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, March 19, 2023

In A Mistly Launches happening and starting this week in Melbourne

 

 

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. This is a very rare Melbourne show for us and we will be playing with the mistLY. Stu Thomas on bass and Stuart Perera on guitar with Clare Moore on drums and myself on guitar and vocals.


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 been re-scheduled for May. Martyn Casey will be playing bass with us at these shows.


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

 

Its been a weirder time than usual being a musician and songwriter. (Which is what I see myself as having done with my life).

So many tours have come out of the blocks like a pipe that had been blocked for several years being backed up with sludge and then spewing it all out. The Victorian state government helping struggling artists like Billy Joel and Elton John to fill stadiums by sponsoring tours. (Allegedly)

We released In A Mistly in Nov 2022 and are just now playing launches for it. The music has been great to record and then to play. Playing with different musicians has been a really enriching and energizing experience too. 

The album has been written up by some supporters in music media situations or roles from the UK and Australia. Thanks Bob, Chris, Noel, Arun, Arnold, Robert and everybody who has supported us so far. You know you are right!

Its been tough otherwise but as ConwaySavage was always wont to say, "whoever said playing music was an easy ride?"  (Or words to that effect)  I can't take any of this personally as I am aware the machine is broken and has been for decades.

Jeff Jenkins is  an old school entertainment writer from Melbourne who takes his position seriously and cares about people and thinks about the whole scene. He wrote a story about mainstream media's treatment of music in Australia.

 Nevertheless, In A Mistly is a great album and is up there with the high standard we have kept maintaining for decades now.  Humming! We return to form every time!


 

Out of the blue we found we were Classic Album Of The Week this very week on Double J FM which is a digital platform for people who like music but presumably fall outside of the tight teen demographic which the main FM music station, JJJ is concerned with.

Caroline Tran did and interview with Clare Moore and myself which is up on their page. We talked about the experience around the making of the record and several songs. It was nice to chat about our work and all week people have been in touch via social media in regard to this album. It has been very positive.We have been planning to do some shows around that album in July and will announce them when they are all set. That run of dates will be by Dave Graney and the Coral Snakes. Rod Hayward on guitar and Robin Casinader on keys. 

 


Looking forward to playing these shows. We have had some intensive rehearsals and I've just been working on my guitar setup and looking into my wardobe. (I had to throw some stuff out in order to be able to peer into it)

I've also been writing and recording quite a lot but am in several minds about what to do with recorded music at all. 

The situation is so odd with digital recording freeing musicians from having to work with record companies to acess their capital but then digital platforms like Spotify devaluing music almost totally. Then there is the strange re-emergence of vinyl records as physical artefacts but they are so expensive to make that you need a record company so as to access their capital to do so. Huh?

I like Compact Discs. I play them in my house and in my car. I have thousands of old vinyl records but never buy anything new. Its too peverse for me. Its like craft beer to me. Superfluous stuff. Weird.

I sometimes think I would like to just release music digitally only and will probably head more in that direction.

I love to perform music live most of all and will continue to do that. Hopefully this will be the last of an album tour kind of cycle. There has to be a more interesting way. Generally, I love surprises in music. Presenting new things. Probably playing music that is unrecorded - or unreleased- would be the best. 

I am also aware that I live and work in Australia.

 

Currently reading ADA by Nabokov. ( Could be affecting my state of mind)

Recently finished The Sweetest Dream by Doris Lessing and The Big Whatever by Peter Doyle. 

Currently watching episodes of the Canadian comedy LETTERKENNY.



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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