”I was wandering around with all these TV people who in general don’t have great taste,” explains guitarist Ben Michael, who was working as an in-house scriptwriter for the show at the time. ”I bumped into this guy, Chris, and we started talking about the 13th Floor Elevators and the Velvets and the Stooges. Then he got in contact with me and said, ‘You should get off your arse and start playing’.”

Before forming the band, Michael and bassist Chris Hollow entertained themselves by dropping obscure musical references into the show’s dialogue.

”A lot of the characters names were taken from underground music heroes and I certainly had characters playing records that, ordinarily, there’s no way they’d be playing,” Michael chuckles. ”A funny one was Mogwai. About 10 years ago on Mogwai’s first Australian tour … they played this absolutely ball-tearing show and came backstage and we’re mouths agog going, ‘My god, that was great!’ and they couldn’t give a shit about the show they just played, all they wanted to do was talk about Neighbours - ‘Imagine if we could be on Neighbours!’ I said, ‘I’ll definitely get your name on the show’. ”Pretty soon after, one of the characters is going, ‘Oh, I just got this great new album by Mogwai’ and the next thing you know the post rocks up with 10 T-shirts delivered to me from their manager. You get your kicks where you can in TV.”

Over the past decade, Michael and Hollow have assembled a motley crew of musicians around them, including a Spinal Tap-esque succession of drummers. The current line-up includes 50-year-old guitarist Andrew Tanner, 27-year-old guitarist Tor Larsen (”the fan who used to come up to us after shows”) and 20-year-old drummer Wes Holland.

Hollow discovered Holland busking on the street and, as the band was down a drummer and due to play a show that afternoon, drafted him in on the spot.