Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark - Bauhaus Staircase (Later... with Jools Holland)

Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark perform Bauhaus Staircase on Later... with Jools Holland. Watch more Later... with Jools Holland on BBC iPlayer: bbc.co.uk/iplayer.
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[@tomadams6266]

Respect - seminal electronic band still smashing it

[@jpgtardis]

Genuinely one of OMD's greatest songs - how many artists can claim such success after so many years. Brilliant.

[@herminengasse6]

Amazing how good this new record is. A total statement of aesthetic attempt.

[@user-sd8cu4rz7o]

OMD isS still going strong. Bauhaus Staircase is one of their best records ever. A new classic album!

[@user-xf3ih1by6j]

They are my favourite ever band. Not a day goes by that I am not listening to something they have made. I am so grateful they have been in my life for all this time. I do hope they do another album and I get to see them live again, always one hell of a night. Thanks again OMD for giving me so much pleasure.

[@RebeccaTurner-ny1xx]

A great new album, up there with Organisation and Architecture & Morality. Who'd have thought it, after all this time? And McCluskey's voice is better than it was back then.

[@imperialjg7142]

this is absolutely wonderful.

[@TheRidgeChannel]

Seen the boys 3 or 4 times over the last couple of years in halls, festivals and alike, they don’t disappoint, their new stuff is up there with all the favourites… May be time for a Greatest Hits 2 album!!

[@frankmacari3067]

Absolutely fantastic ❤

[@chrisinns753]

Amazing,they never disappoint 🕺🕺🕺🕺🕺🕺🕺

[@jamiefoyers2800]

Watching this at the weekend when it was on...good performance and can't get the song out my head!.

[@willhewiz]

After the last album expectations were zero and this album has confounded that. What a great surprise!

[@notagainplease9124]

The new album is classic OMD. Superb!

[@philbedford8979]

If this is to be the band's swansong then what a way to go....

[@malgorzataczerska8340]

Super song ❤😊

[@DragoshHits]

This is GREAT! Amazing!!!!!! More ELECTRONIC than ever!

[@bondbug73]

OMD finest work is now, and the last ten years. Super performance's of both new songs.

[@Andione.]

Another omd masterpiece ✨️ A real pleasure to have met you both in leeds at crash records for the cd signing. Number 2 in the album charts. Excellent song. Can't wait for the gig next year.

[@themoores9817]

The best band I have ever seen live. Love the new album

[@tcpipchip]

Yes! Clear and big quality sound! Congratulations

[@user-rg3wg3vh1s]

Tremendous!!

[@Oldlarsen72]

Sehr geil. Danke OMD. Vom Feinsten ❤

[@NiceGuyNosta]

AMAZING

[@guidowalker6397]

cool song

[@willbyler6271]

GOATs

[@themoores9817]

1000% agree

[@merboyontiveros5297]

Cant wait to see them on Sunday in Anaheim ca

[@djbitterdjb4625]

Born 1972 . Love Andy .

[@Amarok365]

Waiting impatiently for Anthropocene as a single release and to be played at the concerts.

[@craseypete]

The keyboards are even more simple than The Cure One finger keys

[@BjarneBlom]

Actually, there is nothing simple in playing a bassline with repeated notes by hand. Miss one note and everybody will hear the difference.

[@123uzuz]

Wow I didn’t know Ben Stiller sang in a band.

[@Michael19960127]

The chord changes sound like I am a Walrus.

[@Krabbykabbyfilms]

OMD is basically promoting evolution and that is false to begin with . Why do artists intend on pushing agendas verses real musical art??? I grew up with OMD and loved their music up until this album because now it involves politics which immediately was a red flag. The album is not good at all and uses basic keys and no real substance anyway, they are trying to repeat phrases over and over to indoctrinate listeners which was very clear. Over the years real talent had been difficult to find who doesn't install tactics.The only real bands left today who broke the molds are Tears for Fears and Depeche Mode which keep their music solid and ever changing against segregating listeners.

[@Krabbykabbyfilms]

Dave Ghan for one is not gay because I know him and his family for decades so we can put that to rest. Dave's style has always been stage presence and persona which gives him his own unique way of doing things. Today gay people try and recruit others to their ideologies and sorry but it won't work here with me. Mannerisms are not a way to tell the truth about someone, they are descriptions about how you see it and thats fine but for those of us who know the dude, well its our honor to befriend such an awesome person.@@50milliondownthedraintonym16

[@themoores9817]

Well, the album got to number two in the charts- so that speaks for itself. Also, their gig I was at in 2021 sold out in 45 minuets. So, I think one person not liking them won’t make them crying into their cornflakes just yet.

[@SJ-tk4ri]

@@themoores9817 - exactly, well said 👏🏼

[@BAztid]

Depeche Mode and Tears for Fears literally wouldn't exist if not for OMD. Clarke founded Depeche on the back of OMD's first single and album, and early TFF lifted OMD's sounds and image wholesale.

[@wawawswfc4957]

Have u listened to depeche modes last 3 albums ....there terrible....as 4 tff....they dint come close to omd in any way....