Dave Graney talks with Wes Smith aka RHIZOME and the Flavonoids
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.
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Dave Graney interviews Way Dynamic
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.
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Play Arn Sean O aka Sean McMahon from THE OWLS
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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Play Arn Simon Strong
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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Play Arn Mitch McTaggart
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!
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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