Orchestral Manoeuvres in The Dark - Reformation

Reformation

On 1 January 2006, Andy McCluskey announced plans to reform OMD with the McCluskey, Humphreys, Holmes and Cooper line-up. The original plan was to tour the album Architecture & Morality and other pre-1983 material, then record a new album set for release in 2007.

In May 2007, the Architecture & Morality remastered CD was re-released together with a DVD featuring the Drury Lane concert from 1981 that had previously been available on VHS.

Through May and June, the band toured with the "classic" line up of McCluskey, Humphreys, Holmes and Cooper. They began their set with a re-ordered but otherwise complete restaging of the Architecture & Morality album. The second half of each concert featured a selection of their best known hits, and audience reaction was consistently so positive that the all-seated venues saw the crowds on their feet for the entire show. The band seemed surprised and delighted by their applause.

Spring 2008 saw the release of a live CD and DVD of the 2007 tour, OMD Live: Architecture & Morality & More, recorded at the London Apollo Hammersmith, along with a 25th anniversary re-release of Dazzle Ships, including six bonus tracks. At the same time, a brief October 2008 tour was announced, partly to tie-in with the Dazzle Ships album's 25th anniversary. China Crisis supported OMD on this tour.

In June 2009 an orchestral concert with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic was given in Liverpool. A recording of this concert was released on DVD in December 2009. November and December also saw a return to arena touring as support for Simple Minds.

OMD performed with Night of the Proms in December 2006 in Germany and later again in Belgium and the Netherlands in October and November 2009.

OMD were also the headline act at Britain's first Vintage Computer Festival at The National Museum of Computing, Bletchley Park, in June 2010.

On 9 July 2010, OMD were invited by the German designer Michael Michalsky to perform at his StyleNite event during Berlin Fashion Week.

Trevor Horn announced on 9 September 2010, that OMD would perform as a special guest at the "first live gig" of The Buggles.

OMD's 11th studio album, History of Modern, was released on 20 September 2010 to positive critical acclaim, reaching No. 28 in the UK album charts, and has sold well over 100,000 in Europe. A European tour to promote the album followed in November 2010.

In March 2011, OMD played their first North American tour as the original line up since 1988. The shows were hugely popular with unanimously positive reviews reflecting a general acknowledgement of the band's influential place in musical history combined with their ability to still deliver an incredibly powerful live show.

In September 2011, the band appeared at the Electric Picnic 2011 festival in Stradbally, Co Laois, Ireland.

In November 2011, OMD announced they were getting back to the studio to start work on their latest album. The title will be English Electric.

On 12 March 2012, the band played a successful one-night only concert at the Smart Araneta Coliseum in Quezon City, Philippines, much to the delight of their Filipino fans, for it being the band's first time ever to perform there. In August 2012, OMD performed to South African Audiences in Cape Town and Johannesburg, which were hugely successful. McCluskey announced that they would be returning in the future to perform at a larger venue. Again the seated venues had the audience on their feet for virtually the whole performance (Emperors Palace 5 Aug 2012)