Cabaret Voltaire (band)

Cabaret Voltaire
General information
Genre (s)	(Proto) -Industrial , Postpunk , Electronic Music
founding	1973
resolution	1994
Last occupation
Vocals , bass	Stephen Mallinder
Guitar , keyboard , tapes	Richard H. Kirk
former members
Keyboard	Chris Watson (1973-1981)

Chart positions Explanation of the data

Albums

2 × 45   UK 98 06/26/1982 (1 week) The crackdown   UK 31 03/13/1983 (5 weeks) Micro Phonies   UK 69 11/10/1984 (1 week) Drinking gasoline   UK 71 08/03/1985 (2 weeks) Covenant Sword and Arm of the Lord   UK 57 10/26/1985 (2 weeks)

Singles

Just fascination   UK 94 07/23/1983 (1 week) Sensoria   UK 96 10/06/1984 (1 week) James Brown   UK 100 January 19, 1985 (1 week) I want you   UK 91 09/28/1985 (3 weeks) Don't argue   UK 69 07/18/1987 (2 weeks) Here to go   UK 88 09/26/1987 (3 weeks) Hypnotized   UK 66 11/04/1989 (2 weeks) Keep on   UK 55 05/12/1990 (2 weeks) Easy life   UK 61 08/18/1990 (2 weeks) Nag Nag Nag   UK 83 October 19, 2002 (1 week)

Cabaret Voltaire is an industrial and techno band from Sheffield , named after the Zurich Cabaret Voltaire .

history

Cabaret Voltaire was founded in 1973 in Sheffield by Stephen Mallinder, Richard H. Kirk and Chris Watson and was primarily a project to create experimental sounds rather than to write songs. At their first public appearance, the band encountered hostile audiences who rejected their electronic sounds and expected rock 'n' roll . The musicians were attacked by visitors at this concert and Stephen Mallinder broke a vertebral bone. Public acceptance only improved with the emergence of punk in the second half of the 1970s. After they had received their first record deal with Rough Trade Records in 1978 , the band members were able to mix-up due to the sales success of their first LPs , including a cover version of the Seeds classic No Escape and The Voice of America as well as the singles Extended Play , a 7 " -EP including the underground hit Do the Mussolini (Headkick) and Nag nag nag give up their bourgeois professions.

After successful tours through Europe, America and Japan, Chris Watson decided in 1983 to leave the band; at the same time the music of Cabaret Voltaire changed in a more commercial direction. With the album The Crackdown , released by Virgin Records , they achieved their highest chart position in Great Britain, number 31st. In 1994 the project was initially dissolved.

After Kirk Cabaret revived Voltaire without his two original colleagues, collaborations with Kora and The Tivoli appeared in 2009 and 2010. However, Kirk expressly ruled out a reunion with the original line-up in 2011.

Discography

• 1978: Cabaret Voltaire 1974–1976 (cassette)
• 1979: Mix-Up
• 1980: The Voice of America
• 1980: Three Mantras
• 1981: Red Mecca
• 1982: 2 × 45
• 1982: shark! (Live in Japan)
• 1983: The Crackdown
• 1983: Johnny Yesno
• 1984: Micro-Phonies
• 1984: James Brown / Bad Self (Part 1) 12 "
• 1985: The Covenant, The Sword and the Arm of the Lord
• 1987: code
• 1988: Eight Crépuscule Tracks
• 1990: Groovy, Laid-Back and Nasty
• 1990: The Living Legends (Singles Collection)
• 1991: Body and Soul
• 1991: Percussion Force
• 1992: Plasticity
• 1993: International Language
• 1994: The Conversation
• 2010: National Service Rewind

literature

• RE / Search # 6/7: Industrial Culture Handbook . RE / Search Publications, 1983. ISBN 0-940642-07-7 .

Web links

• Cabaret Voltaire at laut.de
• Unofficial site about Cabaret Voltaire (English)
• Cabaret Voltaire on Allmusic (English)
• Theater Voltaire at Discogs (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Chart sources: UK
2. ^ "Cabaret Voltaire - Johnny, I hardly knew ye", Sonic Seducer 01/12, p. 124