Lux Voltaire
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Lux Voltaire are a Sydney-based electropop and future pop-styled music group. Lux Voltaire consider themselves 'neuropunk'. Lux Voltaire are currently invading the Sydney goth scene with their brand of neuropunk.
[edit] Brief history
Lux Voltaire began performing solo after disbanding the group Spire in 1999. Melbourne was the original formative scene for Lux, where Lux helped to co-found the EBM outfit Tankt mark 1.
Lux soon moved to Sydney with a new line-up, featuring James "Mothership" on samples and vocals, and Lady K doing keyboard and vocals. The trio played odd gigs until 2004 when the two new members departed to pursue acting/cabaret careers.
Lux has since worked with Resurrection Eve, and remixed for Jekyll Switch, Snog and Tankt as well as numerous other unsigned outfits.
In early 2005 as the album "Prey For Uncertainty" was completed Lux enlisted the current group members of James Ryan (backing vocals, keyboard) and Brendan Creaven (bass and electric guitar).
Successes in mid 2005 included supporting international future pop act VNV Nation in Sydney alongside future pop/trip-hop act The Crystalline Effect, during VNV Nation's Formation Tour and charting at #8 on the Danish Alternative Charts with their single "Ich Liebe Mein Oberheim" - a curious homage to electropop clichès and a surprising dancefloor filler.
Lux is currently reconditioning his Barbed Wireless studio, in preparation for the forthcoming album "Ownlife".
