Cabaret Voltaire (Band)
Cabaret Voltaire is an Industrial and Techno band from Sheffield, named after the Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich.
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, less writing songs. In their first public appearance, the band met yet on a hostile -minded audience that rejected their electronic sounds and rock ' n ' roll had expected. The musicians were attacked by visitor at this concert and Stephen Mallinder pulled the fracture of a vertebra to. The public acceptance only improved with the emergence of punk in the second half of the 1970s. After they had in 1978 received her first recording contract with Rough Trade Records, the band members were due to the sales success of their first LPs mix -up, including a cover version of Seeds classic No Escape and The Voice of America as well as the singles Extended Play, a 7 " -EP, including the underground hits Do the Mussolini ( Head Kick ) and Nag nag nag their civil occupations give up.
After successful tours through Europe, America and Japan, Chris Watson decided in 1983 to withdraw from the band; simultaneously changed the music of Cabaret Voltaire in a more commercial direction. With the album The Crackdown, published by Virgin Records, they succeeded in the UK, the highest ever chart position, place 31 in 1994 broke up the project initially. After Kirk Cabaret Voltaire without his two original companions revived the end of the last decade, published in 2009 and 2010 collaborations with Kora and The Tivoli. However, a reunion in the original original cast joined Kirk in 2011 expressly.