Who got killed in his bath on the North Shore? The mystifying behaviour of the WSL! The joy of early infection! And why three-time world champ Tom Curren likes to play "White Face"!
Today on Dirty Water, which is episode three, we’ve got two special guests, the creator of game-changing surf film Litmus in 1996, its 2019 sequel Beyond Litmus, the surfboard design documentary On the Edge of a Dream where an impossible to ride board is filmed ruining the live of myriad surfers, the queen of soul Andrew Kidman.
Kidman also made the films Single, with Stephanie Gilmore, Glass Love, and Spirit of Akasha, a sort of sequel to Morning of the Earth, which premiered at the Sydney Opera House.
He’s also made myriad album with The Windy Hills and The Val Dusty Experiment, shapes boards, takes photographs, writes books and produces a tabloid-sized, although far from tabloid in nature, newsprint surf magazine.
But don’t think Kidman, who is a former Australian champion surfer, is gonna put you to sleep.
He works from the angle that he has to produce work that offsets the WSL’s “utter bastardisation” of his beloved sport.
The second guest is BeachGrit’s star writer, Lennox Heads’ own Anton Chekhov, Steve “Longtom” Shearer.
There’s a little synergy there.
Both live around Byron Bay, Longtom in a joint so close to Lennox Point you could toss a rock out the window and hit an inflatable mat rider; Kidman on a farm near Mount Warning, in a little hamlet thirty minutes drive inland from Murferville, that Vanity Fair-profiled haven of narcissism and clandestine infighting.
Chas is here, too, begging to be infected with COVID-19 and, me, as always, unable to shake off the dust of delusion.
Listen etc. It ain’t too long.
(Buy DVD/digital download/hard-cover book of Beyond Litmus, here.)