Article Archive for May 2002

Davey Dreamnation: “The Sprawl”
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Posted in DNRC, Davey Dreamnation on 31 May 2002
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Just in case they weren’t obvious enough already, Davey painted his influences in huge thirty foot lettering on the side of a grain silo in Coonabarabran, in a bizarre tribute to ACT-UP activists and graffiti artists around the world. A song that clearly should have been on a [...]

Davey Dreamnation releases new b-side after forgetting to release single
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Posted in Davey Dreamnation on 31 May 2002
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Welcome to the bizarro world of contemporary pop entertainer, Davey Dreamnation. After testing the limits of musical credibility for four months, the perhaps mentally troubled artist has released a new song. Unfortunately, it’s a b-side again. As yet, Dreamnation has made no indication that he will ever release the a-side, which was supposedly called “Last [...]

Overcome by gratitude, Davey Dreamnation re-designs his international website
By davey
Posted in Davey Dreamnation on 27 May 2002
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Rock multi-millionaire Davey Dreamnation officially joined the Internet community today by refreshing the front page of his web site seven times in a row, thereby pushing his site counter over the 1000 mark.
“Sure, it sounds like cheating,” his spokewoman admitted, “but so what.”
The rock star with the very long name joins many other celebrities who [...]

NME threatens Davey Dreamnation expose
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Posted in Davey Dreamnation on 26 May 2002
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Superstar singer-songwriter Davey Dreamnation awoke a marked man this morning, after learning that his name and reputation may be called into question in the pages of one of Britain’s most reputable sources of local and international news - the NME.
Editorial staff at the paper would not be drawn on rumours that they are in fact [...]

Davey Dreamnation announces artwork for next single/album without actually releasing a song
By davey
Posted in Davey Dreamnation on 22 May 2002
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Music lovers around the world are stunnned and amazed at the events that have unfolded in the past twenty four hours.
Riding high on the commercial success of his second single theme song, not to mention the runaway popularity of his first single “Hot soup girl”, Davey Dreamnation has fuelled speculation of a third single by [...]

Croc Nation
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Posted in Fiction on 22 May 2002
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Weapon put down his scuba gear on the remains of a park bench and caught his breath for a moment. The sun was setting low over the ocean, right next to the blinking lights of the oil rig, a common sight these days, these obsolete sentinels inhabiting almost every port deep enough to admit their [...]

Davey Dreamnation: “Theme Song”
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Posted in DNRC, Davey Dreamnation on 20 May 2002
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Davey Dreamnation was nothing if not political. ‘Theme Song’ exemplifies Davey’s defiant stance on a range of political issues, including his advocacy for the re-introduction of 6pm closing times in all establishments serving alcohol, the rights of penguins involved in top-secret military research, the banning of tissues and [...]

Davey Dreamnation deletes first single amidst storm of protest
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Posted in Davey Dreamnation on 19 May 2002
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In what has been described by at least two people as a strange act of commercial suicide, rock and roll chameleon Davey Dreamnation has deleted his first single “Hot soup girl” from the charts, along with its bizarre b-side “Davium”.
Speaking in response to the inevitable howls of protest, both from diehard Davey Dreamnation fans [...]

Roadhouse Blows
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Posted in Fiction on 18 May 2002
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Weapon took a shower at dawn, clocking as he did so two fat beads of moisture clinging to a shorn spear of grass on the concrete flooring, a deep green the same colour as his utility, now in hock, inside the sprawl’s walls.
He availed himself of the roadhouse showers every day at dawn, religiously, spraying [...]

Davey Dreamnation releases “Hot Soup Girl” b-side
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Posted in Davey Dreamnation on 14 May 2002
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Following hot on the heels of his phenomenal first single, “Hot Soup Girl”, Davey Dreamnation has confounded all public expectations by releasing a b-side, entitled, fittingly enough, “Davium”.
“Yeah,” the popular but enigmatic entertainer announced today through his Esperanto-fluent interpreter, “I’ve discovered this new element, it’s called Davium. It’s so rare and so miniscule, it doesn’t [...]

calling occupants of the search poem movement
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Posted in Poems, Search Poems on 13 May 2002
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The Engineering of Social Control: The Search for the Silver … buildings shield their occupants from life … Research. In calling attention to … severely limits search and seizure … to the movement of crime … wrote a poem that asks … Limerick Leader - February 17th, 2001 - Features - Odds and ends … [...]

stop f***ing paying out on “bogans”
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Posted in Poems, Search Poems on 13 May 2002
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Untitled … after I pass! Fucking weird. … walk to the bus stop. … what are they paying these oafs for … they arenÍt bogans and actually had … ve been checking out any female that … bad samaritan : the archives … me. I hate bogans with loud stereos … party didnÍt stop ïtill [...]

Pandemonium in the top end as Davey Dreamnation unveils new stage act
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Posted in Davey Dreamnation on 9 May 2002
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Wild scenes reminiscent of the Beatles’ tour of Australia confronted the rapidly icon-becoming Davey Dreamnation when he touched down at Darwin International Airport last Saturday.
The handsome singer was whisked through security checks and bundled into a waiting armoured personnel carrier, before expressing his amazement at the welcome through his interpreter.
“Davey is amazed,” confirmed the interpreter [...]

Davey Dreamnation lashes out at critics
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Posted in Davey Dreamnation on 3 May 2002
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On a day characterised by freak weather accidents and unexplained shortages of light bulbs, Davey Dreamnation has lashed out at critics of his music, his audacious tour of the top end and - most paradoxically - himself, in an extraordinary series of outbursts at Melbourne’s Tullamarine airport.
Virtually no single pop star in the world [...]