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The band certainly enjoyed the experience as Paul Humphreys recalled: “The tour where we played ‘Architecture & Morality’ in full was particularly great for us. On the drum stool, Mal Holmes lost none of his energy or power despite a heart attack a few years previously although keyboardist Martin Cooper was now seated behind his Roland Fantom X8 for health reasons. As the band’s trained instrumentalist, he picked up like he had never been away, and handled the solos of tunes he wasn’t actually involved in like ‘Sailing On The Seven Seas’ with vigour. Likewise, Paul Humphreys had become a more accomplished musician and on his two vocal party pieces ‘Souvenir’ and ‘(Forever) Live & Die’, his voice had particularly strengthened. His geography teacher at the sixth form disco dancing was still intact too after 14 years away from the stage, if slightly more restrained and assisted with the odd strobe effect. First things first, the concert itself was a glorious celebration of a great band and their inventive catalogue of work.Īndy McCluskey’s voice was better than it was back in 1981 when the ‘Live At The Theatre Royal – Drury Lane’ concert was recorded, save a few really high notes. Titled ‘OMD Live: Architecture & Morality & More’, it was recorded at Hammersmith Apollo on Saturday 19th May 2007.ĮLECTRICITYCLUB.CO.UK were present so more than qualified to pass judgement on this pair of artefacts which are now reissued as a combined package, although the DVD bonus features from the original Eagle Rock release are now omitted. One of these concerts was captured for posterity as both a live album and DVD. It was great, great fun I loved doing that and it was a really lovely moment.” Anything that was a monophonic sound, I could slice up into notes, loop them and put them on each key so I could play the sound exactly how it was. We even went back to the multi-track tapes. So we had to buy synths off eBay to get those sounds back, and we then just re-sampled them. Fans from around the globe gathered in anticipation and OMD knew they had to do their legacy justice.īut there was the technical issue of capturing the distinct textures of their meisterwerk: “It was a real challenge on that tour because we really wanted to do that album justice but we didn’t have any of the synths or anything we used to make those records.
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The classic OMD line-up of Andy McCluskey, Paul Humphreys, Malcolm Holmes and Martin Cooper split in 1989 but when it was announced in 2007 that they would be reuniting to play ‘Architecture & Morality’ and more at a series of shows in Europe, they sold out within a few hours. We were refining our sound and then we found it.” I think the first two albums were leading to ‘Architecture & Morality’. A few of our albums are ‘bitty’ but that was where we finally found a sound that was OMD.
The sound of it was unique, every song… it wasn’t a ‘bitty’ album.
Fact: OMD’s ‘Architecture & Morality’ is a benchmark of electronic pop, not just within the Synth Britannia era but the genre itself.įounder member Paul Humphreys said back in 2010: “I think ‘Architecture & Morality’ was a complete album, it was just so whole.
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