Cabaret Voltaire Announce Final UK Tour | The Quietus

Cabaret Voltaire Announce Final UK Tour

Stephen Mallinder and Chris Watson will "go round the block one more time" to play 11 shows in 2026

Cabaret Voltaire have outlined plans for their final tour.

Coming more than 50 years on from the formation of the band, the 11-date run will see Stephen Mallinder and Chris Watson, who co-founded the project with the late Richard H. Kirk, play shows across the UK. The tour kicks off at Birmingham’s Town Hall on October 10, 2026, with stops following it in Liverpool, Nottingham, Cardiff, Bath, Newcastle, Glasgow, Manchester, Bexhill, London and Sheffield.

Gazelle Twin will support the duo across the full tour. Tickets go on sale here this Friday (October 31) at 10am GMT.

The announcement of the shows comes after Mallinder and Watson played a 50th anniversary show for the project in Sheffield last week, as part of Sensoria Festival.

In a statement, Mallinder said: “What a wonderful opportunity to go round the block one more time and share that with one of the most unique and spectacular artists we know. The connective tissue between ourselves, our history, and the world Gazelle Twin now conjures up, will be out there and shared with people. It seems like a special, magical moment.”

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