Andy McCluskey
English singer-songwriter and musicianWikipedia
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Sep 3, 2026
Adam KeeleyHOST
Talking of records, Miles Kane, the co-frontman of the last Shadow Puppets, was born in Baconhead.
Matt DeanHOST
And another musical move, manoeuvre, orchestral manoeuvres of the Dark Founders, Andy McCluskey and Paul Humphries, tiny.
Matt DeanHOST
pop sound on the world.
Adam KeeleyHOST
Fantastic.
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This was their 10th studio album from the Synthpop Legends album.
speaker_0HOST
And it was basically a solo effort from co-founder Andy McCluskey.
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Hit number 24 on the UK albums chart.
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The album is famous for songs like Walking on the Milky Way.
Simon TeslerHOST
There's all sorts of references in the lyrics to that.
Simon TeslerHOST
The song was written by OMD singer and bass player Andy McCluskey.
Simon TeslerHOST
He and his bandmate Paul Humphries were, he told the Guardian newspaper, a pair of anoraks with a fascination for old trains and aeroplanes.
Simon TeslerHOST
We were both geeks about World War II aeroplanes.
KuntHOST
No, this is the only time in the whole of this podcast that I'm going to get to talk about Stan Ridgeway.
KuntHOST
Have you been to see Stan Ridgeway? Yeah, me and Andy went to see him.
KuntHOST
He came over to England about 15 years ago and supported, do you know Perry Ubu? Perry Ubu?
RoyHOST
P-E-R-E Ubu.
KuntHOST
I don't know.
KuntHOST
He was doing the occasional gig in America, but that all seems to have gone really quiet.
KuntHOST
Because me and Andy always talked about doing a road trip to America to see him, and then it turned out he'd come over here.
KuntHOST
He had a new album out.
Ivor HamiltonHOST
Um, you know, what, what was interesting, um, about the cure at that timeframe is that they actually did five shows in Canada, uh, in about two weeks, um, on that run.
Ivor HamiltonHOST
And, and, you know, you, you, you go back to the CFNY documentary and you, and you talk, listen to, um, uh, Andy McCluskey talking about, you know, we'd come to Toronto and we'd be playing these big shows.
Ivor HamiltonHOST
Then we go across the border and play in all these shit holes.
Ivor HamiltonHOST
Well, you know, um, the cure plane at Wellington's in Winnipeg, um, the capacity was a hundred people.
Andy McCluskeySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
I was visiting via radio.
Daniela LazarovaHOST
So says Andy McCluskey, the founder and lead singer of the British electronic band OMD, Orchestral Maneuvers in the Dark.
Daniela LazarovaHOST
Their now legendary album Dazzle Ships not only opens with an authentic Radio Prague signature tune, one of the tracks also refers to a former foreign broadcasting program called Music for Your Tape Recorder.
Helena MarkusovaSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
This is Helena.
Andy McCluskeySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
I was visiting via radio.
Daniela LazarovaHOST
So says Andy McCluskey, the founder and lead singer of the British electronic band OMD, Orchestral Maneuvers in the Dark.
Daniela LazarovaHOST
Their now legendary album Dazzle Ships not only opens with an authentic Radio Prague signature tune, one of the tracks also refers to a former foreign broadcasting program called Music for Your Tape Recorder.
Helena MarkusováSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
This is Helena.
Andy McCluskeySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
I was visiting via radio.
speaker_1NARRATOR
So says Andy McCluskey, the founder and lead singer of the British electronic band OMD, Orchestral Maneuvers in the Dark.
speaker_1NARRATOR
Their now legendary album Dazzle Ships not only opens with an authentic Radio Prague signature tune, one of the tracks also refers to a former foreign broadcasting program called Music for Your Tape Recorder.
Helena MarkusováSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
This is Helena.