Good news punters! Jack has a new EP, The Passing Parade, featuring six songs, due for release on the 22nd of February! Here’s the front cover… 🙂
Archive for January, 2016
Der Rodeo live practice
Source: 1981 06 09 Band Practice, Seaview Ballroom T2 Cassette. Occasionally we get requests for something completely unheard from very early in the tale. This is about as early as it gets… a band practice track called ‘Der Rodeo’ from June 1981, less than one month after the live debut of Hunters and Collectors. Recorded at more »
Bull In A China Shop demo
Source: 1991 04 21 Cut Demos VHS PCM. Here’s a demo created on the long path towards 1992’s Cut album to brighten your afternoon! 🙂
The Way You Live original mix
Source: 1989 Ghost Nation Original Mixes Cassette Here’s another brassy Ghost Nation original mix from Jack’s tape. It’s The Way You Live – later the third charting hit single from 1989’s Ghost Nation album.
Droptank live 1982
Source: 1982 09 19 Stranded, Sydney, Australia T2 Cassette Back in late 1982, Hunters and Collectors followed up their self titled EP with the Payload EP, along with a remarkable sonic improvement on the vinyl. Only one of the four EP tracks has not appeared live in The Vault so far — Droptank! Thank the ultra observant more »
Mayday on Best of 2015 List
Music journo Jeff Jenkins has given Mark Seymour and the Undertow’s Mayday album a nod as the best album of 2015 over at Stack Magazine! “This is the story of modern Australia, where it’s ‘one rule for the filthy rich, another one for the weak’, the nation is filled with ‘celebrities and sycophants’, desperate people more »
Never Say Never
Source: 2008 Tracks for Rarities Disc (CD). Here’s an offcut — a song recorded for the Cut album that never made it onto the final release 🙂