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.

Wednesday, February 28, 2024

Live shows (strangely)(emotional) happening all of a sudden. Saturday March 2nd Northcote Social Club

 We are playing a show Saturday March 2nd AFTERNOON SHOW
Northcote Social Club, https://tickets.northcotesocialclub.com/outlet/event/0649b86e-f550-45bd-8066-1e8bbd9e81ca

Doors are at 1pm and we will be playing two sets, previewing some material from (strangely)(emotional). We will be playing with the mistLY, Stu Thomas on bass and Stuart Perera on guitar. 

 

We rarely play in Melbourne, perhaps twice a year. Our last gig with the mistLY in the city we live in would have been in 2022.

Last year was all retrospective with our 18 date national tour by Dave Graney and the Coral Snakes. Now we have a new album to come out and another already in the works.
We will be previewing tracks from (strangely)(emotional) as well as playing some songs from our last album of new material, IN A MISTLY which came out in November 2022. One of our best collections of songs and performances in our career. 

Yes all of a sudden we are back into doing some long drives and playing. Clare Moore and I got into the van and played in Canberra, Bulli (near Wollongong) and Sydney, accompanied by Sydney based guitar player Greg Thorsby on bass who we had a zoom session with the week before we filled the van and drove off.

Clare's brother Dennis, who is an actor once told me that embarking on a new creative project, performance or release is called a "leap into the void" and that it gets harder and harder as you get older. Thats just by the by. I find the writing and recording easy. The tech is eating away at all kinds of ways that people earn a living and create intellectual or artistic property that has - until recentlly - been able to hold some sort of value so I cant really moan about that. Everybody is being shook/disrupted by the tech. 

photo clare moore
 

We stayed in the beautiful town of Gundagfai on the way to Canberra and I bought two pairs of RM WILLIAMS boots in an op shop for $40. I am told these retail for up to $650 nowadays. I have a pair I bought in 1994 already so they do last.


 

We rehearsed with Greg at the hotel. It was a Thursday night show. We had a lot of tech for Clare to plug in as she was playing keys as well as drums and also using our Cymatic rhythm machine.

photo clare moore


 We assumed we could rehearse more at soundcheck but the show before us went over by an hour. A tedious 20 year old George Formby impersonator running  a cabaret variety show which was really more of an open mic night. We pretty much set up and played and there were a few tech problems but we made show. The hotel overlooked Lake Burley Griffin and had great views of Parliament House at night.

photo greg thorsby

 

photo clare moore


The next day we drove to Bulli, listening to warnings of torrential rain and cyclonic winds. Its a climb over a high hill and down steep winding roads to the sea. We drove up and I scraped our van against a stone planters box outside the venue. The rain came in sheets off of the sea and whipped all across the outdoor stage. The show was called off twice as the rain came and went but the people stayed so we set up on the floor and did two sets with no mics on the drums and me singing through a foldback wedge. No soundcheck rehearsal again.


 

We drove back over the hill towards Sydney around midnight in complete white out fog at about 30ks an hour around mad bending corners with hazard lights on in the car. We got to Sydney and unloaded the gear and slept. 

The next afternoon , we loaded into THE GREAT which is a club in Marrickville. A suburb of Sydneys inner west over which the international jet planes fly so low that the idea of making a noise complaint about music is ridiculous - because the ambient noise of the area is LOUD. (Still, the venue has been fighting just such a  complaint from one neighbour for a  couple of years). 


My third cousin AVA came to say hello.(Or am I her Great Uncle? I was at the GREAT I guess...) Avas' mother Kristyn did the amazing cover shot for EVERYTHING WAS FUNNY at their house in Dismal Swamp, SA.



Road warlord Henry Brister was working at the Great so it all went smoothly in setup. We felt as if we'd been on tour for a month already. We did a fantastic show. A power trio. Greg played brilliantly and I got such a tremendously pleasing sound from my guitars and amp. The show was full of freshness and improvised moments. Thank you so much Greg! What a  mensch!





We had played with Greg Thorsby a few times before in the past but he had played guitar with us for those shows. We had first met him when he played in the Atlas Strings who did some gigs opening for Dave Graney and The Coral Snakes in the mid 90s. He is playing guitar on the left in this clip. RIP to singer and songwriter Ben Mullins.

During that tour we were in Sydney and our guitarist Rod Haywards father died suddenly and he had to go deal with that. It must have been1995. We were in the midst of a run of album release dates and media calls and we were never the types to cancel anything so Greg did this tv show of Andrew Dentons with us. (Sorry Rod)



CREATIVE CREEP First single from the epic 2024 album (strangely)(emotional) which is to be released on classic jewel case Compact Disc in April. Touring near you, soon.

Saturday March 2nd AFTERNOON SHOW
Northcote Social Club, https://tickets.northcotesocialclub.com/outlet/event/0649b86e-f550-45bd-8066-1e8bbd9e81ca

Shows coming up in WA in May as well as NSW and Qld.


photo - Clare Moore




 

 

2 comments:

richard said...

had a ball at the Northcote launch - new songs sound GREAT and the In A Mistly stuff just soared, absolutely took off. (hard agree, that lp is a dead set classic, you've made more than a few but it's up there with We Wuz and The DGS - rarefied!)
Killer combo, wonderful to hear and see you cut loose on the extended outros and Stu P! - christ he goes hard at the guitar. in the words of a great man you can't touch this.
love ya love ya love ya

dave graney said...

Thank you Richard! Yes Stuart is an incredible player. Been with us since 1998. And such a nice guy as well. Thanks for your kind words about that album. I think its one of our best, too.

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