Hunters & Collectors, often referred to as the "Hunnas" by their fans, were an Australian rock band, formed in Melbourne in 1980. They were noted for songs such as "Throw Your Arms Around Me", "Talking To A Stranger" and "Say Goodbye" and were renowned as one of the best live acts in Australia until their disbandment in 1998. Rock group (or later rock band) is a generic name to describe a group of musicians specializing in a particular form of electronically amplified music. ... Jump to: navigation, search Melbourne is the capital and largest city of the state of Victoria, and the second largest city in Australia (after Sydney), with a population of 3. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1980 is a leap year starting on Tuesday. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1998 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ...

The band took its name from the track "Hunters & Collectors", from album Landed by the German band Can and as it suggests the original band was influenced by the Krautrock genre and the productions of Conny Plank and featured strong percussive influences, coupled with noisy guitar and driving bass lines. The sound was in the vein of Remain in Light, the Talking Heads album of 1980. Can in 1972: Holger Czukay, Damo Suzuki, Michael Karoli, Irmin Schmidt and Jaki Liebezeit Can (The Can until 1970) was an experimental rock music group founded in Germany in 1968. ... Krautrock is a generic name for the experimental bands who appeared in Germany in the early 1970s. ... Konrad Conny Plank (frequently spelled Planck) (d. ... Jump to: navigation, search The acoustic archtop guitar used in Jazz features steel strings The guitar is a stringed musical instrument. ... Bass (IPA: [], rhyming with face), when used as an adjective, describes tones of low frequency. ... Jump to: navigation, search Talking Heads. ...

History

Mark Seymour (guitar & vocals), John Archer (bass), and Doug Falconer (drums) met at the University of Melbourne in the late 1970s. They formed a casual band called The Schnorts (playing cover versions), followed by the more ambitious The Jetsonnes (with a female lead vocalist). In music a singer or vocalist is a type of musician who sings, i. ... For other kinds of drums, see drum (disambiguation). ... The University of Melbourne   The Old Quad Building, formerly Old Law The University of Melbourne, located in Melbourne, in Victoria, is the second oldest university in Australia, behind the University of Sydney, and is arguably the most prestigious [1]. It is a member of Australias Group of Eight lobby... Jump to: navigation, search The 1970s in its most obvious sense refers to the decade between 1970 and 1979. ...

The first version of Hunters and Collectors was: Seymour; Archer; Falconer; Geoff Crosby (keyboards); Greg Perano (percussion); Ray Tosti-Gueira (guitar); and Robert Miles (their sound engineer and art director who, in an unusual arrangement, was credited as an equal part of the band's output. He stayed with the band throughout their career). Tosti-Gueira was later replaced by Martin Lubran, then Barry Palmer. As lead singer, guitarist and principal songwriter, Seymour was the lynchpin of the group, and Archer and Falconer are widely regarded as one of the best rhythm sections ever to emerge from the Australian rock scene. A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument played with a musical keyboard. ... Percussion instruments are played by being struck, shaken, rubbed or scraped. ... Audio engineering is the branch of engineering dealing with the production of sound through mechanical means. ... The term art director is an overall title for a variety of similar job functions in publishing, film and television, the Internet, and video games. ...

In the mid-1980s Seymour (who is the older brother of bassist Nick Seymour of Crowded House) was romantically involved for a time with Do-Re-Mi (band) lead singer Deborah Conway. Jump to: navigation, search // Events and trends The 1980s marked an abrupt shift towards more conservative lifestyles after the momentous cultural revolutions which took place in the 1960s and 1970s and the definition of the AIDS virus in 1981. ... Nicholas More Seymour (born December 9, 1958 in Benalla, Victoria, Australia) is a bass player, painter, and record producer. ... Crowded House was an Australian/New Zealand rock group between 1986 and 1996; two original members were from Australia and one was from New Zealand. ... Deborah Conway is an Australian musician who became well known in the band Do-Re-Mi with their surprise hit Man Overboard. ...

Hunters signed to White Label, an offshoot of Mushroom Records, and their self-titled debut album was produced by Sydney-based engineer-producer Tony Cohen. Their first single was "Talking to a Stranger" which was accompanied by an influential music video directed by filmmaker Richard Lowenstein. The band decamped to Germany in 1983 where they recorded the follow-up album The Fireman's Curse with Conny Plank. Mushroom Records is an Australian record company. ... Jump to: navigation, search Sydney is the capital city of the Australian state of New South Wales and Australias largest and oldest city (founded in 1788). ... Jump to: navigation, search // Music Video A music video (also video clip, promo) is a short film or video meant to present a visual representation of a popular music song. ... Richard Lowenstein is an Australian film director. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1983 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Konrad Conny Plank (frequently spelled Planck) (d. ...

In 1984 they briefly disbanded, but reformed later in the year without Lubran. This line-up also featured keyboards and a three-piece horn section. With Greg Perano's departure from the band (later to form The Deadly Hume), the band began to pare back their art-rock pretensions of their earliest albums, although they retained a muscular, bass-driven sound, rounded off by the band's distinctive horn section. Mark Seymour's lyrics became less abstruse and more focused on the twin themes of the fraught personal relationships and the politics of the day. Jump to: navigation, search 1984 is a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument played with a musical keyboard. ... Hunters & Collectors, often referred to as the Hunnas by their fans, were an Australian rock band, formed in Melbourne in 1980. ...

The first album featuring the new line up was The Jaws of Life (1984), again produced by Conny Plank. It featured the single "The Slab", which was an underground success (mainly thanks to the support of radio station Triple J), but didn't make any inroads on the commercial music scene, possibly because of the masturbatory subtext of the lyrics. However, the record, regular airplay on the radio station JJJ (then Sydney-based) and video play on Countdown and other music video shows, and especially their consistent live performances brought Hunters & Collectors a strong and devoted following on the Australian pub scene. Jump to: navigation, search 1984 is a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Konrad Conny Plank (frequently spelled Planck) (d. ... Jump to: navigation, search Triple J (JJJ) is a nationally-networked, government-funded Australian radio station (a division of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation), mainly aimed at youth (defined as those between 12 and 25). ... Jump to: navigation, search Triple J (JJJ) is a nationally-networked, government-funded Australian radio station (a division of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation), mainly aimed at youth (defined as those between 12 and 25). ... Jump to: navigation, search Sydney is the capital city of the Australian state of New South Wales and Australias largest and oldest city (founded in 1788). ... Countdown was a long-running popular weekly Australian music television show broadcast by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation from late 1974 until 1987. ...

Their breakthrough commercial success in Australia came in 1986, with the release of the album Human Frailty which featured the single "Throw Your Arms Around Me", as well as other fan favourites such as "Say Goodbye" and "Everything's On Fire". It was at this point that the band signed a parallel deal with I.R.S. Records for North America. Jump to: navigation, search 1986 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Human Frailty is an album released by Australian band, Hunters & Collectors in 1986. ... I.R.S. Records was started in the US in 1979 by Miles Copeland (the older brother of Stewart Copeland, drummer of The Police). ...

The next album, What's A Few Men was released in 1997, and featured the singles for "Do You See What I See" and "Still Hangin' Round". The latter song was deemed to be too "Australian" and cut from the American configuration of the album, retitled Fate, in place of three other songs recorded for this version, including "Back On The Breadline". (The recent re-issue of What's A Few Men features all 15 songs from these two versions.) Jump to: navigation, search 1997 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Guitarist Barry Palmer (ex-Harem Scarem) joined the band during 1988. Ghost Nation was released in 1989 and featured the singles "When The River Runs Dry" and "Blindeye", and Hunters & Collectors supported Midnight Oil on that band's North American tour of 1990. Although the band struggled to find success in the US and elsewhere, they maintained their status in Australia as local favourites. Jump to: navigation, search 1988 is a leap year starting on a Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Ghost Nation is an album released by Australian band Hunters & Collectors in 1989. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1989 is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Midnight Oil were an Australian rock band known for their driving hard rock sound, superb live performances and their overt left-wing political activism. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1990 is a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

The compilation Collected Works was released in 1990, with a re-recorded version of "Throw Your Arms Around Me", and a single, "Where Do You Go" was produced by Nick Sansano and released in late 1991. Jump to: navigation, search 1990 is a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1991 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

In 1992, Hunters & Collectors recorded the album Cut with the producer Don Gehman, and although the relationship was apparently strained at times due to Gehman's combative working methods, Cut nevertheless became the band's most successful album, retaining a balance between the band's artistic core and its commercial ambitions. It was marked by the anthemic single "Holy Grail", ostensibly about Napoleon's march to Russia in 1812 but also reflecting the band's own flagging attempts to "crack" the American market. Jump to: navigation, search 1992 was a leap year starting on Wednesday. ... Jump to: navigation, search Napoleon I of France, by Jacques-Louis David Napoleon Bonaparte (15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821) was a general of the French Revolution, and the ruler of France as First Consul (Premier Consul) of the French Republic from 11 November 1799 to 18 May 1804, then...

This was followed in 1994 with Demon Flower, which was dominated by themes relating to the politics in the state of Victoria, particularly the economic rationalist policies of Jeff Kennett. A double live album, Living ... In Large Rooms And Lounges was released in 1995, with one disc consisting of an acoustic set at the defunct Continental Cafe in Prahran, Melbourne and the other being a more typical pub performance. Juggernaut, their last studio album, was recorded and released in 1998, and featured the single "True Believers". Jump to: navigation, search 1994 was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International year of the Family. ... Jump to: navigation, search Motto: Peace and Prosperity Nickname: Garden State Other Australian states and territories Capital Melbourne Government Governor Premier Const. ... Jump to: navigation, search Economic rationalism is an Australian term in discussion of microeconomic policy, applicable to the economic policy of many governments around the world, in particular during the 1980s and 1990s. ... Hon Jeff Kennett Jeffrey Gibb Kennett AC (born 2 March 1948), Australian politician, was Premier of Victoria from 1992 to 1999. ... Jump to: navigation, search Melbourne is the capital and largest city of the state of Victoria, and the second largest city in Australia (after Sydney), with a population of 3. ...

Hunters & Collectors proceeded on their final tour of Australia in 1998, with the last concert being performed at one of their favourite venues from over the years, "Selina's" at the Coogee Bay Hotel, Sydney. This gig was recorded for posterity and released on CD and DVD as Under One Roof, and the band retains a reputation as one of the premier acts in Australian rock music history. Jump to: navigation, search Sydney is the capital city of the Australian state of New South Wales and Australias largest and oldest city (founded in 1788). ... CD may stand for: Compact Disc Canadian Forces Decoration Cash Dispenser (at least used in Japan) CD LPMud Driver Centrum-Demokraterne (Centre Democrats of Denmark) Certificate of Deposit České Dráhy (Czech Railways) Chad (NATO country code) Chalmers Datorförening (computer club of the Chalmers University of Technology) a 1960s... Jump to: navigation, search DVD is an optical disc storage media format that can be used for data storage, including movies with high video and sound quality. ...

Subsequent to the band's retirement, Mark Seymour and Jack Howard have both pursued solo musical careers. Barry Palmer is now a producer/songwriter and was the subject of the 2005 reality TV series The Hit Game. Reality television is a genre of television programming in which the fortunes of real life people (as opposed to fictional characters played by actors) are followed. ...

Australian discography

Studio albums

• Hunters And Collectors (White Label L42002, 26 July 1982)
• The Fireman's Curse (White Label L38066, 6 September 1983)
• Jaws Of Life (White Label L38222, 6 August 1984)
• Human Frailty (White Label RML53205, 7 April 1986)
• What's A Few Men? (White Label RML53253, 16 November 1987)
• Fate (White Label D30455, 1991) [new version of What's A Few Men?]
• Ghost Nation (White Label TVD93314, November 1989)
• Cut (White Label TVD93364, 6 October 1992)
• Demon Flower (White Label TVD93401, 16 May 1994)
• Juggernaut (White Label MUSH33081.2, 26 January 1998)

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Studio EPs

• World Of Stone (January 1982)
• Payload (White Label X14002, December 1982)
• Living Daylight (April 1987)

Live albums

• The Way To Go Out (CD, video, DVD) (White Label L27148, 6 May 1985)
• Living ... In Large Rooms And Lounges (White Label D98017, 27 November 1995)
• Under One Roof (live) (White Label MUSH33176.2, 11 November 1998)

Compilation albums

• Collected Works (CD, video) (White Label TVD93338, 19 November 1990)
• Natural Selection (CD, 2CD, DVD) (Liberation BLUE034.5, 13 October 2003)

Personnel

The 'classic' Hunters and Collectors line up (for the last ten years together):

• John Archer - bass guitar, P.A., backing vocals (1981-1998).
• Doug Falconer - drums, percussion, programming, backing vocals (1981-1998).
• Jack Howard - trumpet, keyboards, backing vocals (1981-1998).
• Robert Miles - live sound/mixing, art/design (1981-1998).
• Barry Palmer - lead guitar (1988-1998).
• Mark Seymour - lead vocal, lyrics, guitar (1981-1998).
• Jeremy Smith - French horn, guitars, keyboards, programming, backing vocals (1981-1998).
• Michael Waters - trombone, keyboards, finance (1981-1998).

Additional early members

• Nigel Crocker - trombone (1981-1982).
• Geoff Crosby - keyboards, artwork (1981-1985).
• Martin Lubran - guitar (1982-1983).
• Andy Lynn - trumpet (1981-1982).
• Chris Malherbe - trumpet (1981-1982).
• Greg Perano - percussion (1981-1983).
• Ray Tosti-Gueira - guitar, backing vocals (1981-1982).

References

• Liner notes from album releases, in particular Mark Seymour's notes on the Natural Selection and Unnatural Selection compilations.

External links

• www.seanleader.com/hunnas/ True Believers, an unofficial fan site.
• markseymour.com.au The Official Mark Seymour Website
• Throw Your Arms Around Me cover by Allison Crowe, Canadian singer-songwriter