Mellotronists

On Tuesday, March 11, 2003, at 01:17  pm, David Davis wrote:

> Yes but it wasn't all capes and beards in 'tronland, ewe
> know!
>
> Yesterday, Virgin MultiMoneyGrabbingConglomerates plc
> re-issued an re-mastered-with-loads-of-B-sides-tacked-on
> version of 'ARCHITECTURE AND MORALITY' by Wirral's finest
> neu!wave synthpop groop, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark
> (http://www.omd.uk.com )
>
> Correct me if I'm wrong, but those fine Wirral lads were
> just about the only people that managed to get their
> Novatrons on Top of the Pops in the 1980s, weren't they?
> with pleasing top 10 hit singles all about Joan of Arc
> being burnt at the stake?
>
> This re-issue CD is great cos it has bonus tracks such
> as 'Navigation', where Paul Humphreys plays the String
> Section sound whilst his dog barks down a cardboard tube,
> and 'The Romance of the Telescope' where Andy McCluskey
> smear big gobs of really slow mellotron brass over
> everything and Atomic Kitten had never even been born yet.
> And that's only the half of it.
>
> I wonder where the OMD Novatrons are now?
>
>
>
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On Tuesday, March 11, 2003, at 02:08  pm, David Davis wrote:

>  --- Colin Crawford <g-colin.crawford@...> wrote: >
> I think Humphreys still has them!
>>
>> Bloody brilliant stuff......
>>
>
> I think I read McCluskey mutter sthg about the OMD
> Novatrons "being in storage" a few years ago....
>
> ....I dunno what Paul Humphreys would want with them,
> as all he does these days is eat pies and go on
> incongruous US tours with that feisty Claudia Bruuucken
> fraulein out of 'Propaganda' and then eat more pies.
>
> Actually, perhaps he keeps his pies in them.
>
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