Front Room Of the Croxton bandroom 4-6pm on Sundays in May

Ok, still kind of on the 5-2 diet. Basically changed the way I eat. I lost 6 kilos and am quite happy with that. I don't need to lose any more.

A Spotify playlist to help you negotiate all the stuff we've done over three and a half decades.




Stu Thomas couldn't make the show last week due to his dog Ziggy suffering an injury to his leg and needing a lot of care so we did a minimalist trio set. Clare Moore played keys and vibes, Stu Perera played his trusty Rickenbacker and I played acoustic and electric guitars.

This was our game plan ...

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're All Wrong (2018)
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)

Yeah, I didn't write it in cursive. 

We rehearsed for our next show and went through some Dave Graney and the Coral Snakes era material. We have played some of that during this run but not a lot as yet. So we are heading toward that stuff now.

We will also be playing some new material that its been great to be working up.

We rehearsed some more of that. A song called "Where's My Buzz?" which took a really great turn in our last run at it. I'm trying to steer away from familiar grooves and songwriting modes I've been stuck in for a while. The song we've been doing called "Is That What You Did?" is the most MAJOR CHORD thing I've done in years. "ULTRAKEEF" is kind of writing itself. People are digging us finding our way through this stuff in public.

I have been working on a song in the studio that I built up from a  drum machine beat and built up some tracks. Again, it's a real MAJOR CHORD job.  There are no electric guitars. I played it all, organ and acoustic guitars, autoharp, harmonica  and bass and the rhythm. Clare found it to be quite disturbingly nutty but has turned around and has now given it the green light. Georgio "the dove" Valentino told us a story of his flight from Detroit to Brussels and how he took his childhood blanket wth him. It was called DouDou. One dark night in a bad bart of Brussels, his car was broken into and DouDou went missing.

I told him right then I needed to write a song called "Et Tu DouDou!" and so I have. I'm still making up my mind whether to put it out as a single track or wait until we record a whole album. It's not a  pop song but its got a lot of drama. 

In other news we have been talking with a couple of labels about putting out some back catalogue stuff. Universal Music in Austraia have been very direct and positive. We might also do something with the album of re-recordings we gave to Liberation in Australia in 2011 and they have been very accommodating too.

We might even do some vinyl, still thinking on it.

Last year we were in touch with Fire Records about the two albums we did with them in the late 80s/very early 90s. When we worked with them it was mainly driven by the owner, Clive Solomon. In the modern era, a fellow called James runs it.

James has been very helpful and sent us a box of vinyl copies of the two albums (My Life On The Plains and I Was The Hunter And I Was The Prey) that he found in the warehouse. The albums are not really available in any form. I asked Clive to just give us the rights to them and call it square but he says its "an important part of the labels story". I can't really dwell on it too much. It just bums me out.

We have those (very limited quantities) vinyl copies of  My Life On The Plains and I Was The Hunter And I Was The Prey available at the shows we are doing. 

We have three more shows coming up at the Croxton Bandroom as well as a show in Ballarat and three shows in Adelaide at the Wheatsheaf.  We may do the latter gigs like these residency shows and make it a  different set each night. 

 Clare Moore and Stuart Perera going through some arrangements and difficult charts for last weeks show in the front room of the Croxton Bandroom. (We call that musical notation #flyshit in the business) 4-6 pm, 607 High St Thornbury. Yes, Clare  pulled out the 50s Boosey and Hawkes jazz set of vibes she bought from a teary widow in Doncaster in 1997. She showed us the cocktail/ party room where she and her late husband would entertain friends and he would play the vibes and they would all dance. We couldn't see them at first, then she opened a purpose built door beneath the cocktail bar and wheeled them out.

 

This was our Primary Colour look last week at the Croxton Bandroom. We were playing as a minimalist trio. Vibes, keys, acoustic and electric guitars so we needed to have a more flash facade than usual. This week Clare Moore will be back behind the kit, Stu Thomas will be at the bass and Stu Perera will be blazing that Rickenbacker. It's Mothers Day so why not run away to come to this show? We play from 4-6 pm in the front room. 607 high st thornbury. Special guests this week are THE ROUTINES who are Jane Dust, Clare Moore and Emily Jarrett. 

A Spotify Playlist of my favourite guitar jams.


 

MAY MELBOURNE RESIDENCY - DAVE GRANEY AND THE MISTLY IN THE EXCELLENT FRONT ROOM OF THE CROXTON PARK HOTEL.
Every Sunday in MAY from 4-6pm. presenting different albums weekly and previewing new material.
Book here - choose your Sunday

Special guest May 13th are THE ROUTINES(Jane Dust-Clare Moore-Emily Jarrett)
Special guests May 20th are FIRE and ICE (Penny Ikinger and Julitha Ryan)
Special guest May 27th is Lisa Crawley.

May 17th, we'll be playing as opening act for Kid Congo and the Pink Monkey Birds at the Caravan Club in Sth Oakleigh.

July 7th - The Cabaret Club - Ballarat.
4/9367 Western Highway Warrenheip, Ballarat 33520353348150

Dave Graney and the mistLY play ADELAIDE at the Wheatsheaf Hotel August 10th/11th/12th