ZIPPA DEEDOO Melbourne launch Sunday afternoon May 26th Northcote Social Club

Well I wasn't expecting that election result. Like everybody, even the feckin' Prime Goose Minister.
Quite flat and dumbfounded. Like a lot of people.
How a rabble like that could get elected ? Half the front bench had jumped ship and the other half were in witness protection.

Oh there was that fat mining magnate who has had billboards all over the country - mystifyingly - for the last year or two and who is said to have dropped $80 million dollars advertising on his bogus United Australia Party who had candidates everywhere (but nowhere). Turns out he didn't win anything. Not a  single seat. But all his preferences went from disaffected Liberals back to that same party.

And his campaign was not really to win a  seat but to wreck Labours platform, get the LNP back in and perhaps..... whatever he likes from then on. A green light for fatso.

I was getting his ads on the front screen of my phone every day.

And the big issue was Climate Cange and the boil that couldn't be lanced was the proposed Adani Coal mine in Queensland. And the fat man is a coal miner.

At the last election the PM Malcolm Turnbull donated $1 million to the LNP campaign, buying himself - just- into office again.

This was the mining industry again.

I can't listen to any of the washup- reflections by the media. Nobody can say "I told you so" with this one.

The joint has been wrecked and more wreckage is promised. It's all they have got.

I was home alone and walked down to vote in the afternoon, a beautiful Autumn day. At around 7pm I turned on the television and watched for a while but started to feel queasy and turned it off again and did some work in the studio. I recorded two songs and came back at 11pm and it was all over.

Woke up at about 4am with a feeling of dread. I spoke to my neighbour the next afternoon and she was the same. Dread. It was our TRUMP-BREXIT moment. That bad.

Now it's Monday and the first idle 100 days of the new government begin. They hardly met all year due to them having to hide as they lacked the actual numbers in the house to resist and calls for legislation. they had to hide away. So many scandals. ......

I am finding it very difficult to listen to the ABC at all. I feel they gave the LNP such a sweet ride.
Melbournes Jon Faine excepted. He is leaving and doesn't seem to care about the corporation line anymore. Consequently, few LNP people appeared on his show.

ZIPPA DEEDOO WHAT IS/WAS THAT/THIS?

Suits the moment hey? The title comes from the track, SONG OF LIFE. I wrote the words from a  perspective of lying in a  hospital bed (thats where I was). I was thinking that that is where you come into this world (if you're lucky) and that is how you leave it (if you are lucky).

Our shows continue, including our Melbourne launch Sunday afternoon May 26th at the Northcote Social Club. Doors open at 1:30 and David Cosma starts proceedings.

Friday May 24th - Tanswells Commercial Hotel - Beechworth (Graney and Moore)

Sunday May 26th - Northcote Social Club (afternoon) ZIPPADEEDOO album launch show.
Special guest David Cosma. Doors 1:30pm.

Saturday June 1st - The Railway Club Darwin (Graney and Moore)
Saturday June 15th-Major Toms, Kyneton(Graney and Moore)

Friday June 21st the Bison Bar, Nambour.

Saturday June 22nd- Sunday June 23rd - the Bearded Lady, Brisbane.Special guests THE STRESS OF LEISURE

Saturday June 29th - The Caravan Music Club - Bentleigh Special guest Sean McMahon

July 12th - THE GOV - Adelaide.Special guests The Sunday Reeds

"You can dip in almost anywhere into the vast Graney catalogue and find something deeper and more satisfying than the pop fizz of the day. But if you are starting out, this album and attending a Graney gig on an extensive Australian tour in the next few months is an excellent place to begin".
Noel mengel - MusicTrust.com