Bauhaus co-founders Peter Murphy and David J Haskins are set to celebrate the band’s 40th Anniversary with a “Ruby Celebration” tour, named after the gemstone issued for 40 year wedding anniversaries.
The tour sees the two as half of the quartet in the group hailed as The Godfathers of Goth playing their debut album In The Flat Field in its entirety, as well as promising an extended encore of Bauhaus classics during dates scheduled this autumn across Europe and Australia.
The tour follows an appearance by the duo of Murphy and Haskins performing the music of Bauhaus in Mexico this past April, that the pair will follow up with an appearance at the W-Festival in Belgium next month.
Meanwhile, the other two members of Bauhaus, Daniel Ash, and Kevin Haskins, have just finished another round of touring as their new band Poptone, also recently releasing a live album recently featuring tracks culled from the live catalog of Bauhaus, Love and Rockets, and Tones On Tail.
Additionally—according to a press release issued by Bauhaus frontman Peter Murphy, we can expect later this year “a series of coloured vinyl Bauhaus reissues” to celebrate the band’s “Ruby” Anniversary.
A special edition of “Bela” in a red velvet inner sleeve perhaps?
See Bauhaus “Ruby Celebration” dates below:
- Oct. 18 – Wellington NZ@ San Fran
- Oct 19 – Christchurch @ NZ@ Foundry
- Oct 20 – Auckland AU @ Powerstation
- Oct 22 – Adelaide AU @ Governor Hindmarsh
- Oct 25 – Brisbane AU @ The Zoo
- Oct 26 – Melbourne AU @ Max Watts
- Oct 27 – Sydney AU @ The Factory
- Oct 28 – Perth AU @ The Capitol Theatre
- Nov 6 – St Petersburg RS @ Aurora Hall
- Nov 7 – Moscow RS @ Glavclub
- Nov 9 – Belgrade RS @ Dom Omladine Beograda
- Nov 10 – Frankfurt DE @ Das Bett
- Nov 12 – Zurich CH @ Mascotte
- Nov 14 – Paris FR @ Bataclan
- Nov 18 – Madrid ES @ La Riviera
- Nov 19 – Barcelona ES @ Razzmataz
- Nov 21 – Rome IT @ Orion Live Club
- Nov 22 – Milan IT @ Fabrique
- Nov 23 – Munich DE @ Ampere
- Nov 24 – Bochum DE @ Christuskirche
- Nov 26 – Wroclaw POL @ A2
- Nov 27 – Berlin DE @ Columbia Theater
- Nov 28 – Hamburg DE @ Knust
- Dec 4 – Manchester UK @ O2 Ritz
- Dec 5 – Glasgow UK @ SWG3
- Dec 6 – Northampton UK @ Roadmender
- Dec 8 – Leeds UK @ Leeds Beckett SU
- Dec 9 – London UK @ O2 Forum Kentish Town
- Dec 11 – Copenhagen DK @ Store Vega
- Dec 12 – Stockholm SW @ Nalen
- Dec 14 – Athens GR @ Gazi Music Hall
- Dec 15 – Thessaloniki GR @ Principal Club Theater
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