Paul Humphreys

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Paul Humphreys

Born 1960-02-27 · London, England

Paul David Humphreys (born 27 February 1960) is an English singer, songwriter and musician. He is best known as the keyboardist and secondary vocalist of the electronic band Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (OMD), which he founded alongside lead vocalist and bassist Andy McCluskey in 1978. The Quietus remarked, "If, roughly speaking, McCluskey is the intellect and inquisitive nature in the group, then Humphreys is the heart." The pair have been recognised as pioneers of electronic music. Humphreys played with OMD until 1989, seven years before the band's dissolution, and returned for their 2006 reformation. His songwriting contribution features on all of the group's studio albums, save for 1991's Sugar Tax. Humphreys sang lead vocals on several OMD tracks, including the singles "Electricity", "Souvenir", "Never Turn Away", "Secret", "(Forever) Live and Die" and "What Have We Done". Aside from his work with OMD, Humphreys fronted spin-off band the Listening Pool from 1989 to 1996, and recorded with former Propaganda singer Claudia Brücken as the duo Onetwo from 2000 to 2013. Description above from the Wikipedia article Paul Humphreys, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Taratata numéro 600 poster
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Taratata numéro 600

2025

OMD - Live at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane poster
4.2

Filmed at The Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in London in 1981, this video shows the band singing some of their most famous hits of that time, live on stage. Includes songs such as Joan of Arc, Maid of Orleans, Messages and Enola Gay and many more. Originally released as a VHS video, this was also distributed on a Collector's Edition DVD/CD combo in 2007.

OMD - Live at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane

1982

Synth Britannia poster
7.9

Documentary following a generation of post-punk musicians who took the synthesiser from the experimental fringes to the centre of the pop stage.

Synth Britannia

2009

OMD: Souvenir poster
10.0

Souvenir is the story of one of the most influential synth-pop bands of all time.

OMD: Souvenir

2007

Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark: Crush - The Movie poster
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From Japanese adverts to Mexican death festivals, from filming in Spain to murders in America, this film follows OMD through the recording and making of Crush, their sixth album. Crush - The Movie is more than just a collection of single promo videos, it combines interviews with the band and candid footage of them at work and play.

Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark: Crush - The Movie

1985

OMD: Live - Architecture & Morality & More poster
6.2

Live concert by Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark recorded at the Hammersmith Apollo, London on Saturday 19 May 2007.

OMD: Live - Architecture & Morality & More

2008

Messages: OMD Greatest Hits poster
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The complete collection of Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark's conceptual videos. It is the first time that all of the band's music videos have been released on DVD. "Joan of Arc" had no video filmed at the time, so a mimed performance on the UK music show Top of the Pops has been added to the DVD instead. "Hold You" was considered as the second single from Crush and a promo video was made, but the single was never released.

Messages: OMD Greatest Hits

2008

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The footage is of the full Hammersmith Apollo gig on the Souvenir Tour in November 2019.

OMD: Live From Your Sofa

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Souvenir: The Story of OMD

2007

Bauhaus Staircase OMD ARTefact poster
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This lavish product comprehensively celebrates the audiovisual world of OMD’s 14th studio album Bauhaus Staircase. Working in close collaboration with cine1080, the music videos for the singles from the record were the band’s most ambitious yet. Refusing on a point of principle to use any AI in their work, these videos are lovingly CGI generated and were the results of many months of labour. In addition to all the music videos of the singles & promotional tracks released from the album, this luxurious book boasts 32 pages of imagery, a full-length conversation between Andy McCluskey and cine1080’s Andy Whitehurst about their creative working relationship, the full Bauhaus Staircase album & b-sides in high-resolution audio, the live visuals used on the Bauhaus Staircase Tour (with brand new live tracks recorded in Edinburgh and London and mixed by Paul Humphreys) plus more.

Bauhaus Staircase OMD ARTefact

2025

This Happened: Claudia Brücken Live at the Scala poster
10.0

Filmed at the Scala, London in 2011, Claudia Brucken, using the nucleus of her current Onetwo band, performed an exciting 98 minute live set playing 19 song selections from her 27-year career aided by a host of special guests, including Andy Bell (Erasure), Glenn Gregory & Martyn Ware (Heaven 17), Susanne Freytag and Ralf Dorper (Propaganda) and Andrew Poppy.

This Happened: Claudia Brücken Live at the Scala

2012

Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark - Live Architecture & Morality and More poster
7.0

Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - Live Architecture & Morality and More movie was released May 07, 2013 by the Eagle studio. Architecture & Morality, originally released in 1981, is considered by many to be the pinnacle of the band's career. It spawned an extensive European tour. For the early part of this tour, including this concert filmed in high definition at London's Hammersmith Apollo in May, the concert was split into 2 halves. The first part of the evening was a complete performance of the album, while the 2nd half was a greatest hits set covering the rest of the band's illustrious career.

Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark - Live Architecture & Morality and More

2013