(Photo by Roger op den Camp) COP International Records, International Booking Department, and Resistencia Booking have announce the second leg of the CX40 tour of the Anglo-Irish post-punk group The Cassandra Complex. This second leg will take the band, which celebrates its 40 year anniversary, to Germany, Belgium, USA, Mexico, Costa Rica, Chile, Brazil, UK, the Netherlands, and Denmark.

The second leg will commence this summer with festivals in Germany and Belgium, followed by dates in the USA and Latin America in the Fall. The tour continues then with more shows in the UK and EU later in the year. The band will also be supported on select European shows by special guests and labelmates Sjöblom.

You can order your tickets here.

• 11/08/24 Hildesheim Germany, Mera Luna Festival
• 24/08/24 Ostend Belgium, W-Festival
• 25/08/24 Sint-Niklaas Belgium, De Rembrandt Festival
• 29/09/24 Chicago USA, Cold Waves Festival
• 12/10/24 Ciudad de México, Foro 28
• 15/10/24 San José Costa Rica, Amon Solar
• 18/10/24 Santiago Chile, RBX
• 19/10/24 Sao Paulo Brazil, Madame
• 23/11/24 Leeds UK, The Old Woolen
• 24/11/24 London UK, The Black Heart
• 26/11/24 Reading UK, The Facebar
• 29/11/24 Bielefeld Germany, Movie
• 30/11/24 Cologne Germany, Blue Shell
• 01/12/24 Bochum Germany, Rockpalast
• 04/12/24 Berlin Germany, Urban Spree
• 05/11/24 Copenhagen Denmark, Lygten Station
• (More dates to be confirmed)

About The Cassandra Complex

The Cassandra Complex was formed in 1984 by Rodney Orpheus (vocals, synths, drums machine), Paul Dillon (electronics), and Andy Booth (guitar, keyboards). Musically they bring a synthesis of post-punk, goth, EBM, and industrial music, coupled with Rodney Orpheus’ voice.

After a long hiatus, The Cassandra Complex recently returned with the album “The Plague”, recorded during the COVID lockdown. In March 2024 they released “Death & Sex”. Both albums are available from COP International Records on CD and on all streaming services.

Rodney Orpheus has also worked as a producer, remixer, and music technologist, working with artists such as The Sisters of Mercy, Kraftwerk, Beborn Beton, The Future Sound of London, Girls Under Glass, Faith & the Muse, Within Temptation, and many more.

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Chief editor of Side-Line – which basically means I spend my days wading through a relentless flood of press releases from labels, artists, DJs, and zealous correspondents. My job? Strip out the promo nonsense, verify what’s actually real, and decide which stories make the cut and which get tossed into the digital void. Outside the news filter bubble, I’m all in for quality sushi and helping raise funds for Ukraine’s ongoing fight against the modern-day axis of evil. Besides music I’m also an SEO and AI content flow specialist and have an interest in everything finance from stocks to crypto. There is music in everything!

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(Photo by WDR / Becker) Out now is a live LP+DVD holding Alan Vega’s Rockpalast concert from 1982. The concert, titled “Live at Rockpalast 1982”, was filmed on June 4th, 1982 at Sartory in Cologne (Germany) during the 82′ ‘Collision Drive’-Tour. In 1981 Alan Vega had released his second solo LP under the title “Collison Drive”.

The vinyl LP comes with an eight-page booklet and a DVD, containing the entire live show. Also on the DVD is the art exhibition ‘Alan Suicide: Collision Drive 2002’ at Deitch Projects in New York. It was Alan Vega ́s first exhibition after 18 years.

The release itself is part of the ‘play loud! (live) music series’ which is based on three precepts: Alan Lomax´s work as an archivist and chronicler, John Peel´s BBC radio sessions, and the work of Direct Cinema pioneers, such as the Maysles Brothers, Leacock, Wildenhahn, Blank and Pennebacker. Other artists that have seen releases via this series include Mona Mur, Familie Hesselbach, Friedman + Liebezeit:, but also the Tapetopia compilation series.

Rockpalast (Rock Palace) is a German music television show that broadcasts live on National German TV since 1974 and continues to this day. Hundreds of rock, pop, heavy metal and jazz bands performed on Rockpalast.

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Chief editor of Side-Line – which basically means I spend my days wading through a relentless flood of press releases from labels, artists, DJs, and zealous correspondents. My job? Strip out the promo nonsense, verify what’s actually real, and decide which stories make the cut and which get tossed into the digital void. Outside the news filter bubble, I’m all in for quality sushi and helping raise funds for Ukraine’s ongoing fight against the modern-day axis of evil. Besides music I’m also an SEO and AI content flow specialist and have an interest in everything finance from stocks to crypto. There is music in everything!

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Out now is Laura Carbone’s newest single “Nightride” which was recorded live at the Rockpalast in 2019. This live single version of “Nightride” celebrates the official North American physical release of Laura Carbone’s latest album, “Laura Carbone – Live at Rockpalast”, recorded in October of 2019 on the heels of her September “Empty Sea” tour of the US and Canada, and only a couple of months before the unforeseen dystopian boredom and paralysis of lockdown.

The live video footage is from the same concert, simulcast nationwide and across Europe on TV and online worldwide on Germany’s prestigious Rockpalast live music television show, that in the past has documented monumental performances by The Police, Sonic Youth, Einstürzende Neubauten, and so on. The bootleg fans out there will surely know this.

The additional footage was realised in June 2021 in a forest outside Berlin by Laura and her longtime partner in graphics and video crime, The Underground Youth drummer and graphic artist Olya Dyer. You will also recognize Olya’s husband Craig Dyer, singer and frontman of The Underground Youth.

After the the limited first edition, which sold out immediately on release, “Live at Rockpalast” will be available again later in the year, in a limited second pressing.

Here’s Laura Carbone’s “Nightride (Live at Rockpalast)” video.

About Laura Carbone

Laura Carbone is a 34-year old German / Italian composer, singer , songwriter and photographer who began her musical career as a singer of the NDW – punk band Your Youth.

In 2014 her first solo EP and single “Stigmatized” was released followed in 2015 by her first solo album, “Sirens”. In 2017 she toured Germany with The Jesus and The Mary Chain. The album “Empty Sea” was released in June 2018 with Aporia Records (Toronto) and Duchess Box Records.

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Chief editor of Side-Line – which basically means I spend my days wading through a relentless flood of press releases from labels, artists, DJs, and zealous correspondents. My job? Strip out the promo nonsense, verify what’s actually real, and decide which stories make the cut and which get tossed into the digital void. Outside the news filter bubble, I’m all in for quality sushi and helping raise funds for Ukraine’s ongoing fight against the modern-day axis of evil. Besides music I’m also an SEO and AI content flow specialist and have an interest in everything finance from stocks to crypto. There is music in everything!

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Out in May as a 2CD/DVD set is the concert film “Live at Rockpalast” by The Mission. Both recordings featured on this set have been available before on soundboard recorded bootlegs and as TV captures.

You can order this complete 2CD/DVD set right now. The format of the region free DVD is NTSC – DVD9 with a running time of approximately 128 minutes.

Recorded on November 24, 1990 and April 16, 1995 at the Philipshalle Düsseldorf aka Rockpalast, it features the near original line-up consisting of Wayne Hussey, Craig Adams, Mick Brown, David Wolfenden and Paul Etchells during the 1990 show. The 1995 recording has the trimmed down line-up featuring only the drummer Mick Brown from the original line-up augmented by guitarist Mark Gemini Thwaite (Tricky, Peter Murphy), keyboard player Rik Carter and bass player Andy Cousin (of All About Eve).

The first CD has 14 tracks, while CD 2 has 10 tracks. Recommended if you want to hear/see the band at work during what were there best years.

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Chief editor of Side-Line – which basically means I spend my days wading through a relentless flood of press releases from labels, artists, DJs, and zealous correspondents. My job? Strip out the promo nonsense, verify what’s actually real, and decide which stories make the cut and which get tossed into the digital void. Outside the news filter bubble, I’m all in for quality sushi and helping raise funds for Ukraine’s ongoing fight against the modern-day axis of evil. Besides music I’m also an SEO and AI content flow specialist and have an interest in everything finance from stocks to crypto. There is music in everything!

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For the first time ever the groundbreaking performance by Einsturzende Neubauten on Rockpalast (The legendary German TV rock show) in 1990 is available on deluxe vinyl format. The recording took place in Dusseldorf on November 11, 1990.

You can exclusively order this 2LP deluxe set right here!

Setlist:

01. Prolog
02. Feurio
03. Der Tod ist ein Dandy
04. Sehnsucht
05. Armenia
06. Yu Güng
07. Zerstörte Zellen
08. Trinklied
09. Ich bin’s
10. Stuhl in der Hölle
11. Der Kuß
12. Haus der Lüge
13. Kein Bestandteil sein
14. Zeichnungen des Patienten O.T.
15. Sand
16. Ich bin das letzte Biest am Himmel

Here’s the band live at this show with the track “Prolog/Feurio!”.

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Chief editor of Side-Line – which basically means I spend my days wading through a relentless flood of press releases from labels, artists, DJs, and zealous correspondents. My job? Strip out the promo nonsense, verify what’s actually real, and decide which stories make the cut and which get tossed into the digital void. Outside the news filter bubble, I’m all in for quality sushi and helping raise funds for Ukraine’s ongoing fight against the modern-day axis of evil. Besides music I’m also an SEO and AI content flow specialist and have an interest in everything finance from stocks to crypto. There is music in everything!

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