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TV Smith aka Tim Smith
I spoke with TV Smith aka Tim Smith from the Adverts ahead of a great run of street level gigs around Australia in April. He is to be backed up by the Hard Ons. I knew the album Crossing The Red Sea With The Adverts from share house life in Adelaide in 1978. Players Please is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. TV was a very warm and friendly person to talk to.
I Was a Vintage Mentor
I spent the last week as one of three mentors with a Melbourne based group who run a school holiday program for High School age young people to play music with each other in a band situation. The kids all turn up and are sorted into bands of four or five players. One band to attempt a cover version of a song and another band to get together with and write a song. Players Please is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.
Tony Martin
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Dave Graney and the Coral Snakes play The Corner Hotel Melbourne
Singular Australian musician and author Dave Graney is getting back together with the original members of The Coral Snakes for the 30th Anniversary tour of their 1993 hit record ‘Night of The Wolverine. In a two-set performance, the original members of Dave Graney and The Coral Snakes will perform ‘Night of the Wolverine’ in full, plus classics and deep cuts from their mid 90’s “window of heat” on a 13-stop tour that takes in 6 states and territories.
Dave Graney and Clare Moore- Melbourne album launch at the Nightcat
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Bootleg 2000, by Tony Martin
/ Streaming + Download Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more. Album: 38 minutes Purchasable with gift card $10 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. about This Bandcamp exclusive was recorded at St Kilda’s Esplanade Hotel during the 2000 Melbourne International Comedy Festival.
Dave Graney and the mistLY Live At Byrds, by Dave Graney and the mistLY
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. 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.
Dave Graney - a musician's take on the art of the bludge
Dave Graney has been making and playing music since the late 1970s with bands including The Moodists and The Coral Snakes. His stage persona has been described as ‘flamboyantly enigmatic’, perhaps the outcome of his Mount Gambier childhood meeting the punk rock of 1980s London. Dave is best known for his 1994 album Night of the Wolverine, and for declaring himself King of Pop after being awarded a Best Australian Male Artist ARIA in 1996.
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A “Double Live” album in old money. The second of three “from the vaults” releases from Graney and Moore in the year of our pandemic, 2020. (Follows IN CONCERT which came out in May) Songs recorded live in Hull and London in the UK as part of a tour in late 2017. …Dave Graney on acoustic guitar and vocals, Clare Moore on keys, backing vocals, drums, Georgio “the dove” Valentino on bass and Malcolm Ross on electric guitar and lap steel.
Dave Graney: Notes from the dentist's chair
As modern life teems with endless distraction, the dentist’s chair offers a rare moment to be alone with one’s thoughts. I wrote this in a dentist’s chair, on my mind. Through my mind. It’s about five days later, I hope I got it down right. I meant to write – I hope I get it down right. I suppose it’s a kind of a translation. I wrote several songs too. But I keep forgetting to catch them.
One Million Years DC by Dave Graney & Clare Moore
Where Did All the Freaks Go? You Can't Have Your Boogie
Dave Graney: Earthing the Midnight Riders
As a teen in small town South Australia, Dave Graney discovered the Allman Brothers Band and the ghosts, tragedy and blues that came with the inventors of southern rock. I’m writing these words a long way away from Jacksonville, Florida, where the Allman Brothers Band are to get a ‘historical marker’; a plaque put down at the house they all moved in together.
Earthing the Midnight Riders
I’m writing these words from a long way away. In Melbourne, Australia to be exact. I’ve never been to Georgia or Florida, two of the states associated with The Allman Brothers Band. But I’ve been there through their songs. Music can do that: move you through time and space in an instant, fill your mind with feverish dreams, sometimes distorting and bending time, sometimes flashing scenes before your mind, scenes from other peoples’ lives that you take to be as good as your own.
Irregular Writings
Opinion September 7, 2015 by Dave Graney 0 John Cowper Powys I have become obsessed with a writer called John Cowper Powys. Those of you who have been under his spell and, by some chance, trail your eyes across this miserable arrangement of words in a contemporary magazine might understand how this could happen. For you true believers, I am not here to critique the writer or the writing.
Dave Graney: Take care of your local air
Community radio stations were almost blown out by the power of a national signal but most have weathered the blast – and now thrive. Adelaide has some great music radio stations. Three D – formerly 5MMM – is a station with links going back to the initial surge of subscriber-based community radio stations around the nation in the late 70s.
Dave Graney and the art of the bludge
Dave Graney has been making and playing music since the late 1970s with bands including The Moodists and The Coral Snakes. His stage persona has been described as ‘flamboyantly enigmatic’, perhaps the outcome of his Mount Gambier childhood meeting the punk rock of 1980s London. Dave is best known for his 1993 album Night of the Wolverine, and for declaring himself King of Pop after being awarded a Best Australian Male Artist ARIA that same year.
Workshy | Dave Graney
Legendary Australian showman Dave Graney returns to the page and reveals the lengths he has gone to avoid anything that really feels like work. In his inimitable style, Graney veers from a feckless childhood in blue-collar South Australia, to the punk rock scene of 1980s London, and beer-soaked nights touring Australia where he worked very hard at not working at all.
Irregular Writings: Australia's Unnecessary Wars - The Adelaide Review
The targets had been identified as ISIS in nature but that identification had been in error. 100 people dead. The conservative news sources quoted 40 deaths. The Prime Minister of our country gave a solemn speech with his best lawyer’s voice, expressing “regret” over the incident and also toward any Syrian military who had been “affected”. Nice word for death. His chin was out and he rocked back and forth on his heels and toes in a commanding manner.
Can you feel the Anzac spirit?
G’day, s’pose I’d betray myself a bit here. Just for a stir. I mean, we haven’t really been here all that long, and our foothold has always been kind of tentative. Never got much past the doorway really, I mean, the beach. Betrayal? I mean, you can’t really help it can you, once you open your mind? I reckon, anyway. Can you feel the Anzac spirit? Can’t you? Oh! See it’s a vulnerable point. Another beach.
The Adelaide Review
"I’ve collected many books of poems by Max Harris over the years. Australian volumes of poetry are printed in the hundreds, so they’re always lovely artefacts, if nothing else. His story is so full of drama though. " In Richard Flanagan’s magnificent Man Booker Prize busting epic The Narrow Road to the Deep North, two young lovers meet in Adelaide in the early days of WW2 at a book reading.
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