Biografie2009

- The new 10 track MECHANICAL CABARET album Damaged Goods was released as a CD and Download on March 20th 2009 by Major Records. This was accompanied by the Download only release of the single GBH, replete with several different versions/mixes, plus a cover of When Do I Get To Sing My Way? (originally by Sparks)

- March - Roi DJ'd at a DAF gig in London

- April - The Mechanical Cabaret cover version of Lets Go To Bed (originally by The Cure) is included on the compilation album Orbit Electro, released 3rd of July 2009 by Major Records, and features guest vocals by Susi 9mm

- September - Supported A Flock of Seagulls at 02 Academy in Islington, London

- November - Mechanical Cabaret's 'Hentai Tentacle Sex Mix' of the song 'Love Like Aliens' by Helalyn Flowers is released on their new album 'Stitches Of Eden'

- November - Supported Motor and Alec Empire at 02 Academy, Islington

- December - New single Careful, Careless released exclusively via Beatport for first 4 weeks



2008

- January - Disbehave EP spent the whole month in the DAC (Deutsch Alternative Chart), peaking at number 11

- Spring 2008 - The compilation 'Elektrisch!3' is released by Major Records, featuring the full length 'Radiophonic Mix' of 'See Her Smile'

- Autumn 2008 - Recording, mixing and mastering sessions for the new album Damaged Goods completed

- Winter 2008 - Recorded and remixing of the forthcoming single GBH completed



2007

- January - Toured Germany as part of the Elektrisch!2 festival tour, along with Mesh, X-Perience and Purwien

- Elektrisch!2 compilation is released, featuring Mechanical Cabaret remixes of 'Step By Step' by Mesh and 'Zerox Machine' by Client and the ASBO Mix of ' Disbehave' by Mesh

- Played with Mesh and Client in London and Sheffield

- Spring 2007 - Began work on the new album...

- Supported Apoptygma Berserk in London

- Supported Covenant in London

- Summer 2007 - Toured the UK with Canadian Electro-Industrial innovators Front Line Assembly

- Remixed Like A Bird from the album 'Synthetik' by Komputer (Mute Records based electro-pop group formerly known as I Start Counting and Fortran 5), released September 2007 by Mute as a 7" single and download

- Autumn 2007 - Signed to Hamburg based Major Records, home also to Ladytron, Celluloide and IAMX

- November 2007 - Recorded a cover of 'When Do I Get To Sing My Way?' by Sparks for a compilation album of Sparks covers called 'Rainbow Over The Freeway' in aid of The Rainbow Trust charity. Also headlined the official release party for the launch in London on November 29th

- December 14th 2007 - Major Records released a CD and download of 'Disbehave' - the last single to come from 'Product For Your Insecurity'. Features 6 remixes of Disbehave including Mesh's ASBO mix and two mixes by Komputer, plus a new recording of 'When We Go, We Go Together' (from 'We Have An Agenda')



2006

- Spring 2006 - Released the second Mechanical Cabaret album 'Product For Your Insecurity'

- Toured Europe supporting Mesh in April/May2006, playing shows in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Poland

- Ingo and Corinna from Conzoom Promotions, who promote both Erasure and Client in Germany, begin promoting Mechanical Cabaret in Germany

- See Her Smile 'Radiophonic Mix(edit)' is released on the 5th edition of the compilation CD series Advanced Electronics

- Roi interviewed by Rob Dyer for Dark Star Organisation

- Remixed the Mesh track 'Step By Step' and a cover of the Adam Ant song 'Xerox Machine' by Client, for the compilation CD 'Elektrisch!2' due for release by Major Records in February 2007

- Headlined an annual Italian 'Depeche Mode' party in Milan, based around the music of Depeche Mode as part of the promotion for Bright Lights/Dark Room, a compilation released on Cryonica Records of Depeche Mode B-side cover versions. Features the Mechanical Cabaret recording of a Depeche Mode song called 'Set Me Free', the B-side of DM's single Master and Servant from 1984



2005

- 'See Her Smile' makes the Top 10 DJ playlist of Marc Almond!

- Supported Suicide (NOT Suicide Commando as mis-reported elsewhere)

- Supported Terence Fixmer/Doug McCarthy (from Nitzer Ebb)

- Supported Mesh

- Supported T. Raumschmiere

- Supported Karl Bartos of Kraftwerk

- Summer 2005 - Began recording the next album 'Product For Your Insecurity'


2004

- I appeared in the 'Electro' episode of the Mighty Boosh as an extra! I have a stripey top on and a black jacket, and I appear to the left of the screen within the 'crowd' watching Vince and Howard do their very special electro track called 'Electro Boy'!

- Double A-sided single 'Cheap And Nasty/See Her Smile' licensed to Umami Records released as a 12", 7" and CD single - includes the Nag Nag Nag Remix of 'Cheap and Nasty' by Jonny Slut



2003

- Supported Sheep On Drugs, The Damned, and also toured the UK supporting Sigue Sigue Sputnik along with Greenhaus

- I wrote and performed lyrics and vocals to a track called 'Try Harder' by Greenhaus, a recording of which features on their album 'Another Life'

- We were one of the 1st bands to play at the Nag Nag Nag club night in London, run by Jonny Slut (Specimen/ Batcave/ Atomizer)

- Re-Launched the Electrogogo club night, this time with Mark Moore (S'Express) as well as Frankie D



2002

- 2002 - 1st album 'We Have An Agenda' is released, featuring artwork by Bruce Lovelock

- Started a new club night called Electrogogo, with Eurobeat 2000 DJ Frankie D, at Madame JoJo's, a famous Cabaret and 'Tranny night' venue on Brewer Street in Soho, London W1

- The song 'Nothing Special' from the album was picked up by some American film-makers and used as part of the soundtrack for the cinematic release of the feature film Gypsy 83 along with bands such as The Cure, Bauhaus and Apoptygma Berserk. The soundtrack is available from Metropolis Records in the US.



1999 - 2001

- I started Mechanical Cabaret in 1999. I made my first 2 Demo CDs 'Cheap and Nasty' and 'Malevolent Maladies' (*I only made around 50 copies of each, and although I did manage to sell them all, I didn't actually keep any for myself! What a tit!)

- I played the first Mechanical Cabaret live show in October that year at Gossips, Soho for the electropop club night 'Electric Dreams'

- Tobi Chandler joins the live band on synths

- Bruce Lovelock joins as Slideshow Projectionist

- Made another extremely limited edition CD/EP, 'No Frills' this time with 'special' bubblewrap/Kwik Save style covers handmade by me and Bruce Lovelock - very nice they were too!

- 2001 - toured the UK with Katscan (Martin White) and Squid

- April 2001 - supported Fad Gadget at his comeback concert after 15 years away, at the Astoria 2 in London



Those inevitable 'Early Years'!

Before I started using the name 'Mechanical Cabaret' I began writing and rehearsing electronic music in my teens at the start of the 90s in Cardiff with my friend Mark Lawrence under the name 'Dekolette Erotika'. Mark and I used to rehearse in his Mum's Kitchen or, if we had some spare money, in rehearsal studios - which happened to be the same studios that the Manic Street Preachers used, and we bumped into them once or twice at the local 'Indie'club 'Metros', where I sometimes DJ'd.



We were joined by our friend Dave Colley, on synth duties, around 1992. Around this point, we progressed to rehearsing in Marks lock-up garage he'd started renting, where he also stored various domestic electrical appliances for some reason - I think he was buying and flogging refridgerators and such like to people! It was a good space for us to be able to make a racket without disturbing the neighbours though, and the old dishwashers and fridges made pretty good synth stands.



We played live only once during this time however, mainly due to none of us being very confident singers , prefering to stick with playing synths really - and then, once I'd eventually admitted defeat and stepped up to the mic, discovering I was initially painfully shy! Ah well, you've got to start somewhere...



This lone gig was in Cardiff in October 1993 at the Electro-Industrial club called 'Scream Inc' which I DJ'd at and co-ran with my friends Andy Morrison and Tim Peterson at 'Clwb Ifor Bach'. It went pretty well mind you, there were a few hundred people, and lots of our mates of course - but for some reason, after the dizzying heights of such 'success'(!) we just drifted apart really after this. Then I moved away to Shrewsbury in Autumn 1994 (God knows why, but anyway...)



After moving to Shrewsbury, although I was still writing my own songs with a view to finding a band to play with, I met vocalist Martin Katscan (then 'White') and guitarist Chris Salter, and we formed a very Cure-like band called 'Deadboy Craved'. Martin and Chris, I must say, did lean perhaps more than a wee bit toward the 'Goth' side of things musically and fashionably speaking, and I was happy to join in the fun seeing as I mainly wore black or stripey clothes anyway and had big spiky black hair. We played a lot of gigs in Birmingham at 'The Toreador' and smoked a lot of cigarettes, and it was good fun while it lasted.



I moved to London in 1996, and Martin moved down too shortly after, but Chris didn't want to move so he stayed behind. Martin and I decided to continue doing music together without Chris, and from then on the music was totally electronic - back to what I knew, and loved, most.



We changed our name to 'Nekromantik', played many live shows, released several Demo tapes (not too many CD burners available at that time!) and recorded an album for 'Dark Beat Records' called 'Fairycatcher' and an EP called 'Dress it up in Monochrome and tell us that it's Art' as well as various compilation album appearances too. We were together from 1996 until 1998, by which point I had decided that I really needed to get my own music properly 'underway' somehow, especially as I had been writing more and more songs and lyrics and they were really starting to build up.



Mechanical Cabaret was 'born' during early 1999 when I recorded my first Demo 'Cheap and Nasty' - a name I was to subsequently re-use a few years later - so, there you have it, a rather potted history - or is it a chequered past?!Quelle: http://www.mechanicalcabaret.com/DiscografieCareful, Careless (Single, 2009)

Damaged Goods (Album, 2009)

GBH (Single, 2009)

Elektrisch!3 Compilation (Compilation, 2008)

Disbehave EP (EP, 2007)

Komputer 'Like A Bird' - Mechanical Cabaret Mix(7" Single, 2007)

Elektrisch!2 Compilation (Compilation, 2007)

Product For Your Insecurity (Album, 2006)

Cheap And Nasty/See Her Smile (Single, EP, 2005)

We Have An Agenda (Album, 2002)
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