Peter Zirschky was the singer and songwriter for the Dutch hardcore punk band Funeral Oration.
[1] He was the only constant member of the band, being their frontman since the very beginning in 1982 until their break up circa 1999.
Drummer Ferry Fidom and bassplayer Mike de Veer joined him an year later in Last Warning.
They soon changed their name to Funeral Oration, with no thought behind that, but broke up two months later.
In 1983, Zirschky placed an ad in the Dutch punk magazine Koekrand, saying: "Need a bassplayer, don't have to be good, but has to be pretty fast", recruiting William Steinhäuser to play the bass and forming the core of the revived Funeral Oration.