Steal from Work presents RICHARD H KIRK
(Thurs 18th Nov/8pm/£7)

Legendary pioneer of early industrial, post punk electronics, 4th world music, UK Techno and video sampling collage, and founder member of CABARET VOLITAIRE arrives to position this Steal From Work firmly in the
influential Sheffield scene.

RICHARD H KIRK is also the man behind SWEET EXORCIST (Warp), SANDOZ and ELECTRONIC EYE. A key influence in the evolution of electronic music over the past thirty years, tonight he takes over the Cube with a rare live show as well as a new film edit.

Against the heavily industrialised landscape of late 1970s Sheffield a musical movement grew that was to combine the use of experimental
electronics with a punk sensibility. From HUMAN LEAGUE and the influential Fon Studios through to Warp Records, the Sheffield sound was
characterised by the use of synthesisers and tape loops which perfectly encapsulated the urban desolation of this town.

Formed in 1973, CABARET VOLTAIRE's highly experimental post developed
alongside bands like Throbbing Gristle, This Heat, 23 Skidoo and Zoviet France. They developed a style of machine funk that influenced Chicago House/Detroit Techno pioneers from Frankie Knuckles to Derrick May and later Black Dog, Autechre and Beaumont Hannant. He has continued to
release material prolifically under various monikers on labels like Touch, Soul Jazz and his own Intone imprint. His latest offering 'Richard H Kirk meets The Truck Bombers of Suburbia Uptown' takes as its theme today's violent age of gun culture, American imperialism and macho nuke 'em
philosophy, RICHARD H KIRK's paranoid protest music has never been more relevant.

FOR THE SUPPORTING FILM CLIP ATTACHED TO THIS PERFORMANCE; DON'T EXPECT LOTS OF OLD FOOTAGE OF CABARET VOLTAIRE (IF YOU'RE LOOKING TO GET ON A NOSTALGIA TRIP FORGET IT, THIS IS TOTALLY ABOUT NOW) - RATHER A PIECE OF FILM, DONE IN THE SPIRIT OF CABARET VOLTAIRE (THINK WILLIAM S BURROUGHS/ANTONY BALCH/KENNETH ANGER/LUIS BUNUEL), WITH MAYBE SMALL ELEMENTS OF ARCHIVE MATERIAL, PUT TOGETHER BY CVS PREMIER VISUAL ARTIST.