THE CASSANDRA COMPLEX

In the organizer's words:

In the mid-80s, Irish musician Rodney Orpheus met Paul Dillon in a nightclub in Leeds while they were both dancing to an early Die Krupps record. They decided to form a band that night and had their first rehearsal the next day. A journalist called Andy Booth came to interview them and ended up staying to play guitar. They built a studio, recorded a single called "March" and the career of The Cassandra Complex began.

From the beginning, the band was fascinated by drum computers, synthesizers and computerized rhythms, but unlike most other bands of the time, they also wanted to layer distorted guitars on top. And so industrial rock music was born. When the band released their second single "Moscow Idaho" in 1985, it quickly stormed to the top of the indie charts around the world, was played ad nauseam on alternative radio stations and influenced a whole generation of subsequent bands. The success of "Moscow Idaho" was followed by a trilogy of classic albums: "Grenade", "Hello America" and "Theomania", the absolute favorite of many fans.

Rodney later moved to Hamburg and the band's line-up changed. In came Jürgen Jansen (who later joined Project Pitchfork), who helped reinvent the band's direction on the groundbreaking concept album "Cyberpunx", and Volker Zacharias, who Rodney had met while producing his band Girls Under Glass. Volker soon became the lynchpin of the band's sound on the band's most romantic album, "The War Against Sleep", then on the ultra-aggressive hard electro-rock "Sex & Death", released in 1993, and on the album "Wetware", released in 2000.

A few years later, original member Andy Booth rejoined the band and with Axel Ermes on keyboards, the band began touring again, playing festivals and clubs across Europe. In 2022, they released their last studio album "The Plague", which received rave reviews and reached number 1 in the German alternative charts.

The tour will feature founding members Rodney Orpheus, Paul Dillon and Andy Booth as well as other musicians.