claudia brucken/paul humphrey - 'onetwo' work with Martin Gore ..

too many typos. grr. but you hopefully got my point.

in my recent re-discovery of DM i saw this news on their website. interesting. so claudia does all the singing?

no, paul h sings as well especially on lead track Sister.. but on the other tracks tis mainly Claudia ..

http://www.theremusic.com/

i'm really wary of all the ex-OMDers' stuff (yes, even mclusky's solo work as, umm, OMD) ... and for a long time i've thought paul humphreys was a bit of a chump, based on some half-remembered tale about a dispute he had with mclusky.

oh: and because of the listening pool. yes, it's all coming back to me now. jesus CHRIST, the listening pool were shit.

but i'm really interesting in this onetwo thing, and i want to like it. reassure me: it's not like TLP, is it?

OMD meets Propaganda meets Depeche Mode?

Hmm.. Sounds interesting. Must check ;)

never heard TLP

.. but this onetwo is nice. i was never an OMD kinda person .. i am from the Propaganda interest factor .. and in that respect i am well chuffed ..

heh, and i know sod all about propaganda (i know, i know: gaping hole in synthpop knowledge there), so ... you've convinced me, mark. i shall investigate.

don't be tempted to go looking for listening pool stuff, though. just don't.

cant buy it in shops. sales are all via ebay. or blatant blagging.

BTW .. propaganda .. Dr Mabuse full 12" version.

easily found in the usual places i would think. by far one of the best records. ever.

that is unless it sounds like the listening pool.

actually im surprised that no-one has mentioned the fact that
claudia and suzanne shared a stage for the first time in 20 years
last week in london. anyone else hear this? at a onetwo gig by all accnts. this makes the chances of a full reform at the TREVOR HORN gig :

http://www.princes-trust.org.uk/Main%20Site%20v2/headline%20news/trevor%20horn.asp

ever more likely.

thanks for the propaganda tip, mark, that's much appreciated. i shall check it out.

i don't imagine it sounds anything like the listening pool. i don't think anything in the *world* sounds that bad.

x-post: bizarre wee buying-from-ebay thing they've got going on there; although i see there's also some sound clips (maybe even full versions? i can but hope) on the site. i shall listen tonight ... oh, shit, no i won't, i'm out ... and tomorrow ... and saturday ... bollocks. i shall listen on sunday, then.

thanks again.

wasn't aware re Claudi/Suzanne thing .. wow .. now thats fine.

i never picked up the second Propaganda album as it just didn't feel/sound right. should i revisit this negativity and get the much maligned Second album (not incl the remix lp .. )

'duel' and 'p-machinery' are absolute 80s classics by propaganda, especially the 12" mix of the latter.

well.. I was at that gig last week, and mmm.. Claudia sounded spankingly good. She did all the songs you'd expect, plus "Cloud 9" (the Gore-song) and other newies. Susanne came on and did the spoken bits on "P-Machinery" and "Dr Mabuse", standing next to Claudia clutching her microphone and smiling awkwardly, looking like a saucy blonde finance consultant who'd just come from work.

The OMD songs sounded even better. I don't think it's my imagination, and certainly no ill-founded nostalgia trip, but some of them sounded as relevant now as ever - esp Messages, Souvenir and Electricity. CB shared vocals with Paul on most of the OMD songs - an impressive feat. I never thought I'd hear CB sing "Our one source of energy.." etc.

What's more, they really seemed up for it. And not in a 'wow, this could be my pension fund' way either - it was a genuine excitement at playing new and old songs live again.

wow darren ..ta for this rundown. that sounds fine. the point re the "pension fund futures" vs the fact that it sounds fresh are exactly what i was thinking when i was listening to the new ep on my way to work.. and after all the harshness re Claudia's vocal abilities in the past i have to say on the tracks she fronts she sounds pretty fucking good.
will this get more profile - or is it going to be kept as a little secret project for them to have fun with ? guess only time will tell ..

well done darren. i was beginning to think my source made it up.

proof :

http://www.omd-germany.de/deutsch/htm_deutsch/extras_onetwo_live04.htm

gosh.