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Hunters & Collectors are well on the way to selling out all 26 shows on the upcoming Red Hot Summer tour for 2020.

10 shows on the 2020 Red Hot Summer tour have completely sold out with Bendigo putting the Full House sign up this week.

In today’s music world a band like Hunters & Collectors would not have survived. After debuting with their self-titled album in 1982 and peaking at number 21 Hunter & Collectors started to go backwards fast. Album two ‘The Fireman’s Curse’ peaked at number 77 and the third ‘The Jaws of Life’ went unnoticed at number 89.

Paul Kelly, Mark Seymour, Deborah Conway, Vika & Linda Bull and Ross Wilson alongside Dave Larkin, Davey Lane, Benny Walker and Clare Bowditch with support from members of the legendary RockWiz band Pete Luscombe and Clio Renner with Dan Kelly and Bill McDonald and the night hosted by Brian Nankervis will perform for the Mirabel

Icehouse will play three more Red Hot Summer shows in April 2018.

Jessica Mauboy will headline the Birdsville Big Bash in 2017.

Hunters & Collectors will perform at the Clipsal 500 in Adelaide in 2017.

Bondi Beachfest will return for 2016 with Icehouse topping the bill.

Hunters & Collectors have responded on Facebook as to the reasons they have asked the producers of shock jock Steve Price’s radio show to stop using their song ‘Holy Grail’ as Price’s theme song.

The James Reyne and Mark Seymour ‘And The Rest Is History’ tour just got bigger with new dates added for Melbourne, Adelaide and Brisbane.

Mark Seymour will record his new album ‘Roll Back The Stone’ live over two days at Bakehouse Studios and is inviting fans to support the recording by watching the creation of the album as it happens.

James Reyne and Mark Seymour will head out together for their joint forces ‘And The Rest Is History’ tour from late July.

Courtney Barnett will be the first rock and roll animal at Sydney’s Taronga Zoo tonight for Twilight At Taronga.

Three years ago Duane McDonald thought up this crazy idea of giving Australian music fans a great day out. Who would have thought that such a crazy idea would be a hit? Three years on, the Red Hot Summer tour is one of Australia’s most popular live events.

As the Red Hot Summer tour heats up for 2016 fans of the show now have an album to souvenir at the shows.

Red Hot Summer will head to the Hunter Valley in 2016.

The Red Hot Summer tour, the labour of love for promoter Duane McDonald, has become the proof that Australian’s really do want to hear Australian music.

Tickets for the 2016 Red Hot Summer tour will be available from 9am Thursday.

The Red Hot Summer tour has expanded for 2016 with new towns added for a first rate line-up featuring Jimmy Barnes, Noiseworks, The Angels, Mark Seymour & The Undertow and The Badloves.

Mark Seymour is one of Australia’s musical geniuses. Like a handful of songwriters, Seymour can articulate the Australian culture in song.

After serving up over 1000 songs and talking to 100 artists iHeartRadio Music News powered by Noise11.com has reached its first anniversary.

Former Hunters & Collectors frontman Mark Seymour has praised MP Anthony Albanese for his choice of the Hunters’ song ‘The Slab’ during his DJ set earlier this week in Melbourne.

The Kidgeeridge Music Festival on the south coast of New South Wales is one of the music industries best kept secrets.

Pearl Jam put an Australian flavour into their Sydney setlist on Australia Day with a cover of Hunters & Collectors classic ‘Throw Your Arms Around Me’.

Hunters & Collectors status will officially switch to active with the band begins a national tour from this Saturday.

Mark Seymour, frontman for Hunters & Collectors, will address the issues facing musicians in a free talk during the Music, Melbourne + Me exhibition in Melbourne.

The Rubens, Matt Corby and Eddie Vedder with Neil Finn are just some of the artists who have recorded their own versions of Hunters & Collectors classics for a tribute album.

Van Halen will headline day one the first ever Stone Festival in Sydney today with a line-up also featuring Aerosmith, Jimmy Barnes and supergroup Kings of Chaos.

Mark Seymour’s next album ‘Seventh Heaven Club’ will introduce his singer/songwriter daughter Hannah to the fans.

This week sees the launch of Face The Music’s full program, as Melbourne gets set to host one of the most important events on the Victorian music calendar this November.