All India Radio live at the Northcote Social Club playing 'Bollywood Nights' from their first album 'The Inevitable'

Thanks to everyone for their response to the Kilbey Kennedy album. Here’s a little video blog of me talking (mumbling) about the album.

video by Martin Kennedy, from All India Radio's new album A Low High, made on Super 8 film. A welcome return to the lush atmospheric and instrumental soundscapes of their earlier work. Martin has also released a CD with Steve Kilbey (Under The Milky Way)

video for ‘Persist’ taken from All India Radio’s album ‘Fall’. All India Radio commissioned Australian animator Lucy Dyson to create the quirky and moving video for ‘Persist’ based on the true story of Topsy the circus elephant. Lucy’s recent projects include music videos for rising star Gotye, Dan Kelly, Bird Blobs, TZU, The Stardust Five, and an award winning music video for Sarah Blasko. About the video: On a dreary January morning in 1903, a crowd estimated at some 1,500 gathered in the off-season quiet of Coney Island, in the yet-unfinished environs of Luna Park, to witness what The New York Times termed “a rather inglorious affair.” Topsy, a six-ton, 10-foot-high female Indian elephant had recently developed a bad temper, and had killed three men in as many years. They had all in one way or another abused her. Fredrick Thompson, co-owner of Luna Park and consummate showman, decided that Topsy had to be put to sleep and advertised the event. Over 1,000 people filled a Luna Park arena to watch Topsy be fed cyanide-laced carrots. The carrots had no effect. So Thompson announced that man-killer Topsy would be publicly hanged for her crimes. The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals protested: Hanging was a cruel and inhuman punishment. New York had recently abandoned the gallows for the electric chair, so Thompson made plans for an electrocution. In stepped Thomas Edison. Topsy offered an opportunity that Edison couldn’t resist. On Jan. 5, 1903, 1500 people, gathered to see her be put down. At 2:45pm the current was activated. For 10 seconds 6,600 volts coursed through Topsy’s body. “The big beast died without a trumpet or a groan”, The Commercial Advertiser noted. The New York Times added: “There had been no sound and hardly a conscious movement of the body”. The elephant convulsed and dropped over, withering, dead. Thompson preserved part of Topsy’s hide for an office chair. Edison's film of the event “Electrocuting an Elephant” was seen by audiences through out the United States.

Far Away is a song taken from All India Radio's forthcoming new album 'Fall'. The video features old super 8 movie footage from the late 1970's and early 1980's particularly from the Tanelorn Rock Festival of 1981 in Australia where established bands played alongside new up and coming bands. The crowd was a strange mixture of die-hard hippies, punks, bikers and new wavers with an ecclectic mix of bands like The Church, Sunnyboys, Moving Pictures, Men at Work, Midnight Oil and Split Enz

More of a travelog of our US tour than an official 'tour' film.

More of a travelog of our US tour than a 'tour' film.

More of a travelog of our US tour than a 'tour' film.

From All India Radio's ARIA nominated self titled album. Directed by David Crynes.

The new video from Australia's All India Radio. Four Three taken from the new album 'Echo Other'. Video directed by Martin Kennedy.