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.

file under:

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.

Dave Graney talking with Jim Woff, bass player for Sydney based rock band, CROW.

CROW have been active since the early 90s and last released an album in 2010. They have just released a new single from a projected 2026 album.

Talk is around 80s underground Sydney , driving cabs in Sydney, playing the bass guitar, influences, fellow travellers. The engine room and the powder room (Musical terms for sections of a band) .

First of a projected series.

Dave Graney and Clare Moore talking with old friends, people who have sustained and inspired them over a long period. Tony Wyzenbeek is a photographer and film maker and sometime musician. A man about town. An artist who isn't arty - in that classic 70s Australian style. Making it look easy. Laconic, deadpan. All those kinds of elusive qualities.

This was the first attempt at filming a conversation. Dave Graney forgot to press "record" .

The second, actually filmed version, done the next day, is on Youtube.

Then its a freewheeling talk beginning with Dave Graney and Clare Moore talking of their first arrival into Melbourne. Tony talking about growing up in outer eastern Melbourne, Sharpies, fights etc. Then studying at an art school in Melbourne and living in 80s Prahran. Dave Graney and Clare Moore also lived in Prahran in 1982 and then St Kilda.

Talk turns to Dave Last and the Legendary Boy Kings.

Dave Graney, Clare Moore and Tony Wyzenbeek talk of 80's St Kilda. The Seaview Ballroom, The Prince Of wales Hotel. Street life.

Tony talks about the 90s ABC tv music show, RECOVERY and then moving into working on ABC Arts documentaries, when they used to make them.

Talk turns to Kings Cross at Ground Zero and Sydney in the 90s.

The talk finishes with each person nominating their ideal part of Melbourne to live in .

Dave Graney talks with Tim Smith aka TV Smith aka the singer and songwriter who first appeared in London in mid 1977 fronting the band he and his partner Gaye put together called THE ADVERTS. Two albums and many memorable. unique songs such as Looking Through Gary Gilmores Eyes, Bored Teenagers and One Chord Wonders. Following that, many solo albums.

In April 2026 he is to play shows in Australia backed by The Hard Ons.

Alex Ettling is a one man independent researcher and historian. He was working with the Living Museum Of The West (refers to the Western side of Melbourne - Footscray. Like the Western side of Sydney it’s where the factories and the factory fodder lived, where people traditionally drove to work with the sun in their eyes and drove home with the sun in their eyes) . He came to talk about a gig he had organized in Footscray (a place of few gigs or cultural happenings) called Footscray Folk. A celebration of 60s Melbourne folk. Two players in Margret Roadknight and David Lumsden coming out of retirement and one, Martin Wyndham Read making it a stop on his final tour. Alex had previously issued a book called Knocking The Top Off - A History of Alcohol In Australia. We talked about folk, Australian folk, performing and music in general, as fans and people involved in its presentation.

Melbourne band Girl Monstar historically existed between 1988 and 1993. In 2026 they are putting out a new album , GRRR!!