Hunting Grounds

Hunting Grounds
Origin Ballarat, Victoria, Australia
Genres Garage Punk,Indie
Associated acts Neon Love
Members
Jonathon Crawford
Daniel Marie
Lachlan Morrish
Michael Belsar
Galen Strachan
Tim Street

Hunting Grounds[1] (formerly known as "Howl") are a six piece Australian punk band. They formed at Ballarat High School[2].They used to be named after the Allen Ginsberg poem Howl.[3] They won Triple J's Unearthed High competition[4] with their song "Blackout"[5] which was placed on high rotation on Triple J.[6]

In 2010 Hunting Grounds supported fellow Ballarat act Yacht Club DJs on their Batten Down the Hatches Australian Tour. The tour was sold out and the two bands fronted two encore show's at St Kilda's Prince of Wales Bandroom.

Discography

EPs

References

  1. ^ http://www.abc.net.au/local/audio/2011/07/25/3277169.htm
  2. ^ MX (Australia), 20 August 2009, "Boy band unearthed and set to be a howling success" by Hanna Mills
  3. ^ The Weekly Times, 30 September 2009, "A Howling success" by Sarah Hudson
  4. ^ Herald Sun, 21 August 2009, "Boys a howling success" by Fiona Byrne, Alice Coster and Katherine Firkin
  5. ^ The Courier, 20 August 2009, "The future looking bright after Howl is 'unearthed'" by Meg Rayner
  6. ^ The Courier, 26 September 2009, Having a howling good time by Emma Brown
  7. ^ Kill Your Stereo, 24 April 2010, review
  8. ^ Kill Your Stereo, 20 September 2010, review