Live It Up

90 min | 5 Mar 2026

Coarse language, drug references and nudity

Live It Up celebrates Mental As Anything — an art-school band whose warmth, wit & irreverent spirit captured Australian suburban life and left an enduring cultural legacy

Live It Up is a new feature documentary celebrating Mental as Anything, the art-school band whose irreverent humour, visual art and clever pop songs made them one of Australia’s most distinctive cultural forces. Following the release of Nips Are Getting Bigger in 1979, the Mentals rose quickly from inner-city Sydney pubs to national fame, becoming masters at capturing Australian suburban life with warmth, wit and playfulness. While success came fast, they never treated it with reverence. Funny, warm and unexpectedly moving, Live It Up explores how Mental as Anything navigated fame, longevity and the pressures of the music industry while holding fast to their humour and creative spirit — revealing why their music continues to resonate today.

Director
Matthew Walker
Genre
Documentary, Music
Rating
M (Coarse language, drug references and nudity)
Release Date
5 March 2026
Runtime
90 min

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