Malcolm Holmes
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| Malcolm Holmes | |
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| Born | July 28, 1960 |
| Origin | Birkenhead, England |
| Instrument(s) | Drums, Electronic drums |
| Associated acts | Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark The Listening Pool |
Malcolm Holmes (born 28 July 1960, Birkenhead, England) is a British drummer. He is best known for being the drummer with Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, with whom he had a #3 UK hit with "Souvenir" and a #4 US/#48 UK hit with "If You Leave".
[edit] Biography
His first drumming sessions were for "The Id," who included future members of OMD. He also played on sessions for The Pale Fountains, Dalek I Love You, The Lightning Seeds and Margi Clarke, aka Margox in the late 1970's. He joined OMD in 1978.
Often over-looked in the band, Malcolm played on over 130 of their songs as well contributing powerful live performances at hundreds of OMD concerts. On his first Top of the Pops TV performance in 1980 he performed 'standing up' playing a drum kit. He used a home made electronic drum kit for live performances before they became available to the mass market.
In April 2004 Holmes suffered a major heart attack. He only survived due to the skills of the ambulance paramedic team who where on call that evening. Later that year he went into heart failure which led to open heart surgery in 2005. He rejoined OMD when they reformed in 2006. Holmes recently restarted his earlier website project Finmusic [1] who are an independent digital record company offering online distribution, management and internet promotion. Finmusic were one of the very first legal music download sites in the UK.
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