Location: London
Active: 1980 – 1983
A key group in the London post punk movement rising out of England in the late 1970s to early 80s. Along with Southern Death Cult, Sex Gang Children, UK Decay and others, Theatre of Hate established the foundation of the burgeoning gothic movement. Their lyrical themes dealt with a bleak nostalgia and a questioning of faith, although through a sort of spaghetti western motif, primarily out of the imagination of singer and frontman Kirk Brandon. They began as The Pack in an early punk incarnation but quickly developed into the more fully conceptualized Theatre of Hate.
Billy Duffy and Nigel Preston would Go on to join Ian Astbury in Death Cult. During the 1990s and again in the 2000s several reunions took place.
Related: The Pack, Southern Death Cult, UK Decay, Sex Gang Children, Death Cult, Kirk Brandon, Billy Duffy, Nigel Preston, Positive Punk, London
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