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, February 13, 2023

I answered some questions about shows I'd seen here and there...

 

 


 

1. First concert - The Masters Apprentices Kings Theatre Mt Gambier 1970. (I was an actual kid)

 
2. Last concert - Unsure. Might have been a Tex Perkins and Matt Walker gig. Or Bob Downe. All were excellent. (I'm in the middleof a lot of touring - see below) 

 
3. Worst concert – seen loads of bad shows. Probably something Jon Spencer was doing. 

 
4. Loudest concert - The Other Side at the Marryatville in Adelaide 79 or 1980. But I liked them and everything Rob Younger does. A great guy. The Flaming Lips at the Palace were loud but they seemed to be all about distracting from their essential emptiness anyway. It didn't work. Probably the loudest I've experienced as a player is a couple of nights playing bass with Harry Howard and Edwina  Preston and that was just their raw, powerful singing. It was like being in a fire one night on Smith street. I tried to lie down to get under the sound but there was no escape...

5. Best Concert - again - there have been many... I loved seeing Arthur Lee and Love at the Corner after he got out of gaol and I'd seen him at the Sir George Robey in London just before he went in. Johnny Cash and Glenn Campbell with orchestra at the Albert Hall ( and we were sitting and drinking in a private box a friend had for the night) , Mark Stewart and The Maffia wiping the floor with the Swans in London 1987. The Pop Group in Edinburgh 2016 or so. Every gig I saw of the Boys next Door and then the Birthday Party tours when they were back recording Prayers On Fire and Junkyard. Every gig I've seen Tav Falco do. One of my favourite nights was seeing The Mike Flowers Pops play two sets in a theatre club in London. They were like a crazy big band and did versions of film themes like Cool Hand Luke as well as tv themes and irrreverent swings through pompous hard rock classics. In 1996 we were in London and I saw The Divine Comedy on morning tv and they mentioned a gig they were doing that night so we went along to the then rarely used St Pancras Hall to see them launch their genius album CASANOVA. Neil Hannon was fearless, yet bookish and totally confident yet distant. Perfect.

 


 
I saw Jimi Tenor play solo a few years ago in Melbourne and he was great. Always is. One of my fave shows was at the Basement in Sydney in 1998. He had an all female band. Drums, bass and trumpet I think. He played organ and sax. Every A&R guy in Australia was there to see the opening act who were the Avalanches. They were still an instrumental trio ( I mean drums and bass and keys or guitars - no samples involved) and acted up for the occasion. Like an audition. Jimi was brilliant. Always love seeing Matt Walker play and hope to see Margret Roadknight again (even though she says she is retiring) . Greg Walker aka machine Translations was the first person I ever saw using a loop pedal and he did it best because he had such great songs. Always love to see what he is doing. In recent years it has been the venues that acts have chosen that has really inspired the occasion for me. the whole Eastmint Crew and their under the radar art factory with the brilliant On Diamond and Cold Hands Warm Heart. I also saw Leah Senior do a great show there. The Go Betweeens were great in the early 80s in Melbourne and when we all went down to Frankston to play in a hall, fully expecting to die- that was - as the late Chris Farley would have said - awesome! Loved seeing the Cruel Sea dozens of times at different stages in their career- always such a wonderful unit. The Beasts Of Bourbon I saw very early and very late and probably the most human glimpse of them was in London in 1987 or 88 and I'd been away from Australia for a few years. Theyd been in Europeand were doing a London gig for the hell of it at the Borderline in the West End . Black Milk was the album and I think Spencer and Kim both has plaster on their arms or wrists. It was amazing to see what a unit they had become (seeing as they started out as something like an accident or a bunch of opportunities- less than serious anyway) .
Always love seeing Jodi Phillis in whatever she does too. 

 
Steely Dan at Rod Laver Arena with Steve Winwood opening (playing a lot of Traffic stuff) was superb.
 

In the early 2000s Melbourne we used to go see a band called ROOM 101 who were a jazz big band who only played Charles Mingus, that was also always great.

 
6. Seen the most – probably either Boys Next Door/Birthday Party/Cave/Bad Seeds or The Cruel Sea ( we did two long tours together) 

 
7. Most surprisingBilly Bragg. I was just impressed by how good he was at playing, projecting and presenting and he held your interest for a whole concert. With just an elecctric guitar- no pedals (especially no loop pedal)

 
8. Happy I got to SeeRoky Erikson who had been a strangely influential person on me. Just for his language in his songs more than anything. We were invited by Stewart Lee to play at the last All Tomorrows Parties event and it had a lot of underground heroes on it. Sun Ra Arkestra, Shirley Collins CTMF (!) Roky Erikson, The Raincoats, the Fall, The Nightingales, The Ex, (John Cale pulled out) . 

Also glad I got to see James Chance play, and Tim Rose. And Alan Vega in Lausanne , Swizterland in 1990. And David Johansen and Syl Sylvain in Melbourne in 2011. ( Its not my thing but I had to go and say hi to both Alan and David as they'd both been such big influences).

 
9. Wish I could have seen - The Steve Miller Band, Allman Brothers Band, Grant Green, Wes Montgomery, Davey Graham, The Stones with Jones, Miles Davis at any period, Charlie Parker in a club, Richard Hell And The Voidoids. Wynonie Harris, Bo Diddley. Elvis Presley, Tim Buckley. Lord Buckley.

10. Still need to see - Paul Westerberg.  


 

 

 

Tomorrow we fly to Queensland and hook up with Adele Pickvance who will play bass with us and Dave Wray aka Frank Bennett who will play sax  at these venues...

Thursday February 16th we play at Mos Desert Clubhouse in Burleigh Heads.

Friday February 17th at the Hotel Eltham in Eltham (Lismore).

Saturday February 18th we play the Citadel in Murwillumbah.

We are endeavouring to play music from In A Mistly at these shows so we need to make some rock action and drama with bass, drums and guitar. We will be playing other material from our back catalogue as well.

On Saturday afternoon February 25th Clare Moore and I play an opening set for Dog Trumpet at the Northcote Social Club. We will be on quite early.

 

Thursday March 23rd we play our Melbourne In A Mistly album launch at the Nightcat in Johnston st Fitzroy.  We played every Wednesday night in 1999 at 8pm at this venue in one of the first things we did in our post Coral Snakes period. Mick Medew and Ursula will be coming down from Brisbane to open the show as a way to launch their album Love Is Calling in Melbourne as well. 

Friday March 31st we play Smiths in Canberra.

Saturday April 1st we launch In A Mistly in Sydney at the Great Club in Marrickville

 

 

 

 

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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