I didn’t exactly hate it but I definitely saw myself differently in that environment. I had a brief taste of that when I left uni. I was really intense and singleminded. I actually trained to be a schoolteacher and practiced that for a little bit when I was about 22. It had a lot to do with the relationships around me. How did you get started in music and did you ever even think you’d get this far? I think you learn a lot better when you have a genuine interest in the subject, rather than treating your formal education as just a path to get a job. Kids can often absorb things and grasp difficult information in a way adults don’t.
#MARK SEYMOUR WHEN THE RIVER RUNS DRY CHORDS HOW TO#
Picking the guitar up again during uni days, I realised that I knew about chords I knew how to do this.
It didn’t dawn on me, then, how significant that all was until I went to uni. It was important to me, and I liked not having someone breathing down my neck. Listening to those Clancy Brothers songs affected me, and something about learning guitar autonomously was really rewarding. I also learned piano, but it didn’t exactly interest me. And it led me to start playing with an acoustic guitar, trying to learn one or two songs. They probably the biggest impact on me. When I was about twelve years old, I listened to their 1968 record, In Person at Carnegie Hall. My mum and sister had a lot of these old 12″ folk records, and there was this Irish singing group, The Clancy Brothers. Who was your first musical inspiration and why? Mark is playing 2 rare shows this month – Twilight at Taronga in Sydney on February 19, as well as Zoo Twilights in Melbourne on February 20. Over his career, he’s amassed 21 ARIA Award nominations, 2 ARIA wins and was inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame with Hunters & Collectors in 2005.Ģ016 marks the 30 year anniversary of Hunters & Collectors’ 2x Platinum album Human Frailty, which spawned the seminal single ‘Throw Your Arms Around Me.’
As an ARIA Award-winning solo artist, Mark earned even further praise from fans and critics across nine albums, including King Without A Clue (1997), Westgate (2007) and most recently Mayday (2015). Leading Hunters & Collectors (1981–1998), he delivered rock classics that immediately etched their way into our national consciousness, including ‘Talking To A Stranger’, ‘Holy Grail,’ ’Say Goodbye,’ ‘When The River Runs Dry,’ ‘Do You See What I See’ and many more. Mark Seymour is one of Australia’s most gifted and respected musicians.
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