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Bauhaus' DAVID J has kicked off his European / UK tour in support of his new album ‘Missive to an Angel from the Halls of Infamy and Allure’ LP. Famed as founder of both BAUHAUS and LOVE AND ROCKETS, this album is unique from those projects... PAT FISH (aka THE JAZZ BUTCHER) will be David's special guest... Continue Reading →
Album titles are a bit like making an entrance to a party. You can either turn up on time in sensible shoes and make small talk in the kitchen, or you can noisily burst in, wearing a fake leopard skin coat, knocking over drinks and making sure everyone notices you. The choice of title for David... Continue Reading →
You have to admire David J’s desire to remain relevant. It is very easy for musicians at a certain point in their career to adopt the attitude that they have done their thing, said their piece, made their mark and slowly retire to a more comfortable musical place to trade in past glories and just... Continue Reading →
It’s an obvious subject for any right minded creative to write about, especially as I sit here to pen this review the day after the most vicious, religiously motivated, terrorist attacks in New Zealand's history are filling the news channels. Whilst some might find this difficult territory to navigate, might pull the necessary punches a... Continue Reading →
Bands with such provocative titles tend to go one of two ways. Either the name is chosen for purely emotive reasons and the whole affair turns out to be a bunch of 17 year old screamo-metalheads who think such mystique is a sure way of getting a girlfriend (it isn’t, believe me) or it is... Continue Reading →
There is a tendency to talk about such cool, dark and clinical music such as that found on Image merely in relation to a certain circle of bands who, driven by new technologies, new attitudes and new musical visions in the wake of the UK punk explosion, created a sound that reflected their stark, generally... Continue Reading →
It comes as no surprise to find out that the lives and career of the people who make music as The Venus Fly Trap are intrinsically linked to those of fellow explorers of dark music, Bauhaus. Same home town, same art college, same gigging circuit, Kevin Haskins was even to be found as their producer... Continue Reading →
Kevin Haskins, drummer and founding member of Bauhaus, Love and Rockets, Tones on Tail and his latest trio Poptone, has announced his involvement in an exciting new MTV-inspired television show. Haskins just signed on as a music supervisor and producer for the new project, entitled FOXES Television, created by mother and son duo Tina and Julian... Continue Reading →
Stock in the Bauhaus name is riding high at the moment. With one half of the band currently working as Poptone and David J undertaking an extensive world tour with Pete Murphy as we speak, it is certainly the perfect time to re-release J’s sophomore solo album, a record which he describes as “ a... Continue Reading →
This year marks 40 years since the formation of Bauhaus. To mark this occasion, founding member David J has announced two one-off solo UK concerts, to occur in between several festival dates with Bauhaus vocalist Peter Murphy and their newly-announced world tour. The second of these shows, 'Back to Beck (The Crucible of ‘Bela Lugosi’s Dead’), is... Continue Reading →
Any band worth their salt should be able to fill a book with anecdotes and stories of their touring and recording life, one that is a flame for moth-like fans and at least piques the interest of the more general reader. Any band, after even a few years on the road, who can’t fill such... Continue Reading →
No matter what anyone tells you about current musical fashions, what the zeitgeist might happen to be blowing in from cooler taste making circles, what the papers say is the next big thing or any of that sort of rhetoric, one thing never changes. The underground, the outside, the left field, the other…call it what... Continue Reading →
The Arthur Rackham illustration on the cover of Nasty Little Lonely’s latest musical outing should give some idea to the uninitiated of what lies within. The dark fairy tale nature of the artwork reflects the juxtaposition of the industrial-gothic music vibe that the band does so well with the often-girlish yet sometimes sinister and warped... Continue Reading →