Taken from the film: Scream In Blue Cheyne Horan’s revealing 1987 biopic documented his alternative lifestyle in a cosmic, share-house in Byron Bay, while his pro surfing ratings were on the slide.
When Koby Abberton comments of his big wave antics, “One of us could die one day from it, but I’m ready for it,” you know he’s not kidding. Grinspoon’s Phil Jamieson channeled their bravado in this ode to wild, adolescent ambition and triumph against the odds.
And yet their fire-powered pub rock sat perfectly with the tales of violence, localism, machismo thrill-seeking and outright rebellion the ‘Bra Boys doco captured.Īustralian surfing’s most notorious gang achieved notoriety for fist fights with police, a grissly murder case, fearless charging of crazy waves and an unlikely peace-making role in the infamous Cronulla Riots. Taken from the film: Bra Boys Hailing from the surfing magic lands of the NSW North Coast, Grinspoon could not have been further removed from the grim, gritty urban jungle of Sydney’s Maroubra Beach. When Angry roars, “My reputation it cuts like a knife,” as Kong buries his rail through one more brutal carve at Pipeline it’s easy to imagine the pair as kindred souls, each converting youthful angst into their companion artforms.
The fact that Kong was surfing with a heavily strapped and stitched left knee after being speared by a board at Sunset Beach, and that he’d busted almost his entire quiver of boards, made Scarred for Life the ideal soundtrack to Kong’s animal surfing. Taken from the film: The Performers The potent combination of Angry Anderson’s searing anthem of troubled youth and the breakthrough Hawaiian surfing of bad boy Gary “Kong” Elkerton made an indelible imprint on any surfing delinquents dreaming of death or glory in the Islands. While the first generation pros fought for surfing to become respectable, Iggy and his band were ensuring rock and roll remained a rebellious outlier.
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At around the same time as the Free Ride generation were ushering in the new pro era, The Stooges were laying the groundwork for the coming punk revolution. As these pioneers of the pro surfing world articulate their youthful dreams of a career riding waves, wild man Iggy Pop and his Stooges release animals wails and pounding sonic waves as accompaniment. Taken from the film: Bustin’ Down The Door There’s a powerful juxtapose in coupling Rabbit, MR and Shaun with the Stooges. But it married Australia’s mythical desert coast, a musical icon and cutting edge aerial antics in a mesmerising montage. Was this Neville’s subtle comment on old surf industry artifices crumbling in the face of modern, free surfing, high performance? Probably not. Nick Cave’s growling vocals and moody instrumentation provided a dramatic counterpoint to modern aerialists Chippa Wilson and Craig Anderson’s theatrics on the edge of the Australian desert, their tail high spins and deft tube threading set against ancient, crumbling, limestone cliffs. Taken from the film: Dear Suburbia Surf film savant Kai Neville stepped out of the considerable shadow of his mentor Taylor Steele with 2011’s Lost Atlas, but it was the following year’s Dear Suburbia that cemented his reputation for quirky visuals, laser-sharp talent identification and eclectic music soundtracks. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds -‘Red Right Hand’ To celebrate the release of PSYCHED, Australian surf writer Tim Baker gave us a track by track run down of the compilation, it’s 21 tracks long so get ready to go deep into the aural history of surf culture.