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David Bowie

**David Bowie** (David Robert Jones, b. 08 January 1947, London - d. 10 January 2016, NYC) was a British singer, musician, songwriter, recording artist, record producer and actor. He is widely considered to be the greatest and most influential solo artist of all time, with a career in music recording, performance and visual arts and acting spanning from 1964 up to his death in 2016.

## Links to OMD

Humphreys and McCluskey have cited Bowie and his music, especially his 1970s records, as being a major influence on their own music:

* Paul Humphreys and Andy McCluskey performed a cover version of Bowie song "Heroes" on the Chris Evans Breakfast Show on Radio 2 on Friday 11 August 2017.
* OMD performed a cover version of Bowie's The Jean Genie on the Zoe Ball Breakfast Show on BBC Radio 2 on 15 November 2019.
* BBC Radio 2 Gary Davies 'My 80s' 08 October 2021: AM chooses Let's Dance (1983) as one his favourite tracks, while PH chooses Ashes to Ashes (1980).

Like OMD, Bowie has also cited Kraftwerk as among his own influences.

OMD and Bowie both released music during the same period in the 1980s and were in the UK charts at the same time on several occasions:

* September 1980: Enola Gay enters the UK Top 100 (59) as Ashes to Ashes spends its final week in the Top 40.[1] The positions are reversed the following week.
* November 1981: Joan of Arc is in the UK Top 10 while Bowie enjoys a no.1 single with Queen and their joint Under Pressure single, while Bowie's solo Wild is the Wind, taken from 1976's Station to Station album, is also in the Top 30.
* March 1983: Bowie's highly anticipated Let's Dance single enters the charts at no.5, just as Genetic Engineering leaves the Top 40 at no.32.
* April 1983: Bowie's *Let's Dance* album storms in to the charts at no.1 while *Dazzle Ships* is still at no.25 and remains Top 30 for another week.
* September 1984: Tesla Girls is at no.21 in the Top 40 the week that Bowie's Blue Jean is the highest new entry.
* June 1985: So In Love peaks at no.27 as Bowie's Loving the Alien enters at no.23.
* September 1991: Bowie's band project Tin Machine have their second album enter the UK charts, when *Sugar Tax* is still in the Top 20.
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**April 1983**

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## OMD

* 01 April - Telegraph single released, but fails to make the Top 40 in the UK.
* *Dazzle Ships* slowly slips down the album charts.
* The Dazzle Ships tour gets underway in Europe before coming to the UK, continuing into May.

## Related

* David Bowie achieves worldwide commercial success with the *Let's Dance* album.
* OMD contemporaries The Human League, Heaven 17, U2, Culture Club and New Order all make the charts.
Guitar Thrash

**Guitar Thrash** 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 track features a 'motorik' drum-machine beat (similar to that used on Radio Waves) although the titular guitar sound does not seem to have featured on any *Dazzle Ships* track. If anything, it may resemble the guitar sounds eventually used on 88 Seconds in Greensboro (1985) or even New Babies: New Toys (2011).
Don't Go

Single cover art

**Don't Go** is the title of an OMD song first released as a digital single on 20 August 2019 ahead of the release of the Souvenir anthology

It is OMD's fortieth single and therefore the final track on *Souvenir - The Singles Collection 1979-2019*.

## Origins

Don't Go was originally written during the Punishment of Luxury album sessions, and had been considered as a possible B-side. OMD later realised its potential as a strong single.

## Release

The track as released as a digital single only for download and made available on streaming platforms. Although Don't Go was a 'classic' OMD song with a catchy synth hook and a repeated '*(Please) don't go*' chorus, it was not well accepted by all fans. The song received some radio play.

The track was later included on the *Bauhaus Staircase* album, released in October 2023.

## Live performance

Don't Go was performed live on the Souvenir tour (2019-20) and successively on the Architecture & More Tour (2021).

## Media

A 'video' featuring the track was originally posted on the group's official YouTube channel on the release of the song, although an official animated video was also posted on the channel on 30 September.

## References

1. ↑ see Bebb I., *OMD – Don’t Go review,* Aug. 2019*.*

## External links

* Discogs
* Spotify
All That Glitters

Sugar Tax LP Side Two

**All That Glitters** is an OMD song written by OMD (McCluskey)/Kershaw/Massett first released as the closing track on the *Sugar Tax* album in 1991.

One of the three tracks produced by Andy Richards, All That Glitters remains exclusive to this release.

There is no evidence of the song ever being performed live.
Abbey Clancey

**Abbey Clancey** (b.10 January 1986) is a British model and TV personality. She is married to former professional footballer Peter Crouch.

## Links to OMD

* Clancy formed girl band Genie Queen, who were managed by Andy McCluskey.

> *When I stopped working with the Kittens Abbey (Clancey) came knocking on my door and in an effort to send her away I said I’m not working with a solo artist. She was 16 then, she came back two weeks later with two girls and she auditioned in the clothes shop she was working in on a Saturday afternoon. They were amazing, they could sing better than the Kittens and they looked stunning and the music,- we made an album with them - was way better than the Kittens. Stupidly I tried to get them a major deal and couldn’t because girl bands were out of fashion. Then Abbey realised there was a better living to be made of from dating a footballer. You know what she’s got one of the best voices I’ve ever recorded in my life - that girl can sing.* - A.McCluskey for gigwise.com, September 2017.
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## External links

* *Three Wishes For Genie Queen*, BBC Liverpool, Sep. 2003
Leigh, 27 August 1979

For the audio recordings of this concert see: *Live at Leigh Rock Festival '79*

**Venue: Leigh Festival, UK**

Date: Monday (Bank Holiday), 27 August 1979

## Notes

'Zoo Meets Factory Halfway' - final day of the Festival which brought together bands from Zoo Records (Liverpool) and Factory (Manchester) record labels. Leigh in Lancashire was deemed to be located approximately halfway between the two cities.

The event was badly advertised and so poorly attended, also considering its remote location.

Other bands appearing: Joy Division, A Certain Ratio, Teardrop Explodes, Echo & The Bunnymen et al.

## Line-up

* Paul Humphreys - keyboards, vocal
* Andy McCluskey - bass guitar, vocals
* Winston

## Set-list

* Messages
* Bunker Soldiers
* Julia's Song
* VCBXL
* Almost
* Red Frame/White Light
* Mystery Reality  ("*features Winston on saxophone*")
* Electricity
* Waiting For The Man

### Notes

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 VCL XI and Mystereality respectively, either wrongly written or transcribed
2. ↑ A few seconds of the beginning only on recording. Announced as "the last one".

## Recording

See also: *Live at Leigh Rock Festival '79*

A bootleg recording later found its way onto a 2xCD set in 2006, on Interstate Records [1], and also onto digital streaming platforms.[2]

This is the earliest known recording of an OMD live performance. No further live recordings exist of VCL XI.

## Reviews

* Sounds, 08 September: "..*an open air event is hardly the place for OMITD to achieve their full atmospheric potential.[...] Musically they were fine but the sight of two blokes playing keyboards isn't exactly the perfect formula for a successful festival set.[..] .. the bouncing, dancing, vibrating sound of OMITD stands leagues above [..] Numan or the hip pitiful throb of The Tiller Boys*." (via SoundsClips)
Nigel Ipinson

**Nigel Ipinson** (Nigel Ipinson-Fleming, b. 1970, Liverpool) is a British keyboardist and former member of Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark.

He played on the OMD tours for the Sugar Tax and Liberator, and also co-wrote the 1996 single, Walking on the Milky Way. He is also credited for playing and arranging piano on OMD's cover version of Sunday Morning, which features on the *Liberator* album.

Official live recordings featuring Nigel Ipinson as part of OMD are Enola Gay, Dreaming and Call My Name (available on Dream of Me (Based on Love's Theme) CDS2 ) and Electricity, Walk Tall and Locomotion (available on Everyday CDS2) all recorded in Milton Keynes 24 August 1991 and originally broadcast on Radio 1.

Nigel has also played, written and produced for several other acts including The Stone Roses and Ian Brown.

## See also

* TOTP: 18 April 1991
* TOTP: 02 May 1991 ‎
* Birmingham, 23 October 1991
* Milton Keynes, 24 August 1991

## External links

* Official site
* Discogs page
Brand New Science

Unreleased Archive Vol I.

**Brand New Science** is the title of a song which was recorded by OMD in June 1981 but which was only released in September 2019 as the opening track on the *Unreleased Archive Vol.1* disc of the *Souvenir* boxset.

Although it was recorded prior to the *Architecture & Morality* album the song touches on a theme which would be treated on the successive *Dazzle Ships* album, most notably in the track Genetic Engineering.

The Dazzle Ships tour programme featured a graphic and a 'lyric' with the title Genetic Engineering, although they are not the lyrics of the actual song. the program 'lyrics' begin with the words:

> *There's a brand new science / For a brand new world / With no moral codes / And no big words*. [1]
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These are also the lyrics to the opening verse of Brand New Science, sung by Andy McCluskey.
Dazzle Ships at The Museum Of Liverpool (album)

**Dazzle Ships at The Museum of Liverpool** is an OMD release documenting live shows performed at the Liverpool museum on 01 and 02 November 2014. The album consists of a CD and DVD, with a hardback book, and was released on 25 September 2015, sold and distributed via the Pledge Music website (now defunct). The packaging design reflects the original *Dazzle Ships* album artwork.

All nineteen tracks performed on each night are recorded on the discs, although it is not specified which particular performance the tracks were taken from. (Note: it is known that AM "fluffed" the lyrics to Metroland on the first night, but this does not appear in the recordings)

See also: Dazzle Ships At The Museum Of Liverpool (EP)

## Line-up

* Andy McCluskey, Paul Humphreys, Martin Cooper, Winston

In the absence of a drummer, rhythm tracks had been pre-programmed. This was the first time that the group had performed as a three-piece, and the first time that Winston had been used on stage since 1979.

## Setlist

* Dazzle Ships (Parts II, III & VII)
* ABC Auto-Industry
* Sealand
* Messages
* Radio Waves
* Genetic Engineering
* History of Modern (Part I)
* Julia's Song
* She's Leaving
* Souvenir
* Maid of Orleans
* 4-Neu
* International
* Metroland
* Sister Marie Says
* Sailing on the Seven Seas
* Enola Gay
* Electricity
* The Romance of the Telescope

Note: 4 Neu and International were performed live for the first time ever at this show.
29 September

**29 September**

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## OTD

### OMD

* **1979**: PRESS - Record Mirror review of Electricity (re-release): "*Like an Eighties ' Juke Box Jury' theme OM takes shots in the dark but I can't see it*." Same issue carries ad for Electricity.
* **1980**: RADIO - John Peel plays Enola Gay, the new OMD single
* **1980**: RADIO - Recording of third Peel session (Annex / The Misunderstanding / The More I See You)
* **1981**: CHARTS - Souvenir down to no.5
* **1984**: LIVE - Junk Culture tour, Southampton Gaumont.
* **1986**: RELEASE - *The Pacific Age* album.
* **1998**: RELEASE - *Messages: Greatest Hits* compilation album
* **2020**: LIVE - Royal Albert Hall (2/2) - CANCELLED
February 1983

**February 1983**

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## OMD

* 04: Live performance on C4 programme *The Tube* - ABC Auto-Industry & Genetic Engineering
* 11: Genetic Engineering released on 7"& 12" (312mm version) b/w 4-Neu
* 12: Record Mirror feature, GE review
* 15: GE enters Top 40 at no.37
* 17: *Smash Hits* front cover feature
* 21: new Peel session first broadcast
* 22: GE up 12 places to no.25
* 26: Sounds "The Day the Synth Broke" feature
* 28: Radio 1 Kid Jensen, interview

## Related

* Depeche Mode release new single Get the Balance Right
* China Crisis make UK chart debut with Christian
* Blancmange release single Waves
31 October

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* **1991**: LIVE - ST tour, Belfast Ulster Hall, UK (final UK date before moving on to Eire & Europe).
* **2002**: RADIO - John Peel plays Promise on Radio Eins show
* **2009**: LIVE - A Night of The Proms. Antwerp Sportpaleis, Belgium.
* **2010**: LIVE - HoM tour: Bristol Colston Hall.
* **2019**: LIVE - Souvenir tour, Glasgow Royal Concert Hall

## Related

* **1980**: *Machines* album released; John Foxx releases Miles Away, his fourth single of the year
* **1983**: The Smiths release This Charming Man.
Now That's What I Call Music 4 (CD)

**Now That's What I Call Music 4 (CD)** is a 15-track compilation of hit songs from 1984 and is the first ever CD release of the NOW... series. Only some 500 copies were pressed and is thereofre considered a rarity by collectors.

It should not be confused with the LP/MC issue of Now That's What I Call Music 4 which was the second in the series issued in 1984 and has a different track listing.

## Links to OMD

The CD features Locomotion as track 5.

The abbreviation "O.M.D" is printed on the front cover and in track listings, although the full band name is given, together with a colour picture and chart performance, on the inner booklet.

## See also

* Now That's What I Call Music 3
* Now That's What I Call Music 4
Leicester, 15 April 1983

Source: fanclubyears

## Location

City: Leicester, UK

Venue: De Montfort Hall

Date: 15 April 1983

Tour: Dazzle Ships tour

Support: The Cocteau Twins

## Line-up

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

## Set-list

* Radio Prague
* Dazzle Ships
* ABC Auto Industry
* Genetic Engineering
* Messages
* She’s Leaving
* Georgia
* Almost
* Julia’s Song
* Joan of Arc
* Joan of Arc (Maid of Orleans)
* Statues
* The New Stone Age
* Souvenir
* Telegraph
* Radio Waves
* Bunker Soldiers
* Enola Gay
* **Encore:** Silent Running, Pretending to See the Future, Electricity
* **Encore 2:** Stanlow

## Notes

* The band stayed outside the city centre at the Quorn Country Hotel - see Andrew Liddle in Houghton, 2018, p.166
Enola Gay / Electricity

**Enola Gay / Electricity** was a 12" only release on the Old Gold record label, under license from Virgin records, as part of the 12 Inch Gold series.

It featured the standard versions of the two titular songs Enola Gay (3:24) and Electricity (3:33). Writing credits for both tracks are attributed to Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark.

According to information of discogs.com there were three different release variants with two different sleeves.

The 12 Inch Gold series had begun in 1986 and ran until 1993.
Now That's What I Call Music 1981

**Now That's What I Call Music 1981** is a 2-CD/36-track various artists compilation album, part of the NOW.. Millennium Series, originally issued on 21 June 1999. The album features some of the biggest hits of the year 1981.

## Links to OMD

* CD1 of the compilation features the 7"/album version of Souvenir as track 17 (of 18)

## External links

* nowmusic.com
* Discogs
Music Technology (magazine)

**Music Technology** was the title of a UK monthly magazine,focussing on developing technology in music with features on particular artists or instruments and audio technology.

The magazine was formerly known as *Electronics & Music Maker* and later simply as 'MT'.

## OMD connections

* **December 1986**: "*Dawn of a New Age"* by Tim Goodyer. (Cover title *Making Pacific Age Music*) "*From synth pop to sequencers and back. Two-and-a-half years since they lost graced our front cover, Paul Humphreys and Andy McCluskey tell Tim Goodyer how progress is made, as album number seven hits the streets."* Feature on OMD during and after a performance on the The Pacific Age tour at Hammersmith Odeon, London (29 or 30 October 1986). Online here.
* **December 1991**: "Power in the Darkness" by Tim Goodyer.    (Cover title '90s tech - '80s Ideals). "*After five years in the wilderness, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark are back with a new LP and tour. Tim Goodyer talks to Andy McCluskey about the value of technology."* Online here.

## The Listening Pool

* **October 1993**: "The Listening Pool: Pooling Resources" by Phil Ward. "*Ex-OMDers Paul Humphreys and Martin Cooper are back with new material and plenty to say on OMD, songwriting, sampling and going independent."*
Dazzle Ships (demos)

List of demo tracks from the *Dazzle Ships* recording sessions (1982/83) which have since had official release.

On *Dazzle Ships* (2008)
* Telegraph - The Manor Version 1981
* Swiss Radio International

On *Unreleased Archive Vol I* (2019)
* Guitar Thrash, Radio Swiss International, Untitled 3, Violin Piece (all dated '09.1982')
* SMPTE (dated '12.1982')

On *Dazzle Ships* (2023)
* Telegraph (very early demo / 1982)
* Silent Running (demo)
* Sold Our Souls (The Avenue Demo)
* Shakespeare '82
* Untitled Instrumental '82
* In Heaven Above (4-Neu Demo)

## Related pages

* Dazzle Ships
* Category:Demos
Liberator tour

**Promo tour** for the *Liberator* album, which took place between August and December 1993, moving into South Africa for a few dates in early January 1994.

## Line-up

* Andy McCluskey
* Phil Coxon
* Nigel Ipinson
* Stuart Kershaw

## Setlist

*typical setlist, some variations may have occured*

* Liberator tracks: Agnus Dei (opening), Heaven Is, Dollar Girl, King of Stone, Everyday, Dream of Me, Stand Above Me. NB Best Years of Our Lives (performed on opening night in Liverpool only)
* Other tracks: Electricity (encore), Messages, Enola Gay, Maid of Orleans, Talking Loud & Clear, Tesla Girls, Dreaming, Sailing on the Seven Seas, Pandora's Box, Big Town, Walking on Air, Call My Name.

## Dates

* 25 August - Royal Court Theatre, Liverpool UK - *opening date before preceding to Europe*

### Europe

dates preceded by Rock Over Germany (1993) (no Liberator songs played)

* 26 October - Stockholm Cirkus
* 27 October - Oslo Rockerfeller Music Hall, Norway
* 28 October - Lund Mejeriet, Sweden
* 30 October - Copenhagen Pumpehuset, Denmark
* 01 November - Amsterdam Paradiso, Holland
* 02 November - Paris La Cigale, France
* 04 November - Rennes La Cite L'Espace, France
* 05 November - Bordeaux Theatre Barbey Medquine, France
* 06 November - Toulouse Le Bikin Confluent, France
* 08 November - Marseille Espace Julien, France
* 09 November - Lyon Il Transbordeur, France
* 11 November - Hanover Capitol, Germany
* 12 November - Berlin Huxley's Neu Welt, Germany
* 14 November - Hamburg CCH Saal 3, Germany
* 15 November - Bielefeld Stadhalle, Germany
* 16 November - Bonn Biskuithalle, Germany
* 18 November - Dusseldorf TOR 3, Germany
* 19 November - Leipzig Haus Auensee, Germany
* 22 November - Erlangen Stadhalle, Germany
* 23 November - Ludwigsburg Forum, Germany
* 24 November - Frankfurt Music Hall, Germany
* 25 November - Mannheim Musensal, Germany
* 27 November - Munich Terminal 1, Germany
* 28 November - Vienna Kurhalle Oberlas, Austria
* 29 November - Zurich Volkhaus, Switzerland
* 01 December - Brussels La Luna, Belgium

### UK

support: Gary Numan

* 03 December - Norwich UEA, UK (late addition, Numan not supporting)
* 04 December - Glasgow, SE & CC
* 06 December - Sheffield Arena
* 07 December - Birmingham, NEC Arena,
* 08 December - Manchester, G-Mex
* 10 December - Cardiff, Ice Rink
* 11 December - Bournemouth, International Centre
* 12 December - Wembley Arena

### South Africa

* 30 December - Plettenburg Bay Beach, South Africa
* 04 January 1994 - Kaapstad Goeie Hoop Sentrum, South Africa
* 07 January - Durban Arena, South Africa
* 11 January - Johannesburg Standard Bank Arena, South Africa
* 12 January - Johannesburg Standard Bank Arena, South Africa
* 15 January - Pretoria Saambou Arena, South Africa (final date)
Aylesbury, 17 September 2021

**Live concert**

Venue: Aylesbury, Friars Waterside Theatre

Date: Friday, 17 September 2021

Tour: Festival gig, one-off

Support: Altered Images

## Line-up

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

## Setlist

*via setlist.fm*

* Messages
* Tesla Girls
* History of Modern (Part 1)
* Georgia
* (Forever) Live and Die
* She's Leaving
* Souvenir
* Joan of Arc
* Maid of Orleans
* Sealand
* Don't Go
* So In Love
* Locomotion
* Sailing on the Seven Seas
* Enola Gay

encores:

* If You Leave
* Electricity
* The Romance of the Telescope

## Notes

* This was OMD's third ever gig at Aylesbury Friars. Martin Cooper had played his first ever gig with the band at this venue in 1980. Organiser David Stopps gave each member an award prior to the show.
* The gig had been pre-announced as a 'warm-up' for the forthcoming Architecture & Morality Classic Album Tour. The setlist featured six of the album's tracks, plus TROTT.
* Prior to the event, on 11 September 2011, Mike Naylor of BBC Three Counties radio ran a feature on the group's history, with commentary by Andy McCluskey, which 'plugged' the gig several times.[1]
Ultravox

**Ultravox**, also formerly known as **Ultravox!**, are a post-punk / new wave group from the UK.

Originally known as Tiger Lily, the group was founded in 1974 by art student John Foxx who became the lead singer and frontman. He was joined by bassist Chris Cross, keyboard player Billy Currie, guitarist Stevie Shears and drummer Warren Cann. Shears was replaced by Robin Simon in 1978. After three albums on Island Records, Foxx left the group in early 1979, and together with Simon was replaced by guitarist and vocalist Midge Ure, formerly of Slik and Rich Kids.

Ultravox then entered their most successful commercial phase with the album *Vienna* in 1980 (with the title track reaching no. 2 in 1981), followed by *Rage in Eden* (1981), *Quartet* (1982), and *Lament* (1984). After various divisions, some mostly unsuccessful releases, and a final dissolution of the group in 1988, Ure, Currie, Cann and Cross reformed in 2009 for live performances. Their latest album *Brilliant* was released in 2012.

## Links to OMD

* The John Foxx led line-up of the group played several times at Eric's in Liverpool, a club that was frequented by PH & AM, and where they played their first and successive live gigs.
* The same line-up is often credited as being one of the first groups to integrate synthesisers and drum machines into their songs and performances, as was obviously the case with OMD. Ultravox still reolied heavily on guitars and drums, however.
* Both groups have cited Kraftwerk as a major influence.
* Both groups recorded sessions for John Peel.
* Early OMD champion Gary Numan cites **Ultravox** as being one of his major influences and inspirations.
* Like OMD, the group began to achieve their first mainstream success in 1980, with the new Ure-led line-up.
* Like OMD, this new line-up also released their 'debut' album *Vienna* in 1980.
* The two groups' commercial success came more or less at the same time (1980 into '81). Their paths would often cross in the charts, particularly in 1981:
	+ Ultravox's The Thin Wall single was, like Souvenir, released in August 1981, while the two follow-ups, The Voice and Joan of Arc respectively, were released in October of the same year.
	+ Both groups appeared on the Christmas edition of Top of the Pops, on 25 December 1981.
* Both groups appeared on the same episode of TOTP on 05 July 1984 (Talking Loud & Clear and Lament)
* Peter Saville also designed many sleeves for the 1980s Ultravox records [1]
* Both groups feature in the *Synth Britannia* documentary.
* OMD and Midge Ure are due to appear at Mit WDR4 ab in die 80er Jahren on 25 September 2020.[2]
* *see also John Foxx*

## Selected discography

* *Systems of Romance* (1978)
* *Vienna* (1980)
* *Rage In Eden* (1981)
* *Quartet* (1982)
* *Lament* (1984)
* *The Island Years* (2016)

## See also

* John Foxx
* Smash Hits, 03-16 September 1981
* TOTP: 05 July 1984
* So80s (SoEighties) Presents Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark
* Musik Music Musique - 1980: The Dawn of Synthpop
* Intrigue
31 May

**31 May**

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* **2001**: RADIO - BBC Radio 2 *The Look of Love: the Story of the New Romantics* ft. Andy McCluskey [1]
* **2005**: TV - Die Ultimative Chartshow, RTL, Cologne, Germany. AM & PH get together to feature on the show for an interview plus a playback performance of Maid of Orleans with MH & SK (keys) (broadcast 17 September - full report here)
* **2010**: RADIO - BBC 6 Music. Mark Jones: Back to the Phuture. E-Pop Special: OMD Interview and Grum Guest Mix [2]
* **2013**: TV - BBC *Later... with Jools Holland*. Dresden, Kissing the Machine, Enola Gay. [3]
* **2015**: PRESS - "*My favourite photograph by singer Andy McCluskey*", McGrath N., in express.co.uk
Brighton, 23 April 1983

## Location

City: Brighton, UK

Venue: The Brighton Centre

Date: 23 April 1983

Tour: Dazzle Ships tour

## Line-Up

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

## Setlist

1. Radio Prague
2. Dazzle Ships (Parts II, III & VII)
3. ABC Auto-Industry
4. Genetic Engineering
5. Messages
6. She's Leaving
7. Georgia
8. Almost
9. Julia's Song
10. Joan of Arc
11. Maid of Orleans
12. Statues
13. The Romance of the Telescope
14. Souvenir
15. Telegraph
16. Radio Waves
17. Bunker Soldiers
18. Enola Gay
19. Silent Running
20. Electricity
21. ​Pretending to See the Future
22. Stanlow

## Notes

* Bootleg recording available (with thanks to omdlive.com for digital transfer)
* Before 'She's Leaving', Andy thanks the crowd for not staying at home and watching the Eurovision Song Contest.
* There is a request for 'Distance Fades Between Us' before 'Julia's Song'!

## External links

* omd-live.com - page
* setlist.fm
Dave Hughes

**Dave Hughes** (David Alan Hughes, b. 25 April 1960) is a musician and composer who played in various new wave bands in the Merseyside area and who went on to compose film music.

Originally a founder member of Dalek I Love You , he became an active member of Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark during their live performances and promotional appearances from January 1980 until September of the same year. He played keyboards on their promotional tour of the debut album (which featured Dalek I Love You song Two Chameleons, co-written by Hughes, in the setlist) and also appeared on promo videos for Electricity, Red Frame/White Light and Messages. He also appeared with the band on The Old Grey Whistle Test (April) and on Top of the Pops (two performances of Messages). He was also part of the band for the July 1980 Rockstage gig, which was later released on vinyl, CD and DVD as Access All Areas  (2015), where he can also be seen playing bass guitar on Mystereality. His final gig with the band would seem to be at Portsmouth Guildhall on 19 September, as documented by the *Urgh! A Music War* live album and video (Enola Gay).

Although uncredited, Hughes' only recorded work with OMD was for the second Peel session in April 1980. He is however credited with providing the 'choral tapes' for the song Souvenir, initially released in August 1981. He had been recording a local choir in his studio in Liverpool when Paul Humphries heard the sounds and used them for the track he co-wrote with Martin Cooper.

After leaving OMD, Hughes formed new duo Godot with Keith Hartley in late 1980. Martin Cooper also later collaborated with Godot. Cooper and Hughes composed the soundtrack to the Italian TV film *I Paladini - Storia D'Armi E D'Amori,* released in 1983.[1] Hughes went on to produce records by Thomas Lang and also played live with The Lotus Eaters.

He wrote original music for the soundtrack to the films *Awaydays* (2009) and *Powder* (2011) both co-produced by Hughes and boyh based on novels by Liverpool writer Kevin Sampson.

What seems to be retired from playing music, Hughes helped his son's new upcoming band from Merseyside, "HOLLOWBODY". Having an additional synth feature on their second single "Hypnotise" [2023].

## External links

* David A. Hughes on IMDb
* *Dalek I Love You: Part 7* at DALEK I LOVE YOU: AN ANNOTATED DISCOGRAPHY
* Hypnotise - HOLLOWBODY Spotify
October 1985

**October 1985**

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## OMD

* 05: PRESS - *Record Mirror* carries news that "OMD have cancelled their tour, scheduled to begin at the end of October"; also gives new dates starting 02 February (1986) at Liverpool Empire.
* 09: PRESS- full page ad for La femme accident in Smash Hits.
* 14: RELEASE - La Femme Accident single.
* 19: PRESS - *Record Mirror*, La femme accident in Singles reviews.
* 29: CHARTS - La femme accident reaches no.42 peak position.
30 July

**30 July**

previous - next

## OTD

### OMD

* **1984**: LIVE - Junk Culture NA tour: San Francisco Kabuki, CA, USA (final night of tour)
* **1985**: CHARTS - Secret up 2 places to no.38 [1]
* **2007**: RADIO - BBC Radio 2, Ken Bruce. Tracks of My Years, Andy McCluskey. (1/5)
* **2023**: LIVE - Cologne Amphi Festival, Germany

## Related

* **1980**: New Order play first live gig
* **1985**: Madonna's first UK no.1, Into the Groove
* **2006**: final *Top of the Pops*
Smash Hits, 03-16 September 1981

***Smash Hits*** magazine, Vol 3, no.18.

03-16 September 1981.

## OMD

* full colour picture, p. 12
* 2-page article, pp. 13-14
* lyrics to Souvenir, p. 14
* review of Souvenir single

scans: *Like Punk Never Happened*

## Also featured

* front page and "Reader's Q& A's" for Toyah Willcox
* lyrics to Gary Numan's new single She's Got Claws
* competition to win new Ultravox LP *Rage In Eden*
* Centrespread: The Pretenders
* *Some Bizzare* LP ad (Soft Cell, Depeche Mode)
* Album reviews: Simple Minds - *Sons & Fascination/Sister Feelings Call*, Cabaret Voltaire - *Red Mecca*, Devo - *The New Traditionalists*
* 'Ultrafile' - preview of new Ultravox album with Midge Ure
* BAck page poster: Soft Cell
Bunker Soldiers

Side 1, track 1

**Bunker Soldiers** is the title of an OMD song written by Humpreys/McCluskey and first released as the opening track to the group's debut album.

Although never released as a single, it has remained one of their most performed songs live and a crowd favourite.

It is one of the group's several songs which deal with the subject of war and its futility.

Bunker Soldiers is a relatively short upbeat track with a strong synth hook, not unlike the contemporaneous track Electricity. The lyrics cite "*Trained fighting, coordination...khaki uniforms..bloody ditches..propaganda.*." etc. The chorus has both Humphreys and McCluskey randomly shouting out the letters which make up the title, and corresponding numbers, where A=1, B=2 etc.

## Versions

The first studio album version is generally considered as definitive, although it had previously been recorded as part of the group's first John Peel session in 1979, after being a part of the group's live set for some months.

The track was re-recorded for *O.M.D.*, the US compilation of the first two albums although bears minimal differences compared to the 'original'.

It was revisited again in 1983 for OMD's fourth and final Peel session in 1983, featuring Malcolm Holmes' live drums. This version was omitted form the official Peel Sessions release as the 1979 version was considered sufficient to be included. It therefore remains the only Peel session track without an official release. This rendition also reflects the one played live during the Dazzle Ships tour the same year, as documented on the live album included with the *Souvenir* box set in 2019.

The electronic rhythm track of Bunker Soldiers was also sampled for the controversial Micronauts remix of Electricity in 1998, again showing the similarities between the two tracks.

## See also

* Manchester, 03 August 1979
* ‎Leigh, 27 August 1979
* OMITD tour
	+ Middlesborough, 08 March 1980 / London, 14 March 1980
* *The Old Grey Whistle Test* (18 March 1980)
* Organisation tour
	+ Los Angeles, 14 & 15 April 1981 / Toronto, 24 April 1981
* Architecture & Morality tour
* Dazzle Ships tour
	+ Cologne (Köln, DE), 09 April 1983 Leicester, 15 April 1983 / Brighton, 23 April 1983 /
* Junk Culture tour ‎
* Showcase tour ‎
The Buggles

**The Buggles** (or just Buggles) were a new-wave pop group formed by Trevor Horn and Geoff Downes in 1977, best known for their no.1 single Video Killed the Radio Star, released in 1979. The group's name is a pun on The Beatles. They were initially active until 1982 and have occasionally reformed for live performances.

## Connections

* The Buggles' debut single Video Killed the Radio Star was released around the same time as OMD's first Dindisc release Electricity.
* Both groups released their debut albums in February 1980.
* The Buggles' second album and OMD's third were both released in November 1981.
* OMD supported The Buggles for a special one-off concert held at London Supperclub on 28 September 2010. OMD performed as a two-piece.
* Trevor Horn: *"I think what Orchestral Manoeuvres have achieved over the last few decades - that fusion of pop and electronic experimentation - is unique."* [1]
Martha Ladly

**Martha Ladly** (b.1960) is a Canadian academic, designer and musician, currently professor of design at OCAD University.

She was a member of the group Martha & The Muffins between 1978 and 1980. She left to pursue studies in arts and design although subsequently moved to the UK to work in visual arts and design with Peter Saville. Ladly has also recorded and released singles under her own name.

## Links to OMD

* Martha & the Muffins were signed to DinDisc and released their first two albums, *Metro Music* (DID1 ) and *Trance and Dance* (DID5) on the label in 1980. Ladly was part of the group for both although left shortly after the second was completed.
* Both albums were produced by Mike Howlett and engineered by Richard Manwaring.
* Ladly is credited as giving OMD the idea of the title *Architecture & Morality* for their third album, after seeing the book 'Morality and Architecture', written by David Watkin, published in 1977.
* Likewise she is credited as suggesting the title and idea for the track Tesla Girls.
* see also Ceramic Hello.

## External links

* OCAD University page
* Discogs
The Thompson Twins support tour

**The Tour of Future Days**: OMD tour the US and Canada in 1985-86 as support to UK band The Thompson Twins who were enjoying success in the US with their album *Here's to Future Days*, released in September 1985.

OMD had already toured the US and Canada for over two months in the summer of 1985, both as headliners and with The Power Station, finishing in mid-September. A planned tour of the UK & Germany for October/November had already been postponed (Autumn 1985 newsletter).

## Line-up

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

## Set-list

* Enola Gay - Messages - Tesla Girls - Women III - Secret - Julia's Song - Souvenir - So In Love - Telegraph - Locomotion

## Dates

* 01 November 1985 - Pepperdine Univ., Malibu CA (extended setlist)
* 02 November - Irvine Meadows Amphitheatre, CA
* x
* y
* z
* 21 January 1986 - San Diego Sports Arena, CA, USA
Everyday

single cover

CDS cover

**Everyday** is the title of an OMD song first released on the 1993 album *Liberator* and released on 06 September as the third and final single from the album, the group's twenty-eighth overall.

Former group member Paul Humphreys is credited as co-writer together with McCluskey and Kershaw. The track was produced by McCluskey and Phil Coxon. Coxon also remixed Everyday for the single release.

## Origins

McCluskey and Humphreys had begun writing the song in 1987 (see also Dreaming, Satellite). Everyday (expressed incorrectly as an adjective, as opposed to 'Every Day') began as  a middle-of-the-road ballad.

## Single release

### Tracklisting

7" single Virgin VS 1471 / cassette single VSC 1471 (*plays same two tracks both sides*)

A. Everyday

B. Every Time

CD single VSCDT 1471,

1. Everyday
2. Every Time
3. Dream Of Me (Based On Love's Theme) (Interstella Mix) - *remix Andy McCluskey, Gregg Jackman*
4. Everyday (Invisible Man Mix) - *remix by Phil Coxon*

CD Single VSCDG 1471

1. Everyday
2. Electricity (Live)
3. Walk Tall (live)
4. Locomotion (live)

*Tracks 2 to 4 recorded at Milton Keynes, August 1991.*

### Reception and performance

Although previous *Liberator* singles had enjoyed moderate success, Everyday only reached no.59 in the UK Singles charts, the group's lowest placing since Never Turn Away in 1984.[2]

### Promo video

A promo video was made for the single featuring mostly Andy McCluskey miming to the song, with various female models, intercut with footage of a live performance of the song at the Liberator tour warm-up gig at Liverpool’s Royal Court Theatre on 25 August 1993, and therefore features other band members of the time.

## Availability

* Original version: *Liberator*

* Single remix: Everyday (as above), *Souvenir - The Singles Collection 1979-2019*
* Video: *Messages: Greatest Hits* DVD

## Contemporaneous singles

* Pet Shop Boys - Go West
* Kate Bush - Rubberband Girl

## Footnotes

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Paul Browne, *Liberator Revisited*, 29 March 2017 [1]
2. ↑ Remix by Phil Coxon and so-called because he could not attend a German TV show with the group because he was doing the remix. (P. Browne, *Phil Coxon Interview 1993*, 21 February 2014
Pasadena, 18 June 1988

**Live concert**

Date: Saturday 18 June 1988

## Location

City: Pasadena, CA USA

Venue: Rose Bowl

Date: Saturday, 18 June 1988

Tour: Depeche Mode support tour

## Line-Up

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

## Setlist

* Tesla Girls
* Messages
* Secret
* If You Leave
* (Forever) Live and Die
* Maid of Orleans
* Souvenir
* So In Love
* Dreaming
* Locomotion
* Enola Gay
* Electricity

## Notes

* This was the final date of the Depeche Mode tour, as documented by the film *101*, also released as a live album of the same name. - see also dmlive.wiki page
* Also playing were Thomas Dolby, Wire and The Lost Toy People.
* In an interview filmed before the gig Paul and Andy were visibly nervous about playing in front of such a huge audience. On stage, Andy begins to tell a joke at the start of 'Enola Gay' as some equipment is not working, but it starts working again quickly and he is saved from completing the joke!

## External links

* omd-live.com
* Bootleg reciording at dmlive.wiki
The Dead Girls

**The Dead Girls** is the title of a track written and recorded by OMD and first released on the album *The Pacific Age* (1986).

* From Music Technology, Dec. 1986:

> "*For the intro we used a French sampler, the Publison Infernal Machine. We fed in two phrases of the vocals from the end of the song where the girl's singing in French, and kept spinning it in until it fitted into the intro. The Publison does time compression so you can keep the same pitch, but extend the length of the phrase. It just spreads out the information over a longer period of time. I think it's the only machine around that will do it*."
>
>

> AM: "*Some of the ideas (*on The Pacific Age*) are old, like the military drum in 'The Dead Girls', but the sound is different to what we've done before on record. It's a lot more punchy, almost live, which is something we've wanted to achieve for some time*."
>
>

## Versions and availability

The album version originally released in 1986, is the only official recording of The Dead Girls available.

The song was performed live although there are no officially released recordings of it.
Never Turn Away

12" cover

**Never Turn Away** is the title of a song written and recorded by OMD and first released on the Junk Culture album. It was released as the fourth and final single off the album in October 1984 (their thirteenth overall), and became the only one not to enter the UK Top 40.

Although writing credits are attributed to OMD, the lead vocal sung by Paul Humphreys suggests that he at least wrote the lyrics to the song. It was his third solo lead vocal and second single lead vocal after Souvenir.

Due to its poor performance, the song was not included on any 'greatest hits' collection until *Souvenir* (2019)

## Origins

The song was first premiered on the band's 'showcase' tour in September 1983 when it was still not fully finished and known as 'The Never Song'. In a later fan club newsletter it was stated that "*Paul sings on two new songs, neither of which has a title yet*". One of these would become Never Turn Away, the other did not make the album although may have been All Or Nothing (released 2015).

## Style and content

As with *Souvenir*, the song is slow paced with ethereal lyrics, although AM's bass guitar as well as the drums and percussion are more prominent. The words 'never turn away' are not sung although a more vague "*I'll never...I'll never, no no..*" are repeated.

## Single release

The song was released as a single on 29 October 1984, the fourth track to be taken from Junk Culture after Locomotion, Talking Loud and Clear and Tesla Girls. An extended version was released on the 12".

A 7" picture disc release featured a unique extended version of the song

### B-sides

7" singles featured Wrappup, an alternative version of the *Junk Culture* track All Wrapped Up, while the 12" also carried a live version of Waiting For The Man, one of two tracks officially released from the Junk Culture tour.

### Reception and chart performance

The single was generally poorly received. Writing in Smash Hits, Neil Tennant described it as "..*plain old 'boring'.*." and wondered why "..they decid*ed to lift a fourth single off* ..*Junk Culture*." It hit the UK charts at a lowly no.70 a week after its release, dropping to no.72 the week after. It was OMD's poorest chart performance to date.

#### 7" Virgin VS 727

A. Never Turn Away

B. Wrappup

#### 12" Virgin VS 727 12 "Never Turn Away Extended"

A. Never Turn Away (Extended Version)

B1. Wrappup

B2. Waiting For the Man - Live

#### 7" pic disc Virgin VSY 727

A. Never Turn Away

B. Wrappup

*a misprinted version of the pic disc also exist with the two tracks swapped*

### Promo video

A promo video was made for the single featuring AM, PH and a blonde actress. The woman has either been in or is currently in a relationship with both and is torn between the two. The video also features several objects wrapped in red cloth.

## Versions and availability

* *Junk Culture* (1984 et passim)
 Extended version (6:31)
* *So80s (SoEighties) Presents OMD* (2011)
 Special ext. version (4:34)
 Video

## Gallery

*scans worldradiohistory.com*

*No.1*, 03 November 1984

*scans Like Punk Never Happened*

*Smash Hits*, 08 November 1984Single review by Neil Tennant
The Punishment of Luxury tours

Promotional tours for *The Punishment of Luxury* album, which took place over 2017 and 2018 have been divided as follows:

1. The Punishment of Luxury tour (UK & Eire) (Oct.- Nov. 2017)
2. The Punishment of Luxury tour (Europe Pt.1) (Nov. - Dec. 2017)
3. The Punishment of Luxury tour (Europe Pt.2) (Feb. 2018)
4. The Punishment of Luxury tour (USA) (March - Apr. 2018)
Stand Above Me

**Stand Above Me** (McCluskey/Kershaw/Massett) is the title of an OMD song first released as the lead single to the Liberator album in May 1993. It later featured as the album's opening track.

## Single release

Stand Above Me was released on Tuesday 04 May 1993 (the day after a UK Bank Holiday) on 7", 12", cassette and CD single formats. Although two more tracks were lifted from Liberator, thsi was the only one, and the last, to be released as a 12" vinyl.

The single entered the UK charts at no.23 on 09 May making it OMD's fifteenth Top 40 single and their first since Pandora's Box in July 1991. It peaked a week later at no.21 (the peak position also reached by Tesla Girls in 1984) after the group appeared on *Top of the Pops* on 13 May.

### Tracklistings

* B. Can I Believe You
* B. Stand Above Me - mixed by Gregg Jackman
* C. Stand Above Me (A 10 Minute Therapy Session Into Hyperlife Mix) - remix Phil Coxon
2. Stand Above Me (Transcendental Constant Viper Trip Mix)
3. Stand Above Me (Hypnofunk Mix) - remix Phil Coxon
4. Can I Believe You
* A2 Can I Believe You

*same both sides*

### Promo video

A promo video for Stand Above Me was made and released. Outside shots were filmed in New York, while studio shots feature model ........ and the band performing the song, all in black and white.

### Contemporaneous singles

* Arsenal F.C. - Shouting for the Gunners
* Dina Carroll - Express

## Live performances

Stand Above Me was performed live on the Liberator tour, typically as a first encore. there is no evidence of it being performed live after that and there are no official live recordings available.

## Availability

* Liberator (1993)
* *Souvenir - The Singles Collection 1979-2019*
 Various remixes
 Promo video
 TOTP performance

## External links

* Wikipedia
* Discogs (release)
* Musicbrainz (song)
TOTP: 29 October 1981

**Top of the Pops**

* Show: S18/E44.
* Broadcast: Thursday, 29 October 1981, BBC One 7.20 pm [1]
* Host: Simon Bates
* Song performed: Joan of Arc
* Chart position: 21 (full chart here)
* Line-up: Andy McCluskey (lead vocal, bass guitar), Paul Humphreys (keyboard), Malcolm Holmes (drums, electronic percussion), Martin Cooper (keyboard).
* Playlist:
	+ (2) Altered Images – Happy Birthday, (18) Rod Stewart – Tonight I’m Yours (Don’t Hurt Me) (video), (22) The Fureys With Davey Arthur – When You Were Sweet Sixteen, (29) Olivia Newton-John – Physical (video) (38), Trevor Walters – Love Me Tonight (13), B.A. Robertson & Maggie Bell – Hold Me, (40) Haircut 100 – Favourite Shirts (Boy Meets Girl), **(21) OMD – Joan Of Arc**, (9) Squeeze – Labelled With Love. (1) Dave Stewart & Barbara Gaskin – It’s My Party (video/credits)

## Notes

* This was the first and only performance of the song on Top of the Pops. It was repeated two weeks later on 05 November when the single was at no.5
* This was the first time that the group appeared on TV in the classic' four-piece line-up.
* As there was no promo video made for the single, this performance features on official video releases, *Messages: Greatest Hits* (DVD), *Architecture & Morality* (2007 remaster, DVD) and Souvenir (box set): BBC TV Performances (DVD)
* Haircut 100 made their TOTP debut on this edition.

## Media

* Available on official video releases (see above) (*NB not posted on official Youtube channel*)
* BBC Top of the Pops official website (limited availability) [2]
The Tide Is High

**The Tide Is High** (Holt) is a 1967 song first recorded by  Jamaican group The Paragons. A cover version by American group Blondie got to no.1 in the UK in November 1980.

## Connections

* The song was also covered by Atomic Kitten, the vocal group formed by Andy McCluskey and Stuart Kershaw. Their version includes a new bridge and so is entitled The Tide Is High (Get the Feeling). The single went straight to no.1 on 01 September 2002.
* The Atomic Kitten version was included on their second studio album *Feels So Good* (2002) which also features songs by McCluskey/Kershaw.