WE WUZ CURIOUS. 2007 Jazz pop masterpiece.Contains "lets kill god again" and "I'm in the future now" as well as "punk dies" and "junk time". AVAILABLE FROM OUR WEBSITE- http://www.thedavegraneyshow.com
AND CAN BE ORDERED THERE VIA PAYPAL. YOU GET THE DISC MAILED FROM US, IMPREGNATED WITH OUR PRECIOUS DNA, BREATHED UPON BY US AND THE PACKAGING EVEN LICKED LOVINGLY BY OUR WORK EXPERIENCE CHIMP! SIGNED (IF YOU WANT- PLEASE ASK ) SEALED AND DELIVERED! ITS A GREAT ALBUM AND WE LOVED MAKING IT. THE COVER ART IS ANOTHER MEISTERWERK FROM Mr TONY MAHONY WHO HAS DONE PRETTY MUCH ALL OUR SLEEVES SINCE "LURE OF THE TROPICS" IN 1992. ITS A SCORCHER!
Dave Graney , vocals and sometimes guitar
Clare Moore, vocals and drums and sometimes vibes
Stuart Perera, guitar
Stuart Thomas, aka Stu D aka Count Dracula, bass
Bill Miller, vocals, guitar
Mark Fitzgibbon,piano
KEEPIN" IT UNREAL, Our vibes, bass and 12 string acoustic/minimalist/lyrical set .Contains "Diamonds fur coat champagne" and "you put a spell on me". AVAILABLE FROM OUR WEBSITE- http://www.thedavegraneyshow.com
AND CAN BE ORDERED THERE VIA PAYPAL. YOU GET THE DISC MAILED FROM US,
SALMON- ROCK FORMATIONS - 6 electric guitars and two drummers.All composed and devised by Kim Salmon.Towering art rock music. Available in CD or in Double Gatefold Vinyl lp version ( with extra tracks...) AVAILABLE FROM OUR WEBSITE- http://www.thedavegraneyshow.com
NIGHT OF THE WOLVERINE 2004 Re-Issue<> with extra tracks. AVAILABLE FROM OUR WEBSITE- http://www.thedavegraneyshow.com
AND CAN BE ORDERED THERE VIA PAYPAL. YOU GET THE DISC MAILED FROM US. COVER ART BY TONY MAHONY !
HEROIC BLUES 2002 "FOLK SOUL" cd. Contains the title track , "leavin' the Mount" and "don't mess with the blood"
AVAILABLE FROM OUR WEBSITE- http://www.thedavegraneyshow.com
AND CAN BE ORDERED THERE . COVER ART BY TONY MAHONY. Dave Graney,ClareMoore,Stu Perera,Adele Pickvance,BillMiller
Influences
2009. lurid yellow mist, Stu Thomas, Clare Moore, Stuart Perera, Mark Fitzgibbon, Bill Miller, Kim Salmon, Paul Westerberg, the Wagons, Guillaume Apollinaire, JG Ballard, William Burroughs, Christopher Koch, Robert Gray, Beau Brummel, Sir Richard Burton, Wild Bill Hickock, Raymond Chandler, James M Cain, Richard Stark, Paul Cain, Cornell Woolrich, Lou Reed, Rufus Thomas, Jerry Lee Lewis, Schooly D, the Fall , Slick Rick, Howlin Wolf, the punk rock flash, jazz, country, hip hop, r&b...
Sounds Like
Longevity and diversity are two words that immediately spring to mind when contemplating the career and personality of Dave Graney. With almost 30 years of experience as a recording artist and performer and a tireless commitment to reinventing himself through the exploration of frequently shifting group dynamics and sounds, Graney has produced wildly varied and eclectic body of work spanning over twenty albums with bands such as the Moodists and the Coral Snakes.
As a songwriter who thrives on unfluctuating levels of creative energy to drive his detailed and graphic narratives and soundscapes, Graney has shown no signs of slowing down. “Knock Yourself Out” is his latest work and while it is a singular achievement in that is his first record without a band backing, it closely reflects a disciplined and absorbed approach towards assembling music that is common to each of the albums tat he has been involved in. Focus and planning may not be part of the Graney ethic in the eyes of fans drawn to the more ad-hoc and unhinged elements of his music, but by the artists own admission “Knock Yourself Out” involved a great deal of thought and attention directed towards the recording process to ensure that the end product turned out exactly as planned.
“it’s a way to focus people on the way that we make the record” says Graney about the choice he made in releasing “Knock Yourself Out” under his name only. “Every record has been a bit different that way. the last one, “We Wuz Curious” (2008- credited to the Lurid yellow Mist-featuring dave Graney and Clare Moore) , was a very collective record ...we went into the studio and did it all together in one day.” Working according to a structural model is also a way of being productive and cohesive. “With digital recording there are endless possibilities with time and space” he adds. “I find you have to have some strategy in place to have a bit of an event. Otherwise it’s just endless”.
Dave graney’s intentions for “Knock Yourself Out” as a musical statement are extremely concise and direct. the album is littered with boxing imagery with the title track evoking the spirit and passion of the boxer as a metaphor for the singers own larger than life persona and creative reach. While the singer freely invokes fiction and secondary characters, a trend stemming from his career long interest in noir film and crime stories, the message behind the song comes straight from the artists mouth. “I’m saying to people who think they know my stuff and might not like it to come and take me on if they want, to knock themselves out” he says. “In that creative mode I’m feeling so strong and powerful and invulnerable that I feel they’ll punch themselves out trying to attack me”.
Charlie Howard- BMA magazine- Canberra.
Here is a clip for "my schtick weighs a ton" from the 2005 album "Hashish and Liquor"
Below is a clip of the Moodists in 1984/5. Dave Graney on vocal, Clare Moore on drums, Mick Turner on guitar, Chris Walsh on bass and Steve Miller on guitar.
KNOCK YOURSELF OUT 2009 solo cd from DAVE GRANEY. Contains "the title track plus "bodysnatcher blues","honky tonk rope a dope", "dylan the inide fake", "throwin' one into the world", "I need my guitar","it was then or never" and many more! AVAILABLE FROM OUR WEBSITE- http://www.thedavegraneyshow.com
AND CAN BE ORDERED THERE VIA PAYPAL.THE COVER ART IS ANOTHER TONY MAHONY PIECE HAND Drawn Collage.
In music. I’ve found it all depends on what room you’re playing in. I’ve always pitched my stuff as long and as far as possible. For the most part I was trying to keep it elevated and suspended as much as I could. I was after airtime. I still do that. Each album release is a leap into the void. I never expect to be playing to the same room I was in last time. Its probably a stupid way to approach things but those are the tracks I’ve made and I’m rolling.
At one point, in Australia, I was a small figure in a BIG room. I made the scene where all the players were. It was cute. I mostly know people who have been BIG in small rooms. They like that and its kept them warm , and alive. Tight clinches creep me out! In those kinds of places, because of the way I’ve pitched and leapt, my form is indistinct and faint. I’m a bit of a ghost. Even though I was there at many supposedly powerful points in mythic time.
What am I saying? I guess that I have never been in any kind of genre or club. Though we've played in clubs. And theatres and tents and houses and once or twice on the back of a truck.We wuz there at punk rock and post punk and was on Au Go Go and Creation and Universal and we’ve played at the Sydney Opera House , Continental, Big Day Out, Livid, Marquee , Hacienda ,Crystal Ballroom, Danceteria and been on every kind of stupid tv show , though never, ever on Commercial radio. Roots? Are they roots? Or clouds. Is that a room? Or a labyrinth.
HASHISH AND LIQUOR 2005 double disc set . Hashish by Dave Graney and Liwuor from Clare Moore. Contains "my schtick weighs a ton", "there he goes with his eye out", "the town bike song", "a lot to drink about", "tomorrow inc", "alphonsus will get you" and ""saturday night bath". An amazing double set. Jazz/lyrical sci fi r&b. AVAILABLE FROM OUR WEBSITE- http://www.thedavegraneyshow.com
AND CAN BE ORDERED THERE VIA PAYPAL. COVER ART FROM TONY MAHONY
dave graney,clare moore,mark fitzgibbon,stu perera. BIO- Dave Graney - Clare Moore- Lurid Yellow Mist
Dave Graney and Clare Moore live and work out of Melbourne Australia. They played with the Moodists from 1978 to 1986. They then played with the White Buffaloes/Coral Snakes from 1987-1997. “knock yourself out" will be the 21st album release they have been involved in producing , writing, arranging and playing on.
Dave Graney and Clare Moore had been playing music since punk rock in the late 70s.
Dave Graney plays guitar and sings and sometimes just sings and moves the songs.
Clare Moore plays drums and vibes and keys and sings.
Stu Thomas plays bass and also releases his own music as teh Stu Thomas Paradox. Stuart Perera has played with Graney and Moore since 1998, the longest time any musician has dome so. He plays around Melbourne constantly in the bands rocking the clubs.
Graney and Moore broke ranks with all Indie Orthodoxy decades ago. They like to arrange songs and choose sounds rather than semi religious faith in inspiration and spontaneity. They hate loud guitars ( though they both play in SALMON which features six electric guitarists and two drummers). They resile from emotive spewing forth.
They love authors and people who claim authority as opposed to people who wish to exist completely within defined boundaries of particular genres or forms, people who aspire to disappear within the deathly folds of “folk” or “public domain”.
The old stories that surround many of their peers from the early 80s, the sad postscript that always laments that such and such were “cruelly ignored” and that their music was too good for the cretinous public does not wash with Graney and Moore. When exposed to the Middle Mass, they have vaulted right into the main square of the village and HAPPENED.
They use the vernacular and modes of NOW and always have.
video for "lets kill god again" - 2008)
dave graney, clare moore , the moodists, dave graney and the coral snakes, dave graney and the white buffaloes, the dave graney show, the royal dave graney show, dave graney and the lurid yellow mist, dave graney and clare moore...featuring the lurid yellow mist.THE LURID YELLOW MIST...FEATURING DAVE GRANEY AND CLARE MOORE.
Knock yourself out (Cockaigne/Fuse) 2009)
We wuz curious (Illustrious Artists 2008)
Rock Formations (SALMON - Bang! 2007)
Keepin' it Unreal, (Cockaigne/Reverberation 2006/7)
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 2000)
The Dave Graney Show (the Dave Graney Show, Festival 1998)
The Devil Drives (Coral Snakes, Universal 1997)
The Soft'n'Sexy Sound (Coral Snakes, Universal 1995)
You wanna be there (Coral Snakes, Universal 1994)
Night of the wolverine (Coral Snakes, Universal 1993)
Lure of the tropics (Coral Snakes, Torn and Frayed 1992)
I was the hunter and I was the prey (Coral Snakes, Fire 1992)
My life on the plains (White Buffaloes, Fire, 1990)
Double Life (the Moodists, 1985)
Thirstys Calling (the Moodists, 1984)
Engine Shudder (the Moodists, 1982)
Dave Graney 'n' the Coral Snakes- 1993- "you're just too hip baby"
Dave Graney'n'the Coral Snakes - 1994- "I'm gonna release your soul"
It's been about 20 years, probably more :-/ since I saw this clip/performance. I found it on the Postcard site. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did! Warm wishes to you and yours from Scotland
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Barry Armpit and the Personification of Plates: Episode Two.
Arriving late to his cousins wedding, Barry Armpit took his seat without ceremony. So far everything had gone without a hitch. Conserving his energy for the reception, he slept through the hyms and vows like a baby in the backseat of a car. Suddenly shuckled awake by the sounds of Zorba the Greek his eyes creaked open, only to be soberly slapped by the vision of an ominous stack of plates. Knowing there was nothing he could do, he froze in helpless horror. He knew he was but a paralyzed, caged witness, forced to look on and bury the guilt from his face. He would never have believed it before but he swore the whole stack of plates took a deep breath and prepared to face their demise with the proud defiance of forgotten Cambodian doctors. He left in disgust.
Thanks for the feedback re "merman" - much appreciated. We're recording our next album - "This Body's Wrong For Us" [working title...] soon...ish. By the by, if ya ever find yourself in need of a psych-rock support act we will be there in a flash. Cheers.
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Hundred Fire Management
presents a very special Friday Night Fire on Grand Final eve, Friday September
25, at Edinburgh Castle. On a weekend usually associated
with the big men of sport, Friday Night Fire will feature three of the best
female acts in Melbourne.
Kick this huge weekend off with Cash Savage and the Last Drinks, Suzannah Espie
and Krista Polvere. Doors at 9pm.
G'day Come on down to the Tote on Sunday the 27th of September to celebrate the end of another Footy season. The back line will be ably defended by Gruntbucket. Coming off the bench to take their position on the wing are Dirty York. Winning the ball at all the stoppages will be the mighty mid field attack of The Get Go. They'll send the ball rocketing toward the fantastic forward line of Clinkerfield who are sure to kick a swag of goals. There'll be plenty of snags on the barbie to help with the hangover.