Some recent media links

An hour long interview with David Eastaugh from C86 podcast, focussing mainly on the 80s and the Moodists.




The same song performed three decades later.




An interview from the Natonal Portrait Gallery




Our latest clip.

The Dames Reviews and links Adelaide Launch Nov 3rd Wheatsheaf - Sydney dec 13th the red rattler

album available via Bandcamp $15 download or $20 for a download plus physical  cd

interview with clare moore by robert dunstan from the adelaide review 

Noel Mengel Brisbane Courier Mail reviews the debut self titled album by  THE DAMES
A REALLY good band adds up to something more than the sum of the parts, this “other’’ that arrives in the room when musicians and songwriters are totally simpatico. So it is with this Melbourne trio featuring pianist Kay-Louise Patterson, bassist Rosie Westbrook and Clare Moore, drummer for almost all of Dave Graney’s musical ventures. Moore and Patterson split the songwriting and their styles are complementary. It’s worth noting that Barry Adamson (Magazine, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds) mixed the album because this is the kind of vivid pop that sits at the same table as his solo and cinema work. Moore’s All Mine — think James Bond film theme song in the golden years — opens proceedings, and Moore plays every instrument on the hip-shaking, cocktail hour groove of Eve . But Patterson is her equal as a writer, with a sublime Julie Driscoll-esque vocal on Wait , while the instrumental Dudley is a soundtrack looking for a film with its evocative use of flute and wordless vocals. And that piano sound! Warm, rich, welcoming, like all of the music here. Plus, a striking cover of John and Beverly Martin’s Auntie Aviator . Irresistible.

Cockaigne/ MGM

Interview with Clare Moore by Ian McFarlane

Stewart Lee reviewed the album for the Sunday Times in the Uk - which is paywalled so Barry Adamson has put it  on his site here

https://www.facebook.com/thedamesmusic

https://twitter.com/clarecmoore

THE DAMES - album out now- melbourne launch sept 29th / sydney december 13th

The Dames are myself, Clare Moore on drums, songs and vocals, Kaye Louise Patterson on keys, songs and vocals and Rosie Westbrook on bass and backing vocals.

Our debut self titled album has been mixed by acclaimed, award winning icon of UK post punk and 90s film funk music BARRY ADAMSON. Barry being an old friend  since my days in the Moodists and his in Magazine and the Bad Seeds.

I play and have played with Dave Graney for many years - from the Moodists to the Coral Snakes and now the mistLY – with my debut solo cd “the third woman” released on Chapter Music in 2002 and then“liquor in 2005.

Now the DAMES. 

Kaye Louise Patterson (far right in the picture above) also writes songs for the DAMES. Her background includes playing with Jeff Williams as part of Acuffs Rose. She also released her brilliant solo album, "INTERNATIONAL TRAVEL" in 2006. Her songs are very much piano trio based. Here is WAIT.  
The self titled album is out in September. 

We've been working on the album on and off for a couple of years. Late 2012 we opened for Barry Adamson in Melbourne and he responded so warmly to our songs that he offered to mix the album. I was, needless to say, very chuffed at that turn of events and very happy with the sounds he pulled together. The bands genesis was as an all female trio and that what most of the album is. My songs , however, are generally built up from keyboards in my studio and demand a bit more in the textural department. More firepower.  For our live shows I called in Dave Graney to play some guitar and Will Hindmarsh from Go Go Sapien to fire off some sounds from his laptop and synths. I played everything on this track.

The album is out on our label COCKAIGNE and is distributed by MGM.


So it's all been a long time coming and it'd be great to see people at these shows.

Melbourne launch at the Northcote Social Club at 2pm on the afternoon of Sunday September 29^th

The Wheatsheaf Hotel- Adelaide Nov 3^rd

The Red Rattler- Sydney Dec 13^{th a double bill with Harry Howard and the NDE ( with whom dave graney and I'll also be playing )}
The Heritage Hotel – Bulli Dec 14<sup>th w/ Jodi Phillis and the Glamma Rays

BRISBANE -  Friday. (night) 21st February 2014 Queen St. Mall 
                           Saturday (day) 22nd February 2014: Queen St. Mall
                           Sunday (approx. 3pm) 23rd February 2014: Powerhouse


 you can buy the album from our bandcamp site, either as a digital download ($15) or as a cd w/ digital download ($20)

the album is also available at itunes

https://www.facebook.com/thedamesmusic

http://www.thedavegraneyshow.com/clare/clare.htm</sup>