OMD

with Walt Disco

Doors: 7:30 p.m. | Performance: 8:30 p.m. 

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OMD at First Avenue on October 4, 2024 has been rescheduled and will now take place on June 26, 2025. All tickets purchased for original show will be honored.

OMD

Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (OMD) return with their 14th studio album, Bauhaus Staircase (2023), over six years after the triumph of their top 4-charting record, The Punishment of Luxury (2017). The album was born from the impetus to kickstart new explorations during lockdown when as Andy McCluskey admits: 'I rediscovered the creative power of total boredom.' The album's first offering as a single is the title track which serves as a nod both to Andy McCluskey's love of the Bauhaus era & the power of protest art.

Over the past four decades – give or take a decade break – Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark have sold over 40 million records worldwide, establishing them as electronic synthesizer pioneers and one of Britain’s best-loved pop groups. Their 14 long players include benchmark-raising classics Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark (1980), Organisation (1980), Architecture & Morality (1981) and Dazzle Ships (1983). OMD conquered the United States, and yielded the 1986 hit, “If You Leave” from the Pretty In Pink Soundtrack. They have also achieved 12 top 20 hits on the UK Singles Chart, as well as three top 20 hits on the US Billboard Hot 100.

Walt Disco

Walt Disco is the vehicle for our creation, exploration, self-affirmation and our insatiable need to be gawked at. The band has noticeably expanded recently, and having ex-fans like Charlie and Jack join the ranks shows us that Walt Disco means different things to different people, including ourselves. We all needed a band like Walt Disco at some point in our lives, and now that we've found each other, we can give each other the encouragement, support, and belief that we needed at those times. We hope to share that with whoever else in the world needs it too.

Our desire with our music is to create grandiose songs with emotional resonance but always with a touch of the obscure. We're not trying to inspire nostalgia or rely on the familiar, but instead to contextualise the future and what we can create that progresses the music we love. From Scott Walker to Caroline Polacheck, Billy Holiday to Japan, Eric Satie to Young Fathers. We tend to think along similar musical lines, and always know when we have found what works in a song when a smile spreads across everyone's face at the same moment. We all tend to be into different things at different times individually, and the music we make is the cross-section of everything we love.