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English band Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (or popularly known as O.M.D.) is currently enjoying their 40th Anniversary tour. Technically it’s their 43rd Anniversary, as the COVID pandemic delayed their tour until now. The band stopped by the Fillmore in Minneapolis on Saturday, May 7th.
“Family affair” band In the Valley Below opened the show. We previously saw them at the Alamo Drafthouse in April 2019 and wrote, “Married couple Angela Gail and Jeffrey Jacob make up the innovative band, who played for just over an hour under dim red lighting in a front corner of the cinema, singing face-to-face directly into wireless headphones that everyone in the theater was wearing for a sensory experience unlike few others, something an early Pink Floyd might have done, when they were known as The Pink Floyd.”
Of the four songs we heard, they all sounded really good… my favorite being “Hold On Tight”. Unfortunately, the band had to cut their set short as Jeffrey Jacob was having problems with his guitar amp. Angela Gail joked that the ghost in the machine is probably Prince watching over them. While two other tech engineers came on stage to figure things out, Gail introduced their upcoming song “Lie With Me” (which they did not get the chance to play), telling us that the song is about, “the story how Jeff and I fell in love in Austin.” They had a love child called Griffin (?), who was also traveling with them on this tour.
OMD (singer/bassist Andy McCluskey, keys/vocals Paul Humphreys, bass/sax/various Martin Cooper, and drummer Stuart Kershaw) was eager to celebrate their 40th Anniversary. This is basically a greatest hits tour, and they even confessed that their set consists of songs that they just want to play… which meant that there were some “deep cuts”, such as b-sides like “Almost”. “Almost” is an important song, as it is one of the songs that inspired a young Vince Clarke to start his band Depeche Mode.
The last time the band was in town, it was at First Avenue in Mar 2018 … but that show took many years for them to finally arrive. It was a make-up date, as their original drummer Malcolm Holmes, had a heart attack (quote “he tried to die”) that forced cancellation of their entire 2013 tour. Obviously, a similar thing happened, as the group tried to organize their 40th Anniversary in 2019/2020, but it was postponed until now.
After two “new” songs, singer Andy McCluskey put on his bass guitar. “I got my bass guitar on, do you know what that means?” as McCluskey asks Paul Humphreys. He responded, “We’re going to play old songs.”
Without a beat, McCluskey asks, “You did bring your dancing shoes, didn’t you?” to the audience. With that they launched into “Isotype.”
After the song, McCluskey, feeling extremely talkative, addressed someone’s question about his bass guitar. Apparently, when he was younger, he couldn’t afford a “righty bass”, so he bought a cheaper lefty one. He basically had to play it upside-down. This is the kind of information that you wouldn’t know unless you go a live show and hear this kind of chatter.
Of course, the band saved their biggest hit song(s) until the encore, starting with “If You Leave.” They joked that they weren’t going to play it at first. “We already played that one for John Hughes,” they said. They are referring to Hughes’ film Pretty In Pink, which required a different song at the end of the film. Hughes asked the band to write a new song, and, with just two days before OMD were to begin their tour, they quickly wrote and recorded, “If You Leave” for Hughes. As history would have it, the song was a hit, and it became one of OMD’s signature songs.
Next, they played “Secrets”, which was a big hit for them. They said they actually had to pull this single, so they could promote another song.
Finally, the ended their encore with the originally debut single, “Electricity” from 1979. Technically, the song actually wasn’t OMD, it was written under the group The Id (which had McCluskey and Humphreys in the band)… but at that time, the band had broken up. They ended up re-recording the song and released it on Factory Records.
The song was an important part of history. Mojo recognized the song as “the dawn of UK synth-pop”, and it would go on to inspire many other musicians to start their own band or copy that sound. In fact, after hearing “Electricity”, Steve Lamacq decided to become a DJ.
OMD is currently on their 40th Anniversary tour. The band plays the Truman, Kansas City tonight. The group asked the audience to come with them to Kansas City, even offering free entry if you had a ticket stub from tonight. We’re not sure if McCluskey was joking, but the last thing that he said, as he left the stage, pointing to the fans in front, “We’ll see you in Kansas City!”
“Family affair” band In the Valley Below opened the show. We previously saw them at the Alamo Drafthouse in April 2019 and wrote, “Married couple Angela Gail and Jeffrey Jacob make up the innovative band, who played for just over an hour under dim red lighting in a front corner of the cinema, singing face-to-face directly into wireless headphones that everyone in the theater was wearing for a sensory experience unlike few others, something an early Pink Floyd might have done, when they were known as The Pink Floyd.”
Of the four songs we heard, they all sounded really good… my favorite being “Hold On Tight”. Unfortunately, the band had to cut their set short as Jeffrey Jacob was having problems with his guitar amp. Angela Gail joked that the ghost in the machine is probably Prince watching over them. While two other tech engineers came on stage to figure things out, Gail introduced their upcoming song “Lie With Me” (which they did not get the chance to play), telling us that the song is about, “the story how Jeff and I fell in love in Austin.” They had a love child called Griffin (?), who was also traveling with them on this tour.
OMD (singer/bassist Andy McCluskey, keys/vocals Paul Humphreys, bass/sax/various Martin Cooper, and drummer Stuart Kershaw) was eager to celebrate their 40th Anniversary. This is basically a greatest hits tour, and they even confessed that their set consists of songs that they just want to play… which meant that there were some “deep cuts”, such as b-sides like “Almost”. “Almost” is an important song, as it is one of the songs that inspired a young Vince Clarke to start his band Depeche Mode.
The last time the band was in town, it was at First Avenue in Mar 2018 … but that show took many years for them to finally arrive. It was a make-up date, as their original drummer Malcolm Holmes, had a heart attack (quote “he tried to die”) that forced cancellation of their entire 2013 tour. Obviously, a similar thing happened, as the group tried to organize their 40th Anniversary in 2019/2020, but it was postponed until now.
After two “new” songs, singer Andy McCluskey put on his bass guitar. “I got my bass guitar on, do you know what that means?” as McCluskey asks Paul Humphreys. He responded, “We’re going to play old songs.”
Without a beat, McCluskey asks, “You did bring your dancing shoes, didn’t you?” to the audience. With that they launched into “Isotype.”
After the song, McCluskey, feeling extremely talkative, addressed someone’s question about his bass guitar. Apparently, when he was younger, he couldn’t afford a “righty bass”, so he bought a cheaper lefty one. He basically had to play it upside-down. This is the kind of information that you wouldn’t know unless you go a live show and hear this kind of chatter.
Of course, the band saved their biggest hit song(s) until the encore, starting with “If You Leave.” They joked that they weren’t going to play it at first. “We already played that one for John Hughes,” they said. They are referring to Hughes’ film Pretty In Pink, which required a different song at the end of the film. Hughes asked the band to write a new song, and, with just two days before OMD were to begin their tour, they quickly wrote and recorded, “If You Leave” for Hughes. As history would have it, the song was a hit, and it became one of OMD’s signature songs.
Next, they played “Secrets”, which was a big hit for them. They said they actually had to pull this single, so they could promote another song.
Finally, the ended their encore with the originally debut single, “Electricity” from 1979. Technically, the song actually wasn’t OMD, it was written under the group The Id (which had McCluskey and Humphreys in the band)… but at that time, the band had broken up. They ended up re-recording the song and released it on Factory Records.
The song was an important part of history. Mojo recognized the song as “the dawn of UK synth-pop”, and it would go on to inspire many other musicians to start their own band or copy that sound. In fact, after hearing “Electricity”, Steve Lamacq decided to become a DJ.
OMD is currently on their 40th Anniversary tour. The band plays the Truman, Kansas City tonight. The group asked the audience to come with them to Kansas City, even offering free entry if you had a ticket stub from tonight. We’re not sure if McCluskey was joking, but the last thing that he said, as he left the stage, pointing to the fans in front, “We’ll see you in Kansas City!”
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