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How long has it been since you went through this press thing together?
The press thing?
Well, it's been quite a number of years, probably too many to mention really.
Maybe twenty -something?
Yeah, doing press together over twenty years.
Because this is the first OMD album for fourteen years, but the first one we made together for twenty-four years.
So, a long time ago.
What has changed on the press thing?
I think what's changed is the climate, really.
I think [C] we have to be less defensive of our past.
I mean, I think we were always up in the eighties, we were always up against playing [Gb] synthesizers.
Why are you playing [B] synthesizers?
Why are they [A] such a cold [F] instrument?
[G] [Eb] But we're beyond that now, because when we started playing instruments, we were playing synthesizers.
We were [F]
always up against a [Ab] rock journalist, who didn't see us as [Bb] real music,
because [G] we didn't [Fm] have [A] guitars and drum kits [G] and traditional [Fm] instruments, [Gb] really.
So, yeah, certainly for us, in terms of talking to people, that's the biggest change.
But one of the other biggest differences in terms of the press is there's lots more internet press than written press or [N] television press.
You played together, I believe, five years ago, for the first time in a long time, in Germany, right?
Who called who?
How did that come about?
I called him.
Yeah, Andy called me.
I mean, since the band stopped, there's always been, there's been continuing interest in [G] the band,
and we've been kept being asked to do things like produce other [Ab] bands or do TV shows and things like that.
But the timing was never right to do [Eb] things.
But anyway, one TV [N] show came through Andy, and it was like a trip to Germany to do just a weekend away, you know, all expenses paid.
And he phoned me and said, hey, do you fancy getting away from the wife and kids and go for a weekend in Germany?
And I said, yeah, sure.
And we put [Gbm] the whole band together.
[D] And we had so much fun over that weekend that we thought, you know, we started to [E] discuss future possibilities.
How [Bm] did that gig feel, [C] with you being back together again?
Well, I mean, initially [G] we just did a TV [Ab] show, and then [F]
playing live [C] was actually a big step.
I mean, [G] I had stopped.
[Gb] We were not Orchestra Maneuvers of the Dark [F] anymore.
Nobody was.
[Ab] And I had not sung live [A] for 13 years.
So it was a bit, you know, I was [G] very nervous.
So we took little steps slowly.
And then three years ago, [F] the whole band [Gb] got together.
And that was hard work.
[A] We [G] really had to [Eb] shake the rust off, you know.
It took a long time, but it got great.
And we've been playing live now for [G] over three years, and it's fantastic.
When did the idea [E] come up to play in the original lineup again?
[Bm] Because you weren't in Germany, [Ab] right?
No, well, I mean, when we first started, they just wanted two of us, [A] which is we [Gb] started the band.
So we're [Gb] considered the original members.
And [Db]
that was just, that was an easy step, because we were just doing a few songs with [Fm] an orchestra.
It wasn't, we [N] didn't have to do a whole hour and a half ourselves.
[Am] So that was just the first [G] step.
When that worked out, then we decided it was time [E] to take the next step with the whole band.
[C] And when was the last time you played in that combination?
Two, but just two people or four?
With the four of you.
With [Abm] the four, it must have been the late 80s.
Yeah, that had been the late [F] 80s.
But the last [Db] time now was three weeks ago.
[E] We played a big festival in Germany.
[G] But the name OMD has been [Fm] used in [F] different outfits.
You used it after you split [Ab] up, and you used it as well.
Not really.
After that, playing live, right?
No, I didn't really use the [F] name, no.
[Gb] The promoters tried to say it [E] was OMD.
Okay.
Yeah, which I had to fight [G] against.
Were you ever afraid that [Gm] that would damage the thing you had built up together [C] as a two-piece initially [C] and as a four-piece later?
Not really damaged, no.
[Eb] When we decided to call it a day as the two of us [G] in the late 80s, [Eb]
[G] there was a lot of pressures for the name to continue.
Pressures from record companies and management, because there were contracts and stuff.
So it seemed like one person should take it.
[Ab] And Andy carried on without me, which I was fine about.
Because [Eb] particularly the next album he released was successful.
So [G] it was like, okay, [Fm] well the name is continuing on and the [Ab] legacy of OMD is continuing, so I'm happy with that.
How did you feel about that?
Andy being alone [G] with that name and making those albums?
I didn't mind.
It was a bit strange to hear an OMD song on the radio that I had nothing [Fm] to do with.
But [B] I [Ab] kind of got used to it and I was [G] fine that Andy was continuing on.
[G] But I do remember [Gb] the first time I [F] met him in 91 when I was [E] back in the charts again as [N] OMD without him.
The first thing he said was, I'm really glad that Sailing On The Seven Seas, which was the song we had out, [E] only got to number three.
So it's not higher than my song Souvenir.
[Abm] I did say that.
[G] But was everyone as enthusiastic as he [D] was about you being?
It was [N] very weird.
No, I think a lot of people found it strange.
How can Andy be OMD with some other people?
[C] Yeah, it was difficult.
I would have preferred to continue with Paul, [Gb] but we'd just gone in totally different directions.
[Db] Sometimes [E] things just don't work out, whether it's the personality or the wrong timing or outside pressures.
I think a lot of outside pressures [Dm] were on us, pulling us in different [Gb] directions.
So this is why [C] this is now great.
Because we've been writing songs together since [G] we were 16.
We went to the same school together.
We've known each other since we were about seven years old.
So it feels good we're [D] back together now.
[Gb]
The press thing?
Well, it's been quite a number of years, probably too many to mention really.
Maybe twenty -something?
Yeah, doing press together over twenty years.
Because this is the first OMD album for fourteen years, but the first one we made together for twenty-four years.
So, a long time ago.
What has changed on the press thing?
I think what's changed is the climate, really.
I think [C] we have to be less defensive of our past.
I mean, I think we were always up in the eighties, we were always up against playing [Gb] synthesizers.
Why are you playing [B] synthesizers?
Why are they [A] such a cold [F] instrument?
[G] [Eb] But we're beyond that now, because when we started playing instruments, we were playing synthesizers.
We were [F]
always up against a [Ab] rock journalist, who didn't see us as [Bb] real music,
because [G] we didn't [Fm] have [A] guitars and drum kits [G] and traditional [Fm] instruments, [Gb] really.
So, yeah, certainly for us, in terms of talking to people, that's the biggest change.
But one of the other biggest differences in terms of the press is there's lots more internet press than written press or [N] television press.
You played together, I believe, five years ago, for the first time in a long time, in Germany, right?
Who called who?
How did that come about?
I called him.
Yeah, Andy called me.
I mean, since the band stopped, there's always been, there's been continuing interest in [G] the band,
and we've been kept being asked to do things like produce other [Ab] bands or do TV shows and things like that.
But the timing was never right to do [Eb] things.
But anyway, one TV [N] show came through Andy, and it was like a trip to Germany to do just a weekend away, you know, all expenses paid.
And he phoned me and said, hey, do you fancy getting away from the wife and kids and go for a weekend in Germany?
And I said, yeah, sure.
And we put [Gbm] the whole band together.
[D] And we had so much fun over that weekend that we thought, you know, we started to [E] discuss future possibilities.
How [Bm] did that gig feel, [C] with you being back together again?
Well, I mean, initially [G] we just did a TV [Ab] show, and then [F]
playing live [C] was actually a big step.
I mean, [G] I had stopped.
[Gb] We were not Orchestra Maneuvers of the Dark [F] anymore.
Nobody was.
[Ab] And I had not sung live [A] for 13 years.
So it was a bit, you know, I was [G] very nervous.
So we took little steps slowly.
And then three years ago, [F] the whole band [Gb] got together.
And that was hard work.
[A] We [G] really had to [Eb] shake the rust off, you know.
It took a long time, but it got great.
And we've been playing live now for [G] over three years, and it's fantastic.
When did the idea [E] come up to play in the original lineup again?
[Bm] Because you weren't in Germany, [Ab] right?
No, well, I mean, when we first started, they just wanted two of us, [A] which is we [Gb] started the band.
So we're [Gb] considered the original members.
And [Db]
that was just, that was an easy step, because we were just doing a few songs with [Fm] an orchestra.
It wasn't, we [N] didn't have to do a whole hour and a half ourselves.
[Am] So that was just the first [G] step.
When that worked out, then we decided it was time [E] to take the next step with the whole band.
[C] And when was the last time you played in that combination?
Two, but just two people or four?
With the four of you.
With [Abm] the four, it must have been the late 80s.
Yeah, that had been the late [F] 80s.
But the last [Db] time now was three weeks ago.
[E] We played a big festival in Germany.
[G] But the name OMD has been [Fm] used in [F] different outfits.
You used it after you split [Ab] up, and you used it as well.
Not really.
After that, playing live, right?
No, I didn't really use the [F] name, no.
[Gb] The promoters tried to say it [E] was OMD.
Okay.
Yeah, which I had to fight [G] against.
Were you ever afraid that [Gm] that would damage the thing you had built up together [C] as a two-piece initially [C] and as a four-piece later?
Not really damaged, no.
[Eb] When we decided to call it a day as the two of us [G] in the late 80s, [Eb]
[G] there was a lot of pressures for the name to continue.
Pressures from record companies and management, because there were contracts and stuff.
So it seemed like one person should take it.
[Ab] And Andy carried on without me, which I was fine about.
Because [Eb] particularly the next album he released was successful.
So [G] it was like, okay, [Fm] well the name is continuing on and the [Ab] legacy of OMD is continuing, so I'm happy with that.
How did you feel about that?
Andy being alone [G] with that name and making those albums?
I didn't mind.
It was a bit strange to hear an OMD song on the radio that I had nothing [Fm] to do with.
But [B] I [Ab] kind of got used to it and I was [G] fine that Andy was continuing on.
[G] But I do remember [Gb] the first time I [F] met him in 91 when I was [E] back in the charts again as [N] OMD without him.
The first thing he said was, I'm really glad that Sailing On The Seven Seas, which was the song we had out, [E] only got to number three.
So it's not higher than my song Souvenir.
[Abm] I did say that.
[G] But was everyone as enthusiastic as he [D] was about you being?
It was [N] very weird.
No, I think a lot of people found it strange.
How can Andy be OMD with some other people?
[C] Yeah, it was difficult.
I would have preferred to continue with Paul, [Gb] but we'd just gone in totally different directions.
[Db] Sometimes [E] things just don't work out, whether it's the personality or the wrong timing or outside pressures.
I think a lot of outside pressures [Dm] were on us, pulling us in different [Gb] directions.
So this is why [C] this is now great.
Because we've been writing songs together since [G] we were 16.
We went to the same school together.
We've known each other since we were about seven years old.
So it feels good we're [D] back together now.
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_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ How long has it been since you went through this press thing together?
_ The press thing?
Well, it's been quite a number of years, probably too many to mention really.
Maybe twenty _ -something?
Yeah, doing press together over twenty years.
Because this is the first OMD album for fourteen years, but the first one we made together for twenty-four years.
So, a long time ago.
What has changed _ _ on the press thing?
_ _ _ I think what's changed is the climate, really.
I think _ [C] we have to be less defensive of _ our past.
I mean, I think we were always up in the eighties, we were always up against _ _ _ playing [Gb] synthesizers.
Why are you playing [B] synthesizers?
Why are they [A] such a cold [F] instrument?
[G] _ _ _ _ _ [Eb] But we're beyond that now, because when we started playing instruments, we were playing _ synthesizers.
We were [F]
always up against a [Ab] rock journalist, who didn't see us as [Bb] real music,
because [G] we didn't [Fm] have [A] guitars and drum kits [G] and traditional _ _ _ [Fm] instruments, [Gb] really.
So, yeah, certainly for us, in terms of talking to people, that's the biggest change.
But _ _ _ one of the other biggest differences in terms of the press is there's lots more internet press than written press or [N] television press.
_ _ _ _ _ You played together, I believe, five years ago, for the first time in a long _ time, in Germany, right?
_ _ _ _ Who called who?
How did that come about?
I called him.
Yeah, Andy called me.
I mean, since the band stopped, there's always been, there's been continuing interest in [G] the band,
and we've been kept being asked to do things like produce other [Ab] bands or do TV shows and things like that.
But the timing was never right to do [Eb] things.
But anyway, one TV [N] show came through Andy, _ and it was like a trip to Germany to do _ _ just a weekend _ away, you know, all expenses paid.
_ And he phoned me and said, hey, do you fancy getting away from the wife and kids and go for a weekend in Germany?
And I said, yeah, sure.
And we put [Gbm] the whole band together.
[D] And we had so much fun over that weekend that we thought, you know, we started to [E] discuss future possibilities.
How [Bm] did that gig feel, [C] with you being back together again?
Well, I mean, initially [G] we just did a TV [Ab] show, and then [F]
playing live [C] was actually a big step.
I mean, [G] I had stopped.
[Gb] We were not Orchestra Maneuvers of the Dark [F] anymore.
Nobody was.
_ [Ab] And I had not sung live [A] for 13 years.
So it was a bit, you know, I was [G] very nervous.
So we took little steps slowly.
And then three years ago, [F] the whole band [Gb] got together.
And that was hard work.
[A] We [G] really had to [Eb] shake the rust off, you know.
It took a long time, but it got great.
And we've been playing live now for [G] over three years, and it's fantastic.
When did the idea [E] come up to play in the original lineup again?
[Bm] Because you weren't in Germany, [Ab] right?
No, well, I mean, when we first started, they just wanted two of us, [A] which is we [Gb] started the band.
So we're [Gb] considered the original members.
And [Db]
that was just, that was an easy step, because we were just doing a few songs with [Fm] an orchestra.
It wasn't, we [N] didn't have to do a whole hour and a half ourselves.
[Am] So that was just the first [G] step.
When that worked out, then we decided it was time [E] to take the next step with the whole band.
_ [C] And when was the last time you played in that combination? _ _ _
Two, but just two people or four?
With the four of you.
With [Abm] the four, it must have been the late 80s.
_ Yeah, that had been the late [F] 80s.
But the last [Db] time now was three weeks ago.
[E] We played a big festival in Germany.
[G] _ But the name OMD has been [Fm] used in _ [F] different outfits.
You used it after you split [Ab] up, and you used it as well.
Not really.
After that, playing live, right?
No, I didn't really use the [F] name, no. _
[Gb] The promoters tried to say it [E] was OMD.
Okay.
Yeah, which I had to fight [G] against.
Were you ever afraid that [Gm] that would damage the thing you had built up together [C] as a two-piece initially [C] and as a four-piece later?
Not really damaged, no.
_ [Eb] When we decided to call it a day as the two _ of us [G] _ in the late 80s, _ _ _ [Eb] _ _
[G] there was a lot of pressures for the name to continue.
Pressures from record companies and management, because there were contracts and stuff.
So it seemed like one person should take it.
_ _ [Ab] And Andy carried on without me, which I was fine about.
Because [Eb] particularly the next album he released was successful.
So [G] it was like, okay, [Fm] well the name is continuing on and the [Ab] legacy of OMD is continuing, so I'm happy with that.
How did you feel about that?
Andy being alone [G] with that name and making those albums?
I didn't mind.
It was a bit strange to hear an OMD song on the radio that I had nothing [Fm] to do with.
But [B] _ I [Ab] kind of got used to it and I was [G] fine that Andy was continuing on.
[G] But I do remember [Gb] the first time I [F] met him in 91 when I was [E] back in the charts again as [N] OMD without him.
The first thing he said was, I'm really glad that Sailing On The Seven Seas, which was the song we had out, [E] only got to number three.
So it's not higher than my song Souvenir.
[Abm] _ _ _ I did say that.
[G] But was everyone as enthusiastic as he [D] was about you being?
It was [N] very weird.
No, I think a lot of people found it strange.
How can Andy be OMD with some other people?
_ [C] Yeah, it was difficult.
_ I would have preferred to continue with Paul, [Gb] but we'd just gone in totally different directions.
[Db] Sometimes [E] things just don't work out, whether it's the personality or the wrong timing or outside pressures.
I think a lot of outside pressures [Dm] were on us, pulling us in different [Gb] directions.
So _ this is why [C] this is now great.
Because we've been writing songs together since [G] we were 16.
We went to the same school together.
We've known each other since we were about seven years old.
So it feels good we're [D] back together now.
_ _ [Gb] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ How long has it been since you went through this press thing together?
_ The press thing?
Well, it's been quite a number of years, probably too many to mention really.
Maybe twenty _ -something?
Yeah, doing press together over twenty years.
Because this is the first OMD album for fourteen years, but the first one we made together for twenty-four years.
So, a long time ago.
What has changed _ _ on the press thing?
_ _ _ I think what's changed is the climate, really.
I think _ [C] we have to be less defensive of _ our past.
I mean, I think we were always up in the eighties, we were always up against _ _ _ playing [Gb] synthesizers.
Why are you playing [B] synthesizers?
Why are they [A] such a cold [F] instrument?
[G] _ _ _ _ _ [Eb] But we're beyond that now, because when we started playing instruments, we were playing _ synthesizers.
We were [F]
always up against a [Ab] rock journalist, who didn't see us as [Bb] real music,
because [G] we didn't [Fm] have [A] guitars and drum kits [G] and traditional _ _ _ [Fm] instruments, [Gb] really.
So, yeah, certainly for us, in terms of talking to people, that's the biggest change.
But _ _ _ one of the other biggest differences in terms of the press is there's lots more internet press than written press or [N] television press.
_ _ _ _ _ You played together, I believe, five years ago, for the first time in a long _ time, in Germany, right?
_ _ _ _ Who called who?
How did that come about?
I called him.
Yeah, Andy called me.
I mean, since the band stopped, there's always been, there's been continuing interest in [G] the band,
and we've been kept being asked to do things like produce other [Ab] bands or do TV shows and things like that.
But the timing was never right to do [Eb] things.
But anyway, one TV [N] show came through Andy, _ and it was like a trip to Germany to do _ _ just a weekend _ away, you know, all expenses paid.
_ And he phoned me and said, hey, do you fancy getting away from the wife and kids and go for a weekend in Germany?
And I said, yeah, sure.
And we put [Gbm] the whole band together.
[D] And we had so much fun over that weekend that we thought, you know, we started to [E] discuss future possibilities.
How [Bm] did that gig feel, [C] with you being back together again?
Well, I mean, initially [G] we just did a TV [Ab] show, and then [F]
playing live [C] was actually a big step.
I mean, [G] I had stopped.
[Gb] We were not Orchestra Maneuvers of the Dark [F] anymore.
Nobody was.
_ [Ab] And I had not sung live [A] for 13 years.
So it was a bit, you know, I was [G] very nervous.
So we took little steps slowly.
And then three years ago, [F] the whole band [Gb] got together.
And that was hard work.
[A] We [G] really had to [Eb] shake the rust off, you know.
It took a long time, but it got great.
And we've been playing live now for [G] over three years, and it's fantastic.
When did the idea [E] come up to play in the original lineup again?
[Bm] Because you weren't in Germany, [Ab] right?
No, well, I mean, when we first started, they just wanted two of us, [A] which is we [Gb] started the band.
So we're [Gb] considered the original members.
And [Db]
that was just, that was an easy step, because we were just doing a few songs with [Fm] an orchestra.
It wasn't, we [N] didn't have to do a whole hour and a half ourselves.
[Am] So that was just the first [G] step.
When that worked out, then we decided it was time [E] to take the next step with the whole band.
_ [C] And when was the last time you played in that combination? _ _ _
Two, but just two people or four?
With the four of you.
With [Abm] the four, it must have been the late 80s.
_ Yeah, that had been the late [F] 80s.
But the last [Db] time now was three weeks ago.
[E] We played a big festival in Germany.
[G] _ But the name OMD has been [Fm] used in _ [F] different outfits.
You used it after you split [Ab] up, and you used it as well.
Not really.
After that, playing live, right?
No, I didn't really use the [F] name, no. _
[Gb] The promoters tried to say it [E] was OMD.
Okay.
Yeah, which I had to fight [G] against.
Were you ever afraid that [Gm] that would damage the thing you had built up together [C] as a two-piece initially [C] and as a four-piece later?
Not really damaged, no.
_ [Eb] When we decided to call it a day as the two _ of us [G] _ in the late 80s, _ _ _ [Eb] _ _
[G] there was a lot of pressures for the name to continue.
Pressures from record companies and management, because there were contracts and stuff.
So it seemed like one person should take it.
_ _ [Ab] And Andy carried on without me, which I was fine about.
Because [Eb] particularly the next album he released was successful.
So [G] it was like, okay, [Fm] well the name is continuing on and the [Ab] legacy of OMD is continuing, so I'm happy with that.
How did you feel about that?
Andy being alone [G] with that name and making those albums?
I didn't mind.
It was a bit strange to hear an OMD song on the radio that I had nothing [Fm] to do with.
But [B] _ I [Ab] kind of got used to it and I was [G] fine that Andy was continuing on.
[G] But I do remember [Gb] the first time I [F] met him in 91 when I was [E] back in the charts again as [N] OMD without him.
The first thing he said was, I'm really glad that Sailing On The Seven Seas, which was the song we had out, [E] only got to number three.
So it's not higher than my song Souvenir.
[Abm] _ _ _ I did say that.
[G] But was everyone as enthusiastic as he [D] was about you being?
It was [N] very weird.
No, I think a lot of people found it strange.
How can Andy be OMD with some other people?
_ [C] Yeah, it was difficult.
_ I would have preferred to continue with Paul, [Gb] but we'd just gone in totally different directions.
[Db] Sometimes [E] things just don't work out, whether it's the personality or the wrong timing or outside pressures.
I think a lot of outside pressures [Dm] were on us, pulling us in different [Gb] directions.
So _ this is why [C] this is now great.
Because we've been writing songs together since [G] we were 16.
We went to the same school together.
We've known each other since we were about seven years old.
So it feels good we're [D] back together now.
_ _ [Gb] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _