Guitarist Dan Maher fondly recalls the moment he landed his first proper TV gig. Following a pair of auditions for the Australian version of The Voice, the show’s musical director asked: “What are you doing for the next couple of weeks? ‘Cuz you’ve got 300 songs to learn.”
On the face of it, that’s an intimidating number – but the request seems quaint in comparison to the demands of a later gig with U.S. game show Name That Tune. “We had to perform 700 songs in the space of five weeks, but we had to learn 1,200,” Maher laughs of the latter experience. “No kidding – I didn’t sleep for seven weeks.”
