Classics: Dave Graney and The Lurid Yellow Mist.
ERIN PEARSON
GEELONG’S rock underground is drawing interstate bands to the city, according to Aussie rock legend Dave Graney.
“Around the Geelong area there seems to be this cult of garage rock with young teens, which is quite unique,” he said.
“We’ve met a lot of young people around from Geelong and we’re going to be supported in Geelong by a local young garage band, The Murlocs.
“We’re really looking forward to it.”
Graney and his band, The Lurid Yellow Mist, will play in Geelong while touring new album Rock ‘n’ Roll Is Where I Hide.
Graney said the release of “vintage classics re-recorded” marked a change in direction after 24 albums.
“We’ve always been quite experimental in the ways we express our music. We’ve done everything from solo and R n B tracks to studio tracks and rock numbers.
“I think we were just confusing people with what we did, so we really wanted to focus on what we enjoy performing the most this time around.
“They’re our own kind of classics.”
Graney said the songs would take listeners through a “kind of journey”.
“This album is the sound of our collective, our band, Dave Graney and the Lurid Yellow Mist. The songs are us.”
Graney and drummer wife Clare Moore have played together in various bands over the past 30 years.
Graney admitted that recording the new album was “quite a challenge” compared to 30 years ago.
“A day in a recording studio 20 years ago was far more expensive and you could only afford one or two days,” he said.
“That made it hard financially but it made it a real event. Now you can fiddle around forever on a computer but lose that sense of time and place, so we went into studio and had a plan where we wanted to do it all together to get the excitement of being in the one place.
“I call it our third debut album – it feels like that.”
Graney and the Lurid Yellow Mist will play at The Bended Elbow on May 5.
