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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.

Thursday, December 12, 2019

Eighties TV - what we took in.




Here is a personal list of some favourite tv shows from the Eighties. The first part of it experienced without any aid or idea of VHS recorders. It was all catch it as it was transmitted or miss it altogether. No way to catch it otherwise. That did give things a level of excitement and energy that the modern world is missing. These are in no particular order, i was just catching them as they came to mind.

I should also say we lived in the UK for a lot of the 80s and often tried to escape into American cultural experiences. We loved American music the most also.  In some ways I am mystified why we were in the UK, why didn't we head to the USA? Of course we also loved a lot of British culture as well and probably felt as close to that as we  did to the Yankee stuff.

SCTV. Second City Television. Canadian origins. So many great stars came from this theatre/show. Rick Moranis, John Candy, Eugene Levy, Catherine OHara, Joe Flaherty. Our favourite characters were Tex and Edna Boil and the McKenzie Brothers.




Mickey Spillane's MIKE HAMMER - starring Stacy Keach. Shot on film and with a real film actor in the lead. Quite gritty with a great theme tune (Harlem Nocturne).





Phillip Marlowe- Private Eye was a 1983-86 show made by the BBC and HBO. A great actor in the lead, Powers Boothe - most recently seen in Deadwood as Al Swearingens saloon/pimp rival, Cy Toliver.




Crime Story 1986-88 starring Dennis Farina. This show was ambivalent about justice. the good guys didn't always win.




Miami Vice. One of those shows that is used to define a decade. Great theme music, incredible guest appearances by the likes of Miles Davis. Great vehicle for Don Johnson who was a cop who drove a very expensive car and lived on a boat. The corruption was palpable in this show.




My favourite actor and character was Edward James Olmos as Lt Castillo. He was so downbeat and serious. Often talking with his back to the camera or to the person he was talking to. Gravitas!





Moonlighting. Cybill Shepherd was in Bogdanovitch's THE LAST PICTURE SHOW and also in Scorsese's TAXI DRIVER. Powerful, manipulative characters. She will live for decades through those films alone. Bruce Willis debuted in this. In many ways he was to Mickey Rourke as America were to Neil Young and Men At Work to the Police. A nicer, more available version of something more authentic.
Cybill and Bruce had a nice wisecracking chemistry and also the Al Jarreau theme tune was great.





Married With Children . The first season was great. Excellent cast all around and a Sinatra theme tune.




Sledgehammer. 80s deadpan dumbness. Very funny. A really dumb and violent cop who has one solution to everything - his gun. His Hunter S Thompson like catchphrase still rings about with a few friends, "trust me! I know what I'm doing!"




Night Court. The 80s were great for things still being allowed to just happen. No explanations given or required. Shows like this found their audience or even created a new one.




Cheers. So many great characters. So many great actors. Launched the careers of Ted Danson and Woody Harrelson and Kirstie Alley. (Though the latter two replaced equally as brilliant characters in Dianne and Coach). The barflies - Norm and postal worker  Cliff kept it real. (The actor who played Norm reputedly a fan of the Replacements). The Boston accents and the spin off series Frasier that was equally as good.




Family Ties. My interest in this was solely to do with Justine Bateman. A very twee soft rock theme tune. Though I have come to love those jams as well.




Edge Of Darkness. Uk drama, theme by Eric Clapton. Anything with Joe Don Baker is worth watching for him alone. This was a great, gloomy series that seems to have been remade with Mel Gibson, which seems to happen too often. If not him in Point Blank its Stallone in a remake of Get Carter. Nah.




Bullseye! In the Moodists we watched this show in baffled confusion. WTF! It never failed to dazzle us. We never worked out what it was all about but it was rivetting viewing. Psychedelic fare.





3-2-1! Even more incomprehensible than Bullseye! It featured a character of a dustbin. Dusty Bin! Samuel Beckett would have loved this stuff. The way the presenter said the title and flashed his fingers at the same time.





Blankety Blanks hosted by comedian Les Dawson.  In the UK they had laws against making prizes on game shows too extravagant. Les Dawson was a master at lampooning showbusiness itself. 



World Snooker Championships.  We used to love watching this stuff. The players were all pale skinned, dodgy underworld figures suddenly thrust onto daytime television screens. Great characters like Alex "Hurricane" Higgins (who once had a tipsy Marianne Faithfull cheering him on from the gallery) and Jimmy White (who was reputed to be only able to read and write two words, Jimmy and White).


 

 Saint and Greavesie. 1987. This was the closest I could get to watching LEAGUE TEAMS which had been left behind in Melbourne. Two characters who were pretty raw and seemed to have been champions in their past lives, perhaps ten years previously.






Ok, lets close with some Jack Dyer.




2019 shows

Dec 20th Dave Graney and Clare Moore inducted into AMC SA Hall of Fame in Adelaide at the Jade Monkey.

Feb 7th Dave Graney and Clare Moore play Hardys Bay Club, Central Coast NSW

Feb 9th Dave Graney and Clare Moore play Smiths in Canberra with Coral Snake Robin Casinader joining them on mellotron.

Feb 20th Dave Graney and Clare Moore play the Ember Lounge (Memo Music Hall) in St Kilda

Feb 22nd , Mona Foma, Hobart 1pm show
Feb 23rd , Longley, Tasmania 2pm show

Dave Graney solo dates in WA in February.



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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...
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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