Laburnum Of The Mind tour is happening now.

 

We started our tour in South Australia last week. We intend to do as many shows as possible with Stuart Perera on Guitar (since 1998) and Stuj Thomas on bass (since 2004). We haven't been to SA with the Stus aka Dave Graney and the mistLY for about a decade. Sometimes its just been a trio with Stu on bass and other times just myself and Clare and other times we played with an Adelaide  player on the bass. This tour we want to bring our whole rock band sound.

I guess the first show we did was in Melbourne at the Retreat Hotel in the beer garden. We played for more than two hours with songs mostly from our 21st Century albums.  We had vinyl and CD copies of our album available at the show. It was one of the last bright, sunny Autumn days and it was great to crack open the album and get into the songs.

  We are playing about five songs from the new nine song album  (ten songs on the Compact Disc version). I'm playing guitar and singing my songs for the whole show. People occasionally ask me where my dance moves aare but I have to politely say that this is my singer songwriter music that I've been at for the last three decades.

 In South Australia we played at a great venue in the town of Goolwa, at the mouth of the Murray River. The Murray Delta Juke Joint. The venue is in a kind of semi industrial back street with loads of parking and has been set up by a couple of vintage guys who have obviously worked in music production for a long time. Its their dream gig. I guess its normally a kind of blues bar but Clare and I played there a couple of years ago and they really took to our way of playing music and our songs. The place sounds and looks great. We played two sets. I ran into two cousins there - one whom I had never known of before. A guy also asked me if I lived in a share house at Pasquin st in Glenelg in Adelaide in 1978 and I said yes, I did. Another woman asked in regards to my cousin Erryn who she used to play with as a child in Playford st East side Mt Gambier. South Australian shows are intimate for both myself and Clare. 

 The next day we set up to play at the Wheatsheaf Hotel in Adelaide.
This is a great venue to play at. Set up by a group of women in the early 2000s. They presented their business plan to a bank and because it expressly said that there would be no big screens to show sporting events or poker machines they were rejected. So they got a personal loan and did it anyway. And it was immediaately embraced by the community. It has a big beer garden with a roof to shield people from any rain (SA is usually a very dry state though) and tables and chairs. The pub brews its own exotic beers and a different food truck parks out front every night for the people to get their meals at. 

The only drawwback in the venue is that there is no dressing room. You sound check at 6pm and the doors open at 7pm and you begin to play at around 8pm until 11pm.
There is merch to attend to as well. In all that time, you are in the room with people. Nowhere to collect your thoughts or take a breath or change your clothes or put make up on. So in effect, you are ON for all that time. And as I said, for myself and Clare, Adelaide is intimate! Family and friends and others all in the moment.

Anyway, we have done this thing before and we did it again. Its a unique joint.

We played two sets and rocked the house. Even though there was a rain bomb over the venue just before we started.

We started organizing these dates with our agent , Steve Griffiths, late last year. Like everybody in the whole world we are filled with uncertainty and dread as to our own plans and ideas of the future and the general threat to life on earth in the Trump/Israeli/Techbro/Oligarch/AI/Pandemical genocidal world. Specifically for our situatiuon, petrol prices and air fares. We planned the tour and are now doing it. So far so good. At one stage, petrol was going to be three or four times the price, and we do a lot of driving. Fingers crossed! 

Our next shows are in Frankston, Canberra and New South Wales.

DAVE GRANEY / CLARE MOORE LABURNUM OF THE MIND Dave Graney, guitars and bass, vocals Clare Moore, drums, percussion, keys, vibes, vocals Stuart Perera, guitar on Aweigh Touche and Little Bands Suck, Sylvie, percussion and piano on Laburnum Of The Mind Tracks recorded December 2023 at Soundpark Studios, Melbourne. Engineer, Andrew “Idge” Hehir. Overdubs, vocals and mixing at the Ponderosa through 2024-2025. Cover art by Tony Mahony Photos by Meredith O’Shea Produced by Dave Graney and Clare Moore. Mastered by Idge All songs written by Dave Graney. Copyright Control Compact Disc or digital copy go to https://davegraney1.bandcamp.com/album/dave-graney-and-clare-moore-laburnum-of-the-mind For vinyl email dave@magneticsouth.com.au ******************ON TOUR ******************** Sunday May 31st Sunday – Young St Tavern, Frankston https://events.humanitix.com/davey-graney-and-clare-moore-laburnum-of-the-mind-hits-are-the-worst Thursday June 4th – Smiths, Canberra https://www.smithsalternative.com/events/dave-graney-and-clare-moore-95853 Friday June 5th - Marrickville Bowlo NSW https://tickets.oztix.com.au/outlet/event/55fd8421-18f3-468e-b608-c4c824fc5e1c Saturday June 6th - the Heritage, Bulli NSW https://codeone.oztix.com.au/outlet/event/8b62279b-47e8-4ba6-a764-fa0556d27e0b Friday June 12th – the Link and Pin, Woy Woy NSW https://www.trybooking.com/events/landing/1557903 Saturday June 13th – Stag and Hunter, Newcastle https://stagandhunter.oztix.com.au/outlet/event/dd822c28-4407-4804-bd24-4741ef16d9f6 Sunday June 14th – The Flow Bar, Old Bar NSW https://www.dramatix.com.au/events/2379 Sunday July 12th – Mullum Roots Festival, NSW https://www.trybooking.com/events/landing/1413705 Friday July 24th Courthouse Theatre – Geelong https://www.trybooking.com/DKWQW Saturday July 25th, Shotkickers, Melbourne https://tickets.oztix.com.au/outlet/event/36fa64d5-401c-4312-a74d-a6f08efb18b2 Friday July 31st Banshees Ipswich https://bansheesbar.com.au/event/laburnum Saturday August 1st - Eudlo Hall, QLD https://www.trybooking.com/DLYOP

  Sunday August 2nd Black Bear Lodge, Brisbane https://tickets.oztix.com.au/outlet/event/1645f3be-4071-41b0-a364-4848dfcef3c9?preview=76521274-27fc-400f-9b33-0b82c60ef3d3 August 28th – The Duke Of George, Fremantle WA https://moshtix.com.au/v2/event/dave-graney-and-clare-moores-album-launch/193045 August 29th – Lyrics Lane – Perth, WA https://lyricsunderground.oztix.com.au/outlet/event/258b00ea-72b9-49dd-95b4-151fb82924f8 Friday Sept 11th Baroque Room, Carrington , Katoomba https://events.humanitix.com/fbdavegraneyclaremoore26 Saturday Sept 12th – afternoon show - Brass Monkey, Cronulla https://tickets.oztix.com.au/outlet/event/53457deb-4c2d-4e88-ba25-4aa0fcfc8494 Sunday Sept 13th, Finding Fillmores , Kiama NSW
https://events.humanitix.com/dave-graney-and-the-mistly

 Saturday Sept 19th, Railway Club, Darwin

LABURNUM OF THE MIND - 2026 album by Dave Graney and Clare Moore

 

                                          photo Meredith O'Shea

Dave Graney and Clare Moore have their new album, Laburnum Of The

 Mind, a rock album.

Its out at all streaming outlets April 30th but can already be obtained at 

record shops in Australia and at shows. 

“When we say “rock” I guess we would be thinking of The Doors, Wire, 

Urge Overkill, Steely Dan, Queens Of the Stone Age, The Replacements, 

Pulp, Roxy Music The Fall, The Blue Oyster Cult and those kinds of tones.

 Those kinds of lyrical flights and suspensions. Bo Diddley and Latin beats 

and diminished and augmented chords. Expensive inversions. Flash stuff. 

 Though there is also a lot of dumb, irrational, loose and goofy as well”.

The first seven tracks are all pretty upbeat and in the pocket grooves. 

Backbeats abound. Then it gets freaky with the title track, Laburnum Of 

The Mind and the diss song from out of time, Little Bands Suck.

“It’s our first NEW release on vinyl since the original age of vinyl in the 

early 90s. It’s available digitally and on Compact Disc as well”.

Available through Magnetic South as a vinyl record. 

Contact Dave Lang dave@magneticsouth.com.au

 

The vinyl record does not ccontain the song "People I Think About".

All instruments are played by Dave Graney and Clare Moore with mistLY 

guitarist Stuart Perera guesting on two tracks. Recorded in Melbourne at 

Soundpark with Idge, mixed by Dave Graney and Clare Moore and 

mastered by Idge.

Cover art by Tony Mahony who has done all the visual imagery for Dave 

Graney and Clare Moore since 1992. 

Laburnum is a stop on the Belgrave train line from the CBD to the outer 

suburbs of South East Melbourne. Not a suburb, a stop. 

 

 

The first song to be released as a lead track is Hits Are The Worst. A 

Doorsy groove with a very late 60s chordal deal and flow. Think (?) Brian 

Auger, Traffic or The Zombies. The vocal mixed right up front. The words?

 Like the music, “flash and expensive but dumb, loose and goofy too. 

 Highly illogical..

 

 

 

Second single from the forthcoming Dave Graney and Clare Moore album, 

LABURNUM OF THE MIND.

I Ain't Got No Float is an R&B groover with a drop D funk chugg to it. 

Rhythmic switchbacks and asides that summon the very Dan. Lots of 

space to it and some post punk white pepper on those clean, 

asymmetrical 

guitar licks. Clare Moore rocking straight through it like Bonzo or Paul 

Cook.

Dave Graney on guitars and bass and vocals.

Clare Moore on drums, keyboard and backing vocals.

Video shot by Dave Graney and Will Hindmarsh aka Twinkle Digitz at Wills 

studio and some scenes around Boronia Mall.

Contains background images by Tony Mahony.

Australian made 1960s Vibralux GA12 guitar amplifier sourced by John 

Brown, Tasmania. 

 

We will be making every attempt to play shows with Stuart Perera on guitar

 (since 1998) and Stu Thomas on bass (since 2004). Dave Graney and

 the mistLY.

                                    photo Amber Schmidt

One of the last times we played in Melbourne, writer David Pepperell had 

this to say about our show...

"Last week I had the great pleasure of seeing the witty, urbane and totally 

delightful Dave Graney and Band at the Ember Room in the wilds of St. 

Kilda. It was a total musical experience involving Dave's erudite, 

observational songs - perhaps even fables in the style of Aesop - plus 

playing that was really a tickle to the ear. Dave performs his compositions 

with such elan and sophistication that he draws you into his world and 

holds you there until the last note of the night. Singer-Songwriters often 

seem self-obsessed but to me Dave sings about a world he would like to 

live in and possibly thinks by singing said songs he could bring that about. 

He sings well too - and his guitar playing was exemplary all through the 

show. Stuart Perera’s perfectly aligned Rickenbercker playing, smooth 

bassist Stu Thomas and his very charming wife Clare Moore on drums 

provided him with a solid foundation to elucidate his dreams and 

inspirations - songs with character and belief plus a very wry view of this 

maybe crumbling world. Dave is a gem, polished to a high sheen, rare in 

the current charivari that one has to endure when sampling the music 

scene these days. He is not to be missed - I have not had such a 

pleasurable night out in years. He is certainly at his peak now after battling 

around the traps for some years - get out and see him while he still takes 

such enjoyment in presenting his creations to you all".

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Sunday April 26th – 2-4pm hopefully in the beer garden - Dave Graney 

and the mistLY at The Retreat- Sydney Rd Brunswick

https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/dave-graney-the-mistly-album-launch-laburnum-of-the-mind-tickets-1984854590511

Friday May 15th – Murray Delta Juke Joint, Goolwa

https://www.trybooking.com/events/landing/1554441

Saturday May 16th - the Wheaty in Adelaide

https://tickets.oztix.com.au/outlet/event/4672e8ec-6cc6-478d-bcd7-23e0c963d336

Sunday May 31^st Sunday – Young St Tavern, Frankston

https://events.humanitix.com/davey-graney-and-clare-moore-laburnum-of-the-mind-hits-are-the-worst

Thursday June 4th – Smiths, Canberra

https://www.smithsalternative.com/events/dave-graney-and-clare-moore-95853

Friday June 5th - Marrickville Bowlo Sydney

https://tickets.oztix.com.au/outlet/event/55fd8421-18f3-468e-b608-c4c824fc5e1c

Saturday June 6th - the Heritage, Bulli NSW

https://codeone.oztix.com.au/outlet/event/8b62279b-47e8-4ba6-a764-fa0556d27e0b

 

Friday June 12th – the Link and Pin, Woy Woy NSW

https://www.trybooking.com/events/landing/1557903

Saturday June 13th – Stag and Hunter, Newcastle NSW

https://stagandhunter.oztix.com.au/outlet/event/dd822c28-4407-4804-bd24-4741ef16d9f6

Sunday June 14th – The Flow Bar, Old Bar NSW

https://www.dramatix.com.au/events/2379

 

Sunday July 11th - 12th – Mullum Roots Festival, Mullumbimby NSW

https://www.trybooking.com/events/landing/1413705

 

Friday July 24^th Courthouse Theatre – Geelong Vic

https://www.trybooking.com/DKWQW

Friday July 31^st Banshees Ipswich Qld

https://bansheesbar.com.au/event/laburnum

Saturday August 1^{st -} Eudlo Hall, Eudlo QLD

 

Sunday August 2^nd Black Bear Lodge, Brisbane Qld

 

Friday August 28th – The Duke Of George, Fremantle WA

https://moshtix.com.au/v2/event/dave-graney-and-clare-moores-album-launch/193045

 

Saturday August 29th – Lyrics Lane – Perth, WA

https://lyricsunderground.oztix.com.au/outlet/event/258b00ea-72b9-49dd-95b4-151fb82924f8

Dave Graney and the Coral Snakes 30th Anniversary Soft and Sexy Sound Tour update.

 The Soft and Sexy Sound 30th Anniversary tour is happening. Fremantle Social Club and the Rivers Hotel in Margaret River, WA are up next. Six shows down and 15 to go.

We play the Soft n Sexy Sound album in the first set. The same sequence / running order as on the album. Then we take a break and then play another set of rockers.

Photos by Amber Schmidt from the show at the Corner Hotel in Melbourne. Lighting by Deb Hatton.

 Here's a great review of our Sydney show.

 

Ticket links ......

Friday Oct 24th Freo Social, Fremantle WA

Saturday Oct 25th, The River Hotel, Margaret River WA

Friday Oct 31st, Brisbane Crowbar QLD

Saturday Nov 1st, The Imperial, Eumundi QLD

Sunday Nov 2nd, Mo's Desert Clubhouse, Gold Coast QLD

Friday Nov 7th, Byron Bay Theatre NSW

Saturday Nov 8th, Bellingen Memorial Hall NSW

Thursday Nov 13th, King Street Bandroom, Newcastle

Friday Nov 14th, Avoca Beach Theatre NSW

Saturday Nov 15th, The Lounge, Chatswood NSW

Sunday afternoon Nov 16th, Dangar Island Bowlo NSW

Friday Nov 21st, The Gov, Adelaide SA

Friday Nov 28th, Royal Oak, Launceston TAS

Saturday Nov 29th, The Pier, Ulverstone TAS

Sunday Nov 30th, Longley International Hotel, Longley TAS

 

 

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Just before the tour started I was asked to sing a  song with the
Beasts Of Bourbon as they reprised their 80s album Black Milk at the Forum in Melbourne. It was nice spending the day with old friends and also newer friends such as Cash Savage and Dan Brodie. Phots by Amber Schmidt.

 

 

We spent a week in Sydney before the tour started, mostly seeing some visiting friends from Edinburgh but we also did some media for the tour. Took the new driverless Metro train across to North Sydney from the inner west in ten minutes and walked on to the set of Channel 9s Today Extra. Talked with David Campbell and Belinda Russell who welcomed me very warmly and were total  pros. (Belinda  chucked her phone to a floor manager to take this shot)

 We also spoke with Michael Rowland at ABC Radio National, Mick Molloy and his team at MMM Breakfast in Melbourne, Clara Slewa at RRR, Toby Creswell at Eastside FM and Tony Moclair at Melbournes 3AW.

 Clare Moore and I also got invited to a night at Victorias Government House for a music related night. The Governor and Arts Minister both name checked Nick Cave and Henry Rollins.

 

 

These shots are from our show Bundelaguah. Live at the Bundy. A hall in the middle of some paddocks near Sale, Victoria. A great BYO situtation run by local music enthusiasts. Fantastic gear and great people!

 

Robin Casinader has been great on the tour. Pulling amazing sounds at the beginning from his keyboard, his mellotron, his ipad and his phone.  It was challenging at the start but he has pared it down a little and sounding great.

 

Clare Moore and I have also been finishing up our album for 2026 release. Its a tocking album. We play everything, started it in December 2023 when we thought Soundpark was closing. It's all pretty much finished, including the cover image. 

Dave Graney and Clare Moore regional shows in Ararat, Camden (NSW), and Cronulla and then its the Soft n Sexy Sound 30th Anniversary tour

 

Early  August sees some regional dates by Dave Graney and Clare Moore

Wednesday 6^thAugust – Town Hall, Ararat. 7:30-pm

Friday August 8^th, Camden Estate NSW 4:30pm

Sunday 10^thAugust, Brass Monkey Cronulla. Doors 12:30pm music at 2pm.

"Dave Graney ‘n’ the Coral Snakes 30th anniversary tour for the Soft ‘n’ Sexy Sound album is happening in October-November.The rehearsals have begun and it’s great getting into a lot of songs that we rarely or never played. It was a really deeply serious set of songs. Deep Inside A Song, Scorched Earth Love Affair, the Pre Revolutionary Scene, Morrison Floorshow, I’m Not Afraid To Be Heavy, I’m Gonna Live In My Own Big World, Rock n Roll Is Where I Hide, The Birds And The Goats, Dandies Are Never Unbuttoned and more! A thing of it’s own. Produced by Victor Van Vugt. Great art by Tony Mahony, including our genre/logo AOART. There were also little messages all over the booklet alluding to the times such as Tenez Le Droit, Baby. That was the motto of the Victorian Police and Melbourne in the first half of the 90s was a scene of police and gangland revenge and retribution due to the Walsh st shootings. There was some other text floating around, "Whiskey Fast and Honey Slow" which is a line from a Tim Buckley song which I thought could have described some of the music. Also "Woe Is You", which appears in the song Outward Bound and which I thought encapsulated the angst free but not necessarily meek and mild stance from which I was delivering the conceptual bombs of which the album was made. 

The music is sounding great. There have only been a couple of times since we recorded it that I have sat and listened to this record intensely. I am so proud of it. Really no weak part to it. Diverse? Hell yes! Made under pressure. Victors recording and production was amazing. I am sorry if I never thanked him enough. Cannot believe how he recorded some of the vocals so well at almost a whispered volume. 

We will be playing the entire album in order and then another set of songs from albums before and after. Join us!

 

                     Robin Casinader, Clare Moore, Dave Graney, Stu Thomas and Rod Hayward

                                                        photo by Meredith Oshea

 Dave Graney and the Coral Snakes 30th Anniversary edition of the Soft n Sexy Sound at Apple Music. 7 extra B side tracks and 9 extra tracks from a live performance with strings at the Melbourne Concert Hall in 1996.



Ticket links....



Friday Oct 3rd Factory Theatre, Marrickville, Sydney

Saturday Oct 4th Waves, Wollongong, NSW

Sunday Oct 5th The Street Theatre, Canberra

Friday Oct 10th, The Corner Hotel, Richmond, Vic

Saturday Oct 11th, Bundy Hall, Bundalaguah VIC

Friday Oct 24th Freo Social, Fremantle WA

Saturday Oct 25th, The River Hotel, Margaret River WA

Friday Oct 31st, Brisbane Crowbar QLD

Saturday Nov 1st, The Imperial, Eumundi QLD

Sunday Nov 2nd, Mo's Desert Clubhouse, Gold Coast QLD

Friday Nov 7th, Byron Bay Theatre NSW

Saturday Nov 8th, Bellingen Memorial Hall NSW

Thursday Nov 13th, King Street Bandroom, Newcastle

Friday Nov 14th, Avoca Beach Theatre NSW

Saturday Nov 15th, The Lounge, Chatswood NSW

Sunday afternoon Nov 16th, Dangar Island Bowlo NSW

Friday Nov 21st, The Gov, Adelaide SA

Friday Nov 28th, Royal Oak, Launceston TAS

Saturday Nov 29th, The Pier, Ulverstone TAS

Sunday Nov 30th, Longley International Hotel, Longley TAS

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A recent interview with Dave Graney and Clare Moore for HiFi Way.

Listen Carefully podcast interview with Dave Graney- 32 minutes.

Listen Carefully podcast interview with Clare Moore - 30 minutes.