Parklife DC Presents: Urgh! A Music War @ Black Cat, 10/1/18

Posted on September 11, 2018 by Mickey McCarter in Live Review and tagged Black Cat, Echo and the Bunnymen, Gary Numan, Joan Jett, Klaus Nomi, new wave, OMD, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, post-punk, punk, The Fleshtones, The Go-Go's, The Police, Urgh! A Music War, X, XTC.

Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (often abbreviated to OMD) are a synthpop group whose founding members are originally from the Wirral Peninsula, England.

Paul Humphreys and Andy McCluskey of Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark pose in San Francisco for NME in 1981. (Photo by Chester Simpson)

Urgh! A Music war, a cult-classic concert film, straddles divides across new wave, punk, and post-punk acts performing in 1980. Parklife DC screens the film at Black Cat on Monday, Oct. 1. Admission is free!