source: recording of WDR 2 (Germany) radio broadcast

Available: soundcloud - Charly0509

## Location

City: Cologne, W. Germany

Venue: Sendesaal, Cologne (live performance auditorium belonging to WDR - Westdeutsche Rundfunk)

Date: 09 April 1983

Tour: Dazzle Ships tour

Support: Cocteau Twins (not on recording)

## Line-up

* Andy McCluskey, Paul Humphreys, Malcolm Holmes, Martin Cooper

## Setlist

per recording (*full setlist on omd-live.com*)

* *AM speaks German.. then says "It's all on tape!"*
* Georgia
* Almost
* Julia's Song
* Joan of Arc
* Statues
* The Romance of the Telescope
* Souvenir
* Telegraph
* Radio Waves
* Bunker Soldiers
* Enola Gay (*fades out at the end*)
Navigation (song)

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* Navigation

**Navigation** is the title of an OMD song, first released as a B-side in 1981.

(For the OMD B-sides compilation of the same name see *Navigation The OMD B-Sides*)

## Availability

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* *Architecture & Morality The Singles* (2021)

## See also

* The Romance of the Telescope
* Motion and Heart (Amazon version)
* Sacred Heart
* Of All The Things We've Made
December 1981

**December 1981**

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## OMD events

* The Architecture & Morality tour continues and finishes in Rep of Ireland.
* 04 December performance at Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London is filmed for future video release.
* appearance on the Christmas Day edition of *Top of the Pops* for a mimed performance of *Souvenir*.
Dalek I

**Dalek I** (sometimes written as Dalek i, or dalek i and also known as Dalek I Love You) were an experimental new wave band from Liverpool.

## OMD Connections

* Andy McCluskey was at one point a member of the very flexible Dalek I line-up for live work in 1978
* Martin Cooper also performed and recorded with Dalek I from 1978 up to as late as 1981.
* Dalek I member Dave Hughes joined OMD in January 1980 for the first headlining tour and some TV and promotional work. He appears on promo videos for Electricity, Red Frame/White Light and the TOTP performances of Messages.
* Early OMD live performances, up to and including early 1980, featured a cover version of Dalek I track Two Chameleons.

## External links

* dalekiloveyou.com
* Dalek I on discogs.com
* *Dalek I Love You: An Annotated Discography*, by Robin Parmar, updated May 2019
* *Dalek I Love You* on toppermost.co.uk, posted 27 April 2017
Untitled 3

**Untitled 3** is the title given to a short demo track, recorded by OMD in September 1982 during the *Dazzle Ships* sessions. It remained unreleased until being included on *Unreleased Archive Vol I* in 2019.

The demo does not resemble any particular track that was eventually released on the album, although the repeated voice sounds may be an early example of OMD experimenting with the Fairlight sampler, giving a similar result to, for example, the intro to Joan of Arc.
In Heaven Above (4-Neu Demo)

**In Heaven Above (4-Neu Demo)** is the title of a track released by OMD on 02 February 2023 as a preview to the upcing 40th anniversary edition of the *Dazzle Ships* album. The track was released on digital platforms only, available as paid download or in streaming.

As labelled, the track appears to be an early version of 4-Neu, a song which was released in February 1983 as the B-side to the Genetic Engineering single.

## External links

* YouTube
* Spotify
Kiss Kiss Kiss Bang Bang Bang (demo)

**Kiss Kiss Kiss Bang Bang Bang [25-02-15]** is the title of a demo track that would later be released as Kiss Kiss Kiss Bang Bang Bang on the album *The Punishment of Luxury* in 2017. The parenthesised date suggests a recording date of 25 February 2015.

The demo was released on CD2 of *The Punishment of Luxury (deluxe).*
Dresden

CD single

**Dresden** is the title of a song recorded by OMD, originally released on the album *English Electric* (2013) and later released as the second single from the album on 20 May 2013.[2]

## Background

The track was written by Andy McCluskey who sings lead vocal. The lyrics concern his divorce and the disintegration of his family some years earlier, likening the disaster scenario to that of the drastic bombing of the German city of Dresden in 1945.

A demo version of the track, entitled "Dresden 05.02.09" was released on demos CD of the *English Electric* limited edition box set. This would suggest the track was written as early as February 2009.

## Single release

Dresden was released as a single in a slightly different mix compared to the album version. Official date of release was 20 May 2013 although the track had received some radio play as the new single previous to that date.

The physical release featured the bonus track Time Burns, at the time exclusive to this release, and three remixes. It reached **no.1** in the UK Physical Singles Chart on 26 May 2013.[3]

The tracks were also made available as an i-tunes download bundle, together with a bonus remix. The five-track bundle was successively made available on streaming services as a 'single'.[4]

### Tracklisting

1. Dresden (single edit) (03:25)
2. Time Burns (02:06)
3. Dresden (John Foxx & The Maths remix) (04:14)
4. Dresden (Mike Jolly's Architectural remix) (06:18)
5. Dresden (Bounce Darkside remix) (05:07)
6. Dresden (Zebra and Snake remix) (05:46) - *i-tunes only*

### Promo video

As with other singles from English Electric, a special 'animated' video was produced for video, although it was based on a 'live' performance of the track by the four members of the band, inter-cut with scenes of an arguing couple. (See section below)

## Live

Dresden was played live as part of the set on the English Electric tour. The four-piece also played the song live on *Later... with Jools Holland* broadcast on BBC Two on Wednesday 29 May and 31 May 2013 (together with Enola Gay and Kissing the Machine).

## Availability

 demo
 album (03:36)
 single edit
 live

## External links

* Discogs
* MusicBrainz
* Bombing of Dresden in WW II - Wikipedia in WW II - Wikipedia
Last Summer on Earth 2016

**Last Summer on Earth 2016** was a US tour by Canadian group Barenaked Ladies, with **OMD** and Howard Jones as support, which took place in June and July 2016.

## Line-up

* Andy McCluskey
* Paul Humphreys
* Martin Cooper
* Stuart Kershaw

## Setlist

*with occasional variations*

1. Enola Gay
2. Secret
3. Tesla Girls
4. History of Modern Part I
5. If You Leave
6. Forever Live and Die
7. Maid of Orleans
8. So In Love
9. Dreaming
10. Locomotion
11. Electricity

## Dates

announcement here

* 03 June - The Cabooze, Minneapolis, MN
* -
* -
* 24 July - Greek Theatre, Los Angeles
Enola Gay (2020 remixes)

In 2020, to mark the 40th anniversary of the original release of Enola Gay, the song was given the remix treatment and issued in various formats.

A 40th anniversary T-shirt was also made available via the OMD official store.[1]

## Artwork

All artwork is similar to the original issue although the clouds at sunset photograph is superimposed in part with an archive photo of a devastated Hiroshima.

Font and layout remain similar to the original.

## Hot Chip remix

* released 25 September: available in digital formats and via streaming platforms.
* remixed by British synth-pop band Hot Chip, formed in 2000.
* a tweet announcing the issue of the single on OMD's official Twitter account named Al Doyle in particular for the remix.[2]
* an 'audio video' was also released on OMD's official YouTube channel.

## OMD mixes

### Extended mix

* released on digital and streaming 16 October 2020, with official OMD announcement on 19 October:[3]
	+ "*We never made an extended mix when the track was originally released, so we thought it would be fun to create one now with all the original elements.*"
* released 27 November, 12" coloured vinyl (b/w Slow mix)

### Slow mix

* digital release 13 November (download and streaming)
* released 27 November, 12" coloured vinyl (b/w Extended mix)

## Physical release

A 12" vinyl single, featuring the extended mix and Slow mix, was released on 27 November 2020. It entered the UK Vinyl Singles Top 40 at no.1 on 04 December 202, and again at no. 7 on 08 January 2021. (see *Official Charts*)[4][5]

## Theo Kottis remix

A fourth remix by Edinburgh born DJ Theo Kottis was released on digital platforms on 04 December 2020.

## RSD 2021 release

12" coloured vinyl for Record Store Day 2021, released on 12 June:

A. Enola Gay (Hot Chip remix)

B. Enola Gay (Theo Kottis remix)

This release made Enola Gay a chart 're-entry' at no.18 in the Official Singles Vinyl Chart the following week.[6][7]

## External links

* Enola Gay - 40th Anniversary (12" Coloured Vinyl) (official store) [8]
* Enola Gay (remixes) Youtube playlist
O.M.D.

**O.M.D.** is the title of a compilation album featuring a selection of tracks form Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark's first two albums, released in the US only on the Epic label in August 1981. The album was designed as a 'catch-up' selection for the North American market, and was also backed up by a short tour by the band in September and October 1981, shortly before the release of their new studio album.

Just as the album draws on OMD tracks originally released in 1980, the sleeve design is also a combination of the first two albums, *Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark* and *Organisation*. The front cover reproduces the debut album's orange 'lozenges' design (although is not die-cut) on a grey background, while the rear of the sleeve reproduces the black and white photograph of AM/PH as used on the second album, from which also come the typeface and track listing layout.

## Tracklisting

LP Epic ‎– FE 37411, Virgin ‎– FE 37411, Dindisc ‎– FE 37411

Side One

1. Enola Gay
2. 2nd Thought
3. Bunker Soldiers
4. Almost
5. Electricity
6. Statues

Side Two

1. The Misunderstanding
2. Julia's Song
3. Motion and Heart
4. Messages
5. Stanlow

### Notes

The LP sleeve gives recording, mixing and production details for each track. Labels give writing credits and timings.

While most tracks are simply lifted from the original albums, some differences occur, namely:

* Bunker Soldiers is a slightly different mix to the original album version, although the song structure remains the same.
* Almost and Electricity are listed as being 'Recorded at Cargo, mixed at Strawberry. Produced by Martin Hannett. A Factory Records Product.' This version is unverified at the time of writing although if this is so then it is different to the album version.
* Statues is given a timing of 4.08 so may be an edit of the original 4.27 album version *(shorter fade-out?)*
* Messages is the single version, produced by Mike Howlett.
* Stanlow states Recorded at Stanlow Oil Refinery and Ridge Farm.

The album was also released on cassette but does not bear any credits, only promotional information about other available Epic releases on cassette.

Tracks from original albums omitted: Mystereality, The Messerschmitt Twins, Messages (album version), Red Frame/White Light, Dancing, Pretending To see The Future, VCL XI, The More I See You, Promise.

## Personell

* Paul Humphreys
* Andy McCluskey
* Malcolm Holmes

On Julia's Song - Julia Kneale lyrics, Dave Fairbairn guitar

Grafica Industria design Ben Kelly and Peter Saville. Photo - Trevor Key

## Gallery

*all images from discogs.com*

LPMC
## External links

* discogs.com
* "*THE POP LIFE; A SYNTHESIZER BAND WHOSE MUSICIANS OUTSMART MACHINES*", Palmer R., *New York Times*, August 19, 1981, Section C, Page 18 [1]
April 1980

**April 1980**

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## OMD

* Second Peel session recorded on 14 and broadcast on 21 - first outings of new songs Enola Gay and Motion and Heart.
* Re-recording of Messages with Mike Howlett continues from March and is presumably completed.
* First national TV appearance on The Old Grey Whistle Test on 15 of this month. the four-piece perform Dancing and Messages (new version).
* After one special gig at the Electric Ballroom, Camden, London on 11, OMITD tour northern Europe with Fad Gadget.
* Some work in The Gramophone Suite. The demo Ambient 1 is dated "04.1980".