A more precious rock star than David McCormack might bridle in indignation when an interview segues away from the music. For more than three decades, McCormack has led the Australian band Custard, who today release their ninth studio album: a 21-song epic called Suburban Curtains.
These days, though, all paths of discussion inevitably lead to McCormack’s role as the voice of Bandit Heeler, father of Bluey, in the phenomenally successful animated adventures of a cartoon dog that premiered in Australia in 2018. It changed McCormack’s life, and Custard’s, in ways neither could have anticipated – far from the band’s humble beginnings in Brisbane in the late 1980s.
