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Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark Announce Winter Tour

• 24th May 2010

Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark, one of the UK’s most iconic bands, are back with their first new album in 14 years, the appropriately entitled ‘History Of Modern’. And what a return. Andy McCluskey has called it ‘our best album since Architecture and Morality’ – and few would disagree. The album was produced by OMD and mixed by one of the UK’s most in demand producers Mike Crossey (Artic Monkeys/Blood Red Shoes/Razorlight).

'History of Modern' is a powerful, pulsating, vibrant and contemporary album with a strong pop sensibility. Tracks such as ‘Pulse’, ‘Save Me’, ‘Sister Marie Says’ and ‘The Future’ are huge future dancefloor fillers while others like the downtempo ‘Bondage Of Fate’, ‘If You Want It’ and ‘Sometimes’ are quite simply beautiful, classic OMD songs.

The music sees a return to the band's early pioneering electronic roots, a sound that is now recognised as being a major influence on many of today’s electro artists. The likes of LCD Soundsystem’s James Murphy, The XX and The Killers have all cited OMD as a massive inspiration.

This autumn also sees OMD embark on the 'History of Modern' tour, with the classic line up of Andy McCluskey, Paul Humphreys, Martin Cooper and Malcolm Holmes. After three years of critically acclaimed sell out concerts in the UK and Europe these dates will see the band mixing the new songs with the classic hits to create a distinctly contemporary live show.

The dates are as follows:

Oct 29th – Brighton Dome
Oct 31st – Bristol Colston Hall
Nov 1st – Nottingham Royal Centre
Nov 2nd – Glasgow Royal Concert Hall
Nov 4 – Liverpool Arena
Nov 5th – Ipswich Regent Theatre
Nov 7th – London Hammersmith Apollo
Nov 8th – Birmingham Symphony Hall
Nov 11th – Cologne E-work
Nov 12th – Hannover Capitol
Nov 13th – Leipzig Haus Auensee
Nov 15th – Stuttgart theatrehaus
Nov 16th – Munich Tonhalle
Nov 18th – Berlin Tempoddrom
Nov 19th – Hamburg Docks
Nov 22nd – Brussels Ancienne Belgique
Nov 23rd – Amsterdam Paradiso

To download a free mp3 of demo “Sister Marie Says”
Go to OMD’s new website: link