David McCormack from Custaro
The Cod caught up with Dave after Custards’ entertaining performance at Glenworth Valley.
We chatted about his new wife, Emma, the new album, and rednecks’; among other things.
What stuff have you been listening to lately?
Ohhh... my wife and I do lots of salsa dancing now...
So are you married or engaged?
Married yeah...I’ve got her name tattooed on my arm, but I can’t show you it’s too high up...
When’s your new album out?
In March. I haven’t got a name for it yet but it’s got 13 songs, I know that much.
It has to start with a ‘W’ doesn’t it?
No, I don’t think it will this time. The last three times were accidental. Like accidentally on purpose.
What’s your favourite Australian bands?
Snout, The Fauves, Tism, You Am I... oh, you know, they’re all good. I like all of them.
What’s your favourite telly shows?
The Simpsons, sometimes Seinfeld, but not too often. And the Movie Show, and I used to like Media Watch but I don’t like it as much now that Stuart Littlemore isn’t doing it.
Are you guys going to tour overseas after your new album is released?
Maybe, yeah, maybe. We might ...I don’t know if I’m really keen to tour overseas forever again... we did three months and it was quite a long time.
Was that America?
Yeah, America and Canada. Never been to Europe. Maybe I’d like to go to Europe for a little while. Oh look the suns’ just gone down. Why couldn’t it go down when we were playing? Bad bad.
Sally- I’ve got a sunburnt neck.
D- sore neck? Redneck.
S- My neck’s really sunburnt ‘cause I was....
Redneck!
How do you Kill the Cod?
Pardon?
br- Our zine’s called Kill the Cod
Oh yeah. I like it, I saw it before. It’s got two or three pictures of me in it, that’s all I saw. They’re small but they’re good.
What’s your favourite gig that you’ve played?
Today! I like the most recent one, the one most recent in my memory. Matthew was very drunk today. Here comes my wife... we’ve only known each other six months, we got married very quickly. It’s all good.
How do you Kill the Cod?
With a hammer. A hammer to the head.
Custard- Loverama
These guys just keep getting kitsch-ier(you know what I mean). ? Even though there’s less of the fast poppy stuff which I used to love (i.e. Golden Age of Nicotine) you’ve still gotta love songs like Girls like That, Hitsong, and of course my favourite, Ringo (he lives at a disco but goes home to the suburbs). The last track, Ladies and Gentlemen, is also a favourite. Last time I saw these guys play they did a memorable cover of Dire Straits “Money For Nothing”. ….dane….