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Peter
Murphy had neither
sung nor written
songs before his
school friend Daniel
convinced him to
join a new band
he was forming in
the year 1978.
Guitarist Daniel
Ash, his brother
David J on bass
with drummer Kevin
Haskins and singer
Peter Murphy christened
themselves Bauhaus
1919 (soon to be
simply 'Bauhaus')
and became one of
the most influential
bands of the post-punk
era. Following the
break-up of Bauhaus
in 1983, the band
members continued
on with solo projects,
and in the bands
Dali's Car, Tones
On Tail
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and Love And Rockets.
Many bands had woven
strands of historically
gothic influence
into their sound
before, either through
literary or musical
references. Bauhaus,
however practically
launched the modern
gothic music scene
as a recognized
genre singlehandedly,
immediately stamped
with an aura of
vampiric darkness
by the theme of
their first single,
"Bela Lugosi's
Dead," that
song's association
with the vampire
film The Hunger,
and by the sinister
gloom of their classic
sound. Bauhaus reformed
for a series of
concerts in 2005
and 2006
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