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ONE MILLION YEARS DC is the title for an amazing 2019 album credited to Dave Graney and Clare Moore.
11 tracks recorded and mixed at the Ponderosa in Melbourne.
ONE MILLION YEARS DC. APPLE MUSIC here . DETAILS OF THE ALBUM HERE
"Time for a new album from Dave Graney and Clare Moore
The opening slinky blues pop of “Baby I Wish I’d Been A Pop Star” marks another leap forward in the Dave Graney and Clare Moore canon. This time with the two Stu’s – Perera and Thomas – collectively as The MistLy – they have produced a classic album for the end of the second decade of the 21st century. An album of eight songs in thirteen versions takes elements of the previous album and run of digital singles and develops them into something recognisable, but also uniquely modern, and, of course “Graney”.
Bob Osborne - Analogue Trash Radio
"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".
Grame Tressider
”...brilliant show. Best band in this country by miles. Graney and Co. are totally unique. Whatever line-up, always amazing. And FUN!”.
Jon Schofield (musician)
"* #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
HandSolo"
#davegraney #nightofthewolverine #recollections #thepalace #stkilda #melbournerocknroll #thecruelsea #nickcaveandthebadseeds #coiledspringsstudio“
a few words about the mistLY
Stuart Perera plays guitar in our band, the
mistLY. He was born in '77,
the year I pretty much thought about playing music. We had another
guitar player Bill Miller (who hasn’t played with us for seven
years) had a number one record with his band , the Ferrets in the same
year. We had no trouble talking about musical ideas because we all
like playing music. Its like solving a series of problems, or walking
across some abstract plane that keeps changing as you set each foot
down. Some times its like a 3 dimensional field and you can see where
the notes and the beats fall before it happens. Other times its like
a fogged battlefield. Does that make us diggers! Cripes!
Bill went off for a walk a while ago. 2005. He was “gonna be some
time”. Actually I started to play more guitar and there wasn’t
the room or the moolah.
Clare Moore and I have played music together the whole way. Since 1978.
We have shared our terrestrial life as well. We get to run out on that
abstract field and we are fully manifest there. We know that. We don't
talk about it much , we just know it. The band is completed by our bass
player Stuart Thomas.
Stu Thomas plays in the Surrealists with Kim Salmon. He also plays his
own music with the Stu Thomas Paradox.
Anyway, we all meet up, like the Wild Bunch and deal with whatever spotfire
or situation I have gotten us into. Its not like a band where the experience
has all been shared. We all came by a different route. We've all been up
and we've all been down. We like to play in this field, this area we know
how to operate in. Its like being a pro gambler or a fighter I guess, only
the stoned will know. Memory doesn't have much to do with it. We've had
to make up some other way to speak with each other. We can't just refer
to past battle plans and victories or defeats. Its always been new. We
have to go over the top together.
Stuart Perera has played on every album since “the Dave Graney Show” in
1998 the year that broke on us after we finished playing with the Coral
Snakes. It was my idea to finish that scene and start again. I needed to
do it. Stuart was playing at a VCA jazz youth concert and I asked him to
play for us. I was lucky, . He also plays around Melbourne clubs very regularly
in a funk outfit. He is highly match fit. Not at all indie either.
Adele Pickvance played bass on that Dave Graney Show cd and several that
followed. She left to rejoin the Go Betweens. Stu Thomas has played with
us since 2004 and made his recorded debut on “Keepin’ It Unreal” in
2006.
Most albums we have made have include about 40% of material recorded and
played completely at our Ponderosa studio by Clare Moore and myself. The
rest we have gone into a bigger room/ studio and laid down tracks with
our band.
40 minute interview with Dave Graney by ABC's Richard Fidler- ranging across entire career and life.
See The Moodists and Coral Snakes sections for discography and archival information pre 1998.
The Devil Drives (Coral Snakes, Universal 1997)
The Soft'n'Sexy Sound (Coral Snakes, Universal 1995)
You wanna be there… (Coral Snakes, Universal 1994)
Night of the wolverine (Coral Snakes, Universal 1993)
Lure of the tropics (Coral Snakes, Torn and Frayed 1992)
I was the hunter and I was the prey (Coral Snakes, Fire 1992)
My life on the plains (White Buffaloes, 1990)
Double Life (the Moodists, 1985)
Thirstys Calling (the Moodists, 1984)
Engine Shudder (the Moodists, 1982)
the dave graney show- an outstanding album recorded for Festival in 1998
Kiss tomorrow goodbye (2000)
heroic blues(2001)
the third woman (2002)
The soundtrack to the movie Bad Eggs (David Graney and Clare Moore,Liberation,2003)
the brother who lived ? (2003)
Keepin' it Unreal (2006)
Rock Formations - (Salmon (Bang! 2007)
We wuz curious (2008)
Knock yourself out (2009)
SUPERMODIFIED (2010)
rock'n'roll is where I hide (2011
YOU'VE BEEN IN MY MIND (2012)
Harry Howard and the NDE "PRETTY" (Spooky records
2013)
soundtrack to the movie JOHNNY
GHOST (digital only release 2013)
Harry Howard and
the NDE "near death experience" (SPOOKY records 2012)
POINT BLANK and LIVE IN HELL (digital narrative show albums 2013)
Fearful Wiggings (dave graney solo album 2014)
"THE MERCURY YEARS" 4 disc set of albums recorded for Universal 1994-97. Includes the disc of rarities and unreleased tracks "Lobster palace royalty"
play mistLY for me(digital only live recordings collection march 2015)
Once I Loved The Torn Ocean's Roar - 80s/90s Demos Vol 2 - dave graney - COCKAIGNE - digital only album at itunes and Bandcamp.
night of the wolverine demos/early 90s songwriter demos - dave graney (cockaigne) digital album
LET'S GET TIGHT - 2017 CD from DAVE GRANEY AND CLARE MOORE
Harry Howard and the NDE "Sleepless Girls" (SPOOKY records 2012)
ZIPPA DEEDOO WHAT IS/WAS THAT/THIS? 2019 album #1
ONE MILLION YEARS DC 2019 album #2
Dave Graney and Clare Moore with Robin Casinader - IN CONCERT - digital album for May 21st 2020
Dave Graney and Clare Moore with Georgio "the dove" Valentino and Malcolm Ross - digital album September 2020