Cabaret Voltaire founders announce Roundhouse 2026 show and full support line-up for 50th anniversary tour
Cabaret Voltaire at Western Works (Photo by Pete Hill)
Stephen Mallinder and Chris Watson have announced a major new date for Cabaret Voltaire Redux, the 50th anniversary live show, at London’s Roundhouse, scheduled for 22 October 2026. The performance has been added due to high demand following the sell-out of their autumn 2025 UK dates.
The upcoming 2025 shows – beginning 25 October at Sheffield’s FORGE Warehouse as part of Sensoria Festival – mark five decades since Cabaret Voltaire’s live debut at Sheffield Students Union Refectory on 13 May 1975. The electronic pioneers will perform in Glasgow, Manchester, Birmingham, London, and Brighton before the newly announced 2026 Roundhouse event.
Each 2025 performance will feature a different guest artist:
- Soborgnost, a lo-fi dubwave dancepunk project by Jim Osman, will support in Sheffield (FORGE Warehouse) and London (ICA).
- CURRENTMOODGIRL, the dark experimental pop alias of Greta Caroll, joins the Glasgow (SWG3 Warehouse) date.
- Manchester (Gorilla) will host I Am Fya, a bass-driven experimentalist linked to the Afro-Futurist performance collective Brownton Abbey.
- Vanishing, the music project of engineer-turned-artist Gareth Smith, brings a conceptual sound to Birmingham (Xoyo).
- At Brighton (ACCA), MICROCORPS, the modular techno moniker of Alexander Tucker, will close the support series.
Cabaret Voltaire Tour schedule
Cabaret Voltaire Live – 2025
- 25 Oct – Sheffield, FORGE Warehouse (Sensoria Festival) w/ Soborgnost – SOLD OUT
- 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 – FINAL TICKETS
- 21 Nov – London, ICA w/ Soborgnost – SOLD OUT
- 22 Nov – Brighton, ACCA w/ MICROCORPS – SOLD OUT
Cabaret Voltaire Live – 2026
- 22 Oct – London, Roundhouse – Tickets on sale 15 August at 10AM
These anniversary events revisit and reinterpret the band’s work through newly rebuilt live material. Stephen Mallinder describes the approach as this: “The live set is built from scratch but faithful to the original tracks. Everything has been painstakingly reconstructed with the original technology and processes […] there is an element of unpredictable, the new.”
Chris Watson adds: “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.”
The set will span the full scope of Cabaret Voltaire’s output, including work from their early industrial period, Rough Trade and Factory Records years, Doublevision video label productions, and later collaborations with producers such as Adrian Sherwood and Marshall Jefferson.
About Cabaret Voltaire
Cabaret Voltaire was formed in Sheffield, England, in 1973 by Stephen Mallinder, Richard H. Kirk, and Chris Watson. The group’s first public performance took place on 13 May 1975 at Sheffield Students Union Refectory. Known for their experimental integration of electronics, tape loops, and confrontational visuals, they were among the earliest and most influential industrial acts to emerge from the UK.
Their early recordings caught the attention of labels such as Rough Trade and Factory Records, leading to releases like “Nag Nag Nag” and “Red Mecca”. In the 1980s, they moved toward a more dancefloor-oriented style, notably with “The Crackdown” (1983) and “Micro-Phonies” (1984), blending electronic funk and sampling.
In the 1990s, the band reduced live activity, with Richard H. Kirk continuing the project as a solo effort until his death in 2021. The 2025–2026 events mark the first time Watson and Mallinder have reactivated Cabaret Voltaire as a duo since the early 1980s.
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