The Guy Who Wrote The Bunnings Theme Has Finally Been Found, And It Turns Out He’s A Total King
To him, we owe everything.
There are few more iconic or ear-wormy commercial jingles than the one used for homewares and gardening giant Bunnings.
Just one snatch of that surprisingly jazzy slice of organ and the bars will be stuck in your head for literal weeks. And not in that irritating, slightly soul-destroying way that other theme songs can work their way under your skin. The Bunnings theme is just fun, the gentle arm punch of songs written to get you to buy shit.
The theme has been in use for over two decades now. But, for most of that time, its composer’s identity has been something of a secret, their name and current whereabouts lost to time.
That is, until this week.
Yep, those. geniuses over at Gruen have hunted the Australian hero down — and it turns out, perhaps unsurprisingly, that he’s a total legend. See, in a short video posted to the Gruen socials page, the man — Trevor Hilton — positions himself in front of a dinky old keyboard and explains the story behind the magic theme.
“Yes, I wrote that jingle,” Hilton says, wistfully. “It was a nice sunny afternoon in 1995.”
And then, fingers stretched out, he goes to town on the keyboard, spinning one of most famous melodies on Australian television.
This week, we went on an interstate odyssey to track down the composer of the Bunnings theme. 25 years later, he still secretly wanders around his local WA store whistling the tune. The first thing he said when we finally reached him? “I knew this day would come”. #Gruen pic.twitter.com/tNxf2bLcu8
— The Gruen Team (@GruenHQ) October 28, 2020
Truly incredible.