Britská skupina elektronického rocku s prvky new wave (sama navíc znatelně ovlivnila budoucí gothic rock). Vznikla v r. 1977 v Northamptonu původně pod názvy Drugs, Freez a Bauhaus 1919.
Prvním hitem byla v r. 1982 jejich verze Bowieho skladby...
Píseň: Mask
The man of shadows thinks in clay Dreamed trapped thoughts of suffocation day He's seen in iron environments With plastic sweat out of chiselled slits for eyes From the growth underneath the closed mouth You'll catch if you listen Rack-trapped cubist vowels From a dummy head expression From a dummy head expression The transformation is invested With the mysterious and the shameful While the thing I am becomes something else Part character part sensation The shadow is cast