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1001 Australian Nights by Dave Graney

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April 2011, no. 330

1001 Australian Nights by Dave Graney

Affirm Press, $29.95 pb, 256 pp

1001 Australian Nights by Dave Graney

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April 2011, no. 330

Rock music does not usually accommodate the likes of Dave Graney. Few Australian performers have been as resilient, and few have presented as many ideas in song form. While his contemporaries – Nick Cave, Tex Perkins, Robert Forster, and the late Grant McLennan – have not strayed far from blueprints forged during the late 1970s, Graney’s music and writing have undergone striking reinvention over thirty years. Equally, few of Graney’s generation have met with such indifference from the Australian public, except for a year or so in the mid-1990s, when, ‘for a brief moment’, in Graney’s words, ‘too many people listened, as opposed to too few … walking in on a line I’d been stringing out for quite a while’.

Mark Gomes reviews '1001 Australian Nights' by Dave Graney

1001 Australian Nights

by Dave Graney

Affirm Press, $29.95 pb, 256 pp

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