Data fans will love the new data we have got our hands on, courtesy of the Australian Record Industry Association (ARIA)!

We now know the peak chart positions of anything you can imagine that reached the top 250 from the ARIA era – 1989 forward. This includes top 100 peak positions within individual states.

For example, we knew the Back in the Hole single missed the top 100, but now we know it peaked at #105, doing the best in Victoria (#63). There is lots of cool stuff in here!

For the full data, visit the music chart data page. Data has also been included in the extremely detailed formal discography document. The data will also soon be found on individual song and album pages where appropriate 🙂

After decades out of print, today Human Frailty is once again available new on vinyl!

Buy at JB’s Hi-Fi.
Buy at Sanity.

We have a new John Archer full musical tab in midi format of the Jaws/Frailty era b-side, Follow Me No More!

Click here to go to the tabs page.

Big H&C fan Gary Badger has been working on trumpet transcriptions — click here to check them out 🙂

Mark Seymour
Old Museum, Fortitude Valley, Brisbane, Australia
1 July 2017

The Undertow hit their groove tonight with a magnificent sold out show in Brisbane!

Set 1:
1. The Ballad of the One Eyed Man
2. Home Free
3. Holy Grail
4. Master of Spin
5. Sylvia’s In Black
6. Say Goodbye
7. Everything’s On Fire
8. Dog
9. Light on the Hill
10. Classrooms and Kitchens
11. Kosciusko
12. Still Hanging ‘Round
13. Castlemaine
—-
Set 2:
14. Carry Me Home
15. True Tears of Joy
16. Football Train
17. Courtroom 32
18. What’s A Few Men?
19. Tobruk Pin
20. Lucky Land
21. Two Dollar Punter
22. When The River Runs Dry
23. Throw Your Arms Around Me
24. Back in the Hole
25. Westgate
—-
Encore:
26. Beside You
27. Lorelei
28. Do You See What I See?
29. Parting Glass

Mark Seymour
Old Museum, Fortitude Valley, Brisbane, Australia
30 June 2017

Sold out gig full of Hunters and Mark fans with a massive set list to celebrate the release of Roll Back the Stone.

Set 1:
1. The Ballad of the One Eyed Man
2. Dog
3. Holy Grail
4. Master of Spin
5. Home Free
6. Sylvia’s In Black
7. Say Goodbye
8. Everything’s On Fire
9. Light on the Hill
10. Classrooms and Kitchens
11. Kosciusko
12. Still Hanging ‘Round
13. Castlemaine
—-
Set 2:
14. Carry Me Home
15. True Tears of Joy
16. Football Train
17. Courtroom 32
18. What’s A Few Men?
19. Tobruk Pin
20. Lucky Land
21. Two Dollar Punter
22. When The River Runs Dry
23. Throw Your Arms Around Me
24. Back in the Hole
25. Westgate
—-
Encore:
26. Beside You
27. Lorelei
28. Do You See What I See?
29. Parting Glass

Mark Seymour
Theatre Royal, Hobart, Australia
24 June 2017

Roll Back The Stone starts with a cracking gig in Tassie!

Set 1:
1. The Ballad of the One Eyed Man
2. Holy Grail
3. Master of Spin
4. Home Free
5. Sylvia’s In Black
6. Say Goodbye
7. Everything’s On Fire
8. Dog
9. Light on the Hill
10. Classrooms and Kitchens
11. Kosciusko
12. Still Hanging ‘Round
13. Castlemaine
—-
Set 2:
14. Carry My Home
15. True Tears of Joy
16. Football Train
17. Courtroom 32
18. What’s A Few Men?
19. Tobruk Pin
20. Lucky Land
21. Two Dollar Punter
22. When The River Runs Dry
23. Throw Your Arms Around Me
24. Back in the Hole
25. Westgate
—-
Encore:
26. Jerusalem
27. Lorelei
28. Do You See What I See?
29. Parting Glass

Our favourite drummer, Doug Falconer, is back on the road… with seminal Sydney punk rock band X for their 40th anniversary Australian tour.

Over three studio albums (with a fourth of early demos issued in 2011), three live albums and a handful of singles, X left a blistering impression of aggressive bass driven punk.

Long after the passing of legendary bassist Ian Rilen, guitarist Steve Lucas is keeping the X dream alive. For the 2017 tour, Lucas has called upon Kim Volkman (Love Addicts), and Doug Falconer to join him to deliver the best of X. Not just the music – not just the songs, but the intent!

List of tour dates:

X with Doug (left)

Friday JULY 14 – Prince of Wales – Melbourne
Friday JULY 21 – Factory Theatre – Sydney
Saturday JULY 22 – Transit Bar – Canberra
Saturday JULY 29 – The Triffid – Brisbane
Thursday AUGUST 3 – Mojo’s – Fremantle
Friday AUGUST 4 – Rosemount Hotel – Perth
Saturday AUGUST 5 – The Gov – Adelaide

Click here for more information and links to tickets!

X albums can be purchased at Aztec Records, who do a great job keeping original, rare Australian music available to us all.

Check out a new interview with Mark Seymour from Kate Rae in Melbourne, traversing new ground… 🙂

Good news – the full 24 song Live at The Palais recording is now available for digital download and listening through streaming services!

Click here to view/purchase on itunes.

Click here to view/purchase on Google Music.

Click here to listen on SoundCloud.

Click here to listen on Spotify.

The 2014 recordings, from the only tour since 1998, are arguably the most authentic H&C recordings available!

Mark Seymour has been active in the last couple of weeks with the release of Roll Back the Stone… here are some interviews and appearances that you may enjoy 🙂

Gold 104.3 FM Melbourne (3 April)

693 4KQ Brisbane (5 April)

96FM Perth (5 April)

ABC Radio Perth (6 April)

Congratulations to Mark Seymour and The Undertow on reaching the albums chart with Roll Back the Stone, which debuted at #55 on the Australian ARIA chart this week!

Additional data – #54 on the physical albums chart; #50 on the digital albums chart; #42 in the state of Victoria 🙂

In celebration of Mark Seymour & The Undertow’s new album ‘Roll Back The Stone 1985 – 2016’ (out Friday 24 March), the band will be touring nationally and performing material across Mark Seymour’s 30 year career including classics from Hunters & Collectors and solo works.

Saturday 24 June @ Theatre Royal, Hobart
Friday 30 June @ Old Museum, Brisbane
Saturday 1 July @ Old Museum, Brisbane
Friday 21 July @ Atheneaum Theatre, Melbourne
Saturday 22 July @ Atheneaum Theatre, Melbourne
Saturday 29 July @ The Governor Handmarsh, Adelaide
Friday 18 August @ The Basement, Sydney
Saturday 19 August @ The Basement, Sydney
Saturday 26 August @ Astor Theatre, Perth

There’s a great brief Jack Howard interview with Rosie at Triple M Melbourne about the upcoming Midnight Oil tour… 🙂

https://omny.fm/shows/triple-m-rock-interviews/hunnas-jack-howard-joins-midnight-oil

Mark Seymour is appearing on the ABC television programme Q&A this coming Monday, the 27th of March 2017. The broadcast will be streamed live from Monday 9:35pm AEST.

Fellow panelists this week are Bridget McKenzie, National Party Senator for Victoria; Amanda Rishworth, Shadow Minister for Veterans Affairs and Defence Personnel; Peter Holmes à Court, Businessman and safari operator; and Kerry Chikarovski, Former State Liberal leader.

Mark gives us the heads up…

I’ll be appearing on the ABC’s Q&A panel on Monday the 27th March in Sydney.

I will also be closing out the show performing “Master of Spin” from my new album “Roll Back the Stone”.

If you’re available from 8.30 on the night you can register to be a part of the studio audience at the link below.

More information on the upcoming show can be viewed at the ABC Website.

And for the haterz — best go for the Facebook; posts here are moderated 🙂

Here is what you need!

Roll Back the Stone Poster

Copies of Mark Seymour’s Roll Back The Stone are already arriving this week – for fans who put their cash into the project last year 🙂 Enjoy! 🙂

The first and only gig since 2014…!

Saturday 4 March 2017
Concert Oval, Clipsal 500, Adelaide
Hunters and Collectors

Main Set:

• Introduction (Assault on Precinct 13)
• Talking to a Stranger
• Blind Eye
• Inside a Fireball
• True Tears of Joy
• This Morning
• Where Do You Go?
• Stuck on You
• Crime of Passion
• Dog
• Say Goodbye
• Back in the Hole
• Holy Grail
• Everything’s On Fire
• When the River Runs Dry
• Do You See What I See?

Encore:

• 42 Wheels
• Head Above Water
• Throw Your Arms Around Me
• Skin Of Our Teeth
• The Slab

Hunters and Collectors with the Baby Animals – Saturday 4 March 2017!

You won’t want to miss this. Exclusively reuniting for Clipsal 500 Adelaide in 2017, iconic Aussie rock band Hunters & Collectors are headlining the Saturday night concert!

18 years have passed since the ARIA Hall of Fame inductees disbanded, with only a handful of live performances since the 2009 Sound Relief concert in Melbourne. You’ll know their iconic singles ‘Throw Your Arms Around Me’, ‘Do You See What I See’ and ‘When The River Runs Dry’. The return of the legendary rock group at the 2017 Clipsal 500 Adelaide is set to be one of the most sought after tickets on the Australian music calendar.

Hunters & Collectors will be joined on Saturday 4 March by special guests Baby Animals. The popular group founded in Perth last year celebrated the 25th anniversary of their debut single ‘Early Warning’ which spent six weeks at number one, eventually going eight times platinum and becoming the highest-selling debut Australian rock album of all time.

Tickets can be purchased at TicketMaster!

Great news for the many fans of both Midnight Oil and Hunters and Collectors… Jack Howard, trumped and backing vocalist of Hunters and Collectors, will be joining Midnight Oil for their 2017 tour!