OMD Announce 2024 UK Headline Tour

After the recent announcement of their forthcoming new studio album, synth pioneers Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark (OMD) reveal details of their return to the stage, with the band taking to the road next year.

Across January, February & March 2024, OMD will play 40 dates across the Eu rope, UK & Ireland, including their biggest ever London headline show at London’s O2 Arena on March 24th, 2024. "We are so excited to be able to tour again with a brand new album to showcase.” says Andy McCluskey. “It's been six years since we learned new songs for live performances. The songs from Bauhaus Staircase will fit beautifully into our setlist - we just have to choose which five to play, as we have to treat people to the hits as well!"

The band also release ‘Slow Train’ - the second instalment from their forthcoming new studio album Bauhaus Staircase - out October 27th. A raucous, glam-tinged explosion, ‘Slow Train’ arrives with help from the band’s only other external influence David Watts. Known as a rock producer, who helmed Sheffield band The Reytons’ recent No 1 album What’s Rock And Roll?, he brings a sharp, exciting new sound to the record.

The new album sees the band’s most explicitly political record and the crowning achievement of their desire to be both Stockhausen and Abba - born from the impetus to kickstart new explorations during lockdown. A broad, electronic, sonic masterpiece that lyrically tackles the topics of the future, it was predominantly written, recorded, and mixed by both McCluskey & Paul Humphreys (who has recently become a second-time father).

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).

By rights, OMD should be in semi-retirement, performing classics like Enola Gay and Maid Of Orleans on the nostalgia festival circuit like so many peers. Instead, they’ve created a landmark album worthy of their finest work. If real life meant OMD were happy to get help, Bauhaus Staircase remains unmistakably the work of a duo who are still perfectly in sync 45 years after their first gig at legendary Liverpool club Eric’s.

OMD play the following UK dates 2024

Artist & Venue Pre Sales: Wednesday 20th Sept @ 10.00am CET

General On Sale: Friday 22nd Sept @ 10.00am CET

January 2024

• Mon 22nd. Oslo Rockerfeller
• Wed 24th Stockholm München Brewery
• Thurs 25th Gothenburg Tradgar’n
• Sat 27th Copenhagen Grey Hall
• Mon 29th Jena Sparkassen Arena
• Tues 30th Frankfurt Jahrhunderthalle (2P)

February 2024

• Thurs 1st Dusseldorf Mitsubishi Electric Halle
• Fri 2nd Hamburg Sporthalle
• Sat 3rd Chemnitz Stadhalle
• Tues 6th Gdansk B90
• Wed 7th Warsaw Stodola
• Thurs 8 th Krakow ICE
• Sat 10th Prague SaSaZu
• Sun 11th Leipzig Haus Auensee
• Mon 12th Berlin Tempodrom
• Wed 14th Amsterdam AFAS
• Thurs 15th Brussels Cirque Royal
• Fri 16th Paris La Cigale
• Tue 27th Belfast, Ulster Hall
• Wed 28th Dublin, 3Olympia Theatre

March

• Fri 1st Manchester, O2 Apollo
• Sun 3rd Liverpool, M&S Bank Arena
• Tue 5th Leeds, First Direct Arena
• Wed 6th Edinburgh, Usher Hall
• Fri 8th Glasgow, Royal Concert Hall
• Sat 9th Newcastle, O2 City Hall
• Sun 10th Sheffield, City Hall
• Tue 12th Leicester, De Montfort Hall
• Wed 13th Nottingham, Royal Concert Hall
• Fri 15th Wolverhampton, Civic Hall
• Sat 16th Swansea, Arena
• Sun 17th Southend-On-Sea, Cliffs Pavillion
• Tue 19th Bristol, Beacon
• Wed 20th Oxford, New Theatre
• Fri 22nd Portsmouth, Guildhall
• Sat 23rd Ipswich, Regent
• Sun 24th London, The O2
• Tue 26th Brighton, Dome
• Wed 27th Eastbourne, Winter Gardens