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tomhoward | 11 months ago

I suspect they had him in mind right from the start and even developed the character for him.

Custard/McCormack are Brisbane-based and Bluey has been produced from a Brisbane studio since the very beginning. The writers/producers would have known and liked his music and voice, and probably someone there already knew him personally. Bluey is shown on ABC in Australia and Custard has always had lots of airplay on ABC TV and radio stations.

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LeonB|11 months ago

Lots of airplay, apart from that time they went into the 4ZZZ studios and found a bunch of custard cds and tapes were all smashed up… leading to the song “fantastic plastic” off Wahooto, “I wish that triple zed would play us…”

Love Custard with my heart and soul. Thanks for bringing them up Tom Howard!

tomhoward|11 months ago

Well, Triple Z is an independent/community station, not ABC!

I know that song/line well and remember mentions of Custard being “banned” by Triple Z in the band’s early days, but I can’t find any details. Do you know why they banned/smashed their music?