This is our first of a projected trio of live albums from
the vaults for 2020. We are working on the next one at the moment.
In Concert Elegant partners, hand in hand with a room full
of long time, brave listeners
One night in Canberra in February 9th 2020.
In
Concert…Dave
Graney on
guitars,
Clare Moore on
vibes, keys, backing vocals and percussion and Robin Casinader on piano and Mellotron.
Songs drawn mainly from their intense period of music making as three fifths of Dave Graney and the Coral Snakes in the 90s- along with more recent works. Presented in a minimalist, beat free, freewheeling CONCERT mode.
13 Songs delivered from the stage to a seated, attentive audience peppered with much garrulous wisdom and song related SCIENCE from Dave Graney.
Songs drawn mainly from their intense period of music making as three fifths of Dave Graney and the Coral Snakes in the 90s- along with more recent works. Presented in a minimalist, beat free, freewheeling CONCERT mode.
13 Songs delivered from the stage to a seated, attentive audience peppered with much garrulous wisdom and song related SCIENCE from Dave Graney.
LABEL - COCKAIGNE
We had meant to drive up to Hardys Bay from Melbourne with Robin to do the gigs but he got some terrible news regarding a family member just as he walked down the driveway of the house he stays in when in Melbourne. So Clare and I drove off, expecting to do the shows as a duo. We got to Sdney and then Robins situation changed and he was able to do the gigs. We picked him up at his Sydney hotel and all drove through pouring rain to Hardys Bay on the Central Coast. Clare and I had been in NSW and Qld late in 2019 and the place was on fire, smoke and flames everywhere and highways shutting and reopening as we approached and drove down them. This time the joint was flooding. Hardys Bay was on a Friday night and we loaded the gear in to the van and then into and out of the venue and then out of the van back in Sydney in torrential rin. The gig itself was really enjoyable. Our trio idea of vibes, guitar and mellotron really hummed along and the seated audience in the club just went with it. A long room with a stage in a really beautiful heavily wooded part of the Central Coast.
I did a Parlour show the next day, by myself this time but again dealing with pouring rain to get into and out of the premises. (You couldn't rest anything on the sodden ground, anywhere) . It was Sydney rain. Big fat raindrops that just start to pour and then keep it up for days. (In Melbourne a shower starts and finishes in ten minutes).
Then we drove to Canberra to do the show that was recorded by the house engineer Bevan Noble and which we have released as a digital album. We were at that level of exhaustion and strange fogged focus that is akin to a drugged state. We were in some sort of zone. We hadn't rehearsed a lot due to living in different cities and Robin had been over some arrangements with headphones on in the back of the van as we drove down the highway. One of those nights, it all just came together.
1 Tuning Up - You're Just Too Hip, Baby -
Feelin' Kinda Sporty 12:19
2 Warren Oates 6:58
3 Apollo 69 5:05
4 You Need A Kleek, Klook 4:27
5 Night Of The Wolverine 5 6:25
6 I’m Gonna Live In My Own Big World 4:48
7 The Birds And the Goats 5:42
8 I’m Never Off 4:58
9 I Ain't Hi Vis 4:38
10 Be Sad For Me 4:14
11 You’ve Been In My Mind 6:07
12 The Stars, Baby, The Stars 5:04
13 Three Dead Passengers In A Stolen Second Hand Ford 3:52
2 Warren Oates 6:58
3 Apollo 69 5:05
4 You Need A Kleek, Klook 4:27
5 Night Of The Wolverine 5 6:25
6 I’m Gonna Live In My Own Big World 4:48
7 The Birds And the Goats 5:42
8 I’m Never Off 4:58
9 I Ain't Hi Vis 4:38
10 Be Sad For Me 4:14
11 You’ve Been In My Mind 6:07
12 The Stars, Baby, The Stars 5:04
13 Three Dead Passengers In A Stolen Second Hand Ford 3:52
Dave Graney, vocals,
electric, acoustic guitars
Clare Moore, vibes, percussion, keys, backing vocals.
Robin Casinader, keys (organ/piano, Mellotron
Clare Moore, vibes, percussion, keys, backing vocals.
Robin Casinader, keys (organ/piano, Mellotron
Recorded at
Smiths in Canberra February 9th 2020 by house engineer Bevan Noble.
Mixed at the Ponderosa in Melbourne March 2020 by Dave Graney.
Mastered by Greg Wadley.
All songs written by Dave Graney. Copyright Control except Feelin Kinda Sporty which has music by Dave Graney and Clare Moore, I’m Never Off which has music by Clare Moore, Apollo 69 music by Rod Hayward and Three Dead Passengers which has music by Graney and Stephen Cummings. All words by Dave Graney.
Mixed at the Ponderosa in Melbourne March 2020 by Dave Graney.
Mastered by Greg Wadley.
All songs written by Dave Graney. Copyright Control except Feelin Kinda Sporty which has music by Dave Graney and Clare Moore, I’m Never Off which has music by Clare Moore, Apollo 69 music by Rod Hayward and Three Dead Passengers which has music by Graney and Stephen Cummings. All words by Dave Graney.
Those were the only shows we did so there wasn't a real lot of footage available to make a clip. So I put one together with still photos, mostly being the work of Barry C Douglas over the preceeding few years.
Other shots are from the sorts of venues Clare Moore and myself have come to love playing in around Australia. Not regular beer hall rock pubs, just small, boutique, community rooms where people have set up a situation to hear some music. Places like the Junk Bar in suburban Brisbane, the Dusty Attic in Lismore, The Pelican Playhouse in Grafton, the Dust Temple on the Gold Coast, Scrub Hill 1869 on Ballarat Rd toward Newlyn. All of these places are dark at the moment and I fear many will never open again.
The clip starts with a shot of the interior of Her Majestys Theatre in Adelaide taken when we were filming some shots for Nick Cowans projected bio on myself and Clare. Early 2019. The facade of the theatre remains but everything else has been torn down to be modernized. It had an amazing wall backstage with generations of actorly scawl across it.
The film? A short "teaser" was shot and edited and I still hope that Nick Cowan will be able to pull it together.
I might put the teaser up here in a while. It looked pretty good to me.
Here are some stills.
STAGE IT SHOWS.
We are doing Thursday nights at 8pm AEST from our studio. Its been going great. Very social in a strange way and we have done about ten shows. Number 11 happens Thursday night.
Thursday June 4th at 8pm. A small fee to access and away we go. Click here.
For our mates in the USA we are doing a set on your Saturday night. Thats 6pm in Los Angeles, 8pm in Chicago and 9pm in New York. (For us and anybody who's up to it here in Australia it will be Sunday at 11 am). Click here.
We have been doing a different set each show and playing deep cuts of ours as well as some choice covers. Shows go for 30 minutes with an encore time that is 20 minutes. e always play to the limit.
Covered songs have included Black Stick by the Cruel Sea, Strange I've Seen that Face Before by Grace Jones, Hyacinth House by the Doors, Taboo by Arthur Lyman, 1-2-3 by the Len Barry Combo, The Lowdown by Boz Scaggs, You're Gonna Miss Me by the Thirteenth Floor Elevators, Dolphins by Fred Neil and Sweet Surrender by Tim Buckley. Probably a few I have forgotten and also dozens of songs of our own.
Why not Join us?
davegraney.com
Other shots are from the sorts of venues Clare Moore and myself have come to love playing in around Australia. Not regular beer hall rock pubs, just small, boutique, community rooms where people have set up a situation to hear some music. Places like the Junk Bar in suburban Brisbane, the Dusty Attic in Lismore, The Pelican Playhouse in Grafton, the Dust Temple on the Gold Coast, Scrub Hill 1869 on Ballarat Rd toward Newlyn. All of these places are dark at the moment and I fear many will never open again.
The clip starts with a shot of the interior of Her Majestys Theatre in Adelaide taken when we were filming some shots for Nick Cowans projected bio on myself and Clare. Early 2019. The facade of the theatre remains but everything else has been torn down to be modernized. It had an amazing wall backstage with generations of actorly scawl across it.
The film? A short "teaser" was shot and edited and I still hope that Nick Cowan will be able to pull it together.
I might put the teaser up here in a while. It looked pretty good to me.
Here are some stills.
STAGE IT SHOWS.
We are doing Thursday nights at 8pm AEST from our studio. Its been going great. Very social in a strange way and we have done about ten shows. Number 11 happens Thursday night.
Thursday June 4th at 8pm. A small fee to access and away we go. Click here.
For our mates in the USA we are doing a set on your Saturday night. Thats 6pm in Los Angeles, 8pm in Chicago and 9pm in New York. (For us and anybody who's up to it here in Australia it will be Sunday at 11 am). Click here.
We have been doing a different set each show and playing deep cuts of ours as well as some choice covers. Shows go for 30 minutes with an encore time that is 20 minutes. e always play to the limit.
Covered songs have included Black Stick by the Cruel Sea, Strange I've Seen that Face Before by Grace Jones, Hyacinth House by the Doors, Taboo by Arthur Lyman, 1-2-3 by the Len Barry Combo, The Lowdown by Boz Scaggs, You're Gonna Miss Me by the Thirteenth Floor Elevators, Dolphins by Fred Neil and Sweet Surrender by Tim Buckley. Probably a few I have forgotten and also dozens of songs of our own.
Why not Join us?
davegraney.com
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