Boxer Album

The Boxer Arrives

New Mark Seymour and The Undertow album out NOW!

Listen to or order in your preferred format – digital, CD or vinyl – at https://markseymour.lnk.to/TheBoxer.

 

Songwriting has always been a marriage of feeling and hard truth, a way of seeing the world and looking ahead. I have often written in crisis. Lockdowns were a watershed, a valley I passed though alone. Isolation forced me to confront the kind of life I was living. My marriage to Jo ended after 29 years as did my artistic relationship with Hunters and Collectors. I started boxing in the garage, for no other reason than to purge energy and in the process, I fell in love with the movement and skill. I also read Joan Didion. One line in particular: “the willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life – is the source from which self-respect springs.” How to pick up the pieces and move on.

– Mark Seymour

 

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H&C at Mushroom 50 Live

Hunters and Collectors are to perform at Mushroom 50 Live!

Mushroom 50 Live is a celebration of Australia’s most iconic music company, with some of the country’s most adored artists across multiple generations set to come together for one incredible night this November.

To commemorate Mushroom’s 50th anniversary, dozens of artists will hit the stage to perform 50 songs for 50 years in a once-in-a-lifetime event.

Fan tips: We understand that Hunters and Collectors will be performing two songs. Note that this is the only Hunters performance currently on the plans.

Sunday 26 November 2023
Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne
Tickets: https://premier.ticketek.com.au/shows/show.aspx?sh=MUSHROOM50

Mushroom 50

Hunters Live

Listen to the Desk Tapes

Lovingly extracted from a range of original sources, the Desk Tapes is a unique and free way to hear the live history of Hunters and Collectors. Complementing the official live recordings, these special documents cover every era of the constantly reinventing live beast that was Hunters and Collectors from 1981 to 1998.

Click for more information and to listen:

Remember to check out the fantastic – and naturally higher quality – official live recordings in music stores or on your favourite streaming audio sources.

  • The Way To Go Out (The Venue, Melbourne, 23-25 August 1984)
  • Living In Large Rooms and Lounges (The Continental, Melbourne, April-May 1995 + others)
  • Under One Roof (Selinas, Sydney, 13-14 March 1998)
  • Live 2014 (The Palais, Melbourne, 11-12 April 2014)

Brass, Beats & Bass in LightHeavyWeight 2

Jack here, folks. My new solo record, Lightheavyweight 2, is out now!

 

I’m pretty excited about it. I’d call it a local variant on the international jetsetting bathrobed adventure that was Lightheavyweight. More beats, more disco, more brass. A lot of local Melbourne colour in songs inspired by the Elwood Canal, Grey St, Cicciolina, the MCG.

 

You can order it at my bandcamp site but it will be available in all the good record stores and on all of the usual streaming services. There’ll be videos to come but for now, here’s the wonderful poster that Mirjam Adelaar has designed for me.

 

Check out the 29 June 2022 Retrospective with John Broughton for a detailed interview and expose!

 

ll the links are here – https://linktr.ee/jackhoward1958. Get on it.

 

LightHeavyWeight 2 Poster

Hunters Equipment

John’s Tabs

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!

Furthermore, the entire of the classic Human Frailty and The Jaws of Life albums are available.

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!

Merch

Online Hunna’s Merch Tent!

All Hunters and Collectors 2020 Red Hot Summer Tour Merchandise can now be purchased online from Band T-Shirts. Limited stocks may also be found from the classic 2014 tour.

There are shirts in classic and tour designs, hats, stubble holders, drink coasters, tea towels, posters, stickers and our new favourite, the drink bottle!

Click here for Hunna’s Merch.

Hunters band photo

Welcome

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

Welcome to True Believers – the comprehensive fan managed official website for the great Australian rock band 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 have something for everyone:

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

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