BAUHAUS
Members:
Daniel Ash – guitar
Kevin Haskins – Drums
David Jay – Bass guitar
Peter Murphy – Vocals
The band got inspired by the arts- and design-school built by Walter Gropius for its’ name. Each member of this band came from the middle of England, from the industrial-town named North-Hampton, whose inhospitable city-landscape and its arising “darkly-romantic” industrial-pop built the basement for a metallic, impulsive neo-rock with a sacral touch.
Bauhaus used a chainsaw-clinking sound of a guitar, painful “back-ties”, a hammering drum-set and a hardly depressive-neurotic voice for a type of psychedelic punk.
The band got founded by the art-students Kevin Haskins and David Jay, who wanted to do punk-music. Both became members of the band “Submerged Tenth”. Later, when David Ash joined them, the three of them founded the band “Craze” and in the year 1978 also Peter Murphy participated and already then they changed their band-name into “Bauhaus 1919”. Their first Gig they had in December of the same year. That was in a simple Pub. Their first Single got released in August 1979 from the alternative-Label “Small Wonder”. Further hits of the Indie-scene were following, which were “Dark Entries”, “Terror Couple Kill Colonel”, “Telegram Sam” and the LP “The Flat Field”.
The Lyrics were quite similar to those ones of David Bowie and Jim Morrison. Most of the time they were telling about existential fears, hope, Lust, every days’ craziness, religious fanatism, magic and they also drew dangerous future visions. In June 1987 the band landed their first national hit with “The passion of Lovers”. At this time they had already a contract with Beggar’s Banquet. From this time on they dealt with more differenced music and they very often experienced with elements of Funk, R&B and Pop on their Albums “Mask” and “The sky’s gone out”.
Bauhaus had the last really big commercial success in summer 1983 with the LP “Burning from the inside”, which was a melancholic, dark, mysterious Lyric-picture-collage. 1982 Bauhaus acted in a short scene of the movie “The Hunger”, which was a movie about Vampires, in which the main characters got acted by David Bowie and Catherine Deneuve. After a Tour in Japan in summer 1983 the single members of the band agreed that they would split. But they all stayed in contact with each other and they released a few Samplers, which reached lower ranges in the charts.
In August 1983 Daniel Ash and Kevin Haskins started, together with their pal Glenn Campling, to develop again the tradition of Bauhaus with a LP called “Tones of tail”. The album “Pop” showed an even stronger relation to Bauhaus in 1984. But it also offered “real Songs that fitted into the time”, which were tasteful, delicate and attractive.
When “Pop” were released in the end of 1984, Ash and Haskins had already been in contact again with David Jay. This LP got dominated by acoustic and electronic sounds and very simple Lyrics. The reunion of Bauhaus, everybody was hoping for, never happened during the year 1984, since Peter Murphy weren’t interested in it. Because of that Jay, Haskins and Ash named their band “Love and Rockets”. “Love and Rockets” were in favour with soft and neo-romantic sounds and created with “Seventh dream of heaven” an album that was almost graceful in 1986. The style of the music came close to a mixture of Folk-rock and Funk. Especially in the USA they got attention because of this special style they had.
1987 they touched the Hot 100 with their LPs “Express” and “Earth-son-moon”.
But as fast as “Love and Rockets” appeared in the News of the most famous music-magazines like for example The Rolling Stone, Bill-board and Creem, they also disappeared again. In spring 1991 Daniel Ash presented his own LP. “Coming down” celebrated a well-done trip through psychedelic and Pop in a sleepy and depressive surrounding and showed with it that he’s an ambitious composer. The former Bauhaus-Star Peter Murphy tried to avoid the contact to the earlier members. Also Murphy tried to go his own way and he even reached the charts with the Single “Final Solution” in 1985.
As a surprise “Deep” reached the North-American charts and got named as the best modern Rock-title. The last thing someone heard of Bauhaus was that they released a few Samplers more with known and unreleased material in 1992.
Bio written by: TheVampireArmand |
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