photo by Leon Chew
CABARET VOLTAIRE REDUX
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
[Cabaret Voltaire live, credit Leon Chew]
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.
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.”
[Gazelle Twin, credit Teri Varhol]
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
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
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