grodscorp@grods.comDMac
 | Posted by The Editor on Friday 8 September 2006, 5:39 pm Categories: Entertainment, Music, Reminiscing Tags: Custard, DavidMcCormack, Melbourne, ThePolaroids, TheTitanics |
It’s a bit sad really. It’s a lot sad really. Sad that I get so worked up and excited every time David McCormack comes to town either with his band the Polaroids or solo. Tonight I’m going to see DMac and a couple of the Polaroids at The Espy and I’ll probably go to his gig at The Evelyn tomorrow. For a man who in his old age (late 20s) hates the way that music is played way too loud now and that you come home smelling like an ashtray, this is a big weekend of pub rock.
It all started (here we go) in 1995 in grade 12. Custard were big and I liked ‘em. However, I didn’t really love them until I woke up on the last day of grade 12 to Apartment by Custard on the alarm radio. After a couple of live gigs here and there around BrisVegas I was a confirmed Custard stalker.
Although the band were really cool, it was their frontman who had The Cool. In his Vinnies suits and bed hair, nonchalantly strumming and drawling away, Dave McCormack was everything the pathetic and single late teens/ early 20s Ed wanted to be. If only I could be more like Dave, I thought, maybe I could pick up more (any) chicks.
Many, many gigs later in my new base of Sydney it was 1999 and Custard broke up. A sad, but inevitable, day. The Custard boys just didn’t seem to have that old X factor any more. But Dave moved on to solo work, a brief stint with The Titanics and finally his current Polaroids setup. I was overseas for most of this bar a couple of Titanics gigs but kept up to date with airmail CD orders and the internets.
I’ve been in Melbourne now for four years and have seen Dave about a dozen times since the first fortuitously scheduled event at The Evelyn only days after I arrived. At my side the whole time has been DMac recruit Billybob whose attitude has developed from polite bemusement to almost sincere fanhood.
See you at The Espy tonight. Billybob and I will be the guys in jeans with pints of Guinness.
GrodsThink Ep.31 (16/9/08)
Monday 11 September 2006, 5:04 pm #J,The
He soooo doesn’t look like the guy in that chic photoshopped pic up there. But I think I liked him better in real life, with his pot belly and crack lyrics, having a real’ good time with the audience. Also, when he did his crowd interaction segment of the performance, he touched me on the arm, not Ed, and asked me, not Ed, how I was liking the show. So it was me, not Ed, who had at least a full four point six seven recurring seconds of conversation with the Aus rock idol of Ed, not me. Something I will brag to Ed about for many long beer’o'clocks to come.
Monday 11 September 2006, 5:08 pm #billybob
You’re so lucky J,the… wish he could have touched me on the arm!!!!
Monday 11 September 2006, 5:09 pm #The Editor
I’m going to bar your IP address from commenting, J, The.
Monday 11 September 2006, 5:10 pm #billybob
I’m guessing the pic is from the 90s, before the Titanics, (and drugs, alcohol and middle age spread) took hold. He does have THE COOL though, even now, I can see what Ed saw back in 95.
Monday 11 September 2006, 5:24 pm #Goobertronic
I think he needs a myspace page to reconnect with the “youf” of today. Perhaps someone can help a brother out here…
Monday 11 September 2006, 5:28 pm #The Editor
http://www.myspace.com/davidmccormack
DMac’s way ahead of you, Goober. He is the yoof.
Tuesday 12 September 2006, 11:23 am #billybob
Damn he’s cool!!!!
Thursday 14 September 2006, 11:15 am #J,The
Hmm.. Maybe not so much cool as determined.
Thursday 14 September 2006, 3:13 pm #billybob
No no, cool!!! If you say it enough, it’s just got to be true.
Thursday 14 September 2006, 3:16 pm #Goobertronic
If there was any doubt to DMac’s daggyness, please view his appearance on Spicks and Specks.
Thursday 14 September 2006, 3:18 pm #billybob
How old are you Goobertronic? Are you down with the kids, or are you one of those ‘yoof’ types?