Dave Graney online blogs.

Dave Graney wote an article about the new album "Knock Yourself Out" for mess and Noise here.....

Another Mess and Noise article here. This time its Adelaide, rock'n'roll and a special dish to be found only in that city.

A further Mess and Noise article here. This is about INDIE music.

An article from a Canberra paper about Knock Yourself Out HERE.

Dave Graney presented the follow up to the acclaimed narrative show "Point Blank" at the Butterfly Club in Melbourne from 26th to 28th March. This was again presented with Clare Moore on percussion and also Stu Thomas on fuzz bass and Stu Perera on guitar. It was called "Dave Graney- LIVE IN HELL!". A second season was undertaken in October 2009. Four nights at the Butterfly Club.
These narrative shows are the most intensely performed and drilled of shows. All the skills are used in this type of a performance. Autobiographical in nature yet mythological in tone. These ae events outside of normal albums and gigs . These are something else.

Clare Moore and Dave Graney appear on the new (late 2009) single "Fragile" single by Penny Ikinger. Deniz Tek also appears on guitar.

Clare Moore and Stu Thomas recorded an album as the rhythm section for Melbourne musician Jane Dust.This , her second album, will be released in 2010.

Stu Thomas has recorded a second solo album "Escape from Algebra", which will be released in 2010.

Stu has also recorded a new album as a bass player in Kim Salmon and the Surrealists. To be released on Low Transit Industries in 2010.
More Stu Thomas aka Stu D acitvities are detailed here.....

Click here to see "the Endeavour-TRON". An idealized dream home as imagined by Dave Graney and Clare Moore and architect Terence Nott.

Dave Graney and Clare Moore...featuring the Lurid Yellow Mist...were special guests of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds for dates in Spain, Portugal, France, Holland, Belgium , Ireland and London in April and May 2008 . They also did a few of their own dates.

Dave Graney is tagging along with brilliant broadcaster Elizabeth MCCarthy to present a show on RRR in Melbourne . 102.7fm on the dial or it can be streamed via http://www.rrr.org.au

This is on from midday to 2pm every Tuesday . Focussing mainly on Australian music and contemporary stuff at that. Thats the plan.

"WE WUZ CURIOUS" is the name of the 2008 album released by the Lurid Yellow Mist...featuring dave Graney and Clare Moore.

Here is a video link to "I'm in the future now" , from WE WUZ CURIOUS, on the youtube . The video was shot on the Cocos islands which are situated 2500 k's past Perth into the Indian Ocean. All shot and edited by Stu Thomas aka Stu D.

Here is a video link to "Lets Kill god Again" , from WE WUZ CURIOUS, on youtube. Edited by Dave Graney

TRACK LISTING FOR WE WUZ CURIOUS

you had to be drunk (dave graney)
I come from the clouds (dave graney)
lets kill god again (dave graney)
junk time (dave graney/clare moore)
I like to be haunted (dave graney)
only passin’ through (dave graney/mark fitzgibbon)
I’m in the future now (dave graney/stu thomas)
bring me my liar (dave graney)
I was a country boy (dave graney/stuart perera)
I needed someone to find me (dave graney)
punk dies (dave graney)
crime and underwear (dave graney)

The Lurid Yellow Mist
Stuart Perera, electric guitar
Stu Thomas aka Stu D , bass guitar,vocals
Mark Fitzgibbon, keyboards
Clare Moore, drums, keys, percussion, vocals
Dave Graney acoustic and electric guitars, organ,
bass,vocals
Eight of the songs were recorded on September 2007 at Sing
Sing South in Melbourne.
Engineered by Adam Rhodes.
Four of the tracks , “crime and underwear”, “punk dies”,
“I needed someone to find me” and “junk time” , were recorded
at the Ponderosa with Dave Graney and Clare Moore playing
all of the instruments.
Stu D played some bass on “punk dies” and Elizabeth McCarthy
and Jane Dust sang on “junk time”.
All the songs were mixed by Dave Graney and Clare Moore at
the Ponderosa.

In November 2007 there was a special event at the Victorian Arts Centre, curated by Dave Graney. "the Bewdy of speed" , it was a one hour happening featuring the Lurid Yellow Mist, Penny Ikinger, Plutonic Lab and Joe McKee ( 25% Snowman).Visuals were provided by Sydney libertarian thinktank/ underworld film and culture archivists and djays Jamie and Asper Leonarder aka Jay Katz and Miss Death aka the Sounds of Seduction aka the Mu-Meson Archives.
More here......
The title refers to the pre WW1 Futurist Manifesto.

Dave Graney opened for Welsh born New York music icon John Cale around the east coast of Australia . Nov 7th 2007 at the Tivoli in Brisbane, Nov 8th at the Enmore in Sydney and Nov 19th at the Forum in Melbourne.

"Point Blank", the small theatre monolgue show by Dave Graney won the "best music show" award at the 2007 Melbourne Fringe awards.

Kaye Patterson album, "International Travel", mixed at the Ponderosa by Dave Graney and Clare Moore is out now on Fuse.

The second Darling Downs album, "from one to another", mixed by Dave Graney and Clare Moore at the Ponderosa, is out via MGM.

Jane Dust also recorded an album at the Ponderosa which will be out in March 2008.

CDs by Dave Graney and Clare Moore such as Keepin it Unreal, Hashish and Liquor, Heroic Blues, the Third Woman and Night of the Wolverine ( re released with 18 tracks) are now available online via itunes and also through this site via Paypal. Also some rare singles and t shirts and posters.See the Swag page of the site by clicking HERE....

The Moodists have a Myspace page

Shortly before Stu D aka Stuart Thomas aka le comte d'alucard left for a European tour with Kim Salmon and the Surrealists in 2006, he recorded an album with Dave Graney and Clare Moore. This is the 12string, vibes and bass sound that they had been playing with all year. Songs include a cover of Suicide's "Diamonds fur coat champagne","you put a spell on me" (written with Matt Walker and recorded by him in 2000) , "parchman farm" by Clare Moore as well as the following songs re recorded and re interpreted in the new super shimmering, acoustic sound...

Lt Colonel, Cavalry
am I wearing something of yours?
a million dollars in a red velvet suit
biker in business class
there was a time
the stuff that night is made of
vengeance is on its way (don't worry)
everybody's gone (from somewhere)
a lot to drink about
anchors aweigh
lets live properly (like we're stoned)
Who of us two? (Originally "Qui de nous deux?" by French artist "M")

This album is called "KEEPIN' IT UNREAL" and is available via this site (Paypal) and via itunes now.

Dave Graney was asked to mc at the AGE EG 21st birthday party at the POW on Friday 27th October. As a mad idea to "represent some melbourne weirdness" he asked Mick Harvey and Rowland Howard to play some Birthday Party songs with himself on vocals and Clare Moore and Chris Walsh from the Moodists. Rowland was otherwise engaged but Steve Miller from the Moodists stepped in . They followed Bonnie Tyler who appeared out of nowhere, singing " total eclipse of the heart" . Schlock like that is hard to follow but ran through "the friend catcher", "mr clarinet" and "happy birthday".It was weird and wild. Half the audience went nuts and the other half had the look of stunned mullets. It was a pristine, totally preserved sound of 1983. They brought the noise. Nothing that could come out of any particluar pedal or compression box. It was real. Hurrah!

My schtick weighs a ton +mp3 of same

As well as being members of the amazing art rock/ rock art outfit known as SALMON, Graney and Moore recorded The Darling Downs at the Ponderosa. The Darling Downs are Kim Salmon on nylon string acoustic guitar and Ron Peno on vocals.

the town bike song +mp3 of same

An interview with Kim Salmon touching on his career and his recent work with SALMON and the DARLING DOWNS can be found here

Australian music icon and superstar Renee Geyer recorded a song written by Clare Moore for her latest album released on ABC records. The song is called "lost in space" and closes the cd in six minutes of string laden, latin/circus arabic style grooves. The record was produced by renee and Magoo and features the cream of Australias studio cats on top form on what must be surely among the best albums of her long career.

Click here to go to a page where you can hear an MP3 of the feature track from "the brother who lived" , "all our friends were stars".

Check out Spike Priggens amazing BEDAZZLED site. Full of music and video and political comment from the American scene.

Stuart Thomas (aka Stu D aka Count Dracula) is the new bass player in the Lurid Yellow Mist. He follows Adele Pickvance. Who followed Gordy Blair. Who co chaired with Andrew Picouleau. Who followed Gordy Blair and Chris Walsh. Who followed David McClymont. Who followed Chris Walsh.
All these bruisers (sorry Adele) are tough acts ...has Mister T got the ticker? Read on.....
Salmon, the hard rock high concept instrumental outfit. Here the leader, rock combat dr strangelove type Kim Salmon throws us a few fuckin bones.....

A recent show by the Moodists in Melbourne once again saw the aristocrats of the underworld come out to check out something real and scary. The band scared themselves . Here are some reports from this rare sighting

Mick Geyer, friend and former manager of Dave Graney 'n' the Coral Snakes, passed away on the 13th April 2004 and was buried in the town he was born and gew up in, Sunbury, Victoria. Dave Graney has written a brief story about Mick Geyer HERE.

Here is a link to a video for KNOCK YOURSELF OUT. Title track of the 2009 cd from Dave Graney. Filmed and edited by young Melbourne film maker Nick Cowans

Upcoming shows

Dave Graney "n" Clare Moore...featuring the Lurid Yellow Mist .

2010 shows - KNOCK YOURSELF OUT

Sunday March 28th at the Retreat Hotel In Sydney Rd Brunswick.

Friday April 23rd - Lloyds Hotel- Launceston

Saturday April 24th- Republic Bar- Hobart.

May 8th and 9th - Wheatsheaf Hotel, Adelaide. Sunday 9th being an afternoon/evening show.

May 14th and 15th - 10:30 pm
Dave Graney - MC BITS! Songs that destroyed!
The Butterfly Club
204 Bank St Sth Melbourne


Stu Perera- Stu D- Cocos islands 2007

Dave Graney released a solo album in June 2009. It is called "Knock yourself out".It is described as an "electro boogie" record. Most instruments played by Dave Graney with Clare Moore cooking up some synth out grooves and Stu Thomas stepping up for some bass grooves on a couple of tracks. Stu Perera also appears. Still, it is to be deemed a solo record and is out now These are the tracks ...

1 knock yourself out (graney / moore)
2 it was then or never (graney/ graney- thomas) )
3 honky tonk rope a dope (graney)
4 bodysnatcher blues (graney)
5 dylan the indie fake (graney / moore)
6 I need my guitar (graney)
7 sellout! (graney / graney-moore - thomas)
8 throwin one into the world (graney)
9 so easy (graney)
10 I don’t wanna go bush (graney)
11 Oakleigh Bowie blues (graney)
12 2068 babe (graney)

Click here for Dave Graney at My Space

Click here for Clare Moore at myspace

myspace.com/thestuthomasparadox

art..tony mahony

"Hashish and Liquor" is now available on itunes and other digital outlets for download. Internationally. Further back catalogue items from the Dave Graney Show, Clare Moore and Brass Bed ( Stu Thomas) will be made available over the coming months.

Dave Graney on the SBS tv show "Rockwiz". having a squawk with Angie Hart. They dueted on the Wilbert Harrison track, "lets work together". In the background can be seen Melbourne musicians of much note, Mark Ferrie on bass and Pater Luscombe on drums.Recorde in 2005, recently repeated (July 2007).

People may have seen Dave appearing on the channel 10 show, "Australias brainiest musician" in 2006. Dave came 3rd, beaten by two members of male vocal; harmony group, "Human Nature". Dave is happy to be the third most brainiest musican,. ("all the pressure is off and I can goof off at the back of the class").

Dave also recently filmed an epsiode of the music quiz show, "Spicks and Specks" for the ABC. Also appearing on the show will be Ian Turpie , Dave ONeill, Myf Warhurst , comedian Cal Wilson and Alan Brough.

Dave Graney, Bill Miller, Mark Fitzgibbon

"Night of the Wolverine" is available on Cockaigne. COCK010. The original 12 track cd in a different cover. There is also a "what happened next" element to the cd with a track from each of the the previous three RDGS cds as well as Clare Moore's "third woman" cd as well as a new track from Robin Casinader and a french version of the title track of the cd taking it up to 18 tracks. It is available online now, via paypal, from this site , or at your music shops.

Dave Graney, Clare Moore, Stu Thomas- Brixton 2008- pic dave western

Clare Moore has also been working on further recordings with Melbourne singer Kaye Patterson. Clare Moore on drums, Adele Pickvance ( formerly with the RDGShow) on bass and Kaye on piano. (Again , an all female situation). Kaye insists on recording vocals and acoustic piano at the same time which makes it harder but also gives it a real old school edge. It helps that she is a rock hard player who knows her material inside out.

Salmon, the hard rock high concept instrumental outfit. Here the leader, rock combat dr strangelove type Kim Salmon throws us a few fuckin bones.....

You can find an interview with Dave on the Sand Pebbles site here.

The Moodists Compilation ,"two fisted art" was out on the on the WMinc label . It is a wild two disc affair. 19 studio tracks fro the 1980 - 1986 life of the band and then 16 live tracks on the other disc. These live tracks were perhaps the main spur for putting the cd out. All unreleased and most never recorded, they capture the band in great sound in three distinct periods. These are in 1982 at the Sedition Festival in Sydney (Mick Turners first gig with the band), 1984 in Melbourne ( Mick Turners last gig with the band) and 1985 in London. All the tracks were selected by Steve Miller , David Graney, Clare Moore ,Chris Walsh and Mick Turner and the WMinc label is run by Steve Miller and Graham Lee. Not many reissues happen in such an in family/ in house manner. This compilation happened because we all wanted it to and felt that the music deserved another listen. Most had never been been released in Australia and all of it had never been released on CD at all.Available on itunes.

There has been much updating of the Moodists section of the site, with a new bio entry and several new pages of pictures and reviews from the 80's period. There are also some pages of peoples views of the times. People who were there commenting on the scene from todays perspective.

The lyrical dimension of the Moodists is also available ( for the first time ever.)

David Graney tries to explain where the Moodists songs were comin' from , here....

Reviews of "two fisted art" can be seen here. What the papers were saying in 2003.

Some Frequently asked questions are answered here.

Clare Moore writes about her first concert experience. The Rolling Stones , Adelaide, 1973.

There is a guided tour of the Graney Moore studio compound, the Ponderosa.

A new short history of Dave Graney and Clare Moores adventures in the music scene(s) is now open in this site. Its simple. Just the facts, man.