Everything was legendary with Robert is from Dave Graneys 2014 solo album FEARFUL WIGGINGS. 

The album has been a year in the making. Very minimal art pop in approach. This dynamic track leads us into it. Acoustic guitar, bass xylophone (like a Marimba) and thrilling percussion. Wild pop dynamics, the voice right out front like a 60s Country star should and massed , reverbed harmonies.

“Everything was legendary with Robert”

Who is Robert? Which Robert? Was he legendary or did he just make it so? Is that the same thing?

“it was good-when he talked to you- he really talked to you – he was always ON – In the moment!”

An elusive Pimpernel/Withnail  type figure. Dave Graney writes a song in a Ray Davies style. With a Bo Diddley / Latin feel.  

The recording features Dave Graney on driving acoustic, twin harmonizing electrics and bass. Clare Moore on percussion and bass xylophone. 

“his riveting self-consciousness drew you in/ a crowd gathered to see what he was lookin’ at/ talkin’ about’/ everything was legendary with Robert…”

The last few years have seen Graney and his band the mistLY blowing the roof off of small clubs with the jaw dropping electric guitar pop jams. .FEARFUL WIGGINGS is a new scene. A little folky - a little jazz in the chordings. A lot of countrypolitan in the vocal register and level in the mix. Drama, of course, and grooves. Kind of pop. 


Everything Was Legendary With Robert

Players Please podcast. Dave Western , Londoner and Artist- Artist and Londoner. A conversation with Dave Graney from 2021 touching on 80s London, music, art, London, one night in Brixton 1984 when Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds did their first live gig opening (secretly) for the Moodists, London, Soho, South and North London, record collecting and probably a lot more.

Play On Two - Dave Western

Players Please podcast. Penny Ikinger, Melbourne-Sydney-Melbourne. Electric guitar player, songwriter and performer. A conversation with Dave Graney late 2020. Touches on 80s post punk scenes in Australia, working in a museum, her guitar, the Melbourne Mafia, Recording and performing, getting paid, gender and ambitions.

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Players Please podcast. Peter Milton Walsh aka the Apartments interview/conversation. From late 70s Brisbane to New York, 80s London and France , 90s Sydney and back around to France again. Music, literature, life. Just few things goin' through our minds.

Play On One Peter Milton Walsh

A one hour conversation with Dave Graney and Clare Moore, talking about their 2024 album (strangely)(emotional). How it came to be, the albums leading up to this. COVID related of course. The whole time was affected by the pandemic. Perhaps this is the most Covid album of them all? It features Already Missing The Lockdown and Poor Covid, They Walk Among Us and He's Talkin To His Base. .... It's all laid out here. Track By Track intel.

Players Please

Players Please Dave Graney and Clare Moore talk (strangely)(emotional)

Interview for BLB - Dave Graneys show at Melbourne's 3RRRFM - by Dave Graney with Sianna Lee from Love Outside Andromeda in regard to their 2024 album STELLA INTERRUPTED.

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An interview with Billy Miller, Melbourne musician, guitar player, songwriter, producer, arranger and character. 
The 70s scene with his band The Ferretts, touring Australia with Blondie in 1977. Molly Meldrum as producer, Tony Cohen, St Kilda, Kings Cross, Paul Kelly.

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Dave Wray aka Frank Bennett. Hardcore fellow. Sydney through and through. West side. Sax player and singer.
Talking about his life in music mainly in Sydney. Sydney nightlife, bands, clubs, venues. Good luck and bad. 
Frank Sinatra. Jazz. R&B. Birrong.
It starts abruptly and ends so too.

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Dave Graney and Clare Moore talk all things to do with their second album of 2024, I Passed Through Minor Chord In A Morning. They talk of recent Australian live dates and recordings. Improvisation, writing, playing, mixing. Art. Music. All things. 

Dave Graney and Clare Moore talk all things I Passed Through Minor Chord In A Morning

Apologies for any odd elements or glitches in the sound. We were laughing and getting excited and had a compressor on the mic. It might "pump" audibly on occasion. Sorry about that.
Thought we would have a chat about beer. Old beer and new beer. A lifetime of beer. Clare Moore grew up in a couple of pubs. Everybody drank beer and smoked. Once upon a time. When there was no choice about beer. When there was no choice but beer. 

Dave Graney and Clare Moore talking of beer. Personal histories of beer. Cans, bottle, kegs. Beer Life.

2023 Dave Graney interview with author Alan Paul in regard to his book on the Allman Brothers band and specifically their album Brothers and Sisters. Southern rock icons from Macon, Georgia. Playing at the enormous Watkin Glenn festival with the Grateful Dead. The deaths of Duane Allman and Berry Oakley. Greggs bust. The Dixie Mafia. Phil Walden and Capricorn Records. President Jimmy Carter. Cher. 

Further writing and appropriate links at my substack
https://davegraney.substack.com/p/earthing-the-midnight-riders

Dave Graney interview with author Alan Paul Allman Brothers Brothers and Sisters

An archival interview from early 2023 by Dave Graney with comedian and film maker Tony Martin. Tony was about to do hiss first Melbourne Comedy Festival show for many years. Talk touches on comedy and Tonys amazing podcast Sizzletown, comedy festivals and clubs. 

Further text and appropriate links at my substack 
https://davegraney.substack.com/p/tony-martin

Dave Graney interview with Tony Martin from early 2023

In 2016 UK folk music ICON Shirley Collins came back to the world of recorded music with a new album , Lodestar, and live performances. Her last album and live performance activity had been in 1978. She had issued her first album in 1958.
She is truly an icon, groundbreaking figure in folk music. She worked with folklorist Alan Lomax, travelling around the USA and recording folk songs in the early 60s. She recorded with her sister Dolly and with genius guitarists Davey Graham and Bert Jansch as well as the Albion Band. If you have heard any of PJ Harveys folk tinged albums of the last decade you would have heard echoes of Shirley Collins.
I did the interview for RRR. I had been doing the show for about nine years and had inherited the time slot from Rick E Vengeance (RIP) who had presented a folk show on the station for about 30 years. I thought it would be both nice to both involve him and also to be  proper and respectful to Shirley and the folk music world for someone really immersed and versed in it to be involved. Rick passed away in 2018. 

Further text and appropriate links at my substack
https://davegraney.substack.com/p/shirley-collins-folk-icon

Shirley Collins- 2016 archival interview

In 2015 the Pop Group - one of the greatest and most influential of late 70s UK post punk bands - reformed to tour a new album. I spoke with singer Mark Stewart ahead of their Australian tour. I had seen them a few months previously in Edinburgh, playing to a crowd containing the cream of that city's post punk identities. (By that I mean people from Josef K and the Fire Engines). They had never been to Australia and their tour would prove that people didn't know how to deal with them. Their sound was singular, The rhythm section and the thin, spindly, ultra processed guitar sounds. And Mark towering over everybody with his mad wailing, delayed and reverbed and phased and echoed and eq'd by a master mixer in Adrian Sherwood. Deep, dub , roots reggae styling. Australians didn't know how to place it. There were no flannel shirts or distortion pedals. They were brilliant! 
His passing in April 2023 really shook me. The guy was so tall and physically imposing. His voice was so  strong and wild. One of the few music groups whose sound will never date. I mean the Pop Group, Rip Rig and Panic. Neneh Cherry, Mark Stewart and the Maffia and all who sailed in and with them. Perhaps them, the Stooges, Suicide and ..... a few others. 

Further writing and appropriate links at my Substack https://open.substack.com/pub/davegraney/p/mark-stewart-the-pop-group-archival

Archival interview with  Mark Stewart (RIP) from the Pop Group 2015

Archival interview with Eric Bloom from the Blue Oyster Cult by Dave Graney, originally intended for a newspaper article. From 2013 when the Blue Oyster Cult were to headline a "festival" (held at several inner city venues in different cities in Australia) organized by the Hoodoo Gurus.

More detailed story and video links at my substack https://open.substack.com/pub/davegraney/p/eric-bloom-from-the-blue-oyster-cult

Archival 2013 interview with Eric Bloom from The Blue Oyster Cult.

The Fauves 13th album Tropical Strength is a killer. All killer. TROPICAL STRENGTH. REcorded in Bali. Dave Graney and Clare Moore saw them playing songs from it on a triple bill with Brisbanes finest , Custard and The  Stress Of Leisure at a hall in a paddock outside Sale in regional Victoria in late 2024. The album never stops giving, in songs, sounds, arrangements, production and lyrics.
Dave Graney and Clare Moore journeyed to the Fauves compound on the Mornington Peninsula which is by the bay but very much on the far flung outer reaches of Melbourne. A good 90 minutes drive from the city. They all talked of their shared experiences of working within differing wings of Universal Records in Australia in the 90s, lyrics, war stories, production, recording in Bali as well as 90s Melbourne,  how bands stay together and how they form and split as well as life, death, the futility of existence and Bin Night. 

There is more text and context with accompanying video links and images at our substack, Players Please https://open.substack.com/pub/davegraney/p/tropical-strength-the-fauves?r=3mhrci&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false

Dave Graney and Clare Moore talk with Andrew Cox and Phil Leonard from the Fauves

Mel Wansbrough works in fashion at No. 6 , Jack Ladder is a tall, youthful rock singer from Sydney and they were invited to talk about fashion by Dave Graney in December on his radio show Banana Lounge Broadcasting. 

There is more text and more images to put this into context at my substack.
https://open.substack.com/pub/davegraney/p/funky-but-chic-december-2024-fashion?r=3mhrci&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Funky But Chic December 2024 Fashion Round Table

Twinkledigitz aka Will Hindmarsh, once led his band of merry pranksters Go Go Sapien. Madly costumed and highly conceptual yet sophisticated and cartoonish all the while. Will and his partner Emily have guested on many Dave Graney and Clare Moore tracks over the last decade. Will also occasionally played with Clare Moore on her solo ventures as well as the Dames. Emily, Will, Clare and Jane Dust also perform as The Routines. Emily and Will also occasionally perform with Damian Cowells Disco Machine. Will and Dave Graney have also been "working" on their "hip hop/electro prophets" act as Wam and Daz for more than a decade. Time flies... 
Twinkeldigitz is Wills first solo outing. All electronic, totally lyrical and conceptual FIRE! Half of this talk was aired on Dave Graneys BLB program on RRR in Melbourne and teh rest was continued off air. They spoke of many things. Tasmania, Melbourne, Twinkledigitz' school days , Go Go Sapien, electronics, technology, AI, humour (is it bad for a musician?)  and snacks. 

Further text and video links are available at https://open.substack.com/pub/davegraney/p/twinkledigitz?r=3mhrci&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Dave Graney talks with Twinkledigitz aka Will Hindmarsh

Kim Salmon talks with Dave Graney about his new album/project/collective/live show which goes under the name Smoked Salmon. From the first question Kim goes back in time and the long conversation winds between shared experiences in teh underworld of Australian music, London and Europe in the 80s and 90s, working with large and small labels. It wanders! 

Players Please-Kim Salmon talks Smoked Salmon Scientists Surrealists

Dave Graney interview with Billy Pommer Jnr and Graham "Hoody" Hood from the Johnnys in regard to their new album (recorded in 1990) Live in Lyon. 
The conversation ranges from the bands beginnings in early 80s Sydney and Melbourne to their experiences in the Australian live music and recorded music scene.
Touring up to and over 300 dates a year in 1986. Hardcore driving and playing. Songwriting and forming bands, venues, cities, regional towns, record companies. 

Players Please - Dave Graney talks with The Johnnys

Harry Howard and David McClymont have collaborated on an album called UNDER THE WORLD. 
David was once in Postcard Records band, Orange Juice as well as in the latterday Moodists for their last two EPS. That was in 1986-87. Then there were years travelling the world and doing nothing in the music arena. Then in 2012 he suddenly started to produce music, learning new tech and releasing a dazzling array of solo works and collaborations. He  released two CDs with the Scottish musician Momus and a steady stream of independent recordings as a solo performer and in collaboration with other artists. He recently released Centuries, a double vinyl retrospective on the Last Night From Glasgow label.
Harry Howard played in the second - 80s version - of Crime And The City Solution and then These Immortal Souls with his late brother, Rowland. Then there was the legendary Pink Stainless Tail. He the released three albums with Harry Howard and the NDE (featuring Clare Moore on drums and Dave Graney on vocals) before performing as DUET with then partner Edwina Preston, the electro collaboration that was ATOM and his first solo album Slight Pavilions. 
They talk about the recording and how it came about and also about Australian culture and film and tv and football, as seen by an outsiders perspective.

Players Please - Harry Howard and David McClymont talk with Dave Graney

Brisbanes finest? Yes! The Stress of Leisure have been pumping out totally upbeat, grooving albums since 2006. Most songs written by Ian Powne on electric guitar. Pascalle Burton on organ/keys also sings and adds her presence. An active poet and performance poet as well. The inscrutably funky Jane Elliott on bass and Jessica Moore swinging a big beat on drums. 
Dave Graney and Clare Moore talk with Ian and Pascalle about music, music scenes, touring, Brisbanes two day winter, post punk influences and major chords.

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Mitch McTaggart has a tv show streaming called The Backside Of Television. It's all about Australian Television. He usually presents a year end round up of The Last Year Of Television but this is more of a broader look at Australian television production over the decades. Occasionally it was bold and imaginative, he reckons. A couple of episodes are specifically about Australian tv Police shows. Crime shows. Cop shows. Border Security shows. And he delves into how embedded the actual police forces were in the writing, editing and production. Specifically about some shows which weren't shepherded through to the eyes and ears of the public by the gentle hands of the Police. He's brave! 

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Simon Strong lives in Melbourne but comes straight out of Sheffield in the UK. He made or makes music in The Ekranoplans and The Pink Stainless Tail before that. He presents a show on Radio 3CR in Melbourne. He tells a story of writing a novel in 2002 and then forgetting about it then retrieving it and finishing it after a dream encounter with Howard Devoto from Magazine. He released the book - The Bastardizer Polishes a Turd - in 2023 and had since released an audio version of it as well as  an album of collaborations with artist "remixing" some of the audio of him talking and there is also an album of him performing/reading the book in Sheffield this year. Simon has a mad spark and a natural flow. Rabbit holes are his natural terrain. The talk goes all over popular and unpopular culture. You can access any of his stuff via https://simonstrong.bandcamp.com/audio

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Sean McMahon plays guitar and sings in Melbourne band, The Owls.
He has released many solo albums and also led a band called Downhills Home. 
He is a total music culture person. He has played music since his teens and is a nice person. The music he makes with his friends just keeps getting better. 
I always love music with flash and drama and The Owls don't trade or fuss with either of those. No worries.
We talked about his band and his friends and what he had for dinner and ambition and life. 

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opening track for THE DEVIL DRIVES, the last album credited to Dave Graney 'n' the Coral Snakes in 1997. Recorded in Melbourne and mixed in London. Music written by Clare Moore. The album closed with this with added vocals as the title track. A real, dreamy, conceptual trip. 
Engineer - Kenny Jones Engineer Assistant - Sean Thompson Engineer - Andy Baldwin Mixer - David Ruffy Producer - Dave Graney, Clare Moore, David Ruffy Studio - Kiss, Melbourne (recording) Matrix Maison Rouge, London (Mixing)

Cover art - Tony Mahony

The Oblivion Seekers - album track from 1997

from "Supermodified" 2010. Bass, guitars by Dave Graney and keys and drums by Clare Moore. Rhythm machine programming / editing by Greg Walker. Originally recorded 2003, remixed/re-sung-replayed  in 2010 by Dave Graney

All Our Friends Were Stars

Recorded late 2019 on a midweek night at the deluxe Melbourne jazz club onto the house 24 track system and mixed by Dave Graney a year later, deep within the 2020-21 pandemic miasma.

art by Tony Mahony. 
A rock'n'roll album. Drums, bass, guitars, vibes and vocals.
Tracks focused on the two albums released in that year, ZIPPA DEEDOO WHAT IS/WAS THAT/THIS? and ONE MILLION YEARS DC. Plus a few from earlier albums. This digital live release compliments the two others from 2020, the minimalist and lyrical "Dave Graney and Clare Moore with Robin Casinader - IN CONCERT" and the one-off super group that was documented on "Dave Graney and Clare Moore with Georgio the dove Valentino and Malcolm Ross".

This album starts out cool and slinky and builds to a blazing rave up.
…Dave Graney on  acoustic and electric guitar and vocals, Clare Moore on vibes, keys, drums and backing vocals, Stu Thomas  on bass and backing vocals, Stuart Perera on electric guitar and backing vocals.

From the album Dave Graney and the mistLY LYVE AT BYRDS. Out February 12th.   
Yes 12-02-2021.
Get the album here https://davegraney1.bandcamp.com/
Dave Graney and Clare Moore play an online show every Thursday night 8pm AEDT  Stageit.com . 
Also a show every second Saturday night 9pm UTC.

Rock N Roll Is Where I Hide Dave Graney And The MistLY LYVE AT BYRDS

You've Been in My Mind (2015 Expanded Edition)

I Don't Wanna Know Myself

Drifting Donna Reed

Podcast interviews with fellow players  mainly by Dave Graney. Players Please. 
Rock band.Dave Graney (vox/gtr) and Clare Moore(drums/vibes/keys)  were in the Moodists-post punk Melbourne band.Then Dave Graney and the Coral Snakes. 

Graney and Moore have been involved in making of roughly 30 albums. Also about 7 digital releases, four or five albums as part of other peoples bands, several compilations, two solo albums from Clare Moore as well as her side projects The Dames and The Routines. Four feature film soundtracks. Dave Graney released a book about his music life in 2011, "1001 australian nights" and a more personal book (more focused on all the jobs the took to be a musician) in 2018 called WORKSHY. A second book of lyrics spanning the years 1980-2023 called THERE HE GOES WITH HIS EYE OUT came out in 2023. 
2024 sees an album come out on Classic Jewel case Compact Disc called (strangely)(emotional).

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