Cabaret Voltaire are set to mark 50 years since their first live shows with a special performance at Sheffield’s Forge Warehouse this October.
Taking place as part of this year’s Sensoria Festival, the October 25 gig will see original members Chris Watson and Stephen Mallinder rework material from across the project’s discography. This will include the group’s early work, releases on Rough Trade and Factory Records, their output on their own Doublevision video label, and later material made with producers such as Adrian Sherwood and Marshall Jefferson.
In a statement, Mallinder said: “The live set is built from scratch but faithful to the original tracks. Everything has been painstakingly reconstructed with the original technology and processes to build the tracks. But as with all Cabs live shows there is an element of unpredictable, the new. Chance meets causality.”
Watson added: “I’m delighted and totally thrilled to make a contribution to the band’s 50th anniversary. To share a stage once more with Mal and to honour Cabaret Voltaire’s legacy will be a unique privilege, whilst remembering that in the current times – as back then – the Dadaist interventions of Cabaret Voltaire remain essential.”
Tickets for the gig are available here.
