MIXED MEDIA

This London pop-grunge group has always been more about its carefully crafted, Nirvana-like sound and Gavin Rossdale’s heartthrob appeal than it has been about actual songs, so the rockumentary should be its perfect medium. Unfortunately, director Peter Martin has spliced together a slipshod, unexciting smorgasbord of bland Bush mementos, offering home videos, live footage (including a clip from one of the outfit’s first club shows) and radio interviews. The meat is the 10 videos for songs from the blockbuster debut album “Sixteen Stone” and its follow-up “Razorblade Suitcase,” including Matt Mahurin’s creepy, arty “Everything Zen” and the more current “Swallowed.”

The rest of “Alleys and Motorways” is an uninteresting jumble of band banter and amateurish footage. Rossdale is a laconic traveling partner, and trailing him around from stage to dressing room isn’t terribly exciting. The interviews never delve beyond surface history. The live footage is a straightforward look at Bush’s attempt at passion and intensity. True passion, however, seems to elude Rossdale and company.

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