Monocled Alchemist

“Kick In The Eye” / “Harry” / “Earwax” (Beggars Banquet Beg 74) February 1982

Bauhaus | Kick In The Eye ( Beggars Banquet) 1982 | As seen and heard on last week’s Riverside. Less enchanting minus the visuals, but a canny experimentalism turns this sub Iggy drone into a minor winner.

Distinctive and in today’s climate, this can only be a compliment. Not completely strange yet, working on it. (Sounds, 20/02/82)

Featuring the one excellent song Bauhaus have produced, “Kick In The Eye”, plus the considerably less distinguished “Harry” and “Earwax”.

I’m not sorry to see the A side given another airing, for it’s genuinely exciting and uses Peter Murphy’s Iggy-style vocals to great effect, but the other two tracks have made contact with my stylus for the first and last time. (Record Mirror, 27/02/82)