A band took its title from either a 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. A healthy was in the vein of Remaaround in Weak, a Talking Heads album of 1980.

History
Mark Seymour (guitar & vocals), John Archer (bass), and Doug Falconer (drums) met at the University of Melbourne in the late 1970s. It formed the casual band known as A Schnorts (swimming cover song), followed per thomas more challenging A Jetsonnes (by using the female lead singer).

A foremost version of Hunters & Collectors was: Seymour; Archer; Hawker; 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 a share of the band's output. He stayed by having a band throughout their career). Tosti-Gueira was later on replaced by Martin Lubran, so Barry Palmer. When lead singer, guitar player & chief songster, Seymour was a lynchpin of a class action, & Archer & Hawker come widely look upon one of a better percussion section ever to emerge from either the Australian rock scene.

In the mid-1980s Seymour (who is the older brother of bassist Nick Seymour of Crowded House) was romantically involved for the instance by having Do-Re-Mi (band) lead singer Deborah Conway.

Hunters signed to White Label, an branch of Mushroom Records, and their self-titled debut album was by Sydney-based engineer-producer Tony Cohen. Their number 1 only was "Talking to a Stranger" which was accompanied by an influential music video directed by filmmaker Richard Lowenstein. A band decamped to Germany around 1983 where they recorded a watch-higher album ''A Fireman's Curse'' using Conny Plank.

Within 1984 they briefly disbanded, but reformed late in the month forgoing Lubran. This line-higher besides featured keyboards and a 3-piece horn subdivision. By owning Greg Perano's departure from a band (late to form The Deadly Hume), the band began to pare back their art-rock pretensions of their earliest albums, although they retained the muscular, bass-caused healthy, rounded off per band's distinctive horn division. Mark Seymour's lyrics became less abstruse & other focused on a twin themes of the fraught personal relation & the politics of the day.

A 1st album featuring a fresh line higher was The Jaws of Life (1984), again by Conny Plank. It featured a lone "The Slab", which was an underground profits (in the main thanks to the trend lines of radio station Triple J), but didn't produce any inroads on the commercial music scene, even because of the masturbatory subtext of the lyrics. But, a record, regular airplay on the radio station JJJ (then Sydney-based) & videos play in Countdown & other music cd shows, and especially their uniform survive performances brought Hunters & Collectors a strong and devoted following on the Australian pub scene.

Their breakthrough commercial profits withwithin Australia come in 1986, with a release of the album Human Frailty which featured the individual "Throw Your Arms Around Me", too when more fan favourites like "Say Goodbye" & "Everything's On Fire". It was at this point that the band signed a parallel treat with I.R.S. Records for North America.

A 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". A latter song was deemed to become as well "Australian" & cut from either a U.s. configuration of the album, retitled Fate, in situ of ternion more songs recorded for this version, including "Back On The Breadline". (A recent re-reprinting of ''What's Two or three Men features altogether Xv songs from either these 2 versions.)

Guitarist Barry Palmer (ex-Harem Scarem) joined the band when you took 1988. Ghost Nation'' was released within 1989 and featured the singles "When The River Runs Dry" & "Blindeye", & Hunters & Collectors supported Midnight Oil on that band's North American tour of 1990. Although a b& struggled to buy profits within the America and elsewhere, it maintained their status in Australia when local favourites.

A compilation Collected Works was freed around 1990, with the re-recorded version of "Throw Your Arms Around Me", & one, "Where Do You Go" was by Nick Sansano and released around late 1991.

Inside 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 per anthemic lone "Holy Grail", on the face of it just about Napoleon's march to Russia in 1812 however likewise reflecting a band's have drooping tries to "crack" a Western market.

This was followed inside 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. The double survive album, Residing ... Around Big Rooms & Lounges was discharged inside 1995, using a single disc consisting of an acoustic placed at a defunct Continental Cafe within Prahran, Melbourne and the supplementary existence the more average pothouse performance. Juggernaut, their go studio album, was recorded & freed within 1998, & featured a lone "True Believers".

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 & freed in CD and DVD as Under One Roof, & a band retains a reputation when one of the premier acts around Australian rock'n'roll history.

Subsequent to the band's retirement, Mark Seymour & Jack Howard own each pursued solo musical careers. Barry Palmer is currently a producer/songwriter & was the subject of the 2005 reality TV series The Hit Game.

Australian discography

Studio albums
Hunters & Collectors (White Label L42002, 26 July 1982) ''A 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 Two or three 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 (Whiten Label TVD93364, 6 October 1992) Demon Flower (White Label TVD93401, 16 Could 1994) Juggernaut (White Label MUSH33081.Two, 26 January 1998)

Studio EPs
Globe Of Stone (January 1982) Payload (White Label X14002, December 1982) Residing Daylight (April 1987)

Live albums
A Way To Last Out (videos, video, DVD) (White Label L27148, 6 Might 1985) Dwelling ... Inside Heavy Rooms & Lounges (White Label D98017, 27 November 1995) Under Of these Roof (survive) (White Label MUSH33176.Deuce, 11 November 1998)

Compilation albums
Collected Works (streaming video, video) (White Label TVD93338, 19 November 1990) Natural Choice'' (Video, 2CD, DVD) (Liberation BLUE034.Cinque, 13 October 2003)

Personnel

A 'classic' Hunters & Collectors line higher (for the previous decade years together): John Archer - bass guitar, P.The., backing vocals (1981-1998). Doug Falconer - drums, percussion, programming, backing vocals (1981-1998). Jack Howard - trumpet, keyboards, backing vocals (1981-1998). Robert Miles - survive 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, art (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).