Uploaded July 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Hello Everyone, welcome to Sing it Live, this video 'Holy Grail' Hunters & Collectors Sing It Live @theBend' was recorded live at The Bend Motorsport Park, South Australia and produced by Darren Mullan. All microphones in this performance were sE Electronics and we recorded using an Allen & Heath D-Live digital console.
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Guitar and lead vocals: Crafty @CraftyMusicMan
Guitar and vocals: Tzan Niko @tzanniko4470
Drums and vocals: Mario Marino
Bass: Damien Steel Scott @bassgoose
Piano Backing vocals: Darren Mullan @producernerd
Keyboards: Rob Vorel
Trumpet: Harrison Smith
Saxophone: Lachlan McGargill
"Holy Grail" is a song performed by the Australian band Hunters & Collectors on their 1992 album Cut. With lyrics referring to popular Holy Grail mythology, the song is an anthemic single inspired by Napoleon's march to Russia in 1812, but also referencing the Hunters & Collectors' flagging attempts to "crack" the American market.
Singer Mark Seymour said, "With the lyrics, I'd been reading a Jeanette Winterson novel, The Passion. It was a story about Napoleon's chef when he invaded Russia. The army was destroyed by the weather. It's a story about survival. It's a really powerful book and somehow I drew this analogy between the idea of this guy managing to survive this incredible ordeal and Hunters and Collectors making this excruciating record."
The song has since become an Australian rules football anthem, particularly with the reference to the premiership cup and the AFL Grand Final as a stand-in for the titular holy grail. Channel Ten used the song to open and close its AFL broadcasts between 2002 and 2006. Seymour performed the song as part of the AFL Grand Final pre-match entertainment in 1998, 2002 and 2009 and half-time entertainment in 2013 and 2023. This song was used for many years as the theme song of the Queensland Bulls cricket team in the quest for the Sheffield Shield, its own "Holy Grail". It was also featured as the theme song to the Australian rugby league movie Footy Legends.
In January 2018, as part of Triple M's "Ozzest 100", the 'most Australian' songs of all time, "Holy Grail" was ranked number 30. In 2025, the song placed 50 in the Triple J Hottest 100 of Australian Songs.
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Hello Everyone, welcome to Sing it Live, this video 'Holy Grail' Hunters & Collectors Sing It Live @theBend' was recorded live at The Bend Motorsport Park, South Australia and produced by Darren Mullan. All microphones in this performance were sE Electronics and we recorded using an Allen & Heath D-Live digital console.
Don't forget to Subscribe!
Guitar and lead vocals: Crafty @CraftyMusicMan
Guitar and vocals: Tzan Niko @tzanniko4470
Drums and vocals: Mario Marino
Bass: Damien Steel Scott @bassgoose
Piano Backing vocals: Darren Mullan @producernerd
Keyboards: Rob Vorel
Trumpet: Harrison Smith
Saxophone: Lachlan McGargill
"Holy Grail" is a song performed by the Australian band Hunters & Collectors on their 1992 album Cut. With lyrics referring to popular Holy Grail mythology, the song is an anthemic single inspired by Napoleon's march to Russia in 1812, but also referencing the Hunters & Collectors' flagging attempts to "crack" the American market.
Singer Mark Seymour said, "With the lyrics, I'd been reading a Jeanette Winterson novel, The Passion. It was a story about Napoleon's chef when he invaded Russia. The army was destroyed by the weather. It's a story about survival. It's a really powerful book and somehow I drew this analogy between the idea of this guy managing to survive this incredible ordeal and Hunters and Collectors making this excruciating record."
The song has since become an Australian rules football anthem, particularly with the reference to the premiership cup and the AFL Grand Final as a stand-in for the titular holy grail. Channel Ten used the song to open and close its AFL broadcasts between 2002 and 2006. Seymour performed the song as part of the AFL Grand Final pre-match entertainment in 1998, 2002 and 2009 and half-time entertainment in 2013 and 2023. This song was used for many years as the theme song of the Queensland Bulls cricket team in the quest for the Sheffield Shield, its own "Holy Grail". It was also featured as the theme song to the Australian rugby league movie Footy Legends.
In January 2018, as part of Triple M's "Ozzest 100", the 'most Australian' songs of all time, "Holy Grail" was ranked number 30. In 2025, the song placed 50 in the Triple J Hottest 100 of Australian Songs.
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Filmed by Zoran Paovic, Jason Mildwaters, Dan Vink and Dave Gregan
Live Audio by Andrew Crawford and Jim Monk
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