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David J Tickets, Tour Dates and Concerts

David J

David J + Chandra Shukla + Renata Youngblood

Fleetwood's
496 Haywood Rd

Jun 14, 2025

8:00 PM EDT
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DAVID J Musician, writer, playwright, poet, visual artist. A founder member of the highly influential and revered BAUHAUS. Bauhaus spearheaded the post-punk Alternative music scene of the early ‘80’s with a string of innovative albums and singles, including, for many, perhaps their defining moment, a song that is ranked as a classic and feasibly the pinnacle of the entire Gothic scene and beyond, the nine minute plus epic slab of industrial dub that is 'Bela Lugosi’s Dead', featuring the lyrics of David J. Two years after the demise of Bauhaus in 1983, David regrouped with two of his former Bauhaus band mates, guitarist, Daniel Ash and drummer, Kevin Haskins to form the hugely successful Love And Rockets, whose debut single hit gold status in Canada, followed by a top three US single with 'So Alive' which the band capped with a million Chandra Shukla (born Vivek Chandra Shukla 1975 Alameda, California) is an experimental/avant-garde musician interested in audio, video, live performances, graphic design and runs the independent record label Erototox Decodings. His history stems from learning Indian Classical Music by learning tabla from the likes of Pandit Swapan Chaudhuri and sitar from Pandit Habib Khan. At the age of 17, Chandra Shukla met Genesis Breyer P-Orridge and for the next 4 years would be involved with joining Psychic TV and h/er for their live performances sometimes in the Bay Area and other times abroad. In 1998, joining P-Orridge’s first incarnation of Thee Majesty on stage in Stockholm Sweden, with Bachir and Mustafa Attar of The Master Musicians of Jajouka playing eps samplers and his Indian classical music. Though offering his skills to other projects such as Scribble Seven (Steven Stapleton’s Nurse With Wound live project). In 2021, Chandra Shukla along with friend Carl Michael von Hausswolff debuted their project ‘Travelogue’ (Touch. UK). Xambuca is his main electro-acoustic experimental project and one that has shared the stage with many guests including a rotating cast of characters with audio/visual elements both live and exhibited. Chandra Shukla once a resident of the San Francisco Bay Area and Brooklyn/New York City now resides in Asheville, NC. Renata Youngblood Independent professional songwriter, guitarist, pianist, vocalist and performer. 3 album official releases: 'Weightless' 2005 (produced by David J of Bauhaus and Love and Rockets) 'The Side Effects of Owning Skin' 2006 (produced by David J) and 'Bloody' 2012 (produced by Renata Youngblood, Matt Bradford and Marty Rifkin). Songwriter and singer for Lifetime Television Movies. Singer for Food Network promotional ads. Singer on the song 'Always' by Earthrise SoundSystem 2013 and remix 2015. Songwriter of the Song 'Light' featured on the deluxe version of Brenna Whitaker's debut album released on Verve Records 2015.
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Ken
March 24th 2018
David J put on a great performance of a variety of songs spanning his career. The venue was a quaint lounge on Sunset Blvd. The artist did a storyteller style of the material and had the audience laughing during technical hiccups. Afterwards the artist hung out for a meet and greet and pictures and signing Lps and books for those that purchased or brought items. Don't pass up the chance to enjoy a performance by him during this Vegabond Songs tour.
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David J Biography

David J is an English musician best known as the bassist/vocalist for seminal gothic and alternative rock bands Bauhaus and Love and Rockets . Since the mid-'80s, he has also enjoyed a prolific solo career with highlights like 1990's Songs from Another Season, 2003's Estranged, and 2011's Not Long for This World. Also a composer and playwright, J staged his first play, Anarchy in the Gold Street Wimpy, in 2004, and has composed music for both theater and film. While working as a solo artist and collaborating with artists like Jane's Addiction and Amanda Palmer , he also participated in various Bauhaus and Love and Rockets revivals, the former of which yielded the 2006 reunion album Go Away White. A 2016 collaboration with Theatre Bizarre Orchestra saw J working under the pseudonym M.C. Nightshade and in 2022 he partnered with Mexican label No Devotion for the archival compilation What the Patrons Heard.

J (born David J. Haskins) first launched his solo career in 1983, just as Bauhaus folded. His first solo album, Etiquette of Violence, didn't gather much attention, and he began working with the Jazz Butcher . After releasing two albums (Sex and Travel and A Scandal in Bohemia) with the cult musician, David J recorded his second solo album, Crocodile Tears and the Velvet Cosh (1985). Soon afterwards, J and his Bauhaus cohorts Daniel Ash and Kevin Haskins attempted to re-form their old band; although it never blossomed into a full-fledged reunion, the trio formed Love and Rockets , releasing their first album in 1985. Love and Rockets found success in the early days of alternative rock with albums like Express (1986) and the more acoustic-oriented Earth, Sun, Moon, which yielded the J-penned college rock hit "No New Tale to Tell."

Following Love and Rockets ' surprise hit single "So Alive" in 1989, J released Songs from Another Season, finding success on the newly minted Modern Rock Tracks chart with the album's lead single "I'll Be Your Chauffeur." As his band's success dimmed in the mid-'90s, J remained active as a solo artist with 1992's Urban Urbane and in collaboration with Alan Moore and Tim Perkins on a pair of 1996 releases, The Birth Caul and The Moon and Serpent Grand Egyptian Theater of Marvels. Following a 1998 Bauhaus reunion, Love and Rockets released their final album, Lift, before dissolving the band a year later.

J became active again in the early 2000s, releasing a pair of EPs, a singles collection titled Embrace Your Dysfunction, and his sixth solo LP, Estranged, in 2003. That same year he co-wrote and played on the title track of Jane's Addiction 's third album, Strays. In addition to music, J began showing his art at a variety of different galleries and, in 2004, debuted his first play, Anarchy in the Gold Street Wimpy. A second Bauhaus reunion in 2005 led to an album, 2006's Go Away White, their first LP of new material since 1983. For the remainder of the decade, J remained largely dedicated to his theater work, writing and directing two more plays.

He returned to the studio in 2011 to record the dark cabaret solo album Not Long for This World, followed in 2014 by the acoustic-based An Eclipse of Ships. He also remained busy as a collaborator, working with Amanda Palmer , the Dandy Warhols , and Darwin, the latter of whose 2012 album, Starfishing, J also produced. In 2015, he published a memoir titled Who Killed Mister Moonlight? (Bauhaus, Black Magick and Benediction). Under the pseudonym M.C. Nightshade, he recorded a 2016 collaborative album with Detroit's Theatre Bizarre Orchestra called Carpe Noctem, then teamed up with Murphy for a 2018 reunion tour celebrating Bauhaus ' 40th anniversary. In the early 2020s, J began working with Mexican indie label No Devotion. He contributed a song, "(I Walk Away) From the Girl in Yellow," to a label compilation album, then in 2022 issued a collection of rarities and cover songs from throughout his career titled What the Patrons Heard. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Rovi
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