Mellotronists

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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