STICKY CARPET

It's long overdue but finally cultural recognition gets paid to Melbourne's much-loved independent music scene in Mark Butcher's grass-roots documentary Sticky Carpet. As Butcher admits, the whole thing started “over a beer at the Rob Roy watching some bands”.

This raw and vital filmed souvenir interviews the musicians currently leading the charge, today's sonic explorers such as Robin Fox and Rod Cooper, and Melbourne scene stalwarts including 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). A veritable roll call of live performance footage comes from the likes of The Dirty Three, The Stabs, Bored!, I Spit on your Gravy, The Sailors, Love of Diagrams, Pisschrist and many more.

Sticky Carpet instinctively conveys the ongoing drive behind the bands - and even gets a little political. Most importantly, it shares in the passion and experimentation of our music scene.

Director Mark Butcher is a guest of the festival and will introduce the session on Friday 28 July, 9.15pm at ACMI and on Tuesday 1 August, 5pm at Greater Union.

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Mark Butcher was born in Melbourne, Australia, in 1976. Sticky Carpet (2006) is his feature film directing debut.