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The Cassandra Complex
HistoryThe band initially comprised Rodney Orpheus and Paul Dillon who met when Orpheus gatecrashed Dillon's 21st birthday party in Leeds.
They began putting on large multimedia shows featuring various avant-garde acts from the Leeds area.
Andy Booth was a journalist who interviewed the band and was later asked to join.
The band released their first self-financed single, "March", in March 1985.
A live cassette followed a month later, and the band signed to local label Rouska.
Dillon left the band to get married and the band recruited Rodney's childhood friend John Marchini, with Jez Willis and Keith Langley guesting live and in the studio.After two albums on the Rouska label, Grenade (1986) and Hello America (1987), they signed to the Belgian-based Play It Again Sam label, which issued the double-live album Feel the Width in 1987.
During the production of the Theomania album in 1988, Marchini and Booth left, with Orpheus recruiting a new line-up for 1989's Satan, Bugs Bunny, and Me album.
Hamburg guitarist Volker Zacharias from the band Girls Under Glass joined a year later, and has been a stable member of the group since then.Booth went on to become a lawyer and the head of Company Commercial and Creative Industries at Manchester firm Turner Parkinson.
The band continued with Orpheus and Zacharias releasing Cyberpunx, The War Against Sleep and Sex & Death.
In 1995, Orpheus worked with Patricia Nigiani and Marcus Giltes on a side project called Sun God.
In 2000, the band released the Wetware album on SPV in Europe and Metropolis Records in the USA.Over the years, the band's sound has included elements of EBM, industrial, goth rock, new wave and synthpop, and the band's sound has been described as a blend of Joy Division, The Ramones and Kraftwerk.In 2007, the original band members reformed and since then have played several festival shows in Europe and Brazil.
They are currently working on a new album.
