2025 Live Shows
Friday Oct 3rd Factory Theaatre, Marrickville, Sydney Saturday Oct 4th Waves, Wollongong, NSW Sunday Oct 5th The Street Theatre, Canberra Friday Oct 10th, The Corner Hoyel, Richmond, Vic Saturday Oct 11th, Bundy Hall, Bundalaguah VIC Friday Oct 17th Lismore Showgrounds-Northside Community Stage - Lismore NSW Friday Oct 24th Freo Social, Fremantle WA Saturday Oct 25th, The River Hotel, Margaret River WA Friday Oct 31st, Brisbane Crowbar QLD Saturday Nov 1st, The Imperial, Eumundi QLD Sunday Nov 2nd, Mo's Desert Clubhouse, Gold Coast QLD Friday Nov 7th, Byron Bay Theatre NSW Saturday Nov 8th, Bellingen Memorial Hall NSW Thursday Nov 13th, King Street Bandroom, Newcastle Friday Nov 14th, Avoca Beach Theatre NSW Saturday Nov 15th, The Lounge, Chatswood NSW Sunday afternoon Nov 16th, Dangar Island Bowlo NSW Friday Nov 21st, The Gov, Adelaide SA Friday Nov 28th, Royal Oak, Launceston TAS Saturday Nov 29th, The Pier, Ulverstone TAS Sunday Nov 30th, Longley International Hotel, Longley TAS For Live bookings- please contact.... Steve
Griffiths
Last week I had the great pleasure of seeing the witty, urbane and totally delightful Dave Graney and Band at the Ember Room in the wilds of St. Kilda. It was a total musical experience involving Dave's erudite, observational songs - perhaps even fables in the style of Aesop - plus playing that was really a tickle to the ear. Dave performs his compositions with such elan and sophistication that he draws you into his world and holds you there until the last note of the night. Singer-Songwriters often seem self-obsessed but to me Dave sings about a world he would like to live in and possibly thinks by singing said songs he could bring that about. He sings well too - and his guitar playing was exemplary all through the show. Stuart's perfectly aligned Rickenbercker playing, smooth bassist Stu Thomas and his very charming wife Clare Moore on drums provided him with a solid foundation to elucidate his dreams and inspirations - songs with character and belief plus a very wry view of this maybe crumbling world. Dave is a gem, polished to a high sheen, rare in the current charivari that one has to endure when sampling the music scene these days. He is not to be missed - I have not had such a pleasurable night out in years. He is certainly at his peak now after battling around the traps for some years - get out and see him while he still takes such enjoyment in presenting his creations to you all. David Pepperell, Melbourne 2024 |
Interview with Dave Graney by Tyler Jenke at his Trusty Chords podcast. Interview with Dave Graney and Clare Moore at Seja Vogels podcast. Granite Island Discs with Dave Graney. Interview with Dave Graney in The Australian September 2025(Paywall) Story about the Soft n Sexy Sound tour at the i94bar.
Album #2 for 2024 I PASSED THROUGH MINOR CHORD IN A MORNING . Dave Graney and Clare Moore - featuring Stuart Perera. order here.
I PASSED THROUGH MINOR CHORD IN A MORNING also available as a t shirt and digital album bundle
2024 album Dave Graney and Clare Moore (strangely)(emotional)
cover image by Tony Mahony. Album out now. Click the image to order.
Story in the Guardian Australia about 30th anniversary Night Of The Wolverine tour. ABC Double J special on NightOf The Wolverine. Live review of a show on the tour in Franklin, Tasmania at the beautiful Palais Theatre. Live review of a show at the Old Museum in Brisbane. Re-imagining of Night Of The Wolverine using Virtual Production technology by Donna McRae July 2023
Story in the Guardian Australia about 30th anniversary Night Of The Wolverine tour. ABC Double J special on NightOf The Wolverine.
IN A MISTLY 2022 album by Dave Graney and Clare Moore
ONE MILLION YEARS DC by Dave Graney and Clare Moore
Digital album only - at APPLE MUSIC here . Album #1 for 2019 ZIPPA DEEDOO WHAT IS/WAS THAT/THIS? by Dave Graney and the mistLY
"the Serge Gainsbourg/Lee Hazelwood/Jim Morrison/Scott Walker/Skip Spence/Ern Malley/Lenny Bruce of Australian music.
"Just a quick note to say how much I’m loving the new album. Front-loaded with hits, and then a series of great band workouts. Superb. "Dave Graney gave me his new album Zippa Dee Doo whatis-was that-this. I saw the Mistly perform 'ultra keef' at one of the those marvellous Croxton Sunday arvo gigs. Fell in love with it and asked him if I could record it. Ending up recording a bit on the album, Dave mixed it. So many great f words on this track, very cathartic. A story about keef, everytime I've seen him play it the lyrics are different, genious".
"* #EzRepost @coiledsprings with @repostigapp I can’t forget the bill that hot night at the Palace in St. Kilda many years ago…The show opened with a guy called Dave Graney, the song and dance man, the loveable rogue, ‘the love rustler’ with his Coral Snakes, and the serene Clare Moore keeping everything together in the back. Then the Cruel Sea shambled onstage with Tex Perkins, tearing a hole in the night, a bellowing, rancid Lizard King in a ripped Jaws t-shirt. Finally, the Bad Seeds, with Cave mounting the fold-back, capes flowing in an impossible wind, like some perverse southern gothic evangelist, braying to the raptured who were already certain to be damned, and didn’t care. The Palace heaved that night with sweat and obscenity. And we were right there, in Melbourne, at the molten core of the rock world, drinking in the magma. Not even a thousand beers as we poured out of there, and drifted over the tram tracks to the Esplanade, could calm us down and quell the charge. But it was the unstoppable Graney, in his natty jumpsuit, with his wit, and his ways, dipping into the slow chords of ‘Night of the Wolverine’, that we knew we’d found a poet, whose lines were etched like the statue of Carlo Catarni outside and had announced himself, that night, there and then, as a put-down-your-glassss superstar. xo #davegraney #nightofthewolverine #recollections #thepalace #stkilda #melbournerocknroll #thecruelsea #nickcaveandthebadseeds #coiledspringsstudio“ "You can dip in almost anywhere into the vast Graney catalogue and find something deeper and more satisfying than the pop fizz of the day. But if you are starting out, this album and attending a Graney gig on an extensive Australian tour in the next few months is an excellent place to begin". "This is your Guernica, your Imagine, your XYGTHO Phase 3, your Raging Bull. Everything you have created before has culminated in this true masterpiece of recorded music. Life, Death, Pathos, Humour, Groove and above all Aplomb = Zippa Dee Do what is-was that-this? Congratulations to you, Clare and the mistLY and thank you for an album that will be on regular rotation in my shack for the remainder of my days". "Dave Graney and the mistLY new album “Zippa Dee Doo What Is-Was That-This?” - guaranteed deep grooves, dangerous themes and hip-heating hot Rock action. "This is described as a “rock and roll” album and in that it reflects music from the late 60s/early 70s (pre-punk if you will) that is a reasonable description but i’d say it goes beyond that basic description as there are modern elements, nods to jazz, the use of current technique, and of course the unique Graney/Moore stylings all present. It adds to and enhances a formidable body of work. “Graney has always been a raconteur – with equal doses of smooth, smug and wit. They say rock ‘n’ roll is a musical genre on the decline – but with this unusually titled album Graney has raised the rock ‘n’ roll flag and wears his love for the genre on his sleeve, meshed with some blues and psychedelia.
”...brilliant show. Best band in this country by miles. Graney and Co. are totally unique. Whatever line-up, always amazing. And FUN!”.
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