OMD release video for latest track 'Kleptocracy' ahead of UK arena tour in Feb/March
OMD
Release Latest Track ‘Kleptocracy’
Taken From Their Critically-Acclaimed, UK #2-Charting Album Bauhaus Staircase
Out Now on 100% Records
WATCH VIDEO HERE
February/March 2024 UK Headline Tour
Includes London’s O2 Arena - March 24th, 2024
With Support From Howard Jones (London Only) & Walt Disco (All Other Dates)
TICKETS ON SALE HERE
‘Their finest work of their 45-year career’ - 5* Retro Pop
‘Sublime’ - 5* Classic Pop
‘Glory in the sounds and influences which originally made OMD’ - 4* Record Collector
‘A stellar return’ - 9/10 Clash
'Bauhaus Staircase shows OMD thriving’ - 4* MOJO
Ahead of their much anticipated UK tour, Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark (OMD) release latest track ‘Kleptocracy’ - taken from their impeccable UK Top 2-charting studio album Bauhaus Staircase, out now on 100% Records.
Mixed by the album’s main external influence, rock producer David Watts (The Reytons’s recent #1 album), the clattering, hectic ‘Kleptocracy’ is OMD’s greatest straight-up protest song - its chewy discourse wrapped in an absolute earworm. Watch here. Kleptocracy will also be released on limited edition 7”, 12” and CD singles out 22nd March, available for purchase here.
Andy McCluskey says; “This is the most political song that we have ever recorded. The band believes that democracy is the only legitimate way to balance different opinions and create a functioning representative government. Sadly, we are living through times that see us ruled by thieves and flagrant liars. Democracy has been subverted by Kleptocracy.”
The album, which charted at #2 in the UK, arrived with aplomb as the band’s new music exploded over the airwaves, and saw exquisite performances on BBC’s Later…with Jools Holland (watch here). The record was also met with critical acclaim - Clash describing it as ‘a stellar return’, MOJO declaring the band as ‘thriving’, and Classic Pop simply labelling the album as ‘sublime’.
OMD have sold an astonishing 25 million singles and 15 million albums, which has established them as electronic synthesiser pioneers and one of Britain’s best-loved pop groups. Their 13 albums include reissued ‘Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark’ (1980), ‘Organisation’ (1980), ‘Architecture & Morality’ (1981) and ‘Dazzle Ships’ (1983).
Across February & March next year, the band will play 22 dates across the UK & Ireland (tickets here), including their biggest ever London headline show at London’s O2 Arena on March 24th, 2024 - with support coming from the legendary Howard Jones (London only) & Walt Disco (all other dates).
UK HEADLINE TOUR
February 2024
Tue 27th Belfast, Ulster Hall SOLD OUT
Wed 28th Dublin, 3Olympia Theatre SOLD OUT
March
Fri 1st Manchester, O2 Apollo SOLD OUT
Sat 2nd Manchester, O2 Apollo
Sun 3rd Liverpool, M&S Bank Arena
Tue 5th Leeds, First Direct Arena
Wed 6th Edinburgh, Usher Hall SOLD OUT
Fri 8th Glasgow, Royal Concert Hall SOLD OUT
Sat 9th Newcastle, O2 City Hall SOLD OUT
Sun 10th Sheffield, City Hall SOLD OUT
Tue 12th Leicester, De Montfort Hall SOLD OUT
Wed 13th Nottingham, Royal Concert Hall SOLD OUT
Fri 15th Wolverhampton, Civic Hall
Sat 16th Swansea, Arena
Sun 17th Southend-On-Sea, Cliffs Pavillion
Tue 19th Bristol, Beacon SOLD OUT
Wed 20th Oxford, New Theater SOLD OUT
Fri 22nd Portsmouth, Guildhall SOLD OUT
Sat 23rd Ipswich, Regent Theatre SOLD OUT
Sun 24th London, The O2*
Tue 26th Brighton, Dome SOLD OUT
Wed 27th Eastbourne, Winter Gardens SOLD OUT
