Over 1200 gigs. Over 1,000,000 albums sold. 19 hit singles and 16 hit albums.

Welcome to True Believers – the fan managed official website for one of the greatest Australian rock bands of all time – Hunters and Collectors.

Formed in Melbourne in 1981, the Hunna’s became central to Australian culture through their distinctive brass rock sound and rigorous touring of the pub circuit. Disbanding in 1998, they left behind great memories and an impressive back catalogue.

We cater to everyone here at True Believers:

• New? Listen to the full audio tracks (look to your right -> ) and browse the Biography.
• Want the latest? Check the News updates, Articles section, Gigs details and weekly rare track in The Vault.
• Looking to expand your collection? Browse around the comprehensive Albums, Singles and Tracks sections.
• Feeling artistic? Click on over to enjoy Video, Album, Single, Photography and General artwork.
• A muso? Hunters bass player John Archer has provided full, compete Tabs.
• Rock nerd? You will love the Gigography and gory detail of the text Discography.

Mark Seymour (vocals, lyrics) and Jack Howard (trumpet, backing vocals) have comprehensive solo careers that we also follow here at True Believers.

- Stuart Anthony Fenech

The great Hunters and Collectors tribute album, Crucible, is now out in both CD and digital forms. There are two different packages available in physical form – a standard 2CD jewel case and limited edition 2CD digipack.

Crucible is available everywhere, including iTunes, JB’s Hi Fi and Sanity.

To get a taste of what’s on offer, Click here to listen to the full album via streaming audio on the Mushroom Internet site.

Crucible includes an impressive collection of cover versions by a diverse range of high profile artists, including Birds of Tokyo, The Living End, British India, Something For Kate and Eddie Vedder and Neil Finn.

And the big one…

Hunters and Collectors will be performing a massive ten A Day On The Green concerts along with an additional two theatre gigs!

These include shows in Victoria, New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, West Australia and even Tassie!

Without further delay, we present the dates and locations for the Hunters and Collectors Australian Tour 2014…

January 2014

Sat 25  The Hill Winery, Geelong, VIC

February 2014

Sat 1   Bimbadgen Winery, Hunter Valley, NSW
Sun 2   Sirromet Wines, Brisbane, QLD
Sat 8  All Saints Estate, Rutherglen, VIC (NSW border)
Sat 15  AAMI Park, Melbourne,VIC with Bruce Springsteen
Sat 16  AAMI Park, Melbourne,VIC with Bruce Springsteen
Sat 22 Leconfield Wines, McLaren Vale, SA

March 2014

Sat 1 Petersons Wines, Armidale, NSW
Sat 8 Robert Oatley Wines, Mudgee, NSW
Sat 15 Josef Chromy Wines, Launceston, TAS
Sat Mar 22 Rochford Wines, Yarra Valley, VIC
Sat Mar 29  Kings Park, Perth, WA
Sun Mar 30  Kings Park, Perth, WA

April 2014

Fri 4 Enmore Theatre, Sydney, NSW *
Sat 5 Enmore Theatre, Sydney, NSW *
Fri 11 Palais Theatre, Melbourne, VIC

TICKETS TO ALL SHOWS ON SALE FRIDAY OCTOBER 11
from Ticketmaster.com.au & 136 100
(* except Enmore Theatre from Ticketek.com. au & 132 849)

Click here for full details!

Hunters and Collectors will be the opening support act for two massive Bruce Springsteen concerts at AAMI Park in Melbourne on Saturday the 15th and Sunday the 16th of February 2014!

The Boss and the Hunna’s… can not get much better than this…!

The official Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band press release notes:

Frontier Touring is also thrilled to announce that Australian music legends, Hunters & Collectors will be reforming to be special guests at Springsteen and the E Street Band at the Melbourne AAMI Stadium concert.

It has been a fifteen long years since the legendary group disbanded after firmly making their mark on the Australian music industry. Hunters & Collectors brought their unique brand of pub rock onto the global radar with modern classics like ‘Throw Your Arms Around Me’, ‘Talking to a Stranger’ and ‘Holy Grail’, collecting an induction into ARIA Hall of Fame along the way. In 2009 the band reformed for a one off special performance at the fundraising concert event ‘Sound Relief’.

Stepping out of the airport mid-July, the true horror of Melbourne winter hits you. It is early afternoon yet barely ten degrees, the wind blows through you and the light rain aimlessly drifts down at 45 degrees. This sort of environment is comforting when you are in town to help digitise a few hundred tapes that have sat in dark, cold Melbourne cupboards for up to 32 years.

The fruits of this project are now here for fans to enjoy through From The Vault. Every week we present a new, random track from the archives, spanning all the way back to pre-Hunters in 1980 through to the final days of March 1998. It’s all here and it’s awesome.

Click here for the latest from The Vault!

Play the electric guitar? keyboards? trumpet? bass guitar? drums? gas cylinder?

Hunters and Collectors bass player John Archer has been creating complete tabs for many of our favourite Hunters tracks for True Believers!

The tabs are presented as MIDI files, which, using free software, you can see every note in every song for every instrument.

Click here for the tabs!