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.

Sunday, January 30, 2022

Hello 2022

 Hello 2022. Have I got the year right? Time is all scmmozzled up or something. Fast and slow, then dead slow and then all slippery and getting away from you. 

Clare Moore and I had released our album Everything Was Funny and were doing online shows and videos and anything we could to get the word out. Us being actual Outsider Artists you know.  We filmed a performance for an online music show called Muuzostream that was such high quality. It should be shown some time in February or March. 



We had also started work on a new album - for 2022 release -  and once again it was just the two of us as it was too hard  for many logistical reasons to get together to rehearse with Stu and Stuart from the mistLY and to get time in our favourite studio, Soundpark. So Clare and I laid down guitar, bass and drums and keys for about nine tracks. We also had about the same number already  in progress in our own studio. Its sounding great! Hopefully another session with the mistLY to get down four specific rock'n'roll songs that need all that oomph from a band. 

Idge went fully crazy on the bass drum mics...





The pandemic, thats the thing. Just six months ago we were all locked up in Melbourne and the business groups and federal politicians were screaming about "opening up" and insisting on a  timeline for doing that. Then they got all that - mostly courtesy of the State of NSW and their then leader (who had to quit due to some pesky corruption allegations) opening up restrictions all through the state and then opening travel to the other states and things yeah, just slipped away from all the public health officials and the QR codes and the contact tracing and all that stuff was soon forgotten. Last years things.

 
 

We did a show in Victoria that was quite nice - outside and well organized and then headed into the end of one year with an eye on shows in a new year and it all seemed quite reasonable. But the cases kept rising - though we were now being told not to look at that. And the deaths started to rise - but we were advised that was always going to happen. And today the schools are opening again. Its a New Normal the Liberals keep telling us, but they are such liars you wouldn't believe anything coming from them. 

We drove to South Australia in December, stopping in the town of Penola to visit our favourite vintage shop. Jills Vintage.   


We spent a few weeks by the beach in Adelaide, swimming in the day and watching 70s Australian tv soaps like The BOX and SONS AND DAUGHTERS and THE YOUNG DOCTORS at night with Clares brother Patrick who collects all these otherwise mostly unobtainable shows on DVD from the original production companies.

To get into South Australia we had to have proof of vaccination and also  proof of a negative Covid test within the last three days and then we had to line up for another one the day after we crossed the border. We did this in Mount Gambier and after being in a queue of cars for two hours and looking at another several hours in the same spot, we heard that they were dropping this regulation as the pathology labs in three states were being overwhelmed. We drove out from the queue and continued on our way. 

We came back through Mt Gambier on our way back to Melbourne as I wanted to visit the farmhouse where my mother had grown up along with her eight brothers and sisters . A helpful friend from Social Media sent some directions to the farm and also got in touch with the couple who were living on the property now and they allowed us to come and have a look. 

First we went to visit a tiny abandoned school house nearby where my Grandfather used to be a teacher. Stewarts Range School. The school had about 16 kids at most and the majority would have been his own kids. They travelled to and from the school during the war years (WW2) in a horse and buggy. 



It was quite eerie. Just an old tin building at the end of a dirt road outside Naracoorte, the only building nearby being a CFA shed at a nearby crossroads.
 
We drove onto the house and the lovely couple who are going to renovate it let us walk through the old house. I stayed here once or twice when I was a kid and it was quite magical in many ways. It had an old train carriage out in a paddock which was where the chickens lived but I had to get past a nasty Billy Goat to get there. The carriage was long gone. The surrounding countryside is quite classically Australian. A large lake area called Lake Ormerod just beside the house. The lake was dry of course.
 
 







It was quite an experience for me walking around the place. 

We stayed in Naracoorte for the night and went for a swim at the beautiful swimming lake. 

We then drove back to Melbourne and have been housebound for most of this month as - like everybody - we tried to work out what was real and what wasn't in regard to the ongoing pandemic. Its been like that for two years now. Personally I can't make a switch to a "New Normal" that easily.  

We had a run of shows booked and some of the venues have fallen over and some have had to change a little. 

We are going to do shows but I have to say I don't feel right in being a voice out there saying "come along to my shows". I don't want to be another voice saying "its all normal now". So we are doing shows - yes. But...

 We are making sure all the venues are serious about Covid arrangements and that they are outside if possible. People should wear masks and be triple vaccinated.

Friday 11 February 2022 Dust Temple

Currumbin, QLD

 

 

Saturday 12 February 2022 The Citadel
Murwillumbah, NSW

 

Sunday 13 February 2022 The Eltham Hotel Nsw
Eltham, NSW

 

Saturday 19 February 2022 Grand Ballroom, Palais Royale
Katoomba, NSW

 

Sunday 20 February 2022 Smith's Alternative
Canberra, ACT

 

Sunday 27 February 2022 Northcote Social Club
Northcote, VIC

 

Friday 01 April 2022 The Barwon Club Hotel
Geelong, VIC

 

Friday 22 April 2022 Volta Arts & Culture
Ballarat, VIC

 

 In regard to time - here are some other photos .

Wearing my East Gambier lace up jumper my mother Philomena made for me. 

 


 Marist Brothers High- grade four or five. I left the  Catholic school world and went to a state school for Grade 7 and then to High School. Thank God. There were places of punishment more than education. The fellow to my left is the Liberal Treasurer for South Australia in the current state government. Usual penny pinching privatizing punisher. These are all the kids who were top of the class. It wasn't hard as there were no girls at the school.

 

 


While in Mt Gambier I asked my brother Sean about things to do and he suggested a drive to the wetlands known as Picanninnie Ponds. I had never been to this beautiful area before. Freshwater ponds right next to the sea. There are huge underground caves that people go diving in. The sound of frogs in this place was terrific!








 


3 comments:

Unknown said...

Would you mind saying which kid you are in the pictures? I'm not very good at determining that. Nice blog!

dave graney said...

Hi, in the footbaall photo I am the kid far left. In teh school photo I am sitting on the arm of a chair, wearing shorts and smiling obediently.

Unknown said...

That was fun, wandering around with you and Clare on your wanderings. An unexpected holiday. XJ

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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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


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Single album HASHISH available as a digital release

Heroic Blues- "folk soul" set from 2002-Availableas a digital album via BandCamp


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It is written,baby-book released 1997- available $10 via paypal