CABARET VOLTAIRE REDUX
STEPHEN MALLINDER & CHRIS WATSON ANNOUNCE DETAILS OF THEIR FINAL UK TOUR - OCTOBER 2026
WITH SUPPORT FROM GAZELLE TWIN
CABARET VOLTAIRE LIVE – 2026
10 October – Birmingham Town Hall
11 October – Liverpool Arts Club
13 October – Nottingham Rock City
14 October – Cardiff Tramshed
15 October – Bath Forum
17 October – Newcastle Boiler Shop
18 October – Glasgow Barrowland
19 October – Manchester Albert Hall
21 October – Bexhill De La Warr Pavilion
22 October – London Roundhouse
25 October – Sheffield Octagon
“It’s rare for a band to be able to lean on material that is abrasive, gritty, jagged and hellishly noisy as easily as they can pull out industrial funk, electro pop, via nods to grinding techno, slippery acid house or ghostly post-punk. Tonight, they deftly glide between the lot.” – The Quietus live review
Following their return to Sheffield at the weekend for a sold-out Sensoria Festival performance, Stephen ‘Mal’ Mallinder and Chris Watson have announced details of their Final UK Tour, starting on 10 October 2026 at Birmingham Town Hall and finishing at the Sheffield Octagon on 25 October, with Gazelle Twin confirmed as special guest across all the dates.
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The announcement follows news of this year’s highly anticipated sold-out tour, which marks 50 years since the live launch of one of Britain’s most influential electronic bands, Cabaret Voltaire, at the Sheffield Students Union Refectory on 13 May 1975.
Talking about the newly announced dates, Stephen Mallinder, says: “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.”
Composer, producer, and performance artist Elizabeth Bernholz, aka Gazelle Twin, will be special guest across the tour: “Pinch me. Go on. I’m feeling excessively lucky at the prospect of touring with Cabaret Voltaire in 2026. They are electronic music pioneers, but also the loveliest, kindest folk in music that I could ever hope to share the stage with.”
The current tour continues next month, with supports confirmed: dark experimental pop musician, producer and performer Greta Caroll aka CURRENTMOODGIRL will perform at Glasgow’s SWG3 Warehouse; bass-pushing experimentalist and member of Afro-Futurist performance collective Brownton Abbey, I Am Fya, will support at Manchester Gorilla; engineer turned artistic world builder, Gareth Smith, brings Vanishing’s evocative music and resonant lyrics to Birmingham’s Xoyo; Soborgnost, lo-fi dubwave dancepunk mutation from Jim Osman, will join the bill at London’s ICA, and Alexander Tucker’s electronic guise, MICROCORPS, brings heavy mutant techno modular systems to Brighton’s ACCA.
CABARET VOLTAIRE LIVE - 2025
17 Nov - Glasgow, SWG3 Warehouse w/ CURRENTMOODGIRL – SOLD OUT
18 Nov - Manchester, Gorilla w/ I Am Fya – SOLD OUT
19 Nov - Birmingham, Xoyo w/ Vanishing – SOLD OUT
21 Nov – London, ICA w/ Soborgnost – SOLD OUT
22 November – Brighton, ACCA w/ MICROCORPS – SOLD OUT
CABARET VOLTAIRE LIVE – 2026
21 Feb – Norwich, Synth East Festival
10 October – Birmingham Town Hall w/ Gazelle Twin
11 October – Liverpool Arts Club w/ Gazelle Twin
13 October – Nottingham Rock City w/ Gazelle Twin
14 October – Cardiff Tramshed w/ Gazelle Twin
15 October – Bath Forum w/ Gazelle Twin
17 October – Newcastle Boiler Shop w/ Gazelle Twin
18 October – Glasgow Barrowland w/ Gazelle Twin
19 October – Manchester Albert Hall w/ Gazelle Twin
21 October – Bexhill De La Warr Pavilion w/ Gazelle Twin
22 October – London Roundhouse w/ Gazelle Twin
25 October – Sheffield Octagon w/ Gazelle Twin
In the current climate of social turmoil and political manipulation, the prescient work of Cabaret Voltaire continues to be necessary. The sounds, words, images and films of the band still resonate loudly, continuing to challenge the status quo.
The events in 2025 and 2026 will curate this essential work and to acknowledge the timeless energy and to mark the continuing significance and power of what Cabaret Voltaire achieved. Original members Chris Watson and Stephen Mallinder are committed to stay true to the enduring vision of Cabaret Voltaire. The performance will cover the arc of their formidable output - from early experiments, and the first Rough Trade / Factory releases, through the band's Doublevision video label and into the work with renowned producers such as Adrian Sherwood and Marshall Jefferson.
Stephen Mallinder explains, “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.”
Chris Watson goes on to say, “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.”
Editor’s Notes
Originally active between 1973-1994, Cabaret Voltaire featured Chris Watson until 1981 and Stephen Mallinder until 1994. The group were inactive for 20 years until - with Richard H Kirk as the sole remaining member - the 2014 performance at Berlin’s Atonal festival. An interconnected series of releases - Shadow of Fear, BN9Drone and Dekadrone - followed in 2020 and 2021 before Kirk’s untimely passing in autumn 2021. Mallinder and Watson have stated that there will be no new recordings under the name Cabaret Voltaire.
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