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Sunday 16th March 2008 There's going to be a big old Electrogogo night this coming thursday! I'll be doing a spot of DJing at some point during the precedings too - it's being held in the Electric Ballroom in Camden Town for a change, and there's all kinds of pop stars DJing as well, look!
Monday 3rd March 2008 After 'Disbehave' spending a month in the German alternative charts, it's now officially released in the UK on CD today, as well as being available as a download from iTunes Plus! Also, theres a new compliation coming out containing the Radiophonic Mix of 'See Her Smile'! It's called 'Elektrisch! 3' and is released on 14th March 2008 by Major Records.
Here's the tracklisting..
x Roi
Monday 18th February 2008 The new album is on the way, Disbehave spent a whole month in the German alternative charts (!) and to help satisy your cravings for more Mechanical Cabaret a little bit, theres a new compliation coming out with a remix of See Her Smile on it! Monday 11th February 2008 Now 'Disbehave' has gone back up to number 16 after 4 weeks in the DAC (Deutsche Alternative Chart)! Which means it 'goes' even *funnier than I previously thought (*see my post from 3/02/08). Roi Sunday 3rd February 2008 Well, 'Disbehave' entered the DAC (Deutsche Alternative Chart) at number 18, got to number 11 and is now at 19... funny how it goes eh?! Roi Tuesday 29th January 2008 'Disbehave' entered the DAC (Deutsche Alternative Chart) two weeks ago at number 18, which is fantastic news! Whilst it'll certainly be of interest to us whether or not it goes up or down this week, reaching number 11 is still pretty splendid as far as we're concerned, so a million thanks to everyone that's helped to get 'Disbehave' this far, especially as this is the first time Mechanical Cabaret have ever entered a 'proper' chart of any kind!
Thursday 10th January 2008 Happy New Year! Just to keep you up to date, I'm busy recording the new album, so we won't be playing any gigs until the spring I'm afraid. It looks likely we'll be playing some shows in Germany again around that time, and we hope to play some gigs a bit further afield too. Roi Thursday 20th December 2007 I've just been interviewed for the Londonist - this is the most popular site on the web about what's currently happening in London, so it's really a major coup for us to be featured on there!! Especially as it's only been up since midday today and it's already the 'Most Recommended' of all their features by a long way, even higher than the one about Pete Doherty... so a million thanks and big wet kisses to everyone who hit the 'Recommended' bit at the bottom of the interview (hint-hint!). Don't forget we're playing live tomorrow night (Friday 21st) at Camden Underworld along with Soho Dolls and Selfish Cunt, and we're on at 8pm sharp. Apologies for all those who haven't been able to download 'Disbehave' from iTunes as yet - for some reason or another iTunes have cocked it up, although I'm assured they're working on sorting it out even as I type - and they better had too, or me and Bruce will go around to iTunes HQ and turn whoever's responsible into mp3s. Hope to see some of you there at the gig tomorrow and, once again, have a merrily marvelous Yule! x Roi
Friday 14th December 2007 The new Mechanical Cabaret single 'Disbehave' is released today by Major Records! Don't worry, despite the obvious time of year that it is, I promise it isn't a Christmas song, nor is it a bizarre attempt to claim the coveted 'Christmas No.1' spot at the top of the 'popular' charts...
It's available as a limited edition CD (1000 copies only) and also as a download from iTunes including 6 remixes of the title track. There's also a new version I've recorded of 'When we go, we go together' from the 1st album 'We Have An Agenda'. The cover image is another splendid Bruce Lovelock creation, and the rest of the artwork was put together by Corinna from Conzoom Promotions in Germany. Watch the video for Disbehave on YouTube Watch the video for Disbehave as DivX The video was made by director Catasha Kin, and was shot on location in London and Ibiza during the summer of 2007. Obviously it's on YouTube, but I've also put it on the site here as a DivX file if you want to see it properly. Make sure you've got some serious bandwidth for this though, as the DivX file is a (comparatively) massive 40.4mb The full tracklisting for the Disbehave EP is:
2. Disbehave (Mesh ASBO Mix) ...Remixed by Mesh 3. When We Go, We Go Together (Lupin & Tonks Version) 4. Disbekomputer ...Remixed by Komputer 5. Disbehave (Katscan Disco Beaver Mix) ...Remixed by Martin Katscan 6. Disbehave (Komputer, do what!?) ...Remixed by Komputer 7. Disbehave (Yellow Mama Remix) ...Remixed by Lowpulse
Hope you have a Merry Yuletide and a fantastic New Year celebration! x Roi
Saturday 1st December 2007 The new Mechanical Cabaret single 'Disbehave' will be released on the 14th of December by Hamburg based Major Records GmbH.
It'll be available as a limited edition CD and also as a download from iTunes. This is the final release that will come from the last Mechanical Cabaret album 'Product For Your Insecurity', and includes no less than 6 remixes of the title track. There's also a new version I've recorded of 'When we go, we go together' from the 1st album 'We Have An Agenda'. The cover image is another splendid Bruce Lovelock creation, and the rest of the artwork was put together by Corinna from Conzoom Promotions in Germany; it's becoming quite a Deutsch Britischer Freundschaft these days in Mechanical Cabaret land, isn't it? Watch the video for Disbehave on YouTube Watch the video for Disbehave as DivX The video was made by director Catasha Kin, and was shot on location in London and Ibiza during the summer of 2007. Obviously it's on YouTube, but I've also put it on the site here as a DivX file if you want to see it properly. Make sure you've got some serious bandwidth for this though, as the DivX file is a (comparatively) massive 40.4mb The full tracklisting for the Disbehave EP is:
2. Disbehave (Mesh ASBO Mix) ...Remixed by Mesh 3. When We Go, We Go Together (Lupin & Tonks Version) 4. Disbekomputer ...Remixed by Komputer 5. Disbehave (Katscan Disco Beaver Mix) ...Remixed by Martin Katscan 6. Disbehave (Komputer, do what!?) ...Remixed by Komputer 7. Disbehave (Yellow Mama Remix) ...Remixed by Lowpulse
Also, please buy a copy of the compilation CD of Sparks cover versions called Rainbow Over The Freeway, which has just been released. It's fully endorsed by Sparks' brothers Ron and Russell Mael and contains a recording I've made of the Sparks track 'When Do I Get To Sing My Way?' amongst lots of other cool covers by many other artists including Jello Biafra, The Autons and Imbeciles & the Poison Umbrella, and all proceeds go to the childrens charity called The Rainbow Trust - a very worthy cause indeed. That's it for now... I'd better get back to the recording of the new album then! Roi
Saturday 10th November 2007 The next Mechanical Cabaret live date is on Thursday November 29th at Madame JoJo's, London where we'll be headlining and playing a 45 minute show... go to the Live Dates page for full details! It's likely to be the last live gig until next year sometime as I'm too busy recording the new album these days. Also, on the Band Info page on this site there's now a detailed biography of the history of Mechanical Cabaret to date. In case anyone was wondering... Roi
Thursday 18th October 2007 Thanks to everyone who came to the fantastic gig last Sunday in Camden supporting Client and Covenant - a great time was had by all and it was wonderful to play to so many of you, as well as lots of new faces too! Huge thanks to Ben Dunderdale for standing in for Tobi Chandler who unfortunately couldn't play as he couldn't make the rehearsals for this gig. Also, thanks to Eskil and the boys for having us, and to Client for managing to cut short their soundcheck so we could have one as well in the end. Much appreciated indeed, Sarah and Kate- I owe you one! I've just finished a cover version of the Sparks track 'When Do I Get To Sing My Way?' from their 1995 album 'Gratuitous Sax and Senseless Violins' for a new album of Sparks covers called 'A Rainbow Over The Freeway' which is in aid of Ron Mael's favourite charity, The Rainbow Trust. It's due to be released on CD in November, and we will be headlining the exclusive album release show at Madame JoJo's in London for this sometime during November... more news imminently about that when the date is confirmed. Meanwhile, recording of the new album continues apace, and it's starting to take shape quite splendidly. Although the new album won't be finished until sometime in the new year, the new single of 'Disbehave' from the last album 'Product For Your Insecurity' will be released by Major Records in November! It includes a new mix of Disbehave, which is different to the album mix, plus several fantastic remixes by Komputer, Mesh, Katscan and Lowpulse. Also, it features a brand new recording of 'When We Go, We Go Together' - one of the most popular tracks from the first album 'We Have An Agenda'. All the remixes sound totally different from each other, varying from the full-on aggro-electro of my new mix of the original, to throbbing hi-NRG euro-pop, industrial noise 'n beats and even stripped-back, ultra synthetic atmospheres - the whole EP/Single contains a whopping great 40 minutes of music! I'll let you know when I have a precise release date and where to buy it from on CD or as the ubiquitous download thing. Roi
Monday 3rd September 2007 The remix I did for Komputer of 'Like A Bird' from their new CD Synthetik has just been released by Mute Records on Ltd Ed 7" vinyl, and is available to purchase as a download along with several other brilliant remixes of it, too. I'm extremely busy recording the new album these days which, apart from taking most of my time up, is going really well. I won't be DJing again until October, around the time of the next gig supporting Covenant and Client. More soon! Roi Sunday 1st July 2007 There is now an OFFICIAL Online shop where you can buy exclusively designed Mechanical Cabaret merchandise!! There are numerous T-Shirts available from there in various different designs and sizes, and also bondage tops, bags, badges and all kinds of stuff. This has all been beautifully designed by a splendid gentleman called Mr Stephen Prince, who also runs the site shop along with his fab team at Cultural Treachery X Roi
Sunday 17th June 2007 It would seem appropriate that some kind of announcement is in order; I have now officially signed to a record label! The label in question is Major Records, an indie based in Hamburg, Germany, and I received the final signed Heads Of Agreement yesterday. Whilst I don't want to presume upon you by reeling off a huge, long list of absolutely everyone who's been so kind as to have helped me during the years leading up to this point ( there's far too many to mention, they certainly know who they are and I hope should be in no doubt whatsoever as to how much I appreciate all they've done for me ) this would definitely never have occurred without the wonderful and consistant support of certain people to whom I am infinitely indebted and am eternally grateful for the presence of in my life, who, if you'll indulge me, are as follows; Susannah Tigerlili Cavill and Adam Cavill, Tobi Chandler and Bruce Lovelock, Martin Katscan (Katscan), Frank Drake, Steve Bellamy (Greenhaus), Mark Hockings and Richard Silverthorn (Mesh), Raisu Cake and of course my family. Ok, gush over now :) I'd better get on with writing the new album I guess!! The remix I did for Komputer of Like A Bird, from their new CD Synthetik has just been accepted by Mute Records for release, and will be coming out in the next month or so I believe, on Ltd Ed 7" vinyl. Jolly good! As I mentioned in May, the next Mechanical Cabaret Live show for myself, Tobi and Bruce will be headling at the club night I DJ at called ELECTROGOGO @ Madame JoJo's in Soho, London, on Thursday 5th July. Also, we're fortunate enough to be supporting FRONTLINE ASSEMBLY on their UK Tour in July, and full details of all these gigs can be found on the Live page. If anyone is around Soho this Thursday 21st June and fancies it, I'll be DJ'ing at a fabulous 'n sexy Depeche Mode party held by The Glitz @ Madame JoJo's from around 8pm until 3am. And I'll be dancing lots when I'm supposed to be playing records, too, so I might need occasional prompting to go back to the DJ console and mix the next track in, if someone would be so kind perhaps?! (Not joking one little bit there I'm afraid!) Finally, I'd like to say a very large and resounding THANK YOU! to all who have been supportive of me and the band... I hope we'll see some of you in July at some of our next gigs! x Roi
Monday 28th May 2007 The next Mechanical Cabaret Live show will be at the club night I DJ at alongside Mark Moore and Farnkie D, called ELECTROGOGO @ Madame JoJo's in Soho, London, and it's on Thursday 5th July. Also, we're fortunate enough to be supporting none other than FRONTLINE ASSEMBLY on their UK Tour in July! Full details of all these gigs can be found on the Live page. In other news, whilst still writing my new album, I've also just finished doing a remix for KOMPUTER of a track called Like A Bird from their forthcoming album Synthetik which will be released by Mute Records on Monday 25th of June. It's been a complete honour for me to get the chance to remix one of their songs, because Komputer, in their various guises over the years (inc. I Start Counting and Fortran 5) have always been one of my favourite exponents of Electronic music. Their new album is fantastic too, and I very heartily recommend it indeed! I don't know whether my remix will end up as a b-side or as a download just yet, but I'll tell you when I know more. TTFN x Roi
Tuesday 20th March 2007 The next Mechanical Cabaret Live show will be at dear old Madame JoJo's in Soho, London on Thursday 26th April as the headline act at the Birthday celebration of The Glitz club-night! Full details on the Live page... this is the first show since the middle of January for myself and the boys, as I have been busy writing songs for the next album, which is going grandly so far. I've got 5 songs written, and I'm aiming for about 12 to take into the studio with me to record over the next few months. Thats it for the moment folks... Bye! x Roi
Tuesday 13th February 2007 There is an amazing selection of pictures of us playing Live in Krefeld, Germany on the last date of the tour, taken by the wonderfully talented Daniela Vorndran, on her website Black Cat. I haven't had time to sort through my own pics from the tour yet, but you're not missing too much, just a load of silly 'on the road' snaps really!! I'll put some up at some point though. I'm off to Client's club night 'Being Boiled' shortly, so I have to go and do my hair and make-up now. Bye! x Roi Saturday 3rd February 2007 Huge thanks to everyone who came to see us play live when we joined the wonderful MESH, X-Perience and Purwien on the festival tour for the launch of 'ELEKTRISCH! 2' last week! A marvellous time was had by all, and we give a million thanks to Hayo and Graham from Major Records, Ingo and Corinna from Conzoom, Jan and the Pluswelt crew (Benny, both Michaels and Pete), Mesh (Mark, Rich, Gary and Geoff), Purwien and X-Perience, and all the staff at all the venues who took us in from the -20 degree winter outside and catered for us so splendidly! I'll put some pictures up on the site of our recent tour shenanigans before too long, but in the meantime I'm pleased to announce the installation of the Mechanical Cabaret Forum on this site! The Guestbook has been up the spout for ages but my friend Mr Simon Wong has created a new forum for people to play with in its place... so feel free to visit it, sign up, log in and tell us whats going on in your head. More very soon! x Roi
Saturday 13th January 2007 I recently did a remix for MESH of 'Step By Step', in exchange for which Mesh remixed 'Disbehave' and also I remixed CLIENT'S new single 'Xerox Machine'; these are all going to be on a new German compilation CD called 'Elektrisch! 2'. The organisers of this compilation have invited us on Tour to promote the album this January! The details are as follows... "On January 26th 2007 the new compilation "Elektrisch! 2" will be released via Major Records. The compilation will feature exclusive Mechanical Cabaret remixes of MESH “Step By Step" and CLIENT "Xerox Machine" and also the exclusive MECHANICAL CABARET “Disbehave" (Mesh ASBO Remix). You can listen to the promo edit versions of both songs at the official Elektrisch! 'myspace' profile: www.myspace.com/elektrisch The compilation can be ordered via: www.conzoom.org/shop for just 14.99 Euro plus postage & package. Get your copy of the strictly limited double cd edition now)" X Roi
Tuesday 2nd January 2007 We're playing a headline show for The Glitz club-night at Madame JoJo's in London on Thursday 11th January... It starts at 21.00 and we're on at 22.30... it'll cost you £6.00 on the door or you can get advance tickets from Flag Promotions. Its another Depeche Mode party type of affair, so we're also going to play a couple of DM covers aside from our own stuff to help things along in that regard! Also playing will be our fabulous showbiz chums 'Atomizer' a.k.a. Jonny Slut and Phil OK, the protagonists of the 'Nag Nag Nag' remix of Cheap And Nasty from 2005, and the lovely 'Nina Silvert does Aiden Shaw' are on first. Come and join us all for a night of magnificent Electro sleaze and wonderful Depeche Mode-ness! Roi x
Thursday 28th December 2006 A new compilation album just released called *'Advanced Electronics Vol. 5' features an exclusive remix of a Mechanical Cabaret song. *(If this link doesn't work, go to our Myspace and you'll find their profile in our Top friends bit!) The track in question is 'See Her Smile - Radiophonic Mix(Edit)'. This is a new mix I've done (a more sparse and kooky mix than the album version from this years 'Product For Your Insecurity' CD) for the lovely people who organise the very successful 'Advanced Electronics' series of compilations. This mix borrows its name from the BBC Radiophonic Workshop and the work they did for the TV series 'Doctor Who' in the 60's and 70's, both of which are obsessions of mine and two of the reasons I got interested in Synthesizers at all! Heres the full track listing... 01. Covenant "Brave New World (Club Mix)" Those astute enough among you will no doubt have noticed that I've included the word 'Edit' in the title there. This is because there is in fact a full-length version of this mix (over 7 minutes long!) which will be released in 2007 sometime in the Summer, on the sister CD to this compilation called 'Extended Electronics'. A very Happy New Year to you all - Live long and Prosper! x Roi Wednesday 13th December 2006 Just come back from playing the Depeche Mode party in Milan. We ended up being the headline band in the end, although we had no idea how this happened! We assumed that either Swarf or Babylonia would have that pleasure, but were happily surprised that we were of course. We all ended up playing to 1,700 people which was amazing - they were really up for it too, and our cover of A Question Of Time went down very well. We have some video footage of the show, thanks to lovely Reza of Cryonica Records/Inertia/Killing Joke who organised the trip for us all, who availed himself for some camera operating duties! I'll put an exerpt up of this footage on the site or You Tube soon. So huge thanks to the promoters and particularly to Reza and saucy Swarf who we shared the whole experience with; we had a wonderful time with them in Milan and hope to do something with them again before too long! Here's some pics anyway...
The crowd in full effect! Lots of Dave Gahan dancing competitiveness going on there... and rumours of Reza and myself having a (drunken) Dave dance-off at 4 in the morning are unfortunately true. He had the hip-shake completely right, but I had the mid-80's period floppsome wiggle and arm moves down good and proper!!! (Sorry Reza!)
Me, posing as per bloody usual of course.
Bruce looking rather splendid, although look at that impish grin!
Tobi pondering over being about to play to nearly 2,000 people this evening. X Roi
Wednesday 6th December 2006 We're playing a short live show in Milan on Thursday 7th December at a huge 'Depeche Mode Party' (whoo!) to be held at a discoteque called 'Alcatraz'. This will be the Italian launch of the Bright Lights, Dark Room DM covers compilation CD on Cryonica Records, which I was asked to record a cover of Set Me Free by DM for earlier on this year. The party starts at 10 pm and ends at 5 am, and is 15 Euros entry. On the first floor will be us and 2 other bands (Babylonia and Swarf) playing and then nothing but DM music all night long! The second floor will be an Indie 80's Electroclash affair. Maybe see some of you there! Ciao, ciao. X Roi
Friday 1st December 2006 We're going on another Tour of Germany! As a result of the remix I did recently for Mesh of 'Step By Step', the remix that Mesh did of 'Disbehave' and also the one I did for Client of their new single 'Xerox Machine', which are all going to be on the new compilation CD 'Elektrisch! 2', the organisers of this have invited us on Tour to promote the album! The details are as follows... On January 26th 2007 the new compilation "elektrisch! 2" will be released via Major Records. The compilation will feature the exclusive MESH “STEP BY STEP (MECHANICAL CABARET EXTENDED REMIX)" and the exclusive MECHANICAL CABARET “DISBEHAVE (MESH ASBO REMIX)” You can listen to the promo edit versions of both songs at the official elektrisch! myspace profile: www.myspace.com/elektrisch The compilation can be ordered from now on exclusivly via: www.conzoom.org/shop - for just 14.99 Euro plus postage & package. Get your copy of the strictly limited double cd edition now - when it´s sold out you may be too late ;)
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Monday 18th September 2006 Its been a while- for several reasons- but here is another update on Mechanical Cabaret activities. First off, as some people may already know, Tobi has had a problem with his right leg for some time, but recently has been diagnosed with Primary Bone Cancer. This IS a treatable condition, but involves much chemotherapy and some operations over the next 9 months or so. If you go to his Myspace profile,( http://www.myspace.com/mister2b ) Tobi is keeping a blog of events and his progress therein... and he will certainly continue to play Live with myself and Bruce unless his treatment schedule ever prevents this! Thanks to those of you who have sent messages of support, they are much appreciated indeed.
*If you're wondering where the rest of the Updates have gone, I'm only going to have the last 6 months worth of News updates on here from now on - sorry if any of you miss reading the 'Olds'... there's a lot going on for us these days, so I'll be updating things much more frequently, which I hope will more than make up for it! If you have any questions or queries about MECHANICAL CABARET then you can email us at info@mechanicalcabaret.com
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