Amsterdam have been asked to be special guests at the forthcoming OMD hometown show at the Summer Pops festival in Liverpool on Saturday 21 July.

The 4,000-capacity arena show will be the boys’ first appearance in the Pops since they supported Elvis Costello.

Tickets are available now from www.ents24.com.

Ian also revealed the title of the forthcoming Amsterdam album in Monday’s edition of the Liverpool Echo. The new long player will be called Arm in Arm after track three on the CD.

So far we’re looking at a mid-September release date.

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