An Evening of Black Cabaret
David J with Adrian H & The Wounds
The Echo, Echo Park, CA
March 6, 2011
By Victoria Joyce
(SugarBuzz Hollywood )
Photography by Mila Reynaud
SugarBuzz Magazine
David J of Bauhaus and Love & Rockets promised an “Evening of Black Cabaret” on his KXLU interview. He delivered. And he picked one of our favorite bands to back him up, Adrian H and The Wounds from Portland.
LA-based, David J. Haskins 
hooked up with The Wounds at Bar Sinister last year with the idea of shady saloon songs and Mr. H’s Goth-Glam keyboard-driven band was the perfect fit. Adrian wore spats for the occasion.
A dark, damp, drizzly crowd lined up on Sunset Boulevard to enter the Echo on Quinquagesima Sunday night. Not a blonde in sight. Presented by Part Time Punks, the opening bands; The New Room and Sleep Mask did the dark thing nicely. Of course, “The Hunger” flickered behind them on stage. Bauhaus performs “Bela Lugosi is Dead” over the opening titles of this 80s horror movie where Catherine Denueve spends 700 years in bed with David Bowie and after one afternoon with Susan Sarandon, she’s a Lesbian. Fickle Egyptian vampires!
We knew the J & H collaboration would include the wonderful “Bela.” The rest of the set list (below) was a kindle of Kurt Weil-ish, Euro-Neuro, blues, Bauhaus, Love & Rockets and Adrian H originals including a cover song from a Walt Disney movie starring Dick Van Dyke all delivered in a whispered growl and backed with a sax. It was all just too too drop to your knees sobbing sexy.
Adored “St. James Infirmary,” a sensual, stone old, soulful, folk-blues song done a thousand times and said to be the first song to use the term “baby.” Take that, Dianna Ross.
Anything that brings Adrian H and The Wounds down from Oregon is a very special occasion. Adrian looks like John Lennon, sings like Tom Waits, writes like Lou Reed, plays like Jerry Lee Lewis and dresses like Lux Interior.
OK. God made 
a musician.
H tells us he gets his writing influences from “real life taboo experiences, dirty secrets/nasty sins/kinky dreams/etc” and thrives on AM Gold. “I love that sappy shit.” The Texan has found solace in Pacific Northwest, “Portland has a thriving music scene. It’s tolerant of any and all artistic expression.”
A new release from Adrian H and The Wounds, “Dog Solitude” is in the works and will be out soon, available on Projekt Records domestically. Spoiler Alert: The “H” stands for Heavenly.
Back to the Bauhaus. Look for Mr. J’s next project on March 26th in downtown LA, “The Chanteuse and the Devil’s Muse,” a play about the Black Dahlia as part of the Theatrefication Project at the Million Dollar Theater. Dismember
that one?
Set List:
Boulevard Of Broken Dreams
Dead and Lovely
St. James Infirmary
Pretty
Candy On The Cross
Falling In Love Again
Streets Of Berlin
Joe Orton's Wedding
Chim Chiminey (from Mary Poppins)
Who Killed Mr. Moonlight
Bela Lugosi's Dead
Blood Sucker Blues
Spirit
Time
No New Tale To Tell
Rock n' Roll Babylon
