Peter Murphy solo: Search & Destroy

the passion of lovers is for meth

"xpost yeah for me it was more seeing that he was living in Turkey, like oh well of course he had meth, lol"

isn't turkey incredibly restrictive on drugs? it seems more obvious he'd have meth being in LA than Turkey.

leave me to my fantasy land

isn't turkey incredibly restrictive on drugs? it seems more obvious he'd have meth being in LA than Turkey.

Yeah, which one of you jokers hasn't seen Midnight Express?

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2013/03/bauhaus-singer-peter-murphy-pleads-not-guilty-to-dui-charges.html

Bauhaus singer Peter Murphy pleads not guilty to DUI charges

March 19, 2013 | 4:15 pm

Bauhaus lead singer Peter Murphy pleaded not guilty Tuesday to charges that he allegedly rear-ended a vehicle in Glendale and fled to Los Angeles, where an eyewitness blocked his Subaru until police arrived.

Murphy, 55 — who did not appear in a Los Angeles County Superior Court on Tuesday — entered his plea via his attorney, Robert Wilson. Murphy is charged with three misdemeanor counts of driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol, hit-and-run driving and possessing methamphetmine, according to a Los Angeles County Superior Court criminal complaint.

Murphy is best known for his lead vocals with the group Bauhaus, which recorded four albums and ignited the Goth rock movement.

Judge Frederick Rotenberg allowed Murphy to be released on his own recognizance despite concern from the prosecution that the British native — who has a residence in Turkey — may be a flight risk, the Glendale News-Press reported.

Rotenberg did bar Murphy from driving a vehicle “anywhere” and under “any condition” without the court’s permission.

Wilson declined to comment on his client’s case, but said Murphy plans to go on tour.

“We are going to take care of business,” Wilson said.

Murphy is scheduled to kick off his North American and European tour April 22 in San Antonio.

Rotenberg said that keeping Murphy in custody would have disrupted commitments to numerous venues nationwide.

Murphy found himself in hot water Saturday when he allegedly struck a Mercedes about 11:48 a.m. in Glendale. Police say he then drove off in his Subaru Forester and got onto the 134 Freeway.

The driver of the Mercedes was able to write down Murphy’s license plate number before Glendale fire personnel hauled her away on a gurney, police said.

Meanwhile, the driver of a pickup truck who reportedly witnessed the crash followed Murphy to Los Angeles, where he pulled in front of him, blocked his Subaru and called Glendale police.

Glendale officers said Murphy appeared to be “very confused” at points and had difficulty recalling the day and time.

Murphy denied drinking alcohol that day, adding that he had taken only his regular prescription pills for depression, according to police.

He reportedly admitted to being involved in a traffic collision, telling officers he was jet-lagged from a recent flight, but he disputed that he had fled the scene, police said.

Inside the Los Angeles police patrol car where Murphy had been detained, officers reported finding a small plastic bag, possibly of methamphetamine, police said.

Murphy denied the bag belonged to him, but officers said they believed he was trying to discard it in the patrol car.

At the time, his bail was set at $500,000 because officers considered him a flight risk.

On Tuesday, fans who had hoped to catch a glimpse of the Goth rocker were disappointed when he didn’t make an appearance in court.

Among them was 42-year-old Charity Rosales of Rowland Heights, a fan of Murphy’s since the 1980s who described his music as “so different than the mainstream.”

Best known for its greatest hit “Bela Lugosi's Dead,” Bauhaus broke up in 1983, after which Murphy helped form Dalis Car and went on to record several solo albums.

Murphy plans to perform Bauhaus songs during his Mr. Moonlight tour and in celebration of the band’s 35th anniversary.

He is scheduled to return to court May 17 for a pretrial hearing.

never ever drive drunk in glendale
i mean never drive drunk, but never ever drive drunk in glendale

^^ Steely Dan lyric

Haha!

Hey, we got new album stream:

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/the-batman-cometh-peter-murphy-returns-with-goth-epic-lion-20140529

EPIC GOTH LION

It IS actually a pretty goddamn huge sounding album, it's like he's done his arena rock album.

Tempted to get this. And maybe judging by iTunes snippets I should also get the last one

lets just hope this was a home studio recording ...

Well THIS is a thing:

http://consequenceofsound.net/2017/03/peter-murphy-announces-career-spanning-residency-in-san-francisco/

And as I live about nine blocks away why yes I'm tempted. Thinking about shows for the first two albums and for Cascade -- saw tours for all the other albums as they happened.

Crazy. i actually saw the first four tours. All great.

So anyway Mr. M got throat nodules that necessitated postponing the series but it's still on, bumped now to January and February -- and now this is happening:

http://www.post-punk.com/david-j-haskins-and-peter-murphy-are-set-to-reunite-to-perform-bauhaus-songs-together-for-the-first-time-in-over-a-decade/

Of all the intertangled relationships between the core four, theirs might be the weirdest.

hey if anyone wants to take me to see david j and peter i'd totally be cool with that

Thread doesn't seem to mention his public spat with Brendan Perry a few years ago. That was a rum business.

dude is a tweeker

That last date on Feb. 16th now on sale, etc. etc.

https://www.ticketfly.com/purchase/event/1566603?_ga=2.6374256.394529212.1506017960-2075249563.1506017960&__utma=1.2075249563.1506017960.1506017960.1506017960.1&__utmb=1.1.10.1506017960&__utmc=1&__utmx=-&__utmz=1.1506017960.1.1.utmcsr&__utmv=-&__utmk=171254560

And Kurt's request makes sense given the tickets start at, well, $65.

i caved

Seeya there!

Okay so the residency is finally kicking in this week -- of course there had to be a further slight delay (visa issue exacerbated by, you guessed it, the government shutdown!) so it's starting on Friday but hey, it's finally almost here.

So I wrote about it. By talking with him:

https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/2018/01/22/peter-murphy-godfather-of-goth-is-here-to-haunt-the-chapel/

how many are you going to?

Seven so far. Maybe a couple more.

(I'm only doing 2; next Tuesday, Deep/Love Hysteria, and then one of the Bauhaus shows with David J on the 15th)

i'll be at deep on the 31st and David J on the 16th say hi!

Yeah I'll be at the shows on the 31st and 16th for sure. Everything was supposed to kick off tomorrow but that show is now rescheduled for the 1st.

Peter Murphy resurrects Bauhaus, says Bowie needed to ‘bugger off’

Gosh. Well then ... there's someone I used to admire being a stupid prick in old age. Dude was never fit to lick Bowie's shoes anyway.

"Blackstar" alone blows away Murphy's entire solo career so there's the rub.

I am sure some of that had to be waspishness about being asked about Bowie once more, which, well, if he doesn't get why that's the case by now... (And yeah, a rather hard judgment on Blackstar so hm.)

FWIW, I asked him a more general question about mortality given the passing of both Bowie and Prince, the latter of whom I knew he was a big fan of, and got this as an answer, which I enjoyed but couldn't find a way to put into my piece:

How do I feel about mortality? One, I haven't come close to dying since 1981, when I had lung viral pneumonia. And two, when you're this age, of course, there is a more honed sense of what one should always live with, mortality. We all know the cliché, "We would go at any time," and that's true with everything else. But I've never felt a sense of taking it for granted, and I feel, still — even more so, now, even with the time that's gone by for myself, and especially next year for Bauhaus, because it will be the 40-year anniversary, which is unbelievable — that there's a jumping jack full of potent creative opportunities. That's a real privilege, to still have them. But I've taken that for granted, but I've one, created that existence for myself, and two, it's also — on the other hand — something that's there, and it's not something that is free of charge, it's what one's earned, as it were. The potential loss of my voice was nigh on equal to basically the death of my career, or my physical death. So that's always going to be there. Personally, I've got some ideas for next year, separate to what I've got running anyway, which I'm going to do. I've got A plans and B plans. But we'll see. I don't want to talk about that right now. But yeah, in 10 years I'm going to be 70. What the fuck for? Anyway.

Anyway reviving because there's been a bit of running drama all week if he can even make it over here due to, quoting a quote from the venue's folks, a "random administrative processing" delay. The initial shows from Tuesday and Wednesday were rescheduled to next week -- just got news of that in time to adjust my original piece before it ran -- and now there's a chance tomorrow's show may face a similar fate? Odd.

oy vay more scheduling trouble smh! also 60 yr old meth user hasn't come close to dying since 1981 lol

Well you know vampires. It's like Twilight predicted!

I thought he lived in LA?

anyway I wouldn't mind if next week's show got delayed to another week as I have things piling up.

No he's lived in Turkey for years and years now, last I checked. (Though when I interviewed him I think he was in the UK.)

I thought he got in some meth accident in LA the other year but maybe he was just visiting. or maybe that was a really long time ago

Delays delays...

https://www.instagram.com/p/BecCzWVnTM8/

petermurphyofficialSF RESIDENCY UPDATE: After an unforeseen and unanticipated delay, Peter is nearing the top of the visa application list at the US Consulate. Due to a brief diplomatic spat last year between the US and Turkey resulting in a temporary mutual ban on visa issuances to each country, a backlog of Turkish applicants has seen Peter's own caught up in the pile. Despite the best efforts of the entire team working on these shows, as of today, Saturday’s Love Hysteria show is being moved to a later slot within the residency dates. So Peter is waiting to get his visa approval in Istanbul and to fly as soon as his visa is in hand, and his full band and crew are all in San Francisco. They are all ready and primed to start the residency, and will probably play the first show at triple speed due to letting out the tension and excitement to finally be playing these shows for all of you. Once Peter Murphy is in the building twill be announced. He’ll most likely fly, and after 18 hrs in the air, land running and on stage that night.(He’s telling us to tell you he can’t wait)

So basically the first show will be next Tuesday and what was four weeks of shows spread out is being rapidly concentrated into two and a half weeks of them at this point. I mean, fine enough, but this is going to be a rollercoaster.

i'm half hoping tuesday gets delayed because it's really inconvenient for me now; obv I'm going if it doesn't but if it were moved to the end of the month I wouldn't complain.

Well, lucky you, it got delayed! I hear that shows on the 12th now.

This is all turning kinda crazy in that he'll barely have a break between Wednesday -- assuming Wednesday happens -- and the 16th, when this all wraps up. He'll literally only have Monday the 5th and Tuesday the 13th off due to preexisting shows...which means that there are no more spare days to fill up the schedule, he'll either have to project ahead after the 16th somehow or just flat out cancel some shows.

Put on some matinees.

You know...

(So far no news today, which theoretically means tomorrow is on...but we'll see.)

And, of course:

Due to the unforeseen governmental delay in the processing of Peter’s visa application, Wednesday January 31st's performance of "Deep" will unfortunately be rescheduled to Monday, February 19th.

This is a situation we are taking very seriously, as it also has extremely severe implications for our business and staff, and want to make sure that we keep our customers informed and aware by being as transparent as possible. Peter's visa is still held up in a "random administrative processing" procedure with the government, which is rare, and we are seeking information literally minute by minute and throwing everything we can behind speeding this process up.

All tickets purchased for the 1/30 show will transfer to this new date - so there is no action necessary on your part, you can simply check in with your original ticket on 2/19. Full refunds will be granted if you are unable to make the new date, and if you prefer to attend a different date we will happily work to accommodate your request (where show capacity allows).

If you cannot attend this new date and would like a refund, you can contact Ticketfly directly and they will issue it asap. You can either email them at customersupp✧✧✧@ticket✧✧✧.c✧✧ or call at 877-987-6487 (if you have time, calling might be a bit quicker).

We are monitoring this situation constantly (and have been since we learned this news), and will keep you up to date the second we receive any kind of confirmation. Our ticket holders are our number one priority, and as such our staff has been working tirelessly to keep fans informed and up to date, scheduling last minute DJ nights at the venue, and corresponding personally with hundreds of disappointed fans to help accommodate each individual request.

So basically the 'last show' being a Bauhaus one...no longer applies. And looks like they'll keep rolling it forward from there?

what a pain in the ass this is for the booker(s) at the chapel