LEGENDARY showman Dave Graney will return to Mount Gambier this week off the back of an overseas music tour to launch his book Workshy: My Life as a Bludge.
The ARIA Award winning rock musician and singer-songwriter will launch his new book at the Mount Gambier Library tomorrow.
He is renowned for fronting a number of bands in the 1980s through to current times, including The Moodlists, Dave Graney and the White Buffaloes and Dave Graney and the Coral Snakes.
In his book, Mr Graney highlights his upbringing in Mount Gambier, various identities and most importantly the lengths he has gone to avoid anything that feels like work.
In his inimitable style, he veers from a feckless childhood in blue-collar South Australia to the punk rock scene of 1980s London and beer-soaked nights touring Australia, where he “worked very hard at not working at all”.
But in slacking off, Graney became one of the hardest working musicians in the industry, constantly evolving, re-inventing and remaining one step ahead.
“I have spent most of my adult life as a musician, hardly working, just the way I like it,” he said.
“If I were to try and enter the civilian workforce now and had to write a resume of my activities over most of my adult life, I might as well say I have been in gaol or marooned on a desert island.”
The free event is open to the public with bookings required.
“This is sure to be an entertaining night, perhaps with a song or two and books available for purchase and signing,” Mount Gambier Library community engagement coordinator Kristi Leamey said.
Contact the Mount Gambier Library on (08) 8721 2540 for more information.
