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Rochdale Town Hall Square 7 th  August 2026     Exciting news for fans of electro-pop, (and I don't know anyone who does not love synth-driven pop), a big gig at an unlikely location has come through.   The architectural majesty of Rochdale Town Hall will be watching over a special night’s entertainment with OMD, electro-pop, synth pioneers, who launched as Orchestral Manoeuvres in The Dark in the late-1970s and are still going strong.  They released a likeable album of new material in 2025, Bauhaus Staircase , which had all of the duo’s signature sounds.   The band have been concentrating on releasing a 40 th  Anniversary edition of their album Crush, which features a striking Edward Hopper style cover and includes the OMD hit single Secret .  This was an album in which the band had pulled together all their early experience of electronic music experimentation to produce a finely-defined synth sound.    Songs from this album ...

Love-Hate Relationship With London Laid Bare I n his brief, hard-edged new video single, using just a few simple verses, Eugene McGuinness captures London's affect on his soul, heart and wallet.  "And you only want me for my money," the native-Londoner asserts, money that is so hard to come by and flows even quicker out the door when you are trying to find work and somewhere to live in The Smoke. It's a brief, quirky number, coming in at just over two and a half  minutes, which one would instantly dismiss as bitter were it written about a fellow human-being.  However, the singer-songwriter has produced a little gem here. In the accompanying video, McGuinness has produced a document for our times of the UK's capital city.  Much of the footage comes from around the concrete South Bank of the Thames, an area famous for brutalist architecture, once acclaimed as 'modern'. Take a look at the video to enjoy this tidy take on the love-hate love song theme - can...