Mark Seymour and Paul Dempsey  Mutual admiration: Paul Dempsey
and Mark Seymour. Photo: Michael Clayton-Jones  "I'm
going home," sings Hunters & Collectors vocalist Mark Seymour,
tearing into an acoustic version of the band's 1989 classic When
the River Runs Dry, and the excited audience at a Triple M live
broadcast in Melbourne is already there waiting for him. Aided
and abetted onstage by Something for Kate frontman Paul Dempsey,
Seymour is celebrating the reignition of one of the country's
most iconic rock bands with the release of the tribute album
Crucible and the news that they're embarking on their first
national tour in 15 years.  Covering Throw Your Arms Around Me,
Something For Kate are part of Crucible's eclectic line-up, and
the trio will also support the re-formed Hunters & Collectors at
outdoor summer shows next year. It's an arrangement that
obviously pleases Dempsey, who, in a subsequent conversation
with Seymour, reveals he has fond memories of the band everyone
simply called Hunnas.  Dempsey