Favourites face the music

Myf Warhurst was as excited as anyone for the return of the music quiz show Spicks and Specks, writes Siobhan Duck

FOR their devoted fans, there has scarcely been a TV reunion as hotly anticipated as the return of Spicks and Specks to the small screen. The ABC’s favourite trio of music maestros – Myf Warhurst, Adam Hills and Alan Brough – have returned with a reboot of their much-loved series.

“It was amazing to be back together, but it was also sort of heightened because we’d all been in lockdown for so long,” she explains.

“It just felt so normal. It’s not just us (Warhurst, Hills and Brough) that are original. Half the team (behind the scenes) is the original team as well. So, it really is like hanging out with your family. And because we had a COVID officer it was even more like a family with mum or dad telling us, ‘No you can’t do this,’ or ‘You ‘can’t do that!’ It was just so much fun because when Adam, Alan and I get together and do it, it just feels right.”

Filming while Australia’s live music scene had been silenced made the experience particularly poignant for Warhurst.

“I think if you’re watching it, looking at our faces you’ll be able to pretty much tell that we haven’t heard any live music for a long time because we had already been locked up for a couple of months,” she says.

“I almost cried a couple of times. I was (really moved) because that’s what life is about. It was pretty special to have an opportunity to give Australian artists an opportunity to get out there and into people’s homes.”

Unlike the

2019 special, where

Warhurst had reservations about whether fans would still have an appetite for their quirky game show, she had no qualms this time around.

“I was very wary, before we did those specials, because I was like, ‘Are people really going to want to see us 10 years older and a whole lot daggier too?’” she says. “I wasn’t sure back then, but I am really glad we did do it because we love it so much.”

SPICKS AND SPECKS 7.40PM, SUNDAY, ABC