Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark.
It is the first time that China has objected to (perfectly legal) manoeuvres in the area.
True, the United States and other nations also stage war games and manoeuvres in the South China Sea.
Which is one reason why I profiled Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, or O.M.D., in the magazine this week.
Q: So do you like unpacking more obscure stuff, like "Dazzle Ships" by Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark?
Wilson co-founded Factory Records, signing the bands Joy Division, New Order, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark and the Happy Mondays.
Click here to view video Paul Humphreys and I had been at school together and formed Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark in 1978.
And if terpsichorean pyrotechnics were at a minimum, there were some orchestrated manoeuvres in the dark, including occasional random jogs around the stage.
She seems refreshingly unschooled as she performs a series of deliberately naff dance manoeuvres in the grim urban milieus of a pool hall and a hairdresser's.
Print Liverpool's latest nightclub hotel has musical roots: this converted former printworks was once the recording studio of Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark.
No one bought it, mind you, so Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark's Dazzle Ships came to be viewed as a heroic failure - the ultimate commercial suicide.
