David J, is a musician, producer, and writer. He is the bassist and founding member of the legendary post-punk / gothic rock band Bauhaus and its highly successful alternative rock spin-off, Love and Rockets. David J wrote the lyrics to Bauhaus’s defining 9-minute epic, “Bela Lugosi’s Dead”.
He has composed the scores for a number of plays and films, and also written and directed his own plays – Silver for Gold (The Odyssey of Edie Sedgwick) in 2008, which was restaged at REDCAT in Los Angeles in 2011, and The Chanteuse and The Devil’s Muse in 2011. His artwork has been shown in galleries internationally, and he has been a resident DJ at venues such as the Knitting Factory.
David J has released a number of singles and solo albums, and in 1990 he released one of the first No. 1 hits on the then nascent Modern Rock Tracks charts, with “I’ll Be Your Chauffeur”. His single, “The Day That David Bowie Died” entered the UK vinyl singles chart at number 4 in 2016. The track appears on his double album, Vagabond Songs.
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Black Bordello are an art-rock band from London, fronted by Sienna Bordello, whose emotive soprano and macabre lyricism have been compared to the likes of Björk, Kate Bush, and Siouxsie & the Banshees.
Spearheaded by Sienna’s operatic vocals and vivid, fragmented songwriting, their metamorphic brand of alternative rock is enchanted with elements of vaudeville, post-punk, jazz, psychedelia, gothic rock and chamber pop. Since their emergence after the pandemic, they have released two studio albums which were reviewed in CLASH, Wonderland, Loud & Quiet, Fred Perry & So Young, played on BBC Radio 6, and one of the songs was remixed by the bassist of legendary goth group Bauhaus.
After its release and successful headline launch at MOTH Club in September, their album amassed over 80k in organic streams as well as 18k+ views on their music video for ‘The Garden of Earthly Delights’. They showcased at Rotterdam’s Left of the Dial in 2024, and in 2025 they supported Pete Doherty, performed multiple times at NYC’s New Colossus Festival, and released another visionary music video for single ‘Acid Mary’
Following a litany of acclaimed live shows supporting the likes of The Libertines, Goat Girl, Fat Dog and Pretty Sick, and a busy summer of festivals including Bestival, the band have just recorded their third studio album with Balazs Altsach (Ugly, The Orchestra for Now, Legss), leading the group’s zealous genre-hopping into new territories influenced by trip-hop and industrial. So far in 2026, the band have headlined London’s 100 Club, released two new singles, and they are now gearing up for a summer of festivals, the September release of their new EP (‘Midheaven Tempest’) alongside their biggest headline yet at Oslo Hackney, and an EU tour in November, including Berlin’s 8mm festival and support slots with Bauhaus’ David J.