picture Bleddyn Butcher.
Two Fisted Art: the new double CD compilation
dave graney and the mistLY tour dates
dave graney solo tour dates
The Moodists were a Melbourne band. A really Melbourne band. We didn't travel to Sydney until 1982. When we got there we slept on peoples floors and drank cans of Victoria Bitter constantly. We felt obliged to conduct ourselves so. The tv was never, ever off. Sydney people seemed to want to wear loud , colourful clothes and be outside all the time. We lived and played (almost exclusively) in the derelict, bohemian Melbourne suburb of St Kilda and when we travelled to Sydney, we played almost exclusively in the derelict, bohemian inner city suburb of Darlinghurst. Both places had a warm red light glow which infused the residents with a "big city" feeling.
The Moodists put out two singles and an ep on Bruce Milne and Greta Moons' Au Go Go label. In late 1983 we moved to London where we spent the rest of what was our career, (save for six months in 1985).
Our friends and contemporaries were the Go Betweens, the Birthday Party (and later, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds), the Laughing Clowns, the Triffids, the Died Pretty, the Beasts of Bourbon, the Feral Dinosaurs, the people with chairs up their noses and Buick KBT.
Our first shows in the UK were opening for the Fall and the Go Betweens. The London music scene, compared to Australia, was full of drama and intrigue. It was also heavily played out in the pages of the weekly music papers. We were totally into being in a band. Drinkin and stayin up all night and writing songs all together. We had no manager or buffer zone of any type between us and the rest of the world. We were very raw. We liked the music of the Stooges, the Velvet Underground, Suicide, Flipper and the hard country sounds of Merle Haggard, George Jones and Hank Williams(Jnr and Snr).
We went to the UK as a short cut to live the kind of ferocious, footloose kind of life we thought you had to live in order to make music. We weren't "rootsy", it was more of a journey away from any roots that we had. I would characterise it as more of an interior, mythological trip we were on. All the music we heard and the magazines we read were imported. It was all exotic and so very far away. In Australia, the suburban pubs were where you went to pursue a career in music. We only played the inner city venues. We never even really tried to venture any further. (Famously, the Scientists opened for pub rock chart toppers, The Angels at the Parramatta RSL and were canned off the stage). In essence, most of the inner city crowd all came from the outer suburbs and didn't really want to go back. Clare and Steve and I were a little outside of this dynamic as we all came from South Australia, we were a little more removed. Through friends of our friends, the Birthday Party, we received some outlandishly good reviews of our early singles in the UK press and, after a visit to Australia to check both us and the Laughing Clowns out, Londons' Red Flame records, signed us all up.
Live dates
Dave Graney and Clare MooreInstore set 4 pm at Greville Records, Prahran, Melbourne Sunday August 13th.
Dave Graney and Clare Moore Noisy Ritual - urban Winery 249 Lygon St, Brunswick East August 27th
2017 EURO TOUR - DAVE GRANEY AND CLARE MOORE
Sat 9th September
Haarlem - THE WOLFHOUND
Thursday 14th Sept - Cafe Chaff, Brussels
Fri 15th Sept Escher Kafé, Rue du Clair-Chêne, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg
Monday 18th Lille - L'Imposture
Tuesday 19th Orleans - Le 108 108 rue de bourgogne Orléans 45000
Wednesday 20th Caen TBA
Thursday 21st September Bistrot De La Cité - RENNES
Friday 22nd Argeles Gazoste _ CAFE DU STADE
Sunday Sept 24th - Tarragona, Spain
Thursday 28th TBA
Friday 29th - Helldorado - VITORIA - Spain. opening for TAV FALCO
Sat 30th Aignan - Le Chaînon Manquant
Friday 6th - Fred's Ale House - Manchester w/ Poppycock and Adventures Of Salvador
Wednesday 11th and Thursday 12th October - The Betsey Trotwood, Clerkenwell, London
Dave Graney and Clare Moore at the Skylark Room - Burrinja Arts Centre in Tecoma. October 21st.
Dave Graney and the mistLY
The Wheatsheaf Hotel - Adelaide November 11th and 12th
Dave Graney and Clare Moore
Thurs 30-Nov Brass Monkey - Cronulla
Dave Graney and the mistLY
Fri 1-Dec Petersham Bowls Club
Sat 2-Dec Hardys Bay Club 14 Heath Road - Hardys Bay, NSW 2257
Sun 3-Dec - afternoon show at Co-op Club 1860 Pittwater Road
Church Point, N.S.W. Australia 2105
"An incredibly
compelling live band. Dave Graney was overly dramatic on stage at a time
when people simply weren't. The Moodists played this wonderful, passionate
music composed of melody and hard, tough rhythm lines. I can remember Dave
swaying across the audience and hearing the great Australian cry of 'wanker!'.
Australian crowds have become more tolerant since, but back then the Moodists
would play very powerful, moving music to people who simply didn't understand."
Greta Moon, AuGoGo records
40 minute interview with Dave Graney by ABC's Richard Fidler- ranging across entire career and life.
read some reviews from the period
See the Coral Snakes sections for discography and other 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)
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)
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
a short bio of Clare and David
The Moodists and pals, words from people who were there
