"The title of Cabaret Voltaire's new live album, But What Time Is It Really?, emerges from that moment of confusion and gets at the heart of what the band's final shows represent: not nostalgia, not a victory lap, but a reckoning with age, memory, loss, and the passage of time."
"For these night owls, the wee small hours of the morning suddenly grew longer. Later that night, at a friend's house, two inebriated women stood in the kitchen trying to reconcile the time on their iPhones, watches, and oven clock, none of which agreed. "They kept asking, 'But what time is it, really?'""
"For Mallinder, the city is not just another stop on the tour. It has been tied to Cabaret Voltaire since the band's earliest US visits in 1980, and Mallinder is clearly eager to return. "My first perception of America was San Francisco," he says. "I have massive memories of San Francisco and such great times there. And your first impressions of a place are always the ones that stick.""
"He says the tracks only retain the original samples—TV dialogue, radio fragments, and found voices. Everything else has been rebuilt from scratch. Mallinder spent months working with collaborator Benge to reconstruct material spanning from 1977 to the early '90s because the original multi-tracks no longer"
Cabaret Voltaire’s first reunion show in fall 2025 coincided with the end of daylight saving time, creating confusion about what time was “really” as clocks disagreed. The live album But What Time Is It Really? takes its title from that moment and connects it to the meaning of the final shows. The tour in San Francisco marks 50 years of recording and ties the band’s history to early US visits in 1980. The songs are not treated as nostalgia; they are rebuilt from scratch, keeping only original samples such as TV dialogue, radio fragments, and found voices. Reconstruction covers material from 1977 through the early 1990s because original multi-tracks are no longer available.
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