March Europe Tour Announced!
The Cassandra Complex announce second leg of their World Tour 2024
Will cover Germany, Belgium, USA, Mexico, Costa Rica, Chile, Brazil, UK, the Netherlands, and Denmark
SAN FRANCISCO, July 23, 2024 – COP International Records, International Booking Department, and Resistencia Booking are proud to announce the second leg of the successful CX40 tour.
Legendary Anglo-Irish post-punk group The Cassandra Complex celebrate their 40 year anniversary in 2024 with an extensive world tour spanning Europe and the Americas.
The first leg of the CX40 anniversary tour was a major success, with packed club shows across the UK, Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, the Czech Republic, and Austria. The second leg will commence this summer with festivals in Germany and Belgium, then a rare chance to see the band in the USA and Latin America in the Fall, followed by more shows in the UK and EU later in the year. The band will also be supported on select European shows by special guests Swedish post-punk duo SJÖBLOM.
Tickets are now on sale for all shows.
- 11/08/24 Hildesheim Germany, Mera Luna Festival
- 25/08/24 Sint-Niklaas Belgium, De Rembrandt Festival
- 29/09/24 Chicago USA, Cold Waves Festival
- 12/10/24 Ciudad de México, Foro 28
- 15/10/24 San José Costa Rica, Amon Solar
- 18/10/24 Santiago Chile, RBX
- 19/10/24 Sao Paulo Brazil, Madame
- 23/11/24 Leeds UK, The Old Woolen
- 24/11/24 London UK, The Black Heart
- 26/11/24 Reading UK, The Facebar
- 28/11/24 Bochum Germany, Matrix *
- 29/11/24 Bielefeld Germany, Movie *
- 30/11/24 Cologne Germany, Blue Shell *
- 04/12/24 Berlin Germany, Urban Spree *
- 05/11/24 Copenhagen Denmark, Lygten Station *
* with SJÖBLOM
(More dates to be confirmed)
The Cassandra Complex was formed in 1984 by Rodney Orpheus (vocals,synths, drums machine), Paul Dillon (electronics), and Andy Booth (guitar, keyboards). Their unique synthesis of post-punk, goth, EBM and industrial music, coupled with their exciting, powerful multimedia-driven live show and Rodney Orpheus’ commanding voice and stage presence proved irresistible to audiences, and since then they have toured extensively, filled club dance floors, and topped indie charts around the world. Songs such as Moscow Idaho, One Millionth Happy Customer, Penny Century, and Nightfall have been lauded as classics of the genre.
After a long hiatus they recently returned to the spotlight with the album The Plague, recorded during COVID lockdown, which spent 8 weeks at the top of the German Alternative Chart (DAC). In March 2024 they released Death & Sex, which similarly shot straight to #1 in the DAC for multiple weeks. Both albums are available from COP International Records on CD and on all streaming services.
Rodney Orpheus has also worked as an acclaimed producer, remixer, and music technologist, working with artists such as The Sisters of Mercy, Kraftwerk, Beborn Beton, The Future Sound of London, Die Krupps, Sinead O’Connor, Girls Under Glass, Faith & the Muse, Within Temptation, and many more.
Photo by Roger op den Camp
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VIP Tickets
There have been some questions lately about “VIP tickets” for shows, so just to make things clear:
WE DO NOT CHARGE FOR “MEET & GREET” OPPORTUNITIES, AND WE NEVER WILL
We have been touring for 40 years now , and after EVERY show, Rodney can always be found at the merchandising booth, talking with fans and signing autographs. He has done this at every single concert since the day we started, even at the recent show in Charleroi where he was so sick he had to go to hospital after the show – he still stayed long enough to sign autographs first.
Your ticket money enables us to keep making the music that we love, so our belief has always been that if you buy a ticket for our shows – ANY ticket – then the least we can do is say thank you. If you want to buy some merchandise and have that signed, then that’s even better, but you don’t have to. We will sign your ticket stubs, your CDs and records, whatever is important for you, for FREE.
Just because someone is rich enough to pay more for a ticket, that doesn’t mean that they deserve more. All of our fans are equally important to us, regardless of how much they pay. As long as you like The Cassandra Complex, that’s enough for us.
The Cassandra Complex announce European leg of their World Tour 2024
Will cover UK, Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark, Czech Republic, and Austria
SAN FRANCISCO, February 9, 2023 – COP International Records and International Booking Department are proud to announce the European leg of the forthcoming CX40 tour.
Legendary post-punk group The Cassandra Complex will celebrate their 40 year anniversary with an extensive world tour spanning Europe and the Americas. The first leg of the tour will be 18 shows starting in March and continuing into the summer of 2024:
- 14/03/24 Todmorden UK, The Golden Lion
- 16/03/24 Gateshead UK, The Black Bull
- 17/03/24 London UK, The Lower Third
- 21/03/24 Charleroi BE, La Ruche Verriere
- 22/03/24 Amsterdam NL, Q-Factory
- 23/03/24 Witten DE, Dark Skies Festival
- 24/03/24 Heerlen NL, Nieuwe Nor
- 25/03/24 Hannover DE, LUX
- 26/03/24 Krefeld DE, Kufa
- 29/03/24 Hamburg DE, Logo
- 30/03/24 Copenhagen DK, Lygten Station
- 31/03/24 Berlin DE, Urban Spree
- 19/05/24 Leipzig DE, House Leipzig (Wave Gothic Treffen)
- 20/05/24 Munich DE, Ampere/Muffathalle
- 21/05/24 Prague CZ, Akropolis Palace
- 22/05/24 Vienna AT, Escape
- 24/05/24 Frankfurt DE, Nachtleben
- 11/08/24 Hildesheim DE, Mera Luna Festival
This tour lineup will feature the original founders of the band: Rodney Orpheus (vocals, synths, drum machines), Paul Dillon (electronics), and Andy Booth (guitar), plus guest keyboardist Brent Heinze from US synth act Probe 7. The band has also announced plans to re-record much of their classic back catalog to be released throughout 2024 on COP International Records; the first two albums will be a remastered edition of The Plague and the newly recorded Death & Sex, to be released on CD and streaming services in early March.
The Cassandra Complex will be supported on select dates by their COP International labelmates Vaselyne
More shows for Fall 2024 will be announced at a later date, including planned dates in the USA and Latin America.
More EU shows added in May!
More March tour dates announced!
Our latest shows have just been announced, covering UK, Belgium, Netherlands, Denmark, and Northern Germany. Check out the dates and ticket links at our Songkick page, or just check the widget on the right side of this page.
Note that some shows will have limited admission, so we strongly advise grabbing tickets as early as possible to guarantee you’ll get in!
More dates for Summer and Fall will be added later.
https://www.songkick.com/artists/376043-cassandra-complex/calendar
First live dates for 2024 announced!
THE CASSANDRA COMPLEX
40th anniversary tour 2024
- 21.03.24 BE Lodelinsart la ruche verriere
- 23.03.24 DE Witten Dark Skies
- 24.03.24 NL Heerlen Nieuwe Nor
- 25.03.24 DE Hannover LUX
- 26.03.24 DE Krefeld Kufa
- 29.03.24 DE Hamburg Logo
…more dates to be announced soon…
Mera Luna Cancellation
We are very sorry to announce that we have had to cancel our show at Mera Luna next month. Andy Booth, who plays guitar and keyboards, hurt his shoulder really badly in an accident and has been medically advised not to play for the next couple of months until it heals properly.
Our spot will be replaced by our good friends Girls Under Glass, featuring Volker Zacharias and Axel Ermes (who also play in The Cassandra Complex). So you people with tickets for Mera Luna will get to see half the band anyway 🙂
Good news though: we are already booking shows for 2024, and so far it looks like we will play in Germany, France, UK, and, for the first time in 20 years, America! Shows in more countries to be added. We can’t announce most of the dates yet, but we will definitely be headlining the Dark Skies Festival in Witten, Germany on March 25th – so don’t miss that one!
NWD Review in Monkey Press
Great review of our show at New Waves Day from Monkey Press.
“The Cassandra Complex was much more electronic. The band came with a tailwind, as The Plague, the first album in 22 years, was released just a few weeks before the performance, which received good reviews and recently climbed to number two in the German alternative charts. [Actually it got to #1, but never mind 🙂 ]
Among other things, the title song and the anti-Boris Johnson and Donald Trump single The Crown Lies Heavy On Its King were also part of the setlist. Founder and singer Rodney Orpheus was a bit nervous, as he admitted in one of his interim announcements. The reason being that guitarist Andy Booth was about to give birth to a new generation – with the spontaneous replacement from the band’s environment, it was possible to rehearse exactly once.
However, the jump into cold water was successful. The anthemic Electro-Rock caused a lot of movement in front of the stage. The Northern Irishman Orpheus, who spent many years of his life in Aachen and Hamburg, among other places, apologized for his “not so good German”, only to talk a surprising amount in surprisingly good German between the songs. He was also the only musician who really communicated with the fans during the day – the other bands had almost constant silence between their songs.
We wish Rodney the best for this first regular Cassandra Complex concert since 2019 – and wish this likeable band more performance opportunities in the near future.”