Mayday

Mayday is Mark Seymour's ninth solo album and third with The Undertow, and explores the concept of home, an interesting concept for a man who has spent a good portion of his adult life in a tour van, playing his songs in dark rooms with sticky carpets.

Mayday is Mark's first album since Hunters & Collectors' re-formation, which coincided with the tribute album, Crucible, and saw the band perform at the AFL Grand Final and do shows with Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band and The Rolling Stones. The Hunnas fans loved seeing the old songs again, including the Aussie classics 'Talking To A Stranger', 'Holy Grail', 'Say Goodbye', 'Throw Your Arms Around Me' and 'When The River Runs Dry', and the tour won the 2014 Helpmann Award for Best Australian Contemporary Concert.

Mark doesn't mind revisiting the past every now and then, but he doesn't want to live there. He also knows there's power in the union. With The Undertow, he's fronting another great band, with producer Cameron McKenzie (ex-Horsehead) on guitar, John Favaro (ex-Badloves) on bass, and Peter Maslen (Boom Crash Opera) on drums. "Music, I think, is about the quality of relationships," Mark says. "There has to be some sort of fusion of ideas and beliefs. Relationships are really important to me, they are critical to my creative energy. And I put everything into my relationships with other musicians."