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Mark Seymour

About Me

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.

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Member Since: 18/11/2006
Band Website: http://www.markseymour.com.au/
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Record Label: Liberation Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Desal

When governments decide to build big infrastructure it pays to analyse the impact well in advance. Whether they like it or not, the welfare of ordinary people is the cornerstone of good government a...
Posted by on Wed, 16 Jul 2008 22:58:00 GMT

About Thirteen Tonne Theory - Mark Seymour

About Thirteen Tonne Theory - Mark Seymourhttp://www.vimeo.com/779823
Posted by on Wed, 12 Mar 2008 18:43:00 GMT

A clarification on the flag story

Greetings friends I have found it necessary to clarify my political position in relation to the current federal government as a result of comments my myspace site has received that relate to the "Flag...
Posted by on Sun, 04 Feb 2007 02:31:00 GMT

Westgate Online

We've nutted out a plan to get new Mark Seymour songs on the Internet. Over the next three months, four new, fully mastered tracks will appear on Mark's MySpace site, allowing you to...
Posted by on Tue, 30 Jan 2007 02:59:00 GMT

Howard's Big Day Out Flag Bash

Just exactly what did Prime Minister John Howard mean when he accused Big Day Out organizers of running "their own political agenda"? Ken West, one of the Big Day Out partners, prof...
Posted by on Mon, 29 Jan 2007 02:53:00 GMT

Welcome To 2007 AD

The nation's beaches are jammed with sun crazed funlovers and the Victorian hills have been on fire since December.. There are people up there fighting the flames FOR NOTHING. Imagine t...
Posted by on Mon, 22 Jan 2007 02:54:00 GMT

Australia's Iraq disgrace

We've just copped the 8th interest rate rise in a row under the watch of a government that won the last election by asking us who we could trust to keep them low. Australians swallowed th...
Posted by on Mon, 13 Nov 2006 02:55:00 GMT

Howard Looking Shaky

In politics credibility is everything and winning is the ultimate form of that. Unfortunately for John Howard something's gone horribly wrong in Iraq and everybody knows it. Whether or no...
Posted by on Tue, 24 Oct 2006 02:56:00 GMT

September 2006 Update

The year is near its last quarter and it has been an incredibly busy one for Mark, despite not having a new CD in the stores - so much for 'quiet time'. We last updated you in February th...
Posted by on Fri, 01 Sep 2006 02:56:00 GMT