Dave Graney: Point Blank
Saturday 18 October at 9.15pm
Dave Graney, 2007 Melbourne Fringe Music Award winner, ARIA Award winning best male artist, and long running enigmatic performer in the rock scenes of the world, presents a cycle of songs around the theme of a musical life. Songs from a lifer in rock’n’rolls’ sideshow alley. The truth and the best lies: words from the blood stained front lines of the entertainment war. Only this is heavy entertainment.
This hour long journey onto and across a square metre of stage is narrated and sung by Dave, accompanied by Mark Fitzgibbon on piano and Clare Moore on percussion and vocals.
Part music, part spoken word, Graney strips back autobiographical songs such as No Pockets in a Jumpsuit, I Held the Cool Breeze and Lt Colonel Cavalry to their essence, singing them unamplified and filling in the gaps with tales of his upbringing in Mount Gambier and his reign as the King of Pop before going it alone as an independent artist.
Fight for a voice, create the battlefield, high rank yourself, recruit some troops, secure supply lines, blood and guts, win the territory and arrive at Point Blank.
