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.

Thursday, January 4, 2024

Hello Two Oh Two Four

 Sitting here in Melbourne with the door open out to our back garden. (Though we are no gardeners- its a collection of ferntrees and succulents which all look after themselves) The world in turmoil and more trouble every day. Wow. Like everybody, pretty stunned by the warmongers in Palestine and the Ukraine. Embarassed by our government for their subservient military ties with the USA.

We have been in Adelaide for a week helping out as much as we can with my older brother going through some health issues. Christmas and New Year is a tough time to get attended to but the health workers were all great. The operation went well and Steve is in much better shape than when he went in.

We were intending to spend the festive season in Sydney but Adelaide needed us to be there so thats where we headed

Other than time at the hospital we sat with Clares brother Patrick and watched about twenty episodes of THE BOX, an Australian tv series from 1973. Totally addictive. Not available to stream anywhere, only via DVDs which Patrick sources from the company who made it, Crawfords. 

The week before we left Clare Moore and I went to SOUNDPARK studios to put down about ten songs for a projected album. We did drums, bass and guitars. I just needed to get the ideas down and it turned out to be fortuitous as its our favourite studio and its going to be moving in a months time. 


 Pictured is John Olson (who did the Tony Cohen book) in the control room at Soundpark. 




Around that time we also had a loose jam/rehearsal with Stuart Perera out on the far eastern side of town where we all live. 

Stu Thomas was busy at the time playing shows with THE SILVERSOUND and getting his Lee Heazlewood show together. 

Also, around this time Clare and I realized we actually had a 15 song album ready (as distinct from the songs we recorded at Soundpark) for release in 2024 so we finished mixing and editing it and got it mastered by Plutonic Lab

It's to be called (strangely) (emotional) and will be released on a classic Compact Disc format. Its an epic collection of songs with everything played by us as well as sax by Dave Wray, pedal steel by Shane Reilly, extra vocals by Will Hindmarsh and Emily Jarrett and harp by Genevieve Fry from Cold Hands Warm Hearts. 

CHWH are one of our favourite bands and they released a brilliant album called Luxury Bat in November. They are a very committed group of people who run their own label and put on their own shows in their arts space at Eastmint, politically committed. Genevieve was at the Arts Centre the day Clare was interviewed with Margret Roadknight for the Always Live Program. Genevieve had played earlier that day and had ridden in on her bike with her harp on a  trailer on the back.



Margret Roadknight and Clare Moore at the Arts Centre.

Clare Moore holding her award for a Lifetime Achievement which she was given by the Australian Women In Music Awards in November LAST year.

We also played a couple of shows in support for the VOICE TO PARLIAMENT REFERENDUM for Indigenous Australians which was sadly defeated by the right wing parties and media in Australia just to flex their negative power and stir up another battlefront in the endless culture wars. These shows were myself, Clare Moore and Catherine McQuade on bass. I wrote a song with Cathy this year and she will be releasing it soon, along with a deluxe film clip made by her partner Brendan Young. The song is called You Came To Me In A Dream and it is super pop! Madly super pop. 

Cathy mixed a track for our forthcoming album as well. She also played bass on it. 

I wore my denim slouch hat for the shows. 
 
Clare Moore and I will be releasing a  single in February and the album in April. (strangely) (emotional)
 
We will be announcing some shows soon. The album will be difficult to play as its a real song based collection, very much studio focussed as opposed to a band sound. On the other hand it is often a very sparse sound with acoustic guitars and vocals dominating. It'll be a challenge and will be so different after such a joyously retrospective 2023. Hopefully we will do an occasional show with Dave Graney and The Coral Snakes. We will see what comes up. 


More, anon...




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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