2016 digital singles released every month...........

 

 

February 2017 digital release "BE SAD FOR ME". 2:38 sec POP BLUES. At itunes and Bandcamp now.

 "be sad for me - I'm outsourcing my tears"

  

January 2017 digital release.
"I Need To Be Hot". A sly and slinky joint.Credited to Dave Graney and Clare Moore.
At itunes and Bandcamp now.

"I'm not talkin' about trendy I'm not talkin' about COOL!"
I need to be hot
sorry to be so cold
I need to be hot
you know
ttsssssssss!
I'm not talkin' about trendy
I'm not talkin' about cool
I can't afford to be cool
I need to be hot
hot
hot
you know
hot
tttsssss!
I need to be hot
get out of my way
What is my way?
toward the sun
not just the light
the fire!
I need to be hot
I need to be hot

I'm not talkin' about trendy
I'm not talkin' about cool
I can't afford to be cool

credits

released January 12, 2017
Dave Graney - electric guitars and bass. Vocals.
Clare Moore, drums.

Recorded and mixed at the Ponderosa by Dave Graney - December 2016

December 2016 digital release.
"I Ain't Hi Vis". A pop groover.Credited to Dave Graney and Clare Moore.
At itunes and Bandcamp now

I Ain't Hi Vis
"cream buns at eleven- be alright I s'pose- I ain't got no tools- just flash clothes"

 

story about previous digital release in column "8 Australian songs you need to hear now!"

 
I ain't hi vis
kinda FIFO though'old school FIFO
FE FI FO fum

I ain't in plastic yellow
I ain't in danger
not standin' on a stage like this

I'm in the scrollin' teens
rough seas
nothin' changes though
people come and go

I ain't Hi Vis
I don't need it
the attention
I ain't got no tools
just flash clothes

cream buns at eleven
be alright I s'pose
I ain't got no tools
just flash clothes

I ain't Hi Vis
I'm underworld
I ain't got no tools
just flash clothes

credits

released December 8, 2016
Dave Graney, acoustic and electric guitars, bass, keys and lead vocals
Clare Moore, drums, percussion, backing vocals.

Recorded and Mixed by Dave Graney at the Ponderosa in November 2016.

November digital release Let's Kick This Mob Out.
At itunes and BANDCAMP now.

the sugar was on the table
Scott promised he would die
strong and bitter
Tony was tied to the mask
winkin' for his siren
Malcolm was in the long boats
talkin' with his cut throats
sayin' he knew the way
he had navigation up the wazoo
let's kick this mob out

the sugar was on the table (that's what they said)

let's kick this mob out

"hey wait! No boat must land! Not on our watch!"
they said
"we must decide who goes there!
and the manner in which they rot!"

let's kick this mob out
let's kick this mob out

officer dutton plodded the perimeter
DUTTON DRESSED AS MAN!

refugees threw themselves from high buildings
sewed their lips together

let's kick this mob out

credits

released November 18, 2016
clare moore drums, keys
dave graney, guitars, bass, keys, vocals

 

 

Inspired by this kind of neutral or balanced headline which Rupert Murdoch had his tabloid papers scream as the 2013 Australian election was announced.

October 2016 digital release.
Matey,From On High.A jazzy groover. Swinging beat with much action on the ride. The chords eternally rising.
A phrase I read in a book by modernist (early 20th century) author and painter Wyndham Lewis.(a big favourite of Captain Beefheart)
"Matey,From On High". This is how, I am sometimes told, I relate to people. Or maybe, how I hope that I do.
Also another of my songs worrying about the faux intimacy of the digital age.
At itunes and Bandcamp now

 

September 2016 digital single. Rupert's Pet's Grave. Stereo pick burns lead us into a trippy suspended opening and then into the poppest groove Dave Graney has cooked up in a while. This song has a killer chorus!
12 string guitar, pounding tom toms and a beat on the ONE that would do Mental As Anything proud. All laced , buttoned and hemmed with harmonies straight from the classic modes.
A whimsical song.
Once upon a time! At itunes and Bandcamp now.

 

Upcoming shows

Dave Graney'n' the Coral Snakes

Lizottes in Newcastle March 31st.
Sydney April 1st - the Basement
Melbourne - saturday June 3rd - Memo Music Hall

Dave Graney and Clare Moore NSW dates w/ special guests from Brussels/Miami Georgio "the Dove" Valentino and Patrizia.

Sunday 2nd April(2.30pm - 5.30pm TBC)- Dangar Island Bowling Club NSW
Tuesday 4th April (7pm - 9pm) Georgio only @ The Bearded Tit -
Thursday 6th April - Oxley Wine Bar Cowra
Friday 7th April - Bowral Bowling Club
Saturday 8th April - Gearin Hotel, Katoomba
Sunday 9th April - Smiths Canberra

 

Clip for Matey,From On High has the lyrics scrolling though...

 

Rupert's Pet's Grave
Who's gonna shine it?
After they sweep away the trash and clean the paint?

Rod Stewart in the 22nd century, tells a story of his days as a grave shiner. He was kept hoppin', cleanin' the screen of whatsisname- Rupert's Pet's Grave

Will there be guards?
Will they be proper, white?
How the man was hated! Stirred the pot so tight.
Who's gonna clean Rupert's Pet's Grave?

He wasn't a "people person", oh how he hated people!
Hate won't keep you alive
It''ll drench your mind - and the lousy words you traded in!

Everybody dies! It's not just a story!
Everybody's got to work - I understand!
Who's gonna clean Rupert's Pet's Grave?

And before that? At the grisly end?
who's gonna wipe?
What poor minimum wage... is gonna clean his privates?
Make him respectable?

Cos when the powers gone to someone else and the crowd drifts off with the force .
And he lays in his cot in a wilderness of unrequited hate...

Everybody dies! It's not just a story!
Everybody's got to work - I understand!
Who's gonna clean Rupert's Pet's Grave?
July 2016 digital release.
You Need A Kleek, Klook.
The sixth digital release for Graney and Moore in 2016.

A song about looking for a home, a place to identify with and come from. As a performer or as a person, it helps to have a story - "you need a time and a place and a story- you need a push". (Push is an Australian term for a "crew". A Clique). Klooks Kleek was a club in West Hampstead, London in the 60s and 70s. A teen Dave Graney had an album by John Mayall recorded "live at klooks kleek”. Sounded like a happening place! It flew up like a bird into the mythological turrets of his mind, and came back out here in this song. Later he lived nearby and went to shows there when it was the Moonlight Club.

Reaching for a majestic, mythic tone. Twelve string acoustic guitar, bass, piano and synths against a rhythm machine and a heavily reverbed tambourine. Pop music in that Procul / May 68 style and tone, right here in 2016.

lyrics

You need a Kleek, Klook
You need a Kleek
How can you happen?
How do you happen, anymore?
You need a Kleek, Klook
You need some weight
wait!
some critical maths
you need a host body
from whence you can dive
You need a Kleek, Klook
You need a push

you need a time and a place and a story
you need to click
you need to slot in and look right at home

you can't just pop
you can't just divide
you need to have happening people around
poeople need to be dealing with you

You need a Kleek, Klook
You need a Kleek

people need to be dealing with you
like you're a problem
their problem
You need a Kleek, Klook
You need a Kleek

you need to be
boo!
you need to be!
boo!

credits

released July 25, 2016
Recorded and mixed at the Ponderosa by Dave Graney – early July 2016.
Dave Graney-guitars,bass,drum machine beat,cymbals, vocal.
Clare Moore,percussion, piano,organ, backing vocals.

Digital release July 29th

 

 

June 2016.

Are You Out Of Your Mind? (Get Back In)
The fifth digital release  for  Graney and Moore 2016.


“If songs can be approached either via the words or the music I certainly approached this from a musical direction. A couple of chords from another song of mine, moving my hands around the fretboard. Some more notes, thinking of a vague early 80s post punk feel, maybe dampening the root notes like Booker T and the MG’s, then putting the song down. A guitar line suggesting a vocal line. Fitting a lyric to that – “you talk too much” Kind of like a cranky old blues line. Thinking on surveillance and people offering themselves up on social media platforms. Then some harmonies highlighting another phrase, “are you out of your mind?” – leading to another, a dire warning, “get back in!” Visitors to the studio Will Hindmarsh and Emily Jarrett from Go Go Sapien add some more harmonies- sounding like the 5th Dimension. West Coast pop at least. Keeping it to 3 minutes- a trick I’d never been able to pull before!”

Recorded and mixed at the Ponderosa by Dave Graney –late May 2016.
Dave Graney-guitars,bass,vocal.
Clare Moore,drums,percussion, organ,backing vocals.
Will Hindmarsh and Emily Jarrett, backing vocals
Digital release June 24th

At itunes and Bandcamp

 





April 2016

The third digital release for 2016 Credited to Dave Graney and Clare Moore.

Follows up "This is The Deadest Place I've Ever Died In"

I Been Trendy is a loose, lithe,loping acoustic groove by Dave Graney and Clare Moore. The third digital release for 2016. Kind of a JJ Cale/ Leon Russell feel about it. Yes, Oklahoman I guess you could say.
A stretch denim sunset sound with seagulls and waves joining in one of the verses.

Available at itunes and Bandcamp.


May 2016 

The fourth digital release 2016. This time credited to dave graney and the mistLY

A funk workout from the rhythm track of a mistLY song recorded in 2007. Done in the reggae tradition of re-using backing tracks. Elements of this track came from "I like To be Haunted" from the 2007 classic album WE WUZ CURIOUS. New arrangement, instruments and vocal. New song!

A meditation on memory and popular culture. Be Bop giant Charlie Parker had a track called "drifting on a reed". Dave Graney thought one day, "drifting donna reed" - why not? Donna Reed, an unrelated artist, she starred famously in "It's a Wonderful life" and her own 60s tv show. How to bring people together around shared imagery drifting through their minds?
Available at itunes.



March 2016

The second digital release from Australian artist, Dave Graney in 2016.
Follows up "I'm a Good Hater" which was released in February.
The plan is to release a song every month.

"I played in a freezer- in the meatpackin' district
I played in a a mortuary- Kinselas- Sydney! true! but...."

This Is The Deadest Place I've Ever Died In.

Bass, electro rhythm track, organ and marimba. With a few strums of an acoustic guitar. All instruments played by Dave Graney and Clare Moore.
The track finds them exploring the rough and ragged electro funk that was around in that old time post punk era. Hey, they were there!

A tribute to all the lousy, horrible rooms that have enveloped and tried to extinguish the hope of every plucky player that had the temerity to enter and expect some good cheer all around.

"I ain't no party pooper..This place is pooped!"

This Is The Deadest Place I've Ever Died In.

Inspired in part by a Willie Nelson track for the early 2000s called "I never came in here (and I ain't leavin')" and in other parts by an effect on the rhythm track that had Dave Graney asking Clare Moore to drape and slide a string of pearls over her ride and crash cymbals , "don't hit ‘em, just let them down onto the surface and then lift them off...."

This Is The Deadest Place I've Ever Died In.

Yes the players always take the rap. Don't you know it's the rooms? There's always a post mortem, around the corpse of the night.

"and I died, many times, sometimes I think I might have-lived to die!"

This Is The Deadest Place I've Ever Died In.


Out as a digital release March 25th. Available at itunes and Bandcamp.
Accompanied by a wonderfully weird clip comprised of spooky/crazy/haunting photos taken by Barry Douglas at an "old time Australia" tourist attraction.



credits

released March 25, 2016
Dave Graney - beat, bass, acoustic guitar strums, vocal.
Clare Moore - cymbals, percussion, keys, vocal.

Produced and mixed by Dave Graney at the Ponderosa, Melbourne January - February 2016

 


 

 

 

 


February 2016

I'm A Good Hater was cooked up in their Ponderosa Studio in the hills on the outer edge of Melbourne by Dave Graney and Clare Moore in early January 2016.
I'm A Good Hater is a positively, gleeful yet POISONOUS brag about HATING on something or someone. Hard. But Fair.
The singer says he's "a rank detester/a super loather/a champion raspberry blower/ a righteous disliker...."
Driving acoustic guitar, synth bass, tambourine, wah wah, handclaps and more synth lay down the texture and the tarmac for the singer to stroll out on. He's "a good hater/one of the best, I've heard/ from someone who says they should know..."
Released Feb 18th, the first of many single tracks to come out in 2016
I'm A Good Hater. From Dave Graney, written, performed and recorded by Dave Graney and Clare Moore.

lyrics

I'm a good hater, I've been told
a real alligator
a smiling assassinator
a cold potato
I'm a good hater

revenge is a pie flying towards your face in super slow motion

I wanna do you slowly
you keep hangin' 'round
I hooked you in
I'm a good hater
one of the best I've heard
from someone who said they should know
you can depend on me

a ranked detester
a super loather
a champion raspberry blower
a righteous disliker
I got my wings and bars
I'm a made guy - officer class

got it goin' on
poison workin' while I sleep
I'll take my time
then one day at the bust stop I'll turn and smash ya

I'll stew on you
I'll brood on you
I like a familar groove
I'm a good hater
a great conflater

I'm the best detester
you screwed up Hazel, when you crossed me
you're in the red
I'm counting
you're carried over
I was open
you swung

I got legs
I got reach
I'm a good hater
a real alligator
a smiling assassinator
a cold potato

a ranked detester
a super loather
a champion raspberry blower
a righteous disliker
I got my wings and bars
I'm a made guy - officer class

I'm a good hater
a real alligator
a smiling assassinator
a cold potato

credits


Dave Graney , acoustic guitar, real bass, vocals and synth.
Clare Moore, keys, percussion, synth bass, bvs.

recorded and mixed at the Ponderosa in Melbourne.

Available at itunes and Bandcamp.



See The Moodists and Coral Snakes sections for discography and archival information pre 1998.

the dave graney show- an outstanding album recorded for Festival in 1998

Kiss tomorrow goodbye (2000)

heroic blues(2001)

the third woman (2002)

the brother who lived ? (2003)

Liquor?
Hashish ? (2005)

Keepin' it Unreal (2006)

We wuz curious (2008)

Knock yourself out (2009)

SUPERMODIFIED (2010)

rock'n'roll is where I hide (2011

YOU'VE BEEN IN MY MIND (2012)

2013 digital singles

THE DAMES (2013)

POINT BLANK and LIVE IN HELL (digital narrative show albums 2013)

Fearful Wiggings (dave graney solo album 2014)

play mistLY for me(digital only live recordings collection march 2015)

Once I Loved The Torn Ocean's Roar - 80s/90s Demos Vol 2 - dave graney - COCKAIGNE - digital only album at itunes and Bandcamp.

night of the wolverine demos/early 90s songwriter demos - dave graney (cockaigne) digital album

LET'S GET TIGHT - 2017 CD from DAVE GRANEY AND CLARE MOORE