Peter Murphy solo: Search & Destroy

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).

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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

I've no doubt.

The weird irony here is that if (and I will add at this point, 'if') this Thursday's show goes as planned, that'll be...the original show at the start of the run that was first postponed, starting this whole shuffle off.

I wonder how long they're going to continue to push these off before they say hey, this isn't happening. the chapel can't afford to do this forever.

Rather.

Annnd tomorrow night's show postponed to a late show on the 19th.

This is gonna end with him doing one 24 hour long show.

Wisely (I feel), they've decided to avoid the steady day-by-day drip and just postpone the next few upcoming shows en masse (all the more helpful if he gets the go-ahead early and can fly out here to get over jet lag). As you can see on the calendar -- https://www.thechapelsf.com/calendar/ -- he's now packing in all the shows over two weeks starting next Tuesday, including double shows on a number of nights, and the original planned chronological order is long since out of the window. Oddly enough I think that'll add some unexpected energy to all this, though I suspect all involved would have been fine without that.

And obviously this is still all a crazy situation to start with. That said, Paul Chalker at the Chapel did say this in his mailout last night: "If there's one thing we've learned from this entire situation is just how amazing Peter Murphy fans are. Thank you so much for all your understanding, and know that we are working around the clock and throwing everything we have at this to speed the process up and keep everyone up to date." And he mentioned that directly to me as well, so it's nice to see positive vibes given how nuts it all is.

But I'll add that if this drags out further it's hard for me to see how this will work unless they double stack more shows. After the 19th, the Chapel is booked solid by other acts for the next six days. And as it stands he'll first perform for seven straight days, one which is a double show, then a day break, then four days ending on another double show, another day break, then one final double show. Admittedly I've seen as crazy tour schedules, though often with younger performers, and his big advantage, of course, is that he doesn't have to go anywhere, as well as his crew only having to fully breakdown and reset a couple of times. However this shakes out, it's going to be a rollercoaster. (And given I'm going to be at seven nights out of twelve of these performances as it stands, I may be looking a little bleary myself at the end of it. At least I'll have more nights off in comparison!)

It won't end!

Mail just sent out, edited:

As you all know already, there has been an unforeseen, incredibly unfortunate delay in the processing of Peter's visa application. Due to this delay, Tuesday February 6th's performance of "Love Hysteria" will unfortunately be rescheduled to Monday, February 26th. The doors for this show will open at 6pm, with the show starting at 7pm....

We appreciate that the nature of moving these shows in the manner that has occurred is extremely frustrating for everyone concerned. Please bear in mind that we are in a situation where the information we are having to work with is unbelievably difficult to obtain, and is largely without precedent. Everything we have done at The Chapel in relation to the news as we've been receiving it has been with the ticket holders in mind first and foremost, and are working hard on an announcement for later today that will address the remainder of the residency dates. Please bear with us for this announcement, we truly appreciate your patience.

The end of that sure signals that we're probably seeing a mass rescheduling of some sort, but guess we'll find out.

damn that would kind of suck, I was starting to get excited about these shows

Third time's the charm?

https://www.facebook.com/petermurphyinfo/posts/1537850969614130

To all good people having planned to attend the SF Residency:

The entire residency is now being moved to a June/July period, the details of wbich are being finalized as we speak.
Look out for the official detailed post that will be released shortly.
Love to all and everything,
Peter

Did those concerts in SF ever work out?

Anyway Amazon had the new 5 Albums thing on sale so I snagged a copy, it's a very nicely designed book with his first five albums on CD, including some bonus tracks appended to each (about 20). Mastering is decent, louder of course but by no means brickwalled. Glad I bought because I only have Deep!

I've been listening to Love Hysteria and Holy Smoke, and I think they've aged really well. All Night Long is such a classic!

"Love Hysteria" is such a wonderful, hypnotic album with a perfect flow and great percussion. By far my favorite thing he's done.

Yeah his visa finally came through and the shows are on for March.

I stopped following Peter Murphy in 1992 solely because I was really put off by the artwork and title of Holy Smoke. I still am, but the thread revive inspired me to listen to it this morning -- much better than I expected! Looking forward to checking out the rest of what I've missed since then.

I stopped following Peter Murphy in 1992 solely because I was really put off by the artwork and title of Holy Smoke. I still am

love this

it's hardly the worst of his artwork. it is however the last album of his I really loved.

Me too.

Rejecter, what was so off-putting about the artwork?

it looks like a Shane MacGowan solo live album

hahaha you're right

Ha, yes, that's a perfect description!

It was the combination of the title, letterforms, and facial expression that just made it feel very joke-y to me. The tone suggested a level of humor that I wasn't looking for from Peter Murphy. Happy to finally hear that I was wrong about the album though.

wow, otm

Also, I discovered Eno a year after buying Holy Smoke and, holy smoke, he steals outright the sampled crickets from "The Great Pretender" for "Let Me Love You."

Hey, Bauhaus covered “Third Uncle,” they knew their Eno.

uh

https://louderthanwar.com/peter-murphy-thrown-gig-sweden-former-bauhaus-singer-bizarre-incident/

“Fuck you, you fucking Swedish,” the Northampton-born singer is heard shouting.

“Don’t fucking touch me.”

closer up footage here - https://www.aftonbladet.se/nojesbladet/a/Mge5aK/rockstjarna-utkastad-fran-nalen--efter-kaosscener?fbclid=IwAR1Lqblxb602colUYx5cDa-6Xga_tPd9IigC0o-_prmwbbWizj1PyXUZ8rw

he was on top form, funny and playful in glasgow last week. i did momentarily think it was too good to be true / to last.

Sad to see/read.

Isn't it “Fuck you, you fucking Swedish cunt,”? WTF anyway has he got a troublesome reputation these days?

he did a hit and run and was caught with meth in his car by american police somewhere in california about 5 years ago if memory serves (i went to see him in concert a year or so after and while he seemed a little on edge and certainly not comfortable he didn't seem to be charging or strung out either)

I went to the site with the video and translated it and this came up...

http://scontent.fphl2-4.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/48355850_10161234462010597_3422558261637808128_n.jpg?_nc_cat=108&_nc_eui2=AeERBUraxrw8FB9NB7x9gDbQjPgVZii-gJQLID9O3QFoniJYbqygXckphvGuAnFEZJ5bg94cfmlOSaq8AOoK-e3zmQHbOUwyvGiMdtHzQvHjUw&_nc_ht=scontent.fphl2-4.fna&oh=dacba7d4209d4799ee81201915d20b5e&oe=5C9861A1

lool!

is "wrecked by guards" from the lyrics to in the flat field or dark entries?

So.

He's been in the country, the American tour's been going great, fine.

The SF residency was supposed to start tonight after all the postponements.

I go to the venue (thankfully just six blocks away), get a beer, note the merch booth, all the instruments are set up on stage, great.

I wait. Opening band's still not on after almost an hour from their own stated start time, weird.

There's an announcement from the stage!

Peter is at an airport in LA, apparently stuck there, and so no show tonight because he'll be coming in very late. So we all can get refunds and the show might be rescheduled.

So in other words, the residency is now due to start on Friday, and I am now totally convinced he'll step out on stage and either immediately lose his voice or else suffer a strange accident.

i saw him last Thursday...just a little bit more here:

We POLL Our Audience: You, The Night and The Music - BAUHAUS - Love and Rockets, Tones on Tail, Peter Murphy etcetera - ILM artist poll number 73 - results thread

Fuuuuck. who the fuck is Peter's tour manager? because whoever it is sucks. Certainly he should have flown in the day before; no doubt flights were delayed/fucked up due to the storm last night.

Not going until next Thursday (and then the following week) so I hope he's firmly ensconced in SF by then and not doing day trips back to LA for some fucking reason.

some more details, with ned cameo:
https://datebook.sfchronicle.com/music/peter-murphy-misses-concert-postponing-monthlong-san-francisco-residency-for-the-fourth-time

Statement from the Chapel:

Our deepest apologies for those who were affected by the rescheduled Peter Murphy show last night at The Chapel, especially considering all previous reschedules. Peter's flights from LA were delayed beyond the point where he could make the performance, but Peter did arrive in San Francisco in the early hours of the morning.

He is in SF now and the residency will continue with this Friday's Love Hysteria shows. We will be issuing full refunds to all ticketholders from this first show last night, and have rescheduled the "Should The World Fail to Fall Apart" performance to Wednesday, March 13th – this will be a free show for the ticketholders affected by the cancellation last night.

Again, our apologies for any inconvenience this has caused, and we'd like to thank the fans for their outpouring of understanding and sympathy throughout this entire process (including last night and this morning), your response to this and throughout has been truly amazing.

With Peter now finally on SF soil, we are very excited to begin the residency on Friday, and look forward to seeing everyone soon.

lol what a shit show
i sold all my tix and just going to the regency show

this has been pending so long I've lost all interest in it. still have tix for next week and the following but hardly feeling it at this point.

Oddly enough I've still been up for this all this time, but I admit it helps when the venue's only a fifteen minute or so walk away.

you going to the Deep show on Thursday (next thursday)?

Right now I'm going to:

early Love Hysteria show on the 8th
Deep show on the 11th (also maybe one on the 9th or 10th)
Should the World makeup show on the 13th
Stripped on the 18th
Dust on the 19th
Bauhaus set on the 23rd
Bowie set on the 27th

Would also be going to the Cascade show on the 15th but there's a conflict that evening.

LOL its funny to read me upthread being dubious PM was really doing a new Dalis Car album. Not only did it turn out he really did, but I have a copy signed by Steve Jansen, so shut my own mouth.

What time has PM been going on at the Chapel shows? Trying to sort out my thursday. I know it says show at 9; looks like there's an opener....10? 10:30?

Generally he's been going on stage on time -- last night they adjusted the schedule to doors 8, opener 8:30, PM 9:30 per a mailout and that's exactly how it shook out. I might call the Chapel on the day of just to see if there are any changes.

Never claiming I'm a great photographer but I've lucked in a few good shots over the first shows I've been to:

https://scontent-lax3-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/53690278_10156868404696136_5371704765199679488_n.jpg?_nc_cat=106&_nc_ht=scontent-lax3-2.xx&oh=d7d3d3abebe2cd2d75459f3347a05e77&oe=5D17F3CE

https://scontent-lax3-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/54257519_10156868404846136_5707746803189809152_n.jpg?_nc_cat=108&_nc_ht=scontent-lax3-2.xx&oh=e4c8f6f2b02be5d1584bfe083b8cc94c&oe=5D064B7B

ticketfly was offering free tickets for tonights Should the World Fail show (must be undersold); didn't take them as I can't do two nights out in a row anymore.