Mark Seymour

We are thrilled to welcome back Mark Seymour and band to Archies Creek!

To say that Seymour’s trajectory has been ‘inconsistent’ would be an understatement! And yet 45 years later, he’ll tell you that the process hasn’t changed that much. The only thing that has is the subject matter. There’s always been an acoustic guitar, a recording device, mumbled words and some vague description of where he was or who he was with, the rooms he’s lived in, roads travelled, either surrounded by musicians or alone in the back shed.

Many songs have disappeared while others have endured beyond the circumstances that spawned them. For Seymour song writing has been as much about emotional survival as anything else ..

Despite mixed fortune, Seymour’s songs have become pivotal in the musical story of the nation but Seymour is as mystified by
their relative success as anyone..“some just seem to have hit the mark more than others..” ‘Talking to A Stranger,’ ‘The Slab’, ‘Throw Your Arms Around Me’, ‘The Holy Grail’, ‘Ballad of the One Eyed Man’ ‘Westgate’, ‘The Whole World is Dreaming,’ ‘The Dogs of Williamstown,’ ‘The Boxer,’ ‘Cherry Red’ ‘Waiting on the Kid,’…

He has spent 18 years in front of Hunters and Collectors whose stylistic direction often changed abruptly from one album to the
next and a subsequent 27 years as a ‘solo’ artist, acoustically and with four piece rock band ‘The Undertow’ performing pretty much everywhere.. from the Olympic Games to wine bars in central Queensland.