Dave Graney and Clare Moore | Long Play Series
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- Опубликовано: 6 фев 2025
- Clare Moore and Dave Graney were born in South Australia and met in Adelaide in the late 1970’s. They moved to Melbourne in 1980 where they joined the St Kilda punk scene and formed The Moodists with Steve Miller and Steve Carmen. In 1983, the group moved to London where they mixed company with Nick Cave and The Go-Betweens and toured Europe. Dave Graney and Clare Moore have performed together in numerous different guises including Dave Graney and The White Buffaloes, Dave Graney and Coral Snakes, Dave Graney and Clare Moore featuring the Lurid Yellow Mist and, at present, Dave Graney and the mistLY.
In this interview with Jane Gazzo, Dave and Clare discuss their intertwined careers growing up in South Australia though the 1970’s, where Clare learnt to play the drums with Sister Janet Mead (best known for her rock and roll version of ‘The Lord’s Prayer’); their touring and recording career in Europe during the 1980s, and Dave’s infamous ARIA Award for ‘Best Male Artist’ which he accepted in a pink velvet suit.
Interviewer: Jane Gazzo
Location: Melbourne Room, Arts Centre Melbourne, 2017
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Good on you both.
C'est génial cette interview, j'ai l'impression d'être au bistrot avec ces deux oiseaux. Et ils s'aiment toujours ! Whaouuu , bravo!
Fantastic interview. So much history and humour. Great memories.
I must try to catch a gig on the next Melbourne trip.
Absolutely Wonderful! Artistes who know the bizness, wrote extraordinary songs, and have fantastic tales.
My band crush! Still are, always will be! I remember back in the day when I went to The Cambridge Hotel in Newcastle to see them playing and snuck to the entrance of the green room and asked Dave, Claire and the other band members for their signatures on their latest Dave Graney and the Coral Snakes CD and they were all so obliging to my crazy young self.
I never could have imagined that 30 years later I would be so honoured to share the green room and an interstate trip with Dave and hubby Bigphil, on sax, (The Porkers) and other Aussie legends in the band recently in a “Tribute to Tom Waits” in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane. Aussie legends! That week “I Held the Cool Breeze” A great interview - thank you 🙏🏼 ♥️🐨🍃
Loved the Moodists back in the Eighties.
Great interview. Well researched and presented, let the artists share their story. I saw Dave And Clare play with the coral snakes in London in 96-97 at a strip club in Soho. Nick Cave in attendance. Rock N Roll is where I hide made a lasting impression. An exceptional underrated Australian legacy.
Thanks for sharing your feedback, sounds like an epic gig you saw!
Saw the band at the big day out in the 90’s and was very impressed also from South Australia also saw a lot of great bands at the Apollo.
'Such a lovely couple' as the ladies in the South Australian CWA would say.
The irony is overwhelming. The artists that put the “avant” back in “guard” and taught bands like The Sisters of Mercy and Bauhaus what it really meant to be Moody had to squander their massive talent in holes like Colac and Bordertown, when they should have been sent straight to CBGB to show the way forward to the lost boys and girls, who would have lapped it up like ambrosia and eagerly followed Graney’s blazed trail. History is cruel and fate is perverse. The irony only doubles when at the end of their tenure, our dynamic duo were literally transported to Australia, not for stealing a loaf of bread, but one suspects for being so much better than all those Brit Goth poseurs. A voice as fine as Graney’s only comes along once in a blue moon (no doubt Nick Cave wishes he could sing that well - the only other singer in his league was David McComb), and to think that we relegated that voice to the backblocks says so much about this cruel country of ours. But there is an elephant in this room: Chris Walshe gets two mentions, but Mick Turner gets exactly none. The silence is deafening, and we can only guess: there must be, how you say? “issues”. Sure, The Sick Things, Venom P. Singer and The Fungus Brains were all seminal, and The Dirty Three weren’t bad I guess, but Turner’s work with the Moodists was a pinnacle of brilliant simplicity never since re-scaled. A century from now, when all else is forgotten, some future genius with a creaky old turntable in the rubble of civilization will be blasting it out at 111dB and singing along at the top of their voice, over and over: “I got this machine machine, I got nothing but this machine MAchine.”
Brilliant stuff.
Fantastic insight into the early Oz indie scene in Adelaide, Melbourne and London. Dave and Clare are brilliant guests and their tales are mesmerising. My friend Paul and I were huge fans and Paul was in the audience at the Danceteria when the Moodists arrived in New York. The gig was ruined by blokes hearing they were from Australia making Kookaburra calls throughout the set pissing Dave off immensely.
Thanks for the feedback Mark and sharing your experience too!
How have you two survived financially ?