DAVID J Haskins (producer, writer and spoken phrase artist) is the previous bassist with Bauhaus, who spearheaded the submit-punk alternate new music scene of the early ‘80’s with a string of progressive albums and singles.
In an on line party occurring this Thursday April 15 from 7pm, David J will take aspect in a community on the internet job interview and invite pupils to post audio as section of a new enjoyable collaboration.
The new task was established by Armagh centered writer / storyteller Steve Lally and invitations pupils to post “Covid-Sounds”, recorded audio from the speedy surrounds of their locked down earth. Sounds that may perhaps have evaded them before this pressured pause, or individuals they ignored right up until reflecting on them.
Steve Lally has labored as each an artist and storyteller throughout Eire for in excess of 15 a long time. He writes his individual material together with telling folk tales from Eire and close to the world, recitations, myths, legends, story music, participation tales and arts primarily based workshops.
Right after coming up with the concept for a venture, Steve Lally contacted David J to question him if he would be intrigued in top the undertaking. Steve engaged with Ray Burke at college or university radio station Wired FM, and this distinctive undertaking was realised. There will be a community interview (webinar) and a collaborative social experiment. David J will select his favourite track and provide it into the studio to skillfully deliver it.
David J Haskins is a San Francisco-based British musician. His band Bauhaus is credited by some with founding the goth motion. For quite a few, the band’s defining second is a song that is rated as a vintage and feasibly the pinnacle of the overall gothic scene and over and above, the nine moment furthermore epic slab of industrial dub that is ‘Bela Lugosi’s Dead’, featuring the lyrics of David J.
In an posting by the Guardian titled “Bauhaus invent Goth, they explained “Bela Lugosi’s Dead” would have been just yet another piece of submit-punk experimentation had it not been for the lyrics…”
Just after the demise of Bauhaus, David went on to kind the psychedelic band ‘Love and Rockets’ with two other Bauhaus associates, guitarist, Daniel Ash & drummer, Kevin Haskins. They have been massively effective, whose debut solitary hit gold status in Canada, followed by a prime a few US single with ‘So Alive’ which the band capped with a million selling album and marketed out stadium tours.
A very acclaimed songwriter, generally particular, typically observational, all of these attributes are apparent on his nine solo albums. David has labored with artists these types of as Jane’s Addiction, Amanda Palmer along with comedian ebook maestro Alan Moore (Watchmen V for Vendetta), Avant-Garde Artist ‘Genesis P. Orridge’ (Throbbing Gristle & Psychic Television) and ideal-promoting writer Hubert Selby Junior (Past Exit to Brooklyn, Requiem for a Aspiration).
The on the internet job interview is an chance for students and the station to interact with a person of rock’s most influential and renowned musicians.
Host Steve Lally will explore the good impact that Bauhaus and other works by David J had on his possess creating and overall performance of tales. David will also be questioned about the many musicians and artists who motivated him in excess of the a long time.
The approach will be documented, and broadcast on Wired FM. The task is supported by the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland by way of the Audio and Vision fund.
“The Bauhaus Effect” will acquire area this Thursday April 15 at 7pm at LSAD (on the net).
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