After eighteen years as front man for the Australian band Hunters and Collectors, Mark Seymour began making solo recordings in 1996. His work continued to resonate with the raw emotion and stark lyrics that were made popular in the band. He still loves to document “the ordinary greatness” of human behaviour, as he likes to put it. Mark Seymour has always been preoccupied with the riddles of faith and love, the basic human craving for transcendence and its opposite, the capacity for brutality and violence. And yet all of these things seem to come from a darkly humorous place. Seymour loves a joke and there is nothing funnier that humanity. His work continues to evolve and expand with the addition of film scores and theatre work, which has helped him to open up a broader canon than is usual associated with the solo male singer. Politics are becoming an increasingly important part of Seymour’s work and the latest album “Westgate” is interlaced with themes that touch on the suffering of the lives of ordinary people at the hands of tyrants and incompetent leaders. He is currently working on a book called “Thirteen Tonne Theory” which tells the story of the rise and fall of Hunters and Collectors. Seymour has just completed his fifth solo album, “Westgate” which will be available from June 2nd 2007.
You had the crowd going wild when you rocked @ Day On The Green yesterday. You never disappoint with your lyrics and moves. I think all the dancing actually made the rain clear up for awhile..;-}D xx
hi mark Can i just start by saying that horn of plenty is amazing. So worth every cent.
I took this photo a couple of days back when i was crossing the nullarbor, it was in broken hill and i was just wondering if it is the copper digger that you sing about in inside a fireball?
thanx for taking the time to meet me in adelaide, even tho i know how much you dislike it here. i really do love your solo stuff a lot more, can't wait for more stuff from you i wish you all the happiness you can handle XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX zoey
