Excerpt from Smash Hits, January 7 - 20, 1982, "Bitz" section, page 10.
TRANSPORT OF DELIGHT
They're really a caution these pop groups, aren't they? The latest artistic wheeze from David Jay, bassist with ever so serious Bauhaus, is to play a gig on an ordinary double decker bus as it plies its regular route around his home-town of Northampton. He plans to pull it off with his spare-time outfit The Sinister Ducks who also feature Sounds cartoonist Curt Vile.
The whole point, he says, is that there will be no advance warning to Press, public or passenger transport authority.
The lads will just wait at a request stop with their instruments, battery amps and so on, go upstairs and set up whether the audience is a full house of choking smokers, three men and a dog or just the conductor.
When his associate outlined the scheme, Bauhaus singer Peter Murphy observed: "You are mischievous, Dave. It's a nice idea, but don't you think as an event it's really rather obscure?"
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