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Raw Material #15: 1998 01 05 Seagulls, Tweed Heads, Australia

H&C Raw Material – The Desk Tapes The final recording in our 15 recording series is one that will be more familiar. A recording from early in the almighty ‘final’ Say Goodbye tour of 1998. This is the same tour that produced the immensely popular Under One Roof album recorded at Selina’s in Sydney. The more »

Raw Material #05: 1983 09 18 Floreat Hotel, Perth, Australia

H&C Raw Material – The Desk Tapes In late 1983, there was major upheaval in Hunters and Collectors. The Fireman’s Curse album was released to mixed reviews and the band subsequently fell apart. The band that reappeared in 1984 with The Jaws of Life was a different beast: drum and bass driven pub rock replaced more »

Raw Material #11: 1991 01 08 Playroom, Tallebudgera, Australia

H&C Raw Material – The Desk Tapes In late 1990, Hunters and Collectors released the popular ‘best of’ compilation Collected Works – and naturally followed it up with more touring… and this is a recording from that tour! The retrospective inspired the band to bring back Talking To A Stranger live for the first time more »

Raw Material #08: 1987 05 21 RPM, Toronto, Canada

H&C Raw Material – The Desk Tapes When it comes to love for the Hunnas outside of Australia, there are certain places that come to mind: New Zealand, Sweden and… Canada. Fortunately for the latter, we have this cracking recording from Toronto. This is not the well circulated RPM bootleg from 18 November 1986 where more »

Raw Material #06: 1985 09 14 The Venue, St Kilda, Melbourne, Australia

H&C Raw Material – The Desk Tapes One year after recording the famed The Way To Go Out live album, Hunters and Collectors returned to The Venue with a new bag of tricks. Here lies the live foundation of the classic rock album Human Frailty. Seven of the ten songs that ended up on the more »

Raw Material #10: 1989 04 04 Middle Park Hotel, Melbourne, Australia

H&C Raw Material – The Desk Tapes In early 1989, Hunters and Collectors set to work on what would become Ghost Nation by the end of the year. Unusually, the band chose to flesh out significant new material live – over a few (mainly) Tuesday nights in March and April at Melbourne’s Middle Park Hotel. more »

Raw Material #03: 1982 03 27 Collendina, Ocean Grove, Australia

H&C Raw Material – The Desk Tapes Fans of the first Hunters and Collectors album – this is the last one in our series for you! Nearly 40 years ago, band and crew traveled down to the Collendina Hotel in Ocean Grove near Geelong for this stellar performance. What does this have on top of more »

Raw Material #13: 1994 01 06 Transformers, Brisbane, Australia

H&C Raw Material – The Desk Tapes. It is a New Year. It is hot and humid up in Queensland. Clearly, it is time to start a new tour in a sweaty Brisbane pub… So here we are, 27 years ago almost to the day, at Transformers in Brisbane 🙂 The band had been recording more »

Raw Material #02: 1981 12 13 Festival Theatre, Adelaide, Australia

H&C Raw Material – The Desk Tapes. 40 years ago, Hunters and Collectors found themselves in Adelaide. Many changes had occurred since the first gig back in May (an earlier desk tape in this series). The songs had slowed down. The horns of contempt had joined. The band was hitting it’s stride. Whilst only a more »

Raw Material #12: 1992 08 07 Metropolis, Fremantle, Australia

H&C Raw Material – The Desk Tapes. This week we have an ode to the Cut album era from Fremantle in the west. Most of the Cut album can be found here including rare recordings of We The People, Grindstone and Edge of Nowhere. This is another important link in the live story of H&C. more »

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