Cabaret Voltaire

Edinburgh's club scene: what happens now?

Representatives from Bongo, Cab Vol, Electric Circus, Summerhall and G1 Group have their say

28 Feb 2012

Rob Hoon. Manager of Bongo Club’s parent organisation, Out of the Blue. Despite being a beautiful, blossoming city of international renown and appeal that hosts the biggest arts festival in the world, Edinburgh’s all year round independent music and…

Edinburgh's Cabaret Voltaire venue to close for refurbishment

Owners G1 promise 'a wholly new look' for club and music venue

3 Feb 2012

Veteran Edinburgh club venue Cabaret Voltaire is due to close for six weeks, from Mon 20 Feb–Sun 1 Apr. The club will be subject to a major refurbishment according to a statement released by G1 Group, who have owned the venue since July 2011: ‘A six…

Seven reasons to attend Cab Vol's seventh birthday

Edinburgh venue celebrates 49 dog years with three weeks of events

2 Feb 2012

1 Supernova Kicking off the Cab’s month long ‘seven splendid events for seven splendid years’ Glasgow tech-house and minimal night Supernova makes it’s Edinburgh debut with the tough techno sounds of Karotte (Cocoon). Fri 3 Feb. 2 Musika & We…

Cabaret Voltaire's Alternative Freshers' Week

A list of reasons to attend the week-long club extravaganza

19 Sep 2011

SBTRKT Welcome to Edinburgh, say Cab Vol, as they introduce nine big student specials in a row. Allow us to take you through who’s appearing, starting with Young Turks-signed London producer Aaron Jerome, aka SBTRKT, playing at Sugarbeat. The…

Metronomy - Cabaret Voltaire, Edinburgh, Mon 25 Apr 2011

Danceable electropop from new album The English Riviera

26 Apr 2011

There's a sweaty buzz about Cabaret Voltaire even before Metronomy step on stage, but it takes a little while before the band themselves really warm up. While Joseph Mount's gang of electropop maestros are never less than competent and the quality of…

Sound recordist/artist Chris Watson set for Edinburgh's Dialogues Festival

The ex-Cabaret Voltaire member sets up a sound installation at InSpace

21 Mar 2011

How do you go from being a core member of experimental electronic pioneers Cabaret Voltaire to becoming David Attenborough and Bill Oddie’s favourite sound recordist, with the odd radio documentary and installation for assorted sonic arts festivals…

Edinburgh's Cabaret Voltaire hits six years

Funk D’Void, Aqua Bassino, Foamo, Maelstrom, Reset!, Jack Beats, Krafty Kuts and Utah Saints

16 Feb 2011

Six years ago, when Sarah David moved from the manager’s job at the Liquid Room to strike out on her own by taking over Cabaret Voltaire, did she see the place making it this far down the line? ‘Always,’ she says confidently. It figures. Back then…

Wire - Cabaret Voltaire, Edinburgh - Tue 8 Feb 2011,

Art rock unit leaner, more urgent, yet more conventional than ever

11 Feb 2011

The young lady ID’d on the door says much about the Wire demographic. Especially as she’s escorted by her mum and dad. The original art school punks may be well into their third decade, but their influence on the last couple of generations of Brit-pop…

We Are ... Electric celebrates fifth birthday

Night in two instalments as residents play alongside Scottish talents

5 Aug 2010

We Are … Electric If you thought Wednesdays weren’t built for clubbing, We Are … Electric have been proving you wrong for five years. They’re celebrating their fifth birthday across two weeks, starting with a massive Scottish talent Showcase featuring…

Cabaret Voltaire celebrates fifth birthday

Guests include DC Breaks, Slam, Fenech-Soler, Zane Lowe and Tom Middleton

17 Feb 2010

‘Cabaret Voltaire is one of the most atmospheric spaces you could ever find an underground club. It’s a very rare music-orientated team that work here. We’re a little family that are incredibly passionate about what we do, and I feel that really comes…

Rahzel and JS-1

Hip-hop on the decks at Cab Volt

15 Oct 2009

This fortnight Cabaret Voltaire welcomes a great hip hop double act: Rahzel and DJ JS-1. Probably the best known beatboxer of all time, Rahzel has been leading the scene for years, having brought the ‘fifth element of hip-hop’ to the world’s attention…

Tokyoblu

The Tokyoblu live band say goodbye in style

20 Aug 2009

After four years the Tokyoblu live band will be saying a final goodbye. Their funked up house, electro grooves and disco rhythms have been heard from T in the Park to V Festival alongside their residency at the Cab. ‘To mark this last gig we will be…

Mumford and Sons

Furious energy from indie folk upstarts

10 Aug 2009

The tiny cavern that is Cabaret Voltaire may not be the biggest of venues Edinburgh has to offer, but it’s still some fear for these still relative unknowns from London to sell-out two intense, sweaty nights in a row, especially considering the…

Cabaret Voltaire The Fourth Birthday: Life’s a cabaret

19 Feb 2009

For four years now, Cabaret Voltaire has been the hard act which every other club in Edinburgh has had to follow. The hard work and determination of owner Sarah David accounts for much of this success, although this year we decided to let some of her…

Trade secrets

27 Nov 2008

Five months before Margaret Thatcher’s landslide 1979 victory, and with Britain’s city streets still retaining the air of a depressed bombsite, highbrow arts programme The South Bank Show appeared to have been hi-jacked by a cell of musical terrorists.

Cabaret Voltaire

1 Oct 2008

The Cabaret Voltaire has been a beacon for the Edinburgh club scene since it opened in 2005. A gig venue during the day, it transforms into an underground club space as darkness falls - attracting names like Justice, DJ Sneak, John Digweed, Fabio, Dave…

Isoceles

Edinburgh Festival Fringe

22 Jul 2008

This Glasgow-based foursome jump to the sound of the raging bull. Or so say their Japanese fans, according to glowing reviews reworked by one of the internet’s more established language translators.

The Cab is king

17 Jul 2008

Edinburgh club Cabaret Voltaire has been crowned the best club in Scotland, beating stiff competition from the Arches and the Garage. As well as picking up the prize for Vodkapom Nightclub of the Year at the Dram Scottish Licensed Trade Awards 2008, Cab…

Renaissance for superclub culture

8 May 2008

Has it been just long enough since the superclub was declared dead that we can start to look back on them with something approaching nostalgia? Or maybe we all know that the superclub will never, ever die; it’s just that the whole culture has been…

Aberdeen's Snafu wins bar award

17 Apr 2008

The Theme awards' Best Late Night Bar In Scotland title was presented this week to Aberdeen venue Snafu. Beating off stiff competition from Edinburgh and Glasgow venues like Moskito, One Up, Cabaret Voltaire and Lulu in the regional heat, the venue will…

Richard H Kirk

28 Feb 2008

Richard H Kirk is talking about how his old band inspired the names of not one, but two clubs. The fact that Cabaret Voltaire, the electronic pioneers formed by Kirk in 1970s Sheffield with Stephen Mallinder and Chris Watson themselves took their name…

The Speakeasy

29 Nov 2007

When The List visited Cabaret Voltaire there were two-and-a-half weeks to go until the opening night of the Speakeasy – the Cab’s revolutionary new second floor – and refurbishment work was building to a frantic pace. As tools were downed for the day…

Cabaret Voltaire's second birthday

Come to the cabaret

12 Feb 2007

Regardless of musical tastes, most people will be able to find a great night out in Edinburgh if they pick the right club on the right evening. Unlike anywhere else in the city, however, turning up on just about any night at Cabaret Voltaire is likely…

Taste

As Sunday mainstay Taste moves to Cabaret Voltaire

28 Sep 2006

When God had a rest on Sunday it wasn’t because he was tired. Sure he’d had a tough week creating the universe - Adam and Eve were at each other’s throats, Satan was getting on his tits and he still couldn’t get the moon to sit right. But, like anyone…