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Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark: Eric's, Liverpool

Penny Kiley, Melody Maker, 23 February 1980

ORCHESTRAL MANOEUVRES are going to be big. It's the opening night of an important tour, on home ground (almost), and the message is there. It's there in the queues outside the door, in the club full of strangers, and in the slick new equipment waiting on the stage.

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