Watch: Jack Ladder playing a song in this spot.

Jack Ladder -- the performing name of Jamie Hutchings, Australian musician and former frontman of Bluebottle Kiss -- filmed a performance of 'You Won't Be Forgotten When You Leave' at a location in Sydney's inner west, in the St Peters and Erskineville area where much of his musical life has been anchored. The footage captures the understated, slightly desolate quality that characterises Ladder's best work: a singer who writes about loss, departure, and the specific melancholy of cities with the sensibility of someone who knows those streets from the inside.

The inner west of Sydney -- Newtown, Erskineville, St Peters, Marrickville -- has been the geographic and spiritual home of Sydney's independent music scene for three decades. The area's terrace houses, cheap cafes, rehearsal spaces, and small venues produced a particular Sydney sound that sits somewhere between art rock, folk, and post-punk. Jack Ladder has been central to that world for much of his career, performing at the Newtown Social Club, the Vanguard, and the smaller rooms that have characterised the inner west scene.

The specific location used for the Ladder video appears to be on or near St Peters Road in St Peters, a post-industrial suburb undergoing the same slow gentrification as its inner-west neighbours. The industrial remnants, the narrow residential streets, and the particular light of a Sydney afternoon give the footage a quality consistent with the song's emotional register. Jack Ladder's recordings are worth seeking out for anyone interested in the quieter, stranger end of Australian independent music.