the cassandra complex

If you missed BIMFest, you now have a chance to see just how fabulous we were. 18Thanatos18 has posted a couple of songs on YouTube for your viewing pleasure…

Datakill
Presents

Enjoy!

For the real collectors out there, a genuine early publicity photo of us is now listed on ebay. This one is from way back around the time of Feel the Width, just before we did Theomania… I’m half tempted to buy it myself, just for the nostalgia value

BIMFest was great, thanks to all who came. Extra-special thanks to Emelie from Psy’Aviah for introducing us too! The first review is out already at the Reflections of Darkness blog. Here are the important bits…

Music & Performance
The announcement on the festival website said “THE CASSANDRA COMPLEX will prove they’re still alive and kicking…”. And this wasn’t promised too much. They were indeed very alive and kicking presenting a Goth-rock-wave-electro concert how you with it would be. Just one thing was missing: Volker with his guitar and bass. But also as a trio the band rocked! They did not need any big banners or video screens, how Rodney surprised stated after he was asked by the promoters… he just said on stage “We don’t have a big banner or videos. We don’t need that. We’re THE CASSANDRA COMPLEX!” True, good music, dedicated musicians and an audience willing to party is all you need for a good concert. The setlist contained several true hits. So, we could enjoy ‘What Can I Do for You’, ‘Satisfy Me’ or the heavily requested ‘Moscow Idaho’.

During ‘Twice as good’, two fans entered the stage to give Rodney a hug who was just heavily smiling. He was in a real great mood, having a big smile in his face all over the concert, shaking his hips and shaking hands. Later in the set, he got a piece of paper from a girl in the audience with a music request… ‘Penny Century’. Unfortunately the band could not play this song because “Volker with his bass was missing” but anyway, we got one verse a capella. Great that there are still bands out there good for such spontaneous actions! Of course, THE CASSANDRA COMPLEX had to give an encore which consisted of ‘No Quarter’ and ‘March’. Fantastic show! I loved it a lot.

Setlist
01. What Can I Do For You
02. Datakill
03. Presents
04. God John
05. Twice As Good
06. Bad Faith
07. Second Shot
08. Satisfy Me
09. War against Sleep
10. Moscow Idaho
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11. No Quarter
12. March

Rating
Music: 9
Performance: 9
Sound: 8
Light: 7
Total: 8.5 / 10

Not much info yet, but it’s on January 30th at Nieuwe Nor in Heerlen, Holland (right next to Aachen, Germany) and will cost 12,5/15 Euro to get in. More info as we find out…

Check out the poster below…

Buy 2 shirts or more and get a 33% discount on all men’s t-shirts and women’s tees purchased directly from The Cassandra Complex custom shirt store! To get the discount, all you have to do is to enter the code:

SEASONSTART2008

in the cart area and click ‘Redeem your coupon’. This deal will not last long - you have only 7 days to stock up on shirts with this discount. Promotion expires June 19th, so hurry!

On the left you’ll notice we’ve just added a widget that allows you to listen to some of our music, and buy it directly as high quality MP3 (without DRM!) from Amazon MP3.  Currently just Wetware is there, but more is coming shortly!

We’ve just very reluctantly made the decision to cancel the German shows next week. We hate cancelling shows, but serious personal issues mean there’s really no other option right now. We’re currently aiming to reschedule them for the autumn.

Major apologies to all those who already bought tickets. We’ll make it up to you as soon as we can.

Don’t forget we’re playing some shows in the next weeks:

• April 18: Bath, UK
• May 1: Bochum, Germany
• May 2: Berlin, Germany
• May 3: Hamburg, Germany

We’ll be bringing lots of merchandise, like T-shirts and some rare CDs to each show, so bring some extra cash along! We always like to hang out at the merchandising booth and sign autographs and chat after the show, so if you have something you’d like autographed, do bring it along.

We’re also looking for someone who would be interested in helping us sell merchandising at the German shows. If you’d like to help out, and get to spend time backstage with us (and maybe even get a free T-shirt!), please send us a mail!