Orchestral Manouevres in the Dark release new single "If You Want It" on 6th September. Download Villa Nah's remix for freeMore ›
Real name /
Andy McCluskey, David Hughes, Malcolm Holmes, Martin Cooper, Paul Humphreys
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Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (often abbreviated to OMD) are a synthesiser group whose founding members are originally from the Wirral Peninsula, England. OMD record for Virgin Records (originally for Virgin's Dindisc Records subsidiary).
The group was founded in 1978 by Andy McCluskey and Paul Humphreys. Adding Malcolm Holmes and Martin Cooper by the end of 1980, this quartet (with occasional line-up fluctuations) was the core of the outfit until 1989, when Humphreys, Cooper and Holmes all left OMD to found The Listening Pool. McCluskey then retained the OMD name and continued to record and tour as OMD with new line-ups through 1996.
