you were deep inside that thought: April 2022

Wednesday, April 6, 2022

Grace Tame Is President - live links

Grace Tame Is President is the new collaboration I did with Plutonic Lab.

Any proceeds will be going to the Grace Tame Foundation.

Its available via Bandcamp.

It will also be available at Apple Music Friday April 8th.

(all other digital portals as well).

I thought I'd collect some recent works from everybody involved.

Plutonic Lab

Jodi Phillis

Penny Ikinger

Anna Smyrk

Lisa Gibbs as part of USER

Edwina Preston singing with Harry Howard and the NDE

Clare Moore and I are playing a live online stream this weekend

Online Show #123

10pm Saturday UK time

5pm Saturday USA EDT

4pm Saturday USA CDT

2pm Saturday USA PDT

7am Sunday Melbourne time

Playing deep cuts from our albums and choice covers from our heroes.

A live streaming set Melbourne Australia. Drums, guitars, vibes, keys, vocals and other instruments when needed from our studio. Every second Sunday morning an 8am show to make it Saturday afternoon and evening in the USA and UK/Europe. Each show is unique and happens in the moment - no chance of watching it back. A small fee to access the site, A 50 minute set.

Ticket link here . It is $US5.00 to access.

We are also launching our album EVERYTHING WAS FUNNY at the Northcote Social Club Sunday May 1st. TICKETS HERE.

May 6th we play in Ballarat at VOLTA.

Everything Was Funny came out in October 2021 and we have worked out how to present it as a duo playing vibes, keys guitars, percussion and also accessing some mellotron sounds via iPad and also some rhythm tracks via a Cymatic audio interface and the shows have been really great new experiences. Very rich array of sounds.

In the meantime we have also continued recording and have more than enough for two new albums at the moment. Looks like the next album is going to be a rocker.

We finally got into a studio with Stu and Stuart to lay down four songs we have started to rehearse around the beginning of 2020. Then you know what happened and we couldn't rehearse let alone record.

The virus is still around and Idge couldn't do the session as his daughter contracted the bug at school so he had to isolate and we did the work with Laura Hanccock at the desk. It was a great experience as we just had the four songs to do which we completed in one day. Everybody really knew the parts and the songs inside out. We even knocked off early.

Funny thing - I picked up my Talman to overdub and the strap failed and it fell perfectly onto the spot where the jack is inserted.

the studio control room at Soundpark.

Clare Moore, Stu Thomas and Stuart Perera doing some vocal overdubs.

With studio engineer Laura.

Idge has a lot of vintage gear. Mics, compressors and reverb units. Thats a Roland Space Echo behind Clare.

In the kitchen at Soundpark. Its been a very mild summer in Melbourne. Meanwhile Sydney has had a years rainfall in 4 monthas and Northern NSW and Southern Qld has flooded twice.

Saturday, April 2, 2022

Grace Tame Is President - collaboration with Plutonic Lab coming soon.

A one off collaboration in homage to 2021 –and forever- Australian Of The Year Grace Tame by songwriter/performer Dave Graney and studio cat/multi instrumentalist Plutonic Lab aka Leigh Ryan. All instruments played by PlutonicLab .

A Ryan-Graney Production.

“Grace Tame is president – in the nations’ brain she’s resident!!” Dave Graney

Clare Moore and I listened to Grace Tame and Brittany Higgins address the National press Club in Canberra February 9^th 2021 and heard them speak truth to the nations power. A stellar cultural political moment for the nation. We were driving the Hume Highway between Melbourne and NSW. When we stopped for the night I opened my laptop and used to Twitter to sent a message to Plutonic Lab saying they should collaborate on a track called Grace Tame Is President. (The title a playful tip to Eric B and Rakims classic Eric B Is President) Plutonic said “yes” straight away and here we are.

I asked some fellow players and singers to come on board with their voices and the finished track includes vocal takes and textures from Jodi Phillis, Jane Dust, Penny Ikinger, Lisa Gibbs, Julie Graney, Edwina Preston and Anna Smyrk.

Any money generated to be donated to the Grace Tame Foundation which is a not-for-profit philanthropic organisation established by the 2021 Australian of the Year, Grace Tame, to campaign for and help fund initiatives which work to prevent and respond to sexual abuse of children and others.

https://www.thegracetamefoundation.org.au/

We had worked with Plutonic in 2007 on a show we did called The Bewdy Of Speed.

The song should be available soon. This week I hope. Via Bandcamp or itunes and other music portals.

I just think Grace Tame has been a beacon of humanity in such bleak times in Australia. The LNP coalition have just been such turds and the stranglehold they have over all the media - including the ABC- has been terrible. This young woman cut through it all. To me she represents an unofficial, authentic Australia that is rarely glimpsed or allowed any play in the public realm. (Mainstream Australia being such a timid, awkward and fearfully obedient culture)The fact she has been such an articulate advocate has been so great. She's angry and powerful but she always hits her targets. GRACE TAME IS PRESIDENT!

The lyrics wrote themselves...

Grace Tame is president

in the nations brain she’s resident

all time all tame all wild no shame

she brings the noise and stings the boys

Grace Tame is President…

no fear

the blue gangs

the carpet strollers

get outta the way!

cos Grace Tame is president

Grace Tame is president

in the nations brain she’s resident

governor general – if you have to

governor general- if you want

but

Grace Tame is president

all time all tame all wild no shame

she brings the noise and stings the boys

Grace Tame is President…

http://www.plutoniclab.com/

https://www.davegraney.com/
https://www.facebook.com/jodiphillismusic
https://www.pennyikinger.com/
https://www.annasmyrk.com/

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... If you are from outside of Australia and wish to purchase a Compact Disc copy of ZIPPA DEEDOO WHAT IS/WAS THAT/THIS? please use this button (different postage)

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

Dave Graney and Clare Moore - In A Mistly

Classic Jewel Case Compact Disc. A rock album. Guitars, drums, bass and vocals. Some vibes and keys –oh and some saxophone. Four songs recorded with the mistLY- i.e. the band with Stu Thomas on bass and Stuart Perera on guitar and eight songs on which Dave Graney and Clare Moore play all instruments. And three songs on which Dave Wray (occasionally Frank Bennett) plays sax. “This is the album we meant to do before Everything Was Funny. Restrictions on movement around Melbourne delayed it, but we kept the songs back that we wanted to play with the mistLY. ”

Dave Graney and Clare Moore - EVERYTHING WAS FUNNY

This is the fifth official album release (out of roughly 30- plus a dozen others) credited to Dave Graney and Clare Moore. Their last studio release was ONE MILLION YEARS DC in 2019. “funny like Warren Beatty funny…” “I liked it-it was funny!” “if there was somethin’ funny goin’ on that’s what I tuned into and took away that was my take away…” A wild and willful yet very focused set of songs. All instruments played by Dave Graney and Clare Moore. Produced by Dave Graney and Clare Moore. “I don’t need a pandemical lockdown to happen to write some songs. Same way I never read any”war poets”. If they need a war to write something it’s not really worth it!” Dave Graney

ONE MILLION YEARS DC

ONE MILLION YEARS DC . This is their second album for 2019, coming hot on the smoking wheels of ZIPPA DEEDOO WHAT IS/WAS THAT/THIS? That was a “band” album - a “mistLY” album and this is an album of songs. The focus was on the eleven songs. ONE MILLION YEARS DC Pop sounds from the end of the world. How is it ending for you? ONE MILLION YEARS DC. A vivid, rich and sparkling collection of songs. Reflective, searching and personal. ___________________________________________________________ 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... If you are from outside of Australia and wish to purchase a Compact Disc album of ZIPPA DEEDOO WHAT IS/WAS THAT/THIS? please click this button.

Discography

Dave Graney and Clare Moore - In A Mistly - 2022-23 album. Dave Graney and Clare Moore - Everything Was Funny - 2022 album.

Dave Graney and the mistLY - 2021 digital album - LYVE AT BYRDS

Dave Graney and ClareMoore 2020 digital album with Georgio "the dove" Valentino and Malcolm Ross.

Dave Graney and ClareMoore 2020 digital album with Robin Casinader - IN CONCERT.

Dave Graney and ClareMoore 2019 album #2 ONE MILLION YEARS DC

Dave Graney and the mistLY 2019 album #1

ZIPPA DEEDOO WHAT IS/WAS THAT/THIS?

DAVE GRANEY AND CLARE MOORE 2017 album LETS GET TIGHT. AT Bandcamp and Itunes.

Harry Howard and the NDE - Sleepless Girls (Spooky 2016)

dave graney - Once I Loved The Torn Ocean's Roar - 80s/90s Demos Vol. 2 - digital only release

dave graney - night of the wolverine demos/early 90s songwriter demos - digital only release

dave graney and the mistLY - play mistLY for me
(2015 digital only release - live collection vol 1)

FEARFUL WIGGINGS (Cockaigne 2014)

Live in Hell (2013 digital only release of follow up narrative show from 2009)

Point Blank (digital only release of 207 narrative show - 2013)

Harry Howard and the NDE (Pretty - Spooky 2013)

The Dames ( Cockaigne 2013)

YOU'VE BEEN IN MY MIND (Cockaigne 2012)

Rock'n'roll is where I hide (Liberation) 2011

Supermodified (Cockaigne) 2010

Knock yourself out (Cockaigne) 2009)

We wuz curious (Illustrious Artists 2008)

Rock Formations (SALMON - Bang! 2007)

Keepin' it Unreal (Cockaigne 2006)

Hashish and Liquor (double disc w/Clare Moore.Reverberation 2005)

The Brother who lived (the Royal Dave Graney Show, Cockaigne 2003)

The soundtrack to the movie Bad Eggs (David Graney and Clare Moore,Liberation,2003)

Two Fisted Art (the Moodists, WMinc, 2003)

Heroic Blues (the Dave Graney Show, Cockaigne 2002)

The Third Woman (Clare Moore solo CD, Chapter Music 2001)

Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye (the Dave Graney Show, Cockaigne / Cooking Vinyl 2000)

The Dave Graney Show (the Dave Graney Show, Festival 1998)

The Devil Drives (Dave Graney 'n' the Coral Snakes, Universal 1997)

The Soft'n'Sexy Sound (Dave Graney 'n' the Coral Snakes, Universal 1995)

You wanna be there but you don't wanna travel (Dave Graney 'n' the Coral Snakes, Universal 1994)

Night of the wolverine (Dave Graney 'n' the Coral Snakes, Universal 1993)

Lure of the tropics (Dave Graney 'n' the Coral Snakes, Torn and Frayed 1992)

I Was the Hunter and I Was the Prey (Dave Graney 'n' the Coral Snakes, Fire 1992)

My life on the plains (Dave Graney 'n' the White Buffaloes, Fire, 1990)

With the Coral Snakes At His Stone Beach (4 Track EP on Fire Records 1988)

Hey Little Gary 4 track EP (TIM Records 1987)

Take The Red Carpet Out Of Town ( 12"EP TIM Records 1986)

Double Life (the Moodists, Red Flame 1985)

Justice and Money Too (EP on Creation 1985)

Thirstys Calling (the Moodists, Red Flame 1984)

Engine Shudder (the Moodists, Au Go Go / Red Flame 1982)

Gone Dead / Chads Car 7" single AuGoGo 1981

Where The Trees Walk Downhill 7" single AuGoGo 1980

you were deep inside that thought

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

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Wednesday, April 6, 2022

Grace Tame Is President - live links

Saturday, April 2, 2022

Grace Tame Is President - collaboration with Plutonic Lab coming soon.

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

ZIPPA DEEDOO WHAT IS/WAS THAT/THIS?

LETS GET TIGHT

FEARFUL WIGGINGS

you've been in my mind

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

Knock yourself (2009)-first ever dg solo set-filthy electro r&b-available via Paypal- $20

We Wuz Curious (2008)-blazing R&B jazz pop album available via paypal-$20

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

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

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