Peter Murphy @ The Delancey, June 8th, 2011
If I was a little disappointed by his performance a day earlier at J&R, Peter Murphy blew any skepticism I had away within the first few seconds he and his band began playing "Velocity Bird" off his latest solo album Ninth. Murphy took the stage in the extremely intimate venue (people were packed like sardines down there), dressed exactly the same way he was at the in-store performance, but of course a dark and scummy dive bar in the Lower East Side was a lot more fitting for his persona.
With the four piece setup of Murphy, violinist/guitarist, keyboardist and additional guitarist, the minimalist take on these songs just sounded so fittingly dark and eery, and yes, rocking, at the midnight Delancey performance. Most of the new album was played including single "I Spit Roses" (in which members of the crowd gave Murphy roses to spit out... which he did... more than once), as well as other classics from his back catalog such as "A Strange Kind of Love" and "I'll Fall With Your Knife." Truly a great performance, and surprisingly a funny one (Murphy really is a charismatic performer), the Delancey proved to be a great venue for Peter Murphy to wow his New York City fanbase.
Ninth is now in stores now and you can stream it below the full set of photos from the Delancey show right here...
