Editing Bauhaus (band) (section)

=== Post-Bauhaus careers and solo projects ===
[[File:Peter Murphy London February 3 2006 looking up.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Vocalist [[Peter Murphy (musician)|Peter Murphy]]]]

During the band's initial lifecycle, solo projects would be initiated at times. In 1981, while still a member of Bauhaus, David J started a solo project with Rene Halkett, an original student of the [[Bauhaus]] art school.{{sfn|Shirley|1994|p=109}} This correspondence came about due to Halkett's younger neighbor telling him of hearing about a group called Bauhaus on the John Peel Show on BBC radio.<ref>{{cite journal |author1=NME |title=NME Magazine 21 November 1981 |journal=New Musical Express |date=November 21, 1981 |issn=0028-6362}}</ref> This intrigued Halkett and he soon wrote to Peel about getting in touch with the band. They eventually met, discussed poetry and decided to send David a cassette tape that contained Halkett reciting two of his poems, in hopes of enticing David to collaborate with him. After listening intensely to the tape, David decided to go to a recording studio where he created backing music for the tape. This collaboration resulted in a single called "Armour/Nothing" which was released by 4AD. According to David J regarding the correspondence, "He wrote to John Peel when he was playing Bauhaus' first record, 'Bela Lugosi's Dead', and Rene was then in his 70s and was an avid listener to John Peel's show. He heard this and was intrigued that this band of young upstarts had usurped the name Bauhaus and he wrote to John Peel asking for more information. Peel sent me the letter and I was just amazed to be in contact with somebody from that time, so I wrote to Rene and we struck up this correspondence and in the end would meet up and I'd go down and visit him in his little cottage in Cornwall. We ended up making a record together, which was his poetry that I put to music. It was one of the first releases on 4AD. I would just go down and he would enthrall me with these stories of him appearing in these cabaret clubs in Weimar and dancing on the piano and letting off revolvers in the club and this whole sort of barbarous cabaret scene that he was intrinsically involved in. He met [[Bertolt Brecht]] and people like that, the surrealists came through and his teachers were [[Wassily Kandinsky|Kandinsky]] and it was just amazing to have a friend from that time so that gave me a real insight, to actually be communicating with somebody that was there."<ref name="An Eclipse of Ships">{{cite web |author1=Post-Punk.Com |title=New David J album "An Eclipse of Ships" Plus Interview |url=https://post-punk.com/new-david-j-album-an-eclipse-of-ships-plus-interview/ |website=Post-Punk.Com |access-date=29 October 2022 |date=May 14, 2014}}</ref> Halkett commented on his contribution to the single: "I felt that the two poems required something more than print because they depend on things which can only be expressed in musical signs... It (the single) falls between music and poetry and is not entirely either. With "Nothing", David has written a perfect arrangement for what is a quite concentrated philosophical idea and it becomes so much more than the words..."{{sfn|Shirley|1994|p=110}}

After Bauhaus disbanded, the members of the band began solo work. Murphy worked briefly with bassist [[Mick Karn]] of [[Japan (band)|Japan]] in the band [[Dalis Car]] before embarking on a solo career with albums such as ''[[Should the World Fail to Fall Apart]]'' (1986), ''[[Love Hysteria]]'' (1988) and ''[[Deep (Peter Murphy album)|Deep]]'' (1989). Ash had already started Tones on Tail with Bauhaus roadie Glen Campling as a side project in 1982. After Bauhaus disbanded, Kevin Haskins joined the group and the trio released an album and several EPs but disbanded after a 1984 American tour.<ref name="RS">{{cite magazine |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/artists/bauhaus/biography |title=Bauhaus |magazine=[[Rolling Stone]] |access-date=24 February 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120810165028/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/artists/bauhaus/biography |archive-date=10 August 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref> During this time, David J released two solo albums and collaborated with other musicians, recording two albums with [[the Jazz Butcher]], and also with comics writer/spoken-word artist [[Alan Moore]] in the short-lived band the Sinister Ducks.{{citation needed|date=January 2021}}

The former members of Bauhaus planned to reform and arranged a rehearsal, but Murphy failed to appear on the scheduled day. However, the other three band members rehearsed and were inspired by the chemistry that they developed as a trio, leading to the formation of [[Love and Rockets (band)|Love and Rockets]] in 1985.{{sfn|Shirley|1994|pp=113–14}} Love and Rockets released several highly acclaimed albums and penetrated the American charts with "[[So Alive (Love and Rockets song)|So Alive]]" in 1989.<ref name="Novak Harrell 2020 x975">{{cite web | last1=Novak | first1=Jim | last2=Harrell | first2=Phil | title=Love And Rockets' Psychedelic Train Ride Laid The Foundation For Alt-Rock | website=NPR | date=March 18, 2020 | url=https://www.npr.org/transcripts/817164202 | access-date=February 1, 2024}}</ref> The band dissolved in 1999, briefly reunited for a festival tour in 2009 and then reunited in 2023.<ref name="Pehling 2023 v034">{{cite web | last=Pehling | first=Dave | title=Reunited modern-rockers Love and Rockets headline the Fox in Oakland | website=CBS San Francisco | date=May 18, 2023 | url=https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/love-and-rockets-reunited-modern-rock-icons-fox-theater-oakland/ | access-date=February 1, 2024}}</ref> Both Ash and David J released solo albums during the Love and Rockets years, and Murphy contributed backing vocals to David J's 1992 single "Candy on the Cross".{{citation needed|date=January 2021}}