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Dave Graney talks with Haydn Keenan, director and producer of the 1983 Australian Film Going Down which was recently rediscovered by a NYC film distributor and has been re released in a 4k 5.1 restored print.

GOING DOWN (1982) is an entertaining odyssey through the pulsating streets of Sydney in the 1980s as four young women spend their last night together. The film stars Tracy Mann (Sleeping Beauty) Vera Plevnik (Monkey Grip), David Argue (Gallipoli) and Esben Storm (Round The Twist), and is directed by Haydn Keenan (27A).

"It’s a re-release after 40 years following the film being found in a dvd remainder bin by a distributor in New York. She licensed it and ran it in cinemas across 17 cities to fantastic audience response. That made us think should try to get the movie out here again as it’s just been restored to a beautiful punk, silk screen high colour 4K and 5.1 track

It had almost no release in Melbourne as I put it into a cinema in the city which I didn’t know had been running sex movies until the day before we opened! And we’ve got a film called GOING DOWN. The raincoat brigade wanted their money back en mass. In was a total stuff up so its almost a new release.

Great music, great cast, great inner city slice of life when there was a band in every pub and the place was exploding."

Anna Smyrk is a Melbourne based songwriter and performer who is just putting out her debut album, though she has taken a long runup to get to this point, having released several EPs over the last decade. She started out as an acoustic folkie but has gone electric , weilding her Yamaha SG.

World Forever is the twelfth solo album by Australian guitar slinger / composer Cam Butler (Silver Ray, Ron S. Peno and the Superstitions).

Butler expands on his widescreen compositional practice by adding the gargantuan roar of the Melbourne Town Hall Grand Organ to his trademark string orchestra and rock ensemble sound palette.

World Forever sees the gorgeous swoon of Butler's 28-piece string section enveloped by the deep foreboding growl of the grand organ, while his immanently tasteful band anchors proceedings with gritty rock textures and distinguished stately poise.

The result is a psychedelic journey through rich filmic moods, gothic terror scenes and vivid technicolour beauty, conjuring Butler's most stirring and cinematic work to date.

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soundtrack / neo-romantic / classical rock

Dave Graney talks with Woody Campfire aka Tomas Ford. A few yarns around the billabong. Tomas Ford aka Woody Campfire. Once an electro pop cabaret indie music artist now a swaggering, bearded bushman. With a ukelele and a cork pick and an Akubra hat. Busking around Australia in all sorts of raw situations.

Keyo Rose came in to chat on my RRR Radio show which is called BLB. He had a gig coming up and I ran into him at Kim Salmons Surreal Science show at the Corner and I asked him to com in the following Tuesday. I get pages of PR every week from all over the scene. I mostly only play music from the present year and also mostly Australian music. I like to play vintage people as well as debut artists. I rarely interview debut artists though as they usually don’t have a story to tell yet. They need to try and fail and embarrass themselves a lot and then they can talk! Keyo is a natural though. Full of flash and fire.