Source: 1983 01 26 Prince of Wales Hotel, St Kilda, Australia Cassette Hunters and Mark Brisbane fan John mentioned back when we opened the vaults an interest in a live version of Towtruck. Jack Howard has always told us it was incredible live, so it was a good pick. We are please to have a more »

Source: 1989 01 26 Sydney Cove Tavern, Sydney, Australia Cassette This week we move to an early gig from the Ghost Nation era, and find a live track called Everything You Love. After a complete change of lyrics, this song eventually morphed into The Price of Freedom, a b-side from the When The River Runs more »

Source: 1981 05 15 Crystal Ballroom, Melbourne, Australia CD This week another track from the first Hunters and Collectors gig – and this one has never appeared before on any official release or known bootleg! We hope you enjoy Plaything!  

Source: 1993 05 02 Sammys, Dunedin, New Zealand Cassette Fan Mark has been helping us out with some of the technical aspects of the website lately, and asked about Cut era shows in New Zealand. A bad quirk of timing meant he missed this tour, and the opportunity to hear many great tracks from Cut more »

Source: 1985 01 06 Direct to Digital, Hardware St, Melbourne, Australia cassette Fan Tammy has been helping us type out articles and this week asks… if there is another version of “Red Leather Belt’ knocking around? Well yes, of course! This week we have dug up a ‘live in studio’ style recording of Red Leather Belt, also more »

Source: 1981 05 15 Crystal Ballroom, Melbourne, Australia CD Nearly one month ago, we provided an unreleased track from the first gig that did not appear on the Spare Parts rarities set. Today a second track from that same gig – Boo Boo Kiss    

Source: Can’t Stop It! II – Australian Post-Punk 1979-84 CD Technically not from the vault, but the earliest studio recording involving John Archer, Doug Falconer, Rob Miles, Mark Seymour and Ray Tosti-Gueira, who were to soon be a sizeable part of Hunters and Collectors. Newspaper was originally released as a gig giveaway 7″ vinyl single more »

Source: 3 December 2011, V8’s, Homebush, Sydney, Australia DVD As much a case of “look what we found!” as anything else, this week we share a recording from last years Hunters reunion gig in Sydney! We understood that no recording existed, yet we found this slightly scratchy DVD, apparently taken by the V8’s crew. It’s more »

Source: 23 November 1992, Live Acoustic on MMM Cassette This week we complete the set of recordings from the MMM live acoustic set of 23 November 1992. Four songs from this set – Where Do You Go?, True Tears Of Joy, When The River Runs Dry and Holy Grail – were included on the Australian more »

Source: 1981 05 15 Crystal Ballroom, Melbourne, Australia CD A few people have asked a good question – on the Spare Parts rarities disc (in the Horn of Plenty box set and now on itunes), there were four recordings from the first Hunters and Collectors gig at the Crystal Ballroom in Melbourne; were there any more »