I don't know if any of you remember Simon from the old bauhaus.org board, but I just came across this review of Bauhaus from a yahoo groups archive.
Well, I just signed up for this list about three
weeks ago and I really don't post too much. I suppose
that I am not really much of a netgoth
anyway...however, I feel it my civic duty to report
back the highlights of the best fucking show that I
have ever seen in my goddamned life! Friday was
blah...'wow,' thought I, 'its L&R with Peter
singing....' Heh, Sunday blew me away! They were
really a band again! Daniel laughed and played with
Peter on stage galavanting in that bisexual tease way
that I guess they always used to do, but that never
made an impression until I actuallly saw it. They
opened up with Double Dare and then In the Flat Field
and Hollow Hills both nights that I saw them, and it
was fab. They moved through many of everybodies
favorites, highlights being Ziggy, Silent Hedges,
Terror Couple, All We Ever Wanted, and closing with
Bela every night (after the Church, I was one of the
only people there NOT happy to hear it, too...) The
song that floored me, though, was Severance. "Bauhaus
doesn't do a song called Severance," you say... Well,
no shit! THEY COVERED DEAD CAN DANCE!!!!!!! Pardon my
ebulience and overuse of exclamations and caps, but I
am still in awe and shock, even after enough tequilla
to kill most farm animals, a lousy flight, and no
sleep in nearly a week. It was so moving that I float
on a cloud. Just when you thought it couldn't get
better, Peter walked out for yet another encore
(there were four on Sunday night) and said "I don't
think that we have ever played this one before..."
and they launched into Spirit. Now, Spirit was
definitely played live back in the day (It is on the
archive video), so I guess Peter has been sucking
that glass dick a bit too much lately, but still, it
was Spirit. When they got to the "We love our
audience" part, they all got into this group hug on
stage, and I know that you are all rolling your eyes
and groaning, but it was really touching. I don't
know what dates have been anounced since I left last
week for LA, but if things still look like they did
last week, the boys might not come to Dallas. I
HIGHLY recomend making arrangements to go and see
them at one of the shows that has been announced. It
was the best show that I have ever seen in my life,
and I saw Skinny Puppy for Too Dark Park...well, for
me at least, that is saying an awful lot. This is a
book now, so I must stop. Um, parting request be that
the bulk of replies be to me and not the list, as I
know how frustrated everyone has been with
theirinboxes.
-Simon (hung over, mildly jetlagged, and in
completehappy shock)
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