Dogs In Space is a 1987 Australian film set in the post-punk "little band scene" in Melbourne, in 1978. It was directed by Richard Lowenstein, and starred Michael Hutchence as Sam, the drug-addled frontman of the band the film is named after. Richard Lowenstein is an Australian film director. ... Richard Lowenstein is an Australian film director. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article may require cleanup. ... 1987 (MCMLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1987 (MCMLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Post-punk was a musical movement beginning at the end of the 1970s, following on the heels of the initial punk rock explosion. For the more recent post-punk movement in rock music, see post-punk revival. ... The little bands scene is the name given to the post punk rock scene which flourished in Australia in the late 1970s and 1980s. ... Melbourne is the state capital and largest city in the Australian state of Victoria, and the second-largest city in Australia (after Sydney), with a population of approximately 3. ... 1978 (MCMLXXVIII in Roman) was a common year starting on Sunday (the link is to a full 1978 calendar). ... Richard Lowenstein is an Australian film director. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article may require cleanup. ...

The character of Sam is based on Sam Sejavka, frontman of Melbourne post-punk band The Ears, with whom Lowenstein lived in the 1970s. Born in Melbourne in 1960, Sam Sejavka is a writer, actor and musician. ...

Soundtrack album

The soundtrack album was released on Chase Records in February 1987 (CLPX14), featuring several tracks from reformed "little bands" and other contemporary tracks of the time.

The album came in two versions: a censored version in a white sleeve with the band name "Thrush & the Cunts" bowdlerised to "Thrush and the C**ts" and possibly-offensive song vocal tracks removed, and an "R"-rated version in a black sleeve with all band names in full, movie dialogue between the songs and all vocal tracks in full. Thomas Bowdler (July 11, 1754 – February 24, 1825), an English physician, has become (in)famous as the editor of a childrens edition of William Shakespeare, the Family Shakespeare, in which he endeavoured to remove every thing that could give just offence to the religious and virtuous mind. ...

Chase Records went out of business soon after and, despite much effort, the record has never been reissued and has remained unavailable since. It is now a collector's item, commanding high prices. It was only available on LP and cassette and was issued on CD - at least the censored version appeared on discount bins in shopping malls in Lisbon, Portugal, somewhere around 1996-1997.

The Hutchence tracks were his first official solo recordings and his first with Ollie Olsen. They would later collaborate on the Max Q recordings. Ollie Olsen was born in 1958 in Melbourne, Australia. ... Max Q were a short-lived Australian rock band, active in the late 1980s, essentially a vanity recording project for INXS frontman Michael Hutchence. ...

Side One:

1. "Dog Food" (Iggy Pop)
2. "Dogs In Space" (Michael Hutchence)
3. "Win/Lose" (Ollie Olsen)
4. "Anthrax" (Gang of Four)
5. "Skysaw" (Brian Eno)
6. "True Love" (Marching Girls)
7. "Shivers" (Boys Next Door)

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1. "Diseases" (Thrush & the Cunts)
2. "Pumping Ugly Muscle" (The Primitive Calculators)
3. "Golf Course" (Michael Hutchence)
4. "The Green Dragon" (Michael Hutchence)
5. "Shivers" (Marie Hoy & Friends)
6. "Endless Sea" (Iggy Pop)
7. "Rooms For The Memory" (Michael Hutchence)

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Trivia

• The house Dogs In Space was filmed in is located in Richmond, and is the same house Richard Lowenstein and Sam Sejavka lived in the 1970s. It was rented from its new owners and "unrenovated" at considerable expense for the filming.
• The characther who played Chuck, the drummer, also lived in the same house. He was asked to play himself due to problems casting the character.
• Sejavka appears momentarily in the film in the party scene, being addressed by Michael Hutchence's character as "Michael".
• Sejavka went on to become a playwright.
• Richard wrote himself out of the film and several of his exploits were attributed to the Tim character.
• Tim's keyboard device was called the 'Bovanscope' and was a highly-mutated Tandy 50-in-1 electronics kit.
• The boys really did cook up 'skylab' in the oven and try to pass it off to 3XY, who weren't having any of it.
• Terry Towelling Man still lives opposite...
• Chainsaw Baby is now 26...

Richmond is a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. ...

See also

• List of Australian films

List of Australian films with related articles. ...

References

• Michael Hutchence (Rarebird)
• Dogs In Space Soundtrack? (Icebox Chat) —

External links

• The Dogs In Space house (michaelhutchence.com)