PETER MURPHY About An Eventual BAUHAUS Reunion In A New Interview
28 May 2025
Sounds like a ‘yes’ to me.
Full MOJO interview here.
Murphy has released his 11th solo album, called Silver Shade two weeks ago.
Bauhaus
PETER MURPHY Offers Melodramatic Goth Disco Anthems On New Solo LP ‘SILVER SHADE’
10 May 2025
Bauhaus‘ dark-Goth-wave icon PETER MURPHY (now 67) made a surprising return
last November with a goosebumps power pop ballad duet with Boy George, named
Let The Flowers Grow.
Now he’s back solo, with his 10th solo LP Silver Shade. It’s produced by renowned producer Youth (Pink Floyd, The Verve, Crowded House, member of Killing Joke, The Orb,
The Firemen w/Paul McCartney).
SPIN Magazine: “Artists age differently, it comes through in their work. Some turn contemplative, some opt for acceptance, some even refuse to admit they’re getting older (looking at you, Rolling Stones). On Silver Shade, famed Bauhaus vocalist and post-punk
pioneer Peter Murphy reveals how he chooses to face his golden years: with an album of
grand, baroque defiance you can dance to.
As with time itself, the album never stops moving, relentlessly propelling listeners forward
even when they might want a break. It’s Murphy’s cry for raging back against the dying of
the light. ‘Silver Shade’ is what we can all hope to be at 67: imperfect, maybe expected, but
also loud, lively, and unapologetically ourselves. By embracing an outlook only earned by
age, Peter Murphy is still finding new shades four decades into his illustrious career.”
Live photo by Chad Kelco
TUTV: Murphy solo is as relevant as Bauhaus was. He’s still as rhapsodic, motivated and
ambitious as he ever was. Silver Shade is stuffed with big, bombastic and melodramatic tunes to draw goth fans to gloomy discos with. Banger after banger, stompers after stomper. Gloriously orchestrated, anthemically constructed. His phenomenal vocal performance lifts this remarkable record to an astonishing level. Class!
SINGLES
ALBUM
Happy 67 To Goth Rock Icon PETER MURPHY
11 July 2024
Happy 67 to gothic rock icon PETE MURPHY.The spellbinding frontman of
legendary British band Bauhaus (1978–1983/2005–2008) who was born on
11 July 1957 in Nottingham, England.
Two to tango.
– HANG UP –
From his 2014 solo album ‘Lion‘)
– BELA LUGOSI’S DEAD –
Bauhaus‘ 1979 debut single
PM: Story
(photo on top: cover of solo LP ‘I Spit Roses’)
BAUHAUS Maestro PETER MURPHY About Beauty
16 January 2024
Pure performer.
(photo: cover of solo album ‘Ninth’)
BAUHAUS – Third LP ‘THE SKY’S GONE OUT’ Released 40 Years Ago
Back in time
20 October 2022
Band: BAUHAUS
Who: New-Gothic-rock legends from Nottingham, UK,
fronted by voice/face Peter Murphy
Active: 1978–1983, 1998-2005, 2019–present / 5 LPs
Anniversary album: THE SKY’S GONE OUT
Released: 22 October 1982 – 40 years ago
AllMusic said: “The Sky’s Gone Out was caught between the expectations of an audience
now thoroughly embracing the incipient goth genre, with all the built-in limitations such expectations often provide, and a band which wanted to please them while still following its own muse. On balance it’s quite a fine album, but unlike Mask it misses the infusion of a more positive energy, and simply doesn’t gel as perfectly, more notable for individual songs than as
a whole.” Score: 3/5.
TUTV: So much better than the critical press reception back then.
A sublime versatile record that didn’t age.
Single: All We Wanted Was Everything
Full album stream via Spotify
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BAUHAUS: Bio – Discography – Facebook
Gothic Post-Punk Legends BAUHAUS Return With Brand New Ghostly Piece ‘DRINK THE NEW WINE’
New striking strokes
24 March 2022
British post-punk Goths BAUHAUS enjoyed the first part of their bumpy journey
from 1978 to 1983. Afterward, several reunions/splits occurred, with a new album
called Go Away White in 2008.
Back in 2019, they got together once again after 13 years.
And just now the band announced their first American shows in a long
while and dropped a new piece of music called DRINK THE NEW WINE.
An obscure and eidolic slow-moving trance-like procession sounding like
one of those Jah Wobble‘s bass impelled tracks from P.I.L’s sinister debut LP,
but Peter Murphy‘s tenebrous wailing reminds you that this is a vintage
Bauhaus performance.
Lyrics
Bell bottom blues
No pain, no pain
I’ll never see the boys again
‘Cause I’m off to the funny farm
Drown out the blues with booze
Now it’s off to the funny farm
I got news for you
Now I’m off to the funny farm
Casket of crisis
Too much tension and tears
I’ll never see the boys again
‘Cause I’m off to the funny farm
I’ll never see the boys again
‘Cause I’m off to the funny farm
Dreaming of a perfect world
Dreaming of a perfect world
The roulettista rolls the dice
The roulettista rolls
The roulettista rolls the dice
The roulettista rolls
Listen here…
05/14 – Pasadena, CA @ Cruel World Fest
05/15 – Pasadena, CA @ Cruel World Fest
05/17 – Portland, OR @ Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall
05/20 – Seattle, WA @ Paramount Theatre
05/22 – San Francisco, CA @ The Masonic
05/25 – Denver, CO @ The Mission Ballroom
05/27 – Tempe, AZ @ The Marquee Theatre
09/08 – New York, NY @ Kings Theatre
09/09 – New York, NY @ Kings Theatre
Poster This! BAUHAUS 1981
Great concert posters from the past
Band: BAUHAUS
Who: Post-punk/Goth legends from Northampton, UK led by Peter Murphy
Active: 1978–1983, 1998-2005, 2008, 2019–present / 5 studio LPs
Concerts: UK tour 1981
‘SHE’S IN PARTIES’ By BAUHAUS – Released 1983
Top singles from the past…
10 April 2020
Band: Bauhaus led by
the charismatic Peter Murphy
Active: 1978–1983, 1998,
2005–2008, 2019–present
Single: She’s In Parties
B-side: Departure
Score: Reached #26 in the UK
Album: Burning From The Inside
The band’s fourth LP
Here’s the original clip…
BAUHAUS – The Goth Legends Released Third Album ‘THE SKY’S GONE OUT’ 35 Years Ago…
Going back in sonic history…
Band: BAUHAUS
Album: THE SKY’S GONE OUT
Released: 19 October 1982 – 35 years ago
All Music wrote: “Old, pre-recording-career songs like the strong but dated ‘In the Night’ were revived and balanced against experiments and attempts to further develop the band’s sound, ultimately making ‘The Sky’s Gone Out’ feel more like a compilation than anything else. Piece by piece, though, the songs still often showed Bauhaus in excelsis. Ash’s elegant, haunting acoustic guitar work received two great showcases, ‘Silent Hedges’, adding a more familiar electric explosion to a fine Murphy performance detailing a desperate mental collapse, and ‘All We
Ever Wanted Was Everything’, a sympathetic, nostalgic reflection on dreams of the past, again matched by a perfectly balanced Murphy vocal. Other standouts include the brooding lope of “Swing the Heartache,” with a skeletal rhythm matched against some of Ash’s best guitar work, and “Spirit,” a live standout inspired by the performance vibe the band received from its fans.”
Turn Up The Volume! says: After all these years this record is still a compelling substantiation of Bauhaus‘ enthralling impact, sonically and lyrically…
Three Top Tracks (hard choice): Spirit / All We Ever Wanted Was Everything / Third Uncle
* SPIRIT – glorious tribute to their loyal fans…
* ALL WE EVER WANTED WAS EVERYTHING (lyrics clip) haunting & gloomy beauty…
* THIRD UNCLE (live version – 1992 – Manchester) – cutting Brian Eno cover…
Full album…
(original tracklist: #1- #10)
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PETER MURPHY: Website – Facebook