Get "Ballroom Blitzed" with Dave Graney & Clare Moore

The wonderfully woozy Ballroom Blitzed is off Dave & Clare's new album Everything Was Funny out now 

Here's the scoop...

This is the fifth official album release (out of roughly 30- plus a dozen others) credited to Dave Graney and Clare Moore. Their last studio release was ONE MILLION YEARS DC in 2019. 

“funny like Warren Beatty funny…” 

“I liked it-it was funny!” 

“if there was somethin’ funny goin’ on 

that’s what I tuned into and took away 

that was my take away…” 

A wild and willful yet very focused set of songs. All instruments played by Dave Graney and Clare Moore. Produced by Dave Graney and Clare Moore. 

“I don’t need a pandemical lockdown to happen to write some songs. Same way I never read any”war poets.” If they need a war to write something it’s not really worth it!” Dave Graney 

Though of course there was a pandemic and there was a long lockdown in Melbourne and of course it seeped into the music. 

Dave Graney and Clare Moore had planned two albums for 2021, a rock album with their band the mistLY and then something like this one – something more unbuttoned and freaky. Then a second long lockdown happened and it was impossible to rehearse let alone record with the band so the two changed tack and got freaky in their own studio with keyboards and drums and new guitar tunings and time signatures and here we are with EVERYTHNG WAS FUNNY. They were also able to do some live dates around Australia in between travel restrictions and on one trip to South Australia, a visit was made to Dave’s second cousin in Dismal Swamp, Kristyn Jones, who had had an idea for a portrait shot. There’s the cover of the album. 

Lyrical tracks, trails and themes involve a further Rolling Stones mythological piece (The Anita Effect), teenage biker gangs (I Knew the Wild Angels), American cultural firefights (Wilco Got No Wilco), tobacco scenes, alcoholic scenes, iconic female rambling singer scenes and two instrumentals – one very Russian and another kind of Dublin/Miami. 

Be in no doubt though, that something funny was going on! There was something funny about that guy. She’s a funny girl! Somethin’ not quite right! Everything Was Funny! 

Get a copy of Dave Graney & Clare Moore's new album Everything Was Funny via Bandcamp right here. Watch the video for "The Ballroom Blitzed" below.