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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.

Sunday, June 11, 2023

Dave Graney and the Coral Snakes Night Of The Wolverine 30th anniversary tour in July-August

 

We are looking forward to the Night Of The Wolverine 30th Anniversary tour which starts July 28th in Canberra at the Street Theatre and runs through to August 26th at Gosford on the NSW central coast.

Clare Moore on drums, Rod Hayward on guitar and Robin Casinader on keys and violin. Stu Thomas will be sitting in with us on bass.
We will be playing two sets, the first being the Night Of The Wolverine album and the second filled with songs that came before and after that breakthrough (for us) record. Its a decade of licks, moves and changes compressed into a couple of hours. We will also be issuing a vinyl version of the album (It came out on Compact Disc originally). This will be a double album with gatefold sleeve.

The album should be in production this week after being remastered for vinyl production and release over the last month. A double gatefold album cover, two discs at 33RPM ( we thought of 45rpm but were advised it would not be the best to do that).  Jamie Coghill did a great job on the cover with  a collage on the inner side of the greatfoldnd more ephemeral artefacts and lyrics on an insert page. We will be making pre-orders available via our Bandcamp page when we have some finished copies. It will be available at the shows and in selected shops. 



Friday 28 July – The Street Theatre, Canberra ACT
Tickets


Saturday 29 July
– Blue Mountains Theatre, Springwood NSW
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Thursday 3 August
– The Factory Theatre, Marrickville NSW
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Friday 4 August
- The Imperial, Eumundi QLD
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Saturday 5 August
– The Old Museum, Brisbane QLD
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Sunday 6 August – HOTA, Surfers Paradise QLD
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Friday 11 August
– The Royal Oak, Launceston TAS
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Saturday 12 August
– Gnomon Room, Ulverstone TAS
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Sunday 13 August
– The Palais Theatre, Franklin TAS
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Friday 18 August
– The Corner, Richmond VIC
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Saturday 19 August
- The Gov, Adelaide SA
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Friday 25 August
– The Heritage, Bulli NSW
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Saturday 26 August
– Drifter’s Wharf, Gosford NSW
Tickets 

 

There's also this. My comprehensive lyric book.

 



THERE HE GOES WITH HIS EYE OUT.

BOOK.

Dave Graney Lyrics 1980-2023.



Everything from the Moodists to the latest albums and beyond. Includes  some descriptions of intent as to the song or music in question and also some notes as to production approaches and chords.

Book design is based on a classic French Éditions Gallimard NRF form of paperback. All text, no images. 374 pages.

Thanks to Simon Strong from Ekranoplans for help in editing and formatting.



You can only get the book via our Bandcamp page.

 

Our shows in Perth and Fremantle went really well.  Clare Moore and I played with Marty Casey from the Bad Seeds/Trifids on bass. It was great to spend some time with him and he was well across two sets of songs we had casually asked him to see what he could do with. We also played a couple of songs from the Moodists.




(We had originally booked the shows for February but these had to be re-scheduled as we contracted Covid19 for the second time. Our bass player Stu Thomas was busy with shows for his band THE SILVERSOUND).

 

Our album In A Mistly is still great!




Thursday, April 20, 2023

There He Goes WIth His Eye Out lyric book out now Night Of The Wolverine 30th Anniversary tour


 

 

THERE HE GOES WITH HIS EYE OUT.

BOOK.

Dave Graney Lyrics 1980-2023.



Everything from the Moodists to the latest albums and beyond. Includes
some descriptions of intent as to the song or music in question and also
some notes as to production approaches and chords.

Book design is based on a classic French Éditions Gallimard NRF form of paperback. All text, no images. 374 pages.

Thanks to Simon Strong from Ekranoplans for help in editing and formatting.



You can only get the book via our Bandcamp page.

 


Recent story in THE GUARDIAN by Andrew Stafford about our Night Of The Wolverine 30th anniversary tour. Great photos by Charlie Kinross.




Friday 28 July – The Street Theatre, Canberra ACT
Tickets


Saturday 29 July
– Blue Mountains Theatre, Springwood NSW
Tickets


Thursday 3 August
– The Factory Theatre, Marrickville NSW
Tickets


Friday 4 August
- HOTA, Surfers Paradise QLD
Tickets


Saturday 5 August
– The Old Museum, Brisbane QLD
Tickets



Sunday 6 August – The Imperial, Eumundi QLD
Tickets


Friday 11 August
– The Royal Oak, Launceston TAS
Tickets


Saturday 12 August
– Gnomon Room, Ulverstone TAS
Tickets


Sunday 13 August
– The Palais Theatre, Franklin TAS
Tickets


Friday 18 August
– The Corner, Richmond VIC
Tickets


Saturday 19 August
- The Gov, Adelaide SA
Tickets


Friday 25 August
– The Heritage, Bulli NSW
Tickets


Saturday 26 August
– Drifter’s Wharf, Gosford NSW
Tickets



Looking forward to playing these shows with original Coral Snakes Clare Moore on drums, Rod Hayward on guitar and Robin Casinader on keys and violin. Stu Thomas will be sitting in with us on bass.
We will be playing two sets, the first being the Night Of The Wolverine album and the second filled with songs that came before and after that breakthrough (for us) record. Its a decade of licks, moves and changes compressed into a couple of hours. Powerful. We also have plans to be issuing a vinyl version of the album (It came out on Compact Disc originally). This will be a double album with gatefold sleeve.

 

Classic Album Of The Week for Night Of The Wolverine recently on ABC Double J FM.

Caroline Tran did and interview with Clare Moore and myself which is up on their page. We talked about the experience around the making of the record and several songs. It was nice to chat about our work and all week people have been in touch via social media in regard to this album. It has been very positive.

 Also, thanks to everybody who came to our shows for IN A MISTLY. The Nightcat gig in Melbourne with Mick Medew and Ursula was great. Such a wonderful venue. Melbourne is the place where we get the least support from the rock community but our own community turned out for us. Thank you! It was excellent to play with Stu Thomas and Stuart Perera again. Powerful!

Canberra at Smiths was a great two set affair with Adele Pickvance joining us on bass. A great crowd of people, like playing in a small club theatre environment and Bevan always gets such a  tremendous sound. We then played in Sydney at THE GREAT, a venue which has been bedevilled by a  noisy complaining neighbour but I hope they win and are able to keep open. Dave Wray came from Lismore to play sax with us again. Incredibly good musician. Our Sydney band! Two sets again and it really hit some amazing high spots.

On the Sunday Adele had to run a 4ZZZ community radio gig in Brisbane so Dave Wray, myself and Clare travelled to Woy Woy on the Central Coast. Our booker Steve Griffiths brought along a bass and sat in with us for about eight songs - including two from our Moodists period. That was great. We were almost involved in a  fight with a drifting mopoke before the show as we tried to eat our food after a long drive. I had no patience with the schmo. He sat himself down too close to me and also to our food and was drunk at lunchtime and proceeded to tell us how he didnt know we were in a  band and how was he to know and who are we anyway and ..... etc etc  etc . Dave Wray eventually figured out he was not a friend of ours or Steves and ushered the fellow away. (He weaved back past us again in an attempt to annoy Dave - which worked). 

Anyway, it was a great time at Woy Woy!

Clare Moore and I then stayed in Sydney for  a week and caught up with some friends who we only normally see as we rush through town doing a show. All the NSW gigs were SOLD OUT which was a great tonic for myself and Clare.

Dave Graney and Clare Moore West Australian dates for our album IN A MISTLY have been re-scheduled for May. Martyn Casey will be playing bass with us at these shows.
Get the album on CD here.



Friday 12 May - Lyric's Underground (Maylands)

Saturday 13 May 2023 7:00 PM - 11:00 PM

The Vault Restaurant 21 Haynes Street, Kalamunda WA



6:00pm, Sun 14 May, 2023

The Duke of George, Fremantle WA  

 


Sunday, March 19, 2023

In A Mistly Launches happening and starting this week in Melbourne

 

 

Thursday March 23rd we play our Melbourne In A Mistly album launch at the Nightcat in Johnston st Fitzroy.  We played every Wednesday night in 1999 at 8pm at this venue in one of the first things we did in our post Coral Snakes period. Mick Medew and Ursula will be coming down from Brisbane to open the show as a way to launch their album Love Is Calling in Melbourne as well. This is a very rare Melbourne show for us and we will be playing with the mistLY. Stu Thomas on bass and Stuart Perera on guitar with Clare Moore on drums and myself on guitar and vocals.


Friday March 31st we play Smiths in Canberra.

Saturday April 1st we launch In A Mistly in Sydney at the Great Club in Marrickville. 

Sunday April 2nd we play The Link And Pin  -
18A Railway St, , Woy Woy NSW 2256

 

Our West Australian dates have been re-scheduled for May. Martyn Casey will be playing bass with us at these shows.


Lyric's Underground (Maylands, WA)

Friday, 12 May 2023 7:30 PM


Saturday 13 May 2023 7:00 PM - 11:00 PM (UTC+08)

The Vault Restaurant
21 Haynes Street, Kalamunda WA 6076

 

6:00pm, Sun 14 May, 2023

The Duke of George, Fremantle WA

 

Its been a weirder time than usual being a musician and songwriter. (Which is what I see myself as having done with my life).

So many tours have come out of the blocks like a pipe that had been blocked for several years being backed up with sludge and then spewing it all out. The Victorian state government helping struggling artists like Billy Joel and Elton John to fill stadiums by sponsoring tours. (Allegedly)

We released In A Mistly in Nov 2022 and are just now playing launches for it. The music has been great to record and then to play. Playing with different musicians has been a really enriching and energizing experience too. 

The album has been written up by some supporters in music media situations or roles from the UK and Australia. Thanks Bob, Chris, Noel, Arun, Arnold, Robert and everybody who has supported us so far. You know you are right!

Its been tough otherwise but as ConwaySavage was always wont to say, "whoever said playing music was an easy ride?"  (Or words to that effect)  I can't take any of this personally as I am aware the machine is broken and has been for decades.

Jeff Jenkins is  an old school entertainment writer from Melbourne who takes his position seriously and cares about people and thinks about the whole scene. He wrote a story about mainstream media's treatment of music in Australia.

 Nevertheless, In A Mistly is a great album and is up there with the high standard we have kept maintaining for decades now.  Humming! We return to form every time!


 

Out of the blue we found we were Classic Album Of The Week this very week on Double J FM which is a digital platform for people who like music but presumably fall outside of the tight teen demographic which the main FM music station, JJJ is concerned with.

Caroline Tran did and interview with Clare Moore and myself which is up on their page. We talked about the experience around the making of the record and several songs. It was nice to chat about our work and all week people have been in touch via social media in regard to this album. It has been very positive.We have been planning to do some shows around that album in July and will announce them when they are all set. That run of dates will be by Dave Graney and the Coral Snakes. Rod Hayward on guitar and Robin Casinader on keys. 

 


Looking forward to playing these shows. We have had some intensive rehearsals and I've just been working on my guitar setup and looking into my wardobe. (I had to throw some stuff out in order to be able to peer into it)

I've also been writing and recording quite a lot but am in several minds about what to do with recorded music at all. 

The situation is so odd with digital recording freeing musicians from having to work with record companies to acess their capital but then digital platforms like Spotify devaluing music almost totally. Then there is the strange re-emergence of vinyl records as physical artefacts but they are so expensive to make that you need a record company so as to access their capital to do so. Huh?

I like Compact Discs. I play them in my house and in my car. I have thousands of old vinyl records but never buy anything new. Its too peverse for me. Its like craft beer to me. Superfluous stuff. Weird.

I sometimes think I would like to just release music digitally only and will probably head more in that direction.

I love to perform music live most of all and will continue to do that. Hopefully this will be the last of an album tour kind of cycle. There has to be a more interesting way. Generally, I love surprises in music. Presenting new things. Probably playing music that is unrecorded - or unreleased- would be the best. 

I am also aware that I live and work in Australia.

 

Currently reading ADA by Nabokov. ( Could be affecting my state of mind)

Recently finished The Sweetest Dream by Doris Lessing and The Big Whatever by Peter Doyle. 

Currently watching episodes of the Canadian comedy LETTERKENNY.



Wednesday, February 22, 2023

A post from a Facebook group about the streets I grew up in and the footballers who all came from one block.

 



FROM THE ARCHIVES
NELSON STREET BOYS AND ‘NEIGHBOURS’
NEIGHBOURHOOD OF STARS
Part 2
By GRAHAM GREENWOOD
CONTINUING The Nelson Street Boys story, it also includes some stars who made it big in sport from neighbouring streets.
But first, to finish off Nelson Street, one resident family was the Cutting family who lived there during the 1950s and 60s.
Kevin Cutting was closely aligned with East Gambier and was the manager of East Gambier Sportsmen’s Club during the early 1970s before becoming the publican of the Port MacDonnell Hotel.
Of his children, Anthony was a promising colts footballer with East but died as a result of accident in 1979. Kevin’s daughter Helen married Simon Carey who was instrumental in East’s success during the 1970s and 80s as a runner, selector and recruiter.
Over the years he recruited Paul Lynch from Beaufort, Victoria. Lynch later married Kevin’s other daughter Di. Lynch was a tough, no-nonsense follower from the Ballarat League and made a big impression at East. Carey also recruited top players such as David Wilson (son of Penola goal kicking champion Ernie who won the SEBFL goal kicking in 1959), John Sidebottom, Dennis Finn and Mike Wood. Many of these became premiership players at East.
Carey was a radio announcer with 5SE and moved to Sydney where he worked in radio there.
Surrounding Nelson Street were plenty of other young kids who kicked the footy with the Nelson Street boys. On some nights and weekends there were as many as 20 kids kicking the footy end to end in Nelson Street and it was highly competitive.
Nelson Street ran into Wayne Glynn’s family’s home in Werona Street. Glynn kicked 10 goals at full forward as a teenager in his first A grade game for South Gambier in the early 1980s and later, as a talented batsman, would become a Barber Shield cricket premiership player at South and later president of the footy club until just recently.
The Dempsey family home in Boandik Terrace backed onto the Brooksby home in Nelson Street and Michael Dempsey broke into A grade at 17 and was destined to become a top player until illness cut short his career.
Peter Dempsey played in six grand finals with East during the 1980s, after debuting in the late 1970s. He won flags in 1982, 83 and 88. He was quick around the ground and could hold his own in any key position such as centre half back but played his best footy in the centre. He played centre in East’s 1982 premiership win over South Gambier. He also captained the club. The 1988 premiership broke a “drought” of losing the previous three grand finals in succession.
Patrick Dempsey also played with East and was part of two Reserve grade premierships.
The Graney clan were just a drop kick away around the corner from Nelson Street and the boys followed their father Noel Graney who, with Soapy Heazlewood, were the first two players to receive life membership at East. They tossed a coin to see who would be named first on the honour board. Noel played in the back pocket with East through the 1950s and was highly regarded as a top defender.
Phil Graney broke into East A grade in the late 1960s after starring in colts footy. He played under state full back Tracey Braidwood as coach in 1969 and was a member of Gary Lazarus’ team which lost the 1971 grand final to West Gambier. Blessed with pace and ball skills he played as a half forward on that grand final day. David Graney was another who played at senior level and was talented player, while Steve Graney debuted at 15 years of age in A grade in the mid 1970s and was also an A grade basketballer with Waratah in the early 1970s.
A dashing half back flanker, or utility player, Steve played in East’s losing 1978 grand final while the youngest of the clan - Sean was a member of East’s 1988 premiership side and among their best players on that day.
At the east end of Nelson Street on the corner in Allawah Street, the Lucas family lived and Robert Lucas was a junior tennis star and as a teenager played in St Mary’s A1 grade tennis premiership side in the 1960s. He was also a top junior cricketer and footballer but did not pursue those sports into seniors as he later went into politics and was state Treasurer in the previous Liberal State Government.
What is interesting about Nelson Street and the surrounding streets is that in an area possibly not much bigger than the size of a soccer field, this small area produced so many top sports people during the 1950s, 60s and 70s.
AUTHOR’S NOTE: Acknowledgment is given to Harry Young for jolting my memory and reminding me how many stars came out of Nelson Street (part 1) and Peter Dempsey for assisting with some of the names and details in Part 2 of The Nelson Street story and neighbouring streets.
· PHOTO: Three-time East premiership player, Peter Dempsey
Ends

 
In the Western Border League team at Victoria Park, Collingwoods ground. If you were to play in the VFL you were "zoned" for Collingwood. I'm up the back with my green and white surf shirt under my guernsey. Mark Yeates far right in bottom row, famously tried to destroy Dermott Brereton at the start of the 1989 AFL Grand Final.

My brother Steve, second from left in the second row. A whole team of Under 18 bruisers. 


 
 
My younger brother Sean and his mates post 1988 WBFL Grand Final which was won by East Gambier.
 

Tuesday, February 21, 2023

The Mistly Players

 

After the show in Murwillumbah I was sitting having a cup of tea in our very nice bandroom and Dave Wray was continuing his way through his bottle of Talisker whisky. If he was dousing himself, he was not getting any more mellow. He spoke so fast he was outrunning his own mind. We were just talking of jazz people. he loved Louis Jordan and I was throwing names I’d know or heard of throughmy own investigatons into late 40s or early 50s black American music. Wynonie Harris, Lowell Fulson, T Bone Walker, Nat King Cole, Amos Milburn, Charles Brown, he could talk about any of them. And when we approached the legend of Charlie Parker it was like walking through an art gallery with an actual painter who knows all about the game and the rooms and the grifts and the original rulers. The ones who laid down the grids.

 

 

He was talking about his own playing and how he was exhausted physically from being tensed up and holding himself ready to blow as he followed my changes on the guitar. He was saying that more time to rehearse and play the songs would get him to a different level with the material. He talked of Charlie Parker hitting every note hard and clean. No sliding into or out of notes or phrases, he knew the lines and played them perfectly. He was saying how good it sounds when a horn player is there – in the groove or pocket and right there on the beat. 

 

 

 

It had been great playing with him on sax and he and Adele had taken in and played a lot of new material in a very short time. A whirlwind weekend.

Adele Pickvance comes from a very different musical place. She started playing bass in Brisbane rooms with her father as a duo. Keyboards and bass. They got paid more as a duo. At first she was even plugged in but she stood there and learned all the notes to the songs. It was her school, where she paid her dues. She has never been phased by being on a stage. Her favourite band is Queen and she loved Paul McCartneys musical Give My Regards To Broad Street. In other words, her taste is yet to touch the bottom! (Another MCCartney album title, almost – Kisses On The Bottom). She plays in a very McCartneysque way. Ask Robyn Hitchcock! Melodic and playful and full of bounce.

She plays and records with her band Adele And The Chandeliers and does a show on ZZZin Brisbane with Ian Powne from the Stress Of Leisure called Brighten The Corners. 

Here is a live clip which also feature Robert Forsters partner, Karin Baumler.  


 

 

Stu Thomas introduced us to the ever expanding world of Lee Hazlewood when he did a show of Lees songs. “None of the hits- just deep album cuts”. Such amazing material. Stu’s first instrument was the trumpet and he brought that along to the Bewdy Of Speed show in 2009 when we made a mad run through Miles Davis In A Silent Way. He was great to sit and talk music with. He loved all periods of Miles, even the last electro styled ones with Marcus Miller being most of the band. Stu also loves Kiss. His generation, I guess, we could never buy into that stuff. Stu is a fearless solo performer and takes songs way out of their comfort zones . He professes a love for 60s surf instrumental sounds and loves to fuss over reverb and delay pedals. His first solo gigs I saw were all songs from biker movies. The only one I can remember is Killing For Satan. He also “finished off” a sketch of a song that either Nick Cave or Brad Pitt sang in Johnny Suede called Mamas Boy. He also sang Lee H’s Girl On Death Row and Johnny Guitar from the movie of the same name starring Joan Crawford. He did a great version of the movie theme (covered by David Bowie on Station To Station) Wild Is The Wind as well as the Bond song Thunderball. All this done mostly with vocal and a Burns Baritone guitar. Stu can really get to the jazz elements of my chord voicings and his harmony vocals are great, either the super high or super low notes.

 

 

 

 

 

Stu Thomas is playing in a Melbourne band called SILVERSOUND with Shane O'Mara and Andrew Tanner. 

 

 


Stuart Perera has played with us since 1998 when we saw him playing in a Victorian College Of the Arts jazz band. He is still playing the same guitar, a black left handed solid body Rickenbacker. He has gone through a few different kinds of amps and at the moment has the same kind as me, a Vox MV50 head with a speaker box. These heads are 22W valve but the size of a large-ish pedal. Stu is always into making things small and compact. He lives that way too, leaving a small footprint. He is the best educated of any of us and is a very thoughtful person. A positive guy. Musically he tunes into my stuff very instinctively and his playing on In A Mistly (on four tracks) is amazing. Once, when we had Stu and Billy Miller on guitar- around 2001-2- I thought I would stop playing my guitar and just be a stand up singer again. (That’s what I did through all the music we made all through to end of the Coral Snakes period). They looked at each other sheepishly as they had to admit that neither of them actually knew the chords to any of my songs. They had just been playing licks by ear all the while.

Stu doesn’t really collect any kind of music or go to lots of shows. He is certainly not an indie rock guy. He practices guitar and plays it. 

He used to play a lot around bars and clubs in Melbourne with dance bands. Again, not real rock culture outfits and the players were all from the mutli cultural world that Stuart comes from and lives in. This was one of them. 


 

 

Thursday March 23rd we play our Melbourne In A Mistly album launch at the Nightcat in Johnston st Fitzroy.  We played every Wednesday night in 1999 at 8pm at this venue in one of the first things we did in our post Coral Snakes period. Mick Medew and Ursula will be coming down from Brisbane to open the show as a way to launch their album Love Is Calling in Melbourne as well. 

Friday March 31st we play Smiths in Canberra.

Saturday April 1st we launch In A Mistly in Sydney at the Great Club in Marrickville. 

Sunday April 2nd we play The Link And Pin  -
18A Railway St, , Woy Woy NSW 2256

 

Our West Australian dates have been re-scheduled for May.


Lyric's Underground (Maylands, WA)

Friday, 12 May 2023 7:30 PM


Saturday 13 May 2023 7:00 PM - 11:00 PM (UTC+08)

The Vault Restaurant
21 Haynes Street, Kalamunda WA 6076

 

6:00pm, Sun 14 May, 2023

The Duke of George, Fremantle WA


Robert Brokenmouth critiques In A Mistly from within the i94bar rock action web magazine

 

WA Dates re-scheduled-Melbourne Canberra and Sydney happening soon.

 We were both testing negative as we headed to Brisbane to hook up with Adele Pickvance who was to play bass with us for a weekend of shows. Sounds easy and it actually turned out that way. Of course, it could have gone pear shaped at any turn and we were probably expecting that. (Nothing to do with Adele, more to do with airlines and trashed gear and hire cars etc). 




 

Adele had played with us from 1998 to 2004 so she knew a lot of our songs. She learned quite a few from the new album and we were able to do two sets. The first show was on the Gold Coast and Dave Wray - who was to play sax - met us at Adele's flat in Brisbane and drove with Clare and some of the gear to the venue. He had driven from Lismore. 



Dave had sang a few songs on our album The Devil Drives back in 1997 but had never got his sax out. We had gone over a few songs via Zoom in the previous week. He had also played on three tracks on the album In A Mistly.

The venue was  in an industrial estate and was totally tooled for rock music. Great gear and facilities. We had plenty of foldback and played a loud couple of sets .

I had never played my songs with a band containing sax before and it felt so good. I felt like Lou Reed in the 70s! It added to the groove and the melodies. Old songs like You're Just Too Hip got a new dimension to them. I loved it. 

 


Dave had learned parts for every song we played. Rhythmic and melodic lines as well as solo parts. Tenor and soprano sax. He is an amazingly energetic character and dazzles with Shakespearean soliloquoys in a  George Formby one moment and then talk of Louis Jordan and Charlie Parker and the Simpsons and Witnail and I the next. He is like Neal Casady must have been, energy itself. 

We stayed on the Gold Coast and then drove to Lennox Heads where we visited friendsand then to Eltham where we played at the hotel. Eltham is basically a cafe, a hotel and some tennis courts. People come from all over the area and we played in an outdoor area for two sets.

Three old time Mt Gambier people were in the audience and it was great catching up after the show.



I was wearing sandals and short sleeved shirts and I was playing my Maton Mastersound guitar.

On Saturday we drove to Murwillumbah and set up to play at the Citadel, a lovely old Salvation Army hall, run as a collective by local people.

We had played there previously but as a duo. As we slammed into the first song a woman in the front row got up loudly to complain that it was far too loud and she had to leave. Dave got upset but I thought we'd just keep on playing as you can't please everybody. It turned out that she was a cousin of a cousin of mine and came up to apologize and said it was better for her to sit outside and listen. A room full of very nice people at this venue. All sorts of ages and a lot of women. Smart people.  

We stayed until it was far too late, talking with people.



On Saturday afternoon February 25th Clare Moore and I play an opening set for Dog Trumpet at the Northcote Social Club. We will be on quite early. About 1:30pm.

 

Thursday March 23rd we play our Melbourne In A Mistly album launch at the Nightcat in Johnston st Fitzroy.  We played every Wednesday night in 1999 at 8pm at this venue in one of the first things we did in our post Coral Snakes period. Mick Medew and Ursula will be coming down from Brisbane to open the show as a way to launch their album Love Is Calling in Melbourne as well. 

Friday March 31st we play Smiths in Canberra.

Saturday April 1st we launch In A Mistly in Sydney at the Great Club in Marrickville. 

Sunday April 2nd we play The Link And Pin  -
18A Railway St, , Woy Woy NSW 2256

 

Our West Australian dates have bee re-scheduled for May.


Lyric's Underground (Maylands, WA)

Friday, 12 May 2023 7:30 PM


Saturday 13 May 2023 7:00 PM - 11:00 PM (UTC+08)

The Vault Restaurant
21 Haynes Street, Kalamunda WA 6076

 

6:00pm, Sun 14 May, 2023

The Duke of George, Fremantle WA


Robert Brokenmouth critiques In A Mistly from within the i94bar rock action web magazine







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...
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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