Custard on Rage

The boys from Custard (a quirky Australian band) were the guest programmers on Rage, an Australian television music show on Saturday 21 September 1996 from 11.20pm.

It was off to a faltering start with the Beastie Boys, but the guys from Custard settled into one of the best Rage guest hosts/programming of all time:

  1. Beastie Boys - Hey ladies

  2. Dead Milkmen - Punk rock girl

  3. Devo - Are you experienced?

  4. Kraftwerk - Telephone call

  5. The Fauves - Everbody’s getting a three piece together

  6. The Hummingbirds - Two weeks with a good man in Niagara Falls

  7. The Go-Betweens - Head full of steam

  8. Sonic Youth - Teenage Riot

  9. Pere Ubu - Love love love

  10. Wall of Voodoo - Mexican radio

  11. The Pixies - Here comes your man

  12. Frank Black - Men in black

  13. The Fauves - Dogs are the best people

  14. Pavement - Rattled by the rush

  15. David Bowie and Frank Sinatra - Little drummer boy

  16. The Fauves - Misguided modelling career

  17. Snout - Cromagnoman-

  18. You Am I - Jewels and bullets

  19. The Pixies - Digging for fire

  20. The Pixies - Alison

  21. Presidents of the USA - Peaches (it’s interesting to note that the initials for this band is POTUSA, or “pot user”!)

  22. Devo - Freedom of choice

  23. Soundgarden - Jesus Christ pose

  24. Beasts of Bourbon - Psycho

  25. The Rolling Stones - Faraway eyes

  26. Supergrass - Caught by the fuzz

  27. The Hard Ons - Girl in a sweater

  28. The Saints - Stranded

  29. The Pixies - Alec Eiffel

  30. Pavement - Gold soundz

  31. John Kennedy - Big country

  32. Dinosaur Jr - Going home

  33. Tom Waits - 16 shells from 30 ought 6

  34. The Jesus and Mary Chain - April skies

  35. Kiss - I was made for loving you

  36. The Reels - Quasimodo's dream

  37. Mental as Anything - Beserk warriors

  38. Frank Black - Headache

  39. Bobbie Gentry - I'll never fall in love again

  40. Sonic Youth - Sister

  41. Joy Division - She's lost control

  42. Custard -