Kim Salmon talks with Dave Graney about his new album/project/collective/live show which goes under the name Smoked Salmon. From the first question Kim goes back in time and the long conversation winds between shared experiences in teh underworld of Australian music, London and Europe in the 80s and 90s, working with large and small labels. It wanders!
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Dave Graney talks with Twinkledigitz aka Will Hindmarsh
Twinkledigitz aka Will Hindmarsh, once led his band of merry pranksters Go Go Sapien. Madly costumed and highly conceptual yet sophisticated and cartoonish all the while. Will and his partner Emily have guested on many Dave Graney and Clare Moore tracks over the last decade. Will also occasionally played with Clare Moore on her solo ventures as well as the Dames. Emily, Will, Clare and Jane Dust also perform as The Routines. Emily and Will also occasionally perform with Damian Cowells Disco Machine. Will and Dave Graney have also been "working" on their "hip hop/electro prophets" act as Wam and Daz for more than a decade. Time flies...
Twinkeldigitz is Wills first solo outing. All electronic, totally lyrical and conceptual FIRE! Half of this talk was aired on Dave Graneys BLB program on RRR in Melbourne and teh rest was continued off air. They spoke of many things. Tasmania, Melbourne, Twinkledigitz' school days , Go Go Sapien, electronics, technology, AI, humour (is it bad for a musician?) and snacks.
Further text and video links are available at https://open.substack.com/pub/davegraney/p/twinkledigitz?r=3mhrci&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
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Funky But Chic December 2024 Fashion Round Table
Mel Wansbrough works in fashion at No. 6 , Jack Ladder is a tall, youthful rock singer from Sydney and they were invited to talk about fashion by Dave Graney in December on his radio show Banana Lounge Broadcasting.
There is more text and more images to put this into context at my substack.
https://open.substack.com/pub/davegraney/p/funky-but-chic-december-2024-fashion?r=3mhrci&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
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Dave Graney and Clare Moore talk with Andrew Cox and Phil Leonard from the Fauves
The Fauves 13th album Tropical Strength is a killer. All killer. TROPICAL STRENGTH. REcorded in Bali. Dave Graney and Clare Moore saw them playing songs from it on a triple bill with Brisbanes finest , Custard and The Stress Of Leisure at a hall in a paddock outside Sale in regional Victoria in late 2024. The album never stops giving, in songs, sounds, arrangements, production and lyrics.
Dave Graney and Clare Moore journeyed to the Fauves compound on the Mornington Peninsula which is by the bay but very much on the far flung outer reaches of Melbourne. A good 90 minutes drive from the city. They all talked of their shared experiences of working within differing wings of Universal Records in Australia in the 90s, lyrics, war stories, production, recording in Bali as well as 90s Melbourne, how bands stay together and how they form and split as well as life, death, the futility of existence and Bin Night.
There is more text and context with accompanying video links and images at our substack, Players Please https://open.substack.com/pub/davegraney/p/tropical-strength-the-fauves?r=3mhrci&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
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Archival 2013 interview with Eric Bloom from The Blue Oyster Cult.
Archival interview with Eric Bloom from the Blue Oyster Cult by Dave Graney, originally intended for a newspaper article. From 2013 when the Blue Oyster Cult were to headline a "festival" (held at several inner city venues in different cities in Australia) organized by the Hoodoo Gurus.
More detailed story and video links at my substack https://open.substack.com/pub/davegraney/p/eric-bloom-from-the-blue-oyster-cult
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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