Steerpike
01-12-2007, 10:20 PM
All right, we're getting back on track now. Joy Division uploads are late, but they will be out, damn it.
http://www.sputnikmusic.com/forums/showthread.php?t=504585
Rites of Spring – Before Emo Was Stolen
http://www.sputnikmusic.com/forums/showthread.php?t=506077
Joy Division - A Tragic Legend
Biography
Serendipity can result in surprising events. Sometimes they can lead to tears, sometimes to joy. Many a success story has been built on risk taking and pure chance. Circumstances come together in the right order. Events fall into place just the right way. And actions set in motion years ago come to fruition. We can only see this all either as it happens or in hindsight. And it’s how the genre of Goth rock was born, beginning with the first wave bands such as The Cure, Siouxsie and The Banshees, and most infamously Bauhaus.
Daniel Ash, Kevin Haskins, and Kevin’s brother David J. were all school friends and had been playing in bands on and off throughout most of their lives. No single band they played in lasted more than a gig or two, but they did show promise. Daniel was primarily influenced by punk and psychedelia, while David’s bass work was more influenced by reggae and dub. Kevin had more of a Krautrock foundation. The odd one out was Peter Murphy, who only joined them after a long time of nagging and pressure from Daniel. Peter was a factory worker who had absolutely no experience whatsoever as a singer or writer. However, Daniel was rather insistent that he had the right persona to be the frontman of a band.
They tossed around some songs for a while, rehearsed and gigged throughout ’78, and most of ’79 under the moniker Bauhaus 1919, later dropping the second part of the name. It was derived from the Bauhaus school of design in Germany that had influenced David who always had an interest in the visual arts.
It was in September of 1979 that they finally debuted with their first single, Bela Lugosi’s Dead. According to legend, the whole song was recorded in one take in the dead of night. Though it never cracked the charts, it had enough of a cult following that it stayed on sale for years afterward, and swiftly became the anthem of the budding Goth scene.
They performed for small crowds and became a distinctive force as live band. Their moody, gloomy music was augmented by Peter Murphy’s haunted voice and reactionary stage presence. They even managed to do a recording session for BBC Radio One with the most famous and respected DJ on the air, John Peel. All of this went a long way to building up their reputation in those early days.
Another 3 singles were released before In the Flat Fields debuted in 1980. They became regulars at London’s infamous Batcave nightclub where they often found themselves sharing the bill with Siouxsie and The Banshees, The Cure, Joy Division, and Adam and The Ants. In honor of their new anthem, fans of the group would show up at gigs in black capes and fine clothes. Some would even go so far as to wear whiteface and fake fangs. A local music pundit witnessed one of these surreal shows and dubbed it, “Gothic dance music,” which was adopted by the scene and soon shortened to Goth.
The next two albums, Mask and The Sky’s Gone Out, were more experimental, the latter featuring a David Bowie cover that landed the band a spot on Top of the Pops. Everything seemed to be going pretty well. Aside from The Cure, this was the closest a Goth band had come to cracking the pop charts while the rest of the genre and its cousin Industrial were relegated to the shadows to watch as New Wave and New Romantic took off into the mainstream eye. Around the same time, Bela Lugosi’s Dead was used to score the first ten minutes of the movie The Hunger starring David Bowie.
Unfortunately, just when the band were about to record their fourth album, Peter was stricken with pneumonia. He was seldom able to make it into the studio, and David and Daniel were forced to take up the slack. The result was Burning from the Inside, a much different album and one that alienated a lot of fans. The band went on tour to support the album but went their separate ways after they were done.
Each musician went on to various solo projects and side ventures. Kevin scored video games while David pursued his visual arts work more seriously. Peter and Daniel were the most consistent in recording solo albums.
1998 dragged in and fans were greatly surprised when Bauhaus announced they were getting back together with the Resurrection Tour. They debuted two new songs, and went quiet for another few years. Speculation ran wild until 2005 when the band played at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, during which Peter was lowered onto the stage hanging upside down as he sang Bela Lugosi’s Dead. Recordings of the concert were turned into the group’s first live album released that same year and titled Gotham.
The next year, they supported Nine Inch Nails for their With Teeth tour. Peter and Trent Reznor appeared on stage together several times, an honor for Trent who counted Bauhaus and Peter’s vocals in particular as one of his main influences. They debuted another two new songs on stage, fueling rumors that a new album is in the making.
The band hasn’t said one way or the other what’s going on with that, but that’s only fueled the rumor mill. A 2007 tour is planned, but no dates have been announced.
It’s been a long, strange journey for Goth rock. But it says something about the appeal of the whole scene that several of its key bands from the beginning are still around in some capacity… even though most of them don’t seem to care for the label for one reason or another. (shrug)
http://www.bauhausmusik.com/
Official Web Site
http://www.sputnikmusic.com/forums/showthread.php?t=504585
Rites of Spring – Before Emo Was Stolen
http://www.sputnikmusic.com/forums/showthread.php?t=506077
Joy Division - A Tragic Legend
Biography
Serendipity can result in surprising events. Sometimes they can lead to tears, sometimes to joy. Many a success story has been built on risk taking and pure chance. Circumstances come together in the right order. Events fall into place just the right way. And actions set in motion years ago come to fruition. We can only see this all either as it happens or in hindsight. And it’s how the genre of Goth rock was born, beginning with the first wave bands such as The Cure, Siouxsie and The Banshees, and most infamously Bauhaus.
Daniel Ash, Kevin Haskins, and Kevin’s brother David J. were all school friends and had been playing in bands on and off throughout most of their lives. No single band they played in lasted more than a gig or two, but they did show promise. Daniel was primarily influenced by punk and psychedelia, while David’s bass work was more influenced by reggae and dub. Kevin had more of a Krautrock foundation. The odd one out was Peter Murphy, who only joined them after a long time of nagging and pressure from Daniel. Peter was a factory worker who had absolutely no experience whatsoever as a singer or writer. However, Daniel was rather insistent that he had the right persona to be the frontman of a band.
They tossed around some songs for a while, rehearsed and gigged throughout ’78, and most of ’79 under the moniker Bauhaus 1919, later dropping the second part of the name. It was derived from the Bauhaus school of design in Germany that had influenced David who always had an interest in the visual arts.
It was in September of 1979 that they finally debuted with their first single, Bela Lugosi’s Dead. According to legend, the whole song was recorded in one take in the dead of night. Though it never cracked the charts, it had enough of a cult following that it stayed on sale for years afterward, and swiftly became the anthem of the budding Goth scene.
They performed for small crowds and became a distinctive force as live band. Their moody, gloomy music was augmented by Peter Murphy’s haunted voice and reactionary stage presence. They even managed to do a recording session for BBC Radio One with the most famous and respected DJ on the air, John Peel. All of this went a long way to building up their reputation in those early days.
Another 3 singles were released before In the Flat Fields debuted in 1980. They became regulars at London’s infamous Batcave nightclub where they often found themselves sharing the bill with Siouxsie and The Banshees, The Cure, Joy Division, and Adam and The Ants. In honor of their new anthem, fans of the group would show up at gigs in black capes and fine clothes. Some would even go so far as to wear whiteface and fake fangs. A local music pundit witnessed one of these surreal shows and dubbed it, “Gothic dance music,” which was adopted by the scene and soon shortened to Goth.
The next two albums, Mask and The Sky’s Gone Out, were more experimental, the latter featuring a David Bowie cover that landed the band a spot on Top of the Pops. Everything seemed to be going pretty well. Aside from The Cure, this was the closest a Goth band had come to cracking the pop charts while the rest of the genre and its cousin Industrial were relegated to the shadows to watch as New Wave and New Romantic took off into the mainstream eye. Around the same time, Bela Lugosi’s Dead was used to score the first ten minutes of the movie The Hunger starring David Bowie.
Unfortunately, just when the band were about to record their fourth album, Peter was stricken with pneumonia. He was seldom able to make it into the studio, and David and Daniel were forced to take up the slack. The result was Burning from the Inside, a much different album and one that alienated a lot of fans. The band went on tour to support the album but went their separate ways after they were done.
Each musician went on to various solo projects and side ventures. Kevin scored video games while David pursued his visual arts work more seriously. Peter and Daniel were the most consistent in recording solo albums.
1998 dragged in and fans were greatly surprised when Bauhaus announced they were getting back together with the Resurrection Tour. They debuted two new songs, and went quiet for another few years. Speculation ran wild until 2005 when the band played at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, during which Peter was lowered onto the stage hanging upside down as he sang Bela Lugosi’s Dead. Recordings of the concert were turned into the group’s first live album released that same year and titled Gotham.
The next year, they supported Nine Inch Nails for their With Teeth tour. Peter and Trent Reznor appeared on stage together several times, an honor for Trent who counted Bauhaus and Peter’s vocals in particular as one of his main influences. They debuted another two new songs on stage, fueling rumors that a new album is in the making.
The band hasn’t said one way or the other what’s going on with that, but that’s only fueled the rumor mill. A 2007 tour is planned, but no dates have been announced.
It’s been a long, strange journey for Goth rock. But it says something about the appeal of the whole scene that several of its key bands from the beginning are still around in some capacity… even though most of them don’t seem to care for the label for one reason or another. (shrug)
http://www.bauhausmusik.com/
Official Web Site