august 31, 2010
Last chance for the special auction with rare, exclusive and limited edition Bauhaus and Peter Murphy CD's from Peter Murphy's own personal collection. This is a great opportunity to get your hands on signed collector's items. To check out the auction, please go to ebay.com and type "bauhaus clearance" in search field.
In other news, please check out this personal video from Peter discussing the festival he will be headlining in Portugal in September.
Thur 9 Sep - Augeda, Portugal - Festa do Leitao Agueda (headlining @ 10pm)
Sun 31 Oct - Hasselt, Belgium - Sinner's Day Festival
august 30, 2010
11th September 2001: A Response from Love
by Peter Young
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*They reached for their mobile phones and called their beloved, to say
simply, “I love you”. No anger, incomprehension or blame at what was taking
place. Only Love and the urgency of declaring it; because on this threshold
there is only life, death and Love.*
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*About the events of 11th September all are convinced of one thing: that the
world is no longer the same place as it was. Many apparent certainties,
yardsticks and parameters have been removed at a stroke. It is now ours to
determine whether that day becomes for us a day of grief, the tombstone of
our certainties; or a day of unveiling, opening up a far greater possibility
for Mankind, of consciously stepping into the service of Love.*
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*This is a new era and it is in this context that these multiple tragedies
are to be viewed with largeness and clarity. In this new chapter in our
evolution we are being shifted in our awareness of Reality and our
relationship to It. 11th September 2001 was the day when the world woke up
to the fact that this new chapter has already begun. At the same time, what
this episode contains is not pre-fixed: it is in the making, at this moment,
in the form of the choices that each person has to make.*
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*These choices are reducible to a single choice from which no one can be
excused; it is unavoidable. It is not a choice simply to be made by our
elected leaders, because the playing field of this choice is not the global,
geopolitical arena of exterior action. The real ground of choice is our own
soul. We now have to choose to accept to become what and who we really are;
or to refuse to change, to deny the grandeur of our reality. To stay the
same is to remain with one’s own self idea, based upon otherness and
separation, pride and fear; whereas to accept the change is to agree to be
moved to an unlimited perspective founded upon Oneness of Existence and the
unity of human consciousness. In this unity is to be found the reason why
the choice of each person is of ultimate importance.*
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*The opportunity offered to each of us is to be of service to Reality, to be
of service to the Love that is the expressive movement of One Existence.
Bulent Rauf, Consultant to the Beshara School from 1975-87, said, “real
service is without the self being self-indulgent in serving people. It has
to be completely without the mixation of the person into the service
rendered. There was an example we used to use: if you find, in a very bad
situation, a friend who needs a glass of water and you give him a glass of
water, that’s not service; that is friendship. But if your enemy is on the
ground and begs for a glass of water, and even before he begs, you give him
a glass of water: that is service.”*
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*Service is non-partisan and it makes no distinction between sectors and
sections of humanity. Only such impartial service can adequately serve the
unqualified Love of the Real and become Its heart, hands and feet here in
this world. The Reality of Love is that there is only one need: the need for
Oneness. When this is realised, we will all see the requirement to rebuild
shattered ruins, re-house refugees and to love one’s enemy as oneself. As
things are now, we are divided by our differences. Now is for building the
bridges that will bring all humanity together under the banner of Universal
Love. How can this come about? For Love it is not a difficult matter.*
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*Many of those about to die in the multiple tragedies of 11th September were
brought by those events to this immediate threshold of clear perception. On
this doorstep, with no time for thought, was the certainty that they had
only a few minutes to live; that these minutes had to be used wisely and
exclusively for that which was truly essential. They reached for their
mobile phones and called their beloved, to say simply, “I love you”. No
anger, incomprehension or blame at what was taking place. Only Love and the
urgency of declaring it; because on this threshold there is only life, death
and Love. To die truly is to be stripped of irrelevancies and falsehood and
to enter into our still centre with only that which belongs to it:
affirmation and Love.*
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*Death is a change of state, from this relative condition of existence that
we call life into a state of delimited consciousness and which is the
presence of Absolute Love. It is the Interior of everything and is with us
always. It is our own interior, which was present before we were born and
will be there when we die. It is the reality of our existence to which, if
we are most blessed, we will awaken before we die; if not, when we die, when
we cross over the doorstep into unconditioned Welcome.*
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*Until we wake up to the Reality of Who, What and Where we are, it is for us
to practise staying on the doorstep, as if we were about to die. Here there
is only Love and Its affirmation; where all else, if there is anything else,
is of very little consequence. There is no necessity of going back to
‘normal’ after these events. There is on the contrary the total requirement
of stepping into service, towards the realisation of the Presence of
Absolute Love, which even now holds all in Its own Being. This is the
possibility for Mankind, which is offered to us now.*
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*For more information please check: *
*http://www.beshara.org/*
*http://selfknowledgeglobalresponsibility.org/*
august 22, 2010
Check out this new interview with Peter & Amanda Palmer of the Dresden Dolls.
august 3, 2010
Those attending Peter's upcoming London show on the 5th of August, please note the show will now be held at Dingwall's.
july 7, 2010
We are holding a very special auction with rare, exclusive & limited edition Bauhaus and Peter Murphy CD's from Peter Murphy's own personal collection. This is an extraordinary opportunity to get your hands on some collector's items. To check out the auction, please go to ebay.com and type "Bauhaus Clearance" in the search field.
june 25, 2010
Peter will be playing in Tel Aviv, Israel at the Israeli Performance Art Opera House on Monday, July 26 and in Haifa, Israel at Beat on Tuesday, July 27.
PETER MURPHY
LEGENDARY BAUHAUS MAIN MAN APPEARS IN UPCOMING
TWILIGHT FILM “ECLIPSE”
ANNOUNCES ‘THE DIRTY DIRT’ WORLDWIDE TOUR THIS SUMMER
NEW ALBUM NINTH COMING FALL ‘10
New York, NY - Iconic Bauhaus main man PETER MURPHY makes a central cameo appearance as ‘The Cold One’ in Eclipse, the most recent installment of the Twilight series. Eclipse debuts June 30 in the U.S. and July 1 in the UK, where Murphy will be walking the red carpet at the London premiere in Leicester Square at the Odeon Theatre (accompanied by his daughter, Hurihan).
Murphy’s last film appearance was in 1983 when Bauhaus performed “Bela Lugosi’s Dead” in the opening credit sequence of Tony Scott’s vampire thriller The Hunger starring David Bowie, Catherine De Neuve and Susan Sarandon.
As a bookend to the now-infamous “Bela” performance, Peter felt that a cameo in The Twilight Saga: Eclipse was too good to turn down. “Who else could have and should have done it?” he laughs. “It was really lovely and smart of David Slade to ask me…I was honored, actually.”
Murphy’s cinematic role marks the commencement of an eventful rest of the year for the artist, who launches his worldwide “Dirty Dirt Tour” in late July, and is adding the finishing touches to his new studio album NINTH, due in the Fall. Confirmed tour dates, including an August performance at Rebellion Festival in the UK, can be found below. Additional dates will be announced shortly.
Currently living between Istanbul and New York City, the famed post-punk innovator, sonic alchemist and celebrated founding father of the Gothic movement, has been working on several exciting new projects over the past 2 years, most importantly his long-awaited ninth studio album aptly-titled, Ninth. Produced by David Baron, the set follows: 2004’s Unshattered, Dust (2002), A Live Just For Love (live album) (2001), Wild Birds: 1985-1995 (compilation) (2000), Recall EP (1997), Cascade (1995), Holy Smoke (1992), commercial breakthrough Deep (1990), the seminal Love Hysteria (1988) and the 1986 solo debut, Should the World Fail to Fall Apart.
“I have had my Ninth album ready to go for a while now,” Peter explains. “I’ve been playing it live, alongside Bauhaus classics and my own hits, long before the official release and it’s added more stardust to the long shelf life of songs I have under my belt.”
Most recently, Peter ignited a new generation of fans while appearing with Trent Reznor during his 2009 final Nine Inch Nails tour. Famously descending on a chain from the rafters upside down (like the theatrical genius he is) at New York’s Terminal 5, Peter joined Reznor and his band to perform The Downward Spiral favorite "Reptile,” along with Murphy’s "Strange Kind Of Love," Bauhaus' "Kick in the Eye," Joy Division’s “Atmosphere” and Pere Ubu's "Final Solution." Murphy’s cover of Nine Inch Nails’ “Hurt” has also been a recent staple of live sets.
Peter Murphy will be joined on the UK dates by one of his favorite artists, Lettie. Find more info at http://www.myspace.com/lettiemusic & http://www.lettiemusic.com.
THE DIRTY DIRT TOUR:
Mon, 26-Jul - Tel Aviv, Israel - Israeli Performance Art Opera House
Tues, 27-Jul - Haifa, Israel - Beat
Fri 30-Jul - Alentejo, Portugal - Evora Festival Alentajo
Sun 1-Aug - Wolverhampton, UK - The Slade Rooms Wolverhampton Halls
Mon 2-Aug - Glasgow, Lanarkshire - UK Classic Grand
Tue 3-Aug - Dublin, Ireland - The Button Factory
Thu 5-Aug - London, UK - Dingwall's
Fri 6-Aug - Sheffield, UK - Corporation
Sat 7-Aug - Blackpool, UK- Rebellion Festival
Sun 8-Aug - Hamilton, ON Canada - Festival of Friends
Tue 10-Aug - Toronto, ON Canada - Lee's Palace
Thur 9 Sep - Augeda, Portugal - Festa do Leitao Agueda (headlining @ 10pm)
Sun 31 Oct - Hasselt, Belgium - Sinner's Day Festival
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