you were deep inside that thought: Qld NSW and Melbourne recap now we play Victorian shows.

We have been playing two sets at all of these shows we have been doing. A lot of songs from (strangely)(emotional) and a lot of songs from other albums. Thanks to everybody who has been coming along. Also thanks to our agent Steve Griffiths for finding interesting venues for us to play in. Its been really challenging for us to work out how to play some of the songs and then also to present it all to people. An enjoyable challenge. But thats what we think musicians and songwriters and performers should do. They should keep on bringing stuff out from within themselves and then chuck it out into the world. They should stand by what they do as well as what they have done in the past and see how it all stacks up as a piece.

Clare and I flew up to Brisbane from a very cold and wintry Melbourne. We decided to go for a streetwear look for these dates.

We met up with Adele Pickvance who was going to play bass with us and the first gig was on a Thursday night at The Bearded Lady in the West End of Brisbane. This was a pretty regular rock'n'roll type room. The young sound guy was so 2024. By that I mean he was very attentive and helpful as well as very sensitive and skilful. He really took care to stop and listen and make eye contact with whomever he was talking. Nothing was a problem. A really good backline was provided and I played through a Roland amp. I love them! I had decided to use my Ibanez Talman guitar only (as opposed to carrying two through the airport) as it was really good for quickly changing tuning as well as having a lot of variation to the tone with the two Gretsch Filtertron pickups. Unfortunately the case was not hard plastic and there were signs of it having been tossed about by the baggage handlers as all the latches on it were bent. (Baggage handlers seem to take pride in damaging music gear). This was a pretty raucous show, though we began with the delicate guitar and keys songs from (strangely)(emotional). My oldest friend David Edwards was in attendance as well as Federal MP Graham Perrett, Mick Medew and Ursula and Pascalle and Ian from The Stress Of Leisure. We loaded out into a strangely empty and misty street.

pic by Gawain Barker

pic by Pascalle Burton

Friday 31st May the Majestic Theatre, Pomona Qld

On the next day, Friday, we travelled to the Sunshine Coast in Adeles car to play the Majestic Theatre in Pomona. A community run venue. It was raining steadily for most of the day but it wasn't cold at all.

This venue deserves a lot of pictorial coverage here.

pic by Adele Pickvance

This lovely theatre was all run by volunteers and they have silent movie screenings every week. A gem of a venue. You could hear a pin drop during the quiet songs.

Saturday 1st June Eltham Hotel, Eltham , Northern NSW

Eltham hotel on Saturday was a cool couple of sets in a sheltered outdoor area with soft rain falling on the roof. Good to see Dave Wray (who has played a lot of sax on our two most recent albums) and Andy and Dave Brown from Mt Gambier party scene days. Derek Bovill had helped out with sound and backline for the Pomona show and he was with us for these three dates. He brought a Fender Deluxe Reverb amp for me. I love those amps!

This venue is unfortunately having to fight in the courts to stay open due to one neighbour complaining. There are 30 houses which are much closer to the hotel than the litigant who are all happy to have a well run social and musical hub in their midst but thats all it takes. I hope the hotel is allowed to continue. We stayed the night in the fantastic upstairs rooms (no tv) and then breakfasted and drove to the Gold Coast.

Sunday 2nd June Tom Atkin Hall, Tugun, QLD

Sunday afternoon we played Tom Atkin Hall in Tugun on the Gold Coast. Wonderful community run venue. BYO alcohol and food! We brought a PA in thanks to @dungeondungeon and Bobs yer uncle! Two sets from 3pm. Bring on more BYO gigs! Thanks to all who came to gigs in Qld and Northern NSW and special thanks to Adele Pickvance and Derek Bovill! You made it so easy.

We drove back to Brisbane after the show and then caught a plane to Melbourne in the morning.
We had last played with Stuart Perera on guitar and Stu Thomas in February at the single launch for Creative Creep at Northcote Social Club. We had a rehearsal at Pony Music in Hallam on the Wednesday afternoon.

Stu Thomas and Clare Moore

Stuart Perera and Stu Thomas

Saturday 8th June Kindred Bandroom, Yarraville, Vic

With Stu and Stuart we are able to do more songs from our 2022 album In A Mistly. Two guitars , bass and drums and lots of vocals.

Kindred is a venue on the west side of Melbourne where there has been little music activity over the years even though many musicians live there.

Thats a problem as it takes people an age and then another age to know where a venue is. Its hard enough for us to connect with people in Melbourne in the best of times. In the end, they found us and we had a fantastic night. Again, playing two sets of music.

Kindred is all new. No sticky carpet, no smells, no graffitti in the band room area. The young sound engineer was as skilled and as sensitive to anybodys needs as the one in Brisbane and indeed as Drek Bovill for our other shows. He worked hard and took care of all the business. I played through my Vox amp head with Fender speaker box and Clare used her own kit. I wore a light blue suit with white t shirt and my Adidas Gazelles. I was going for a Phil Collins at Live Aid look, though I forgot to roll my sleeves up enough. .

pic Clare Moore

Pic Henry Manetta

Pic Wendy Catling

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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... 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)

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

Dave Graney and Clare Moore - In A Mistly

Classic Jewel Case Compact Disc. A rock album. Guitars, drums, bass and vocals. Some vibes and keys –oh and some saxophone. Four songs recorded with the mistLY- i.e. the band with Stu Thomas on bass and Stuart Perera on guitar and eight songs on which Dave Graney and Clare Moore play all instruments. And three songs on which Dave Wray (occasionally Frank Bennett) plays sax. “This is the album we meant to do before Everything Was Funny. Restrictions on movement around Melbourne delayed it, but we kept the songs back that we wanted to play with the mistLY. ”

Dave Graney and Clare Moore - EVERYTHING WAS FUNNY

This is the fifth official album release (out of roughly 30- plus a dozen others) credited to Dave Graney and Clare Moore. Their last studio release was ONE MILLION YEARS DC in 2019. “funny like Warren Beatty funny…” “I liked it-it was funny!” “if there was somethin’ funny goin’ on that’s what I tuned into and took away that was my take away…” A wild and willful yet very focused set of songs. All instruments played by Dave Graney and Clare Moore. Produced by Dave Graney and Clare Moore. “I don’t need a pandemical lockdown to happen to write some songs. Same way I never read any”war poets”. If they need a war to write something it’s not really worth it!” Dave Graney

ONE MILLION YEARS DC

ONE MILLION YEARS DC . This is their second album for 2019, coming hot on the smoking wheels of ZIPPA DEEDOO WHAT IS/WAS THAT/THIS? That was a “band” album - a “mistLY” album and this is an album of songs. The focus was on the eleven songs. ONE MILLION YEARS DC Pop sounds from the end of the world. How is it ending for you? ONE MILLION YEARS DC. A vivid, rich and sparkling collection of songs. Reflective, searching and personal. ___________________________________________________________ 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 album of ZIPPA DEEDOO WHAT IS/WAS THAT/THIS? please click this button.

Discography

Dave Graney and Clare Moore - In A Mistly - 2022-23 album. Dave Graney and Clare Moore - Everything Was Funny - 2022 album.

Dave Graney and the mistLY - 2021 digital album - LYVE AT BYRDS

Dave Graney and ClareMoore 2020 digital album with Georgio "the dove" Valentino and Malcolm Ross.

Dave Graney and ClareMoore 2020 digital album with Robin Casinader - IN CONCERT.

Dave Graney and ClareMoore 2019 album #2 ONE MILLION YEARS DC

Dave Graney and the mistLY 2019 album #1

ZIPPA DEEDOO WHAT IS/WAS THAT/THIS?

DAVE GRANEY AND CLARE MOORE 2017 album LETS GET TIGHT. AT Bandcamp and Itunes.

Harry Howard and the NDE - Sleepless Girls (Spooky 2016)

dave graney - Once I Loved The Torn Ocean's Roar - 80s/90s Demos Vol. 2 - digital only release

dave graney - night of the wolverine demos/early 90s songwriter demos - digital only release

dave graney and the mistLY - play mistLY for me
(2015 digital only release - live collection vol 1)

FEARFUL WIGGINGS (Cockaigne 2014)

Live in Hell (2013 digital only release of follow up narrative show from 2009)

Point Blank (digital only release of 207 narrative show - 2013)

Harry Howard and the NDE (Pretty - Spooky 2013)

The Dames ( Cockaigne 2013)

YOU'VE BEEN IN MY MIND (Cockaigne 2012)

Rock'n'roll is where I hide (Liberation) 2011

Supermodified (Cockaigne) 2010

Knock yourself out (Cockaigne) 2009)

We wuz curious (Illustrious Artists 2008)

Rock Formations (SALMON - Bang! 2007)

Keepin' it Unreal (Cockaigne 2006)

Hashish and Liquor (double disc w/Clare Moore.Reverberation 2005)

The Brother who lived (the Royal Dave Graney Show, Cockaigne 2003)

The soundtrack to the movie Bad Eggs (David Graney and Clare Moore,Liberation,2003)

Two Fisted Art (the Moodists, WMinc, 2003)

Heroic Blues (the Dave Graney Show, Cockaigne 2002)

The Third Woman (Clare Moore solo CD, Chapter Music 2001)

Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye (the Dave Graney Show, Cockaigne / Cooking Vinyl 2000)

The Dave Graney Show (the Dave Graney Show, Festival 1998)

The Devil Drives (Dave Graney 'n' the Coral Snakes, Universal 1997)

The Soft'n'Sexy Sound (Dave Graney 'n' the Coral Snakes, Universal 1995)

You wanna be there but you don't wanna travel (Dave Graney 'n' the Coral Snakes, Universal 1994)

Night of the wolverine (Dave Graney 'n' the Coral Snakes, Universal 1993)

Lure of the tropics (Dave Graney 'n' the Coral Snakes, Torn and Frayed 1992)

I Was the Hunter and I Was the Prey (Dave Graney 'n' the Coral Snakes, Fire 1992)

My life on the plains (Dave Graney 'n' the White Buffaloes, Fire, 1990)

With the Coral Snakes At His Stone Beach (4 Track EP on Fire Records 1988)

Hey Little Gary 4 track EP (TIM Records 1987)

Take The Red Carpet Out Of Town ( 12"EP TIM Records 1986)

Double Life (the Moodists, Red Flame 1985)

Justice and Money Too (EP on Creation 1985)

Thirstys Calling (the Moodists, Red Flame 1984)

Engine Shudder (the Moodists, Au Go Go / Red Flame 1982)

Gone Dead / Chads Car 7" single AuGoGo 1981

Where The Trees Walk Downhill 7" single AuGoGo 1980

you were deep inside that thought

dave graney - Moodists-Coral Snakes-mistLY-FEARFUL WIGGINGS

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Qld NSW and Melbourne recap now we play Victorian shows.

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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

ZIPPA DEEDOO WHAT IS/WAS THAT/THIS?

LETS GET TIGHT

FEARFUL WIGGINGS

you've been in my mind

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

Knock yourself (2009)-first ever dg solo set-filthy electro r&b-available via Paypal- $20

We Wuz Curious (2008)-blazing R&B jazz pop album available via paypal-$20

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

Heroic Blues- "folk soul" set from 2002-Availableas a digital album via BandCamp

It is written,baby-book released 1997- available $10 via paypal