- A dramatised documentary showing 48 hours in the lives of members of the Aboriginal bands, No Fixed Address and Us Mob, including the racism, hostility and harassment they receive.
- Wrong Side of the Road opens with scenes of police breaking up a performance of the two groups, arresting a band member and his subsequent escape from a police vehicle. It continues with run-ins between the musicians and the establishment. The racism encountered when the bands turn up at a gig and the white hotel manager discovers they are black, the insensitivity of the police and bureaucrats, and the difficulties in tracing one's family after being adopted out ("Stolen Generations"), reflect the problems encountered by many urban Aboriginal people. Wrong Side of the Road (named after a song from Us Mob) reveals the injustices Aboriginal people constantly face. The thread that runs through Wrong Side of the Road is the story played by Les Graham in the film, of a young man looking for his mother. The film's script comes from the life stories from members of the bands, and people around the bands and at the Centre for Aboriginal Studies in Music. They weren't necessarily playing themselves - Les was in fact playing someone else's story in the film. But if you look at the significance of the Stolen Generations and the way that that has become part of the whole public debate - it wasn't in those days, but that's what that story was about. It was about a kid who had been taken away from his family, and in fact right through the 1970s that was still happening.—Paul Gerard Kennedy
- Wrong Side of the Road (1981) is an Australian low budget feature length film made in South Australia in 1980. It is a landmark film for two reasons. It was the first Australian movie to realistically portray urban Aboriginal Youth and it was the first Australian movie to combine a semi autobiographical film with a soundtrack performed by the actual actors. The name of the album is also called Wrong Side of the Road. The fictitious band that appears in the film, is a combination of two actual bands (and their different musical styles) - the band Us Mob (rock) and No Fixed Address (reggae/rock/jazz). The movie, not unlike the album, portrays the trials and tribulations of an Aboriginal youth living in poverty on the outskirts of White Australian society that has abandoned them. The movie and album tie in was the first attempt to introduce Australian Aboriginal music to a non-indigenous audience.
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By what name was Wrong Side of the Road (1981) officially released in Canada in English?
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