dave graney - Moodists-Coral Snakes-mistLY-FEARFUL WIGGINGS

dave graney - Moodists-Coral Snakes-mistLY-FEARFUL WIGGINGS
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2023 book THERE HE GOES WITH HIS EYE OUT (lyrics 1980-2023) 2023 reissue Dave Graney and the Coral Snakes Night Of The Wolverine. Double vinyl release. 2023 ROCK album with Clare Moore IN A MISTLY . WORKSHY - 2017 memoir out on Affirm Press. Available at shows or via website. Moodists - Coral Snakes - mistLY. I don’t know what I am and don’t want to know any more than I already know. I aspire, in my music , to 40s B Movie (voice and presence) and wish I could play guitar like Dickey Betts, John Cippolina or Grant Green - but not in this lifetime, I know.

Thursday, May 31, 2018

post residency high-shows in ballarat and adelaide

Our last Sunday in the front room of the Croxton was great Bill Miller joined us to give us his considerable guitar and vocal skills and we played a set of GOLD.

You're All Wrong
Song Of Life
Midnight to Dawn
All Our Friends were Stars
Night Of the Wolverine
You're Just Too Hip, baby
Don't Mess With The Blood
The Stars, Baby
Lt Colonel, Cavalry
ULTRAKEEF
IS THAT WHAT YOU DID?
Feelin Kinda Sporty
Rock n Roll Is Where I Hide
My Schtick Weighs a Ton

pic Brendan Young

  and this was what we'd already done in the previous eight weeks....

The Sheriff Of hell (1997)
We dont belong to anybody (2011)
dont mess with the blood (2001)
I'm seein' demons (2003)
ULTRAKEEF (unrecorded)
Is that What You did? (unrecorded)
You're all wrong (april 2018)
I'm never Off (2017)
My Schtick weighs a ton (2005)
Blues Negative
We Need A Champion
Flash In the Pantz
Mt Gambier Night
I Don't Wanna Know Myself
Playin' Chicken
Midnight Cats
I'm Not The Guy I Tried To Be
Cop This, Sweetly
Field Record Me
Song of Llife (2018)
I'm Gonna Live In My own Big World (1995)
Have You heard About the Melbourne Mafia? (2000)
Eye Of The Vibe (2001)
I Will Always Hate You (2001)
I'm A Commander (1998)
You've Been In My Mind (unrecorded)
Hell Is You, Babe (unrecorded)
Saturday Night Bath (2005)
Be Sad For Me (2017)
You Need a Kleek, Klook (2017)
How Long Does The Raunch (2017)
I Am Your Humble Servant (2003)
clinging to the coast (2001)
all our friends were stars (2003)
midnight to dawn (2003)
sometimes you can see yourself (2005)
Heroic Blues (2001)
twilight of a  villain (2003)
a boy named epic (200)
anchors aweigh (2001)
I've got myself a beautiful nightmare (1990)
everybody does what they want to (1990
the brother who lived (2003)
dont mess with the blood (2001)
You had to be drunk (2008)
lets kill god again (2008)
I’m in the future (2008)
I come from the clouds (2008)
bring me my liar (2008)
punk dies (2008)
junk time (2008)
I like to be haunted (2008)
honky tonk rope a dope (2009)
bodysnatcher blues (2009)
I dont wanna go bush (2009)
dylan the indie fake (2009)
sellout (2009)
Everything was legendary with Robert (2014)
how can you get out of london? (2014)
a woman skinnies up a man up (2014)
This is the deadest place I've ever died in (2017)
I'm a good good hater
Ruperts pets grave
I been trendy
are you out of your mind? (get back in)
I aint hi vis
I need to be hot
I’m never off - all from 2017
OLD FRIENDS (unrecorded)
I wanna get lost again (2005)
Robert Ford on the stage (1989)
The birds and the goats (1995)
I'm not afraid to be heavy (1995)
rock 'n' roll is where I hide (1997)
pianola roll (1997)
your masters must be pleased with you (1999)
vengeance is on its way (2000)
thestuff that night is made of (2000)
diamonds, fur coat, champagne (2006)
I will have always been here before (2005)
You wanna be there but you don't wanna travel (1994)

It was a really challenging but very enjoyable couple of months. We might just go back in September.

In some ways it felt like the early 90s for me. Each week we would go and eat with friends after the show and relax. Just like we used to do back then, only this time were were eating Mexican in Thornbury and then - 25 years ago - it was Italian in St Kilda.

Now we plan to do some recording of the songs we have been playing live, ULTRAKEEF, IS THAT WHAT YOU DID? and another we have cooking called WHERE'S MY BUZZ?
I have recorded a track with Clare called YOU'VE BEEN IN MY MIND and we are going to also put down HELL IS YOU, BABE.
I have also done some on my own, YOU CAN'T HAVE YOUR BOOGIE, OLD FRIENDS, ET TU DOUDOU and BABY, I WISH I'D BEEN A BETTER POP STAR. I started doing the latter all by myself and it sounded kooky but I thought it would be better to do it with the mistLY.
I hope to have an album out before the end of the year. 

Pic Pam Davison


In other news, we have some dates coming up in Croydon, Ballarat and Adelaide. I'll also be doing some events as a part of the Melbourne Writers Festival in September.


July 2nd - Dave Graney is part of an event at the Atheneum (but by the Wheeler centre) in Melbourne which is all about New York.As in "whats so good/bad about it".

July 7th Dave Graney and the mistLY play - The Cabaret Club - Ballarat.
4/9367 Western Highway Warrenheip, Ballarat 33520353348150
Tuesday July 24th - a screening of Donna McRaes film LOST GULLY ROAD at Cinema Nova in Carlton. Dave Graney and Clare Moore did the screenplay for this film and will be part of a Q&A after the show.
Dave Graney and the mistLY play ADELAIDE at the Wheatsheaf Hotel August 10th/11th/12th 





I am six kilos lighter than at the start of the year , mainly due to eating better. Almost approaching the same weight I was in 1978.

I just finished LANDLOCKED by Doris Lessing, number four in her incredible five novel sequence called CHILDREN OF VIOLENCE.  Amazing writing set in Southern Africa during WW2 and after, mostly about the constraints that were upon women of that time being able to express themselves as distinct people in any way in public life. As in all her books set in that area, there are always the Africans present- all the time. Reducing all the problems and affairs of the colonial whites to almost nothing. 

A Spotify Playlist . The TIMS plus - electric singer songwriters I aspired to follow in 1987.

After the Moodists finished I sat around listening to a lot of music and got a feeling for singer songwriters. But not the acoustic types, more East Coast USA electric singers and songwriters who often had bands. Thats what I wanted to do when we started Dave Graney and the Coral Snakes in London.


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Dave Graney and Clare Moore with Georgio "the dove" Valentino and Malcolm Ross

Dave Graney and Clare Moore with Robin Casinader - In Concert

ONE MILLION YEARS DC

Starts with a Kinksy groover sketching a 21st century populist tyrant who coasts in power on waves of public resentment at those on the lowest rungs of the ladder (He Was A Sore Winner). Sweeps across a sci fi terrain with nods to songs in the sand at the end of the world (Pop Ruins) and nods to the ties that bind in the underground communities (Comrade Of Pop and Where Did All The Freaks Go?). Songs about intense, long relationships, defunct technology that didn’t answer back, severe social status definition (I’m Not Just Any Nobody), people wandering through your mind as if it was a garage sale, the anxiety of the long running showman (wide open to the elements again) and ends with a song that’s “a little bit Merle Haggard and a little bit Samuel Beckett”. " Edith Grove! Powis Square! 56 Hope Road! Petrie Terrace!.. The Roxy! The Odeon! Apollo! Palais! Olympia! The Whisky! Detroit Grande!” Pop Ruins!"

ZIPPA DEEDOO WHAT IS/WAS THAT/THIS?

ZIPPA DEEDOO WHAT IS/WAS THAT/THIS? (The title comes from the chorus of “Song Of Life” ) is a classic rock’n’roll album. Classic if you lived through what has become known as ”the classic rock era” as it rolled out new and even broke onto the beachhead and morphed into punk. That’s the direction Dave Graney and Clare Moore have always been coming from. They have spent their lives schooled by and immersed in rock ‘n’ roll culture. Neither attended higher education and they dived in deep and kept swimming. From the Moodists through the Coral Snakes /White Buffaloes to the mistLY This is an album with their band, Dave Graney and the mistLY. Stuart Perera has played guitar with them since 1998 and Stu Thomas on bass since 2004. MARCH 2019 ZIPPA DEEDOO WHAT IS/WAS THAT/THIS? 2019 album out on Compact Disc - available here via mail order...
If you are from outside of Australia and wish to purchase a Compact Disc copy of ZIPPA DEEDOO WHAT IS/WAS THAT/THIS? please use this button (different postage)

LETS GET TIGHT

FEARFUL WIGGINGS

2014 solo album from Dave Graney. *****"If I've learnt anything in my years of writing about music it's that if you are going to do anything of worth in this tough game, you better have your own thing. Today's generic is easily replaced by tomorrow's. And yet you need to be flexible, to follow wherever the songs demand. In the case of this, only the second credited as a solo album among 30 or so Graney releases, it's a curious yet welcoming lane he walks you down, with acoustic guitars, not much percussion, vibes, smooth sounds. At the end of it you feel like you've awoken from a strange yet pleasant summer's dream. As shot by Luis Bunuel. It ranges from off-kilter reveries (A Woman Skinnies Up a Man, The Old Docklands Wheel) through to the softly seductive (How Can You Get Out of London) and the downright arch (Look Into My Shades, Everything Is Great In The Beginning.) This is music that is neither folk, nor blues, nor country, but it's all Graney, somewhere out to the left field beyond Lee Hazlewood's raised eyebrow. It's astringent on the tongue but sweetens in the telling." Noel Mengel Brisbane Courier Mail

you've been in my mind

June 2012 super high energy pop rock album - blazing electric 12 strings - total 70s rock drive. Greatest yet! available via paypal - $20 pp

rock'n'roll is where I hide/- 2011 "vintage classics/ re recordings" on LIBERATION

SUPERMODIFIED - August 2010 remixed/re-sung/re-strung//remastered/replayed comp via PAYPAL

also available as a digital album

Knock yourself (2009)-first ever dg solo set-filthy electro r&b-available via Paypal- $20

available as a digital album too

We Wuz Curious (2008)-blazing R&B jazz pop album available via paypal-$20


UNAVAILABLE-COMPLETELY SOLD OUT!!!
AVAILABLE AS A DIGITAL album

Keepin' It Unreal-(2006)-minimalist/lyrical vibes, bass, 12 string set - CDs sold out - digital only

Hashish and Liquor (2005 double disc by Dave Graney and Clare Moore) available via Paypal $25


UNAVAILABLE-COMPLETELY SOLD OUT!!!
Single album HASHISH available as a digital release

Heroic Blues- "folk soul" set from 2002-Availableas a digital album via BandCamp


UNAVAILABLE ! Completely sold out!

It is written,baby-book released 1997- available $10 via paypal