Richard Lowenstein to appear at Australian Music Week screening of Australia Made
Pictured:Lowenstein and Hutchence from Australian Made
Internationally renowned Australian music director Richard Lowenstein will take part in a Q&A after the 30th anniversary screening of the Australia Made documentary at the inaugural Australian Music Week Film Festival.
The festival is held in Sydney at Event Cinemas George Street (Oct 31) and GU Film House Cronulla (Nov 1—3.)
Australia Made was an ambitious concert tour of six capital cities during 1986–1987, and conceived by INXS manager Chris Murphy and Jimmy Barnes’ manager Mark Pope.
It was to prove that major Australian acts could pull crowds as well as international ones.
The festival, was helped with a $3.2 million budget and a hit version of The Easybeats’ ‘Good Times’ recorded by INXS and Barnes specifically for the tour.
Others on the bill included Mental as Anything, I’m Talking, The Triffids, The Saints, Divinyls and The Models.
Despite the professed camaraderie of the acts, there was a well-documented punch up backstage between Murphy and Mentals manager Jeremy Fabinyi – not helped when the Mentals saxplayer Peter Trotter collapsed onstage and later died – and the Mentals footage was not included in the film.
Lowenstein is not the only major name for the film festival.
At the first NSW screening of Something Quite Peculiar: The Life and Times of Steve Kilbey, the Church frontman will be joined by Mike Brook (director) Wayne Dickson (cinematographer) and possibly some other Church members will discuss the doco.
At the world premiere of Breaking The Mould on November 1, director Jessie Ryan-Allen will appear in a Q&A following the film. Inspired by Lindy Morrison’s documentary Australian Women in Rock & Pop Music (1995), the film celebrates the evolution of gender and how it has shaped Australian music.
Immediately after the world premiere in Adelaide of Decks and the City – about the electronic music scene in Adelaide and obstacles thrown up by authorities – directors James Corbett and Glen Scrymgour fly to Sydney for a Q&A.
Jed Hilly, Executive Director of the Americana Music Association, will introduce Take Me To The River at its Australian premiere.
It is a documentary about the soul of American music, and follows the recording of a new album featuring legends from Stax Records and Memphis’s music scene, as they pass on their musical magic to stars and artists of today.
There are scores of full-length documentaries, shorts and videos being screened. See the full list here.
For tickets, head to the Event Cinemas website.
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