Bauhaus

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.

http://hideyourarms.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/il_570xN.203300498-480x511.jpg

Hahah thank you, I'd linked that upthread a bit but the URL died.

No rush. Take your time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOBe--9NqLU

Hahahaha... the fuck!? :D

Just...let it flow.

My latest Quietus piece -- on the 30th anniversary of Burning From the Inside:

http://thequietus.com/articles/12708-bauhaus-burning-from-the-inside

MAKE THE MOST OF A MILLION TIMES... yes?

Great article! I still listen to "Hope" regularly to this day.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4zPCKtIqcc

http://www.slicingupeyeballs.com/2013/10/14/peter-murphy-peads-guilty-meth-probation/

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.)

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.

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.

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/

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

david's doing a house show in SF this weekend. not sure where.

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.

tell us more...

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.)

I'm actually beyond surprised that this is happening.

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

missed that i actually already posted that link in this thread, sorry. going too fast.

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?

^ damn I just scheduled a camping trip for when they're coming to Atlanta :[

xp my friend saw them in Portland and LOVED it, he is a huge fan

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.

I saw Bauhaus in 2005 and they were excellent. Ferocious even. I'm really excited to hear Tones On Tails songs live now!

I haven't listened to any Bauhaus for ages, but these thread revivals have got me wanting to hear Mask ...

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.

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)

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 Faces
3. Bite My Hip
4. Harry
5. 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.

wow!

https://louderthanwar.com/peter-murphy-thrown-gig-sweden-former-bauhaus-singer-bizarre-incident/

"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."

Fucking hell. Is he still on the crystal meth?

Well, here we go once more.

BAUHAUS announces HOLLYWOOD PALLADIUM SHOW

Bauhaus, 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

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!

Crazy to think that more time elapsed since that first reunion than between that and their initial split

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

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/

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.

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/

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

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.

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.

'she's in parties' is a highly recommended gothdub. i like that album; good bridge to tones on tail.

honestly Burning is my fave album overall

(of theirs)

my intro was The Sky's Gone Out upon release, I did not really know what to make of it. then I heard that green 4AD EP of the early singles and I got it.