This is the kind of information that you wouldn’t know unless you go a live show and hear this kind of chatter. Apparently, when he was younger, he couldn’t afford a “righty bass”, so he bought a cheaper lefty one. With that they launched into “Isotype.”Īfter the song, McCluskey, feeling extremely talkative, addressed someone’s question about his bass guitar. Without a beat, McCluskey asks, “You did bring your dancing shoes, didn’t you?” to the audience. He responded, “We’re going to play old songs.” “I got my bass guitar on, do you know what that means?” as McCluskey asks Paul Humphreys. Obviously, a similar thing happened, as the group tried to organize their 40th Anniversary in 2019/2020, but it was postponed until now.Īfter two “new” songs, singer Andy McCluskey put on his bass guitar. 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. 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.
“Almost” is an important song, as it is one of the songs that inspired a young Vince Clarke to start his band Depeche Mode. 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”. 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. 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. Angela Gail joked that the ghost in the machine is probably Prince watching over them. Unfortunately, the band had to cut their set short as Jeffrey Jacob was having problems with his guitar amp. Of the four songs we heard, they all sounded really good… my favorite being “Hold On Tight”. 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.” “Family affair” band In the Valley Below opened the show. The band stopped by the Fillmore in Minneapolis on Saturday, May 7th. Technically it’s their 43rd Anniversary, as the COVID pandemic delayed their tour until now. English band Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (or popularly known as O.M.D.) is currently enjoying their 40th Anniversary tour.