dave graney

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Gender Male
Industry Arts
Occupation performing musician/songwriter/author/broadcaster
Location melbourne, victoria, Australia
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Introduction 2023 book THERE HE GOES WITH HIS EYE OUT (lyrics 1980-2023) 2023 reissue Dave Graney and the Coral Snakes Night Of The Wolverine. Double vinyl release. 2023 ROCK album with Clare Moore IN A MISTLY . WORKSHY - 2017 memoir out on Affirm Press. Available at shows or via website. Moodists - Coral Snakes - mistLY. I don’t know what I am and don’t want to know any more than I already know. I aspire, in my music , to 40s B Movie (voice and presence) and wish I could play guitar like Dickey Betts, John Cippolina or Grant Green - but not in this lifetime, I know.
Interests Literature, Music, Playing guitar, writing, recording, performing.
Favorite Movies The tv series The Truth Will Out, Pagan Peak, GOMORRA, Point Blank, the Killers, Mildred Pierce, leave her to heaven, the razors edge, at close range, get carter, bill and teds excellent adventure, dumb and dumber, the cable guy, pee wees, big adventure, my own private idaho, blow, the killing, killers kiss, robinson crusoe on mars, Ray, hammet, brother from another planet, a boy and his dog, nashville, bulworth, many more
Favorite Music Modern Jazz Quartet, Kenny Burrell, Barney Kessell, Deodato, John McGlaughlin, John Martyn, Lost Ragas, Matt Walker, Ryley Walker, Scott Walker. Yeah all the Walkers, Mark-Almond, Ralph Towner, Gary Burton, Bill Evans, Lester Young, Duke Ellington, Johnny Hodges, Roland Kirk, Miles Davis, Charles Mingus, George Benson, Abdullah Ibrahim, Wynonie Harris, Jerry Lee Lewis, Elvis Presley, Paul Westerberg, the Blue Oyster Cult, Tupac, Vic Godard Subway Sect, Richard Hell, Lee Dorsey, Jobim, Gainsbourg, Bobby Womack, Slick Rick, the Geto Boys, Queens of the Stone Age, John Scofield.
Favorite Books Anything by John Cowper Powys, Nabokov, Iris Murdoch, Doris Lessing, Rose Macaulay, Guillaume Apollinaire, AE Coppard, Arthur Rimbaud, and french poetry 18th-20th century, Patrick White, David Foster, Richard Stark, Charles Willeford, Harry Whittington, Paul Cain, James M Cain, Hammett, Chandler, JG Ballard, Amiri Baraka, Robert Graves, Graham Greene, William S Burroughs, Raoul Whitfield, Horace McCoy, many more