THE CASSANDRA COMPLEX / Special Guest: SJÖBLOM

In the organizer's words:

Sat., 30.11.24

Admission 7 pm Start 8 pm

Blue Shell Live:

THE CASSANDRA COMPLEX

Electronic - Gothic - Industrial

In the mid-80s, Irish musician Rodney Orpheus met Paul Dillon by chance in a nightclub in Leeds while they were both dancing to an early record by Die Krupps. They decided to form a band that very evening 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, made a single called March and the career of The Cassandra Complex began. From the beginning, the band was fascinated by drum machines, synthesizers and computer-driven rhythms, but unlike most other bands of the time, they also wanted distorted guitars over them. And so industrial rock was born... When the band released their second single Moscow Idaho in 1985, it quickly shot to the top of the indie charts around the world, was played ad nauseam on alternative radio stations and influenced a whole generation of bands to come. The success of Moscow Idaho was followed by a trilogy of classic albums: Grenade, Hello America and Theomania, the all-time favorite of many fans. Rodney later moved to Hamburg and the line-up of the band changed. Jürgen Jansen (who later joined Project Pitchfork) joined and helped redefine the band's direction on the seminal concept album Cyberpunx; and Volker Zacharias, who Rodney had met while producing his band Girls Under Glass. Volker soon became a linchpin 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 the album Wetware, released in 2000. A few years later, original member Andy Booth rejoined the line-up and with Axel Ermes on keyboards, the band began touring again, playing festivals and clubs across Europe. In 2022, they released their latest studio album The Plague, which received rave reviews and reached number 1 in the German alternative charts. They will play several concerts throughout 2024.

Web: http://cassandracomplex.co.uk/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thecassandracomplex

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGtjlWTQb_I

Special Guest:

SJÖBLOM

Post Punk - Indie - Shoegaze

Sjöblom is a Swedish indie/postpunk project founded in Stockholm in 2016. Members are Johan Sjöblom Eliot, also a member of the Swedish postpunk band The Exploding Boy, and Robert Eklind, former member of the Swedish gothic rock band Malaise. 2024: New single - Fly away with me New album - Dead of Night Nov 2024 Tour releases: Album 2021 A Victory Of Love EP - 2019 6 - Album 2016

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sjoblomofficial

Bandcamp: https://sjoblom.bandcamp.com/follow_me

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sC3DLBUVsOc

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