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Biography

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

Artist Forum


Discussion Topic	Creator
Damn Damn DAMN! Bauhaus...back...and I missed the damn concert. (I live in Minnesota.) I didn't hear about it until too late. Damn! You'll all have to tell me how it goes....	Arken-vardika

Replys	Listener
Well,if armand hurries up and writes the review you,along with the others who want to know how the concert went,will know.	-s-aint347
I went to their Orlando concert last night (strangely enough it took an hour and a half to get there...but almost two to park arrg) It was quite amazing, but I am sure VampireArmand can phrase it much more elloquently than I. I imagine it could have been even better if the guys were a little younger, andit was in a more intimate setting with less Manson-types (because its hip for them to like Bauhaus since they have shirts at Hot Topic) but the legendary entity that is Bauhaus did not disappoint. Sorry you all couldn't go...maybe if they release new material, they'll come around again. (Hey everyone thought the last time was their last time)	SyntheticxDreams
Ha,well that is good to know...yeah,i do hope Bauhaus does come again and if not I guess it's just an oh well for me...	-s-aint347
They have BAUHAUS shirts at Hot Topic?! Our world is fucked.	Arken-vardika
Hmmm...maybe there are Bauhaus shirts at Hot Topic where Synthetic is at,but the ones by me don't,which is good.	-s-aint347
...In hot topic? Shouldn't that be illegal or something? I only have their best of album (not quite enough to run around calling myself a fan, but it's all I could find where I live, sadly enough) but, wow... there should be a rule against that or something...	TheRezJhonn
That is what I am thinking...	-s-aint347
David Jay is one of my uncles friends, I got the privelige to meet this fine man.	wyldebass
That is awesome...so how was he in person?	-s-aint347
I've noted Hot Topics vary by area, the downtown tampa/ybor area has known for its crappy numetal-pseudo gawth scene since dear Brian Warner was a journalist here. Sooo generally kids go from Deadstar Assembly/The Run obsessors to finding themselves critiqued and berrated by the "old school" kids passing by (they're all as pugnatious as VampireArmand...it can get very Gangs of New York :-p), at which point they will usualy dawn the Greats of Goth to be "cool" and where else do they find their gear, but Hot Topic. I assume you guys don't have DSA, Andrew WK, etc shirts at your Hot Topics either....oh and of course VNV Nation Ybor is the "home away from home" for them for some reason (save me). Pretty much our hot topic is pre-ripped/patched/stained Siouxsie, Bauhaus, Cure, Smiths, Joy Division, & Christian Death gear with a side of generic Manson, HIM, & DSA shirts and Bondage pants. And the occasional Corpse Bride blanket. I went in one at the "rich" mall about an hour away to pester a scene friend (around here its all the rage for any kind of scene kid to work at HT and make fun of the patrons...if you can stand the Big Goofy in bondage pants and Bowie makeup stocking next to you) and realized it was all Screamo/"hardcore" shit like Atreyu (and of course the more "local" stuff like Underoath & Norma Jean) I guess they just pay attention to what gets bought and center the products around what kids in the area like. Good marketing if you ask me...	SyntheticxDreams
Every hot topic I have ever been to has had both of what you just described. I guess we have super-mutant-hot-topics here. Ours have some bands like The Who and stuff, some of those bumber-sticker t-shirts, some really crappy pre-ripped siouxsie and stuff, some atreyu-esque/From First To last-esque bands and some of the 90's punk like The Vandals and Guttermouth (although I was angry that that didn't actually have Guttermouth... just Offspring and crap..). And then, of course, they sometimes stock hats and trenchcoats and.. whatever they can pile on the wall opposite of the anime/nintendo stuff. phew. Then again, I haven't been in any of them in quite a while, and especially not any farther than the one in our local mall..	xzar
haha I go in them all too often be it a friend needs fake-amber-mosquito-trapped gague plugs, or someone I know works there. I feel like I could write an overview of Hot Topic merch for the greater tampa area. Random thought though... you know where I've never seen/been in a Hot Topic? New York (or Rhode Island but thats hardly a state).....its like how you won't generally see a WalMart there, both for the better I'm sure.	SyntheticxDreams
Hah. New York sounds like a nice place.	xzar
If you can get over the smells and the speach impediments ;-)	SyntheticxDreams
*speech	SyntheticxDreams
I would not mind moving up in the New York area,but it seems pricey over there so I'm not sure about that plan of mine,but I know I will visit there...is it expensive?	-s-aint347
If you're visiting, especially if you're staying in Manhattan, and you don't know it well, its like being in a theme park. Expensive food, $5 bottles of water, long lines, and lots of oppertunities to spend your money. Once you get the feel for it, or if you know anyone that can show you around its not so bad. Spring and Fall are the good seasons by the way...Winter is disgusting and in summer they don't have decent Air Conditioning or Ice anywhere...and the refuse always smells worse in the sun :-p As for living there, housing is really expensive unless you can find a place with rent control (and thats still pretty bad, but no worse than Tampa, and far better than say...LA) but its genereally the locals that snag those anyway. If you want to live there in the future I suggest either Starting there in College and living in the dorms as you get the feel for the area (and try to snag a cheap place) or don't live in the Main City...the suburbs in Long Island are almost bearable, but New Jersey, Rhode Island, and other places in the vicinity are dramatically cheaper (or if you don't mind living in the Boonies, theres always Buffalo) then the trick with those is finding Parking if you drive or public transport that doesn't take an eternity.	SyntheticxDreams
Thank very much for that info...I needed it.=)	-s-aint347