Source: Mark Seymour – 2001 Demos (CD). How did we get our hands on this one!? A full studio demo of Jo Land, a song that can otherwise only be found in live form on the 2001 DVD “Ballad of the One Eyed Man live at the Basement”. See you at the Brisbane and Gold Coast more »

Source: Mark Seymour – Don’t You Know Me? CD single. Eye of the Needle is a great folk tune Mark Seymour penned around the time of his classic 2001 album One Eyed Man. It appeared in this live version on the Don’t You Know Me? single and appears here from a fan request…! 🙂 Mark more »

Source: 1985 08 15 Melbourne State College, Melbourne VHS PCM. Red Leather Belt – also known as Honey In The Jar – got a great run live in the Human Frailty era. Here’s an (imperfect!) live version! Now for August, we are going to do a suite of rare MARK solo tracks – let us more »

Source: 1988 07 Live 16 Track Masters VHS PCM. Punters may recognise Parting Glass as a ‘closer’ from Mark’s solo career – but it was first recorded back with Hunters and Collectors back in 1988 with Paul Kelly! It appeared on the Raw Material EP, a promotional only 12″ record issued in America. Thankfully John more »

Source: 1995 07 05-07 Live at the Continental Unedited Mixes DAT. Cut era single Head Above Water was recorded in live acoustic form for the Living In Large Rooms and Lounges album but did not quite make it… here it is now!

Source: 1989 01 01 Ghost Nation Researsals VHS PCM. We are fortunate to have our hands on recordings documenting the early scratchings that were to eventually become the Ghost Nation album. Here is one of them – titled Weekend!

Source: Carry Me (UK 12 – Fenech) vinyl rip. The relatively rare UK 12″ Carry Me single includes two cracking b-sides: a studio version of The Unbeliever (shared previously) and this – a live recording of Follow Me No More. This song, which was written between the Jaws of Life and Human Frailty eras, later appeared more »

Source: 1996 05 26 Continental Cafe, Melbourne, Australia DAT. Taken from 1994’s Demon Flower album and inspired by Kennett era Victorian politics, Mr Bigmouth has appeared on CD in acoustic form but not electric…

Source: 1982 03 12 Lower Plenty Hotel, Melbourne, Australia T2 Cassette. Returning to the early 1980’s, here is a live recording of Boo Boo Kiss from the self titled Hunters and Collectors album in its later, slowed down incarnation…!

Source: Mark Seymour – Undertow (pre-release CD-R). Here’s one for the punters that launched Mark’s new album Mayday into the top 50 albums in Australian this week! (at #43). Sirens was written about the Black Saturday bushfires from February 2009, which claimed 173 lives and remains Australia’s worst ever bushfire disaster. Sirens did not quite ‘fit’ more »