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===Influences===
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| source = [[David J]], regarding reggae's influence on the band.<ref>{{cite web |title=40 Years of Bauhaus – An Interview with David J |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPrcW2vdLjQ&t=192s |website=YouTube | date=October 2018 |publisher=Post-Punk.com |access-date=12 January 2021}}</ref>
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According to David J, the bands Bauhaus related to in the post-punk scene were [[Joy Division]], [[Pere Ubu]], [[Devo]], [[Gang of Four (band)|Gang of Four]], [[Cabaret Voltaire (band)|Cabaret Voltaire]], and [[the Pop Group]].<ref name="Mister Moonlight" /> Among bands and singers who influenced Bauhaus, they cited [[Siouxsie and the Banshees]],<ref>{{cite web|first=Judy|last=Lyon|title=Bauhaus' Kevin Haskins On His Involvement with Foxes Tv|url=https://torchedmagazine.com/2018/10/20/bauhaus-kevin-haskins-on-his-involvement-with-foxes-tv-going-vegan-and-the-launch-of-an-exciting-indiegogo-campaign/|publisher=Torchedmagazine|date=20 October 2018|access-date=1 November 2018|quote=At the time there were two drummers who had an influence on me namely, Steven Morris from Joy Division and Kenny Morris from Siouxsie and the Banshees. I liked how Steven played sixteenth notes on the hi hat and he used this wonderful electronic drum called The Synare drum which I ran out and bought immediately! With Kenny I loved how he would use the tom tom drums rather than hi hats and cymbals.|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181104010325/https://torchedmagazine.com/2018/10/20/bauhaus-kevin-haskins-on-his-involvement-with-foxes-tv-going-vegan-and-the-launch-of-an-exciting-indiegogo-campaign/|archive-date=4 November 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> David Bowie, [[T-Rex (band)|T-Rex]], [[Roxy Music]], [[Syd Barrett]]'s [[Pink Floyd]],<ref>{{cite book |author1=Julian Palacios |title=Syd Barrett & Pink Floyd – Dark Globe |date=June 29, 2015 |publisher=Plexus Publishing Limited |isbn=9780859658829}}</ref> [[New York Dolls]],<ref>{{cite book |author1=David J. Haskins |title=Who Killed Mister Moonlight?: Bauhaus, Black Magick, and Benediction |date=2014 |publisher=Jawbone Press |isbn=9781908279675 |quote=Whenever we were in London we would scour the independent record stores for obscure American treasures on imported vinyl: The MC5, the Stooges, the Flaming Groovies, Jonathan Richman & the Modern Lovers, the Velvet Underground, Patti Smith, the New York Dolls (whose exciting appearance on The Old Grey Whistle Test was a key moment for us both).}}</ref> [[Velvet Underground]], [[Iggy Pop and the Stooges]], [[the Doors]],<ref name="Mister Moonlight" /> [[Alice Cooper]],<ref name="Mister Moonlight" /> [[MC5]],<ref>{{cite web |author1=Danil Volohov |title=David J – Interview with David J |url=http://www.peek-a-boo-magazine.be/en/interviews/david-j-2018/ |website=Peekaboo Music Magazine |access-date=10 October 2022 |date=October 22, 2018 |quote=Interviewer: "Your past music always seems to have a kind of deepness of sound. How did you get to this manner of playing ? As I know from Daniel you, as a musicians, were influenced by punk rock." David J: " Yes, using my previous words – it was a galvanizing movement. Seeing Sex Pistols and The Clash in '76. That was very seminal. Kevin and I formed a punk-band that night! It's actually a very familiar story when people would go to see The Pistols playing and then say "We can do this!". So it was the seed for all of us. Then the post-punk thing happened a couple of years after that and that's where Bauhaus started. But we were also influenced by a lot of other kinds of music. Like dub reggae, for instance. It was very influential on us. And of course glam-rock. T-Rex, Bowie, early-Roxy Music. Then there were the things like the Stooges, MC5, the Velvet Underground was huge influence. So all of that went into the mix."}}</ref> [[Ramones]],<ref name="Mister Moonlight" /> [[the Sex Pistols]], [[the Clash]], [[the Residents]],<ref>{{cite web |author1=Ego Plum |title=The Residents & The Odd Odyssey of Hardy Fox's Synthesizer |url=https://tapeop.com/interviews/134/the-residents-and-the-odd-odyssey-of-hardy-foxs-synthesizer/ |website=Tape Op |access-date=24 December 2020 |quote="I was instantly transported to a very weird and delightful parallel dimension! I had never heard anything like it. I was hooked!" My friend David J [Tape Op #106] from Bauhaus recently shared this story of hearing their first album in 1977. "I would seek out any Residents information and records that I could get my hands on. Their influence seeped into Bauhaus for sure."}}</ref> [[Captain Beefheart]],<ref>{{cite web |author1=Mr.Pharmacist |title=Pharmacy Radio – Ep.23 – David J (Bauhaus/Love & Rockets) |url=https://www.mixcloud.com/mrpharmacist/pharmacy-radio-ep-23-david-j-bauhauslove-rockets/ |website=MixCloud |access-date=19 April 2021}}</ref> [[Suicide (band)|Suicide]],<ref name="Mister Moonlight" /> [[Kraftwerk]],<ref>{{cite news |author1=Hans Morgenstern |title=Peter Murphy Talks Meth Arrest and 35 Years of Bauhaus: "I Was Never a Punk" |url=https://www.miaminewtimes.com/music/peter-murphy-talks-meth-arrest-and-35-years-of-bauhaus-i-was-never-a-punk-6440117 |website=The Miami New Times |access-date=9 November 2020 |date=29 April 2013 |quote=Murphy speaks for himself when he talks about the influences he brought to the band. "Kraftwerk were among my influences, very early on," he says,}}</ref> [[Neu!]],<ref name="Haskins, Krautrock" /> [[Can (band)|Can]],<ref name="Robb">{{cite web |author1=John Robb |title=David J (Bauhaus): The John Robb interview |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYOyvO2SSwc&t=1500s |website=YouTube |access-date=19 April 2021 |date=March 7, 2021}}</ref> [[Faust (band)|Faust]],<ref name="Haskins, Krautrock">{{cite web |author1=David J Haskins |title=The gaping maw of the cement mixer used onstage last night by legendary 'Krautrock' ensemble, Faust. |url=https://www.instagram.com/p/Cto1I8sLFNd/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA== |website=Instagram |access-date=3 July 2023 |date=June 18, 2023 |quote=The gaping maw of the cement mixer used onstage last night by legendary 'Krautrock' ensemble, Faust. I discovered this band in 1973 when I was 16. I was in a used vinyl store in Northampton & the Bridget Riley op-art design featured on the cover caught my eye & I purchased it on the strength of this alone as I was not familiar with the band. The weird avant-garde 'kosmische musik' blew my teenage mind! It was the gateway into other great German bands of the era such as Can, Neu!, Cluster, Tangerine Dream, Ash Ra Temple & Amon Duul etc I felt so privileged to witness them live at the Empire Control Room in Austin last night. They were amazing! Big thanks to Jurgen Engler for sorting it & also introducing me to the band post inspired set!}}</ref><ref name="Robb" /> [[the Beatles]], [[the Rolling Stones]],<ref>{{cite book |author1=Ian Shirley |title=Dark Entries: Bauhaus and Beyond |date=1998 |publisher=SAF Publishing |isbn=9780946719136 |page=18}}</ref> [[the Who]],<ref>{{cite web |author1=Andrew Brooksbank |title=David J 'Missive To An Angel From The Halls Of Infamy And Desire' : album review |url=https://louderthanwar.com/david-j-missive-to-an-angel-from-the-halls-of-infamy-and-desire-album-review/ |website=Louder Than War |access-date=9 November 2020 |date=23 September 2019 |quote=In the opening sequence of the epic Mosaic, David eloquently pays a homage of sorts to John 'The Ox' Entwistle, the legendary Who bass player who passed away, amidst a fatal mix of groupie and white lines, in room 658 at The Hard Rock Hotel, Las Vegas in 2002. ...Entwistle's bass lines were a huge influence on the young Haskins, having witnessed The Who live at Charlton Athletic Football Ground back in 1976 with Brother Kevin and then bandmate Dave Exton…. "we exchanged a secret handshake on that day"}}</ref> [[Bob Dylan]],<ref name="Mister Moonlight" /> [[Tom Waits]],<ref name="Mister Moonlight" /> [[Serge Gainsbourg]],<ref name="Mister Moonlight" /> [[Lee Scratch Perry]],<ref name="Amorosi WXPN">{{cite web |author1=A.D. Amorosi |title=Undead, Undead: Bauhaus celebrates 40 years of sound, vision and vibe |url=https://thekey.xpn.org/2019/02/11/bauhaus-40-years/ |website=WXPN – The Key |publisher=WXPN |access-date=23 March 2022 |date=February 11, 2019 |quote=Mention to Haskins the dub reggae vibe of "Bela Lugosi's Dead," "She's in Parties," and elements of Bauhaus' first album ''In the Flat Fields'', and he perks up to his time in the 1970s as a teenager. "There was quite a big ska scene in England when we were growing up, and there are quite a lot of hit records in the charts such as "Liquidator," "Monkey Man" and "It Mek." So I think that we were we were all influenced by that. And when punk exploded there was just one club in London where Don Letts DJ'd. Because there were only a handful of punk records released, so he used to play a lot of dub reggae, and so that became part of the scene. We were already naturally into this type of music with Mikey Dread, King Tubby and Lee Scratch Perry being some of our favorites." }}{{Dead link|date=May 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> [[King Tubby]],<ref name="Amorosi WXPN" /> [[Mikey Dread]],<ref>{{cite web |author1=Jason Setnyk |title=Interview with Kevin Haskins – Poptone concert Sept 30th in Ottawa |url=https://theseeker.ca/2017/09/interview-kevin-haskins-poptone/ |website=The Cornwall Seeker |publisher=The Seeker Newspaper |access-date=23 March 2022 |date=September 29, 2017 |quote=Daniel Ash and Kevin Haskins started the post-punk gothic band Bauhaus in 1978. Their musical influences ranged from the Velvet Underground to Joy Division. "Our influences were the Velvet Underground, Roxy Music, Bowie, the Sex Pistols, the Clash, Mikey Dread, Lee Scratch Perry, the Beatles, the Stooges, Marc Bolan, Joy Division. The list goes on and on," Kevin Haskins stated. |archive-date=22 March 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220322013035/https://theseeker.ca/2017/09/interview-kevin-haskins-poptone/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> [[Kurt Weill]],<ref name="An Eclipse of Ships" /> [[Scott Walker (singer)|Scott Walker]],<ref>{{cite book |author1=David J. Haskins |title=Who Killed Mister Moonlight?: Bauhaus, Black Magick, and Benediction |date=2014 |publisher=Jawbone Press |isbn=9781908279675 |quote=Apart from the Trojan Records reggae roster, Daniel and I were into artists like Scott Walker and Jacques Brel, both of whom had been brought to our attention by Bowie, who spoke glowingly about them in interviews.}}</ref> and [[Jacques Brel]].<ref>{{cite book |first=Steve |last=Sutherland |title=Bauhaus ''Mask'' review |work=Melody Maker |publisher=17 October 1981}}</ref><ref name="Mister Moonlight" /> Specific recordings that were influential on the band include the compilation album [[Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era, 1965–1968|Nuggets]], [[Lou Reed]]'s albums [[Berlin (Lou Reed album)|Berlin]] and [[Transformer (Lou Reed album)|Transformer]],<ref name="Mister Moonlight" /> the [[Bits and Pieces (song)|Bits and Pieces]] single by [[the Dave Clark Five]] and the [[Double Barrel (song)|Double Barrel]] single by [[Dave and Ansell Collins]].{{sfn|Shirley|1994|pp=23–24}}<ref>{{cite book |author1=David J. Haskins |title=Who Killed Mister Moonlight?: Bauhaus, Black Magick, and Benediction |date=2014 |publisher=Jawbone Press |isbn=9781908279675 |quote=Another big record for us was Nuggets, Lenny Kaye's great compilation of 60s garage rock. These hard-to-find platters were like tablets from the mountain, and back in our candlelit teenage bedrooms we would pore over their grooves and bask in revelation.}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owpjJXPzNMw| archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211107/owpjJXPzNMw| archive-date=2021-11-07 | url-status=live|title=Interview with Poptone| date=2 June 2017|access-date=17 June 2021|publisher=[[YouTube]]}}{{cbignore}}</ref>

In terms of early influences from childhood, David J said that he was interested in [[Jazz music|jazz]] and its musicians such as [[Miles Davis]], [[Charlie Parker]] and [[Thelonious Monk]].<ref>{{cite web |author1=John Robb |title=David J (Bauhaus): The John Robb interview |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYOyvO2SSwc&t=1472 |website=YouTube |access-date=19 April 2021 |date=March 7, 2021}}</ref> He has also listed [[Television (band)|Television]]'s [[Marquee Moon]] as one of his all-time favorite albums.<ref>{{Cite instagram |user=davidjhaskins |postid=Cn-w5myJfDA |date=28 January 2023 |title=RIP Tom Verlaine. |access-date=12 February 2020}}</ref> Peter Murphy cited [[Doris Day]], [[Simon and Garfunkel]], the Beatles, [[the Everly Brothers]] and his experiences from [[Mass (liturgy)|Mass]] in Catholic school as highly influential to his singing.<ref>{{cite web |first=Mark |last=Rockpit |title=Interview: Peter Murphy (Bauhaus 40th Anniversary Tour Interview) |url=https://www.therockpit.net/2018/interview-peter-murphy-bauhaus-40th-anniversary-tour-interview/ |website=The Rockpit |access-date=30 March 2020 |date=October 4, 2018|quote=So I'd really been listening to music from being a baby, from 1st World War and 2nd World War songs through to Doris Day, then Simon and Garfunkel, Rolling Stones, The Beatles, to all the early Reggae stuff. It was a very musical family in terms of listening and singing, there was lots of music in the house and then in 1966 The Beatles explode and the radio is everywhere. Everywhere you go there's music but on reflection now what's happening is that there's just this generic mush everywhere, you know what I mean? ...But I love to listen to vocal harmonies so there's The Beatles and the Everly Brothers, and voices… Plus there was a very strong influence from Mass, you know the Catholic Mass at school where hymns were always really choral, and that was inspiring even from the first day when I was five. School itself was in this lovely little old building with this high ambient ceiling, a very 'reverb' place a where we sang '[[Ave Maria]]' with this Spanish Teacher who was so inspired to get us to sing. So all this was going on in my head and I didn't have any other context other than loving it, and I would sing all the time.}}</ref> He mentioned that the first 7-inch single he ever bought was "[[A Hard Day's Night (song)|A Hard Day's Night]]" by the Beatles<ref>{{cite web |author1=Post-Punk.Com |title=From the Mouth of a Lion: An Interview with Peter Murphy |url=https://post-punk.com/from-the-mouth-of-a-lion-an-interview-with-peter-murphy/ |website=Post-Punk.Com |access-date=1 January 2022 |date=May 30, 2014 |quote=Peter Murphy: I was the youngest in the family, and we ran the gamut from Doris Day to Second World War songs, through to Irish folk songs, and then from rockabilly to the Rolling Stones. The Beatles exploded when I was six or something, and that made England very happy. There was a resonance about them that had some joy in it, and we needed that. But I was only six. Then my brother, who was 18 months older, was into northern soul and reggae and stuff. The first 7" vinyl I bought when I was seven was "A Hard Day's Night."}}</ref> and also listed Brian Eno's [[Music for Airports]] as one of his favorite albums.<ref name="Echoes and Dust" /> Daniel Ash was interested in music at a young age, first being impressed by the stomping of the Dave Clark Five's "Bits and Pieces" song and later going through his older brother's music collection of records from the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, [[Faces (band)|Faces]] and [[the Kinks]].<ref>{{cite book |author1=Ian Shirley |title=Dark Entries: Bauhaus and Beyond |date=1998 |publisher=SAF Publishing |isbn=9780946719136 |page=15}}</ref> The first record he bought was Dave and Ansell Collins' "Double Barrel".<ref name="Dark Entries: Bauhaus and Beyond">{{cite book |author1=Ian Shirley |title=Dark Entries: Bauhaus and Beyond |date=1998 |publisher=SAF Publishing |isbn=9780946719136 |page=14}}</ref> When Ash was asked about how he developed his playing style and guitar influences, he replied: "My style of playing comes from a mixture of extreme laziness to learn proper scales/chords and a burning desire to sound original and new. Although I am a huge fan of [[Jimi Hendrix|Hendrix]] and [[Mick Ronson]], [[Robert Fripp]] on Bowie tracks is also fab, and what about [[Earl Slick]]!"<ref>{{cite web |author1=Greg Prato |title=Interview: Bauhaus' Daniel Ash On Guitar Style That Influenced Jane's Addiction & Soundgarden |url=https://www.alternativenation.net/bauhaus-daniel-ash-guitar-style-janes-addiction-and-soundgarden/ |website=Alternative Nation |publisher=Alternative Nation LLC. |access-date=9 November 2020 |date=9 May 2016}}</ref> Ash also mentioned his appreciation of bands such as [[the Only Ones]], [[The Damned (band)|the Damned]], [[Television (band)|Television]], [[Richard Hell and the Voidoids]] and said that the Stooges' ''[[Raw Power]]'' as one of his all-time favorite records.<ref name="John Robb">{{cite web |author1=John Robb |title=Daniel Ash : The John Robb interview |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=725&v=dgWMswg8NUM |website=YouTube |access-date=23 March 2022 |date=November 2, 2021}}</ref> Kevin Haskins at 14 years old went to see [[Led Zeppelin]] and the drummer's ([[John Bonham]]) drum solo impressed him and called it "amazing".<ref name="Trap" /> However at the same time, he was depressed as well due to feeling inadequate about his own musical abilities and never reaching the skill of Bonham. He even had thoughts of giving up music altogether.<ref name="Trap" /> However, the nascent punk scene and seeing bands such as the Sex Pistols and the Clash gave him the confidence he needed to pursue in music.<ref name=Trap>{{cite web |title=192: Kevin Haskins (Bauhaus, Tones on Tail, Love and Rockets, etc.) |url=https://www.thetrapset.net/192-kevin-haskins-bauhaus-tones-on-tail-love-and-rockets-etc/ |website=The Trap Set With Joe Wong |publisher=The Trap Set |access-date=30 October 2022}}</ref>

Around 1970, David J's was intrigued by the [[ska music]], [[Roots reggae]] and dub music coming out of Jamaica. He mentioned that reggae "...was the first music that I was seriously into."<ref name="Mister Moonlight" /> It was from this exposure from these musical styles that made David J choose a bass guitar instead of a lead guitar. David explained: "I loved [Dub]. It was so exciting because it was my first exposure to this other world really. Something subterranean, dark, sexually charged, violent and compelling. This dark music was played in these dark places and was just captivating. I realised very quickly that what was powerful about this sound was the bass. I recalled that when we got guitars, no-one wanted to be the bass player – we had various bands just a bunch of friends who wanted to play pop music and they all wanted to play lead guitar – so I went; 'Well, I'll play the bass'. I retained my six string guitar and just played the bottom four strings and just used to play along with the records and work out the bass lines. I just got into it and found it really satisfying and saved up and bought a bass guitar."<ref name="Dark Entries: Bauhaus and Beyond"/>

Given their mixture of reggae and [[punk rock]], Murphy said that musically, they were "more aligned to the Clash than anything else that was going around." When asked about the influence of reggae on Bauhaus' music, Murphy stated that it was "massive. We were listening to [[Toasting (Jamaican music)|toasting music]] all the time, and David brought in a lot of bass lines that were very lead riffs [...] those bass lines really formed the basis of the music"<ref>{{cite web |url=http://thequietus.com/articles/06637-peter-murphy-bauhaus-interview |title=Peter Murphy Bauhaus Interview|website=[[The Quietus]]|date=26 July 2011 |access-date=27 November 2015 |quote=Interviewer: "How big an influence was reggae on the development of Bauhaus's music?"<br /> Peter Murphy: "Massive. We were listening to toasting music all the time, and David brought in a lot of bass lines that were very lead riffs. You can see how those basslines really formed the basis of the music, especially on Mask. We were more aligned to The Clash than anything else that was going around. The Cure and those people really solidified what became goth, I suppose. We had no idea how to play reggae, but that was to our advantage because we expanded on that. It was successful on a very cult, underground level and that was very appropriate because our music was never going to be mainstream. It was seminal music. It was brilliant in its originality."}}"</ref><ref>{{cite web |author1=Matt Catchpole |title=Bela Lugosi's Read – Drummer Kevin Haskins' New Book Relives His Years With Goth Rockers Bauhaus |url=https://essentiallypop.com/epop/2018/04/bela-lugosis-read-drummer-kevin-haskins-new-book-relives-his-years-with-goth-rockers-bauhaus/ |website=Essentially Pop |access-date=26 December 2020 |date=August 4, 2018 |quote=Interviewer: "You attended one of the early Sex Pistols gigs – was that a '[[Road to Damascus]]' type moment?"<br /> Kevin Haskins: "To a certain degree, it definitely was a revelation. Several months before the Sex Pistols gig I went to see Led Zeppelin at a Earls Court, a huge venue in London. They were in their prime, and it was a marvellous rock show. John Bonham played a blistering half hour drum solo. I left the show with a mixture of elation and depression. I knew that I could never be as technically good as Bonham, and a feeling of dejection enveloped me! Fast forward to the 100 Club. I had just left high school, dressed in flared denims and long hair, and immediately felt very out of place amongst the punks who consisted of Siouxsie, [[Sue Catwoman]] and [[Sid Vicious]]. The Clash took to the stage and it was like being hit by an express train! Their style and sound blew me away, and I instantly thought, "I can do this!" – such a cliche. The Pistols followed and I was converted. The next day I went to the barbers and had my long locks cut short and took my pyjamas in to the garage and splattered them with emulsion paint, Jackson Pollock style. That show gave me the confidence to use what little chops I possessed to great effect."}}</ref> In particular, dub reggae was highly influential to the band, so far that David J mentioned that their signature song, "Bela Lugosi's Dead", was intended as dub.<ref name="louderthanwar.com"/><ref>{{cite web |author1=Scott Feemster |title=Peter Murphy – Biography |url=https://www.amoeba.com/peter-murphy/artist/139541/bio |website=Amoeba |publisher=Amoeba Music Inc. |access-date=30 March 2020 |quote=The group quickly arrived on a darkly driving post-punk sound that combined elements of glam rock, punk, dub, art-rock, heavy metal and the starkness of such other post-punk outfits as Joy Division and Public Image Limited.}}</ref><ref name="Mister Moonlight" /><ref>{{cite web |author1=Hans Morgenstern |title=Peter Murphy Talks Meth Arrest and 35 Years of Bauhaus: 'I Was Never a Punk' |url=https://www.miaminewtimes.com/music/peter-murphy-talks-meth-arrest-and-35-years-of-bauhaus-i-was-never-a-punk-6440117 |website=The Miami New Times |access-date=9 November 2020 |date=April 29, 2013 |quote=He can speak only for his influences, however, and notes the magic among the four souls of Bauhaus comes from an almost surreal level of trust among them. 'Once we got in [the studio], we were inspired by each other,' he says. 'We dropped everything. We left everything out. You don't walk in there with any baggage. You walk in with each other. You inspire each other, viscerally. You do it as you play, not with words. Less talking, more creating.'}}</ref><ref name=TVDinterview>{{cite web |first=Roger |last=Catlin |title=Kevin Haskins – The TVD Interview |url=http://www.thevinyldistrict.com/storefront/2016/10/kevin-haskins-the-tvd-interview/ |website=The Vinyl District |publisher=Mom and Pop Shop Media |access-date=9 September 2018 |date=31 October 2016 |quote=Our influences were many. The obvious ones were glam rock and punk rock, but when we were recording, when we finished each day, we'd usually record in a residential studio so we would all stay together at night time. So when we'd wind down, we'd always play either dub reggae or late Beatles, like ''[[Sgt. Pepper]]''. When I mention that to people they're kind of surprised. So we weren't listening to dark music, there were many influences.}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=40 Years of Bauhaus – An Interview with David J |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPrcW2vdLjQ |website=YouTube | date=October 2018 |publisher=Post-Punk.com |access-date=12 January 2021 |quote=David J: "We were very influenced by reggae, especially dub. I mean, basically "Bela [Lugosi's Dead]" was our interpretation of dub."}}</ref>

The band members Daniel, David and Kevin once attended a [[Rastafarian]] event that became quite influential to their music. As David explained: "At the time, Northampton had a large Rastafarian population, centred around the Matta Fancanta Youth Movement, which had its base at the old Salvation Army Citadel on the corner of Sheep Street, just across from Derngate Bus Station. It was run by Trevor Hall, whose uncle had started the famed Count Shelly sound system, which Trevor inherited. They would hold monthly events featuring two outfits competing against each other, spinning dub plates—instrumental tracks direct from Jamaica—and blasting them over the huge speakers while their respective 'toasters' took turns freestyling over the top. They would really go to town, painting up the entire place in the red, green, and gold of the Ethiopian flag and wearing suits and outsized hats to match, while the women would dye their hair. There were quotations from [[Haile Selassie]] all around the walls, and the air was thick with ganja smoke and the gamey aroma of goat's head soup. It was a true 'temporary autonomous zone', to quote the anarchist writer and poet [[Hakim Bey]], and the police would wisely keep their distance. Daniel, Kevin, and I would be the only white faces in the throng, but there was never any trouble—quite the opposite—and the amazing music that we heard in that place became a big influence on us, 'Bela Lugosi's Dead' being a good example."<ref name="Mister Moonlight" />

The band's other musical influences included various forms of [[rock music|rock]] ([[garage rock|garage]], [[glam rock|glam]], [[art rock|art]], [[electronic rock|electronic]], [[prog rock|prog]], [[Psychedelic rock|psychedelic]], [[Heavy metal music|heavy metal]], [[folk rock|folk]], [[experimental rock|experimental]], [[krautrock]]), as well as [[avant-garde music]], [[ambient music]], [[traditional pop]], [[disco]] and [[funk]].<ref>{{cite web |author1=Mark Rockpit |title=Interview: Peter Murphy (Bauhaus 40th Anniversary Tour Interview) |url=https://www.therockpit.net/2018/interview-peter-murphy-bauhaus-40th-anniversary-tour-interview/ |website=The Rockpit |access-date=30 March 2020 |date=4 October 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |first1=Stephen Thomas |last1=Erlewine |title=Bauhaus – Biography by Stephen Thomas Erlewine |url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/bauhaus-mn0000154998/biography |website=AllMusic |publisher=AllMusic, Netaktion LLC |access-date=23 December 2020 |quote=Bauhaus are the founding fathers of goth rock, creating a minimalistic, overbearingly gloomy style of post-punk rock driven by jagged guitar chords and cold, distant synthesizers. Throughout their brief career, the band explored all the variations on their bleak musical ideas, adding elements of glam rock, experimental electronic rock, funk, and heavy metal.}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |author1=Hans Morgenstern |title=Peter Murphy: "Bauhaus Was the Seminal Moment in That Time; Joy Division Was Not" |url=https://www.miaminewtimes.com/music/peter-murphy-bauhaus-was-the-seminal-moment-in-that-time-joy-division-was-not-6454262 |website=Miami New Times |publisher=The Miami New Times |access-date=27 February 2021 |date=April 30, 2013 |quote=At the time, despite pulling from influences as diverse as ambient music, Krautrock, prog, and glam rock, Bauhaus was lumped in with all the other DIY music culture out of England: punk rock.}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=The Bubbleman Cometh: An Interview with Daniel Ash |url=https://post-punk.com/the-bubbleman-cometh-an-interview-with-daniel-ash/ |website=Post-Punk.com |access-date=9 November 2020 |date=2 July 2014 |quote=Post-Punk: What did you listen to when you were growing up? DA: What really got me obsessed with music was a strict diet of early Bowie, T.Rex, Lou Reed, Iggy Pop and nothing else. Peter and myself grew up in the same school, we knew each other from about twelve years old and were really crazy about those bands I just mentioned. Particularly Bowie and Roxy Music as well. That whole glam thing from the early 70s. There's a film called Velvet Goldmine which you've probably heard of. That pretty much summed up our youth at that school. I thought that was pretty accurate, that film. Before that, when I was really young, I used to see stuff about The Beatles and The Dave Clark Five. That was another one. I was fascinated by the drum sound that that guy would get in the Dave Clark Five because there was all this echo. A massive drum sound. Apparently my mum told me my face used to be about four inches away from the TV screen with the volume up full, listening to the Dave Clark Five's "Bits and Pieces." So I suppose that was the first thing that really got me interested in music from about eight or so.}}</ref><ref name="Mister Moonlight">{{cite book |author1=David J. Haskins |title=Who Killed Mister Moonlight?: Bauhaus, Black Magick, and Benediction |date=2014 |publisher=Jawbone Press |isbn=9781908279675}}</ref><ref name="Haskins, Krautrock" /> Outside of music, Bauhaus's influences were often artistic and literary and included [[William S. Burroughs]],<ref name=Radford>{{cite web |author1=Chad Radford |title=Bauhaus Bassist David J Plays The World Famous Tuesday |url=https://flagpole.com/music/homedrone/2016/09/16/bauhaus-bassist-david-j-plays-the-world-famous-tuesday/ |website=Flagpole |publisher=Flagpole Magazine |access-date=23 December 2020 |date=16 September 2016 |quote=In the beginning, he [David J] sculpted haunting, lo-fi moods steeped in post-punk cadences and lyrics written using William S. Burroughs' cut-up technique – randomly selecting words and placing them together. 'It introduces the element of chance which makes for certain juxtapositions of words and lines which you could never come up with in any other way,' he says.}}</ref> [[Brion Gysin]], [[Allen Ginsberg]], [[Jack Kerouac]],<ref name=Kerouac>{{cite book |author1=David J. Haskins |title=Who Killed Mister Moonlight?: Bauhaus, Black Magick, and Benediction |date=2014 |publisher=Jawbone Press |isbn=9781908279675 |quote= The atmosphere for the rest of the trip was dark and heavy. I buried my nose in a book: ''Satori in Paris'' by Jack Kerouac. 'Satori' is a concept in Zen Buddhism that describes a moment of sudden spiritual illumination. In his book, Kerouac applies this to his own ecstatic experience in the French capital, describing the revelation as the 'kick in the eye'. This phrase would inspire the title of our next single, and the funk-driven track would point the way to the next evolutionary stage of the band.}}</ref> [[Bertolt Brecht]],<ref name="An Eclipse of Ships" /> [[Arthur Rimbaud]],<ref name="Mister Moonlight" /> [[Charles Baudelaire]], [[Comte de Lautréamont]],<ref>{{cite book |author1=David J. Haskins |title=Who Killed Mister Moonlight?: Bauhaus, Black Magick, and Benediction |date=2014 |publisher=Jawbone Press |isbn=9781908279675 |quote=Presiding over the madness that ensued was the spirit of the nineteenth century symbolist poète maudit Isidore Ducasse, aka le Comte de Lautréamont. Peter and I had been consumed by his brilliant prose poems, which told of fantastic savage acts and a desire for burning transcendence at any cost. (We were both twenty-four years old, after all.) On the inner runoff tracks of the vinyl copy of the album is a punning riddle. 'When is a door not a door?' Flip it over to read the answer: 'When it's Ducasse!' We were held in thrall to the evil comte throughout the sessions, and one time he had us getting drunk on whisky in the wee small hours, which inspired us to rouse the understandably grumpy assistant engineer, Ted Sharp, so that the three of us could all traipse down the hill to the studio to record 'The Three Shadows, Part III', which featured Murphy sawing away on a cello and me on a violin—neither of which were instruments we could play. Ducasse also had us smoking copious amounts of opiated black tar hashish and drinking champagne at all hours so as to induce a Rimbaudian systematic derangement of the senses.}}</ref> [[Jean Cocteau]], [[André Breton]], [[Surrealism]],<ref name="Mister Moonlight" /> [[German Expressionism]], [[Greek Mythology]],<ref>{{cite book |author1=David J. Haskins |title=Who Killed Mister Moonlight?: Bauhaus, Black Magick, and Benediction |date=2014 |publisher=Jawbone Press |isbn=9781908279675 |quote=The album's title track was a sprawling epic inspired- if that's the word- by the quotidian mundaneness of life in Northampton, and the desire to escape that 'flat' existence. Peter's interesting lyric drew on Greek mythology, referencing Theseus and the labyrinth, but there was another mythic figure with whom we would soon feel an affinity: the androgynous god of wine, excess, and ecstatic madness, Dionysus.}}</ref> [[Ingmar Bergman]],<ref name="Mister Moonlight" /> [[David Lynch]], [[Oscar Wilde]],<ref>{{cite book |author1=David J. Haskins |title=Who Killed Mister Moonlight?: Bauhaus, Black Magick, and Benediction |date=2014 |publisher=Jawbone Press |isbn=9781908279675|quote=Bauhaus was always much enamoured of the glorious style of Mr Oscar Wilde, and the spirit of this perennial hero still resides over today's reincarnation.}}</ref> [[Franz Kafka]]<ref name="Mister Moonlight" /> and [[Antonin Artaud]].<ref name="Mister Moonlight" /> In regards to the influence of the original Bauhaus movement on the band, Murphy stated that "Bauhaus had no influence on Bauhaus (the band) except for being the sound, shape, energetic, and sensory birth name of our group."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.petermurphy.info/post/177657999317/something-from-peter-on-the-influence-of-the |title=Something from Peter on the influence of the original Bauhaus movement on the band Bauhaus |website=Peter Murphy |access-date=8 September 2018 |date=1 September 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180909073557/http://www.petermurphy.info/post/177657999317/something-from-peter-on-the-influence-of-the |archive-date=9 September 2018 |url-status=live }}</ref>