“Performance” by Tones on Tail

"Performance" comes from Pop, the one and only studio album by Tones on Tail, out on Beggars Banquet in April 1984. The band was a side project for two members of Bauhaus, Daniel Ash and Kevin Haskins, plus Bauhaus roadie Glenn Campling; all three share the music credit, and Ash wrote the words. They produced it themselves, Louie Austen engineered, and Caroline Lavelle guests on cello.

Trouser Press heard the album sliding back into sluggish Bauhaus habits but found real songs with taste and delicacy in there too, while Spin called it haunting and hard to pin down, slow to hook you but hypnotic once you gave it your full attention. Ash and Haskins later formed Love and Rockets with David J.

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