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January 14, 2020 06:27 pm PST

Watch the earliest footage of Bauhaus playing live (1979)

On January 13, 1979, Bauhaus (then called Bauhaus 1919) played their second live gig, at the Romany Pub in their hometown of Northampton, England. YouTube user Halfman Halftripod documented the performance and has just posted it with annotations. From Post-Punk:

For this gig, one of their earliest (the second in fact), the band played a 30 minute set at The Romany pub in Northampton performing songs like the prototype for Largartija NickBite My Hip, plus Screen Kiss, Lovelife, and more.

The band were apparently not paid for this gig because the punters did not buy enough pints, and payment was instead negotiated via a free lesson in martial arts.

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