There was no public audience. It was a jam performance for the crew of the music video shoot, after the completion of the filming. Everything in the "Making Of" from 4:48 - 5:46 is regarding the performance. They didn't lug the mixing desk, a PA system, and their live sound engineer (John Newsham at 5:23) to the mountains just to play a backing track for the music video filming.
There was a post by UW sometime in 2008 when they reposted the Blue Mountain gig to their website that explained this. I'm pretty sure I saved it, but I can't find it at the moment in my archives. I did, however, find an article from Time Out magazine in 1999 which contained the following, saying essentially the same thing, and also confirms that the whole gig was filmed:
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Ever the adventurers, in the midst of their Big Day Out appearances in Sydney and Melbourne earlier in the year, Underworld decided to shoot the video for the first single 'Push Upstairs' in the Blue Mountains. "Tomato came over with a crew, and we were shooting this video clip in the Blue Mountains," explains Rick Smith of the band's recent visit. "The main idea for doing it was that we were already there and the weather was so gorgeous. It was like 'This is perfect', because if we go somewhere like Scotland, the weather's going to be dreadful. Of course the day before we got there, it started raining, and it rained and rained and rained, and we ended up 2000ft up the mountain, outside Sydney, and we couldn't see further than 30ft, but it was brilliant as well, actually. It turned out to be a real blessing in disguise. We not only shot the video, but we took all our equipment up there and a mobile recording track, and we took another film crew, some friends of ours from Tomato, and some cameramen from Sydney and we shot another film. We did a live jam in the early evening, no audience, just the crew and a couple of friends. It was a hell of an experience. The next day we came back down the mountain, checked into the hotel in Sydney, and it was 30 odd degrees and you can't go out because your skin will burn off your body. Oh mate, mad weather you have there."
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