Reunion sparks renewed synths of purpose

ANDY McCluskey has mellowed.

Thirty years ago, the Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark singer would have danced on the grave of Margaret Thatcher. He sees things differently now.

“Some of the stuff she did — I suppose it had to be done,” says the 53-year-old, who grew up in a middle-class town on the outskirts of Liverpool. “Politics, back then, was a complete bloody mess. It used to take crazy people like that to change the world. They couldn’t do it nowadays. We live in a world ruled by multinational corporations.”