2024 release of two albums. (strangely)(emotional) and I Passed Through Minor Chord In A Morning.
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.
These shows started off in 2015 with an invitation to play the album Night Of the Wolverine at Memo Hall in Melbourne. My response was that if it was "the Devil Drives"
I would do it like a shot but I wasn't really into doing just one
album, as a rule. I'd seen other bands do it and it just looked
CONSTIPATED. In the end, we did a set of that 1993 album and then
another (hour long) set of songs from before and after it.
We played at Memo for two nights and packed it out. Both times.
We then played in Sydney, Brisbane , Adelaide and Newcastle through last
year. Our idea was to mainly play if we were invited, to Festivals or
arts events. We didn't want to go and play in pubs.
It has been a fantastic experince for myself and Clare moore to reunite
with guitarist Rod Hayward and keyboard player Robin Casinader. Such
great players and we spent so much time together in tough situations.
And we were better than all the rest!
We generally rehearse once
before each show. We know the stuff inside out. Our old bass player
Gordy Blair declined to be involved early on but we are lucky to have
Stu Thomas from the mistLY playing bass with us. He is a great, positive
presence and an amazing musician. This is the line up that has done all
the shows.
We played in Melbourne at the National Gallery of Victoria in early
March. Here are some photos of the show.In the Grand Hall. It sounded great and people went nuts.
A week later we played on a floating stage out on the River Torrens beside the festival theatre in Adelaide. Here are some shots of the show.
Adelaide
is different for us than anywhere else. South Australians tune into my
stuff. I'm their man. I mean country, blue collar people.
It's been intoxicating to play shows where the band knows every single note and turn of the songs AND SO DOES THE AUDIENCE. Not what I'm used to.
We are travelling again in April to play at Lizottes in Newcastle March 31st and the Basement in Sydney April 1st.
These venues are not pubs but neither are they festival situations. We
won't be doing many shows. I mean we dig it but we're just enjoying
each show as it happens and we don't want to do it to death. BECAUSE WE
DON'T HAVE TO.
Then
there's this CD coming out. ALL OF A SUDDEN. We'll be selling it at
all of our shows and getting it to certain stores where we can. More
news of it later.
Doing
a lot of other shows as a duo. Just myself and Clare Moore. This is
with our friend from Miami/Brussels. Georgio "the dove" Valentino. (who
is also opening at the Lizottes and Basement Coral Snakes shows)
Here's
a sneaky peek at some of Georgio's music. This was recorded here in
Melbourne in 2016 at Mick harvey's studio/rehearsal space. Me on 12
string, Clare on drums . (Clare might be on vibes too)
Mick Harvey and David McClymont (ex Orange Juice on keys) and Patricia (who’ll be touring with Georgio)on bass.
While
we're on that , when these reunion shows first started happening I
hated it when people just referred to "Coral Snakes" , because it was my
songs and my band name and .....ummmm what was I? Chopped liver? Now I
am a bit more relaxed. people can talk the way they like. Little bit.
I just think of that story where Chet Atkins was playing guitar and somebody said "that guitars got a real nice tone" and he took it off and put it on the stand and said "does it really? What you reckon it sounds like now?"
Workshopping
some ideas for our duo. Suddenly we are playing as Dave Graney and the
mistLY, Dave Graney and the Coral Snakes and Dave Graney and Dave Graney and Clare Moore. Have to feed stuff into all these online music apps and they all explode at so many combinations.
Clare's idea was ....
GRANEY AND MOORE (Desist)
I quite like it. (There's an arcane pop culture pun working feebley there...)
We travelled to Auckland for a week which included two shows. The first was at Aotea Square in the centre of the city. Part of a week long fringe/arts festival.
The shows were organized by a fellow called Matthew Crawley who we'd met in 2004 when he was in his late teens or early twenties managing the Brunettes. Matthew now runs an excellent music and food joint called The Golden Dawn and we did another show there.
We did the gigs as a trio with special guest Lawrence Arabia on bass. Lawrence aka James Milne was playing bass in the Brunettes on that 2004 tour to Australia. He did an amazing job, learning about fifteen songs in a couple of days. They made it so easy for us and we had an absolute ball.
We have seen the last two tours to Melbourne by Lawrence Arabia, always so inspiring. Incredible songwriting, singing and playing.
We met up with Jonathan Bree who had been the co-singer and writer for the Brunettes. He runs Lil Chief Records. Since they finished in about 2008 he has concentrated on the label, released two amazingly high quality solo albums and worked with Princess Chelsea.
Jonathan's last solo album was the classsically influenced "A Little Night Music". This song, WEIRD HARDCORE, is a modern classic.Listen to that beautiful "plunky" bass sound.
Princess Chelsea released a video for a song several years ago which went totally viral and they have toured eastern Europe, playing large festivals a couple of times. This clip is so charming. AsI write this , it has had 33,527,000 views. You get paid after a few tens of thousands. I love stories of musicians and artists WINNING.
It was great playing and hanging out with these people. We also ran into Delaney Davidson, a musician from Christchurch.
Just for the hell of it, I'll put up a clip by a supreme NZ freak, Connan Mockasin. Apparently he lives in LA now. All these people have great ambition and guts.
Oh, and at the airport on the way back, I bumped fists with Miami Steve Van Zandt who had just played a couple of shows with Bruce Springsteen there. We were both in the airport newsagent, buying mints.
On the way over I watched the Ron Howard film on the Beatles, "8 Days A Week". I loved it. I'm always bagging the moptops but I'm just bored by their omnipresence. this film really humanized them and put them to such a thrilling time line.
I was a kid when they were all happening, I didn't need to go over and over it again later. I saw their films at the Mt Gambier Odeon theatre. Matinee shows. I heard them pouring out of the radio in the kitchen and watched them doing "Hello Goodbye" on the Ed Sullivan Show. I think I even saw their world wide hook up for "all you need is love" as it actually happened, too.
Loved this film.
Then I watched "HAVANA MOON", the Rolling Stones film of their recent gig in CUBA.
I always love the Stones and again, I experienced their albums like "Get Yer Ya yas Out" and "Goats Head Soup" and "Its Only Rock'n'Roll " coming out new. They were in that seventies scrum much more than the Beatles who faded into anachronism pretty quickly. When "Some Girls" came out right smack in the moment of punk it was exciting to see how they would react to it. "Miss You" was amazing.
This film was a lot more enjoyable than teh Scorcese one. Just a straight concert flick. Great sound and cameras so cose to the band. Quite thriling to watch them play through all teh dynamic changes in "Midnight Rambler". Looking at each other to make the switch in the beat while Mick is way out on his catwalks. Mick almost ruins it with some cod reggae crowd chants like the Police did. "wee yo yo yo". The others dig in and bear it. He's working a massive stadium. They do "Paint it Black" with Ronnie on an electric sitar. Ronnie never struck me as being really bright but he carries an amazing haircut.
Also caught a documentary produced by Maick Jagger called "Mr Dynamite: the rise of James Brown". Must have been to accompany the dramatic film about JB he also produced. This was a great doco. I'll have to see it again. Such an innovator and such a great band.
I also watched the Absolutely Fabulous movie which was hilarious.
We went to the town of Piha which is thirty or so kilometers out of Auckland and walked along the black sands.
Had a great time.
We have shows with Dave Graney and the Coral Snakes coming up.
Swingy George was a song recorded by the Moodists in London in 1984. We'd been playing it for a while back in Melbourne before we'd left so we might have cooked it up in late 1982.
We were in that Melbourne post punk scene where everybody wrote songs about???? Well, you had to make it up. Drag stuff out of your own environment. But the culture we enjoyed mostly was in the USA or UK. We hated Oz Rock for the most part.
Anyway, our sound was pretty impenetrable. Bass and drums to the fore and two guitars wailing from the get go.
Here's a clip of us playing it live in London in late '84. It's at about 10 or 11 in the morning and was filmed at the Camden palace.
The Birthday party had tune called Dead Joe and I guess people thought it was another case of a band stealing their licks.
But I was writing the lyrics and the stories and this came from a different direction. It was about a character who used to appear on the swings at the playground up the road from where I grew up in Mt Gambier. The Playground was in a block with houses on all sides. It was accessable through a couple of lanes on each side. Not visible fom any road and with a pretty high iron fence on all sides .
Here is a map. The playground was in the area in the centre marked "6". I grew up in Werona st, which you can see at the top of the picture.
So, if you were a kid of pre school age and wandered up there and there was this bloke in a black suit sitting and swinging ....... you might be a bit spooked, wouldn't ya?
Years later, in 1982 I wrote the lyrics....
SWINGY GEORGE
george was real enough
it didn't take much to make him swing
he was a black coat that we all coloured
yeah something from sleep caught in our light
a bad shape caught in our back yard
we wanted to see him swing
he was hangin around this jungle jim
just a black coat drifting swingy george
he was a black coat that we all coloured
yeah something from sleep caught in our light
a bad shape caught in our back yard
he was still there when he had gone
we wanted to see him swing
he was hangin around this jungle jim
just a black coat drifting
swingy george
I thought I'd write this because I noticed a discussion on Facebook about this character. It was on a page where people who grew up in Mt Gambier share photos and stories. They started to talk of this fellow, "George" and I thought it was amazing how he had stuck in so many people's brains for so long. The places that are mentioned, in George riding a bike to and from are a mill town called Tarpeena which is 24.5 kilometres from Mt Gambier and Port McDonnell which is 22 kilometres from Mt Gambier and 52 from Tarpeena. he must have been very fit.
Does
anyone remember a guy ? called George who used to ride his bike to the Bay
quite regularly.
And as others have said - wore a suit! Even in stinking hot weather.
In hindsight, that was one of the things that made him different
I heard he lived in a town north of the Mount.
He had terrible teeth....
Yeah - I remember
George - vaguely!
Swingin george !!!!
Yes - that's what I
remember - him on the swing
he liked the swings
at Port Mac
Think he came from
Tarpeena
Swinger George's real
name was George Coleman and he lived in Tarpena. He would regularly ride his
bike from there to the Bay to swing and sing he used to sing "Davey
Crockett" over and over. Some people used to be scared of him but we kids
knew that he was harmless for some reason.
Swinger George he'd
sit on the swings at Pt. Mac. for hours. also there was a guy in the Mount I
think his name was something Kingsley
Kingsley Osborne
Yes I remember
Georgie Colman who use to ride his bike down to Pt MacDonnel each weekend.he
lived in Tarpeena.
Yes. I remember him
well. Part of our childhood memories.
He used to call into
our shop at Allendale and buy a single cone ice cream. Mum offered him a double
for the same price and he said he would pick up the extra ice cream next week.
lots of Comments
about George on a post I put up ages ago re the merry go round swing.
Yep Denise I loved
the merry go round
Swinging George and
Kingsley would be out for a training ride
Remember Swinging
George & I think 'Kingsley Killer Knightley !! Was the other fellow !!
Was his real name
Kingsley? I never knew that. We always called him Kevin.
May have been Kevin
Coral not sure .
Killer. Did he wear a
South footy jumper?
Yes
Saw him in Adelaide
long time ago, eating a raw chicken, about 45 years ago
I remember Killer
Knightly also ,a rough diamond who use to frequent the streets.
Can only Remember '
Killer ' had dark bushy hair !
I remember Killer
knightly . Pretty harmless from memory. He had a girlfriend and came to the
local cabarets where people would egg them on to dance quite frantically but
the bar staff used to monitor his drink intake.
Swinging George lived
in Tarpeena and would ride his bike to PT Mac Donnell and ride on the swing all
day long
And oil everything
Swinging George used
to go to the playground off Tallara Ave and we wouldn't stay if he was on the
swings !
Yes down from rymill
place
Yes His Name Was
George Coleman And He Lived At Tarpeena With His Parents
Yes George rode his
bike from tarpeena, sometimes would spend the day at playground just off of
talara ave, he was always dressed in a dark suit, most of the local kids felt a
bit threatened by him, he was a harmless guy and enjoyed the swings!
I remember my Dad
talking about George. And some of the guys on the district council told me
about him too.
I vaguely remember
killer knightly winning bike races and a organised wheelbarrow race many years
ago!
i remember George who
rode from Tarpeena and used to get on the swings, he was harmless and i am sure
he only wanted to talk to someone. Killer Knightly i also remember and he was
harmless as well.
We called him
swinging George and he used to swing in the playground off Tallara Ave near
where I lived in Rymill Place and come into our front yard and drink out of the
tap. I would love to know his story. That was in the early 60s
Yes I remember George
Coleman. He lived with his parents in a house behind ours in Tarpeena. He also
used to ride his bike to Kalinga door and get on the train to Adelaide . Don,t
know what he did down there but he used to come home the next day on the train.
Pretty harmless guy but did have some problems.
I can remember
swinging George and killer knightly both harmless
Yea an claimed the
bloody slippery dip at Pt Mac we were scared of him when we were little !
But were harmless yes
Yes last i heard he
was run over and killed on his way to the Bay to have a swing must have been 38
/40 years ago
About rite
I reckon he came from
Tarpeena. We used to call him swinging George as he would have a swing at Port
Mac and then ride home.
Swinging George used
to visit playground in Tallara ave.(65-75) mt. Gambier
Sounds like he
certainly got around.
I think he was run
over on Pt mac road in the end
Oh dear, that
would've been tragic.
Used to be at the Bay
late 50's when we had our Bay house - Swingin' George.
Also used to apear at
the Nangwarry school in the 50s
hi Andy - i remember
him. dad once picked him up in our van and gave him a lift to the bay.he got
out and went straight to the swings.for some reason we used to call him
"swinging joe"
We used to call him
swingin' George. My memory of him was that he was always smiling and had yellow
teeth. Always on the swings. Vaguely remember the bike. Didn't know he had been
killed riding tho' . Sad as he was a harmless chap.
Yes - extremely
yellow teeth.
Never got close enough to smell his breath lol.
Me nether. He was a
bit daunting.
Swinging George we
knew him as
Andy ! You sure
bought so many memories back to so many people good on you
Sad to think of
George being killed though , ( doing what he loved most I guess )!riding his
bike to & fro to the swings !!
This is the key, he
lived and died doing what was important to him
Exactly Denis!
Love it.
Yes certainly do.
In other news, we have a new single coming out in a week or so. It's a pop blues called BE SAD FOR ME. I broke the three minute barrier for this one.
Dave Graney And the mistLY
Feb 22nd Aotea Square concert Auckland Feb 23rd , Golden Dawn, Auckland
This was the running order for the Bowie In Berlin shows we did in January. The band was Clare Moore on drums and bv's, Stu Thomas on bass and bv's, JP Shilo and Pnny Ikinger on guitars, Miles Brown on vintage synths and theremin, Robin Casinader on piano, mellotron, organ and violin and Mick Harvery on percussion, bv's, sampler, acoustic guitar and lead vocals on one song. We rehearsed in the week before the end of 2016 and people tried out different songs. About four people wanted to do "Heroes" and clashed on other choices as well. Mick Harvey had to chooose songs and singers and then off we went. I chose songs that I thought were rockers and also were deep album tracks. In the end I also played harmonica on A New Career In A New Town as well. It was fun just running on and putting everything into a song and coming off. The show was more about the band and the music and the songs in the end. Blackout and JOE THE LION had really odd phrasing and changes. Difficult to remember the words. The recordings had great guitar lines and riffs that would have helped but they were buried in the artsy mixes. I had to look up live versions of the songs to see how Bowie and his band played the songs years after their originl recording, and saw how they straightened them out. These two songs had guitar lines that were real architectural, the original recordings obscured them as if they'd done it to something as strong as REBEL REBEL. Bowie just wrote great groovers and rockers but was trying to understate that. IMHO.
The band was exceptional and it was great fun pending time with all the singers too.
*means instrumental...
Warszawa - Michael Nolan
*A New Career in a New Town Sound and Vision – Jess R. & Michael Nolan Nightclubbing Kim Salmon Breaking Glass – Kim Salmon
* Art Decade Always Crashing in the Same Car - Ron Peno What in the World – Ron Peno
*Speed of Life
*Subterraneans - Max Sharam Be My Wife – Max Sharam Yassassin – Dave Graney The Secret Life of Arabia – Kylie Auldist
INTERMISSION
* Sense of Doubt Fantastic Voyage – Mick Harvey Beauty and the Beast – Kylie Auldist Joe the Lion – Dave Graney Sons of the Silent Age – Kim S. & Max Sh.
* Neukoln Red Money – Ron Peno Look Back in Anger – Ron Peno Blackout - Dave Graney D.J. – Kylie Auldist
* V-2 Schneider Heroes – Michael Nolan Boys Keep Swinging - Michael Nolan, Max Sharam, Kim Salmon
ENCORE
Funtime – Kim Salmon
Ok, we are still dealing with the late 2016 studio flood. Came home last night , driving through another monsoonal deluge in the hills. Roads streaming with water and debris. Around our street in the twilight three men were out dragging a large tree branch from the road in torrential rain. Kuckily, that very morning we'd had a roof plumber clear our gutters and attend to a problematic part of the roof. So we had no water inside. Result!
We play our first show of 2017 with the mistLY this Friday and i am really loking forward to it.
Upcoming
shows Dave Graney And the mistLY
Friday Feb 10th 2017
Appearing with VICTORIANA GAYE who are launching their new album
Caravan Club - Melbourne
Harry Howard and the NDE
Flying Saucer Club Feb 17th
Dave Graney And the mistLY
Feb 22nd Aotea Square concert Auckland Feb 23rd , Golden Dawn, Auckland
I've been reading some Wyndham Lewis, A Revenge For Love (1935), and some more Doris Lessing, London Observed (1992). We watched two seasons of the original Twin Peaks and also Ken Russell's THE DEVILS on VHS which was lent to us by Michael Nolan.
Neighbours has also been amazing with the return of DEE in 2017.
We went to the Sydney Myre Music Bowl twice in a week to see both Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds and PJ Harvey. Greatly enjoyed both gigs. That is a big "room". (Its open aired if you don't know) . I liked all of Nicks new stuff the best and PJ Harvey only really played stuff from her last two albums. That was good because they're the ones I like as well.
2016 ended for us with a deluge in outer Melbourne of biblical proportions. Had just gotten home froma long drive from South Australia. I'd been working in the basement studio but turned the desktop computer off when I heard thunder and lightning. Was sitting around watching the rain stream down the windows, hoping we were watertight and went to look downstairs again and saw, to my horror, rain streaming like an open tap from a light fitting directly above the computer, archival back up hard drives, mixing desk, keyboard and preamps. It was a swamp!
Brought all the gear upstairs as the rain eased and assessed the damage. Of course, you think the worst. It's all cactus.
Checked insurance coverage. Couple of days later took the computer and (seven) hard drives to a digital recoverybusiness. they opened all the devices and had a look and found they were all ok.
In the mean time we were rehearsing for a run of Bowie In Berlin shows in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane. Clare Moore was playing drums on 22 tracks and had to get across the material. I was one of five singers and had to get to grips with three orfour songs. Mick harvey was musical director and evenytually got the two sets together and assigned which songs to which singers.
The band , aside from Clare, was Stu Thomas on bass and vocals (amazingly well prepared) , JP Shilo and Penny Ikinger on guitars (ditto for chops, sounds and shating of parts), Miles Brown on vintage synths and theremin and Robin Casinader on piano and mellotron. Mick Harvey had vocals, percussion, guitar, sampler, kazoo and general band direction and conducting to take care of. it all sounded great.
The singers were myself, Ron Peno, Kim Salmon, Max Sharam, Kylie Auldist and Michael Nolan. (Jess Ribeiro also performed in melbourne)
The first show was a Friday night at the Triffid in Brisbane, kind of a hot house rock club show. the second was at a seated Enmore Theatre in Sydney on Saturdaty night and then Sunday at Hamer Hall in Melbourne. Friday 14th January we play at the Reagl Theatre in Perth. For this gig, Mick Harvey will be replaced by a local MD whom nobody knows so we are a bit tense about this. Mick is in Singapore playing with PJ Harvey.
I chose some pretty obscure songs for some reason. Joe The Lion and Blackout from Heroes and Yassassin from Lodger. I also pay harmonica on the instrumental A New Career In A New Town from Low.
It's been a great experience. So much respect for ALL the players getting across the material. A lot of the songs are great David Bowie pop rock grooves with a finicky veneer of artsy stuff happening in the arrangements and the mixing. Great guitar licks buried where they could have been bigger and more pronounced. Vocal lines coming in and out at odd, disjointed angles. Queer timings and extra bars here and there. (Everybody got to searching Youtube to see how Bowie and band actually played some of the tracks a couple of years or even decades later and found that they themsleves had had to straighten some of the kinks out, too.)
It's also been hliarious spending down time with Ron Peno and Kim Salmon. All of us used to performing whole shows and here, just running on to do a song or two as part of an ensemble.
Several singers wanted to do Heroes but Mick Harvey brought in Michael Nolan, who had been involved in some LINER NOTES type arts shows based around classic albums and performers, to do that song and he totally ruled it.
I have eventually re assembled the studio upstairs and everything seems to be working though I am furiously backing everything up again.
Apart from the music files going back more than a decade I had a couple of unpublished books.
Water damage downstairs has to be addressed and its not really an environment to be sitting in. Mould has set in part of the ceiling. Will be assessed in a fortnight as so much damage happened in the area. Quite a start to teh year.
We have a new digital single out and I'm figuring ut what to do for February's release.
This time it's, I NEED TO BE HOT.
We have some live shows coming up. Coral Snakes and mistLY shows to start with. A trip to New Zealand and a run of duo shows with some European friends in April.
Dave Graney And the mistLY
Friday Feb 10th 2017
Appearing with VICTORIANA GAYE who are launching their new album
Caravan Club - Melbourne
Harry Howard and the NDE
Flying Saucer Club Feb 17th
Dave Graney And the mistLY
Feb 22nd Aotea Square concert Auckland Feb 23rd , Golden Dawn, Auckland
It started in February with I'm A Good Hater and has continued for all of 2016.
A single song written, recorded and released each month. All instruments played by myself, and Clare Moore (except for Drifting Donna Reed which was an experiment in reusing an older band track (in the 70s reggae style), in this case that of You had To Be Drunk from 2007). Most of the tracks were credited to Dave Graney and Clare Moore.
There is apage on the official website with information and sound video links and lyrics to each track. Otherwise, you can follow these links.
What was I on about in these songs? I'm past being any kind of narrative writer. I always dropped gags in regard to what dopey thing my songs blew up from. I'm better than most songwriters. Its a known fact! People have terribly low expectations in regard to songwriting in general though. Being a musician is quite annoying sometimes because you're always running into people who think they know all about it. Hey - they know squat, really. Only a fighter knows what its like to get punched right in the mush. So I'll throw a few feckin' bones out here. Don't get mad- I know I ain't for everybody. I was thinking on what someone told at a party - to get started, then Willie Nelson, Al Green, Charlie Parker, the internet, John Mayall, Rupert and his attack dogs, Wyndham Lewis, Scott Morrison - Peter Dutton, Bligh, Work clothes and authenticity and is it better to be hot or cold?
Also Banana Lounge Broadcasting every Tuesday on Triple R. Got to speak to amazing people like Shirley Collins, Genevieve Fry, Barry Adamson, Kamasi Washington, and historians Henry Reynolds and Staurt McIntyre.
There was a tour of Europe , mainly built around an invitation to play at what may be the last ATP festival, curated by comedic artist, Stewart Lee.
These shows in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Manchester, Wales, London, France, Amsterdam and Brussels were great to play. A special experience playing with Malcolm Ross on guitar again. The two guitar band with Malcolm and myself was excellent fun. (When we played in the late 80s and early 90s I could write songs on the guitar but never performed with one.) Very fresh, people would say, "it's like Television!" Malcolm and I would look at each other with raised eyebrows and nod our heads and go along with it. Got to take compliments like that on the chin!
We played further shows as Dave Graney 'n the Coral Snakes , all of which were very enjoyable and powerful events More are planned for next year.
We also played shows in Australia as Dave Graney and the mistLY. Thats me, Clare, Stu Thomas and Stuart Perera. Highlights were two gigs at the jazz club bennetts Lane and the Grandview in Fairfield. The band is so perfect for my songs. Playing at a low volume like you have to do at Bennetts is a real treat. Everything at the level of the bass drum. The voices all present in the room. I loved it. Very different to the Coral Snakes, though each band plays songs all written by me. With the Coral Snakes I don't play guitar, I just bring some moves and work the mic.
photo by Barry C Douglas
We recorded the third album for Harry Howard and the NDE before we left for Europe and it came out when we got back. More shows were done and harry and Edwina toured Europe with some players from over there. (We were unable to do the dates due to other committments)
I wrote a second memoir which is being considered by a publisher for release next year and continued to work at a novel I've been trying to crack for years now.
At the moment we are focussed on rehearsing for the Bowie in Berlin show we are both involved in (as well as Stu Thomas on bass) for the first week of January.
Then there are shows booked for the mistLY, the Coral Snakes and a run of shows as a duo in regional NSW. Dave Graney and Clare Moore alongh with international comrades, Georgio "the Dove" Valentino and Patrizia F.
We intend to be back in Europe mid year.
Thanks to everybody for your support in 2016! Now we all enter the Trump years of what I have heard termed as THE AGE OF ANGER!
We've got to live through it so let's be tough together. Let's Get Tight!
Upcoming
shows
4th annual Boxing Day Joint- Dave Graney and Clare Moore at the Hotel Metro in Adelaide. Playing with special guests the Cowboys Of Love. Monday Dec 26th
Dave Graney – one of several vocalists (with Kylie Auldist, Kim Salmon, Ron Peno, Max Sharam) in the show BOWIE IN BERLIN – music director Mick Harvey. Clare Moore drums, Stu Thomas bass, Robin Casinader keys, Miles Brown on classic synths.
Jan 6th – Triffid Brisbane,
Jan 7th Enmore theatre Sydney,
Jan 8th Hamer Hall Melbourne
Jan 14th Regal Theatre Perth
Dave Graney And the mistLY
Friday Feb 10th 2017
Appearing with VICTORIANA GAYE who are launching their new album
Caravan Club - Melbourne
Harry Howard and the NDE
Flying Saucer Club Feb 17th
Dave Graney And the mistLY
Feb 22nd Aotea Square concert Auckland Feb 24th , Golden Dawn, Auckland
Yes, first post since Trump got elected. Nobody saw that coming. Though the hot takes on why what happened happened have been dizzying. Post believing anybody situation.
Can only be bad for humanity, that's a given. IMHO.
The right wingers are so happy. Here we have the drivelling idiots led by Red Headed Hanson saying " I told ya so!". Malcolm Roberts, wild eyed Senator voted in by 77 people, acting as if he is representing the nation. Calling out the CSIRO, the Bureau of Meterology, NASA... hey every scientist in the world, that climate change is a sham. God help us. I have empirical evidence, he is an idiot. But what do I know? I mean , what do I do with what I know?
Brandis, what an arse. Attorney General for business, former arts minister.
Scott Morrison, minister for Cronulla. His language is reaching for ? Dunno. Not anything poetic or grand. Formerly the immigration minister, he delighted in "taking the sugar from the table", so asylum seekers could not espy a glimmer of hope. .
Now he's the Treasurer. He uses phrases such as "the government has wiped it's face". I don't know what he's trying to say. I think it's an allusion to a small child getting it's face dirty and wiping it. Some small idea of domestic irritation and mad, sugar driven activity again.
Then he started going on about Labour "squeezing the lemon". He was saying "you can only squeeze the lemon so much...." I found this most disturbing as it has always been a sexual metaphor. Muddy Waters or Willie Dixon used it and then Led Zeppelin stole it for "The Lemon Song". I don't want politicians talking in sexual metaphors!
Next he'll be weilding and waving his "throbbing purple headed Gila Monster " at some poor woman on the ABC. (Not with Ray Hadley, who hosts Morrison regularly). Keep it in your pants, mate!
Then Dutton. The immigration minister. From Northern Queensland. A former cop. I'm writing in three letter sentences. An evil brute.
The Trump election has hypercharged all these right wingers and encoraged them to really let fly.
They are really telling us what they reckon. Dutton thinks the Liberal govt of 1977 let in too many Lebanese. Thats how far back he's gone so far.
DUTTON DRESSED AS MAN!
I wrote this song during the election in June. But it kept being relevant. Times are tough, bastardry everywhere.
The IPA running policy. Who are they? Neo Con bastards. Bastards Incorporated!
This was how Rupert directed his readers in Sydney in the 2013 election.
In case you missed it , we had a release asking what will happen to Rupert's pets? The generously salaried lapdogs who do his bidding? Who do they sup with now? How will history see them? Who will clean their graves when they die?
No more shows for 2016. Getting busy in January, as part of this David Bowie show.
ANNUAL BOXING DAY show at the METRO in Adelaide Dec 26th - Dave Graney and Clare Moore with special guests.
Dave Graney – one of several vocalists (with Kylie Auldist, Kim Salmon, Ron Peno, Max Sharam) in the show BOWIE IN BERLIN – music director Mick Harvey. Clare Moore drums, Stu Thomas bass, Robin Casinader keys Jan 6th – Triffid Brisbane, Jan 7th Enmore theatre Sydney, Jan 8th Hamer Hall MelbourneJan 14th Regal Theatre Perth
Dave Graney And the mistLY
Friday Feb 10th 2017
Appearing with VICTORIANA GAYE who are launching their new album
Caravan Club - Melbourne
Harry Howard and the NDE
Flying Saucer Club Feb 17th
Dave Graney And the mistLY
Feb 22nd Aotea Square concert Auckland Feb 24th , Golden Dawn, Auckland
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
