Davey Dreamnation

DNRC076 | EP | 2011 | DELETED
The greater Wollongong metropolitan area, taking in suburbs such as Helensburgh to the north, Picton to the north-west and Shellharbour to the south, has not been overwhelmingly blessed in recent times with either decent bands or, indeed, decent venues from which halfway decent live music scenes could possibly spawn. The [...]

Well it seems that the first part of my analysis of Chris de Burgh’s poetic ouevre has hit a few nerves, or at least pushed the pause button on at least two portable CD players, with JDG and Tom weighing into the debate by dropping some pertinent comments about CDB’s career stages and the true gravity [...]

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she changed mode from mod to journo
helsinki bound on a sleigh west of NO!
bottle-blonde furies stalking XY stage
shaken three-piece tour posters blur
write
lyrics in crayon lying dead in a field
frozen shut her eyebrow raised when
she plays my ipod says NO WA(VE)Y!
like sue me helsinki! (art school’s ok
execute
showcase tiny amounts of WWII flak -
trigger spirals morph [...]

we’re beta refugees playing rabbit roulette
on an insula island in some cerebral cortex
the day my grandmother turned to smoke
the white rabbits sat on the long wet grass
white rivers of paper insulin dependencies
territorial misgivings siblings incinerations
don’t let this be our last conversation mate
you’ll be heavy inside that casket i can tell
i don’t want to bury your memories sisters
start [...]

Who was it that said Nero fiddled while Rome burned? Well scrap that, Poindexter, coz The Police have decided to reform and are set to embark on a huge world tour, just in time for the 30th anniversary of Sting’s brain transplant. The tour is even set to include Australasia, and don’t write off the [...]

DNRC075 | EP | 2010 | DELETED
Davey Dreamnation has stunned the music industry by releasing an EP’s worth of theme songs entitled, appropriately enough, Themes. The opening track is “A Salute to Themes”, a barely-disguised tribute (in mono) to Johnny Hawksworth’s original ”A Salute To Thames”, (a brief excerpt from which you can listen to here). [...]

Recently I came across the following quotation from a newspaper column written by Irish novelist and satirist Flann O’Brien in the mid-1940s:
Having considered the matter in – of course – all of its aspects, I have decided that there is no use for poetry. Poetry gives no adequate return in money, is expensive to print [...]

Three of my poems have been published in Otoliths: a magazine of many e-things! The poems, “small town fsu”, “exhale on main street” and “alles klaar?” were written while travelling in the USA and Germany in 2002, and are part of a collection called Between Empires that might, eventually, see the light of day.
Otoliths [...]