30 odd years of South Australian underground original music. 1978 – 2015. 

Celebrating over 90 musicians, their bands and many other local music supporters who have helped make the SA music scene what it is today.

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SYNOPSIS

This film is a celebration and a tribute to South Australian original music, from the perspective of Adelaide's underground pub rock scene. The stories are memories told through the eyes of the musicians themselves and other local music supporters. This film intends to acknowledge many of the much loved and well respected underground Adelaide bands from the late 70s to the present day.  We pay tribute to the DIYers who’s continuous efforts over the past 30 years to support, encourage and celebrate this particular music scene,  has helped  make it the rich & thriving scene it is today. Its about a generation of musicians who grew up in Adelaide South Australia and those people who embraced the "do it yourself" Attitude and were inspired as youths by the punk movement back in the late 70s. This punk DIY ethic was often the driving force behind many teens of the times throughout the world to want to start bands, set up public radio stations, record labels and their own music fanzines. Here in Adelaide  after 30 years we meet some of these same people who are now in their 40s and 50s, and still playing in bands, volunteering at the public radio station and churning out their local music fanzines. The sheer longevity of the commitment and the efforts made by these people who are driven by their passion for local music has helped create the vibrant and rich scene it is today. It is those local legends that have created our music history.

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We listen to the memories of  members from many unforgettable SA bands such as :

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Fear & Loathing, The Ubombs, Accountants, Dagoes, The Beavers, Bloodloss, Repo, Love Fever, Screaming Believers, Acid drops, Skunks, Primevils,  22 sect, Pure purple, The Verge, The Plague, The Lick, Super fly, Weirdos, Nuvo Block, Brats, Billion Dollar Bums, Blood sucking freaks, Spikes, Perdition, NFI, Iron Sheiks, New Rose,Zippy and the Boneheads Gacey's Place, King Daddy Agent Orange, Sudafed, Glen and the peanut butter men,  Toyland, Hot Tomatoes, Bearded clams,  Meatbeaters,  Devils Cabaret, Exploding White mice, Purple Vulture shit, Ugly Ugly Ugly, Iguana Twins, Raw Sex, Dead popes of the Vatican, Fiendish Cavendish, Back Seat Romeos, Wheres the Pope, Skunks, Belial, Kamikaze, Peterhead, Glamville,  Meat, Guns of Krishna, Leather Messiah, Toxic shock, Roadside Slasher, Red Rascal, Raw Spud, The Toss, The Crazies, Where's the Pope, Vegans in leather, Hack, Grong Grong, Operation octopus, Screaming Jennies, The Mark of Cain,  The Avant Gardeners, Raw sex, Colostomy bag lady, Backseat Romeos, Gravel faced racer, Grot, Sumpgrinder, Meat tray, White Tiger, Kamikaze and many more..

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We have interviewed music supporters such as  Doug Thomas of Greasy Pop records, who financed and produced vinyl records for many of Adelaide's emerging bands during the late 70s and 1980s when no-one else would. We've spoken with many Three D Radio announcers, volunteers who have been supporting and playing  a massive amount of local music since it began back in 1978, (known back then as 5mmm)  Three D Radio have played a huge role in helping make the Adelaide music scene the unique and vibrant scene that it is today. Adelaide may be a small city but it has a strong, passionate and very unique music community.