Named after a 1960s movie, Hoodlum Priest is a name used by producer/multi instrumentalist and composer Derek Thompson, born of an Irish background but born and raised in London, the name later became 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. Biography Often known for being an eccentric in interviews, he claimed to have been kicked out of the Maynooth Seminary after producing a Thesis proving that the Devil did in fact have "all the best tunes" and later retiring from full-time employment at the age of 22. 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'). He only played one show with The Cure, which was The Oxford Road Show in April, 1983. He would later join Jeffrey Lee Pierce's band The Gun Club as a touring guitarist around 1985. With Hoodlum Priest His initial goal with Hoodlum Priest, one of the musical projects he explored during the 1990s, was to draw in both film influences on his work—primarily via dialogue but also musically—and hip-hop by recruiting a London-based MC. He was introduced to rapper Paul Sevier, previously known as Junior Gee, (under this moniker he won the London Rapping Championships and appeared on a handful of singles throughout 1983 and 1985 ) at a club performance in 1989. When he was offered a contract by ZTT after being featured on the License To Thrill soundtrack, the two worked together on the album The Heart of Darkness. Sevier's apparent strong Christian background and Thompson's more free-thinking philosophy and darker musical approach eventually led to the MC's departure. Soon after the release of The Heart of Darkness, ZTT inked a new international distribution agreement with Warner Bros. The album was deleted almost immediately by request of Warner Bros's Legal Department, concerned at the amount of uncleared samples included on the release. The band was