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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.

Sunday, March 10, 2024

Dates in NSW and WA in May and a discography leading up to our 2024 release.

 


 

 

Our Melbourne single launch went well. A 1:30 pm start at the Northcote Social Club. Two sets with Stu Thomas on bass and Stuart Perera on guitar. Dave Graney and the mistLY. We had last played in Melbourne late 2022 at the Nightcat when we launched our album In A Mistly.  This was/is an album full of great rock songs and sounds and dynamics. One of our best ever. So we played a lot of it at this show. Hopefully there will be another Melbourne show this year.


We had one rehearsal a couple of nights before out in Hallam which is a short drive for Clare and I and Stuart but a long one for Stu who lives in Western Melbourne. We usually rehearsed at Soundpark but were under the mistaken belief that it was shutting down. (It was going to be moving as of December 2023 but plans have changed). Thats great because its our favourite studio to record in. The best!

Thanks to everybody who came to the show. Melbourne has been full of all sorts of touring acts both international and local for all of this year. Crazy busy. So yes, thank you to everybody who somehow tuned in to our wavelength and came to the show. We love playing daytime gigs.

 We have some other shows booked. These are confirmed so far. 

Friday May 3rd Dave Graney and Clare Moore play The Agrestic Grocer in Orange, NSW.

Saturday May 4th Dave Graney and Clare Moore play THE BAROQUE ROOM, Katoomba, NSW.

Sunday May 5th Dave Graney and Clare Moore play the Stag and Hunter in Newcastle, NSW

Friday May 10th Dave Graney and Clare Moore play Lyric Lane in Maylands (Perth) WA

Saturday May 11th Dave Graney and Clare Moore play the Duke Of George in East Fremantle, WA

 Wherever we can we will be playing a rock show. Bass, drums and guitar music. In NSW we will be playing with Greg Thorsby on bass and in WA we will be playing with Martyn Casey on the bass. 

I thought I would put a rough discography here so as people could see what led up to this new album. 


Discography
DAVE GRANEY AND CLARE MOORE

April 2024  (strangely)(emotional) Dave Graney and Clare Moore  (Cockaigne) CD and digital release.

 Re-Release of Night Of The Wolverine in double gatefold vinyl edition 2023.

THERE HE GOES WITH HIS EYE OUT (lyrics 1980-2023) Book released 2023.

 

Dave Graney and Clare Moore – IN A MISTLY – 2022 album released on CD through Cockaigne.

Dave Graney and Clare Moore 2021 album released on CD through Cockaigne. EVERYTHING WAS FUNNY.

Dave Graney and ClareMoore 2020 digital album with Robin Casinader - IN CONCERT.

Dave Graney and ClareMoore 2020 digital album with Georgio "the dove" Valentino and Malcolm Ross.

Dave Graney and the mistLY - 2021 digital album - LYVE AT BYRDS

 November 2019 digital only album of studio recordings ONE MILLION YEARS DC by Dave Graney and Clare Moore.

March 2019 ZIPPA DEEDOO WHAT IS/WAS THAT/THIS? Dave Graney and the mistLY (Cockaigne) CD and digital release.

April 2017 Dave Graney and Clare Moore LET"S GET TIGHT (Cockaigne)

Nominated at the 2018 OZFLIX awards for best original soundtrack (with Dave Graney) for the Donna McRae film, “LOST GULLY ROAD

WORKSHY – Book. Dave Graney Memoir. Affirm Press October 2017.

June 2017 – digital single – Two Bass Drums and A Mellotrone . Credited to Dave Graney

2017 CD "LET"S GET TIGHT" – CD, Cockaigne.  Credited to Dave Graney and Clare Moore

Completed a 15 date tour of Europe in 2017, playing in Spain for the first time, as well as France, the Netherlands, Belgium, England and Scotland.

 

Completed a 17 date tour of Europe in April/

May 2016, the main focus of which was the ATP festival in

Wales curated by lauded comedian/writer Stewart Lee. The

festival was a cavalcade of underground heroes and heroines

from the music worlds of the USA/ Europe and the UK. There

were two Australian acts chosen, Dave Graney and the

mistLY and jazz mysteriosos , the Necks.

HARRY HOWARD AND THE NDE – Sleepless Girls  (CD Spooky 2017)

dave graney - Once I Loved The Torn Ocean's Roar - 80s/90s Demos Vol. 2 - digital only release 2016

HARRY HOWARD AND THE NDE – PRETTY (CD Spooky 2015)

dave graney - night of the wolverine demos/early 90s songwriter demos - digital only release 2015

dave graney and the mistLY - Play mistLY For Me
(2015 digital only release - live collection vol 1)

Feted as Melbourne Music Legends by City of Yarra/Leaps and

Bounds Festival in 2015. A concert given with a cavalcade of

Melbourne musicians young and vintage playing Dave Graney and Clare Moore songs.

FEARFUL WIGGINGS (Dave Graney CD Cockaigne 2014)

HARRY HOWARD AND THE NDE – Near Death Experience (CD Spooky 2013)

Live in Hell (DAve Graney 2013 digital only release of follow up narrative show from 2009)

Point Blank (Dave Graney digital only release of 2007 narrative show - 2013)

THE DAMES  (Clare Moore project with Kaye Louise Patterson) CD, Cockaigne 2013

YOU'VE BEEN IN MY MIND (Dave Graney and the mistLY CD Cockaigne 2012)

1001 Australian Nights. Book. Memoir on Affirm press 2011.

Rock'n'roll Is Where I Hide . Dave Graney and the mistLY. Album of electric re-recordings. (CD Liberation) 2011

Voted Best Victorian Act by readers of Fairfax for the Age EG

Music Awards 2011.

Supermodified (CD Cockaigne) Dave Graney and the Lurid Yellow Mist 2010

Knock YourselfOout (CD Dave Graney Cockaigne) 2009)

We Wuz Curious (The Lurid Yellow Mist – featuring Dave Graney and Clare Moore – CD Illustrious Artists 2008)

Best Music Act at 2007 Melbourne Fringe for the show

POINT BLANK.

Keepin' it Unreal (Dave Graney and Clare Moore – featuring Stu Thomas – CD Cockaigne 2006)

Hashish and Liquor (double disc w/ Clare Moore. CD Reverberation 2005)

The Brother Who Lived (the Royal Dave Graney Show, CD Cockaigne 2003)

The soundtrack to the movie Bad Eggs (David Graney and Clare Moore, CD Liberation,2003)
ARIA award nomination best Original Motion Picture Soundtrack album 2003

Two Fisted Art (the Moodists, CD WMinc, 2003)

Heroic Blues (the Dave Graney Show, CD Cockaigne 2002)

THE THIRD WOMAN Clare Moore solo CD (Cockaigne 2013

Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye (the Dave Graney Show, CD Cockaigne / Cooking Vinyl 2000)

The Baddest (Dave Graney 'n' the Coral Snakes, Universal , CD 1999)

The Dave Graney Show (the Dave Graney Show, CD, Festival 1998)

IT IS WRITTEN, BABY. Book of stories, lyrics and Tony Mahony images . Random House 1997.

The Devil Drives (Dave Graney 'n' the Coral Snakes, CD, Universal 1997)

The Soft'n'Sexy Sound (Dave Graney 'n' the Coral Snakes, Universal ,  THIS WAY UP CD 1995)

You Wanna Be There But You Don't Wanna Travel (Dave Graney 'n' the Coral Snakes, CD, Id/Universal 1994)

Night of the Wolverine (Dave Graney 'n' the Coral Snakes, Id/Universal , CD 1993)

Lure of the Tropics (Dave Graney 'n' the Coral Snakes, Torn and Frayed 1992)

I Was the Hunter and I was the Prey (Dave Graney 'n' the Coral Snakes , CD Fire - recorded 1990 but released1992)

My Life on the Plains (Dave Graney 'n' the White Buffaloes, vinyl LP and CD Fire, 1990)

With the Coral Snakes At His Stone Beach (4 Track vinyl EP on Fire Records 1988)

Hey Little Gary 4 track vinyl EP (The Moodists TIM Records 1987)

Take The Red Carpet Out Of Town ( The Moodists 12"EP TIM Records 1986)

Double Life (the Moodists, Red Flame 1985)

Justice and Money Too (12” The Moodists vinyl EP on Creation 1985)

Thirstys Calling (the Moodists, vinyl LP, Red Flame 1984)

Engine Shudder (the Moodists, vinyl LP, Au Go Go / Red Flame 1982)

Gone Dead / Chads Car 7" vinyl single The Moodists, AuGoGo 1981

Where The Trees Walk Downhill 7" vinyl single The Moodists, AuGoGo 1980

 

I guess thats between 30 and 40 physical releases and a dozen or so digital only releases. Clare Moore has been involved in more, of course. 


 

Wednesday, February 28, 2024

Live shows (strangely)(emotional) happening all of a sudden. Saturday March 2nd Northcote Social Club

 We are playing a show Saturday March 2nd AFTERNOON SHOW
Northcote Social Club, https://tickets.northcotesocialclub.com/outlet/event/0649b86e-f550-45bd-8066-1e8bbd9e81ca

Doors are at 1pm and we will be playing two sets, previewing some material from (strangely)(emotional). We will be playing with the mistLY, Stu Thomas on bass and Stuart Perera on guitar. 

 

We rarely play in Melbourne, perhaps twice a year. Our last gig with the mistLY in the city we live in would have been in 2022.

Last year was all retrospective with our 18 date national tour by Dave Graney and the Coral Snakes. Now we have a new album to come out and another already in the works.
We will be previewing tracks from (strangely)(emotional) as well as playing some songs from our last album of new material, IN A MISTLY which came out in November 2022. One of our best collections of songs and performances in our career. 

Yes all of a sudden we are back into doing some long drives and playing. Clare Moore and I got into the van and played in Canberra, Bulli (near Wollongong) and Sydney, accompanied by Sydney based guitar player Greg Thorsby on bass who we had a zoom session with the week before we filled the van and drove off.

Clare's brother Dennis, who is an actor once told me that embarking on a new creative project, performance or release is called a "leap into the void" and that it gets harder and harder as you get older. Thats just by the by. I find the writing and recording easy. The tech is eating away at all kinds of ways that people earn a living and create intellectual or artistic property that has - until recentlly - been able to hold some sort of value so I cant really moan about that. Everybody is being shook/disrupted by the tech. 

photo clare moore
 

We stayed in the beautiful town of Gundagfai on the way to Canberra and I bought two pairs of RM WILLIAMS boots in an op shop for $40. I am told these retail for up to $650 nowadays. I have a pair I bought in 1994 already so they do last.


 

We rehearsed with Greg at the hotel. It was a Thursday night show. We had a lot of tech for Clare to plug in as she was playing keys as well as drums and also using our Cymatic rhythm machine.

photo clare moore


 We assumed we could rehearse more at soundcheck but the show before us went over by an hour. A tedious 20 year old George Formby impersonator running  a cabaret variety show which was really more of an open mic night. We pretty much set up and played and there were a few tech problems but we made show. The hotel overlooked Lake Burley Griffin and had great views of Parliament House at night.

photo greg thorsby

 

photo clare moore


The next day we drove to Bulli, listening to warnings of torrential rain and cyclonic winds. Its a climb over a high hill and down steep winding roads to the sea. We drove up and I scraped our van against a stone planters box outside the venue. The rain came in sheets off of the sea and whipped all across the outdoor stage. The show was called off twice as the rain came and went but the people stayed so we set up on the floor and did two sets with no mics on the drums and me singing through a foldback wedge. No soundcheck rehearsal again.


 

We drove back over the hill towards Sydney around midnight in complete white out fog at about 30ks an hour around mad bending corners with hazard lights on in the car. We got to Sydney and unloaded the gear and slept. 

The next afternoon , we loaded into THE GREAT which is a club in Marrickville. A suburb of Sydneys inner west over which the international jet planes fly so low that the idea of making a noise complaint about music is ridiculous - because the ambient noise of the area is LOUD. (Still, the venue has been fighting just such a  complaint from one neighbour for a  couple of years). 


My third cousin AVA came to say hello.(Or am I her Great Uncle? I was at the GREAT I guess...) Avas' mother Kristyn did the amazing cover shot for EVERYTHING WAS FUNNY at their house in Dismal Swamp, SA.



Road warlord Henry Brister was working at the Great so it all went smoothly in setup. We felt as if we'd been on tour for a month already. We did a fantastic show. A power trio. Greg played brilliantly and I got such a tremendously pleasing sound from my guitars and amp. The show was full of freshness and improvised moments. Thank you so much Greg! What a  mensch!





We had played with Greg Thorsby a few times before in the past but he had played guitar with us for those shows. We had first met him when he played in the Atlas Strings who did some gigs opening for Dave Graney and The Coral Snakes in the mid 90s. He is playing guitar on the left in this clip. RIP to singer and songwriter Ben Mullins.

During that tour we were in Sydney and our guitarist Rod Haywards father died suddenly and he had to go deal with that. It must have been1995. We were in the midst of a run of album release dates and media calls and we were never the types to cancel anything so Greg did this tv show of Andrew Dentons with us. (Sorry Rod)



CREATIVE CREEP First single from the epic 2024 album (strangely)(emotional) which is to be released on classic jewel case Compact Disc in April. Touring near you, soon.

Saturday March 2nd AFTERNOON SHOW
Northcote Social Club, https://tickets.northcotesocialclub.com/outlet/event/0649b86e-f550-45bd-8066-1e8bbd9e81ca

Shows coming up in WA in May as well as NSW and Qld.


photo - Clare Moore




 

 

Sunday, February 11, 2024

Creative Creep out today and our album (strangely)(emotional) out April 12th.

 Our single Creative Creep is out today and our album (strangely)(emotional)is out April 12th.

Dave Graney, steel string acoustic guitar, bass, vocals
Clare Moore, keys, bass drum, percussion
Dave Wray, soprano and tenor sax, congas 


Creative Creep started from a two chord guitar lick and I played it to a drum machine rhythm and added ssome bass. It all seemed to hang together as a groove and then Clare put some keys on and Dave Wray added a sax solo and a chorus of sax toward the end. Its the most outwardly directed lyric on the album as the rest is quite  inward and reflective. Quite personal. Strangely. Emotional.

what did Brian Wilsons dad Murry say when he boxed him in the ears?

“I’m a genius too y’know!”

“I’m a genius too y’know!”

creative creep

there’s been some creative creep around here

what are you doin’ here, sir?

you’re supposed to be back there with your beans

creative creep

who are all these people?

who are all these creeps?

this place was cool

used to be

just us

the elite

there were rules

strict club rules

door policies

advertising people

and not like Bewitched

there’s been some creative creep

a lotta creative creep

around here

don’t fence me in and get in too

back off

let me be

let me be a creative creep

back off

let me be

let me be

a creative creep

you’re standin’ too close to the flames

 

 

 I write song lyrics pretty literally and am surprised when people think I am being ironic or not straight. In this song I am saying "let me be a creative creep". I am a  creative creep and like being a creative creep. I'm probably an unreliable person and bad friend or brother or son or basic human being but my focus is often drawn somewhere else, sorry! Creative Creeps are bastards. And in these times there are a lot of people who say they are "creatives". (Theres more creative creep). But the world of a creative gig-economical player is too rough for them so they try to straighten it out and make it a safe place for them. To make it inclusive etc. As the song says, "BACK OFF!"



cover image by Tony Mahony. Album to be released April 12th 2024. Click the image to pre-order

On the following shows we will be accompanied by Greg Thorsby on bass. 

Thursday Feb 22nd Dave Graney and Clare Moore play Smiths Alternative, Canberra, ACT.

Friday Feb 23rd Dave Graney and Clare Moore play Resin Brewing, Bulli, NSW.

Saturday Feb 24th Dave Graney and Clare Moore play THE GREAT CLUB, Marrickville, NSW

 

In Melbourne we will be playing two sets with the mistLY- Stu Thomas and Stuart Perera. 

Saturday AFTERNOON March 2nd The Northcote Social Club, Melbourne

 
 
 




Thursday, January 4, 2024

Hello Two Oh Two Four

 Sitting here in Melbourne with the door open out to our back garden. (Though we are no gardeners- its a collection of ferntrees and succulents which all look after themselves) The world in turmoil and more trouble every day. Wow. Like everybody, pretty stunned by the warmongers in Palestine and the Ukraine. Embarassed by our government for their subservient military ties with the USA.

We have been in Adelaide for a week helping out as much as we can with my older brother going through some health issues. Christmas and New Year is a tough time to get attended to but the health workers were all great. The operation went well and Steve is in much better shape than when he went in.

We were intending to spend the festive season in Sydney but Adelaide needed us to be there so thats where we headed

Other than time at the hospital we sat with Clares brother Patrick and watched about twenty episodes of THE BOX, an Australian tv series from 1973. Totally addictive. Not available to stream anywhere, only via DVDs which Patrick sources from the company who made it, Crawfords. 

The week before we left Clare Moore and I went to SOUNDPARK studios to put down about ten songs for a projected album. We did drums, bass and guitars. I just needed to get the ideas down and it turned out to be fortuitous as its our favourite studio and its going to be moving in a months time. 


 Pictured is John Olson (who did the Tony Cohen book) in the control room at Soundpark. 




Around that time we also had a loose jam/rehearsal with Stuart Perera out on the far eastern side of town where we all live. 

Stu Thomas was busy at the time playing shows with THE SILVERSOUND and getting his Lee Heazlewood show together. 

Also, around this time Clare and I realized we actually had a 15 song album ready (as distinct from the songs we recorded at Soundpark) for release in 2024 so we finished mixing and editing it and got it mastered by Plutonic Lab

It's to be called (strangely) (emotional) and will be released on a classic Compact Disc format. Its an epic collection of songs with everything played by us as well as sax by Dave Wray, pedal steel by Shane Reilly, extra vocals by Will Hindmarsh and Emily Jarrett and harp by Genevieve Fry from Cold Hands Warm Hearts. 

CHWH are one of our favourite bands and they released a brilliant album called Luxury Bat in November. They are a very committed group of people who run their own label and put on their own shows in their arts space at Eastmint, politically committed. Genevieve was at the Arts Centre the day Clare was interviewed with Margret Roadknight for the Always Live Program. Genevieve had played earlier that day and had ridden in on her bike with her harp on a  trailer on the back.



Margret Roadknight and Clare Moore at the Arts Centre.

Clare Moore holding her award for a Lifetime Achievement which she was given by the Australian Women In Music Awards in November LAST year.

We also played a couple of shows in support for the VOICE TO PARLIAMENT REFERENDUM for Indigenous Australians which was sadly defeated by the right wing parties and media in Australia just to flex their negative power and stir up another battlefront in the endless culture wars. These shows were myself, Clare Moore and Catherine McQuade on bass. I wrote a song with Cathy this year and she will be releasing it soon, along with a deluxe film clip made by her partner Brendan Young. The song is called You Came To Me In A Dream and it is super pop! Madly super pop. 

Cathy mixed a track for our forthcoming album as well. She also played bass on it. 

I wore my denim slouch hat for the shows. 
 
Clare Moore and I will be releasing a  single in February and the album in April. (strangely) (emotional)
 
We will be announcing some shows soon. The album will be difficult to play as its a real song based collection, very much studio focussed as opposed to a band sound. On the other hand it is often a very sparse sound with acoustic guitars and vocals dominating. It'll be a challenge and will be so different after such a joyously retrospective 2023. Hopefully we will do an occasional show with Dave Graney and The Coral Snakes. We will see what comes up. 


More, anon...




Thursday, November 2, 2023

My record collection 1976. Last Year of High School

 I was looking through some archival stuff and found this school folder divider from my last year at High School in Mt Gambier. My mother kept it as she didn't like to throw things aways (much like me).



It's a list I made - probably while a teacher was talking at us about something important - of all the precious records I had been able to aquire. I devoured books and magazines writing on rock music and followed all kinds of leads. The Rolling Stones always talked about their influences so I looked into that. The London Howlin Wolf and Muddy Waters albums had great covers and seemed extra special with all those limey players on it. (Though even I, as a hick kid, was embarassed to hear them telling Howlin Wolf how to play his own songs properly). Some were bargain bin buys , some I have totally forgotten. The next year I was totally fired up by the successive Sex Pistols singles which I had to order from a local shop which mainly sold sewing machines. I had lost interest in football at the end of 1975 after being caught buying a load of booze (On a country league football trip) while under age in a St Kilda pub (The George) and driven home in shame. 

 


It was probably my second visit to Melbourne and I had been to Adelaide perhaps three or four times. In September 1977 I drove my FC Holden from Mt Gambier to Townsville and back again, an epic journey by myself. All my friends were living in Adelaide and telling me on their return visits about seeing radio Birdman. I was working in a timber mill in Mount Gambier. I moved to Adelaide for a couple of years in 1978.

We lived in a three bedroom house in Werona st Mt Gambier. My older brothers Phillip and Steve and sister Marianne had all left home and it was me, my parents Noel and Philomena and my younger siblings Sean and Julie. Until I got my own room we all had to listen to music through a small portable record player in the lounge room, with the tv on as well. In 1975, my mother had gotten her drivers licence and bought a brand new Honda Civic. Our first ever car. There was no phone in the house but we didn't know you had to have one.



 

I never experienced live music very much, being still under 18 and also living in a  regional town that just didn't have any. I would still listen to most of this music. It was probably my first attempt to get into Bob Dylan and I appreciate a lot of his music but would not choose to listen to it as much as I would say, Steely Dan.
I would buy some records and try to find something good in them but eventually trade them. I tried Judas Priest (Rocka Rolla) Montrose (Paper Money) and maybe even Love (Da Capo). I tried hard to like Barclay James Harvest as records were expensive but nothing ever jumped out of that impressively stiff gatefold. My friend Steve Miller had a great record collection but his older brother Marty had an incredible stacked shelf of stuff too. He was in Adelaide studying for an endless Batchelor Of Arts. He had the longest hair in town and was  a totally cool character. Their father Charlie drove a Renault sports car (which Marty and his mates borrowed and duly left cigarette burns in the upholstery of) and favoured dixie jazz. They had a great hi fi system which included a reel to reel tape player. Marty would buy albums and tape them.

Amongst our group of stoner mates we all drove around in cars listening to tapes of the Blue Oyster Cult, Joe Walsh, Led Zeppelin, The Allman Brothers, Lynyrd Skynyrd and JJ Cale. The reggae records were a new thing from about 1975. Natty Dread and Burning Spears Man In the Hills. Steve Miller was getting Dr Feelgood and Eddie And The Hot Rods, Graham Parker and the Rumour and Southside Johnny And The Asbury Dukes albums as they came out (though we all shamed him for buying Born To Run as it was obviously so commercial...) 

Rosalie Boylan, my cousin Jim, David Lee (Flea), myself, Steve Miller and Grant Belchev at Port Macdonnell 1976.

I still have most of the Steve Miller Bands catalogue but have more Jefferson Starship/Airplane than Hot Tuna. The Grateful Dead have gotten better for me but like many, I timidly dipped my toe in those waters through the acoustic albums like American Beauty. Blues For Allah is much more my taste now, as well as the Live Dead version of Dark Star. 

 This 1993 Movie Dazed And Confused perfectly captured the pop culture of that era from an American perspective. 


Night Of The Wolverine 30th Anniversary Tour coming to Fremantle November 11th


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