Mark Seymour Archives

Crowded House will perform more live shows for 2025 for Red Hot Summer, as well as Mannum’s Sounds by the River and Mackay’s Legends on the Lawn.

Mark Seymour has covered the Leonardo’s Bride hit ‘Only When I’m Sleeping’ as part of the celebration of Mushroom Records 50 years.

Zaccaria Touring has gifted Perth a day of free music and it includes the recent Eurovision finalists Voyager.

Icehouse will headline the 2023 edition of Duane McDonald’s One Electric Day with Jon Stevens, Belinda Carlisle, Daryl Braithwaite, Mark Seymour and Boom Crash Opera rounding out the bill.

The Red Hot Summer tour is heading to Toowoomba this weekend with the tour taking advantage of Northern Australia’s warmer weather over the month.

Powderfinger’s Bernard Fanning will spend the first half of 2023 out solo and on tour for Red Hot Summer. The big question for Fanning is what does a cut-down setlist look like?

Paul Kelly has kicked off Red Hot Summer 2023 with a rocking new year of his uptempo best.

When Bernard Fanning hits the stage at Red Hot Summer this weekend in Mornington, it will be the first time he has performed since March last year.

Duane McDonald will kick off the 2023 season of Red Hot Summer in Mornington this week while yet another show has sold out for 2023. The Bendigo show on 25 February is at capacity.

The Paul Kelly’s seemingly now Christmas obligations out of the way, the next major event will be his headlining tour for Duane McDonald’s Red Hot Summer.

Crowded House celebrated their homecoming Melbourne show with two special guests, Noel Crombie of Split Enz and Mark Seymour of Hunters & Collectors.

The 2023 season of Red Hot Summer has clocked up another sell-out with Hobart the latest to get to capacity.

Duane McDonald’s Red Hot Summer 2023 tour is expanding fast with new shows added for Jacobs Creek and Cairns in Queensland, Hunter Valley in New South Wales, Swan Valley in Western Australia and Darwin, Northern Territory.

Paul Kelly will headline the 2023 season for Duane McDonald’s Red Hot Summer with Bernard Fanning, Missy Higgins, Mark Seymour, Vika & Linda and Ian Moss & Troy Cassar-Daly also heading around Australia in the new year.

Regional Touring Murray River event Sounds By the River will return to Mannum, South Australia in 2023.

Duane McDonald is giving Mark Seymour the weekend off this weekend and taking Iva Davies and Icehouse into Queensland.

Duane McDonald’s Red Hot Summer is heading across the Tasmania.

Sounds By The River, South Australia’s music event in Mannum, will return in 2022 with Hunters & Collectors, James Reyne, The Living End, The Angels, Jon Stevens, Baby Animals, Killing Heidi and Boom Crash Opera.

Mark Seymour has a new song with Missy Higgins. ‘The Whole World Is Dreaming’ was recorded live in an empty theatre at The Forum in Melbourne during the 2020 lockdown.

The Red Hot Summer show, featuring Hunters & Collectors in Mornington on February 26, sold out moments after going on sale this morning.

The Hunters & Collectors Red Hot Summer dates have been rescheduled with their Unfinished Business starting back up in Sydney on 20 February.

With the ongoing uncertainty around lockdowns and capacities for live music due to the pandemic, Valley Sounds, the Yarra Valley’s first Acoustic Festival, will move to Sunday March 27, 2022.

Mark Seymour has called on all music fans to get vaccinated as soon as possible so that live music can return to some sense of normality.

Nick Barker will head to the Yarra Valley in November for the acoustic music festival Yarra Sounds.

Mark Seymour made nine Hunters & Collectors albums. He has had 10 outside the band. When Michael Gudinski signed the band to Mushroom for their 1982 debut he create a new record label The White Label to launch them. Mark says that that was unnecessary.

Bluesfest will go ahead in Byron Bay this weekend despite the new Brisbane covid clusters.

Bluesfest has added its final batch of Australian artists for the 2021 event over Easter. Kate Ceberano, Pete Murray and Mark Seymour & The Undertow have joined the bill.

Renee Geyer, Mark Seymour, Charlie Owen, Alice Skye, Kee’ahn and a Brooklyn Nine One One Trivia night have been added to the Queenscliff Music Festival’s Pelican Bar.