Davey Dreamnation

Clint Bo Dean and Enya de Burgh snuggled in the back of the cab on the way back out to the airport to hand in their badges and empty their lockers. Enron had been emphatic: there was no place in the Air Poets for closet Dan Brown lovers.
“You know, if we’re lucky, we might [...]

DNRC044 | LP | 2004 | DELETED
Singlehandedly reviving the ‘verboten’ black bubblegum genre, best thought of as what would happen if Ronnie Spector fronted Einstuerzende Neubauten, ex-Fashionistas drummer Madeleine ‘Peachy’ Kane took advantage of a clause in her record contract and put together eleven bleak, catchy, disturbing musical meditations that launched her screaming and shoo-bee-dooing [...]

Sitting up now, Enya frowned at the complimentary issue of Stanzas on the bedside table, whose cover boasted: ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT SONNETS!
She turned and gazed at the other bunk across the room. The man staring back at her looked tousled and weary, though still pretty attractive.
”You need a vacation, Clint.”
The past [...]

Experimental Travel, written by Rachael Antony and Joël Henry, is as the title suggests all about experimental travel, whether it be spending a weekend blindfolded, travelling to K2 on the map or wearing a cow’s head. I’m lucky enough to have been a contributor to the book (which looks awesome, despite Lonely Planet’s decision not [...]

Clint Bo Dean drifted out of sleep, like a grand human idea approaching its fulfillment in an age of machines. A Minitel unit was twiddling in the husked gloom of his Hotel Formule 1 cubicle - a shining, chortling sound not unlike that of his own brain in neutral. He stumbled out of his bunk [...]

I’m off to Seoul, Korea in late August as an Asialink resident. You can check out my profile on the Asialink site. I’m hoping to set up a separate blog to document my time there. More on this soon.

AFTER HOSING DOWN their uniforms and supervising the hideous clean-up task, de Burgh and Bo Dean caught a cab back to the city for their de-briefing. It would have been easier to take one of their own cars back but as both were now in a long-term parking lot, it was easier to catch a [...]

CLINT BO DEAN ran his finger along the zipper of the middle-aged woman’s travel bag.
”Looks like you’ve got a lot of reading ahead of you, ma’am! Anything you can recommend in here?”
The woman’s harried look gave Bo Dean pause; however he kept on with his goofish routine, in the hope that she’d save him the [...]

DNRC043 | LP | 2004 | DELETED
The ridiculous title of this album, together with its fratboy geek-style cover artwork, disguises the incredible toasting talent of Bad Liquorice, the fastest word-salad artists to burst out of the service lane since Compton stopped being an encyclopedia. The three rappers in Bad Liquorice - Tasty Cheese, Mor-Man and [...]

I am bad. I can sing. My number is 83. Starlight Express. Mono recordings of my sleep patterns. Josie. The ‘Sippi Hole. Spurt. Tab Cola. Mumps. Knee-high white sports socks. National Geographic World (kids’ version). Maps of Mexico. Yucatan. A shiny red bicycle with a rear reflector the size of a saucepan. Nissan cars with [...]

DNRC042 | LP | 2004 | DELETED
On this, the follow-up to 2003’s breathtaking Police Woman LP, Kentucky Barbie managed to break the two dozen or so hearts that hadn’t been shattered already by her astonishingly evocative and erotic crooning. Eschewing the farmhouse setting of her debut LP, Barbara Ride chose to return to her native [...]

DNRC041 | LP | 2004 | DELETED
Rumoured to have met in the janitor’s room of a New York City apartment block at some time during the frantic haze that was 1979, The Toilet Cleaners (composed of bassist Tinlid, guitarist/vocalist Shozzy and drummer Drun) took seventeen years to put out their first album, entitled “We Are [...]

DNRC040 | EP | 2004 | DELETED
Back when The Weather were just Weather, their “Ragged Isobars” EP was released as a single but due to its length (both it and the b side, “Mechanical Island” clocked in at over ten minutes) was classed by anyone who cared as an overblown (albeit really exciting) EP. Then [...]

DNRC039 | LP | 2004 | DELETED
Criminally under-rated in their native Ganmain, The Sea Pigeons burst onto the Western Slopes and Plains music scene with this ferocious album of paint-stripping anthems, then promptly broke up. Like a bomb whose fuse has almost run out, their incredibly violent and incendiary live shows led one reviewer [...]

DNRC038 | LP | 2004 | DELETED
Seemingly in spite of the unexpected success of their Ah, The Mighty Fuzz Charge! 7″, Fuzz Charge fell into an advanced state of mediocrity not seen since the gradual disintegration of the listening public’s respect for musical genius Chris de Burgh. This compilation album is, sadly, the only [...]