Brew Hunter has been a Leather aficionado since his early days as a
70's Leather kid on his motorcycle. His very first teenage Saturday job
paycheck went to buy a Leather jacket, and his second - a pair of
heavy black boots... he has never looked back...
A well-known face on London's Leather and Fetish scene for some years now, Brew originated his now-fabled 'Sex, SMoke & Submission' night, MASTERY, in 2013/14 at the world-renowned BACKSTREET club in London's East End, also taking it to Manchester, Berlin and to Amsterdam. Other hardcore nights led by Brew at BACKSTREET were SMOKEHOUSE, RUBBRD and HOG - his skinhead/pig night.
As Covid brought about the closure of BACKSTREET and many other
clubs and events, Brew looked about for a new opportunity to support the London/UK Leather and Fetish Scene. Whilst searching, Brew curated a number of events at London's Bishopsgate Institute, which holds the world's most extensive LGBTQ+ Archive. These events - 'FETISH UNLIMITED' - packed out the venue with men and bois in full leather and fetish wear, and featured art, talks, DJs, markets and viewings of the Archive's XX porn magazine collection. Then (certainly giving the City of London something to look at...) the Leathermen crammed onto a big classic red London Routemaster Doubledecker bus, to continue the party at the then-recently-opened LORD CLYDE Club.
In early 2023, Brew then had an introduction to the incredible and enthusiastic management at the ELECTROWERKZ venue in Islington, and to Scott Steele - London's newest and most exciting hardcore DJ/Promoter. This brought about the opening of HUNTER in July 2023, which also hosted the opening of the Tom Of Finland Art & Culture London Festival.
HUNTER quickly went on to become the Ultimate UK Event for hardcore
and hard-playing Fetish men, encouraging back the 'Old Guard' Leather crowd - as well as welcoming the new 'Vanguard' - scores of youngsters and newcomers to the Scene - who quickly and enthusiastically discovered HUNTER as an event that recreated the heady principles and power of the classic days of the hardcore Leather Scene. HUNTER regularly now welcomes guests of all ages who fly in from worldwide, having heard of, and eager to join in with, the HUNTER XXperience.
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For many years, Brew Hunter has been a BDSM Master and a Mentor in hardcore training for service in Old Guard/New Guard High Protocol and Service, teaching Discipline and Submission, for slaves and submissives
to achieve a Heavy Duty level of Leather Worship and Service for their Doms, respecting and creating the absolutely highest standards and demands of the origins of the Male Sexual Leather Community.
As a well-known and popular BDSM Educator and Presenter of Fetish MasteryClasses, Brew has shared his experience and knowledge in a
large number of presentations, including:
1) 'BEAT IT: Flogging & Impact Play'
2) 'PROTOCOL: The Mindset Of Mastery'
3) 'CIGARS AND SMOKE PLAY'
4) ‘BDSM OWNERSHIP & OBEDIENCE’
5) ‘PUBLIC & PRIVATE: Old School Property & Presentation Of A Male Slave'
6) 'FETISH: TOTEM & TABOO'
7) 'PLEASURE, PAIN & PROTOCOL'
8) 'COLLARING & CHASTITY: Hardcore Lifestyle or Play?’
9) ‘BREW HUNTER'S 'A to Z of FETISH & FUCKING’ (new)
In association with renowned USA DJ/Presenter M.ARANA,
Brew has also featured on two Sex Dungeon Albums - (available on
Spotify and iTunes) 'MASTERY:THE ALBUM' and (free on
SoundCloud) 'MASTERY: The Lost Tapes 2020'
BREW HUNTER WRITES ABOUT MASTERY AND MENTORSHIP:
THE ROMAN POET SENECA WROTE: ‘When a man does not know what harbour he is making for, no wind is the right wind.’
MANY HOMOMASCULINE MEN IMAGINE, CRAVE AND SEEK, ONE CERTAIN FETISH ‘HARBOUR’: THE HARBOUR OF A FULL AND HARD PLAYING LEATHER LIFE AND EXISTENCE.
THE METAPHOR IS APT … DEEP AND OFTEN FRIGHTNINGLY DARK, CERTAINLY HIDDEN FROM THE SIGHT AND EXPERIENCE OF MOST MEN, THIS HARBOUR’S BLACK WATERS ARE FREQUENTLY TREACHEROUS AND CAN REACH UNPLUMBED DEPTHS.
THE MAJORITY HAVE NO IDEA HOW TO SET THEIR SAILS IN A FIRST TENTATIVE EFFORT TO ATTAIN THIS SEEMINGLY UNIMAGINABLE GOAL.
WITHOUT A PILOT OR A GUIDE, WITHOUT SOMEONE WHO HAS MASTERED AND WEATHERED THE PASSAGE, THE ROUTE, THE WINDS AND THE TIDES THAT CARRY THE VOYAGER ON HIS QUEST – THE COURSE TO THIS PARTICULAR DECEPTIVE AND PRECARIOUS JOUNEY’S END CAN BE FRAUGHT WITH UNCERTAINTY AND TREPIDATION.
REMEMBER, AN HOUR OF PAIN IS AS LONG AS A DAY OF PLEASURE...
THIS IS A QUEST MANY MEN DESIRE TO UNDERTAKE – OFTEN WITH A DESPERATION AND HUNGER; THEY PLAY THROUGH THAT LEATHERED ULTIMATE DESTINATION IN THEIR INNERMOST THOUGHTS AND FANTASIES, BUT FEW ARE WILLING TO ACTUALLY COMMIT TO THE FIRST STEP IN ORDER TO ACKNOWLEDGE OR TO REACH THE REALITY.
FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN IS A POWERFUL INHIBITION (...BUT THEN ALSO, SOMETIMES AN APHRODISIAC…).
CENTURIES LATER, ANDRE GIDE WROTE: ‘Man cannot discover new oceans until he has courage to lose sight of the shore.’
REACHING THIS HARBOUR WILL, TO SOME, BE A PILGRIMAGE, TO SOME, AN ODYSSEY, TO OTHERS EVEN MAYBE A SURRENDER…
AS A LEATHER MASTER AND MENTOR - THAT HAS ALWAYS BEEN MY REALITY.
AN EXCERPT FROM AN INTERVIEW WITH BREW HUNTER:
• MR HUNTER, TELL US WHAT FETISH MEANS TO YOU.
'Without doubt, I have discovered that your Fetish is the true ‘you’; the ultimate sex animal that exists and fights beneath society’s accepted day-to-day ‘norm’. Some men explore it behind closed doors – others, like myself, happily XXpose it openly 24/7'.
• TELL US HOW YOU FIRST GOT A TASTE FOR LEATHER AND FETISH.
'I was fully aware of my horned-up Fetish feelings from an early age.
Images from the Castro, vintage leather bars and retro porn were inspirations. As a teenager, my first wages bought a leather jacket –
then motorcycle boots – eventually then a motorcycle. One night, after some fun at the Colherne in Earls Court, I drove a muscle skinhead boy back to his gaff in the East End. In his bedroom, he took a thick leather belt off a hook, and handed it to me... In that moment I transformed from a horny Leather switch boy into a hungry BDSM Top, discovering a taste, an ability
and a flair for Domination, Power Exchange, and everything that involves -
I became a life-long Leather Pig Daddy'.
• TELL US WHAT YOU LIKE TO DO WITH MEN.
'I’m interested in men and lads that take their Leather and Sex VERY seriously. 'Leather', as far as I'm concerned, is mostly a state of mind - it certainly doesn't have to be head-to-toe Langlitz! As a BDSM Master, I work heavily with hard-playing, 'Old Guard' subs and slaves who lust for Dominance and Discipline, bootlicking and facefucking, and who are not afraid of FFists, cock, chains, slings and floggers! I like to see them dripping, and stinking of lube, piss, spit and mansweat; I expect to see them at my boots, hooded, gagged and crawling on all fours in My collar and chain. I’ve been a cigar SMoker since the age of 21, with a taste for good bourbon and fat, smoky stogies, and demand that My slave knows it is My ashtray and My toilet'.
• YOU CREATED 'MASTERY' AND NOW HOST 'HUNTER' - THE TWO MOST INFAMOUS LONDON LEATHER/FETISH NIGHTS. TELL US ABOUT THAT.
'I enjoy events that bring together, face-to-face and man-to-man,
the heaviest and horniest XX Fetish Leather & Rubber players in
an ultimate night that recreates the hard and heavy style, vibe and
attitude of classic days of the Leather and BDSM Scene – smoky,
sweaty, sleazy and lust-fuelled. There truly were no London nights
like that a decade and more ago, and the internet and advent of apps
had pulled guys away from nights out onto their computer screens. So,
I decided to create the nights I wanted, myself! Nights with the hardest-playing, hottest and sleaziest Leather & Rubber Men in the UK, plus
visitors from around the world … Masters, Tops, Daddys, Bikers, Skins, pigs, subs, slaves, gimps and dirty dogs & pups! I always like to see a Smoking Yard PACKED with hardcore Leather Cigar Daddys, their slaves and their ashtray bois, alongside the scally and skinhead smoker lads.
I DEFINITELY like to see, hear and XXperience LeatherSex in every dark corner. So, if you think you like the sound of all that – cum and join us!'
• TELL US WHAT HAVE BEEN THE HIGHLIGHTS.
'So many! Highlights have been not only playing a part in keeping the Leather and Fetish Scene alive and kicking, but, for myself, meeting (and introducing to each other) some of the sexiest and sleaziest Leather/ Rubber Men and bois it has been My pleasure to come/cum across! Also,I’ve truly enjoyed presenting my MasteryClasses and, at HUNTER, curating the monthly KinXX GALLERY exhibition of XX art
and photography from some of the great XX artists worldwide. But most importantly of all – introducing and encouraging not just the
well-established Leather and Fetish men, but also those newcomers
and younger guys who want to enter and explore not only Leather and Rubber, but also the whole HUNTER experience to the 100% maXX!
Unending thanks must go to Mark Allutt and John Edwards at BACKSTREET, and also to all at ELECTROWERKZ, alongside - of course - the endless creativity, skill and enthusiasm of Scott Steele.
Also giant thanks to each and every XX artist who has allowed us to
exhibit their amazing work at the monthly HUNTER KinXX GALLERY,
as well as all the presenters, performers and interviewees at
HUNTER's FETISH ACADEMY who have shared their knowledge,
passion and zeal, and their burning energies with us all.'