How to be a Better Person is available in paperback NOW (January 2010)
Happy New Year, guys and gals.
What better way to spring forth into 2010 than to pick up a copy of my latest paperback, which is newly and excitingly JUST PUBLISHED by those lovely people at Atlantic Books, and at a low-down and dirt-cheap mere £7.99?!
This is my third book and my best one, except for the book I have nearly finished writing, which Atlantic Books will be publishing next year.
So in the meantime, it doesn't get any better than this. At least as far as my own shoddy oevre is concerned.
So what are you waiting for? 
Oh and if you want to know what it's about, I'm able to inform you that it documents my fierce quest to better myself over a two year period from doing as much and as varied volunteer work as I could find.
If you like pensioners, or if you are one, then this is undoubtedly the book for you.
If you don't care much for the police, then ditto.
If you like the idea of me being in terrible, terrible pain, actual and existential, then thritto.
Please buy a copy. We're nearly out of nappies.
Sadly I am now on Twitter. You can follow me at www.twitter.com/sebhunter
Baby!
Hi. We've had a baby. Her name is Ariel Isadora Hunter and she was born at around 2am on Thursday July 2nd 2009 after an excruciating 34-hour labour. Sympathies for't mother, if you will. Ariel was born six pounds, thirteen ounces. She's a cutie for sure.
Yes Reuben is wearing an AC/DC t-shirt.
27/03/09 MY BRAND NEW BOOK IS OUT NOW!!
Yes ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, this almighty amalgam of woodpulp, gum, acrylics and words exclusively scattered throughout by ME ME ME is available for purchase RIGHT NOW, THIS MINUTE, in bookshops near you, and on the internet, and in space.
PLEASE BUY A COPY IMMEDIATELY.
We have another baby on the way, you see, and R E A L L Y need the money.
Also it's my BEST BOOK YET.
And for any female visitors to this website, the baby is due in July. 
7/12/08 Why not come to this? My band is playing and we're great.
21/10/08 New book jacket
This is the front cover image for my new book, out in April '09 from Atlantic Books. It might change slightly, but you get the gist.
Yes, it's another dog's penis. 
The third of our regular Kaliflower improv nights takes place Thursday November 13, at the Railway in Winchester
Please sponsor me
On Sunday November 30th 2008 a group of us is going to be walking 26 miles – from Salisbury to Winchester along the Clarendon Way – raising money for the Southampton & Winchester Visitors Group. (SWVG - www.swvg-refugees.org.uk - is a small registered charity which gives personal, practical and financial support to asylum seekers, especially those made destitute by government policy.)
If you’d like to come and join us then that would be fabulous. But if you can’t (which, let’s face it, is a little more likely) then it would be wonderful if you could sponsor me. Simply wonderful.
So come on, what are you waiting for? For the entire global economy to collapse? For your house to be repossessed? Redundancy? It’ll never happen!
Instead, I beg you, click here: www.justgiving.com/swvg-walk2008
Your money will be going directly to help struggling asylum seekers in the Hampshire area who aren’t allowed to work, can’t claim benefits and, in the majority of cases, can’t be repatriated either; so if it weren’t for the constant and tireless work of the SWVG, these people would be completely penniless and destitute. So g’wan. Dig deep; dig shallow; it all counts.
Thanks for reading and thanks for your money. 26 miles is a long way!
Some new pix
Crater live at Club Dune, Ladbroke Grove, Friday June 20th
And this. 
Kaliflower!
Please come to this. We hope to make it regular. 
New book news (06/04/08)
Exciting news!
My brand new, all singing, all dancing new comedic meisterwerk How to be a Better Person will be published in trade paperback by Atlantic Books in March 2009.
The book documents my two year odyssey (it's always an odyssey, ain't it?) of wild and wonderful volunteering activities in a desperate attempt to improve myself.
You can already place your orders simply by sending me as much money as possible through the post immediately.
News Update 15/01/08
Good morning ladies and gentlemen.
I apologise for there not having been any news since September 2007. Websites are like that sometimes, aren't they? Bloody annoying. What's the point, eh? I fear that, after a couple of months, one arrives at the conclusion that one doesn't really need a website, and so one allows one's website to steadily decay, by completely ignoring it, with a steady trickle of guilt permeating one's day-to-day consciousness.
But I do have a website! And I like it and I might as well try and use it constructively. I think another reason for lack of updating generally is that the whole thing needs an update, you know, quite a lot of pages and all, which will be quite HARD WORK to properly implement. In other words, I am a lazy bastard.
This is probably enough tedious navel-gazing for the time being (oh come on, it is January after all), so let's get on with the news!
I have almost finished writing my third book, entitled How to be a Better Person. My God, it's a masterpiece! More news on this soon.
I finished the half marathon in two hours, twenty minutes, although I fear I seriously damaged my knees in the process. Oh well, at least I raised some money and had a nice run about in the countryside.
Reuben is 18 months old. He can say 'helicopter'. He has a little guitar that he loves to play and can do a mean air guitar (with distorto-axe sounds). He is brilliant. I will put a few recent pix up.
James Wood has nearly finished writing the Hell Bent feature film script.
I have just started writing my fourth book, and it's... (this is slightly embarrassing, cuz I said I'd never do this) ... a novel! Yes, I am embarking upon a work of fiction. I have a plot and everything! I am going on a research trip to Bulgaria in the Spring.
Because of finishing books and working out new ones and parenting and Xmas bullshit, there haven't been any Bitterest Pills for ages. I apologise for this. They will be back up running 'n' regular from next week!
Crater have had a busy and productive few months. 2008 is officially going to be the Year of Crater, so keep yer eyes peeled, esp in the vicinity of www.myspace.com/crateruk
I have a beard.
And last but not least, Satanic Webmaster Christian and his wife Trine have just given birth to their second daughter, and her name is Thale. Please join me in wishing these Bergen familial dudes supremely HIGH NORSE VIBES and spectacular best wishes for a fabulous babyhood, childhood, and then embittered-slave-to-the-manhood, despite the Nordic man being a little gentler than our own. Then comes death. Congratulations!
And hail Satan.
Running Free
06.09.07
On September 30th 2007 I am going to be running a half marathon - the Great Clarendon Way, from Broughton to Winchester. I am doing this to raise money for two worthy causes: Wells for India and the Southampton & Winchester Visitors Group. I am trying to raise at least £2000.
So please sponsor me! justgiving.com/sebhunter
It'll only take you a minute! Go on!
OK now that's the hideous facts out of the way, I can now break down in tears. I've never run in my whole life! It hurts when I run. My chest feels like it's going to explode. My trainers are old and brown. I don't own any "sports" shorts, so I go out training wearing a pair of swimming trunks. Is your heart bleeding for me yet? My feet are.
I keep getting a stitch in my "groin". I've never called my groin my "groin" before. How athletic. I can run for an hour now. That's quite good, isn't it?
There's been a bit of a delay in getting the Bitterest Pills out, cuz I'm trying to finish my new book. And training, obviously. There should be a new one next week.
Also coming later in September: lots of updating and freshening and spring cleaning of this website. It will smell of flowers.
BTW Check out the old, excellent Trash Can Junkies "track review" in the Reviews section. Awright.
Satanic Webmaster Revealed!
I know he'll cast my soul into the fiery pits of hell for all eternity for this, but here, pictured for the first time EVER (his Dark Countenance usually cracks lenses), is the Supreme Dark Lord himself: the Mighty, the Blackest of the Black (Metal), the one and only Christian 'The Goatfucker' Misje, webmaster extraordinaire of this very website! Get onto your fucking knees, peasants!
As it's been a while...
... and as it's my website and I can put whatever I want on it, here are some recent Reuben pics, including one of me posing with a large stick in a field on my birthday. What's wrong with that?
Crater gig date change 08/06/07
The Crater gig at The Social in London has now moved to June 26th.
It's still free.
We'll reward you.
Seven Ages of Rock
21/05/07
You might have seen that the BBC has this new series on ROCK called the Seven Ages of Rock. Well, I am a talking head in the fourth episode, the one about HEAVY METAL. You can get an early glimpse of how inept my talking-head performance is on the BBC website, clicking through to the METAL episode and then watching the metal/grunge 3 minute short film. That's me just before James Hetfield and that.
My contribution was filmed in an old warehouse in Birmingham, filled with dry ice. After me, they were off to Tony Iommi's "estate", nearby, to film him.
I'm still not quite sure why they wanted to include me, but I was very happy to do it, even though I don't think I was all that great.
God, what a dull news item.
Hell Bent for Leather DVD jacket (11.04.07)
James just sent me this. How exciting! Does this mean you'll be able to actually purchase the thing in the shops and that? I've no idea. It's nice though isn't it?
Bitterest Pill - Readers' Comments etc (04.04.07)
Hello lovely Bitterest Pill subscribers (Colin Brown excepted. You bastard).
As I hope y'all noticed, Issue #2 of the Bitterest Pill went out yesterday, and not only that, but the link to the free music worked! Thanks be to Christian, who has now gone up into the mountains surrounding Bergen for a short break to get away from me.
Thank you for all the positive comments.
Quite a few people have said that they didn't get the first issue, but I think that was because of uptight email swearing filters. (I had inadvertently used the word 'shit'; thus a coule of hundred people didn't get the mailout. This is an interesting news item so far, isn't it?)
Please sign all your friends (and enemies) up to the newsletter, by sticking their email addys into the 'subscribe' box on the Bitterest Pill subsection of this website.
I would like to finish with an interesting yet still resolutely pointless nugget of information regarding the international Diaspora of visitors to this website. In February 07, sebhunter.com received visitors from 61 different countries! Isn't that amazing?? I won't list them all, but here are a few that particularly impressed me:
Argentina, China, the Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Venezuela, Saudi Arabia, Hungary, Chile, El Salvador, Kenya, Papua New Guinea (I've still got a 12" single of this), Kuwait, Taiwan, Ukraine, Iran, Honduras, Romania, Slovakia and Bolivia. Hello everybody!
I have just remembered the original point of this news item. Please do hit 'reply' to your fortnightly Bitterest Pill, with any comments or thoughts you might have regarding either the writing or the music. I'll post a selection of your comments at the bottom of the following issue (though not yours, Colin Brown). I'd like this bitch to go a little interactive.
Plus, if anybody wants to send me any free CDs, for potential use in forthcoming BP issues, then please feel damn free to just go right ahead and send them. Contact me directly through the Contact section and I'll give you my postal address. This is all rather unlikely, isn't it? Hell, it's worth a try.
And don't forget to check out my regular and really brilliant record reviews (of records you'll probably hate) at www.foxydigitalis.com/foxyd/index/.php
Oh and by the way, there's still no word from Channel 4 on when they're going to show the Hell Bent for Leather short film. Sorry about this. It does exist though, honest! I didn't just make it up!
And finally: why not come witness the mighty Crater's debut London performance, at the Social, Little Portland Street, W1W 7JD, on May 29th 2007. It's free to get in and I think we'll be on 9ish.
Farwell, global citizens.
The Bitterest Pill: Classical Music, One Step at a Goddamn Time
Well, three months later than originally planned, the Bitterest Pill newsletter begins on Monday, March 19th 2007. In order to get this up and running, I have taken the liberty of raiding my email address book, as well as asking friends to do the same. Thus Issue #1 will be mailed out to about 750 supremely fortunate yet wholly (or at least mostly) unwitting subscribers. Yes this is basically spam. Sorry about that. It's very easy to unsubscribe - just follow instructions at the bottom of the newsletter and you'll be rid of it.
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Interview
There is a new and incredibly revealing, in-depth interview with me at www.anarchymusic.net
Reuben is seven months old - here he is in Wales
A short haiku dedicated to Gene Simmons with, apparently, one syllable missing
Gene Simmons
Nobody likes you
Not even Kiss fans
Because you're dreadful
Hell Bent for Leather more film news update Feb 07
For those of you hanging on for a television transmission date for this, I'm afraid the news is: you'll have to keep waiting. Though the (short) film is now in the can, we are still waiting for Channel 4 to confirm when they're gonna stick it on the telly. It's presumed that this'll be sometime over the next few months. Watch this space, folks.
There was a screening of the finished meisterwerk up in London a few weeks ago, and it's brilliant and hilarious and everybody laughed and cried and said that surely Film Four will cough up £4m to make the feature after seeing this, right?
Foxy Digitalis
Hi kids.
From sort of now-ish, I'm going to be doing regular record reviews for an American-based leftfield/experimental music website by the name of Foxy Digitalis. Here's the link: foxydigitalis.com/foxyd/
Lucky everybody!
Eeeh... an update
1) The Bitterest Pill will arrive early in the New Year; a little like January.
2) Introductions are online. Read 'em here.
3) And last but not least, here's the all-new, all-sexy paperback jacket for ROCK ME AMADEUS, which is published next summer by Penguin Books. 
New shit
Next week will see two HOT new things on this site:
1) THE BITTEREST PILL - a brand new, regular feature exclusive to sebhunter.com with weekly downloadable music and stuff. I've been working long and quite hard on this concept, so this is not merely another facetious and misleading trail for regular, updated content; though its content might involve the merest soupcon of facetiousness.
and
2) INTRODUCTIONS - which sadly isn't a new dating service for occasional Crater members; rather it's a place where you'll be able to read (and download if you really want) the entire introductions for all my books, including the introduction to my BRAND NEW book provisionally entitled VOLUNTEERS BEFORE TEATIME, of which only half is thus far written (of the whole thing, not just the introduction, ffs), but hell, what a half it is!
It's the first half.
And hold on to your hats, for also about to be exclusively revealed on this (3rd) world-beating website is the all-new, all-sexy paperback jacket for my last book ROCK ME AMADEUS, which also has an equally sexed-up new subtitle.
Why bother with youtube and necrophilia sites, Paul, when you've got all this?
More Hell Bent for Leather film news
Due to some extra scene shooting, the Hell Bent for Leather short film is now going to screened on Channel 4 in the New Year. As soon as I know when, I'll post the date.
Plus there's now the added bonus of the presence of the muchos-talented Julian Barrett (tall one from the Mighty Boosh), doing the cut scenes talking about guitars and stuff.
I've seen an early edit and it looks great.
Hell Bent for Leather film news report type thing
Well the Hell Bent for Leather short film has been uh, filmed; over four days last week (and what days they were). And if Film Four (who funded this - hello Film Four, I love you) like what they see then let's all hope they'll whore about this most excellent short film to secure funding to make the feature film proper next year. That's the plan at least.
Read more...
More images...
A couple of new pix can be found in the images-section.
Some fantastic news
The Trash Can Junkies have split up.
And this time for good. We played this year's Eastwickbury Festival, again, and were so appalling that we have vowed never to darken anybody's ears with our shtick ever, ever again. It was incredibly boring for everybody (onstage/offstage); and if there's one thing that's not allowed, it's boring. Shit, fine. Fine. You get used to it.
Yet the fickle finger of fate has chosen this coming Wednesday to be the date me and Owen teach the actors playing the Trash Can Junkies in the forthcoming Hell Bent for Leather short film how to play "Lickin' the Ashtray", so the sickening zombie train wreck stumbles on; our heavy metal ineptitude bequeathed to a new generation of unwilling hosts.
To quote Iggy Pop: "Uh, look out."
Music added
Some further mp3s now available for download in the Music section.
Thanks as always to Goat-molesting Satanic Bastard Misje for the technikal legwerk.
Reviews
Some reviews added to the brand new reviews-section.
Proms Punditry
Hola dudes.
I've been AWFUL at updating this site recently but I'm VOWING to improve. Indeed, there will soon be EXCITING NEW DEVELOPMENTS taking place, which you can tell are gonna be pretty damn wowsers as I'm using all these capital letters.
In the meantime you can catch me on BBC television on August 23rd, when I'll be punditting in an Alan Hansen stylee upon Prom #53.
Truck on, Tykes.
Guardian & Sunday Telegraph reviews
Forgive the links instead of transcriptions, but there are nappies to change etc:
[The transcriptions are here. Hurrah. -Webguy]
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Baby!
Ladies and gentlemen it gives me the greatest pleasure to be able to announce the arrival of Reuben Ivor Brereton Hunter into this world on Friday June 23rd at 8.29am. He has really long eyelashes (with which to be coquettish) and he basically just completely rules.
And we are all well.
Some groovy Irish reviews for Rock Me Amadeus
The Irish Times:
"This is not a book for the purists. Seb Hunter is a self-confessed rock 'n' roll addict who has decided to take a crash course in classical music, and explore the hithero hidden world of preludes, fugues, concertos and etudes. Up to now, the only symphony he's ever listened to have been Bittersweet Symphony by The Verve and the only cello movement he can identify is the one on Nirvana's Something in the Way.
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Some reviews
Nice reviews of Rock Me Amadeus from this weekend's papers.
The Independent:
"Oh no, you think. Not another wisecracking (and lucrative) trudging-round-with-a-fridge foray into an alien world. You'd be wrong. Rock musician Seb Hunter's first book, Hell Bent for Leather, was widely hailed as a Fever Pitch for the Kerrang! generation. His journey into the heart of darkness (and sometimes light) of classical music is more difficult to place, but it's certainly entertaining and very, very funny. It's also a brilliant introduction for the classical novice. Bach's music is, apparently, "as lean as a butcher's dog", while Handel "swallowed a tray too many Terry's All Gold". Indeed."
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Launch party!
Having originally said that I wasn't going to, I've now changed my mind (or rather been persuaded by Brian & Christine Hayward) and decided to have a launch party for my new book. Why not come? Unless you are mad and/or dangerous, in which case why not stay the f**k at home?
Here are the details if you fancy it:
Thursday May 25th, at the Bishop on the Bridge public house, Winchester, which is down at the bottom of the High Street, right by King Alfred's statue.
8pm til late (I believe this means they'll serve drinks til midnight).
My experimental improv band CRATER will be playing too; in fact we're actually trying to work out a way of getting our kit to play all by itself, allowing Turf and Snaggers ample opportunity to drink heavily and attempt to pull birds. Thus if you are female and planning to attend: look out. Meanwhile I shall be swanning about being witty and sparkling - I figured it might be worth one final try.
I guess I'll soon find out whether posting details of an event such as this online is a good idea or not.
This event is not open to any ex-members of the Daughters of the Late Colonel or terrorists or general nutters. My mother will, however, be present.
Featuring DJ Ron Purse spinning tales of Christmas dinners past, with embellishments.
Books will be onsale at this event through Waterstone's booksellers. I'll sign your copy of the book if you like, too.
This news item is outta here.
My second book, Rock Me Amadeus, is OUT NOW!
I can't think of anything else to add to this headline; it's pretty self-explanatory.
Please buy it. It's really good and really funny, and it took me like two years to write. If you liked Hell Bent, then I guarantee you'll like this too; or your money back (yeah right, you must be joking).
I'd post a jpeg of the jacket, too, but I can't seem to manage it.
(Satanic Christian, please come to my aid, like King Kong with scary black and white make-up and a BC Rich.)
Webdude says: Will do. Later. Order the book here
Perhaps a jacket image will appear here at some point in the near future. I hope so. It's a good jacket - it has a dog's cock on it.
Hell Bent for Leather film news 26/04/06
This is going to be hard to explain, as I'm not allowed to talk about details as contracts are yet to be signed and so on, but things are looking pretty good on the Hell Bent film front.
The situation is that X company have just released Y amount of money to make a 10-15 minute stand-alone trailer to be shown at festivals and the like in order to attract the funding to make a feature film proper. The director (Mr Z) and I have had lots of very cool discussions and spent the day wandering around Winchester checking out locations and vibes etc etc. In other words the film vision is exactly the same as the book's, and it's shaping up to be an authentic recreation of the spirit and humour of what's on the page. Yes I'm afraid so.
Coming next: Winchester becomes Los Angeles; I become a black, gay 58 year-old percussionist, and instead of Heavy Metal it's now all about the trials and tribulations of an elderly Smiths tribute band. With a black, gay 58 year-old percussionist, that's right.
Brand new "Album of the Week" section coming soon!
Well, we (you, me and that bunch of fleas hoppin' yonder) are soon going to be celebrating an exciting new feature here on sebhunter.com - a brand new section on the site entitled Album of the Week. In this section I shall be selecting an album, and then writing about it at variable length. This life-changing feature will appear as soon as Satanic WebDude Christian pulls his finger out and drags his snow-encrusted arse over to his Ikea laptop and sorts out the technical vagaries which are sadly completely beyond me. CAN YOU HEAR ME, CHRISTIAN? He's probably sacrificing another goat. A whole herd. And then sleeping with them!
Answer (28 Apri 2006) : I forgot about the whole damn album of the week thing. Sorry about that - will fix tomorrow. I will! By the way, album of the week is Aerosmith's first one.
-Wotan
STOP PRESS April '06
WHY NOT PREORDER my new book, published by those good people at Penguin Books, ROCK ME AMADEUS: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Handel, available from the beginning of May 2006. And here's why, motherfuckers:
It has over 400 pages.
It's quite funny.
It has twice the number of hilarious pictures Hell Bent had.
The captions are a bit better.
"Hilarious and informative" - The Hampshire Chronicle (yes, The Hampshire Chronicle, and they didn't just - or even - say that about this book, they said it about the last one).
Seriously though, it really is hilarious and informative. OK it's informative. A bit.
This book is for anybody who's always wanted to know perhaps a teeny-tiny bit more than they do already about classical music but without having to resort to listening to Classic FM, or reading a proper book or anything ridiculous like that, or asking your grandparents, or actually having to listen to any.
I travel all around Europe making a complete twat of myself.
I insult people - Classic FM! Nigel Kennedy! Germans.
There's ****** ***** of swearing.
Owen is my g**p in it (again).
My mother is in it (again).
And not only that but my mother draws a picture in it.
It has shit lists at the back (again).
Bach. (This one's for any serious classical music buffs who might be reading down this list by mistake.)
I need the fucking money, seriously, plus I need to get a new book deal, hopefully with Penguin again, so please sodding well buy it so I don't have to go begging for my old job back, that would be too humiliating. I prefer writing: it's 75% doing nothing, no matter what anybody might tell you.
75% of one's time is spent in panic-stricken throes of self-loathing and hopeless insecurity, but hell, it beats working guys, for real.
Its cover price is £12.99, which is a goddamn bargain in the first place, but you'll be able to pick one up for under a tenner, for sure. Else you're new to the internet. Hello. Give me your credit card details. You can trust me, I'm a writer.
OK I'm getting away with pretending to be a writer for a few jammy years until it all comes crashing down and I go to work at, say, Currys.
So buy it, you bastards.
I think that's the end of today's news section. Back to the porn, people.
Chopin.