Dave Graney and Clare Moore - March digital release How Long Does The Raunch?

How Long Does The Raunch?

4:08
Starts with jazz guitar chords and vocals. Then Drum Machine, Vibes, Marimba and electric guitar. A whole lot of questions? How Long Does the Raunch Stop In One?

"Over stimulation. Modern life is demanding. Filling a dude with images and feels, emotions dragged and pulled out, demanded. Follow up to Be Sad For Me and coming from a similar direction. This time worrying about "normalization" of images of violence and sex and the immediate, thrilling power they have. How they are described as "raunchy". Kind of cute. Gaddafi on youtube getting hunted and hacked and kicked by a mob. Starving children in third world countries. Can you unsee such things? How long do "raunchy" things stay plain old raunchy? Do they get stale or do you? How long do they stay? Stay "raunchy"? What happens to you?What do you do with it? What does it do to you?"

This track shows how far Graney and Moore have taken their mad R&B licks. 

Certainly, few other Australian acts, whether their contemporaries or the generations following, are anywhere near this sort of territory. the command of the studio, the sounds, the chordings, voices and the lyrics and the whole character of the things they are creating. 
This is the thirteenth monthly digital release since February 2016.

There is a page devoted to the releases here. 

Dave Graney and Clare Moore will be going out on the road in March-April to play shows firstly with dave Graney and the Coral Snakes and then a run of shows as  a duo with Euro friends Georgio "the dove" Valentino and Patrizia F.

Georgio has a website here.

Dave Graney and the Coral Snakes w/ Georgio and Patrizia

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

Wednesday April 12th - Candelo Cafe NSW

Saturday July 1st Dave Graney and the mistLY opening for Died Pretty and Radio Birdman at the Croxton band Room. 

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Dave Graney and Clare Moore February digital release - BE SAD FOR ME - live shows with Dave Graney 'n' the Coral Snakes

Be Sad For Me is the new digital release for Dave Graney and Clare Moore. The twelfth since February 2016.



Available at Bandcamp and at every other digital portal via this link.

BE SAD FOR ME is a 2:38  packet of sound. A rare breakthrough of the three minute barrier for Dave Graney. The writer and singer is asking the listener - or passerby- to feel sad INSTEAD OF HIM doing it. In his place. Not to be sad for the singer himself. He is "outsourcing his tears".

Be Sad For Me!
I’m outsourcing my tears
cryin’ it forward
Here’s a minor chord
strum it!
they will come
tears of a stadium
tears for streaming
here - have some of mine
help yourself!
you can cry for me
I’m all choked up
but I don’t have much time
Be sad For Me
I’ll owe you big time
Be Sad For Me!
I’m outsourcing my tears

credits

released February 24, 2017
Recorded and mixed at the Ponderosa by Dave Graney and Clare Moore January 2017.

Dave Graney-guitars, bass, vocal.
Clare Moore - drums, vibes, marimba, vocals
Matt Walker - harmonica

It follows I Need To Be Hot...



And that followed I Ain't Hi Vis...



Dave Graney interviewed January 2017 ABC Radio National Drive with Patricia Karvelas.
Dave Graney and Alicia Sometimes with Francis Leach SEN Sports radio Feb 2017.
Dave Graney interview Feb 2017 with the Silver Fox at JOY FM.

Upcoming shows

Dave Graney'n' the Coral Snakes
Melbourne NGV March 3rd
Adelaide - Riverbank Palais March 9th
Lizottes in Newcastle March 31st.
Sydney April 1st - the Basement

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



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

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Upcoming live shows and links to Dave Graney and Clare Moore related art and writing

I Need To be Hot is the current single for Dave Graney and Clare Moore. The first for 2017 and the eleventh since February 2016.



February 24th 2017 they will be releasing a song called Be Sad For Me.

This can be pre ordered here.

 Dave Graney was interviewed on ABC radio National Drive by Patricia Karvelas recently. You can stream or download this here.

Live dates are set for well into the first half of 2017 in many variations.


Upcoming shows

Dave Graney And the mistLY
Friday Feb 10th 2017
Appearing with VICTORIANA GAYE who are launching their new album
Caravan Club - Melbourne

Harry Howard and the NDE
Flying Saucer Club Feb 17th

Dave Graney And the mistLY - New Zealand 
Feb 22nd Aotea Square concert Auckland 

Feb 23rd , Golden Dawn, Auckland

Dave Graney'n' the Coral Snakes
Melbourne NGV March 3rd
March 9th Adelaide Festival - Riverbank Palais, Elder park.
Lizottes in Newcastle March 31st.
Sydney April 1st - the Basement

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 - Tooses Wine Bar , 490-494 Argyle St, Moss Vale
Saturday 8th April - Gearin Hotel, Katoomba
Sunday 9th April - Smiths Canberra

The most recent article by Dave Graney in the Adelaide Review. This is a story about Henry Reynolds book, "Unnecessary Wars". More to come.

Dave Graney has an article in the current edition of THE GRIFFITHS REVIEW. The edition is called "State Of Hope" and is wholly focussed on the state of South Australia. Dave Graney's article is on PRINCELAND, a state that was once put forward by settlements that wanted to break away from Victoria and South Australia.

Artist David Western, who designed sleeves for the Dave Graney and the  White Buffaloes album aand the earliest Dave Graney and the Coral Snakes sleeves is part of an exhibition at Morley College in London in June.

Stu Thomas, bass player for Dave Graney and the mistLY is having a  solo art exhibition at the Brunswick st Gallery March 24th.

You can see some of Stu's work here at this tumblr site.

David Nichols fantastic new book, DIG - Australian rock and pop music 1960-1985 has a very good chapter on THE MOODISTS, as well as an introduction from Dave Graney.

Dave Graney is back at Banana Lounge Broadcasting at Melbournes 3RRR from Tuesday Feb 7th. (The show broadcasts from12-2pm) You can stream an interview Dave and folk specialist Rik E Vengeance conducted with folk music icon Shirley Collins here. The interview begins about 30 minutes in.

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Dave Graney and the mistLY

clare moore-drums, stuart perera-guitar, stu thomas-bass, dave graney - vocals and guitar.
photo by Barry Douglas

I Need To Be Hot - January release from Dave Graney and Clare Moore - further inormation

I Need To be Hot is the January release for Dave Graney and Clare Moore.
This is the first for 2017 and follows a release more or less every month since February 2016. Most have been credited to Dave Graney and Clare Moore as they have been studio creations cooked up by those two rather than formal recording sessions with their band the mistLY.

It is available at itunes and Bandcamp.

A clip has been posted to Youtube. Camera work on Dave Graney by Will Hindmarsh and other footage shot at Glenelg Beach in South Australia in December 2016 by Dave Graney.

LYRICS

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

Live dates are lined up beginning February 10th at the Caravan Music Club .
Victoriana Gaye are opening the show and launching their new album.

Releases are planned to continue on a  monthly schedule for the forseeable future.  (The Ponderosa studio was hit by a deluge of rain in late December but damage to computers, gear and archival drives has been minimal).


Dave Graney And the mistLY
Friday Feb 10th 2017
Appearing with VICTORIANA GAYE who are launching their new album
Caravan Club - Melbourne
 

Harry Howard and the NDE
Flying Saucer Club Feb 17th

Dave Graney And the mistLY
Feb 22nd Aotea Square concert Auckland Feb 23rd , Golden Dawn, Auckland

Dave Graney'n' the Coral Snakes
Melbourne NGV March 3rd

Lizottes in Newcastle March 31st.
Sydney April 1st - the Basement

 

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 - Tooses Wine Bar , 490-494 Argyle St, Moss Vale
Saturday 8th April - Gearin Hotel, Katoomba
Sunday 9th April - Smiths Canberra

Dave Graney and Clare Moore- January 2017 single I NEED TO BE HOT

January 2017 has seen Dave Graney and Clare Moore involved in the BOWIE IN BERLIN series of shows - musical director Mick Harvey - around Australiaand also coping with a recent flodding of their Ponderosa Studio. All is detailed here in Dave Graney's blog.

A review from the show at the Enmore theatre in Sydney.

We are here to talk about the January digital release I NEED TO BE HOT.




Dave Graney leads it in with hs new 24' ultra short scale bass , Clare Moore on drums and electric guitars again by Dave Graney. A sly and soulful groover of a song. The chorus building and building. Very economical with the words. A BIG chorus.

Hot vs COOL. Two polarities long worried at in popular music.

Louis Armstrong and Django Reinhardt were HOT.
Miles Davis was there at the birth of the COOL. Chet Bakerwas there. Charlie Parker had both.
Drugs helped. Elvis and Little Richard were HOT. Scott Walker COOL.

Money helps with cool. You don't worry with cash or a long credit line from home. Money from Home. COOL.

People respect cool. Gregory Isaacs, the COOL RULER. He did it with style and ganga.
Slick Rick. COOL. LL COOL J - invariably HOT! Rakim - you know it!

James Brown? Definitely hot. Curtis Mayfield COOL. Fridgelike!

Drugs? Paradoxically, Ice seems to make people hot.

Jim Morrison -cool . Rob Tyner - hot.

Television? Hell and Verlaine - the COOLEST!

Flippping the coin, Dave Graney decided he needs to be hot.

I guess it's the heat from outside he's talking about. The track itself is COOL. (He's on a  Birdseye Kick!)

Dave Graney And the mistLY
Friday Feb 10th 2017
Appearing with VICTORIANA GAYE who are launching their new album
Caravan Club - Melbourne

Harry Howard and the NDE
Flying Saucer Club Feb 17th

Dave Graney And the mistLY
Feb 22nd Aotea Square concert Auckland Feb 23rd , Golden Dawn, Auckland

Dave Graney'n' the Coral Snakes
Melbourne NGV March 3rd

Lizottes in Newcastle March 31st.
Sydney April 1st - the Basement

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 - Tooses Wine Bar , 490-494 Argyle St, Moss Vale
Saturday 8th April - Gearin Hotel, Katoomba
Sunday 9th April - Smiths Canberra

Georgio "the Dove Valentino" - David McClymont - Live shows for Dave Graney and Clare Moore in 2017

Early 2016 saw a recording session in North Melbourne organized by David McClymont, once bass player of Postcard Records premier act Orange Juice.




David also played in the Moodists in their extremely creative latter years ('85-87) which saw two EPs released.




After many years, David recently returned to writing and recording music. Projects of his own, others collaborating with MOMUS in Japan




and on many occasions , hooking up with different musicians and singers from across the world.

He has a Soundcloud page here. There are also many clips on Youtube. Its hard to pick a clip to show the depth and variety of all  the creativity and songwriting.

The session was to record a couple of songs with Georgio "the Dove" Valentino, a musician, writer and performer from Brussels (born in Miami).

Clare Moore was brought in on drums, Dave Graney on guitar and Georgio's collaborator Patrizia F on bass. David McClymont played keys on the song he wrote and bass on Georgio's song.

The session took place at Mick Harvey's rehearsal space in Melbourne and has been issued as a 7" single.

David McClymont made a video clip for another song that Georgio wrote and sang . "Don't Do Me Any Favours". Seems to be a Miami connection in the imagery?

Georgio "the Dove" Valentino will be returning to Australia in 2017 , accompanied by Patrizia F and will open for Dave Graney and the Coral Snakes at Lizottes in Newcastle March 31st and the Basement in Sydney April 1st.

Then there will be a series of regional NSW shows with Dave Graney and Clare Moore playing music as a duo supported by Georgio and Patrizia F. Dates listed below.  

Upcoming shows

4th annual Boxing Day Joint- Dave Graney and Clare Moore at the Hotel Metro in Grote st Adelaide. Playing with special guests the Cowboys Of Love. 8pm
Monday Dec 26th

Dave Graney – one of several vocalists (with Kylie Auldist, Kim Salmon, Ron Peno, Max Sharam) in the show BOWIE IN BERLIN – music director Mick Harvey. Clare Moore drums, Stu Thomas bass, Robin Casinader keys
Jan 6th – Triffid Brisbane, Jan 7th Enmore theatre Sydney, Jan 8th Hamer Hall Melbourne Jan 14th Regal Theatre Perth

Dave Graney And the mistLY
Friday Feb 10th 2017
Appearing with VICTORIANA GAYE who are launching their new album
Caravan Club - Melbourne

Harry Howard and the NDE
Flying Saucer Club Feb 17th

Dave Graney And the mistLY
Feb 22nd Aotea Square concert Auckland Feb 24th , Golden Dawn, Auckland

Dave Graney'n' the Coral Snakes
Melbourne NGV March 3rd

Lizottes in Newcastle March 31st.
Sydney April 1st - the Basement

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 - Tooses Wine Bar , 490-494 Argyle St, Moss Vale
Saturday 8th April - Gearin Hotel, Katoomba
Sunday 9th April - Smiths Canberra

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December digital release for Dave Graney and Clare Moore - I Ain't Hi Vis

2016 has seen the release of ten digital tracks from Dave Ganey and Clare Moore since February.

I'm A Good Hater
This Is The Deadest Place I've Ever Died In
I Been Trendy
Drifting Donna Reed
Are You Out Of Your Mind? (Get Back In)
You Need A Kleek, Klook
Rupert's Pets Grave
Matey, From On High
Let's Kick This Mob Out

and for December we have I Ain't Hi Vis .

All manual workers in public places in Australia wear fleuro or hi vis clothing. Upon donning the strangely medieavel looking apparel, they are immediately accorded the role of authentic, respected, valued members of society and are allowed access to all areas. No questions - they have rank and accreditation.
What are you looking at?

Dave Graney is a musician and performer; an illegitimate, dodgy, shiftless lair of a character for sure, if such a dude is ever seen loitering in any public place. In a forest clearing. In his or her flash clothes and glaring lack of any tools or skills useful for the economy -  stupid.

Luckily Dave Graney and Clare Moore are rarely seen in public areas, and even then they are way, way deep inside a scrum of more normal looking, generic, nice, ordinary  players.

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.

Dave Graney and Clare Moore have played all the instruments on all the tracks save for Drifting Donna Reed which was credited to dave graney and the mistLY.

Each song was written and recorded each month. No stockpiling, just flashes of inspiration and equally flash recording and mixing sessions at their studio which they dubbed, lomnh ago, teh Ponderosa. The main features that have linked the songs have been Dave Graney using his Maton Alver acoustic guitar which he had serviced late 2015 and a vintage (70s) AKG microphone for most of teh lead vocals.

Upcoming shows

Dave Graney – one of several vocalists (with Kylie Auldist, Kim Salmon, Ron Peno, Max Sharam) in the show BOWIE IN BERLIN – music director Mick Harvey. Clare Moore drums, Stu Thomas bass, Robin Casinader keys
Jan 6th – Triffid Brisbane,  

Jan 7th Enmore theatre Sydney,  

Jan 8th Hamer Hall Melbourne 

Jan 14th Regal Theatre Perth

Dave Graney And the mistLY
Friday Feb 10th 2017
Appearing with VICTORIANA GAYE who are launching their new album
Caravan Club - Melbourne

Harry Howard and the NDE
Flying Saucer Club Feb 17th

Dave Graney And the mistLY
Feb 22nd Aotea Square concert Auckland Feb 24th , Golden Dawn, Auckland

Dave Graney'n' the Coral Snakes
Melbourne NGV March 3rd

Lizottes in Newcastle March 31st.
Sydney April 1st - the Basement

Further dates to follow. 

http://www.davegraney.com

Thanks to everybody who came to see Dave Graney shows either with the mistLY or the Coral Snakes and who have also  been supporting these digital releases.

picture by Barry C Douglas