Hitchers

The Hitchers are a band from the Irish city of Limerick. They formed in 1989. The Hitchers released two LPs in the UK and Ireland: It's All Fun and Games Til Someone Loses an Eye (1997) and For the Want of Some Better TV (1999). They are perhaps best remembered in the UK for the song "Strachan", a kitchen sink opera wherein the protagonist is involved in an argument while simultaneously watching a football match on TV that features the Scottish footballer Gordon Strachan in an early 1990s Leeds United side versus an unspecified opposition (though the studio recordings fade-out features a sample that suggests the opposition are the Birmingham club Aston Villa).
==Links to Peel==
The band's song Strachan received considerable airplay from prolific UK-based DJs including John Peel, Steve Lamacq, Gideon Coe, Sean Hughes and Bob Geldof and is still occasionally heard on UK radio to the present day. It has been cited as one of the great "football songs" in the press and in online discussion/commentary.
The Hitchers recorded a Peel Session at BBC Maida Vale 4 in July 1997. This was broadcast in November 1997 and repeated in February 1998. This session has been re-broadcast on multiple occasions since by DJs such as Gideon Coe and Chris Hawkins on BBC Radio 6 Music.
==Festive Fifty Entries==
*1997 Festive Fifty: Strachan #21
==Sessions==
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1. Recorded: 1997-07-27. First Broadcast: 12 August 1997. Repeated: 05 November 1997
*Human Skull / Wannabe / Urge To Kill / My Band
==Other Shows Played==
;1997
*08 February 1997: Killed It With My Bare Hands (7") Murgatroid Independent 
*25 February 1997: ‘Killed It With My Bare Hands (7 inch)’ Murgatroid Independent Recording Company
*17 March 1997 (BFBS): 'Killed it With My Bare Hands (7")' (Murgatroid)
*19 March 1997: ‘Kimwildesongtitle (CD – It’s All Fun And Games ‘Til Someone Loses An Eye)’ Murgatroid Independent Recording Company
*20 March 1997: ‘Wizard Prang (CD - It’s all Fun And Games Until Someone Loses An Eye )’ Murgatroid Independent Recording Company
*25 March 1997: ‘Strachan (CD – It’s All Fun And Games Until Someone Loses An Eye)’ Murgatroid Independent Recording Company
*27 March 1997: ‘On And On (CD – It’s All Fun And Games Until Someone Loses An Eye )’ Murgatroid Independent Recording Company
*01 April 1997: Strachan (CD - It's All Fun And Games 'Til Someone Loses An Eye)’ Murgatroid Independent Recording Company
*10 April 1997 (BFBS): 'Strachan (CD-It's All Fun And Games 'Til Someone Loses An Eye)' (Murgatroid)
*17 April 1997: Kimwildesongtitle (CD - It's All Fun And Games 'Til Someone Loses An Eye) Murgatroid
*27 April 1997: Strachan (b/w 7" - You Can Only Love Someone) Murgatroyd Independent Record Company
*11 June 1997: You Can Only Love Someone (7" - You Can Only Love Someone / Strachan) Murgatroid
*23 December 1997: 'Strachan (CD-It's Always Fun And Games Til Someone Loses An Eye)' (Murgatroid) FF #21 (JP: 'I always like a good football record, and that's a good football record, no question about it. There aren't many of them, though.')
;1998
*08 December 1998: Popstars By Christmas (7" - I Can't Breath In Outer Space) Murgatroid
*13 December 1998 (BFBS): 'Can't Breathe In Outer Space (7"-I Can't Breath In Outer Space)' (Murgatroid Independent Recording Company)
;1999
*14 January 1999 (Radio Eins): Popstars By Christmas (7" - I Can't Breath In Outer Space) Murgatroid Independent Recording Company
*17 August 1999: '4:30 - 2 Down (LP-For The Want Of Some Better TV)' (Murgatroid Independent Recording Company)
*26 August 1999 (Radio Eins): 'Human Skull (CD-For Want Of Some Better TV)' (Murgatroid)
*05 September 1999 (BFBS): 'Popstars (CD-For The Want Of Some Better TV)' (Murgatroyd)
*09 September 1999: Popstars (LP – For The Want Of Some Better TV) Murgatroid
*09 September 1999 (Radio Eins): Sure (LP – For The Want Of Some Better TV) Murgatroid
;2000
*29 June 2000 (Radio Eins): 'Human Skull (CD-For Want Of Some Better TV)' (Murgatroid)
;2004
*28 April 2004: Strachan (CD Single) Murgatroid
==External Links==
*Wikipedia
*Discogs
Category:Artists