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''The Fireman's Curse'' is the second studio album by Australian rock band, Hunters & Collectors, which was released on 5 September 1983. It was co-produced by Konrad Plank and the band in Neunkirchen, Germany. The album peaked at No. 77 on the Australian Kent Music Report Albums Chart and No. 46 on the New Zealand Albums Chart. The lead single, "Judas Sheep", was released in August that year but failed to reach the Top 50 on the Australian singles chart, however it peaked into the top 40 in New Zealand. ==Background== ''The Fireman's Curse'' was prepared in June and July 1983, Hunters & Collectors had decamped from United Kingdom, where they had been based while touring Europe for six months, to Neunkirchen, West Germany. There they recorded their second album, which was co-produced with Konrad 'Conny' Plank (Can, Cluster, Kraftwerk), at Conny’s Studio, with Dave Hutchins engineering. It was released by White Label/Mushroom Records and Virgin Records on 5 September 1983. In Seymour's autobiography, ''Thirteen Tonne Theory: Life Inside Hunters and Collectors'' (2008), he recalled that their three-record deal with Virgin was broken when he and fellow band members insulted the label's executive, Simon Draper, by telling him that he was "a poncy little blueblood" with no faith in them. While in the UK and attempting to enter the local market, the group's members "were doing odd jobs, illegally, to keep afloat and getting steadily more miserable in the process". The album did not reach the top 50 in Australia, peaking at No. 77 on the Australian Kent Music Report Albums Chart but it did reach No. 46 on the New Zealand Albums Chart.〔 NOTE: Used for Australian Singles and Albums charting until ARIA created their own charts in mid-1988.〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Hunters & Collectors discography )〕 Its lead single, "Judas Sheep", released in August,〔 reached No. 35 in New Zealand but did not chart in Australia.〔〔 They had supported their releases with an eight-week tour of Australia during August and September.〔 After the second single, "Sway", released in November, failed to chart in both markets,〔〔 the group disbanded briefly.〔〔 In July 1991 it was re-issued on CD by Mushroom Records and was subsequently re-mastered and re-issued by Liberation Music on 11 August 2003. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Fireman's Curse」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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