It is with sincere regret that we have decided to postpone next weeks Cairo gigs in Sheffield and Milton Keynes, due to the coronavirus epidemic concerns which have escalated exponentially in the UK over the last 72 hours. We were tremendously excited to play our new set and new songs, however, we feel a responsibility to our fan base and … Read More

The band is delighted to announce that Rob Cottingham has been endorsed by San Francisco-based synth manufacturer, Sequential Circuits.   ABOUT SEQUENTIAL Sequential is led by legendary instrument designer and Grammy-winner Dave Smith, the founder of Sequential Circuits in 1974. In 1977 Dave designed the Prophet-5, the world’s first fully-programmable polyphonic synth, and the first musical instrument with an embedded … Read More

Cairo announce two more gigs coming up next month – one on 12th March at The Local Authority in Sheffield, and one on 13th March at a recently upgraded venue in Milton Keynes called Unit Nine. To tie in with the news, the band are releasing a further live video of Dancing The Gossamer Thread, recorded in Holland last year … Read More

Cairo will be playing Cambridge Rock Festival on 21st June. In a statement the band said: “We are delighted to announce that we will be playing a full seventy-minute set on the Sunday afternoon. Cambridge Rock Festival is one of our favourite festivals and we are excited to be playing at this new venue on the Ruby Stage. Please can … Read More

Cairo are delighted to announce their first ever single release via Prog magazine. Cairo’s new single, ‘Deja Vu’, is released today together with the title of their new live album – due to be released in two weeks. Read all about it, here, and please check out the credits on YouTube. You cannot produce this without a fantastic team of … Read More

At a personal level, it has been a challenging year with unexpected downsides which show that the old adage about ‘fail to plan; plan to fail’ is only true but in the context of the environment you are operating in.

Photo credit: Hoss PhotographyNEW SINGERLisa Driscoll and the band have parted company. In a statement, the band said: “We will never forget how Lisa stood in at short notice for our first album launch gigs in late 2016, and we want to thank her for everything she has done for Cairo since and to wish her, Al, and baby Oscar, … Read More

Cairo are delighted to announce that Lisa is expecting a baby around early May next year. Please share with us in congratulating Lisa and Alistair on this fantastic news! The band has met to make a few rearrangements in 2019 to provide Lisa with all the support she needs and news will follow in due course about our exciting plans … Read More

Cairo have released exclusively through PROG magazine two videos – one lyric video for their song Katrina and another interview video with Professor Andrew Curtis from Ohio’s Kent State University who was directly involved with the hurricane rescue and recovery – and the monitoring process since. In a statement, Rob said: “We are delighted with the excellent work Crystal Spotlight … Read More

See Scott Munro’s piece here: http://teamrock.com/news/2018-03-23/cairos-rob-cottingham-pays-tribute-to-his-late-father-in-moving-spitfire-video In a statement, Rob said: “I am delighted to have seen such a wonderful response to something very personal to me. A couple of years ago, thanks to my wife, I experienced flying side by side to a Spitfire, and that brought a lump in my throat – so, I guess, like father, like … Read More