Raw Material #14: 1996 05 26 Continental Cafe, Melbourne, Australia
19 November, 2021
H&C Raw Material – The Desk Tapes. A year after the release of 1994’s Demon Flower album; Hunters and Collectors experimented with acoustic arrangements of their expansive back catalog...
Raw Material #07: 1986 07 05 Seaview Ballroom, St Kilda, Melbourne, Australia
12 November, 2021
H&C Raw Material – The Desk Tapes. With Human Frailty out on limited edition vinyl, for our second desk tape we have something special: a full 24 song St Kilda gig from the Human Frailty era...
Raw Material #01: 1981 05 15 Crystal Ballroom, Melbourne, Australia
5 November, 2021
H&C Raw Material – The Desk Tapes. Today we commence a series of 15 recordings culled from a total of 307 (!) unreleased desk tapes. These are authentic historical records of full concerts r...
Source: Collected Works (1990 Aus CD release). The final recorded studio audio version of Throw Your Arms Around Me has long been out of print but is still often heard on the radio… a fitting wa...
Source: 1986 09 28 The Venue, St Kilda, Melbourne VHS PCM. Our second last Vault track in the series is a cracking live recording of Relief from the Human Frailty album, lovingly converted from digita...
Source: 1986 Throw Your Arms Around Me (Aus 7 – Fenech). Our third last track in the Vault series is an obscure track originally hidden away on the 1986 Australian Throw Your Arms Around Me 7&#...
Source: 1997 10 04 Mark (with Nick), Govenor Hindmarsh, Adelaide, Australia DAT. As we wind down the Vault, we present a live recording of an early fan favourite from Mark’s solo career, You Don...
Source: Port Fairy Folk Festival (7 Mar 09) CD. We have only two weeks of the Vault to go after this weekend… and this weekend we present two stunning Mark Seymour solo recordings. This first on...
Source: 1982 04 03 Stage Door, Adelaide, Australia T2 Cassette. The second of two Vault tracks this week is what we believe to be the last fully formed live track recorded but never published… i...
Source: 1981 06 18 Band Practice, Ballroom, Melbourne T2 Cassette. The first of two Vault tracks this week as we near the end of our Vault journey… a very early band practice of Alligator Engine...
Source: 1980 06 Jetsonnes – Richmond Cassette. Here is a live track from The Jetsonnes, which later split and morphed into Hunters and Collectors… 🙂...
Fresh from the 2023 Red Hot Summer Tour, Mark Seymour and The Undertow recorded a new album! With their greatest two albums being their most recent ones - Mayday (2015) and Slow Dawn (2020) - no pressure! :-)
LightHeavyWeight 2 looks closer to home with fine guest appearances from Melbourne greats. Available digitally, on vinyl and CD (with a bonus CD of the original LightHeavyWeight album!).