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The Hunters Club
12+ albums
grebo80sGothicalternativeLeicester
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The Hunters Club were a British grebo, goth rock band that formed in Leicester, United Kingdom in (about) 1983. They were the darlings of the press and the media in the UK, during the mid 1980’s, and were one of the most prominent bands of the grebo scene. The band were named after a short-lived Judge Dredd sub-plot in the sci-fi comic 2000 AD, and were nicknamed "The Black Hole of Rock 'n' Roll". They toured Europe with fellow Leicester band Gaye Bykers on Acid, camping out between gigs. The band were known for burning their hats as part of their live show. First done as a joke at a gig in Brighton, it caused such a stir that they carried on doing it, on one occasion also igniting members of the audience. Too Far Gone To Turn Around was the first album that Mark Spivey produced, and was the album which inspired members of Cornershop to form a band, "because they’d thought that if that bunch of drunken idiots could make a record that was that good, then maybe they could too". The last song on the Give Me Your Soul E.P. was originally recorded for Radio One at the BBC Maida Vale Studios. The Hunters Club folded in 1991 signing off with Burnt Alive, a live album on death-metal label ‘Pigs Ear’. Otis Oblivion (Ian Redhead)'s verdict - "It was awful," he said. Redhead now runs Stayfree, an Internet Service Provider and labyrinth of rehearsal rooms, in his home city, Leicester. Ian also managed local bands during the early 1990s; most notably Scum Pups, and ran the ‘Stayfree R
