ist track off album "yeah whatever" air-played by dave graney on 3rrr fm

Make you cry

A song by john and beverley martyn from their "road to ruin" album that has long been a live favourite for the DAMES.Sung by Clare Moore, guests Matt Walker and Dave Graney on guitars. Recorded in Melbourne. Mixed by Barry Adamson in Brighton, UK.

auntie aviator

words by dave graney and music by clare moore, sung by clare moore and all instruments played by clare moore.The title is a word used in football talk about a time in the game when all play or scores are considered worthless as the result is already way beyond doubt. Anotehr of clare moores sci fi apocalyptic grooves. recorded in melbourne, mixed by barry adamson in the UK.

junktime

A dense, powerful challenge to love. If it helps to follow along with the text, paste this link in a new window: http://wp.me/p1uW6T-nA

I Remember

Double Negative - Vic Godard & Subway Sect

Vic Godard - Split Up The Money Live 1980

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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Heavy lies the crown

Speedboat, once again, with a studio version of "Soul City". I think this was recorded at Studio 202 in Hindley Street. (Anyone care to correct me on this??)

SOUL CITY

Retrograde

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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Dave Graney and Clare Moore

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