The last few years brought along Bauhaus reunion shows, including at 2022’s Cruel World Festival in Los Angeles. For over a decade, the duo wrote seven studio albums and toured the world, playing their last live show together in 2009. It was accessible, reminiscent of 60s psychedelia-but most of all, it was fun.
Daniel and Kevin had also ended their electronic dance project, Tones On Tail, and were primed to dive into something entirely new: pure, ecclesiastical rock music. When Bauhaus originally broke up in 1983, Love and Rockets formed while Peter Murphy broke off to pursue his solo career. Over a Zoom call in home of Los Angeles, David J is in great spirits-excited for the future, and ready to see where the upcoming Love and Rockets tour will take him alongside bandmates Daniel Ash and Kevin Haskins. Perhaps that is why David J finds the effortless harmony of Love and Rockets to be so regenerative: without Bauhaus frontman Peter Murphy at the helm, the remaining members have space to reflect that light. With his other band, Bauhaus-who, as we all know, wrote the seminal goth song, “Bela Lugosi’s Dead”-there is little radiance, all enveloped in the vast blackness of the night.
Love and Rockets seems to be a ray of light for David J Haskins, the band’s bassist, songwriter and oft-vocalist.
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