Hunters & Collectors

Some great music.

Up next, we're going to play some Hunters and Collectors.

Yeah, this is a bit of a sad song.

But anyway,

We did, strangely.

Anyway, so let's do some mushrooms and ask the question that everybody asks when they've probably had something they shouldn't.

Hunters and Collectors.

I see the years go by Memories twisted around Somebody's finger Behind me now But I still remember But I wasn't around for long I had somewhere else to go Between first and second thoughts We left them all behind Now we've been a falter Now the long drive has begun North to the ocean Harder than the sun So do you see what I see? I don't see what I see

did.

We need to find out more about your trip to France after Hunters and Collectors.

Great to have you back.

Mick Molloy, this is Mick in the Morning on Melbourne's Triple M.

This is Mick in the Morning with Ru, Titus and Rosie.

Hunters and collectors, throw your arms around me.

The original version.

This is Mick in the morning on Barclays Triple M. It's 12 minutes past seven.

This is a pick by Lexi.

This is Hunters and Collectors with Holy Grail.

You've been listening to Get Cereal on SYN.

Have a great day.

Collectors at the Dolphins one?

It wasn't Hunters and Collectors.

It was...

It was an Aussie band.

Mm.

Um, but, you know, s- so were Hunters and Collectors.

Yeah.

Look how good they were.

Glenn Freeborn's sort of memory of the day lines up with that.

He said that his main memory was that he went out into the race to watch Hunters and Collectors pre-game because he was a big Hunters and Collectors fan.

That's his main memory.

So even Gary Lyon in the age... who was playing at the time but riding a col on the edge.

[laughs] Another edition of the diaries.

So in the words of Hunters and Collectors, I woke up this morning from the strangest dream.

Didn't happen, did it? Turned on my phone, 426 direct messages.

78 messages from friends back at home.

Look, I, I just have to keep reminding myself that, you know, the, the, the...

And there was a certain point in my life, um, after Hunters and Collectors retired that I had to actually sit myself down and, and just remember that when I wrote my first couple of songs or the...

I, I had no sense of consequence.

You know, it was more about, it was literally about a physical engagement with an audience.

... obviously.

But, but I think it can really slip into that.

And, uh, and you know, Hunters and Collectors were a very intense party band, where there was a lot of alcohol.

Yeah.

Mushroom, run by Michael Gudinski, was so tied to the Melbourne scene that they always had an advantage when it came to signing Melbourne bands.

They had early success with a bunch of bands on their vaguely critics-focused imprint, White, who had artists like Hunters & Collectors, Triffids, and Paul Kelly.

To that label, they signed Frente!, whose success in 1992 went well past Triple J.

White also signed Melbourne's Rail, who had a Triple J minor hit with Immune Deficiency in 1995, and Melbourne's Deadstar, who had members of Hunters & Collectors and The Plums.

But after Frente!, the most successful band on White was The Mavises.

The Mavises were colorful, dressed in a sort of New York Dolls meets Kings Cross vibe.