Alterna-Goth Collaboration, Poptone, Reunite Legendary Post Punk Musicians – Tour Visits Chicago

Apr 15, 2017 James Currie Breaking News, Music News, This Just In 0

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DANIEL ASH AND KEVIN HASKINS [BAUHAUS, TONES ON TAIL, LOVE AND ROCKETS], DIVA DOMPE JOIN FORCES AS POPTONE
The trio will be revisiting post-punk classics at Metro on Sunday, July 9.

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Chicago, IL — After three decades of fruitful collaboration as bandmates in BAUHAUS, TONES ON TAIL, and LOVE AND ROCKETS, Daniel Ash and Kevin Haskins have teamed up with Diva Dompe, Haskins’ daughter, to create POPTONE. Metro is thrilled to host the trio on Sunday, July 9, as Daniel and Kevin revisit their storied catalogue and revitalize post-punk touchstones with a contemporary approach.

Originally emerging from the British punk and rock underground in the late ‘70s, Daniel and Kevin, along with vocalist Peter Murphy and bassist David J, Bauhaus spawned four iconoclastic and ultra-seminal albums as well as keystone singles “She’s In Parties”, “Ziggy Stardust”, and, of course, “Bela Lugosi’s Dead” before disbanding in 1983.

Rising from the rubble, Daniel and Glenn Campling collaborated soon after as the short-lived but no less impactful Tones on Tail (with Kevin joining the fray soon after), and pumped out synth-driven dance floor hits such as “Ok This Is the Pops”, “Christian Says”, and the smash “Go!” Next, the duo reunited with Bauhaus bassist David J. and hit the mainstream with the formation of Love and Rockets through the 1989 hit single “So Alive”, which reached Number 3 on the Billboard Hot 100.

“Kevin [Haskins] and I get along really well, like a house on fire, we’re really different personalities, which is why it probably works,” Ash said of his longtime bandmate and stalwart collaborator. The duo’s palpable creative chemistry can be heard in the ghostly romanticism of Bauhaus, the velvety atmospheres conjured up by Tones on Tail, in Love and Rockets’ psychedelia tinged drone—that musical magnetism will consume Metro as POPTONE retell the history of post-punk one song at a time.

——ON SALE NOW——
Sunday, July 9:
POPTONE: FT. DANIEL ASH / KEVIN HASKINS / DIVA 
$31 adv. – $36 day of – $100 Tables for Two / 18 & Over / Doors: 7PM / Show: 8PM

Ticket Link: https://metrochicago.com/poptone-07-09-17/

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