We started our tour in South Australia last week. We intend to do as many shows as possible with Stuart Perera on Guitar (since 1998) and Stuj Thomas on bass (since 2004). We haven't been to SA with the Stus aka Dave Graney and the mistLY for about a decade. Sometimes its just been a trio with Stu on bass and other times just myself and Clare and other times we played with an Adelaide player on the bass. This tour we want to bring our whole rock band sound.
I guess the first show we did was in Melbourne at the Retreat Hotel in the beer garden. We played for more than two hours with songs mostly from our 21st Century albums. We had vinyl and CD copies of our album available at the show. It was one of the last bright, sunny Autumn days and it was great to crack open the album and get into the songs.
We are playing about five songs from the new nine song album (ten songs on the Compact Disc version). I'm playing guitar and singing my songs for the whole show. People occasionally ask me where my dance moves aare but I have to politely say that this is my singer songwriter music that I've been at for the last three decades.
In South Australia we played at a great venue in the town of Goolwa, at the mouth of the Murray River. The Murray Delta Juke Joint. The venue is in a kind of semi industrial back street with loads of parking and has been set up by a couple of vintage guys who have obviously worked in music production for a long time. Its their dream gig. I guess its normally a kind of blues bar but Clare and I played there a couple of years ago and they really took to our way of playing music and our songs. The place sounds and looks great. We played two sets. I ran into two cousins there - one whom I had never known of before. A guy also asked me if I lived in a share house at Pasquin st in Glenelg in Adelaide in 1978 and I said yes, I did. Another woman asked in regards to my cousin Erryn who she used to play with as a child in Playford st East side Mt Gambier. South Australian shows are intimate for both myself and Clare.
The next day we set up to play at the Wheatsheaf Hotel in Adelaide.
This is a great venue to play at. Set up by a group of women in the early 2000s. They presented their business plan to a bank and because it expressly said that there would be no big screens to show sporting events or poker machines they were rejected. So they got a personal loan and did it anyway. And it was immediaately embraced by the community. It has a big beer garden with a roof to shield people from any rain (SA is usually a very dry state though) and tables and chairs. The pub brews its own exotic beers and a different food truck parks out front every night for the people to get their meals at.
The only drawwback in the venue is that there is no dressing room. You sound check at 6pm and the doors open at 7pm and you begin to play at around 8pm until 11pm.
There is merch to attend to as well. In all that time, you are in the room with people. Nowhere to collect your thoughts or take a breath or change your clothes or put make up on. So in effect, you are ON for all that time. And as I said, for myself and Clare, Adelaide is intimate! Family and friends and others all in the moment.
Anyway, we have done this thing before and we did it again. Its a unique joint.
We played two sets and rocked the house. Even though there was a rain bomb over the venue just before we started.
We started organizing these dates with our agent , Steve Griffiths, late last year. Like everybody in the whole world we are filled with uncertainty and dread as to our own plans and ideas of the future and the general threat to life on earth in the Trump/Israeli/Techbro/Oligarch/AI/Pandemical genocidal world. Specifically for our situatiuon, petrol prices and air fares. We planned the tour and are now doing it. So far so good. At one stage, petrol was going to be three or four times the price, and we do a lot of driving. Fingers crossed!
Our next shows are in Frankston, Canberra and New South Wales.
DAVE GRANEY / CLARE MOORE LABURNUM OF THE MIND Dave Graney, guitars and bass, vocals Clare Moore, drums, percussion, keys, vibes, vocals Stuart Perera, guitar on Aweigh Touche and Little Bands Suck, Sylvie, percussion and piano on Laburnum Of The Mind Tracks recorded December 2023 at Soundpark Studios, Melbourne. Engineer, Andrew “Idge” Hehir. Overdubs, vocals and mixing at the Ponderosa through 2024-2025. Cover art by Tony Mahony Photos by Meredith O’Shea Produced by Dave Graney and Clare Moore. Mastered by Idge All songs written by Dave Graney. Copyright Control Compact Disc or digital copy go to https://davegraney1.bandcamp.com/album/dave-graney-and-clare-moore-laburnum-of-the-mind For vinyl email dave@magneticsouth.com.au ******************ON TOUR ******************** Sunday May 31st 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 NSW 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 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 12th – Mullum Roots Festival, NSW https://www.trybooking.com/events/landing/1413705 Friday July 24th Courthouse Theatre – Geelong https://www.trybooking.com/DKWQW Saturday July 25th, Shotkickers, Melbourne https://tickets.oztix.com.au/outlet/event/36fa64d5-401c-4312-a74d-a6f08efb18b2 Friday July 31st Banshees Ipswich https://bansheesbar.com.au/event/laburnum Saturday August 1st - Eudlo Hall, QLD https://www.trybooking.com/DLYOP
Sunday August 2nd Black Bear Lodge, Brisbane
https://tickets.oztix.com.au/outlet/event/1645f3be-4071-41b0-a364-4848dfcef3c9?preview=76521274-27fc-400f-9b33-0b82c60ef3d3
August 28th – The Duke Of George, Fremantle WA
https://moshtix.com.au/v2/event/dave-graney-and-clare-moores-album-launch/193045
August 29th – Lyrics Lane – Perth, WA
https://lyricsunderground.oztix.com.au/outlet/event/258b00ea-72b9-49dd-95b4-151fb82924f8
Friday Sept 11th Baroque Room, Carrington , Katoomba
https://events.humanitix.com/fbdavegraneyclaremoore26
Saturday Sept 12th – afternoon show - Brass Monkey, Cronulla
https://tickets.oztix.com.au/outlet/event/53457deb-4c2d-4e88-ba25-4aa0fcfc8494
Sunday Sept 13th, Finding Fillmores , Kiama NSW
https://events.humanitix.com/dave-graney-and-the-mistly
Saturday Sept 19th, Railway Club, Darwin
