On this day, 29 November 1981, Liverpool band Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark, OMD, played the Sophia Gardens Pavilion, Cardiff with support provided by Random Hold.
The band consisted of Andy McCluskey, Paul Humphreys, Malcolm Holmes and Martin Cooper.
The tour was to promote their newly released Architecture And Morality album which peaked at No. 3 in the UK charts and No. 1 in Belgium and Holland. Souvenir was the first single released from the album and is the first OMD single that features Paul Humphreys on lead vocals.About the album the band said, “We wrote the whole thing in the Manor Studio in three days. We decided to call it Architecture And Morality and then proceeded to throw onto tape everything ‘architectural’ and ‘moral’ that we could think of. Over the three days we gradually added and subtracted all manner of sounds until we had made something from all the noises”
Set list
Architecture and Morality
The Romance of the Telescope
Sealand
Pretending to See the Future
Messages
Almost
Mystereality
Joan of Arc
Motion and Heart
Maid of Orleans
Statues
Souvenir
The New Stone Age
Enola Gay
Bunker Soldiers
Electricity
She's Leaving
Julia's Song
Stanlow
