Glide Documentary 'Disappear Here' Receives Theatre Screenings

Beloved ‘90s indie rock band Glide are the subject of a new documentary film, Disappear Here. To celebrate its official release, the project will screen in theatres in Melbourne, Sydney, and Adelaide and feature Q&A interviews with the film’s director, writer, editor, and filmmaker, Ben deHoedt.

The documentary will air at Melbourne’s Thornbury Picture House, Adelaide’s Piccadilly Cinemas, and Sydney’s Ritz Randwick in March and April.

Due to demand, there will be two nights at the Thornbury Picture House—the premiere on Thursday, 20 March, and a second night on 21 March—where deHoedt will participate in a Q&A, while the first night will be hosted by Jane Gazzo, and the second night with a host to be confirmed.

Andrew P Street will host the Adelaide event (Monday, 31 March), while in Sydney (Thursday, 24 April), the Q&A will feature deHoedt and Glide band members Tim Scott, Marc Lynch, Paul McDonald, and Marty Doo. The host will be confirmed soon.

You can find tickets for the Melbourne events here, Sydney here, and Adelaide here.

Disappear Here poster. Source: Supplied/Ben deHoedt

In addition to the screenings, a new trailer for Disappear Here has arrived—you can check it out below.

Disappear Here has been in the works since 2019. When The Music first caught up with deHoedt, he revealed that he was “in the depths” of researching and maintaining regular contact with ex-band members and family while digitising visual archives.

In 2022, we caught up with deHoedt again, and this time, we discovered that the documentary had a change of title – from Tangled to the name of the band’s second album, Disappear Here. At the time, deHoedt described the process of making the project as “a combination of stomach-churning anxiety and deeply fulfilling creative joy.”

Formed in 1991 and fronted by William Arthur, Glide released their debut album Open Up & Croon in 1995 and went on tour with Blur and Lush.

Glide released their second LP, Disappear Here, in 1996. Arthur passed away in 1999. In 2000, the indie-rock outfit released their third and final album, Last.

deHoedt previously said of the band: “Glide were such an influential band to me throughout the '90s.

“William Arthur's darkly evocative and often ambiguous lyrics, spectral and pastoral chord voicings, and beautifully gnarled sense of harmony – all of this was a kind of cathartic sorcery to me. I wanted to write songs like that. Even in their more straight-ahead pop songs, something in there makes you want to listen again and live in that world for a little longer.”