The Lurkers formed late in 1976, the original lineup consisting of Pete, Stride on Guitar, Pete ‘’Manic Esso’ Haynes’ on Drums, Nigel Moore on Bass and Howard Wall on Vocals. In the 2010’s, Esso, Stride and Moore had been collaborating again under the name of The Lurkers : God’s Lonely Men and released a album in 2012 entitled Chemical Landslide which contained tracks considered a lot heavier than anything they had previously recorded under the Lurkers name.

In 2016 they released a further album ‘The Future’s Calling’ and then collaborated on follow-up material with The Featherz’ lead singer Danie Centric. The first fruits of the collaboration with Danie was the ‘High Velocity‘ EP, was released in late 2017 as a limited edition pink vinyl 7” on
Human Punk/Damaged Goods. Followed by another 7", which reached No.1 in the Vinyl 7" charts called ‘Electrical Guitar’
The Lurkers have since been recording more new material which is coming in September 2020.