Davey Dreamnation

Empty skyscrapers come bellowing the tune of the strike cities - across the railways and slipways, down the random boulevardes and blasted arcades, through the monumental parks and plastic conduits - their emissaries calling, each cubicle mapping the terrain of your capital, the inside of your liberty bell.

In a move eerily and uncannily similar to Cyndi Lauper’s “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun”-era wardrobe malfunction decision, Davey Dreamnation has gone imperial and re-invented himself as a member of the aristocracy in the dying days of the reign of Louis XIV. Speaking from the drawing room of his gigantic new manor house, Little Lord [...]

After four days of literary jauntiness and speed intellectualism, I’m beginning to feel a bit like Richie Watts after attending the Comedy Festival - blown-out, exhausted and thrilled by the sheer number of genii (or should that be geniuses - whatevs) presently living, breathing and creating stuff for people like you and me to enjoy. [...]

The Emerging Writers’ Festival is on again this weekend, and it’s packed with interesting panels, readings, speeches and games of Scrabble. This will be Festival Director Stevie Grimwade’s second tilt at the gig, and it promises to be lively. I’ll be chairing a panel on Saturday at 12 noon, entitled Where’s the new avant garde? [...]

Yes, you are. It’s that simple. Ace.
Superlief and bulk ace. Truly ace.
I’m trying to wipe an untold smile
from my freelance face. That’s how
ace. This much ace. If that much
is untold, double it and multiply by
ace. Bulk ace. Infinitely ace, drop
a stitch & save in bulk. Surrender
to the aceness. Truly devastating,
acetold. Funtold. Plumtold. Hightail,
bright-eyed, faun-like. Wide [...]

DNRC080 | LP | 2014 | DELETED
With which appallingly awful pun we can safely assume that the good ship DNRC - or Davey Dreamnation Enterprises, suffered some sort of nuclear-tinged meltdown, as temperatures on the surface of the earth forced all twenty six billion of its inhabitants into the Underground, leading to a predictable upsurge [...]

DNRC079 | LP | 2013 | DELETED
When Pixel Mouse’s fledgling Spurt! label released the Worm Kings’ barmily magnificent “Say Hello to the Worm Kings” in 2014, all hell broke loose in the underground bargain bins, as hordes of previously loyal DNRC fans deserted the now-troublingly moustachioed Dreamnation and opted instead for some music they could [...]

DNRC078 | EP | 2013 | DELETED
Late in 2013, as the atom rains were falling all around the Camp Davey compound, Davey Dreamnation appalled the music industry by releasing this incredible live EP, recorded in 2008, in the days when EPs were still released. Back then, the effects of the worldwide DNRC phenomenon had only [...]