Source: 18 September 1983, Floreat Hotel, Perth, Australia Cassette As the band slowly fell apart following The Fireman’s Curse in 1983, creative tensions can be heard dragging the party in two directions – perhaps a form of Birthday Party versus X battle. The latter approach, which eventually won out and resulted in the cracking The more »

Source: 15 January 1985 (best estimate), Live Two Tracks Cassette Stephen has been writing up a stack of articles for us and requested “Did you find any tapes from those 1985 [Mark] solo gigs? Or any studio versions of Rendering Room, Chocolate Speedway, Remember this Motion, Run it Down or Getting Older???“. As awareness of more »

Source: ‘Tracks for Rarities Disc’ 2008 Liberation Records CD This weeks escapee from the vault is titled I Know – though the story with it is more about what we do not know. We do not know when this was recorded, we do not know what album is was meant to be in, and I more »

Source: 23 November 1992, Live Acoustic on MMM Cassette Fan Tim has been belting out more articles for us and his request this time was… “wondering if you have any acoustic recordings of songs that were not normally performed ‘unplugged’…“. Pleased to be able to help with this one. Despite having been a top 100 more »

Source: 1982 09 19 Stranded, Sydney, Australia Cassette This week’s ‘From the Vault’ is for Tammy, who has been giving us a hand with the articles. Tammy’s request started off innocently enough – “So have you come across any covers?” The execution was more difficult. Mark has an album of covers on the way, so more »

Source: 22 March 1998, Hi Fi Bar, Melbourne, Australia DAT This week fan Trevor has been helping us out with the articles and requests… “As for a request, nothing specific, perhaps something from Juggernaut we haven’t heard before…” Well, this one is not easy, as not a lot of Juggernaut was played live, and I more »

Source: 23 November 1992, Live Acoustic on MMM Cassette True Believers fan Tim has been helping us out with the articles, so it was time he got a song pick. Tim told us – “As far as rare tracks go, I wonder if you have any alternate (live, demo, whatever) versions of Imaginary Girl? I more »

Source: 16 Sep 1983, Red Parrot, Perth, Australia Cassette True Believers fan Roger typed out some Hunters articles for us in ripping time, so I asked him for anything he could find of interest as a rarity. Roger responded: “I am fascinated by Fireman’s Curse… Call it morbid curiousity, but demos, outtakes or live versions more »

Source: Recorded 1991; 2008 Liberation Records CD compilation labelled “Tracks for Rarities Disc” (some tracks were used in “Spare Parts” compilation) Came across a CD titled “Tracks for Rarities Disc” which had some tracks on it. First six tracks were live recordings that ended up on Spare Parts. Nothing remarkable there. Then… Track 7… what more »

The Vault refers to a large collection of Hunters and Collectors related recordings that have quietly aged in storage for up to 32 years before being opened up to fans in July 2012. The Vault recordings cover the full history of the band. Most recordings are either DAT tapes or Type 2 Cassettes, though there more »