Haha wow of all things! But it is an inspired idea, more bands should do similar.
What is Ash saying in his bit, anyway? Some sort of backward-masked love of spiky hair?
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 13 April 2012 13:48 (twelve years ago) link
It's the same idea as 5% for Nothing and all those wacky one-band-member bits on Fragile but obv p different in execution
― does Red Stripe work like poppers? (Abbbottt), Friday, 13 April 2012 14:30 (twelve years ago) link
I loved when they split up their songs into bits and worked on them like an exquisite corpse, it was so Surrealist, I love it. Spot the art school band, I win.
― Popcorn Supergay Receiver (Masonic Boom), Friday, 13 April 2012 15:42 (twelve years ago) link
http://hideyourarms.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/il_570xN.203300498-480x511.jpg
― rocky dennis horror show (Pillbox), Tuesday, 29 January 2013 03:40 (eleven years ago) link
Hahah thank you, I'd linked that upthread a bit but the URL died.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 29 January 2013 04:05 (eleven years ago) link
No rush. Take your time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOBe--9NqLU
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 23 April 2013 22:35 (eleven years ago) link
Hahahaha... the fuck!? :D
― The Jupiter 8 (Turrican), Thursday, 25 April 2013 22:05 (eleven years ago) link
Just...let it flow.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 25 April 2013 22:51 (eleven years ago) link
My latest Quietus piece -- on the 30th anniversary of Burning From the Inside:
http://thequietus.com/articles/12708-bauhaus-burning-from-the-inside
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 2 July 2013 16:59 (ten years ago) link
MAKE THE MOST OF A MILLION TIMES... yes?
― I wanna live like C'MOWN! people (Turrican), Tuesday, 2 July 2013 17:57 (ten years ago) link
Great article! I still listen to "Hope" regularly to this day.
― LeRooLeRoo, Tuesday, 2 July 2013 22:19 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4zPCKtIqcc
― ..it would have sounded about as heavy as Talulah Gosh. (Algerian Goalkeeper), Tuesday, 6 August 2013 17:49 (ten years ago) link
http://www.slicingupeyeballs.com/2013/10/14/peter-murphy-peads-guilty-meth-probation/
― Ward Fowler, Tuesday, 15 October 2013 06:03 (ten years ago) link
Kick in the EEEYYYYYYEEEEE! Oh! Oh! Oh!
ooooooo-OOOOOOOH-oooooooh ooooooooh-OOOOOOOH-oooooh...
(I thought there was another Bauhaus thread that was longer and had Bimble bimbling with love all over it, but I should read behind the cut of this one, I guess.)
― "righteous indignation shit" (Branwell Bell), Monday, 10 February 2014 10:48 (ten years ago) link
Ned Raggett from days of yore...
Noodle of course nails the real killer thing -- that rhythm section. Absolutely nothing against Peter or Daniel of course, the whole band is essential as a combination, but the sheer ability, stop-on-a-dime mania as well as careful restraint of David J doing his King Tubby-meets-Can imitations and Kevin Haskins essentially doing similar is mind-bogglingly great....To give an example, meanwhile, of Peter and Daniel getting their due...there's the audio on Press the Eject but the video on Shadow of Light during the performance of John Cale's "Rosegarden Funeral of Sores" when Peter is half-draped over Daniel yelping "SCREAMING WHORES!!!!" while Daniel, playing along without a hitch, is delivering these rhythmic agonized yelps is pure transgressive violence as art project. And oh I love it I love it I love it.
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To give an example, meanwhile, of Peter and Daniel getting their due...there's the audio on Press the Eject but the video on Shadow of Light during the performance of John Cale's "Rosegarden Funeral of Sores" when Peter is half-draped over Daniel yelping "SCREAMING WHORES!!!!" while Daniel, playing along without a hitch, is delivering these rhythmic agonized yelps is pure transgressive violence as art project. And oh I love it I love it I love it.
As fucking brilliant as that particular scene is, it isn't even the best part of that video. Which is when Peter goes over to the other side of the stage and attempts to drape himself in a similar fashion over the besuited and dark sunglassed David J. Who pulls a slightly pained expression, raising one ginger eyebrow, dislodges him with a faintly reptilian shrug which somehow seems about a billion times *weirder* and more outre than all of Daniel's fishnets and alien-sex-god antics, then, as Peter walks away... HIS FISHNET TUNIC THING CATCHES ON THE TUNING PEGS OF DAVID'S BASS. David, with the same reptilian cool, tilts his bass neck - without ever losing track: not a beat dropped, not a pitch even slightly faffed - of the insanely complicated line he is playing on a fretless fucking bass - and casually unhooks him as if tossing an unwanted minnow back into the sea.
I love Daniel and all, but seriously, in a band as weird and insane and hilariously out there as Bauhaus were, the most *freakish* and bizarre thing was actually turning up to work every day in a suit. David J always was the coolest member of that band, against stiff competition.
― "righteous indignation shit" (Branwell Bell), Monday, 10 February 2014 11:04 (ten years ago) link
Time to revive this thread I think! In that I interviewed David J for Bandcamp.
https://daily.bandcamp.com/2016/07/07/david-j-interview/
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 7 July 2016 18:29 (seven years ago) link
nice interview Ned.
we did have a artist poll this year in case you missed it: We POLL Our Audience: You, The Night and The Music - BAUHAUS - Love and Rockets, Tones on Tail, Peter Murphy etcetera - ILM artist poll number 73 - results thread
― Bee OK, Friday, 8 July 2016 01:51 (seven years ago) link
david's doing a house show in SF this weekend. not sure where.
― akm, Friday, 8 July 2016 05:03 (seven years ago) link
NOT a reunion...but:
http://www.post-punk.com/david-j-haskins-and-peter-murphy-are-set-to-reunite-to-perform-bauhaus-songs-together-for-the-first-time-in-over-a-decade/
Like I muttered on the Peter solo thread, of all the intertangled relationships between the core four, theirs has to be the weirdest.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 21 September 2017 18:36 (six years ago) link
tell us more...
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Thursday, 21 September 2017 19:09 (six years ago) link
Well just based on their clear moments of evident disdain/anger towards each other -- Peter's public comments on the ending of the last full Bauhaus reunion (resulting in the song "I Spit Roses" as well) followed by David's hardly less flattering ones in response in his book, etc. Money talks, whatever, but all four of them are clearly intertwined for life one way or another, and I think their evident chalk-and-cheese approach over decades is one reason why it can never fully work, or only does so for bursts at a time. (Just happened that the first burst was, well, THAT big, subculturally.)
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 21 September 2017 19:14 (six years ago) link
I'm actually beyond surprised that this is happening.
― more Allegro-like (Turrican), Thursday, 21 September 2017 19:45 (six years ago) link
since this thread got bumped. i ran a Bauhaus poll awhile back and never linked to this thread. my least popular artist poll but i still had fun.
We POLL Our Audience: You, The Night and The Music - BAUHAUS - Love and Rockets, Tones on Tail, Peter Murphy etcetera - ILM artist poll number 73 - results thread
― Bee OK, Friday, 22 September 2017 01:52 (six years ago) link
missed that i actually already posted that link in this thread, sorry. going too fast.
― Bee OK, Friday, 22 September 2017 02:38 (six years ago) link
Meanwhile, Daniel Ash, Kevin Haskins and his daugther Diva will be playing in my city soon as Poptone. The ad says they play a mix of Bauhaus, Tones On Tails and Love & Rockets songs! Has anybody here seen them?
― LeRooLeRoo, Friday, 22 September 2017 03:55 (six years ago) link
^ damn I just scheduled a camping trip for when they're coming to Atlanta :[
― Erotic Wolf (crüt), Friday, 22 September 2017 03:59 (six years ago) link
xp my friend saw them in Portland and LOVED it, he is a huge fan
― sleeve, Friday, 22 September 2017 04:02 (six years ago) link
Yeah saw the show here in June, really great -- totally scratches the itch for anyone bummed that they never saw Tones on Tail (which, since they only toured here the once in 1984, is pretty damn near everyone). Quite honestly the only song they didn't perform which I wish they had was "Real Life" but I'm not surprised that didn't make the cut -- otherwise, every ToT cut you could want (even "Heartbreak Hotel"!) plus a couple of other covers, "Slice of Life" and a clutch of L&R songs. Between that and this Peter/David combination -- well, I've seen the reunited Bauhaus about six different times but I'll take this as an addendum.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 22 September 2017 04:07 (six years ago) link
I saw Bauhaus in 2005 and they were excellent. Ferocious even. I'm really excited to hear Tones On Tails songs live now!
― LeRooLeRoo, Friday, 22 September 2017 04:20 (six years ago) link
I haven't listened to any Bauhaus for ages, but these thread revivals have got me wanting to hear Mask ...
― more Allegro-like (Turrican), Saturday, 23 September 2017 09:53 (six years ago) link
The two singles/Best Ofs are my goto Bauhaus. Never felt the need to own the albums.
Peel Sessions are great, too, but then they almost always are.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Saturday, 23 September 2017 14:42 (six years ago) link
i picked up one of those 5cd box sets on amazon for £16 in 2013. still available - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Albums-Box-Set-Burning-Singles/dp/B00FE1XIBS
that's actually cheaper than a single one of those white or black best-ofs (which might be out of print looking at the prices on amazon)
― koogs, Saturday, 23 September 2017 15:40 (six years ago) link
A last little trick up their sleeve:
https://bauhaus.bandcamp.com/album/the-bela-session
The Bela Session is a full release of Bauhaus' first studio session from January 26 1979, where the iconic "Bela Lugosi's Dead" was recorded. This is the first and only official reissue of "Bela Lugosi's Dead" on vinyl, and the first time 3 of the 5 tracks have been released. This EP has been produced directly by the band with Leaving Records, in advance of the band's 40th anniversary.
Tracklisting:
1. Bela Lugosi's Dead (Official Version) 09:36 2. Some Faces3. Bite My Hip4. Harry5. Boys (Original)
"Harry" saw release as a B-side in 1982; the rest as indicated haven't officially surfaced, though "Bite My Hip" was eventually recorded and entitled "Lagartija Nick" well down the road of their original existence. This is also different from the Live in the Studio 1979 EP that surfaced with Behind the Mask.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 11 September 2018 00:44 (five years ago) link
wow!
― crüt, Tuesday, 11 September 2018 00:51 (five years ago) link
https://louderthanwar.com/peter-murphy-thrown-gig-sweden-former-bauhaus-singer-bizarre-incident/
― Duke, Saturday, 15 December 2018 10:23 (five years ago) link
"Last night Peter Murphy had a meltdown at the gig in Stockholm (Nalen).
Annoyed at a small sector of the crowd ignoring his show he was apparently throwing bottles at the audience one of which landed on the mixing desk which broke it and ended the concert after 2/3 of the gig. Following this there was an altercation with the security at the venue which saw him thrown out of the venue."
― Duke, Saturday, 15 December 2018 10:24 (five years ago) link
Fucking hell. Is he still on the crystal meth?
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Saturday, 15 December 2018 22:17 (five years ago) link
Well, here we go once more.
BAUHAUS announces HOLLYWOOD PALLADIUM SHOWBauhaus, featuring Peter Murphy, Daniel Ash, Kevin Haskins, and David J, will play the Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles on November 3. Tickets on sale Friday, September… https://t.co/d4or2gN9NE— Peter Murphy (@petermurphyinfo) September 10, 2019
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 10 September 2019 16:22 (four years ago) link
There's something...weird in realizing they're announcing this reunion to take place in the spot where they played the first reunion shows in 1998. Double nostalgia.
Double nostalgia excitement!
― stirmonster, Tuesday, 10 September 2019 16:31 (four years ago) link
Crazy to think that more time elapsed since that first reunion than between that and their initial split
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Wednesday, 11 September 2019 14:45 (four years ago) link
More and more I appreciate the sweet innocence of this being called what it is when it was released in 1992:
https://www.discogs.com/Bauhaus-Rest-In-Peace-The-Final-Concert/master/324249
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 11 September 2019 15:45 (four years ago) link
Anyway so they're still back together and they have a new song and they've pulled the ol' "1. David Jay 2. Peter Murphy 3. Kevin Haskins 4. Daniel Ash" trick again. And you know, why not?
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/bauhaus-new-song-drink-the-new-wine-1325242/
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 23 March 2022 14:30 (two years ago) link
Their North American tour has been canceled. Peter Murphy has checked himself into rehab "to attend to his health and well-being."
Disappointing, to say the least.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 31 August 2022 16:20 (one year ago) link
Was just coming here to post that
After rehab maybe they can tour
https://www.brooklynvegan.com/bauhaus-cancel-north-american-shows-as-peter-murphy-enters-rehab/
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 1 September 2022 04:00 (one year ago) link
So for the Pop Conference this year I had some thoughts, at least in terms of archiving and legacy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYpT_GKxz3k
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 13 March 2024 16:23 (one month ago) link
Great stuff. Still getting over the white and black albums bit. Ha!
The vinyl 1979-1983 version was something my then girlfriend introduced me to and that really ignited my Bauhaus love, having previously only heard the hit singles. Really interesting to hear that over there a lot of people found Bauhaus through their Love & Rockets fandom.
― stirmonster, Wednesday, 13 March 2024 23:01 (one month ago) link
I came to the band at an odd time, circa Burning from the Inside, which is still my favorite. We used to play it at the record store I worked at near closing time. It was pretty good at clearing the store.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 13 March 2024 23:20 (one month ago) link
'she's in parties' is a highly recommended gothdub. i like that album; good bridge to tones on tail.
― interstellar anthropologist+music philosopher, (Austin), Wednesday, 13 March 2024 23:39 (one month ago) link
honestly Burning is my fave album overall
― I painted my teeth (sleeve), Wednesday, 13 March 2024 23:45 (one month ago) link