Welcome back, Bauhaus ... now get lost
Here's some bizarre music news: Bauhaus, everyone's favorite doom-and-gloom group from the 80s, is reuniting to record its first new album since 1983. And then it's calling it quits again.
"Going Away White" is expected to be released March 4, according to Billboard.com, but the band won't tour to support it.
"We were getting along really well, but there was an incident that occurred," drummer Kevin Haskins told Billboard. "Some of us just felt that we didn't want to carry on as a working unit."
One of the first goth bands, Bauhaus was formed in Northampton, England, in 1978 by Haskins, Peter Murphy, Daniel Ash and David J. The band broke up in '83 when Murphy went solo. The other Bauhaus members continued on as Love and Rockets. The band was probably best known for their nine-minute-long opus, Bela Lugosi's Dead.
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Saw Peter Murphy open for The Church at the Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center too many years ago.
Wonder why no tour this time? What incident?
Posted by: Bill in Sarasota | December 06, 2007 at 08:22 PM
Now for something completely different....VAN HALEN WAS AWESOME!
Posted by: Al | December 06, 2007 at 11:35 PM
I love Bauhaus. Peter Murphy's voice is just unbelievable. I suggest you pick up his Wild Birds CD to hear what a singer should sound like. His voice can literally split drywall.
Let's also not forget the two other side projects that spawned from Bauhaus: Daniel Ash's "Tones On Tail" and Murphy's "Dalis Car" project with world-renowned fretless bassist Mick Karn.
Posted by: Clyde | December 07, 2007 at 09:23 AM
I think Steve Woodward and Sean Bernstein need to start digging until they find out what the "incident" was.
I'm guessing it was some sort of ego clash, but inquiring minds want to know!
Start doing that journalism stuff, Mav!
Posted by: Jeff in Cuba | December 07, 2007 at 10:06 AM
I love Murphy's solo work. 'Love Hysteria' and 'Deep' are my favorites. Check out Bauhaus's 'Swing the Heartache: the BBC Sessions' album, it has the great cover of Ziggy Stardust on it.
Posted by: Bassnote | December 07, 2007 at 10:21 AM
Bauhaus is fantastic! I saw them on their reunion tour in Orlando a few years back--actually had front row center seats! I met PM several years ago before a concert, too--he gave me his cold.
It's pretty cool to be able to say you caught a cold from Peter Murphy!
Posted by: malibu | December 07, 2007 at 12:27 PM