Mark Seymour

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. 2007/ 2008 saw the release of Mark's critically acclaimed album, " Westgate " along with his book “Thirteen Tonne Theory” which tells the story of the rise and fall of Hunters and Collectors. 2009 has seen Mark further explore acting, with a theatrical role in the Malthouse Theatre production “ One Night The Moon “ and a guest appearance on Channel 7’s “ City Homicide “. Seymour continues to write and tour, he’s a new album slated sometime in 2011.