Davey Dreamnation

I picked up this chapbook last February in Sydney for AU$15 after seeing Lee Ranaldo’s band Sonic Youth perform its 1988 album, Daydream Nation, in its entirety at the Enmore Theatre. While that concert was the most electrifying experience of my gig-going career (thanks again Joey!), it makes me sad to say that this little [...]

Here’s some pictures from my time at the jaw-dropping 3 day PICNIC08 conference. Lasers not shown.

I’ve been immersed in hi-tech today at PICNIC08, a huge design and innovation conference being held over 3 days at the Westerpark Gasfabriek in Amsterdam.
Somehow I managed to get myself a press pass for the event, which plays host to a quite dazzling array of Web 2.0 gurus (already), corps, labs and testbeds and, [...]

On Internet forums there appeared messages of a powerful explosion at an Australian nuclear power station located in the suburbs of Sydney. According to witnesses’ statements the explosion happened at about 3 pm on the 9th of September. In particular, one resident of this town has made a call and had time to inform her [...]

These two videos speak for themselves, I think. In any case, I cannot speak for them yet, as my Dutch is not very good at all. Nevertheless I trust that you are enjoying these little trips down Tubenesia Lane as much as I am. Continue.

Last June I wrote about my Bloglines Dream Team, based on the number of entries posted by 18 fellow bloggers. You may recall that while I was having trouble ever logging into, let alone reading from, the Bloglines web reader, when I did finally gain access it gave me a snapshot of activity on these [...]

It would be nice to think that the English and Dutch languages are similar.
In many instances - individual words, phrases, roots - they are indeed related; however it is precisely their differences that make true understanding possible.
This is immediately apparent when any native English speaker confronts the strange and rigid (and seemingly atonal) [...]

Scientists from the future will stumble upon this album and think: so that’s what all the fuss was about. For clearly, if not obliquely, Watercress, the breakthrough album for Dutch-Celtic songstress Eyna, signalled a shift in fortunes for DNRC Records and its enigmatic founder Davey Dreamnation, despite the fact that said ‘fortunes’ failed, as ever, to materialise in the company’s profit and/or loss statements. In short, Watercress is a classic. Here’s why.

This tremendously barmy two-tone release, from possibly the world’s most electrifying three piece act, came hot on the heels of ninety one other DNRC releases and yet still sounds today as if it had never been thought of (let alone heard) at all.