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.

Tuesday, February 21, 2023

WA Dates re-scheduled-Melbourne Canberra and Sydney happening soon.

 We were both testing negative as we headed to Brisbane to hook up with Adele Pickvance who was to play bass with us for a weekend of shows. Sounds easy and it actually turned out that way. Of course, it could have gone pear shaped at any turn and we were probably expecting that. (Nothing to do with Adele, more to do with airlines and trashed gear and hire cars etc). 




 

Adele had played with us from 1998 to 2004 so she knew a lot of our songs. She learned quite a few from the new album and we were able to do two sets. The first show was on the Gold Coast and Dave Wray - who was to play sax - met us at Adele's flat in Brisbane and drove with Clare and some of the gear to the venue. He had driven from Lismore. 



Dave had sang a few songs on our album The Devil Drives back in 1997 but had never got his sax out. We had gone over a few songs via Zoom in the previous week. He had also played on three tracks on the album In A Mistly.

The venue was  in an industrial estate and was totally tooled for rock music. Great gear and facilities. We had plenty of foldback and played a loud couple of sets .

I had never played my songs with a band containing sax before and it felt so good. I felt like Lou Reed in the 70s! It added to the groove and the melodies. Old songs like You're Just Too Hip got a new dimension to them. I loved it. 

 


Dave had learned parts for every song we played. Rhythmic and melodic lines as well as solo parts. Tenor and soprano sax. He is an amazingly energetic character and dazzles with Shakespearean soliloquoys in a  George Formby one moment and then talk of Louis Jordan and Charlie Parker and the Simpsons and Witnail and I the next. He is like Neal Casady must have been, energy itself. 

We stayed on the Gold Coast and then drove to Lennox Heads where we visited friendsand then to Eltham where we played at the hotel. Eltham is basically a cafe, a hotel and some tennis courts. People come from all over the area and we played in an outdoor area for two sets.

Three old time Mt Gambier people were in the audience and it was great catching up after the show.



I was wearing sandals and short sleeved shirts and I was playing my Maton Mastersound guitar.

On Saturday we drove to Murwillumbah and set up to play at the Citadel, a lovely old Salvation Army hall, run as a collective by local people.

We had played there previously but as a duo. As we slammed into the first song a woman in the front row got up loudly to complain that it was far too loud and she had to leave. Dave got upset but I thought we'd just keep on playing as you can't please everybody. It turned out that she was a cousin of a cousin of mine and came up to apologize and said it was better for her to sit outside and listen. A room full of very nice people at this venue. All sorts of ages and a lot of women. Smart people.  

We stayed until it was far too late, talking with people.



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. About 1:30pm.

 

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

Sunday April 2nd we play The Link And Pin  -
18A Railway St, , Woy Woy NSW 2256

 

Our West Australian dates have bee re-scheduled for May.


Lyric's Underground (Maylands, WA)

Friday, 12 May 2023 7:30 PM


Saturday 13 May 2023 7:00 PM - 11:00 PM (UTC+08)

The Vault Restaurant
21 Haynes Street, Kalamunda WA 6076

 

6:00pm, Sun 14 May, 2023

The Duke of George, Fremantle WA


Robert Brokenmouth critiques In A Mistly from within the i94bar rock action web magazine







1 comment:

Anonymous said...

First saw you Dave in Perth in a little bar underneath His Majesty's Theatre. An intimate gig, with tea lights on the tables, which you personally came round and lit. You wore a sky blue safari suit, matching hat and matching Strat. Such a cool guy. Love your work.

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


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