This came out in 1999 – or at least that’s when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):
Bela Lugosi’s still dead. But proto-goth quartet Bauhaus, who broke up back in 1983, have risen from the grave.
And the live set Gotham, fittingly recorded in New York during their 1998 Resurrection Tour, proves the old vampires still have plenty of bite. On these 18 tracks (including covers of T. Rex’s Telegram Sam, David Bowie’s Ziggy Stardust and Dead Can Dance’s Severance), Peter Murphy’s vocals still creak like a grave robber prying open Iggy Pop’s coffin, while the band’s grim, ghostly sheets of sound swirl like the dry ice fog that undoubtedly blanketed the stage. Sure, this double-disc set does drag at times — Bela Lugosi clocks in at 13 anemic minutes. But for fans it’ll be the ultimate night of the living dead.
