Hunting Grounds

{{Short description|Australian punk band}}

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| origin = Ballarat, Victoria, Australia

| genre = Glam punk

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| current_members = Jonathon Crawford
Daniel Marie
Lachlan Morrish
Michael Belsar
Galen Strachan
Tim Street

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Hunting Grounds{{Cite web|url=http://www.abc.net.au/local/audio/2011/07/25/3277169.htm|title = Hunting Grounds howl different tune – ABC (None) – Australian Broadcasting Corporation| publisher=Australian Broadcasting Corporation }} (formerly known as "Howl" after the Allen Ginsberg poem of the same nameThe Weekly Times, 30 September 2009, "A Howling success" by Sarah Hudson) are a six piece Australian punk band. They formed at Ballarat High SchoolMX (Australia), 20 August 2009, "Boy band unearthed and set to be a howling success" by Hanna Mills and won Triple J's Unearthed High competitionHerald Sun, 21 August 2009, "Boys a howling success" by Fiona Byrne, Alice Coster and Katherine Firkin with their song "Blackout"The Courier, 20 August 2009, "[http://www.thecourier.com.au/news/local/news/general/the-future-looking-bright-after-howl-is-unearthed/1602110.aspx The future looking bright after Howl is 'unearthed']" by Meg Rayner which was placed on high rotation by the station.The Courier, 26 September 2009, [http://www.thecourier.com.au/news/local/news/business/having-a-howling-good-time/1633898.aspx Having a howling good time] by Emma Brown

In 2010 Hunting Grounds supported fellow Ballarat act Yacht Club DJs on their Batten Down the Hatches Australian Tour. The tour was sold out and the two bands fronted two encore shows at St Kilda's Prince of Wales Bandroom.