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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 a...

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&u...

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 Gra...

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-th...

In 2015 the Pop Group - one of the greatest and most influential of late 70s UK post punk bands - reformed to tour a new album. I spoke with singer Mark Stewart ahead of their Australian tour. I had seen them a few months previously in Edinburgh, playing to a crowd containing the cream of that city's post punk identities. (By that I mean people from Josef K and the Fire Engines). They had never be...

In 2016 UK folk music ICON Shirley Collins came back to the world of recorded music with a new album , Lodestar, and live performances. Her last album and live performance activity had been in 1978. She had issued her first album in 1958. She is truly an icon, groundbreaking figure in folk music. She worked with folklorist Alan Lomax, travelling around the USA and recording folk songs in the early...

2023 Dave Graney interview with author Alan Paul in regard to his book on the Allman Brothers band and specifically their album Brothers and Sisters. Southern rock icons from Macon, Georgia. Playing at the enormous Watkin Glenn festival with the Grateful Dead. The deaths of Duane Allman and Berry Oakley. Greggs bust. The Dixie Mafia. Phil Walden and Capricorn Records. President Jimmy Carter. Cher....

An archival interview from early 2023 by Dave Graney with comedian and film maker Tony Martin. Tony was about to do hiss first Melbourne Comedy Festival show for many years. Talk touches on comedy and Tonys amazing podcast Sizzletown, comedy festivals and clubs. Further text and appropriate links at my substack https://davegraney.substack.com/p/tony-martin

Apologies for any odd elements or glitches in the sound. We were laughing and getting excited and had a compressor on the mic. It might "pump" audibly on occasion. Sorry about that. Thought we would have a chat about beer. Old beer and new beer. A lifetime of beer. Clare Moore grew up in a couple of pubs. Everybody drank beer and smoked. Once upon a time. When there was no choice about beer. When...

Dave Graney and Clare Moore talk all things to do with their second album of 2024, I Passed Through Minor Chord In A Morning. They talk of recent Australian live dates and recordings. Improvisation, writing, playing, mixing. Art. Music. All things.

Dave Wray aka Frank Bennett. Hardcore fellow. Sydney through and through. West side. Sax player and singer. Talking about his life in music mainly in Sydney. Sydney nightlife, bands, clubs, venues. Good luck and bad. Frank Sinatra. Jazz. R&B. Birrong. It starts abruptly and ends so too.

An interview with Billy Miller, Melbourne musician, guitar player, songwriter, producer, arranger and character. The 70s scene with his band The Ferretts, touring Australia with Blondie in 1977. Molly Meldrum as producer, Tony Cohen, St Kilda, Kings Cross, Paul Kelly.

Interview for BLB - Dave Graneys show at Melbourne's 3RRRFM - by Dave Graney with Sianna Lee from Love Outside Andromeda in regard to their 2024 album STELLA INTERRUPTED.

A one hour conversation with Dave Graney and Clare Moore, talking about their 2024 album (strangely)(emotional). How it came to be, the albums leading up to this. COVID related of course. The whole time was affected by the pandemic. Perhaps this is the most Covid album of them all? It features Already Missing The Lockdown and Poor Covid, They Walk Among Us and He's Talkin To His Base. .... It's al...

Players Please podcast. Peter Milton Walsh aka the Apartments interview/conversation. From late 70s Brisbane to New York, 80s London and France , 90s Sydney and back around to France again. Music, literature, life. Just few things goin' through our minds.

Players Please podcast. Penny Ikinger, Melbourne-Sydney-Melbourne. Electric guitar player, songwriter and performer. A conversation with Dave Graney late 2020. Touches on 80s post punk scenes in Australia, working in a museum, her guitar, the Melbourne Mafia, Recording and performing, getting paid, gender and ambitions.

Players Please podcast. Dave Western , Londoner and Artist- Artist and Londoner. A conversation with Dave Graney from 2021 touching on 80s London, music, art, London, one night in Brixton 1984 when Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds did their first live gig opening (secretly) for the Moodists, London, Soho, South and North London, record collecting and probably a lot more.