Music documentary Sticky Carpet gets DVD release
Siren Visual is proud to announce the impending release of Sticky Carpet, Mark Butcher's documentary which gives long overdue cultural recognition to Melbourne’s much-loved independent music scene.
The DVD will be released nationwide on Thursday, 8 March 2007. The DVD includes over an hour of bonus material, including live footage and film clips.
This raw and vital film collects interviews from musicians currently leading the charge in Melbourne’s underground. Not restricted to any one genre the film brings together everyone from sound explorers Robin Fox and Rod Cooper to and Melbourne scene stalwarts like Ross Knight (Cosmic Psychos), Bruce Milne (founder of Au-Go-Go Records, In-Fidelity Records) and Roland S. Howard (Boys Next Door, The Birthday Party).
Sticky Carpet instinctively conveys the ongoing drive behind the bands. Most importantly, it shares in the passion and experimentation of Melbourne's music scene.
Sticky Carpet played to sold-out crowds at last year’s Melbourne International Film Festival and has received much praise from critics and fans alike.
"Sticky Carpet is essentially about exciting alternative bands playing in a live setting. It's about squeezing into a small intimate venue and watching an unpredictable show unfold before your eyes. On a good night, it will blow your mind." - Patrick Donovan, THE AGE
The film took three years to put together and has been a labour of love for Butcher and a dedicated team of local editors, filmmakers and bands that have seen the project through to completion.
Bands included on the documentary:
The Stabs, HTRK, My Disco, Colditz Glider, The Birthday Party, Baseball, Group Seizure, True Radical Miracle, Cockfight Shootout, Nation Blue, The Sinking Citizenship, Agents of Abhorrence, Civil Dissent, ABC Weapons, Pisschrist, The Dacios, The Sailors, Eddy Current Suppression Ring, Depression, Trash 'n' Chaos, Batrider, Ninetynine, The Stabs, The Assassination Collective, Digger and the Pussycats, The Losers, Bored!
More info found here at the siren myspace site
yay
man, ill finally get to see it. where will it be avaliable, blockbuster?
does anyone know what filmclips got on the extras? ben?
not so sure just yet mulligrub.
noice one, dudes.
choice.. looking forward to the extras.
well, there you go.
Ass Squad, Bored!, Losers, The Stabs, Hi God People, Justice Yelham....are just some of the extras.
ace!
cripes!! 500 gone in pre-sales already!
good stuff!!
I'll take one.
Where can I get a presale?
yeah write me down for one ya bastard
shops.. they can be bought at shops after March 8
Shops...
Great.
I like shops.
There are shops everyware!
JB have em?
FORGIVE-A-NESS-PWEESE!
What does the artwork look like?? Anyone seen it???
I'd say it's that pic up the top,
Topless thug with a drum.
go striker!!
STICKY CARPET DVD LAUNCH SCREENING IN SYDNEY
stale popcorn at the pitzscreen
monday march 12th - 8pm
the pitz, 11 faversham st, marrickville
gold coin donation entry
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I just watched this. Pretty good.
It seems to have a bit of a rockist bias though, and gave the impression of Melbourne's scene being a 3-chord blues-rock monoculture.
ahh thats another bad review to nail to my wall.... 3-chord blues rock monoculture?? what you talking about, Hi God People? My Disco? Colditz Glider, Robbin Fox, Justice Yeldham, Rod Copper??
There wasn't anything there that wasn't guitar rock. No indie-pop, no folk-pop, no country'n'Preston, no electronica or hip-hop, and (other than the experimental segments, which traded one form of machismo for another) nothing that wasn't dominated by guitar riffs and the primal rock tradition.
Where are all the bands with glockenspiels and trombones and Korg monosynths? Or with acoustic guitars for that matter?
Other than that, though, it was good; there was some good live footage there and it made some interesting points about the social and political history of live music in Melbourne.
are you sure you watched it anorakhighst? Are you from Melbourne?
Rod Copper , Robbin Fox , Hi God People, Justice Yeldham, were outside the guitar indie band thing. Indie pop, NintyNine, Eddy Current, Love of Diagrams Folk-pop Baseball and Mugwort Country'n'Preton, Silver Ray, Dirty Three and the Stabs(I would call Australian-Country) so what are you talking about?
and for electronica and hip-hop, that stuff is floats around Melbourne and will admit its not there in the doco, partly cause its pretty dull on film, I even interviewed some break-beat DJ and tried to include some local hip-hop groups but it just didn’t fit the flow. They seem to have a completely different mindset and set of venues.
But true, the film could have used more experimental groups, ideally the whole film should have been like that…. Why don’t you make that film?
I got one.
I've watched it heaps already.
My only guff with it was that there is 2 clips of Witch Hats + One photo, yet not one mention of us.
I don't give a shit really, But I would have thought we'd at least get credited in the credits.
Meh...
Small bills.
Love ya work tardo!
Arn't you in the thank you list? I missed out on fixing the creaits.... (red face)
> are you sure you watched it anorakhighst? Are you from Melbourne?
I've lived most of my life in Melbourne. I'm living in London now, though returned for a month in December and January. It was in Melbourne that I got my taste for live music, and if it was all loud riff-rock as the documentary suggests, I probably wouldn't still be going to gigs.
> Rod Copper , Robbin Fox , Hi God People, Justice Yeldham, were outside the guitar indie band thing. And all towards the extreme end of experimentalism
And Eddy Current Suppression Ring are riff-driven rock; put them in a time machine and they could have played Sunbury.
I'll give you Ninetynine and Baseball though.
> and for electronica and hip-hop, that stuff is floats around Melbourne and will admit its not there in the doco, partly cause its pretty dull on film,
You have a point with the knob-squelching electronica. Seeing a bloke who looks like a lab technician standing behind a rack of synths or a laptop, whilst trying to figure out what of the sound is the result of the knob he just turned and what is on a backing tape, isn't much of a live experience.
But where are the less rocky live acts? Where are the likes of the Lucksmiths, the Smallgoods, the Rumours, Mid-State Orange, Minimum Chips, Crayon Fields, the Tranquilizers, Julian Nation, Light Music Club, and such? This is an entire dimension of Melbourne live music which has been omitted from the historical document, in favour of a rockist narrative.
i found a copy of this dvd under my seat at acmi the other night
WIN
A rockist narrative? Postmodernism really is pervasive hey? Bring back absolutes, I say...
It's getting a public screening... according to facesook
Date:
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
Time:
6:30pm - 8:30pm
Location:
Experimedia @ the State Library of Victoria
Street: 328 Swanston Street
Melbourne, Australia
i finally saw this on the weekend about 80 years later. without a doubt, ross knight owns this doco for the scene where he casually explains the loud crashing noise in the background being 'one of the dogs tryin' to git a rabbit'. fucking legend!
I don't understand why anyone makes calls like this in relation to Sticky Carpet - the film is purely a reflection of Mark's interests in (predominantly) Melbourne based live sound/music. If groups like those mentioned above do not appear, it is more than likely because they do not fall within Mark's personal areas of interest. This is also why so much time is given over to material like the Assassination Collective recording session and associated interviews - these are folks from within Mark's social circle, and a key element of his engagement with this city's sounds. I think it is also why Mark has continually put forward the suggestion that people make their own films in response to criticism of this work.
I don't think the film was ever put forward as an all inclusive snapshot of Melbourne music at the time - or maybe it was when picked up for distribution and festival screenings?
spot on humanityisthedevil.
hey ben, do you have a contact for the dude who makes all his own instruments out of metal?
Rod Cooper!
Nup. but Im sure you could track him down... He's awesome!
He recently went into that huge yellow cheese-stick nazi-arm that hangs over the Tullamarine Freew...Tollway, and recorded a bunch of ambient noise... great echo.
Im also sure chats here would have a contact
have you met him? was he nice?
yep. Met him a couple of times. He played with Baseball/Stabs once...
...but more recently he played at Forepaw Galelry on High St.. He played 2 sets. First with 2 homemade turnatble things.. with homamade pickups on sandpaper, wood, rock.. etc. The second set was with his metal machine with strings, plucky things, springs and stuff.
Afterwards he hung around for hours.. setting up his instrument on the street for folk at teh High Vibes fest to check out and talk to him about it. He's very approachable and keen to talk about sounds and stuff.
excellent!!!! gotta work with that guy and the 'plucky machine'
a plucky bit broke off when I was last watching him. I keep it with my Sonic Youth set lists and Pearl Jam pics!
(hides from the imanent PJ backlash)