Of all the rock biogs I’ve read this year, Richard Houghton’s Pretending To See The Future has been one of the most absorbing. It takes a painstaking gig-by-gig approach to tracing the history of Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark, from those that were on the stage, and those that were in the audience. It’s a great angle to cover what many initially considered a studio band in a live context. Or to think about electronic music (which, before home taping, was “killing music”, we were told) from the perspective of concerts as opposed to tracks.