you were deep inside that thought: LABURNUM OF THE MIND - 2026 album by Dave Graney and Clare Moore

Wednesday, April 22, 2026

LABURNUM OF THE MIND - 2026 album by Dave Graney and Clare Moore

photo Meredith O'Shea

Dave Graney and Clare Moore have their new album, Laburnum Of The

Mind, a rock album.

Its out at all streaming outlets April 30th but can already be obtained at

record shops in Australia and at shows.

“When we say “rock” I guess we would be thinking of The Doors, Wire,

Urge Overkill, Steely Dan, Queens Of the Stone Age, The Replacements,

Pulp, Roxy Music The Fall, The Blue Oyster Cult and those kinds of tones.

Those kinds of lyrical flights and suspensions. Bo Diddley and Latin beats

and diminished and augmented chords. Expensive inversions. Flash stuff.

Though there is also a lot of dumb, irrational, loose and goofy as well”.

The first seven tracks are all pretty upbeat and in the pocket grooves.

Backbeats abound. Then it gets freaky with the title track, Laburnum Of

The Mind and the diss song from out of time, Little Bands Suck.

“It’s our first NEW release on vinyl since the original age of vinyl in the

early 90s. It’s available digitally and on Compact Disc as well”.

Available through Magnetic South as a vinyl record.

Contact Dave Lang dave@magneticsouth.com.au

The vinyl record does not ccontain the song "People I Think About".

All instruments are played by Dave Graney and Clare Moore with mistLY

guitarist Stuart Perera guesting on two tracks. Recorded in Melbourne at

Soundpark with Idge, mixed by Dave Graney and Clare Moore and

mastered by Idge.

Cover art by Tony Mahony who has done all the visual imagery for Dave

Graney and Clare Moore since 1992.

Laburnum is a stop on the Belgrave train line from the CBD to the outer

suburbs of South East Melbourne. Not a suburb, a stop.

The first song to be released as a lead track is Hits Are The Worst. A

Doorsy groove with a very late 60s chordal deal and flow. Think (?) Brian

Auger, Traffic or The Zombies. The vocal mixed right up front. The words?

Like the music, “flash and expensive but dumb, loose and goofy too.

Highly illogical..

Second single from the forthcoming Dave Graney and Clare Moore album,

LABURNUM OF THE MIND.

I Ain't Got No Float is an R&B groover with a drop D funk chugg to it.

Rhythmic switchbacks and asides that summon the very Dan. Lots of

space to it and some post punk white pepper on those clean,

asymmetrical

guitar licks. Clare Moore rocking straight through it like Bonzo or Paul

Cook.

Dave Graney on guitars and bass and vocals.

Clare Moore on drums, keyboard and backing vocals.

Video shot by Dave Graney and Will Hindmarsh aka Twinkle Digitz at Wills

studio and some scenes around Boronia Mall.

Contains background images by Tony Mahony.

Australian made 1960s Vibralux GA12 guitar amplifier sourced by John

Brown, Tasmania.

We will be making every attempt to play shows with Stuart Perera on guitar

(since 1998) and Stu Thomas on bass (since 2004). Dave Graney and

the mistLY.

photo Amber Schmidt

One of the last times we played in Melbourne, writer David Pepperell had

this to say about our show...

"Last week I had the great pleasure of seeing the witty, urbane and totally

delightful Dave Graney and Band at the Ember Room in the wilds of St.

Kilda. It was a total musical experience involving Dave's erudite,

observational songs - perhaps even fables in the style of Aesop - plus

playing that was really a tickle to the ear. Dave performs his compositions

with such elan and sophistication that he draws you into his world and

holds you there until the last note of the night. Singer-Songwriters often

seem self-obsessed but to me Dave sings about a world he would like to

live in and possibly thinks by singing said songs he could bring that about.

He sings well too - and his guitar playing was exemplary all through the

show. Stuart Perera’s perfectly aligned Rickenbercker playing, smooth

bassist Stu Thomas and his very charming wife Clare Moore on drums

provided him with a solid foundation to elucidate his dreams and

inspirations - songs with character and belief plus a very wry view of this

maybe crumbling world. Dave is a gem, polished to a high sheen, rare in

the current charivari that one has to endure when sampling the music

scene these days. He is not to be missed - I have not had such a

pleasurable night out in years. He is certainly at his peak now after battling

around the traps for some years - get out and see him while he still takes

such enjoyment in presenting his creations to you all".

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Sunday April 26th – 2-4pm hopefully in the beer garden - Dave Graney

and the mistLY at The Retreat- Sydney Rd Brunswick

https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/dave-graney-the-mistly-album-launch-laburnum-of-the-mind-tickets-1984854590511

Friday May 15th – Murray Delta Juke Joint, Goolwa

https://www.trybooking.com/events/landing/1554441

Saturday May 16th - the Wheaty in Adelaide

https://tickets.oztix.com.au/outlet/event/4672e8ec-6cc6-478d-bcd7-23e0c963d336

Sunday May 31^st Sunday – Young St Tavern, Frankston

https://events.humanitix.com/davey-graney-and-clare-moore-laburnum-of-the-mind-hits-are-the-worst

Thursday June 4th – Smiths, Canberra

https://www.smithsalternative.com/events/dave-graney-and-clare-moore-95853

Friday June 5th - Marrickville Bowlo Sydney

https://tickets.oztix.com.au/outlet/event/55fd8421-18f3-468e-b608-c4c824fc5e1c

Saturday June 6th - the Heritage, Bulli NSW

https://codeone.oztix.com.au/outlet/event/8b62279b-47e8-4ba6-a764-fa0556d27e0b

Friday June 12th – the Link and Pin, Woy Woy NSW

https://www.trybooking.com/events/landing/1557903

Saturday June 13th – Stag and Hunter, Newcastle NSW

https://stagandhunter.oztix.com.au/outlet/event/dd822c28-4407-4804-bd24-4741ef16d9f6

Sunday June 14th – The Flow Bar, Old Bar NSW

https://www.dramatix.com.au/events/2379

Sunday July 11th - 12th – Mullum Roots Festival, Mullumbimby NSW

https://www.trybooking.com/events/landing/1413705

Friday July 24^th Courthouse Theatre – Geelong Vic

https://www.trybooking.com/DKWQW

Friday July 31^st Banshees Ipswich Qld

https://bansheesbar.com.au/event/laburnum

Saturday August 1^st^-Eudlo Hall, Eudlo QLD

Sunday August 2^nd Black Bear Lodge, Brisbane Qld

Friday August 28th – The Duke Of George, Fremantle WA

https://moshtix.com.au/v2/event/dave-graney-and-clare-moores-album-launch/193045

Saturday August 29th – Lyrics Lane – Perth, WA

https://lyricsunderground.oztix.com.au/outlet/event/258b00ea-72b9-49dd-95b4-151fb82924f8

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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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Wednesday, April 22, 2026

LABURNUM OF THE MIND - 2026 album by Dave Graney and Clare Moore

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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