Just put up a new photo album from WGT, taken by the very talented and wonderful Davina. It’s also Davina’s birthday today, so a very happy birthday from all at CXHQ to you!
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In case you hadn’t noticed already, we have an RSS feed from this site. If you use a modern web browser like Firefox 2, Opera 9, or even Internet Explorer 7 (ugh!) you can subscribe to the RSS feed to have the latest news from here pushed directly to your browser. It’s a very cool feature, and we definitely recommend it.
user registration
We’ve just opened this site up to user registration. This means that anyone can log in and write comments to the posts we’ve made. It’s a bit of an experiment, so we don’t guarantee it’ll stay that way, but let’s see how it goes.
Volker on MySpace
Volker just joined the 21st century and got a MySpace page. If you use MySpace, go friend him and say hello.
Personally I hate MySpace: I dislike the layout, I dislike the way it keeps lagging out, and most of all I dislike the people who own it – the very right-wing News Corporation, who also run Fox News in America, and pump out propaganda for the Bush administration. On the other hand, it’s important that we have a presence there in order to get our message out. It still makes me a little uncomfortable though.
let’s go to MTV
While looking for the link to the Schwarze Seiten interview from 2002, I stumbled across this… Let’s Go To Europe on MTV! In case it wasn’t obvious, Patrick broke his arm just before the shoot, which is why it’s in that horrible white sling. We really should have shot around it, but for some reason the director decided to show it. Sigh.
Cassandra Complex – Let’s Go To Europe
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Whitby
It’s now official – we’re playing the next Whitby Gothic Weekend. We’re also thinking of maybe bringing the full video show for that, which we’ve never done in the UK before…
Dates are: Fri 26th – Sat 27th October. I think we’re playing on the Saturday night.
phone vids on YouTube
Someone’s posted a couple of audience camera videos from WGT on to YouTube. Second Shot and Moscow Idaho. They look pretty good for cameraphone vids. Hopefully we’ll have some of the real ones ready soon, Keith’s editing them right now.
March @ YouTube
We’ve just uploaded a very rare CX video to YouTube for you all. It’s the first ever promo video we ever shot, way back in 1985 for the March single. Check it out here!
We’ve got tons of old videos in the archives back here, if there’s enough interest we’ll upload some more… so do let us know!
More pics from WGT
Some amazing pics of CX at WGT here. Best ones yet I think.
Wave Gothic Treff
I’ve been out of touch for a couple of days while playing the WGT festival in Leipzig, Germany. This is a great festival, but it’s not open-air like most places. Basically for four days they take over every venue in the city and run non-stop concerts and parties. We were headling the Kohlrabizirkus venue on the last day of the festival, in other words, the top spot.
There were around 25,000 – 30,000 people at the festival, but the Kohlrabizirkus only holds around 4,000. That meant that it was filled to capacity several hours before we were due to go on, with hundreds (possibly thousands) of people getting turned away at the door. Even when it was sold out, the line of people outside trying to get in stretched all the way down the street!
I was seriously nervous seeing that as you can imagine, especially since we hadn’t played in five years, apart from the couple of warm-up shows in the past couple of weeks. But once we got on stage it was… incredible. We had a new light show set up for this one, with an 8 metre by 2 metre LED light wall that we had programmed for the songs. It was blindingly bright, but amazing to see. The audience went nuts from the beginning, and by the end the entire place was dancing and screaming for more. I even ended up crowd surfing…
We did a three camera video shoot as well, so you’ll get to see some of it once we get to editing some footage. For now, here’s a pic of Volker during Nightfall…
Rock & roll, eh?
And just look at those LED lights behind us…
