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Hoodlum Priest
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| Hoodlum Priest | ||
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| Background information | ||
| Birth name | Derek Thompson | |
| Also known as | Technietzsche Surfers For Satan Komuso Monobloc |
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| Origin | London | |
| Genre(s) | Industrial, Trip Hop | |
| Occupation(s) | Programmer, Remixer, record producer | |
| Instrument(s) | Bass guitar Keyboards Trumpet |
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| Years active | 1989 to present | |
| Label(s) | ZTT Records (1989–1994) Concrete Productions (1994–1998) Iris Light Records (1998-??) |
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| Associated acts |
SPK The Cure Apollo 440 |
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| Website | www.hoodlumpriest.net | |
| Members | ||
| Derek Thompson (1989-present) | ||
| Former members | ||
| Sevrier (1990-1990;vocals) | ||
Named after a 1960s movie, Hoodlum Priest was led by Derek Thompson, born of an Irish background but born and raised in London, his self-chosen moniker for his work as a producer and engineer, using hip-hop, industrial, and techno influences as the source of material for his sounds.
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His first major musical background through the late 1970s and 1980s was with avant-garde industrialists SPK, and he played a variety of instruments including bass, keyboards and the trumpet. He departed after founder member Graeme Revell took the group to what Thompson felt was too commercial of a direction. After leaving SPK, Thompson had done a very brief stint with the Cure (a position he got after apparently meeting Robert Smith in a bar who apparently asked him what colour was his bass guitar and Derek replied 'Black'[1]. He only played one show with The Cure, which was The Oxford Road Show in April, 1983 and later appeared on the writing credits of the Lullaby CDV and the Pictures Of You 12".
His initial goal with Hoodlum Priest, one of several musical projects he explored during the 1990s and beyond, was to draw in both film influences on his work -- primarily via dialogue but also musically -- and hip-hop with a specific goal of recruiting a London-based MC. He was introduced to one, Sevier, at a club performance in 1989, and the two worked together for awhile, but Sevier's strong Christian background and Thompson's more free-thinking philosophy and darker musical approach eventually led to the MC's departure. The band was later dropped by ZTT, due to having a fallout about refusing to release the controversial song called 'Cop Killer' and the label had no idea on how promote the band [2][3]. so Thompson continued on his own, working on various sideprojects and interspersing his background work (notably with Apollo 440, and remixing a tune for Pop Will Eat Itself) with occasional album releases such as 1994's Beneath the Pavement (whic featured 2 tracks produced by Raymond Watts of KMFDM fame.) and 1998's Hoodlum Priest, which featured former Gaye Bykers on Acid frontman and Pigface/Apollo 440 bandmember Mary Byker on vocals. after the release of the self titled album, The group has been on hiatus for almost nine years and recently, Derek became a member of Brighton's experimental music collective Spirit of Gravity and is currently gigging as Komuso. It had also been announced that A new Hoodlum Priest album was planned for 2006, but these rumors have been proved false.
- Derek has also been a member in The Jeffrey Lee Pierce Quartet and Apollo 440.
- The album Beyond The Pavement.. was only Limited to 1200 copies.
- Derek is apparently obesessed with Surfing and started a 'British surf band' named Surfers for Satan.
- To continue his fascination with surfing, Derek added music to little known cult surf movie named Pete And Deadly. He also starred alongside Pete Lee Wilson in this movie.
- One of Hoodlum Priest's first singles Caucasian was banned due having 'hard hitting lyrics' but it more based on the B-side Cop Killer.
- Other notable fims scores have been the Danish film The King is Alive directed by Kristian Levring and the ski film "Groove: Requiem in the Key of Ski" by Greg Stump.