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.

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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.

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

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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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.

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

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

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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An interview by Dave Graney with Way Dynamic aka Dylan Young. Or perhaps Dylan Young aka Way Dynamic. The new Way Dynamic album is Massive Shoe.

Dave Graney interviews Way Dynamic

An interview for BLB by Dave Graney with Wes Smith from Rhizome and the Flavonoids. Out of the Gold Coast/Brisbane (Qld) and into Melbourne. Punk exotica and now ? Kind of No Wave New Wave electro funk rock? Very creative and productive and isolated. Latest album is out digitally and on cassette.

Dave Graney talks with Wes Smith aka RHIZOME and the Flavonoids

Catherine McQuade has a new album out called The Corruption Of Memory. A fellow traveller of Dave Graney and Clare Moore from the early 80s Melbourne music scene. She was in the Ears (the band portrayed in the movie Dogs In Space) and then Deckchairs Overboard and then? A fashion shop in Sydney and then re entering Melbourne and the music world several years ago. This is her third solo album. Very sophisticated music in the writing, recording and execution. Its not indie music but she works independently. Informed by jazz and R&B and film scores. Wonderful sounds.

Dave Graney interview with Catherine McQuade for her 2025 album

Peter Milton Walsh aka The Apartments once more launches his music and himself into the void with a new album on French label, Talitres.
Thats Whats The Music Is For.
https://theapartments.bandcamp.com/album/thats-what-the-music-is-for
Fellow Australians in Europe in the 80s. The talk is all about the new album but there are questions and answers about other times and people too.

Players Please! The Apartments  aka Peter Milton Walsh 2025

eastside interview

Dave Graney talks with New Zealand songwriter, writer, substacker, musician and all around interesting character George Henderson. Both vintage players, both pale South Seas human beings having lived lives as sui generis voices off in colonial outposts of the Anglo American world of popular and unpoular music. Made guys. Veterans of the psychic wars! (thank you Blue Oyster Cult). They chime strangely on so many occult scores, streams and fellow travellers. Weirdly normal types. But as Mark E Smith once quoth "ya don't have to be weird to be weird..." 

Players Please George Henderson fronts the New Existentialists

Dave Graney and Clare Moore talk with journalist Tony Wright about Lou Reeds 1977 Australian tour and specifically, his show at the Regent Theatre in Albury, NSW on Tuesday night November 1st. 

Journalist Tony Wright talks about the night Lou Reed played Albury, NSW  in 1977.

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

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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