dave graney - Moodists-Coral Snakes-mistLY-FEARFUL WIGGINGS

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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.

Tuesday, August 7, 2012

reviews in the press for "you've been in my mind"


The self-proclaimed King Of Pop and the newly-crowned King Of The Dudes, Dave Graney inhabits a strange yet strangely alluring world, where The Beatles don’t rate anywhere near Steely Dan and Marcos Valle reigns supreme as the Brazilian Orpheus. The ex-Moodist and Coral Snake charmer has been incredibly prolific throughout his artistic life and remains one of the few songwriters to have maintained a flawless creative streak for over seven years – as 2009’s Knock Yourself Out, 2010’s Supermodified and last year’s re-recorded “greatest hits” Rock & Roll Is Where I Hide attest. Recorded live in the studio with the incorruptible Lurid Yellow Mist (freshly rechristened The mistLY), You’ve Been In My Mind is yet another fantastic addition to the SA-born Melbournian’s catalogue.
Naturally, the songs are superb: ‘Flash In The Pantz’, ‘We Need A Champion’, ‘Cop This, Sweetly”, the weirdly nostalgic ‘Mt Gambier Night’, the aforementioned ‘King Of The Dudes’ and the self-effacing closer ‘I’m Not The Guy I Tried To Be’ are all vintage DG nuggets. As ever, Graney disperses sneering “ooh”s and lascivious “mmm”s between his savage witticisms, all the while playing the jazziest 12-string electric guitar since Roger McGuinn’s ‘Eight Miles High’ Coltrane-isms. The top-notch accompaniment is likewise a familiar delight, with Clare Moore effortlessly switching between rhythm patterns, Stu Thomas – who might just be one of the finest white bass players in this land – maintaining the swing, and Stu Perera taking his left-handed Rickenbacker for a walk in areas Nels Cline has yet to tread.
Never a flash in the pan, Dave Graney again proves he isn’t the kind of an artist who’ll be on your mind after you’ve absorbed his tonne-weighing shtick. Instead, he’ll be in your mind.
Denis Semchenko THE BRAG


You’ve Been in My Mind is the first collection of new songs in three years from Dave Graney, his partner in life and sound Clare Moore, and their recently re-named band, The MistLY (formerly the Lurid Yellow Mist). Not that they’ve been idle though, as that span has seen a whole lot of gigs, the release of Graney’s first book - acclaimed memoir 1001 Australian Nights - as well as a compilation of re-recordings of classic Graney compositions, Rock ‘N’ Roll is Where I Hide.
The lyrical puns still abound but otherwise there’s less novelty on show here than in the past: the Lounge-Lizard-King-of-Pop-Dave-Graney who won ARIAs and charmed the masses in the 1990s, with a theatrical persona like some louche amalgam of Don Lane, Terry Southern and ‘Coney Island Baby’-era Lou Reed, is largely absent. Graney now more comfortably resembles a road-seasoned jazzman, exuding the philosophical gravitas and dark humour of hard-won wisdom. Jazz sensibilities have influenced this new music too, particularly the “blazing left-handed Rickenbacker” lines of lead guitarist Stuart Perera, with structures and chords that shift and twine but not at the expense of melody or focus. According to 1001 Australian Nights, Graney and Moore first met Perera when he was a young student “into jazz players, theory, octaving and Guns N’ Roses”, and the resonances of such remain apparent, fused with the band’s ongoing interests in ’70s West Coast rock and art pop experimentation.


Self-recorded and mixed, with help from engineer Andrew “Idge” Hehir, the performances are mostly live, not overdubbed, reassuringly-immediate and seemingly in thrall to ’70s production values, as if Tony Visconti was at the desk in their Brunswick studio. The piercing sustain of the guitars is thin and trebly, while the choruses of ‘I’m Not the Guy I Try To Be’, ‘Field Record Me’ and ‘Cop This Sweetly’ - great titles, as usual - flow in a wash of harmonies that could have come from Bowie and Osterburg’s own throats in Hansa Studios in 1976; the latter track even ending with desperate yelps like The Idiot’s ‘Funtime’.
While the first half is upbeat and mid-paced, the second drops to a slower, dreamier cadence. Songs like ‘Playing Chicken’, ‘I’m Not the Guy I Try to Be’ and ‘Midnight Cats’ are made for the early hours. The spoken-word ‘Mt Gambier Nights’ is autobiography melded with dry observation, quoting William Blake to an evocative backdrop of staccato guitar reverb.
This is a seductive and comfortably re-playable collection of dependable material, boding well for an extensive national tour this month.
by Aaron Curran - Mess and Noise 


The Walter Mitty of Oz rock issues his umpteenth album; his shtick still weighs a ton and rock'n'roll remains his hideout.
Dave Graney still lays his idiosyncratic hipster lingo over post-rock, blues pop and jazz chords aplenty, aided and abetted by drumming partner Clare Moore and long-term comrades, guitarist Stuart Perera and bassist Stu Thomas.
And the erstwhile Australian king of pop still sounds like he's having a ball, whether meowing on Midnight Cats or yelping "come on! owwww!" over the descending riffs of Field Record Me.
Flash in the Pantz lampoons masculinity to a dirty rock groove, while Cop This, Sweetly noodles around and then, right when you're not paying attention, rocks out.
I Don't Want to Know Myself and Mt Gambier Nights recall the hero's Coral Snakes era. Recorded quickly in Melbourne and then mixed by the main man himself, You've Been in My Mind is a wonderfully unpolished affair full of familiar themes for Graney aficionados as well as some unexpected dimensions.

SIMON COLLINS, The West Australian

The Graney has never been beholden to any fashion, bar his own. But as the circles of style turn, there are times he gets some of the respect he deserves. He’s again become the go-to guy when the world needs an opinion or explanation – with a slightly-arched eyebrow – of how the business of show is or isn’t working these days.
His music finds a fit here, too. You’ve Been In My Mind grabs a range of moods and attitudes, for his half-spoken/half-sung words to present the observations and mission statements. Points of reference for the music reach back. There’s ‘60s and ‘70s soul in here, and occasional outbreaks of blues shouting and yelping dating further than that. There’s just enough rough edges among the smoother grooves.
It’s not just the external he’s considering. Flash In The Pantz is the nature of the old-style man blustering and questioning at once. The urgent strut of that, and indeed most all the album, comes from the necessary female element of Clare Moore’s drumming. She is the heart and balancing conscience of it. But go to the rattling rush of the opening Blues Negative, and she’s obviously got muscle as well.
In We Need A Champion Graney informs at one point, over a dirty funk of Stuart Perera’s wah-wah guitar and Stu Thomas’ bubbling bass, seemingly lifted direct from a porn soundtrack – in a good way. Dave’s probably not even putting himself up for the title job, but he realises one is needed. His 30 years experience means Dave Graney has become the man who knows. And knows more than most. Yeah.
Ross Clelland - DRUM MEDIA

The band name may have changed – the Lurid Yellow Mist has evolved into the mistLY – but the song remains the same, as Dave Graney continues to shrug his shoulders at the indifference of the industry.

One song is called We Need a Champion, but Graney and his cohorts are content to go it alone. “If that fails, that fails,” he accepts in the stunning single, Flash in the Pantz.

Graney remains a sonic explorer, boldly going where no other Australian artist dares. Younger artists would kill to have the energy that’s on display here.

-       Jeff Jenkin - JB HiFi STACK


You've Been in My Mind Dave Graney and the MistLY (Cockaigne/Fuse)  ★★★★
IN HIS recent memoir, 1001 Australian Nights, Dave Graney, post-punk iconoclast, velvet-clad king of pop and sardonic cultural critic, explored his pre-history as a working-class exile from country South Australia. On his latest record, You've Been in My Mind, Graney delves further into semi-biographical territory. There's Graney the existentialist, contemplating identity (I'm Not the Guy I Tried to Be), the critic of the vapid world of popular fame (Flash in the Pantz) and the adult musing on the myopic bravado of youth (Midnight Cats). While the name of Graney's backing band has changed, the elements remain largely the same: Clare Moore's elegant drum fills, Stu Thomas' factory-strength bass, Stuart Perera's wiry Rickenbacker licks, and Graney's collage of croons and James-Brown shrieks. Graney's narrative wanders in and out of focus like a rambling front-bar anecdote. Mojo Nixon said there was no Elvis in Michael J Fox; there's only Dave Graney in Dave Graney. He plays Northcote's Regal Ballroom next Friday, July 27.
PATRICK EMERY - The Age

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Dave Graney and Clare Moore with Georgio "the dove" Valentino and Malcolm Ross

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ONE MILLION YEARS DC

Starts with a Kinksy groover sketching a 21st century populist tyrant who coasts in power on waves of public resentment at those on the lowest rungs of the ladder (He Was A Sore Winner). Sweeps across a sci fi terrain with nods to songs in the sand at the end of the world (Pop Ruins) and nods to the ties that bind in the underground communities (Comrade Of Pop and Where Did All The Freaks Go?). Songs about intense, long relationships, defunct technology that didn’t answer back, severe social status definition (I’m Not Just Any Nobody), people wandering through your mind as if it was a garage sale, the anxiety of the long running showman (wide open to the elements again) and ends with a song that’s “a little bit Merle Haggard and a little bit Samuel Beckett”. " Edith Grove! Powis Square! 56 Hope Road! Petrie Terrace!.. The Roxy! The Odeon! Apollo! Palais! Olympia! The Whisky! Detroit Grande!” Pop Ruins!"

ZIPPA DEEDOO WHAT IS/WAS THAT/THIS?

ZIPPA DEEDOO WHAT IS/WAS THAT/THIS? (The title comes from the chorus of “Song Of Life” ) is a classic rock’n’roll album. Classic if you lived through what has become known as ”the classic rock era” as it rolled out new and even broke onto the beachhead and morphed into punk. That’s the direction Dave Graney and Clare Moore have always been coming from. They have spent their lives schooled by and immersed in rock ‘n’ roll culture. Neither attended higher education and they dived in deep and kept swimming. From the Moodists through the Coral Snakes /White Buffaloes to the mistLY This is an album with their band, Dave Graney and the mistLY. Stuart Perera has played guitar with them since 1998 and Stu Thomas on bass since 2004. MARCH 2019 ZIPPA DEEDOO WHAT IS/WAS THAT/THIS? 2019 album out on Compact Disc - available here via mail order...
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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