February 26th, 2022 
Stuart H&C Raw Material – The Desk Tapes
The final recording in our 15 recording series is one that will be more familiar. A recording from early in the almighty ‘final’ Say Goodbye tour of 1998. This is the same tour that produced the immensely popular Under One Roof album recorded at Selina’s in Sydney.
The gig here is from early in the Say Goodbye tour. As H&C were inclined to do, they again started the new year in the sweltering north of Australia. Here, they have narrowly crossed the Queensland border to play in Tweed Heads. A ‘regional’ gig.
The final studio album Juggernaut gets a good run – including three songs not featured in Under One Roof – Higher Plane, Good Man Down and When You Fall. Wasted In The Sun, which can be found on the Under One Roof DVD but not CD, is also here. A further four songs are here that missed Under One Roof – Everything’s On Fire, Easy, Dog and the Saints cover Know Your Product.
This particular desk tape was recorded straight to Sony’s Digital Audio Tape (DAT) format in CD quality.
Our desk tape selections complemented the official professional recordings – The Way To Go Out (The Venue, Melbourne, 1984), Living in Large Rooms and Lounges (The Continental and others, 1995), Under One Roof (Selinas, Sydney, 1998) and Live 2014 (The Palais, Melbourne). All can be found on streaming audio, including Spotify, Deezer, Amazon Music and Apple Music.
So that is all. Between the four official live releases and fifteen desk tapes, Hunters and Collectors trainspotters now a remarkable live audio history. One that, incredibly, we can still experience courtesy of the Red Hot Summer Tour as you read this post.
Good night… for now!
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Loved this!
Must have been within a couple of weeks of the Farewell Tour show that I attended on the lawn at MGM Darwin NT.
And great to finish this series with a NSW recording!
Thank you so much to Stu, Rob, and everyone else who made these recordings possible. They are also truly appreciated souvenirs; not just of Hunters & Collectors at these times in the band’s career, but also souvenirs of once-in-a-lifetime moments of our own lives. You’ve allowed us to recapture some of our own past too.
Thanks so much for all your hard work Stuart & Co. To hear these historic concerts has just been amazing. Great sound quality & free (Metallica charge for old concerts that sound worse than these & from the same era).
It’s been such a fun 15 weeks.
If I knew you I’d throw my arms around you!
Cheerz
I literally cried listening to this .. oh the memories