Peter Murphy
Words and Photo: Marshall Dickson

Appeared:
August 30, 1988
TBPAC, Tampa

With Bauhaus recently releasing their first (and last) album in 25 years, Go Away White, I dug deep into my archive for this image of lead singer Peter Murphy closing his set. He was promoting his second solo album, Love Hysteria, and opening for Australian neo-psychedelic rockers The Church on their Starfish tour. Nearly two thirds of the hall emptied after Murphy’s performance and did not return for the headliners, further entombing Tampa’s legacy as a “black hole” home to gothic music fans.