dave graney - Moodists-Coral Snakes-mistLY-FEARFUL WIGGINGS

dave graney - Moodists-Coral Snakes-mistLY-FEARFUL WIGGINGS
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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.

Monday, November 23, 2020

Players Please - a podcast for those who know

I had the idea to do a podcast, though I don't know much about that world. I only ever listen to one regularly and that is Tony Martin's SIZZLETOWN. I do like some of them when I hear them but mostly I have just never gotten into the habit. Its the nature of time for me. I never feel I have enough and podcasts seem to be for people who have extra time up their sleeves to catch up on stuff. I must be doing it wrong. 

I don't really want to take over the world with my version of the form. I am not bothered if its on itunes or spotify so for the moment I am just putting it onto Mixcloud. Its just for those in the know. Players. Its called PLAYERS PLEASE and the first talk I had was with old friend and long time inspiration Peter Milton Walsh aka THE APARTMENTS.

This is how I wrote about Milton Walsh in WORKSHY.

"Someone who helped us negotiate this period of disintegration and regeneration – well, helped me, as much as anything – was Peter Milton Walsh, the gold-toothed enigma from Brisbane whom we had first met in Sydney in his band Out of Nowhere and then in Melbourne, when he’d been playing in the Laughing Clowns. He had revived a late-70s band name he had operated under called the Apartments and had released an album on Rough Trade.

Peter was a great signal or anchor point for me. I learned poise and attitude from him. He encouraged me in areas where he’d seen I’d said or suggested something in a casual way that stayed with him. It can be powerful when somebody you respect and admire cheers you on or points out a quality in your work or general shape in the world that you weren’t aware of. They give you the direction to accentuate some sort of limp or speech impediment if it’s working for you. You take heed of advice from players you rate.

Peter had this rare pop sensibility amongst a bunch of people obsessed with post-punk self-righteousness and striving for authenticity. He had his own brew he’d cooked up himself. Like Kim Salmon and James Baker, an original gangster. The French tuned into his work from the get-go and have continued to sustain him. He was always reaching for notes and epic feels that were hard to get. He got it more often than not.

Peter’s lyrics were hard-boiled and his choruses were epic. He found it hard to hold a band together but kept operating under a band name. He would disappear for years and then come back into view with his story darker and deeper. He’d left the Brisbane scene for New York and then left that for Sydney and then London. Paris took him in and eventually he headed back to Sydney. He took risks by just walking away.

He taught me a major seventh chord one day that I ran with perhaps way too much and wrote a hundred songs around. It had an open voicing that made it hypnotic to return my hands to and easy to sing against. E was my note – I made it so. The open strings. You could whomp it. He was either showing me one of his songs or a Walker Brothers tune. He played guitar with us at a couple of Moodists gigs. No bass, just Peter, me, Clare Moore and Steve Miller."

The Apartments have a new album out at the moment  called IN AND OUT OF THE LIGHT and you can access that and all their (his) other work via their homepage

Clare Moore contributed some vibes to this song from the new Apartments album. 


We have some Stage It shows coming up. Melbourne is easing restrictions but I am still shy of shows out in the world and who knowswhen they will be up and running. We will continue our Thursday night 8pm AEST shows each week and our Saturday night (Northern Hemisphere) - Sunday morning shows every forrtnight.

Our next show is Thursday November 26th.

Then its Thursday December 3rd. (Our 50th Stage It gig)

And Saturday night Dec 5th/Sunday morning Dec 6th.

Stay well and safe everybody!

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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