you were deep inside that thought: Dave Graney and Clare Moore regional shows in Ararat, Camden (NSW), and Cronulla and then its the Soft n Sexy Sound 30th Anniversary tour

Sunday, July 27, 2025

Dave Graney and Clare Moore regional shows in Ararat, Camden (NSW), and Cronulla and then its the Soft n Sexy Sound 30th Anniversary tour

Early August sees some regional dates by Dave Graney and Clare Moore

Wednesday 6^thAugust – Town Hall, Ararat. 7:30-pm

Friday August 8^th, Camden Estate NSW 4:30pm

Sunday 10^thAugust, Brass Monkey Cronulla. Doors 12:30pm music at 2pm.

"Dave Graney ‘n’ the Coral Snakes 30th anniversary tour for the Soft ‘n’ Sexy Sound album is happening in October-November.The rehearsals have begun and it’s great getting into a lot of songs that we rarely or never played. It was a really deeply serious set of songs. Deep Inside A Song, Scorched Earth Love Affair, the Pre Revolutionary Scene, Morrison Floorshow, I’m Not Afraid To Be Heavy, I’m Gonna Live In My Own Big World, Rock n Roll Is Where I Hide, The Birds And The Goats, Dandies Are Never Unbuttoned and more! A thing of it’s own. Produced by Victor Van Vugt. Great art by Tony Mahony, including our genre/logo AOART. There were also little messages all over the booklet alluding to the times such as Tenez Le Droit, Baby. That was the motto of the Victorian Police and Melbourne in the first half of the 90s was a scene of police and gangland revenge and retribution due to the Walsh st shootings. There was some other text floating around, "Whiskey Fast and Honey Slow" which is a line from a Tim Buckley song which I thought could have described some of the music. Also "Woe Is You", which appears in the song Outward Bound and which I thought encapsulated the angst free but not necessarily meek and mild stance from which I was delivering the conceptual bombs of which the album was made.

The music is sounding great. There have only been a couple of times since we recorded it that I have sat and listened to this record intensely. I am so proud of it. Really no weak part to it. Diverse? Hell yes! Made under pressure. Victors recording and production was amazing. I am sorry if I never thanked him enough. Cannot believe how he recorded some of the vocals so well at almost a whispered volume.

We will be playing the entire album in order and then another set of songs from albums before and after. Join us!

Robin Casinader, Clare Moore, Dave Graney, Stu Thomas and Rod Hayward

photo by Meredith Oshea

Dave Graney and the Coral Snakes 30th Anniversary edition of the Soft n Sexy Sound at Apple Music. 7 extra B side tracks and 9 extra tracks from a live performance with strings at the Melbourne Concert Hall in 1996.

Ticket links....

Friday Oct 3rd Factory Theatre, Marrickville, Sydney

Saturday Oct 4th Waves, Wollongong, NSW

Sunday Oct 5th The Street Theatre, Canberra

Friday Oct 10th, The Corner Hoyel, Richmond, Vic

Saturday Oct 11th, Bundy Hall, Bundalaguah VIC

Friday Oct 24th Freo Social, Fremantle WA

Saturday Oct 25th, The River Hotel, Margaret River WA

Friday Oct 31st, Brisbane Crowbar QLD

Saturday Nov 1st, The Imperial, Eumundi QLD

Sunday Nov 2nd, Mo's Desert Clubhouse, Gold Coast QLD

Friday Nov 7th, Byron Bay Theatre NSW

Saturday Nov 8th, Bellingen Memorial Hall NSW

Thursday Nov 13th, King Street Bandroom, Newcastle

Friday Nov 14th, Avoca Beach Theatre NSW

Saturday Nov 15th, The Lounge, Chatswood NSW

Sunday afternoon Nov 16th, Dangar Island Bowlo NSW

Friday Nov 21st, The Gov, Adelaide SA

Friday Nov 28th, Royal Oak, Launceston TAS

Saturday Nov 29th, The Pier, Ulverstone TAS

Sunday Nov 30th, Longley International Hotel, Longley TAS

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A recent interview with Dave Graney and Clare Moore for HiFi Way.

Listen Carefully podcast interview with Dave Graney- 32 minutes.

Listen Carefully podcast interview with Clare Moore - 30 minutes.

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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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Sunday, July 27, 2025

Dave Graney and Clare Moore regional shows in Ararat, Camden (NSW), and Cronulla and then its the Soft n Sexy Sound 30th Anniversary tour

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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