You're right, I probably read those comments and thought that's where they were from. When you get older your memory tends to get a little fuzzy.

Don't know about A-J but her E-street costar Melissa Tkautz was in one and it didn't do much for her career.

There were a couple of failed soap operas set there in the nineties, the one that introduced us to Isla Fisher and the other one with Russel Crowe's wife.
On the music front Gold Coast did give us Regurgitator and the shoulda/coulda been great Gaslight Radio.