Descent Into the Maelstrom
- IMDb link: 6659652
- IMDb rating: 7.9 (79 votes) Search
- Genres: Music, Documentary
- Director: Jonathan Sequeira, Warwick Gilbert
- Cast: Alley Brereton, Pip Hoyle, Ron Keeley and others
- Release date: 20 Jul 2017
- Release year: 2017
- Runtime: 110 minutes
- Country: Australia
- Keywords: australian pub rock, sydney australia, punk rock, surf punk, music documentary, birdman, radio
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Radio Birdman are the greatest band you never heard of. Australia's pioneers of the underground music scene with their absolute commitment to their art and do-it-yourself attitude. They changed lives and their influence is still felt today.
A group of outsiders get together in 1974 Sydney, and RADIO BIRDMAN is born with a mission - to keep compromise from their art. Birdman are turned off and kicked out of venue after venue. Their determination to do things their own way, against the industry, is unwavering, and drives them together - they become a family as much as a band. A 'New Race' of disaffected youth gain a rallying point when Birdman start their own venue, 'The Funhouse', and release their own records. But the intensity that drives Radio Birdman causes their break up. 20 years later they reform. Have they found peace with their struggle against the industry and each other?
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