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, February 11, 2024

Creative Creep out today and our album (strangely)(emotional) out April 12th.

 Our single Creative Creep is out today and our album (strangely)(emotional)is out April 12th.

Dave Graney, steel string acoustic guitar, bass, vocals
Clare Moore, keys, bass drum, percussion
Dave Wray, soprano and tenor sax, congas 


Creative Creep started from a two chord guitar lick and I played it to a drum machine rhythm and added ssome bass. It all seemed to hang together as a groove and then Clare put some keys on and Dave Wray added a sax solo and a chorus of sax toward the end. Its the most outwardly directed lyric on the album as the rest is quite  inward and reflective. Quite personal. Strangely. Emotional.

what did Brian Wilsons dad Murry say when he boxed him in the ears?

“I’m a genius too y’know!”

“I’m a genius too y’know!”

creative creep

there’s been some creative creep around here

what are you doin’ here, sir?

you’re supposed to be back there with your beans

creative creep

who are all these people?

who are all these creeps?

this place was cool

used to be

just us

the elite

there were rules

strict club rules

door policies

advertising people

and not like Bewitched

there’s been some creative creep

a lotta creative creep

around here

don’t fence me in and get in too

back off

let me be

let me be a creative creep

back off

let me be

let me be

a creative creep

you’re standin’ too close to the flames

 

 

 I write song lyrics pretty literally and am surprised when people think I am being ironic or not straight. In this song I am saying "let me be a creative creep". I am a  creative creep and like being a creative creep. I'm probably an unreliable person and bad friend or brother or son or basic human being but my focus is often drawn somewhere else, sorry! Creative Creeps are bastards. And in these times there are a lot of people who say they are "creatives". (Theres more creative creep). But the world of a creative gig-economical player is too rough for them so they try to straighten it out and make it a safe place for them. To make it inclusive etc. As the song says, "BACK OFF!"



cover image by Tony Mahony. Album to be released April 12th 2024. Click the image to pre-order

On the following shows we will be accompanied by Greg Thorsby on bass. 

Thursday Feb 22nd Dave Graney and Clare Moore play Smiths Alternative, Canberra, ACT.

Friday Feb 23rd Dave Graney and Clare Moore play Resin Brewing, Bulli, NSW.

Saturday Feb 24th Dave Graney and Clare Moore play THE GREAT CLUB, Marrickville, NSW

 

In Melbourne we will be playing two sets with the mistLY- Stu Thomas and Stuart Perera. 

Saturday AFTERNOON March 2nd The Northcote Social Club, Melbourne

 
 
 




1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Facken great song as usual. Very soothing non-specific visual content

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...
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)

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