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An iconic eighties band is selling their concert tickets at a fraction of their original price ahead of their upcoming show.
Electro-pop duo Orchestral Maneuvers In The Dark have been going for 46 years and are now selling cheap tickets to fill the last few seats.
The band, fronted by Wirral lads Andy McCluskey and Paul Humphreys, will play the London O2 this Sunday and have got a seat-filling service to hand out cheap tickets.
Officially, tickets are on sale for upwards of £60, but the band have also quietly put the show up on website ShowFilmFirst, with tickets for just £10 in an attempt to sell out.
Iconic 80s band Orchestral Maneuvers In The Dark are selling tickets for just £10 each ahead of London show
The electro-pop duo fronted by Wirral lads Andy McCluskey and Paul Humphreys are set to play the London O2 and are now selling cheap tickets to fill the last few seats
Show Film First gives a closed user group of people mainly from the NHS, emergency services and military families access to seat fill tickets as a last minute option.
The £10 fee is an administration fee, with a charity donation of £3.50 going towards NHS services, and OMD have handed over 200 tickets to NHS staff for their headline show in the capital.
However, the band insist it is their most successful tour in over 30 years, with over 50,000 tickets sold.
The London show has sold 7500 tickets out of a possible 8100 and while many of their other shows are sold out.
Over their long career, OMD have sold 15 million albums and 25 million singles and boast an impressive seven Top Ten singles including Enola Gay and Maid Of Orleans.
They inspired Depeche Mode to make music, and their distinctive influence can still be heard in artists from Lady Gaga to Radiohead.
But following their success in the Eighties, the pair then took conceptual exploration to disastrous extremes with their challenging 1983 album, Dazzle Ships.
‘Every record we’d made had gotten bigger,’ Andy previously explained, ‘inevitably we thought, “We can do whatever we want and people will buy it.” ‘
Over their long career, OMD have sold 15 million albums and 25 million singles and boast an impressive seven Top Ten singles including Enola Gay and Maid Of Orleans (performed in 2017)
However, the band insist it is their most successful tour in over 30 years, with over 50,000 tickets sold
After OMD, Andy stayed in the pop world and founded Atomic Kitten with Kerry Katona, Natasha Hamilton and Liz McClarnon
Dazzle Ships dazzled neither critics nor public, and while their previous album sold three million copies; Dazzle Ships only sold 300,000.
The despondent childhood friends broke up in 1996 and barely spoke for ten years. Their relationship also suffered and both men separated from their partners.
After OMD, Andy stayed in the pop world and founded Atomic Kitten with Kerry Katona, Natasha Hamilton and Liz McClarnon.
He co-wrote their number one hit Whole Again and made Kerry Katona a star.
He previously admitted: ‘She wasn’t a good singer. But Kerry was the band’s driving force.’
OMD was resurrected in 2005, partly at the behest of a TV show, but also because Andy’s children wanted to see what their father did for a living.
In their current 2024, they travel to a host of shows across Europe and the UK with their new record Bauhaus Staircase.