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| Cheers Dave! Good to see Australia's Best Male Artist of 1996 is still kickin' out the jams in style! New album out February 27th. |
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| "Hits Are The Worst" is the lead single off the new Dave Graney & Clare Moore album "Laburnum of The Mind." Art by Tony Mahony. |
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| Chapter Music's deluxe 2LP reissue of Can't Stop It! adds six solid bonus tracks to the boss original post-punk collection. |
Can't Stop It! Australian Post-Punk 1978-82 (2025 Deluxe Edition)
Chapter Music's landmark collection of Australian 70s-80s post-punk, originally released in 2001, gets its first ever vinyl release!
Can’t Stop It! documents a fantastically inventive and dynamic era, when Australian acts stepped out of the shadow of overseas influence and asserted their own musical identity for perhaps the first time.
Featuring tracks by future members of bands such as Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Einsturzende Neubauten, Dirty Three and The Go-Betweens, Can’t Stop It! is a vivid survey of the creativity and innovation bubbling away under the surface of Australia’s fairly unadventurous music culture of the time.
All of the bands on Can't Stop It! released their music independently, either themselves or through the handful of visionary labels of the era such as Au-Go-Go, M Squared, Missing Link or Innocent Records.
On its original release in 2001, the compilation got Chapter Music its first major international attention, written up in The Wire magazine ("A bracing corrective to the Northern Hemisphere's stranglehold on post punk nostalgia" - The Wire), stocked at Other Music in New York and selling out numerous CD pressings.
Remastered with updated liner notes and photos, this deluxe 2LP set expands on the original 20 track CD with six bonus never- before-reissued tracks. Get a copy via Bandcamp right here.
Can't Stop It! - Australian Post-Punk 1978-82
1. The Moodists - Gone Dead 03:34
2. Voigt/465 - Voices A Drama 02:37
3. The Take - Summer 02:41
4. Essendon Airport - How Low Can You Go...? 03:23
5. The Apartments - Help 03:40
6. Ash Wednesday - Love By Numbers 02:38
7. Primitive Calculators - Pumping Ugly Muscle 03:07
8. The Makers Of the Dead Travel Fast - The Dumb Waiters 04:14
9. Ron Rude - Piano Piano 02:51
10. Xero - The Girls 03:09
11. The Limp - Pony Club 02:49
12. The Fabulous Marquises - Honeymoons 03:54
13. Slugfuckers - Cacophony 02:54
14. Equal Local - Lamp That 04:53
15. Tame O'Mearas - Sweat and Babble 02:18
16. The Particles - Apricot's Dream 02:38
17. People With Chairs Up Their Noses - Song Of the Sea 01:36
18. Wild West - We Can Do 02:33
19. The Pits - Words 01:52
20. →↑→ - One Note Song 03:34
21. *****,***** - Knots 01:41
22. Electric Fans - Garden Of Uluru 04:32
23. The Voice Of Drama - A Song of Colours 02:10
24. Synthetic Dream - Work 03:47
25. Yclept Dinmakers - Yclept Enemy 02:11
26. The Plants - The Path 05:45
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| Clare Moore and Dave Graney are not just still active, they're launching a new Australian tour starting in Wollongong Friday. |
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| Pals from their Moodists days, Dave Graney & Clare Moore reconnect with guitarist Malcolm Ross for a swank live recording. |
Here's the scoop...
Dave Graney & Clare Moore with Georgio Valentino & Malcolm Ross is the second of three “from the vaults” releases from Graney and Moore in the year of our pandemic, 2020. (Follows Dave & Clare's previous live recording In Concert with Robin Casinader which came out in May).
Songs recorded live in Hull and London in the UK as part of a tour in late 2017. Dave Graney on acoustic guitar and vocals, Clare Moore on keys, backing vocals, drums, Georgio “The Dove” Valentino on bass and Malcolm Ross on electric guitar and lap steel.
Songs drawn from across Graney and Moore’s career and three songs from Malcolm Ross. 17 Songs delivered live in a performance masterclass from a slow burn semi acoustic pop beginning to a blazing electric raveup to finish with all kinds of side roads along the way. A one off recording from a one off band.
Dave Graney and multi instrumentalist Clare Moore were in The Moodists from 1978 to 1986. Then the White Buffaloes/Coral Snakes 1987-1997. Then the Royal Dave Graney Show and Lurid Yellow Mist to the mistLY. Malcolm Ross played with Graney and Moore in the latter days of The Moodists and early (London lineup) of the Coral Snakes. Previous to that he had played in Postcard Records bands Josef K and Orange Juice. Georgio “The Dove” Valentino is an international man of mystery who currently lives in Athens. Previously he had worked out of Brussels, Detroit and St Augustine, Florida.
Recorded at O’Rileys in Hull Oct 9th 2017 and the Betsey Trotwood, London Oct 11th and 12th 2017.
Mixed at the Ponderosa in Melbourne May 2020 by Dave Graney.
Get it right here. Check out a couple of performance clips from Dave & Clare's UK tour of 2017 followed by the track listing.
Dave Graney & Clare Moore with Georgio Valentino & Malcolm Ross
2. Everything Was Legendary With Robert 04:18
3. A Boy Named Epic 04:39
4. Twilight Of A Villain 06:01
5. Heroic Blues 05:10
6. Happy Boy 04:20
7. You Need A Kleek, Klook 04:45
8. How Long Does the Raunch? 05:14
9. All Our Friends were Stars 04:16
10. Robert Ford On The Stage 04:27
11. My Avenger 03:50
12. We Need A Champion 03:51
13. Night Of The Wolverine 6 05:37
14. I Been Trendy 04:15
15. How Can You Get Out Of London? 04:24
16. As Good As It Gets 05:28
17. Rock n Roll Is Where I Hide 07:00
Most songs written by Dave Graney. Copyright Control except except Happy Boy (Ross/Weddell), My Avenger (Ross, Weddell, Malinen) and As Good As It Gets (Brogan,Clark, Condie, Fowler, Ross).
