Cabaret Voltaire
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Cabaret Voltaire: Something strange is going on in Sheffield tonight
Interview by Jon Savage, Sounds, 15 April 1978
INSIDE THE HOUSE, an hour to kill before going into town. Hungover. Sit on the sofa and watch TV with the sound off. A tape ...
Live Review by Andy Gill, New Musical Express, 5 August 1978
CABARET VOLTAIRE performances, if I can make a sweeping generalisation, are always interesting but never satisfying. Interesting because they're prepared to probe, often at the ...
Cabaret Voltaire: Sheffield – This Week's Leeds
Profile and Interview by Andy Gill, New Musical Express, 9 September 1978
UNTIL LAST YEAR, Sheffield was undoubtedly the most musically inactive city in Britain. For a city with over half a million people, the paucity of ...
The Pop Group/LKJ/Nico/Cab Voltaire
Live Review by Richard Williams, Melody Maker, 21 October 1978
Disorder by juxtaposition. Subversion by paradox. Nothing is as simple as we're told. New feelings. ...
The Pop Group/Nico/Linton Kwesi Johnson/Cabaret Voltaire: An Appraisal Of 'Next Year's Thing'
Live Review by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 21 October 1978
The Pop Group/Nico/Linton Kwesi Johnson/Cabaret Voltaire: Electric Ballroom, London ...
Singles: PiL, Cabaret Voltaire, X-Ray Spex, Chris Bell, The Cars et al
Review by Hugh Jarse, ZigZag, November 1978
PUBLIC IMAGE: 'Public Image' (Virgin) 'ELLO, A LOW-key re-emergence which grows on ya. I know everybody was expecting another anthem but here ya go, this ...
Doctors of Madness, Cabaret Voltaire: Music Machine, London
Live Review by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 4 November 1978
CABARET VOLTAIRE appeared first. A trio, I caught the final 20 minutes of their performance, and was fairly absorbed. ...
Red Crayola, Cabaret Voltaire, Scritti Politti, pragVEC: Acklam Hall, London
Live Review by Jon Savage, Melody Maker, 2 December 1978
IN THE collapse of trends, movements — individuals: when they combine, all the stronger. Tonight four bands moving forward, confidently or haltingly, but all with ...
Joy Division, Pil et al: Futurama '79 Festival — Set The Controls For The Squalor Of Leeds
Live Review by Andy Gill, Ian Penman, New Musical Express, 15 September 1979
The World's First Science Fiction Music FestivalWords: Ian Penman and Andy Gill. Pix: Kevin Cummins ...
Cabaret Voltaire: Mix Up (Rough Trade)
Review by Andy Gill, New Musical Express, 20 October 1979
WITH MIX UP, Cabaret Voltaire transcend being simply the blueprint for a genre – the drummerless synthesizer trio – and finally get down to business. ...
Cabaret Voltaire, Young Marble Giants, Monitor: Sokol Hall, Los Angeles CA
Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 1 November 1980
PEOPLE MAY complain about restrictive radio and record-company policies that stifle the development of new, daring bands, but there is a bright side. No matter ...
The Heart and Soul of Cabaret Voltaire
Interview by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 29 November 1980
CATCH A TRAIN into the dark depths of the North again. Flee the wonderland. A million miles away from London town, the conditioning centre where ...
Interview by Paul Morley, The Face, September 1981
Grey, industrial, oppressive, weird? Wrong, say the Sheffield stylists. Wrong, says our ace showbiz reporter. PAUL MORLEY (words) attempts to demystify Cabaret Voltaire's drab legend. ...
Cabaret Voltaire: 2X45 (Rough Trade)
Review by Richard Cook, New Musical Express, 5 June 1982
WHAT IS least novel – and perhaps least satisfying – about the ascendancy of synthi-pop is its dependence on romantic humanist elements. Kraftwerk's love of ...
Cabaret Voltaire: Venue, London
Live Review by Lynden Barber, Melody Maker, 19 June 1982
SOME shock, this. Hatched in the dreariest industrial crucible, Cabaret Voltaire have always crawled, and snivelled down their own dubious paths, hacking away in their ...
Interview by Adam Sweeting, Melody Maker, 26 June 1982
"THERE'S 70 million people on earth." "Where are they hiding?" ...
Cabaret Voltaire: Taxi To The Terminal Zone
Interview by Andy Gill, New Musical Express, 16 July 1983
"The way I see it is capitalism's a sponge – consider yourself to squeeze it. Squeeze it while it's here, be prepared to pick up ...
Cabaret Voltaire: Rock With The Digital Cavemen
Interview by Richard Cook, New Musical Express, 17 November 1984
AS ONE Voltaire remarks, it's good weather for journalism: weary skies stuffed with rainclouds over Sheffield and its hills. After London the gentle pace of ...
Cabaret Voltaire: Come to Ze Cabaret!
Profile and Interview by Jon Young, Creem, February 1986
"WE'RE PROBABLY more accessible now than ever before," notes genial Richard Kirk of Cabaret Voltaire, but don't get the wrong idea. Although the Cabs have ...
Cabaret Voltaire: Town & Country Club, London
Live Review by Betty Page, Record Mirror, 1 March 1986
ONE instinctively feels that a Cabs show can't be approached in the usual manner. They don't run on stage in dry ice, rib the audience, ...
The Red Hot Chili Peppers, Cabaret Voltaire: The Limelight, New York NY
Live Review by Frank Owen, New Musical Express, 28 November 1987
TEN YEARS ago, Cabaret Voltaire gave the appearance of being needed on the principal that today's avant-garde is tomorrow's ready-to-wear. These days there's nothing as ...
Cabaret Voltaire's Record Collection
Interview by Andy Gill, Q, June 1992
Spookily delayed trumpets, primitive drum machines, bone-shaking bass, the original "bleep" record, loads of Germans and "Elvis gone wrong". Earplugs at the ready, Andy Gill ...
Live Review by Dele Fadele, New Musical Express, 19 September 1992
IN THE grey area between barrow-boy techno and lumpen flannel-rock, there exists a community of enthusiasts who refuse to let their output be dictated by ...
Retrospective and Interview by Stephen Dalton, Uncut, February 2000
THE CROWD ARE ALREADY PRETTY fired up when the steamingly drunk weirdo trapped in flashing fairy lights tosses his guitar into the audience. This is ...
Various Artists: Dawn Of Electronica
Review by Stephen Dalton, Uncut, July 2000
Founding fathers of technopop come together in electro land ...
Cabaret Voltaire: Various Compilations
Review by Simon Reynolds, Uncut, December 2001
From post-punk to dance crossover: Sheffield pioneers' mid-Eighties revisited The Original Sound Of Sheffield — The Best Of The Virgin/EMI Years Conform To Deform — The Virgin/EMI ...
Post-Punk: Lubricate Your Living Room
Retrospective by Simon Reynolds, Uncut, December 2001
FORGET ABOUT THE NOSTALGIA-MONGERING AND KITSCH REVIVALISM – THE POST-PUNK PERIOD OF 1979-81 WAS AN ASTONISHINGLY FERTILE TIME FOR BRITISH MUSIC, WHEN INDIE LABELS FLOURISHED ...
Martin Lilleker: Beats Working For A Living – Sheffield Popular Music 1973-1984 (Juma)
Book Review by Rob Young, The Wire, July 2005
PRACTICALLY EVERY city in Britain has a roster of musical hod carriers with appalling names. This exhaustive history of Sheffield's music scene is crammed with ...
Kora: Kora! Kora! Kora! Cabaret Voltaire Mixes
Review by John Doran, The Quietus, 19 December 2008
THIS IS not to diminish the achievements of New Zealand/Maori dub band Kora, but I'm guessing for a lot of people the interesting name on ...
Warp Records: Richard H Kirk looks back on a futuristic life
Report and Interview by David Stubbs, The Guardian, 5 November 2011
RICHARD H KIRK spent much of his career waiting for the future. He remains a resident of Sheffield, a city with a rich tradition in ...
Justified Fascination: Richard H Kirk of Cabaret Voltaire Interviewed
Interview by John Doran, The Quietus, 9 December 2013
Did Cabaret Voltaire lose their way when they lost Chris Watson? Far from it, they entered their imperial period... John Doran talks to Richard H ...
see also Richard H. Kirk
see also Chris Watson
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