Two weeks of polite digital bustling and some shuffling of email exchanges between industry types, personal assistants and Vive Le Rockers have finally staked us a date for an interview with the high priest of Goth Rock and overlord of the ebony underworld - Peter Murphy. Featuring as part of a hefty retrospective in support the Bauhaus back catalogue, an overview of his solo years.and spotlighting his current '35 years of Bauhaus' tour,
The time-slot is sorted and 'Skype call' red-ringed on the calendar: Sunday 12th May, 7pm GMT
Someone in the know had advised me 'tread carefully he can a bit prickly'. A subtle check with his PA the day before - 'anything I should avoid' (alluding to his meth-based DUI arrest) gets me a 'No we're all good' reply.
So, Sunday 12th May, 7pm GMT. 'Skype call'
I'm settled in with three pages of deep-reaching, heavily researched questions. Dial up, click, connect - and we're away with the tomb-like tones of Peter Murphy a'rumbling from the laptop..........
ME: How's the tour going
PM: Are you calling from London
ME: No Southend
*connection drops - the Skype's gone out*
PM: - This will probably happen again. Oh I used to come there as a child. So....
*connection drops* ( he knows, you know)
ME: I was thinking, for some additional perspective on the piece - of bringing in noir/horror authors (Cathi Unsworth and Syd Moore both Bauhaus fans) for their memories and experiences of the band
PM: Who's writing the piece you or them
ME: Oh, I am
PM *snapping* I am neither a horror nor a noir artist' - says the artist currently touring '35 years of Bauhaus' his debut single being Bela Lugosi's Dead, and star of the bite-night pics The Hunger and Twilight - I think we're done here
*Drops the call. Click. Gone* Time 7:05 GMT
A kick in the Skype. Press eject and give me the twerp
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It could have been my imagination, a fault on the line perhaps, or even some rogue electronic crackle - but I'm almost certain I heard a crack of thunder, a puff of sulphur smoke and the manic flapping of bat wings as Count Murphy made his exit stage left?.
Either way, bagsy I get to review his new due-soon solo album please..
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