The first and only Canberra screening of this documentary on legendary cult underground band DEAD MOON, on the BIG screen at Pot Belly pub, where the beer is cold and the pizza is hot!
UNKNOWN PASSAGE: THE DEAD MOON STORY is co-directed by Kate Fix & Jason Axel Summers - the film makers behind the Stu Spasm documentary ‘I SHOULD HAVE BEEN DEAD YEARS AGO’.
Originally released in 2006 this newly re-coloured and audio remixed version has only been seen by 200 people worldwide!
Undisputedly written into the annals of rock history and dedicated to the most sincere methods of the DIY ethos, Northwest USA musicians Dead Moon (Andrew Loomis and Fred & Toody Cole) have intentionally cut out the bullshit, and left the major labels and "commercial success" behind. Here stands the triumph of a family against corporate control and gracelessly growing old.
Unknown Passage: The Dead Mood Story follows the band on the road and at home, chronicling lifestyle rock and rollers who happen to also be small business owners and grandparents. Beginning with footage of a 14 year-old Deep Soul Cole ("the white Stevie Wonder"), Unknown Passage tells the history of one of the most reclusive bands through their various garage, psych, folk, and punk rock incarnations. Today, pressing their records at home, in a house they built from the ground up, Dead Moon run their own "frontier mini-mall," record label and music store, while in their spare time "keep one gig ahead of a day job" by touring through the US and Europe-with the occasional 15-hour penny-slots casino pitstop. Here stands the triumph of a family of "old-west homesteaders" against corporate control and gracelessly growing old. Unknown Passage: The Dead Moon Story is Fred, Toody & Andrew's Dead Moon experience, a culmination of their 40-year life in music and love.—Anonymous, IMDb
See trailer here:
Followed by a gig with 3 Sydney bands:
Post Punk bands SHARK ARM and RUBBER NECKER, and
Psycho-Blues-a-Billy trash bags WHITE KNUCKLE FEVER.
Ticketed separately. For more info and tickets go here:
https://www.trybooking.com/DIJHB
Event Venue
POT BELLY, 5/26 Weedon Close, Belconnen, ACT 2617, Canberra, Australia
