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.
Baroque Room - Katoomba. May 4th 2024. Photo Helen Flint.
Had a great time playing in Orange,Katoomba and Newcastle on the weekend. Thanks to everybody who came along. We generally played two sets each night. It was a lot of driving, a lot of playing and a lot of fun.
Greg Thorsby on bass for two of the shows allowed Clare to get behind the kit as well as play keys.
We know Greg from back in the 90s Dave Graney and the Coral Snakes touring days when he was playing with The Atlas Strings. We have kept in touch and he has played with us a couple of times but always on guitar before this.
The next two shows are in Western Australia and we will be joined by Martyn P Casey on the bass. One of our oldest musical mates from when he was in the Triffids and we were in the Moodists. We also know him from his integral role in the Bad Seeds.
We played some shows with Marty in Perth and Fremantle last year and we actually played a couple of Moodists songs.
Our friend Barry Adamson did a remix of a track from (strangely)(emotional). I gave him a playlist of the songs and asked him to choose one to work on and he picked I Said No To Myself. Will Hindmarsh and Emily Jarrett did amazing backing vocals on the song and Barry took the rhythm instruments out from the start to just lead it in with those beautiful vocals. Will Hindmarsh also put together a video clip from various clips I gave him. Shots of us over the last few years in Sydney, Kiama, Ulverstone Tasmania, Darwin and Port Campbell in Victoria. Thanks Will and thank you Barry!
We did a great interview with Glenn Williams at MAINFM in Castlemaine about the album. He asked us a lot about our film music work which was nice.
All instruments played by Dave Graney and Clare Moore. Dave Graney, guitars, bass, autoharp, harmonica, vocals. Clare Moore, drums, vibes, keys, percussion, backing vocals.
Joined by Shane Reilly (Lost Ragas) pedal steel on the opening track, Dave Wray (aka Frank Bennett) on tenor and soprano sax for three songs, Genevieve Fry on harp on one song, Will Hindmarsh (aka Twinkledigitz) and Emily Jarrett on backing vocals on two songs and Catherine McQuade, bass and mixing on another. Mastered by beats / hip hop producer and drummer Plutonic Lab who had collaborated with Dave Graney on the homage track GRACE TAME IS PRESIDENT in 2022.
Back In A Day Dave Graney vocals, guitar Shane Reilly, pedal steel
Drop D tuning. I hear people say "back in the day" and often wonder what day they are talking about. The song says "better to say back in a day..."
Family Gatherings I Dave Graney, nylon and steel string guitar, bass, vocals. In open D tuning. A song about my uncles and aunties and their kids-my cousins-all visitng for a few years when I was a boy.
My Cancellation Came Through Dave Graney, nylon string guitar, vocals Clare Moore, keys, Dave Wray, soprano sax
Open G tuning. Just a whimsical song about getting cancelled and the peace and quiet that would come with being in that state.
Creative Creep Dave Graney, steel string acoustic guitar, bass, vocals Clare Moore, keys, bass drum, percussion Dave Wray, soprano and tenor sax, congas
A vintage drum machine and kick drum beat with keys, sax and acoustic guitars.
Swinging like a ragtime pop tune.
“Don’t fence me in! And get in too! Let me be! Let me be! A creative creep! Ya standin’ too close to the flames!”
I kept hearing about all sorts of "creep" in economic reportage. I also kept hearing about "creatives" and the like. Talking about real estate agents and advertising people. Also cooks and wedding planners. Brian Wilsons father, Murry, did box him in the ears.
Love Story Dave Graney, electric guitar, bass, vocals Clare Moore, keys, piano, percussion Dave Wray, soprano sax, congas
Thanks to Dave Wray for playing so much great sax, again! Lyrically talking about first romantic and sexual struggles.
I Said No To Myself Dave Graney, electric guitar, bass, vocals Clare Moore, keys, percussion Will Hindmarsh and Emily Jarrett, backing vocals.
I am in awe of people with self discipline and the ability to keep to personal plans , diets and exercize regimes. A song about an inner voice, and who it is speaking to. Or who is speaking? Or who is hearing?
Ice Bergman Dave Graney, electric guitar, bass, vocals Clare Moore, drums, vibes, percussion
Recorded at the sessions for In A Mistly. Written and played a few times during our 140 Lockdown live streaming shows. A swinging jazz R&b groover 6/8 time . The chorius is "I'm gonna be old in the end times" but I didn't want to call it that and Clare came up with the Bermanesque title. Or Iceberg-esque title?
They Walk Among Us Dave Graney, electric guitar, vocals Clare Moore, drums, organ, percussion, backing vocals Catherine McQuade, bass and backing vocals.
Recorded at the sessions for In A Mistly. I intended it to be a short instrumental theme to be used a few times like "Night Theme" on Iggy Pop' and James Williamsons's KILLCITY album. I kept hearing and seeing "sovereign citizens" yelling across the internet fields. I wrote a lyric about "florin entities/bitcoin buddies/shilling villagers, guinea townfolk..." etc . We had worked on a soing with Catherine McQuade and she offered to mix a track and this is whaat happened. She played bass and sang B/Vs and mixed it.
He's Talkin' To His Base Dave Graney, six and twelve string electric guitar, bass, vocals Clare Moore, keys, percussion.
I had been working on this since the first Trump election and finally found an album for it to land on. A lot of guitars, using an R&B chord shape that Stuart Perera showed me.
I'll Cluster It Dave Graney, electric guitar, vocals Clare Moore, keys, percussion
Possibly the most actual (strangely)(emotional) track. Music worked out from a 2012 track called KING OF THE DUDES. I added some more guitars and Clare put some keys down. Lots of gutteral sounds. Lyrically talking about very personal stuff. I dont mean emotions (though it is strangely emotional) , I mean habitual ways of behaving and seeing the world. Patterns and clusters. "I put all my clusters in a row/ I'm neat/ I like patterns..." "walk out of the door-any door/ and turn right. No! the gate! That's the way into town from my old place..."
I'm Already Missing The Lockdown Dave Graney, nylon string acoustic guitar, harmonica, vocals Clare Moore, piano, percussion
Open G tuning. My old nylon string guitar.One of several songs alluding to the pandemic and its attendant lockdowns. We had about seven in Melbourne. An incredible moment that everybody on earth shared. So many things happened. In Australia, it included a trial run of a Universal Basic Income. So many things were revealed to us!
Poor Covid Dave Graney, electric guitars, vocals Clare Moore , synth bass, keys
I thought the title sounded like an old folk song. Like Tam Lin from Fairport Convention. I thought I could write a song being sympathetic to Covid. In some ways like NAS voiced a gun on his early song I GAVE YOU POWER. A cool beat from Clares Ensonix MR61 keyboard and a bluesy groove frm my guitarSome squelchy synth coming in at the end.
You Were Gaslit For This Dave Graney, six and twelve string electriic guitars, bass, vocals Clare Moore,piano, percussion Will Hindmarsh and Emily Jarrett, backing vocals
A song built up from a drum loop I found on the sessions for The Dave Graney Show album which we did in 1998. I played a suspended chord on electric twelve string and Clare played that Hitchcok Movie sounding descending run on the piano. I ddoubled that on another guitar and then spent a few nights playing with some delay pedals on the guitars. I also flew in some of Will and Emilys vocals from I Said No and effected those as well. We recorded the coda on realk drums and guitars and I tried to get it to merge or morf into that.
Madly, Softly, Hardly Dave Graney, electric and acoustic guitar, bass, autoharp, vocals Clare Moore, vibes, drums, percussion Genevieve Fry, harp
Drop D tuning. We kept writing and forgetting entire songs during this last few years of Covidly affected interior life. I kept working on this. Lyrically its a long story. A nine or ten minute song. You should listen to it. A song about getting older and mad fevers of nostalgia that get into a person. And all the time you are losing sharpness and power to see or feel or understand. When we begaan to tour again oiutside of Melbourne we drove into Qld and NSW in our van. At one point a gig was blown out and we didn't want to drive back to Melbourne so we found a FARM STAY and put up our tent by the side of a river at Port Macquarrie. We stayed there for about five days. I kept hearing a particular bird call and tried to record it on my ZOOM. The birds and insect sounds that open and close the track (along with beautiful harp ny Genevieve Fry) come from that moment.
Family Gatherings II Dave Graney, nylon and steel string acoustic guitars, bass, vocals Clare Moore, keys, percussion Dave Wray, soprano sax, congas
Two versions of this song on the album. This has more instruments and lyrics. I kept working on this and one day Clare said she preferred it as just acoustic guitar and voice so thats how it first appears. Then it returns with more musical colouring. Rather like we opened our 1997 album THE DEVIL DRIVES with Clare's instrumental song THE OBLIVION SEEKERS and then ended it with my lyrics added as it became the title track.
Joined by Shane Reilly (Lost Ragas)
pedal steel on the opening track, Dave Wray (aka Frank Bennett) on tenor
and soprano sax for three songs, Genevieve Fry (Cold Hands Warm Hearts)
on harp on one song, Will Hindmarsh (aka Twinkledigitz) and Emily
Jarrett on backing vocals on two songs and Catherine McQuade, bass
and mixing on another.
Mastered by beats / hip hop producer and
drummer Plutonic Lab who had collaborated with Dave Graney on the homage
track GRACE TAME IS PRESIDENT in 2022.
“As I have said many times nobody else is making music like
this. A combination of the familiar tropes of rock and pop intermingled with
literary lyrical explorations, jazz elements, ambient sounds, and a degree of
abstraction masking astute commentary on the state of the world today. There
are more ideas in these 15 songs than most artists achieve in their careers”.
Dave Graney and Clare Moore have in recent years been swinging between song focused studio
albums (like this one) and more band focused rock albums, (like their
previous set In A Mistly).
(strangely)(emotional) is so carefully titled because that’s the age we live in. A
person has to be sure and careful of their words. It’s a sensitive area, the
world, in 2024. Even though it is also brutal , viral and violent all at once.
(The ground we walk upon is contested and just holding together with surface
tension). So the words are quarantined from each other, in parentheses so as
not to be qualifying or commenting on the other.
The sounds
on the album come from vintage drum machines, electric (six and twelve string)
and acoustic (nylon and steel string) guitars, pedal steel, harp, harmonica,
electric piano, drums, vibes, marimba, mellotron and tenor and soprano sax.
The words
are rich, playful and very personal. Dave Graney is a proud Creative Creep.
(strangely)(emotional) comes after a year where Graney and Moore toured the country to joy and
acclaim with their 90s band Dave Graney and the Coral Snakes. This album was
cooking away in the background all the while.
It’s a Dave Graney and Clare Moore album.
They’ve always done their own thing. This time, it’s (strangely)(emotional)
CREATIVE
CREEP First single from the epic 2024 album (strangely)(emotional) which is to
be released on classic jewel case Compact Disc April 12th. Touring near you,
soon.
Murry Wilson was Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys father. This is a link to his only album release.
Just me on guitars and Shane Reilly on pedal steel. Lyrically its setting down a bit of an agenda or course. Or game plan. People say "back in the day" so casually. Here I say "better to say back in A day..." It's an important distinction when you talk about your life.
Family Gatherings
I wanted to write a song about a particular time in my life when my mothers sisters and my fathers brothers all had kids around the same time and they would often come to visit. Young parents with their strange, rival children. A brief period just before I went to school. The visits stopped after a while and we had no car until I was a teenager so did no visiting of our own. I mention records my mother used to play and shoes and dresses they favoured. The guitar only on this version. Clare thought it sounded nice as just guitar and vocal. Tuned to open D.
My Cancellation Came Through
Guitar tuned to open G. Clare playing a drum sample on her Ensoniq which hits a low D note. Dave Wray on saxophone. Just singing about how peaceful it must be when you are eventually cancelled by the social world. Its finally happened and you don't have to worry any more.
Creative Creep
A noun and an adverb and verb. Two chords on the guitar, built up from a single lick on the guitar. Sax from Dave Wray. I tried to miix it low like the Stones used to do in the 70s. Dave played on several tracks on our last album In A Mistly. He lives up near Lismore.
Love Story
Dave Wray on sax. Another song about my first kiss. I play bass and guitar and Clare plays piano and keys (strings). "That farm girl! Hot pimples on her forehead! Her hair was bone dry- like mine..."
I Said No To Myself
I thought I knew what I was talking about on this track but I think I might have been saying something else too. Sometimes that happens. It's a risk you take writing and singing words. Clare on keys and me on guitars and bass. Will Hindmarsh (Twinkeldigitz) and Emily Jarrett from the Routines, Rockin Pelmets and GoGo Sapien and Damien Cowells Disco Machine contributed these incredible vocals. UK soundtrack maestro Barry Adamson is doing a remix of this song.
Ice Bergman
A swinging jazz R&B tune from the Soundpark sessions for our previous album. It didn't seem to fit with that. I sing "I'm gonna be old in the end times" in the chorus but that seemed to be too much as a title. Clare came up with Ice Bergman. A play on words and a nod to a cold Swedish film maker. Clare on drums and vibes and me on guitars and bass.
They Walk Among Us
Recorded at Soundpark studios. Clare on drums and vocals. Me on guitars. I played bass but we asked Catherine McQuade to do a remix and she put her bass playing on it. I heard all these anti vax "no" voting people yelling about being "sovereign citizens" and started to write about "ha'penny people", "bitcoin buddies" and "florin entities" "pounds shillings and pence over the fence no sense - LS Demons...." etc
We worked on this track YOU CAME TO ME IN A DREAM with Cathy last year. I wrote the lyrics.
He's Talkin' To His Base
They give free passes to right wing populist figures like Trump and let them say all manner of foul shit and excuse them by saying they are "talking to their base". "Base" also meaning the lowest of a persons nature. Worked on this track for a few years. Just liked the chords. Built up the guitars and added base. Clare plays electric piano.
I'll Cluster It
This is probably the (strangely)(emotional) song. Its parts of a groove I put together for a song called KING OF THE DUDES in 2012. I just added this vocal one day. It seemed to be quite mysteriously confessional. Very oblique but very personal. Strangely emotional. I'm confessing to a few weaknesses. I can't help. I'll cluster it.
Already Missing The Lockdown
Hey, who didn't enjoy a moment or two when the world ground to a halt there in 2020? And we learned so much. So much was laid bare. We didn't have to be anywhere. We couldn't do anything wrong.... Nylon string guitar tuned to open G. Clare on piano.
Poor Covid
A drum loop from Clare's Ensoniq keyboard and I started to play a bluesy groove. I thought the title "Poor Covid " sounded like an old folk song. Like Tam Lin from Fairport Convention. Covid was an illuminating moment that showed us how sick the world was.
You Were Gaslit For This
A simple looped rhythm. Discovered it while tooling around on an older song from 1999. Twelve string electric guitar. Sampled aacoustic bass. Clare on piano and Will Hindmarsh and Emily Jarrett on vocals. It has a stiff, automated, looped rhythm and then we played it on real drums and bass and acoustic guitars as a crazy coda to finish it. An interesting musical jump sideways all over, this track.
Madly, Softly, Hardly
One of the songs we started playing around with during a long lockdown in 2020. Then we forgot it and then found it again and recorded it with drums and vibes in at Soundpark studios. I asked Genevieve Fry from Cold Hands Warm Heart to play some harp on it. Its played with a drop D string on the guitar. I play bass on it. Autoharp and acoustic and electric guitar. Lyrically I say it all here. I was thiinking about people and events from the past and dwelling on it all. Madly, Softly, Hardly. Singing about getting older and losing your sharpness. Disappearing in many ways.
When we began to play live again in 2020 and 2021 we drove everywhere with our gear in the van. On one trip we were outside Port Macqquarie and a show dropped out but we didn't want to go all the way back to Melbourne ( a few days drive) and then back up again so we set up a tent by a river on a farm and stayed there for a week. An open fire at night and cooking on an iron griddle. I kept hearing this quite distinct birdcall in the morning and evening and recorded it on my zoom. I also recorded some cicadas and other birds and put it all onto the beginning and end of this track.
Family Gatherings II
The second version of this song to close the album. Some more lyrics at the end and a drum machine, a bass and dave Wray on soprano sax.
It has been quite a sociable time of it for me recently. Something to do with the lovely late summer weather in Melbourne, I guess. Also the fact we weren't doing many shows.
We did a series of dates for our CREATIVE CREEP single in February and March and then set about organizing some dates for May, June and July.
Also a lot of time at home. I have been reading the collected short stories of JG Ballard which are amazing me with their prophetic freshness. I am 300 pages in and still reading pieces from 1962. I read some of these in their original collections in the 80s but none of these really early ones. Some very pure sci fi,some with intimations of his later obsessions with time sicknesses and cities that are planet deep. (One has a world with so many people in it that they are each limited to living in "cubicles" that are 4.5 metre wide). Some are so strange they could be scripts for Twilight Zone television episodes. Such a prophet. Studio 5, The Stars could have been written today with its vision of a colony of indolent poets in an idyllic coastal city writing all their verses via computers. Mr F is Mr F was just odd as it features a narrator and his pregnant wife and he keeps getting smaller and smaller as she gets bigger and bigger until.....
Previously I had read some Jenny Diski books which were always interesting and surprising and a brilliant Nabokov novel called ADA. Nabokov stays with you. Such a great writer.
TV? Loved the Austrian /German drama Pagan Peak and the Swedish The Truth Will Out and the Portuguese VANDA. Was riveted by - but hated the characters- in DOPESICK. Also watched a 1987 UK series of a John LeCarre story called The Perfect Spy. That was unsettling and creepy. But great.
Music? Just listening to a lot of old jazz. Educating myself.
Though I have been enjoying VULFMON and his extended group of identities and players.
I have also sarted a SUBSTACK where I intend to post some different kinds of writing.
Had a great night out watching Melbourne player Tim Deane launch his album at George Lane in St Kilda. He played in a band called The Hired Guns with Anthony Paine and Chris Willard on guitars. Tim played guitar and keys. Tim also played for about 13 years as part of the Superstitions who recorded and played many albums with the late Ron Peno. Tim was always a comic figure arriving to play at tiny venures (and large) in his 70s Valiant with no window on one side which suited him as he often had one long keyboard sticking out of that handy opening. He would often turn up with two amps, three guitars and two or three keyboards and then get to hooking up all his pedals as well. He always brought his A game and was a great guy to have on your team (I often saw this at close hand because Clare Moore played drums with the Hired Guns for a couple of years).
I joked that their whole set could just be billed as a night of Guitar Porn as well as music as they all had such beautiful machines in their hands. (Anthony Paine makes HARVESTER GUITARS).
On this night the Hired Guns opened the proceedings under a new name, Sore Eyes. Then Charlie Marshall played a set on electric guitar and vocals accompanied by his son on tenor sax and keyboards.
Then Tim Deane played a set and brought on all of the Superstitions as well as a horn section and Bronwyn Henderson on violin.
Nick Danyi was a character from the very early 80s Melbourne music scene that we enjoyed knowing. He played sax on a track from the Moodists called Kept Spectre from our 1982 album Engine Shudder but
he mainly played in a group called the Feral Dinosaurs who also
included Jim Shugg on vocals and guitar, Jim White on drums, Conway
Savage on keys and Dave Last on bass. Jim Shugg and White also played in
The People With Chairs Up Their Noses during the same period.
All
of these characters have been life long friends and many of us
gathered to pay our respects to Nick as he had passed away in March.
A day of beautiful eulogies from Nicks daughter and friends Tony Wyzenbeek and Bruce Kane, Jim Shugg, a woman called Anna who told a story of sailing a Catamaran Nick had bought in Brisbane down to Melbourne even though she had never been to sea before. A woman called Caroline filled us in on all his adventures in country Gippsland before he relocated to Melbourne. Charlie Marshall told a wonderful story of how Nick had rebuilt the timber roof and ceiling of his house. One of those occasions where you realize you knew a person from a few months perspective from decades ago and you got to see more of him the more people filled in all the gaps with their own views and experiences. It was a tremendous tribute to a person. A man of action and mad skills and physicality. Much loved and lamented.
The late Conway Savage and Nick Danyi at our wedding in Adelaide in 1985.
The People With Chairs Up Their Noses. Jim White, David Palliser and Mark Barry on bass. Mark put the PA up for the wake/tributee to Nick Danyi we all attended.
Back sleeve of The Feral Dinosaurs LP, You've All Got A Home To Go To (1985)
We have some other shows booked. These are confirmed so far.
Wherever
we can we will be playing a rock show. Bass, drums and guitar music. In
NSW we will be playing with Greg Thorsby on bass and in WA we will be
playing with Martyn Casey on the bass.
There are more dates to announce in Qld, NSW and Victoria.
(strangely)(emotional) out April 12th
Night Of The Wolverine available as double vinyl LP.
Our Melbourne single launch went well. A 1:30 pm start at the Northcote Social Club. Two sets with Stu Thomas on bass and Stuart Perera on guitar. Dave Graney and the mistLY. We had last played in Melbourne late 2022 at the Nightcat when we launched our album In A Mistly. This was/is an album full of great rock songs and sounds and dynamics. One of our best ever. So we played a lot of it at this show. Hopefully there will be another Melbourne show this year.
We had one rehearsal a couple of nights before out in Hallam which is a short drive for Clare and I and Stuart but a long one for Stu who lives in Western Melbourne. We usually rehearsed at Soundpark but were under the mistaken belief that it was shutting down. (It was going to be moving as of December 2023 but plans have changed). Thats great because its our favourite studio to record in. The best!
Thanks to everybody who came to the show. Melbourne has been full of all sorts of touring acts both international and local for all of this year. Crazy busy. So yes, thank you to everybody who somehow tuned in to our wavelength and came to the show. We love playing daytime gigs.
We have some other shows booked. These are confirmed so far.
Friday May 3rd Dave Graney and Clare Moore play The Agrestic Grocer in Orange, NSW.
Wherever we can we will be playing a rock show. Bass, drums and guitar music. In NSW we will be playing with Greg Thorsby on bass and in WA we will be playing with Martyn Casey on the bass.
I thought I would put a rough discography here so as people could see what led up to this new album.
Discography
DAVE GRANEY AND CLARE MOORE
April 2024 (strangely)(emotional) Dave Graney and Clare Moore (Cockaigne) CD and digital release.
Re-Release of Night Of The Wolverine in double gatefold vinyl edition 2023.
THERE
HE GOES WITH HIS EYE OUT (lyrics
1980-2023) Book released 2023.
Dave
Graney and Clare Moore – IN A MISTLY – 2022
album released on CD through Cockaigne.
Dave
Graney and Clare Moore 2021 album
released on CD through Cockaigne. EVERYTHING WAS FUNNY.
Dave
Graney and ClareMoore 2020 digital album with Robin
Casinader - IN CONCERT.
Dave
Graney and ClareMoore 2020 digital album with Georgio
"the dove" Valentino and Malcolm Ross.
Dave
Graney and the mistLY - 2021
digital album - LYVE AT BYRDS
November 2019 digital only album of studio recordings ONE MILLION YEARS DC by Dave Graney and Clare Moore.
March 2019 ZIPPA DEEDOO WHAT IS/WAS THAT/THIS? Dave Graney and the
mistLY (Cockaigne) CD and digital release.
April 2017 Dave Graney and Clare Moore LET"S GET TIGHT (Cockaigne)
Nominated
at the 2018 OZFLIX awards for best original soundtrack (with Dave Graney) for
the Donna McRae film, “LOST GULLY ROAD
WORKSHY – Book. Dave Graney Memoir. Affirm Press October
2017.
June 2017 –
digital single – Two Bass Drums and A Mellotrone . Credited to Dave Graney
2017 CD "LET"S GET TIGHT" – CD,
Cockaigne.Credited to Dave Graney and Clare Moore
Completed
a 15 date tour of Europe in 2017, playing in Spain for the first time, as well
as France, the Netherlands, Belgium, England and Scotland.
Completed a 17 date tour of Europe in
April/
May 2016, the main focus of which was the
ATP festival in
Wales curated by lauded comedian/writer
Stewart Lee. The
festival was a cavalcade of underground
heroes and heroines
from the music worlds of the USA/ Europe
and the UK. There
were two Australian acts chosen, Dave
Graney and the
mistLY and jazz mysteriosos , the Necks.
HARRY HOWARD AND THE NDE – Sleepless Girls(CD Spooky
2017)
dave graney - Once I Loved The Torn Ocean's Roar -
80s/90s Demos Vol. 2 - digital only release 2016
HARRY HOWARD AND THE NDE – PRETTY (CD Spooky 2015)
dave graney - night of the wolverine demos/early 90s
songwriter demos - digital only release 2015
dave graney and
the mistLY - Play mistLY For Me
(2015 digital only release - live collection vol 1)
Feted as Melbourne Music Legends by City
of Yarra/Leaps and
Bounds Festival in 2015. A concert given
with a cavalcade of
Melbourne musicians young and vintage
playing Dave Graney and Clare Moore songs.
FEARFUL WIGGINGS (Dave Graney CD Cockaigne 2014)
HARRY HOWARD AND THE NDE – Near Death Experience (CD Spooky 2013)
Live in Hell (DAve Graney 2013 digital only release of follow up narrative
show from 2009)
Point Blank (Dave Graney digital only release of 2007 narrative show -
2013)
THE DAMES(Clare
Moore project with Kaye Louise Patterson) CD, Cockaigne 2013
YOU'VE BEEN IN MY MIND (Dave Graney and the
mistLY CD Cockaigne 2012)
1001 Australian Nights. Book. Memoir on Affirm
press 2011.
Rock'n'roll Is Where I Hide . Dave Graney and the
mistLY. Album of electric
re-recordings. (CD Liberation) 2011
Voted Best Victorian Act by readers of
Fairfax for the Age EG
Music Awards 2011.
Supermodified (CD Cockaigne) Dave Graney and the Lurid Yellow Mist 2010
Knock YourselfOout (CD Dave Graney Cockaigne) 2009)
We Wuz Curious (The Lurid Yellow Mist – featuring Dave
Graney and Clare Moore – CD Illustrious Artists 2008)
Best Music Act at 2007 Melbourne Fringe
for the show
POINT BLANK.
Keepin' it Unreal (Dave Graney and Clare Moore – featuring
Stu Thomas – CD Cockaigne 2006)
Hashish and Liquor (double disc w/ Clare
Moore. CD Reverberation 2005)
The Brother Who Lived (the Royal Dave Graney
Show, CD Cockaigne 2003)
The soundtrack to the movie Bad Eggs (David Graney and Clare
Moore, CD Liberation,2003) ARIA award nomination best Original Motion
Picture Soundtrack album 2003
Two Fisted Art (the Moodists, CD WMinc, 2003)
Heroic Blues (the Dave Graney Show, CD Cockaigne 2002)
THE THIRD WOMAN Clare Moore solo CD (Cockaigne 2013
Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye (the Dave Graney Show, CD
Cockaigne / Cooking Vinyl 2000)
The Baddest (Dave Graney 'n' the Coral Snakes, Universal , CD
1999)
The Dave Graney Show (the Dave Graney Show, CD,
Festival 1998)
IT IS WRITTEN, BABY. Book of stories, lyrics
and Tony Mahony images . Random House 1997.
The Devil Drives (Dave Graney 'n' the Coral Snakes, CD,
Universal 1997)
The Soft'n'Sexy Sound (Dave Graney 'n' the Coral
Snakes, Universal ,THIS WAY UP CD 1995)
You Wanna Be There But You Don't Wanna Travel (Dave Graney 'n' the Coral
Snakes, CD, Id/Universal 1994)
Night of the Wolverine (Dave Graney 'n' the Coral
Snakes, Id/Universal , CD 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 , CD Fire - recorded 1990 but released1992)
My Life on the Plains (Dave Graney 'n' the White
Buffaloes, vinyl LP and CD Fire, 1990)
With the Coral Snakes At His Stone Beach (4 Track vinyl EP on Fire
Records 1988)
Hey Little Gary 4 track vinyl EP (The Moodists TIM Records 1987)
Take The Red Carpet Out Of Town ( The Moodists 12"EP TIM Records
1986)
Double Life (the Moodists, Red Flame 1985)
Justice and Money Too (12” The Moodists vinyl EP on Creation
1985)
Thirstys Calling (the Moodists, vinyl LP, Red Flame 1984)
Engine Shudder (the Moodists, vinyl LP, Au Go Go / Red
Flame 1982)
Gone Dead / Chads Car 7" vinyl single
The Moodists, AuGoGo 1981
Where The Trees Walk Downhill 7" vinyl single
The Moodists, AuGoGo 1980
I guess thats between 30 and 40 physical releases and a dozen or so digital only releases. Clare Moore has been involved in more, of course.
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
