Mark Seymour
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Mark Seymour, The Corner Hotel, Melbourne, June 2008
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Mark Jeremy Seymour |
| Born |
26 July 1956 Benalla, Victoria, Australia |
| Origin | Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |
| Genres | Rock, blues-rock |
| Occupation(s) | Musician, songwriter, author, teacher |
| Instruments | Guitar, vocals |
| Years active | 1981–present |
| Labels | Mushroom, Sony |
| Associated acts | The Jetsonnes, Hunters & Collectors, Mark Seymour & the Undertow |
| Website | markseymour |
Mark Jeremy Seymour (born 26 July 1956) is an Australian musician and vocalist. He was the frontman and songwriter of rock band, Hunters & Collectors (1981–1998). Seymour has a solo career, releasing a number of albums, at the ARIA Music Awards of 2001 he won Best Adult Contemporary Album for One Eyed Man.
Mark Jeremy Seymour was born on 26 July 1956 in Benalla to Frank and Paula Seymour. He has two older sisters, Hilary and Helen, and a younger brother, Nick (born 1958) – later bass guitarist for Crowded House. His mother encouraged all four children to learn musical instruments and sing. He initially learned piano but switched to guitar as a teenager. Seymour and his family moved to Melbourne in 1972, he graduated from University of Melbourne in 1978 and was qualified to teach. He later lived in the St Kilda area.
By 1980 Mark Seymour, on lead guitar, was a member of The Jetsonnes, a post-punk pop group formed in Melbourne, with John Archer on bass guitar; Doug Falconer on drums; Margot O'Neill on lead vocals; and Ray Tosti-Gueira on guitar.Clinton Walker described the group as "lighter, bouncier (rather than funkier) and more infectious than other like-minded bands such as Models". They issued a split single, "Newspaper", with the other side, "Miniskirts in Moscow", by fellow pop group, International Exiles. The Jetsonnes, Models, and International Exiles were "the first bands to rise out of Melbourne's hothouse punk, new wave explosion playing an exuberant brand of neo-pop".
In 1981, Seymour formed Hunters & Collectors from the remnants of The Jetsonnes with Archer, Falconer, and Tosti-Gueira. According to musicologist, Ian McFarlane, this was "a far more radical and unremitting concept" and Seymour, with his "blue labourer's singlet, bulging biceps, introspective angst and impassioned vocals" became the "thinking woman's sex symbol".
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