Ive seen these guys several times live. First time was around 1985. They were one of the best, most intense, beautifully nuts bands to see live. The singer Mark is so brutal in his delivery, his vocals, I dont have words. Check out more of their live stuff and Mark's acoustic versions. Just awesome! Loved these guys!
At 62 it's great to see Australian artists being finally recognised internationally, but with a little trepidation. Part of the reason that Australian music is so great, is because it has been pretty insular, which has allowed the industry to develop in really unique ways. I hope that doesn't change. But maybe l'm just old!!!
@Rusty_coit I think our rock bands have to work so hard playing in pubs they each developed a different sound to get noticed. As you said, the wheat is separated from the chaff early on
I worked for the lighting company that did all the entertainment for that show. The stage was covered in LED screens that showed the footage under the performers. We had ARMY Reserves help us wheeling the stage up onto the ground. I remember working at the ground in the week leading up to the Grand Final setting up the 2 stages that were used for the band that played. One of the best weeks of working at PRG
Hunters and Collectors are awesome. “Throw your arms around me” was a campfire favourite of Eddie Vedder and he and Pearl Jam played it regularly at gigs. There’s a great video of Eddie and Mark Seymour (from H&C the songwriter) doing it live in Perth. Check it out.
Aussie here who has always loved this band and has seen them a few times live. When the River Runs Dry is my all time favourite. Whenever I felt like crap I would drive around in the car with them cranked up so high. Their music always made me feel better. Last saw Mark Seymour about 10 years ago, still amazing!!
"Nicholas More Seymour is an Australian musician, painter, and record producer. He is the founding bass guitarist and a mainstay of the Australian rock group Crowded House, and is also the younger brother of Mark Seymour, singer-songwriter-guitarist in the rock band Hunters and Collectors."
I m an Aussie and this is one of my fave bands ever!! I seen them live a few times, but the first time was best. They just rocked up at the city Square in Melbourne and started playing.. It was free. It was late 80s. They did an hour, it was awesome.. Glad you liked them too. 👍😎🔥
One of their songs " Throw your arms around me" is absoloutely amazing. Even Eddie Vedder said it was the Best ever song written . He (Solo) & Pearl Jam have covered it many times. The last 3 PJ concerts I've been to they have always covered it.
Hunters and Collectors are well known for their horn section. Their music is so iconic and they’ve played on stage with Midnight Oil numerous times. Jack Howard the trumpeter toured with Midnight Oil on their Great Circle Tour in 2017 which was a massive world tour.
Yep they're still going strong playing as part of a tour with many other Aussie rock artists. I saw them play two weeks ago in the middle of Sydney Harbour along with a few other artists you have reacted to - The Angels, Baby Animals and James Reyne/Australian Crawl. You're right as a rock band, the brass helped them stand out as something unique back in the 80's and it worked!
@@NeilBlanco Ha, ha my sister lives in Balmain East and said the same thing. There were also quite a few boats that came up to the island to catch a free gig. Did you hear the night before had Icehouse?
The whole horns in a rock band is such a quintessentially Australian rock in the 80s thing to me, you ask how often you see it but it is like the definition of a whole era of music at least to me
I filled in on Tenor horn this one time at Union Hall, as a random from the audience. I been around and blow'd me the horn in anger a time or two before back in the day. It was either for these guys or even Hoodoo Gurus, I rly cannot remember. This was for a live cover version of The Final Countdown by Europe, signature organ riff substituted with the horn instead of organ. I killed it, of course horn sounded better. Tenor Horn is like a brassier French Horn with cojones, and some 'roid supplements.
I’d love you to hear some better recordings of Hunters and Collectors, a better version of Holy Grail so you can really get it - and I sent you a request for ‘Throw Your Arms Around Me’ - guarantee you’re going to love this one!
@@tristabella2297 We played this at our Mum's funeral, she passed away at 75yrs of age and she absolutely loved the song, from the first time she heard it playing at my place right up until the end.
@@hopsta5628 sending you love. Yes it is a nice song. Like many songs sometimes it is best not to know the meaning. My first dance song was Amazing from Alex Lloyd then throw your arms so neither really love songs but Alex was our first concert together and kind of our song. Can’t remember the meaning for throw your arms though. We have been together 20 years and married 17.5 years.
I agree Throw you're arms around me, but I hate to say, I prefer Paul McDermotts version, he is a sex god, even if he is an arrogant shit! lol! I grew up on the Doug Anthony All Stars. And if I'm going to bring up Paul McDermott, I have to mention the fantastic duet with Fiona Horne from Def FX called Shut and Kiss me...
I saw these guys live for the first time two days ago. Other artists I saw that day were: Killing Heidi, Baby Animals, The Angels, The Living End and James Reyne. It's just unfortunate that the lead singer for The Angel's is no longer there. The lead singer from the Screaming Jets has taken up the reins. But he did do a good job
This isn’t soccer, it’s AFL- Australian Football League (and it’s not rugby!!)! It’s the single biggest sport played in Australia and the Grand Final is like the Super Bowl- the crowds get up to 90,000+. Great band great reaction as always 😝
I was at this game… it was the first grand final (championship game) that my team, Fremantle had ever played in. We were not in a good position at half time, so all Fremantle fans were stressed AF!!!! We had traveled 3,500km for the game. I remember not being able to enjoy anything at half time because it meant a lot and I felt sick in my stomach! We lost and haven’t made a grand final since 😞 also there was 100,000 people in the crowd that day.
H & C are solidly from the rock pub scene. If you want to watch their best performances its best to find videos of them performing in a small venue. Their first big hit, back when I was a young man was Talking to a Stranger, then Throw your arms around me. But my favourite song of theirs is Whats a Few Men? (Talking to a stranger comes in second in my list). If you want a complete change of pace, try TISM - This is Serious Mum. Try He'll never be an ole man (river), or Greg the stop sign. They might come off as a novelty band but they are actually talented (if somewhat anarchic) musicians - they even have vidoes of some of their songs using traditional greek instruments!
That’s the AFL Grand Final, it’s similar to the NFL Superbowl. They draw in a crowd of 100,000 people every year to the game, the MCG is a huge stadium. Should check out AFL, best sport in the world in my opinion, also one of the oldest. 👍👍
@@suave-rider yep the half time show has never really taken off here, people just want to see the game! Not me though, I've erased this particular day from my memory 😆
A coupla years before this performance, I - and a bunch of friends - flew to Melbourne to see an Aussie Rules (football) match. The night before the game a 'supergroup' put on a show in a small club. It was like one guy from this group, one guy from another Aussie group etc etc all in the aid of cancer charity. Jack (the bald trumpeter) actually sang lead on the supergroup's performance of 'Holy Grail' that night - he has a voice and that song and the whole night was amazing.
Stadium is huge, yep it holds 100,000 people it is known to us Aussies as the G or more famously known the Melbourne Cricket Ground, the Holy Grail is the Grand Final trophy for AFL teams
Saw them live back in 1993 on their "final tour" and they were absolutely brilliant. Incredible live show. So much power and their live sound was even better than the studio versions in my opinion. Funnily enough, I could hear them playing on Cockatoo Island the other night from my house and it still sounded brilliant! Peace... ✌
According to Mark Seymour "The Holy Grail" was a song about Napoleon and his misadventure in invading Russia after conquering Western Europe. The song however has now taken on a life of its own.
Ummm no, it was literally about the crusades search for the holy grail. The Holy Grail is traditionally thought to be the cup that Jesus Christ drank from at the Last Supper and that Joseph of Arimathea used to collect Jesus's blood at his crucifixion. Where on earth did you get the story about Napoleon from?
@@ellefitzpatrick6339 This was what I thought until I heard the interview with Mark Seymour. Having read about Napoleon's campaign in Russia the song finally made sense. Moscow was Napoleon's Holy Grail. The army he lead was 60% French 40% German/ Polish and was the largest he ever assembled. The road to get there was brutal as the Russians employed a scorched earth policy denying the invading army food and shelter so by the time Napoleon got to Moscow there was nothing left. With a starving army he had no choice but to retreat. He lost a significant portion of his army in his retreat and would never recover. It is these Lyrics that point to this rather then the Crusades. "All the locals scattered they were hiding in the snow. We were so far from home so how were we to know There be nothing left to plunder When we stumbled on the Holy Grail." There is no snow in the Holy Land so I didn't get these Lyrics until the Mark Seymour reveal. Edit for clarity
I always thought it was referring to a non-specific war, just about how the experience of the men was more important and the 'Holy Grail' was whatever the leader intended to bring the men into war for...interesting fact, thankyou!
If Sydney Australia was a sound, it would be the unique sound of Hunters & Collectors*, they'd have to be one of our most underated groups, but if you play almost any song by them on a jukebox, everyone sings along. I'm so glad you've heard them. * Hunters & Collectors are a Melbourne band, that's true, but their sound is Big, Bold, and Brassy, and that is the reason their sound reminds me of Big Bold, and Brassy/showy Sydney. Not that they are from there, but their sound calls Sydney to mind.
Strange comment. I love H&C and they are loved around the whole nation but even as a New South Welshman I have to admit that H&C are quintessentially a Melbourne band. There are so many bands that are so much more the sound of Sydney than H&C.
@@ellefitzpatrick6339 I do know they're from my home town, Melbourne, what I meant, as I pointed out to another, was that because the Hunters & Collectors have a big brassy sound, when I hear them I think of Sydney, which is also Australian, and is Big, Bold and Brassy/showy, not that H&C come from there.
Hunters and Collectors have been around since early 1980s. I went through school with Jack Howard, the trumpet player / vocalist. He is still playing live here with various groups, as well as H&C. The crowd is 100,000 in the MCG stadium in Melbourne and in the rain, the crowd are really distant from the band. The cameras are close but the sound bounces around in there to the point that it isn't really an ideal venue for sound without a much bigger sound system and the band at one end (not in the middle). But the horns have been integral to their lineup from the outset and they do a unique and much celebrated repertoire of original Australian classic rock.
Love them - still have their original vinyl LPs. Many Aussie bands of the 80s/90s had that big horn sound cut in to the arrangement, it’s a sort of an anthemic pub rock vibe.
Subscribed. Great song pick by our man and good commentary inserts. A bit of background - AFL grand finals were then all played at the Melbourne Cricket Ground *MCG* Crowd capacity - 100,000.
Next song by them should be True Tears of Joy. Off to see the hunnas in two weeks in Ballarat with a few other hero acts. Maybe the Hoodoo Gurus next. Best. Pub. Band. Ever. (Miss Freelove 69 or Like Wow Wipeout). While you are exploring Aus/Kiwi music try Diesel (Tip of my tongue), Taxiride (Get Set) Mutton Birds (Nature), Aust Crawl (Take your pick - plenty to choose from) , Living End (Prisoner of Society), Margaret Urlich (Boy on the Moon) , The Bamboos with Tim Rogers (I Got Burned), etc. etc.. Plenty to go
The second song Holy Grail was about winning the Grand Final and getting you're hands on the premiership cup (the holy grail). If you want to learn about the AFL or football check out what is AFL.
One of Australia’s best ever live bands. I’ve seen them, as a support act, blow the main act off stage on a couple of occasions. I guess I’ve seen them live maybe 10/11 times and they are always amazing. And I don’t know if it’s an Aussie thing, but The Saints, Laughing Clowns, Midnight Oil, all used brass a lot.
As an Australian it shocks me that these legendary bands and their songs I grew up jamming to and my parents grew up with are UNKNOWN to the rest of the world. I feel like an alien XD - I love your channel because you react to music of all genres from everywhere.
That crowd is SO FOCUSED on what's going to happen in the 2nd half of the footy game (the GRAND FINAL) they can't see or hear anything else. This game is like a religion to many. It's not soccer (also known as football); this is Australian Rules football....a completely different game. I love their song "Throw your arms around Me".
Mark used to pop in to the shop over the road from my mate's place in Elwood. His missus said he was grumpy, she was a checkout chick. As far as I'm concerned, he can be as grumpy as he wants, because Hunters and Collectors are one of my favourite bands. I just think he has an intense personality.
I'm so pleased to see the Hunters on your channel, it was the horn section which made them so different and unique to the other bands at that time, along with the voice of Mark Seymour of course, they are a part of my permanent playlist while driving.
Holy Grail became the unofficial anthem for the AFL Grand Final, the grail representing the Premiership Cup. The AFL used the song in its marketing for a while. The Grand Fina is our equivalent your Superbowl. The stadium holds 100,000 people.
I don't know when the AFL picked up on it, but the first time I heard Holy Grail in relation to sport was when the QLD cricket team adopted it as their changing room song in 1994, the year they won the Sheffield Shield for the first time after 68 years of trying. That was a search for a holy grail.
In the last few years (EDIT: oops, in the last two decades) Holy Grail became something of an anthem (one of several) for footy finals, and the free to air broadcaster would make montages of the season to it. It's considered sort of a metaphor about the Grand Final cup (and the opening lines about "the biggest army you've ever seen" is often played to footage of fans walking down to the MCG en masse). Not sure if they still use it.
In general, I find in Australia that no matter how good the entertainment is at half time in the AFL Grand Final, most people are really just there to watch the game.
The same as in America, here in Aus we call soccer “soccer” and not football. We have three codes of football- AFL (Australian football league), Rugby League, and like the UK- Rugby Union. AFL and Rugby League are the two most popular codes.
Also, soccer has more registered players in Australia than those other two codes combined. AFL is a great game too. Also, no I 'm not British Laraine. I am Australian but a huge Star Trek fan and my alias is a hat tip to Jean-Luc Picard (French Earl Grey is my favourite tea too).
a song about Napolean march into russia early 1800s has turned into a sporting anthem. a great aussie band live. they unfortunately didnt get a lot of recognition overseas
Fantastic video mate, old school 80’s / 90’S rock band. Legendary stuff. Yeah it was grand final day so people were chilling before the second half. Heck out there other stuff you will be impressed but I would love to see you sing some of these man. Also yeah it’s a 100k seat stadium.
Hunters and collectors are another classic Australian band glad you enjoy them :) can't wait for you to do some more of them. Maby also a reaction to an afl highlight real or best moments, the game is crazy good too.
Yeah you stumbled over one of the great (NZ)Aussie bands like Dragon, Crowded House etc. Loved Mark as a vocalist - I liked True Tears of Joy but they had tonnes of great songs. Thanks 4 this reaction - memories of this kinda ‘industrial’ sound back then - wicked. Let the tea towels fly ha ha
When the river runs dry is my favourite H+C track. While I am writing this it wont stop pouring rain here in South Eastern Melbourne. Football Grand Final crowds are not used to great entertainment like Superbowl crowds. They will get more into it in the future I reckon. The Rugby League grand final had Jimmy Barnes one year or was it a Cold Chisel reunion. I can't remember. I really am getting old. I remember it was great though. Funny story, in 2010 the night before the grand final I delivered pizza to a guy called Tyrone. I had never met another Tyrone before. It is not that common a name in Australia. He mentioned that he went for the Saints (St Kilda Football Club). I am a Collingwood Magpies fan. I wished him luck since the Saints had not won the comp since 1966 (against the Magpies). The match was a tie so they had to play it again the week after. So I'm a guy called Tyrone and I met another one the night before our teams played in the final and it was only the 2nd tied grand final in over 100 years. But that's not the good part. One week later the night before the 2nd game I went to sleep listening to Lionel Ritchie sing hello over and over again. I was obsessed with that track at that time. Next thing I knew it was the next day and I turned on the TV to watch the big game. And there was Lionel Ritchie at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) singing "Hello". I lost my sh*t. This was pre-game entertainment not half time. Lionel was a surprise to everyone as it was arranged that week because there usually isn't "a game two". Lionel sang "Easy" and "Dancing on the ceiling". Even though game 1 was a tie, my team won by heaps in game 2. I was so happy, we hadn't won (the grand final) for 20 years. Now "Dancing on the ceiling" is one of my most fave songs. 😀Here is a link to the performance. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-WT95VcNOhuk.html After this game was tied and replayed the AFL changed their policy, future tied GF's will go to extra time. The AFL tries to copy the NFL Superbowl half time show but it's no where near the production values. Pre game mini concert was great. Maybe I'm biased. Lionel sure knew how to excite a crowd. You can visually see the fans in attendance relax and get down. Go Magpies.🏉⚫⚪⚫⚪◻◾ Go Baltimore Ravens!🏈 🟪⬛🟣🟡⚫🟪⬛ The Killers did a pre-game and a post game show for the 2017 AFL grand final. They killed it! They even partied with one of the winning players who was a huge fan of theirs.
The AFL grand final is like your Super Bowl. It is actually finals here at the moment, with the grand final on 24 September. You should hear that crowd during a game, the stadium is the MCG and holds over 100,000 people. It gets that loud that the players can't hear the umpires whistle. If you are looking for something different (not music related) take a look at A beginner’s guide to Australian Football | AFL Explained.
Loving this channel so far! Really great to see you check out great Australian music. I discovered Hunters & Collectors at the age of 14 at a school dance and have never forgotton how great they are. But for me the highlight was your reaction to the interruption by the Channel 7 News update that snuck in! Didn't sound like good news, but your surprised face was too funny!!
Love Hunters. So how about some Boom Crash Opera. Can you imagine Melbourne and you can catch all the bands 7 nights a week, some nights 2 or 3 different venue’s. Catch all the musicians at multiple side gigs, acoustic sets. Then international bands. In the 80s there were a few Oz and NZ bands with horns, but Hunters were just the best live band in a small pub packed with 500 punters. First saw them live at Hillsborough Christchurch. Then moved to Australia to play drums in a band.
INXS and Hunter’s and Collector’s are the only 2 bands with a brass instrument that I can think of right now. To be fair majority of the crowd are probably at the bathroom or bar quickly getting sorted before 3rd quarter.
Mutton Birds and Ross McGlashan's Euphonium is one such group although us Kiwis know it is a NZ band. A real eye opener is "Aire of Good Feeling" by Quincy Conserve with soaring brass right from the get go. Bruno Lawrence ("The Games" ) apparently plays the drums on this track but don't call me out if I am wrong, because he definitely was in the band at the time. Malcolm Hayman sounds very Blood, Sweat and Tears-like on their tracks.
@@kanesanders6669 Mutton Birds and Ross McGlashan's Euphonium is one such group although us Kiwis know it is a NZ band. A real eye opener is "Aire of Good Feeling" by Quincy Conserve with soaring brass right from the get go. Bruno Lawrence ("The Games" ) apparently plays the drums on this track but don't call me out if I am wrong, because he definitely was in the band at the time. Malcolm Hayman sounds very Blood, Sweat and Tears-like on their tracks.
Holly Grail has become the unofficial anthem for football grand finals across Australia...and yes Legend is a good description for this awesome aussie band..
I wanna see Mark in his white chesty Bonds tee screaming "You don't make me feel like I'm a woman anymore". Say Goodbye & Talking To A Strangers are my absolute fav tunes of theirs.
Performing in the middle of the massive 100 000 seat M.C.G , halftime in the AFL grand final, haven't performed together for a long time, that's a tough welcome back.
You seriously need to watch "What Is The AFL?" Amongst the Americans who have watched that RU-vid video the most interesting was Professional Gridiron Players. What really Freaked Them Out was how Massive Our Footy Fields Are and especially what Our Players wear. While I wouldn't call one of them "A Wimp!" to there face, compared to Aussie Players they look like one. The only Protective Gear Aussie Male Players wear is a Jockstrap and a Mouthguard. I'd like to know how many Professional American Players would be willing to try playing Aussie Footy. I recently mentioned this in a comment. I got a reply saying "Gridiron Is Just Brawny Ballet!"
Yep Hunters are excellent. In a similar vein, is the band Hoodoo Gurus who are also Aussie legends and have a ton of hits. Try "Bitter Sweet" or "What's My Scene". Oh, and you should check out an AFL game. Its very fast moving with simple rules. I guarantee you will enjoy it.
Thank you for showing that I was there for that fantastic day but I didn't see H&C at half time I was in the bar so you showed me something that I missed out on
I've said this time and time again. Australian rock bands always know how to perform based on their actual music. No choreographed dancing, no lip synching, no backing tapes. In comparison I paid good money to see Van Halen and no one was keyboard. So the intro of "Dreams" we're watching the whole band standing there while a sound engineer pressed the play button.
