Crush tour

**Crush tour** - OMD headlining promotional tour of fifth studio album *Crush* (1985).

The tour began in the UK in June 1985, just prior to the actual release of *Crush*, continuing into Europe and then to North America in July. From 19 July OMD joined The Power Station as support until late August. Still in the US, OMD resumed the Crush headlining tour in September. Scheduled October dates in Germany were cancelled, as were UK dates scheduled for November, with the band resuming live dates in NA as The Thompson Twins support ending in January 1986. Postponed UK dates resumed in February 1986, ending with two dates at London Hammersmith Odeon, and a gruelling eight months almost constantly on tour.

## Personell

OMD's 'classic' four-piece line up with AM, PH, MH, MC was enhanced with Graham and Neil Weir.

## Setlist

*by album*

* OMITD: Electricity, Messages, Julia's Song
* Organisation: Enola Gay, Motion and Heart
* Architecture & Morality: She's Leaving, Souvenir, Maid of Orleans, The Romance of the Telescope (closing number)
* Dazzle Ships: Telegraph
* Junk Culture: Locomotion, Tesla Girls, White Trash, Talking Loud and Clear
* Crush: Crush (opening number), The Native Daughters of the Golden West, So In Love, Secret, Bloc Bloc Bloc, Women III, La femme accident

## Dates

### UK pt. 1

* 08 June - Oxford Polytechnic
* 09 June - Guildford Town Hall, UK
* 10 June - Warrington Birchwood Spectrum Arena, UK
* 11 June - Norwich UEA, UK
* 12 June - Chippenham Goldiggers, UK
* 13 June - Loughborough University, UK
* 14 June - Sheffield City Hall, UK (TV programme and DVD release)

### Europe

* 19 June - Paris Casino de Paris, France
* 27 June - Liege Salle Saint Gilles , Belgium
* 29 June - Hamburg Stadtpark, Germany (with China Crisis who also played Locomotion with OMD)
* 30 June - Den Haag Parkpop Festival, Holland

* 07 July - London Battersea Park 'Jobs For A Change' Festival, UK

### NA Pt. 1

* 10 July - New York The Beacon, NY, USA
* 12 July - Montreal Old Port, QC, Canada
* 13 July - Vaughan Kingswood Music Theatre, ON, Canada
* 15 July - Los Angeles Hollywood Palladium Ballroom, CA, USA
* 16 July - San Francisco Kabuki, CA, USA

* from 19 July - The Power Station support tour, until 28 August

### NA Pt. 2

* 02 September - Chicago Cabaret Metro, IL, USA
* 05 September - Royal Oak Music Theatre, MI, USA
* 07 September - Buffalo Rooftop Skyroom, NY, USA
* 08 September - Syracuse Nowhere City Juice Bar, NY, USA
* 10 September - Atlanta CenterStage, GA, USA
* 12 September - Boston Orpheum Theatre, MA, USA

* 26 October - Veronica's Rocknight for Greenpeace - with INXS, Propaganda

* 01 November - "warm-up" performance ahead of The Thompson Twins support tour (starting 02 Nov. until 21 January 1986)

### UK Pt.2

* 02 February 1986 - Liverpool Empire, UK
* 03 February - Glasgow Barrowlands, UK
* 04 February - Edinburgh Playhouse, UK
* 05 February - Newcastle City Hall, UK
* 07 February - Leicester De Montfort Hall, UK [1]
* 08 February - Birmingham Odeon, UK
* 09 February - Ipswich Gaumont, UK
* 10 February - Sheffield City Hall, UK
* 11 February - Hanley Victoria Hall, UK
* 12 February - Oxford Apollo, UK
* 13 February - Reading Hexagon, UK
* 15 February - Manchester Apollo, UK
* 16 February - Bradford St Georges, UK
* 17 February - Nottingham Royal Concert Hall, UK
* 19 February - Bristol Colston Hall, UK
* 20 February - Crawley Leisure Centre, UK
* 22 February - St Austell Cornish Coliseum, UK
* 23 February - Cardiff St David's Hall, UK
* 24 February - London Hammersmith Odeon, UK
* 25 February - London Hammersmith Odeon, UK

* 27 February - Paris Grand Rex, France (?) - projected in cinemas around France

* 19 July - 'Festival of the Tenth Summer', organised by Factory Records, with The Smiths, New Order, The Fall

## External links

* omd-live.com
* Crush tour programme page scans