To quote Mark Seymour, “what the hell was that?”! 2014 was the biggest year for Hunters and Collectors since disbanding back in 1998. Following the reunion tour news in 2013 along with the Crucible tribute album, 2014 delivered 20 concerts across Australia and New Zealand. This included eleven ‘A Day on the Green’ shows, five more »
Archive for December, 2014
Gut Feeling live 1990
Source: 1990 02 18 Old Lion, Adelaide, Australia DAT. Fan Stephen recently provided us with a fantastic Vault suggestion: Gut Feeling – surprised it’s not made an appearance yet. It’s always seemed like it would be a great live song It’s great that the Vault is large enough that we still have magnificent tracks that have been more »
Blind Snake Sundae live 1982
Source: 1982 09 19 Stranded, Sydney, Australia T2 Cassette. One of the strangest tracks from the most experimental Hunters album, The Fireman’s Curse, performed live. This is Blind Snake Sundae… we will leave the comments to you!
Breakneck Road, live 1986
Source: 1986 09 28 The Venue, St Kilda, Melbourne VHS PCM. It’s time for a tune from the What’s A Few Men? album. Amazingly, we found that a live version of Breakneck Road has never been released or appeared in the over 100 Vault tracks we have supplied! How can this be!? Breakneck Road got more »
Four Corners – Silent Night
Source: Four Corners EP VHS LPCM. This week we have the final of three recordings from the relatively rare Four Corners EP. Four Corners was a 1985 side project that featured Mark Seymour and Jeremy Smith from Hunters and Collectors along with Des Hefner on drums and Robert Oertel on bass. Once again, we are fortunate more »
Webmaster Reflections on 2014 Tour
Some years ago I created this Internet site as a random fan who wanted to see a serious resource for existing and new Hunters and Collectors fans. This year I had the honour of being on the fringes of the 2014 tour, including five concerts and a number of memorable backstage encounters (including the below, which is more »