ULTRAKEEF. The song and the clip.

Dave Graney vocals, 6 and 12 string acoustic and electric guitars
Clare Moore, drums and backing vocals
Stu Thomas, bass and backing vocals
Stuart Perera elecric guitar and backing vocals.

words: dave graney music: dave graney clare moore stu thomas stuart perera

Recorded at Soundpark July 2018 by Idge.
Mixed at Soundpark by Idge
Mastered by Greg Wadley

ULTRAKEEF is a song from our album ZIPPA DEEDOO WHAT IS/WAS THAT/THIS?
I made a rough demo of it with Clare Moore a couple of years ago. The only idea was to have a cowbell ringing in the beat and the block chords just seemed to write themselves into place. It's mainly in E and then moves to a D for a change and then to A7.

We just knew it should be spaced out and to let the words tell a story.

The story was inspired by all the goofy, dopey guitarists (mainly) that we have known or watched from a distance as they aspired to live DOWN to the badass image of a pirate-guitar slinger as most famously thrown by KEEF aka Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones. So many have DIED trying to be as bad as KEEF is reputed to be.

I was very impressed when I read in his book how he never eats at meal times or sleeps at normal times. He eats when hungry or sleeps when tired. That was more impressive than all the much talked of and seemingly heroic drug taking and boozing.

I never got into rock music for that stuff. I came from a very hedonistic family and a very hedonistic culture. I didn't need to get into rock music to get wasted. And nothing I ever saw in that world was as wild or carefree as the country stoners and hot rod crazy football playing mill workers I grew up with.
But I was impressed that Keith - KEEF - made the world bend to his leanings from early on. He made his rules.

So the words of the song are ...

Fuck you day

fuck you time of day
fuck you breakfast

fuck you food
fuck you mealtime

fuck you bedtime
fuck you Dartford

fuck you London
fuck you England

fuck you France
hello D-O-P-E hello dope
hello B-O-O-Z-E hello booze
hello Bentley/hello guns ‘n’ knives ‘n’ kohl
kohl for my eyes
goodbye Brian

hello Anita

sorry Anita

zzzzzzzzz
fuck you old man

fuck you young girl
fuck you Mick

kiss me Charlie
fuck you Canada (Toronto)

fuck you Australia
hello Jamaica

hello Walter Raleigh and Henry Morgan
fuck you life

fuck you death 

We rehearsed the song with Stu Thomas and Stuart Perera and they brought a real lot of groove to it. We played it a few times during our Croxton residencies last year and people really clicked with it , immediately.
We put it down all together in at Soundpark studios and thought we'd do a  clip for it.

Donna McRae and Michael Vale are two film makers Clare Moore and I have worked with, doing the soundtracks on their films Johnny Ghost and Lost Gully Road. They had previously done a clip for Clare Moores band The Dames.

They asked us for a few ideas and we suggested a few approaches and we came up with this clip. It contains nods/references/traces of a certain 1974 clip from the Rolling Stones. I'll leave it up to the reader to guess which one.

The crew were VIDEO Directors: Donna McRae & Michael Vale
DOP: Laszlo Baranyai HSC, ACS
Production Designer: Michael Vale
Editor: Donna McRae
Camera Assistant: Peter White
Lighting Assistant: Stephen Loats
Art Department Assistants: Katherine Murray, Xavier Nathan




The clip has aired two weeks in a row (very late/early in the morning) on the ABC tv show Rage and people have responded quickly to it. Even tyre kickers wandering on to the comments section of Youtube to tell me that "the lyrics are bad" and I'm "phoning in the vocal". People have funny ideas about what musicians and songwriters do and why they do anything! Also, the two commenters (most people have been much more positive but its a weird truism that you focus on negative things much too much) both said they were "fans of (my) work. If I was a fan of somebody I would never - ever - come  to tell them what I thought of it. Especially when it was still jumping on the plate! I would just enjoy it as it happened. Something else from the source of something I liked.....

ZIPPA DEEDOO WHAT IS/WAS THAT/THIS? is available mail order through our website  and is released this Friday March 22nd as a digital album. You can preorder it via this link at a  stupidly low price.

The album is on Compact Disc, our favoured format, and can be found at Rocksteady Records and Basement Discs in Melbourne.  In Sydney it is available at REDEYE RECORDS.

We will also have it available at our live shows. We will be heading out firstly to do some duo shows. Myself and Clare Moore. Then we will be doing some shows with the mistLY.

Shows below are by Dave Graney and Clare Moore.
Thursday 28 March - Stag & Hunter, Newcastle
Friday 29 March - Bent On Food, Wingham
Saturday 30 March - 5 Church Street Bellingen
Sunday 31 March - Brunswick Picture House

Friday April 12th - Memo Music Hall opening for Stephen Cummings (with whom Clare Moore is playing drums) .
Saturday May 4th The Gov- Adelaide CLARE MOORE AND DAVE GRANEY opening for Stephen Cummings.

Saturday June 1st - The Railway Club Darwin
Saturday June 15th-Major Toms, Kyneton.

Shows below are by Dave Graney and the mistLY

Wednesday 8 May - Brass Monkey Cronulla
Thursday 9 May - The Bunker Coogee
Friday 10 May - Lazybones Lounge, Marrickville
Saturday 11 May - Metro Social, Katoomba
Sunday 12 May - Dangar Bowlo.NSW

Friday May 24th - Tanswells Commercial Hotel - Beechworth

Sunday May 26th - Northcote Social Club (afternoon) ZIPPADEEDOO album launch show.

Friday June 21st the Bison Bar, Nambour.
Saturday June 22nd- Sunday June 23rd - the Bearded Lady, Brisbane.
Saturday June 29th - The Caravan Music Club - Bentleigh

July 12th - THE GOV - Adelaide. 

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