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How long has it been since you went through this press thing together?
it's been quite a number of years, probably too many to mention really.
press together over twenty years.
first OMD album for fourteen years, but the first one we made together for twenty-four years.
What has changed on the press thing?
what's changed is the climate, really.
[C] we have to be less defensive of our past.
eighties, we were always up against playing [Gb] synthesizers.
it's been quite a number of years, probably too many to mention really.
press together over twenty years.
first OMD album for fourteen years, but the first one we made together for twenty-four years.
What has changed on the press thing?
what's changed is the climate, really.
[C] we have to be less defensive of our past.
eighties, we were always up against playing [Gb] synthesizers.
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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] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _