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Rockonteurs with Gary Kemp and Guy Pratt

S4E19: Andy McCluskey

Rockonteurs with Gary Kemp and Guy Pratt

Rhino UK

Pop, Interviews, Music, Rock

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2023

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

This week Guy Pratt and Gary Kemp chat with Andy McCluskey from Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark. From his early influences growing up in the Wirral to founding the band with Paul Humphreys in 1978 and leading the charge as electro pioneers. Their hits include the global smash hit Enola Gay, Joan of Arc, If You Leave and Sailing on the Seven Seas. 2023 marks the 40th anniversary of Dazzle Ships which has been remastered and is out now.

Rockonteurs is produced by Ben Jones for Gimme Sugar Productions


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0:00.0

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0:27.0

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0:32.0

Hello Guy, Electro pioneers,

0:35.0

Electro pioneers, who very much modeled themselves on craft work,

0:41.0

didn't they, but had a very innate pop sort of innocence about their

0:46.7

sounds, didn't they?

0:47.7

Yes, they did. I'd sort of, you know, I'd love to know what the timeline is because obviously

0:51.9

there's a lot of bands that

0:53.2

that changed I mean in a way they had the same philosophy as punk right it was a

0:58.5

sort of DIY but the instruments changed yeah and you know instead of of the guitar, it was now whatever little scints or tapes they can get hold of.

1:07.6

Obviously Joy Division, there was all this stuff going on in Manchester.

1:10.9

Then there's Liverpool Liverpool obviously with these guys

1:13.2

oMD but I think really if I was going to say who was first I'd say it was probably

1:17.4

humanly yeah probably but you're right but even talking to when we were talking to

1:22.2

mid-year there was that thing of

1:23.8

people suddenly realizing that you could do all this stuff with a sin you know I think

1:27.9

was when the first affordable little monophonics turned up hello you know you know, this is our first album.

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