JOHANNESBURG

Saturday 20 April 2024

Marks Park, Emmarentia

13:00 - 20:00

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 globe next year with South Africa tour dates in toe.

Across February & March 2024, OMD will play 22 dates across the UK & Ireland, including their biggest ever London headline show at London’s O2 Arena on March 24th, 2024 on 100% Records. For April next year, the band confirms South Africa tour dates for Cape Town and Joburg as part of the ‘Greatest Hits Tour’.

OMD frontman Andy McCluskey says of the South African leg of the tour: “It’s been far too long since we played live in South Africa!, so we are really excited to be coming to do concerts in April 2024!”

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).

Tickets for the general public will be on sale beginning Wednesday, October 25 at 9am local time.

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.

Details are as follows for OMD’s ‘Greatest Hits’ South African Tour:

BreakOut Events are pleased to present OMD live in Cape Town

Date: Thursday 18 April 2024
Venue: Green Point A-Track, Green Point, Cape Town
Address: 11 Fritz Sonnenberg Road, Green Point, Cape Town 8051
Ticket Prices: From R895 to R1195 (excluding ticket service fee)
Ticket Link: (On sale from 9am on 25 October) https://www.webtickets.co.za/v2/event.aspx?itemid=1536408762 
Facebook Event Link: https://fb.me/e/7p0IKyMWJ

BreakOut Events are pleased to present OMD live in Joburg

Date: Saturday 20 April 2024
Venue: Marks Park Sports Club in Emmarentia, Johannesburg
Address: Orange Road, Emmarentia, Randburg, 2195
Ticket Prices: From R795 – R1195 (excluding ticket service fee)
Ticket Link:  (On sale from 9am on 25 October) https://breakout.howler.co.za/events/omd-greatest-hits-live-in-johannesburg-9724 
Facebook Event Link: https://fb.me/e/32rwvnCia