Hunters & Collectors Archives

Mushroom’s ‘50 Years of Making Noise’ album opens with Ed Sheeran’s cover of the Hunters & Collectors classic ‘Throw Your Arms Around Me’.

Mark Seymour has covered the Leonardo’s Bride hit ‘Only When I’m Sleeping’ as part of the celebration of Mushroom Records 50 years.

Crowded House celebrated their homecoming Melbourne show with two special guests, Noel Crombie of Split Enz and Mark Seymour of Hunters & Collectors.

Hunters & Collectors will finish up what was meant to be a 10 week reunion but ended up going almost three years this weekend for Duane McDonald’s Red Hot Summer tour.

Duane McDonald’s 2023 season of Red Hot Summer has registered a sell-out Sandstone Point Hotel show at Bribie Island with a second shows now on sale for 30 April.

Hunters & Collectors will perform at Fremantle Prison in October with The Stems reforming to join them and Chris Cheney also sentenced to perform.

Duane McDonald’s Red Hot Summer will bring Hunters & Collectors to Rochford Winery in October.

Duane McDonald is giving Mark Seymour the weekend off this weekend and taking Iva Davies and Icehouse into Queensland.

When Hunters & Collectors reformed for Red Hot Summer in 2020 it was meant to be a few months on the road and then all back to the day jobs. With the pandemic and the lockdowns, we can thank Duane McDonald’s Red Hot Summer festival for giving us a much longer H&C incarnation.

Red Hot Summer is back for the next two weekends with Gold Coast this Saturday and Bribie Island the following Saturday 30 April.

Duane McDonald’s Mannum South Australia event Sounds By The River drew an incredible crowd over the weekend with perfect weather and another beautifully orchestrated production from Regional Touring.

The Red Hot Summer tour, due for Sydney’s Bella Vista Farm this weekend, has been postponed until October.

The Red Hot Summer tour scheduled for this weekend has once again been postponed due to weather.

Duane McDonald’s Red Hot Summer Festival was Australia’s biggest live music event over the weekend pulling a crowd of over 15,000 in Ballarat.

An anniversary that went slightly unnoticed was the 40th anniversary of the first Hunters & Collectors released in January.

There is more good news for Red Hot Summer with this weekend’s event in Victor Harbor, South Australia a sellout. So too is the Broadwater Parklands, Southport event in Queensland on 23 April.

Duane McDonald will take Red Hot Summer to South Australia this weekend after being forced to postpone last weekend in Kiama due to the New South Wales weather.

Red Hot Summer Kiama Rescheduled Due To Wild NSW Weather

Two after being postponed due to flooding the Hunters & Collectors Red Hot Summer show for Cockatoo Island in Sydney Harbour is finally back this weekend.

Duane McDonald’s Red Hot Summer is heading across the Tasmania.

Sounds By The River, South Australia’s music event in Mannum, will return in 2022 with Hunters & Collectors, James Reyne, The Living End, The Angels, Jon Stevens, Baby Animals, Killing Heidi and Boom Crash Opera.

Mark Seymour has a new song with Missy Higgins. ‘The Whole World Is Dreaming’ was recorded live in an empty theatre at The Forum in Melbourne during the 2020 lockdown.

The Red Hot Summer show, featuring Hunters & Collectors in Mornington on February 26, sold out moments after going on sale this morning.

The Hunters & Collectors Red Hot Summer dates have been rescheduled with their Unfinished Business starting back up in Sydney on 20 February.

Mark Seymour made nine Hunters & Collectors albums. He has had 10 outside the band. When Michael Gudinski signed the band to Mushroom for their 1982 debut he create a new record label The White Label to launch them. Mark says that that was unnecessary.