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An intimate new documentary explores the difficult life of one of Australia’s most brilliant songwriters, whose unexpected death stunned the industry
The David McComb documentary Love In Bright Landscapes will open at cinemas in Sydney and Melbourne in May.
The Triffids never enjoyed the same mainstream success as many of their peers, but there are few bands in this country who have been as acclaimed and influential. Their evocative songs were driven by the perfect poetry of David McComb, who wrote about Australia with a kind of desolate beauty that has never truly been matched. Behind him was a band whose music painted pictures almost as vivid as their frontman's words. The weeping steel guitars of Evil Graham Lee, the spacious textures added by Jill Birt and Robert McComb among the many ingredients that made this band so special.