In the Raw (documentary)
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In The Raw is a 2009 documentary film
about Lubricated Goat's nude appearance on Australia
n TV.
In November 1988, Andrew Denton
's Blah Blah Blah
program caused a nationwide stir by allowing guitar group Lubricated Goat
to perform on Australian Broadcasting Corporation
TV completely naked. The resulting media frenzy jammed phone lines as the public debated this supposed decline in Australian media standards.
In The Raw dispels myths which have arisen as a result of Lubricated Goat's nude appearance by exposing the politics, censorship
, and nudity of this event through extensive interviews with the members of the band, ABC Management, and the Blah Blah Blah production team. The project was directed by Cousin Creep
and made for Happening Films of Melbourne, Australia.
In The Raw debuted on Friday 11 December, at the 19th Meredith Music Festival Outlands Ecoplex Cinema.
Documentary film
Documentary films constitute a broad category of nonfictional motion pictures intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record...
about Lubricated Goat's nude appearance on Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
n TV.
In November 1988, Andrew Denton
Andrew Denton
Andrew Christopher Denton is an Australian television producer, comedian, Gold Logie-nominated television presenter and former radio host, and was the host of the ABC's weekly television interview program Enough Rope. He is known for his comedy and interviewing technique...
's Blah Blah Blah
Blah Blah Blah
Blah Blah Blah was a 1988 comedy television show starring Andrew Denton, broadcast on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. The show is most notable for the fact that it began the television careers of many Australian performers including Flacco and Roy & HG...
program caused a nationwide stir by allowing guitar group Lubricated Goat
Lubricated Goat
Lubricated Goat was an Australian noise rock band of the 1980s.They achieved brief notoriety for playing on a television program naked, wearing only their instruments and shoes...
to perform on Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation, commonly referred to as "the ABC" , is Australia's national public broadcaster...
TV completely naked. The resulting media frenzy jammed phone lines as the public debated this supposed decline in Australian media standards.
In The Raw dispels myths which have arisen as a result of Lubricated Goat's nude appearance by exposing the politics, censorship
Censorship
thumb|[[Book burning]] following the [[1973 Chilean coup d'état|1973 coup]] that installed the [[Military government of Chile |Pinochet regime]] in Chile...
, and nudity of this event through extensive interviews with the members of the band, ABC Management, and the Blah Blah Blah production team. The project was directed by Cousin Creep
Cousin Creep
Cousin Creep is the alter ego of Australian Craig Barnes, known for his involvement in Melbourne Alternative music / Independent music scenes. In the late '80s he published a number of limited run cassette Fanzines called Aliens Mutants...
and made for Happening Films of Melbourne, Australia.
In The Raw debuted on Friday 11 December, at the 19th Meredith Music Festival Outlands Ecoplex Cinema.