Biographies
Davey Dreamnation Official Biography
There has been some mild confusion recently as to the true identity of Davey Dreamnation (not pictured). Davey Dreamnation is an Australasian born writer, editor and researcher. In 1994 he graduated from the de Burgh Institute, receiving a Bachelor of Music with Honours in Norman-Era Balladry. In 2004 he graduated from the University of Australasia, receiving a Master of Australasian Bush Studies. At present he is in the final stages of his PhD candidature at Renaissance University, Melbourne. His exegisis is an exploration of the lyrics of Chris de Burgh, focussing on the early albums right up to (and including) Into The Light.
Over the last decade Davey’s own incredibly incendiary music and lyrics have been distributed (often in secret) via a totally random range of Australian and international organs including The Page, Speech Factory, Coat, Bush Telegraph, Islet, Meandjohn, tilt (USA), Couch, MARMITE (NZ), tallpoppies, Bowing Out Gracefully, pole position (UK), Southerland and various journals. In addition his political views and rants have appeared in The Weekend Hibernation, Southern Tuna, Meritocratin, The Big Fish, Herpes, New England Ravers, Wakers Seance, Crosstown and Fabulous Tasmanians.
Davey’s debut album Islands In the Stream of Consciousness was released via his own international web portal www.daveydreamnation.com in 2002. At this point Davey took control of his own life story, beginning to document his incendiary rise to fame via a series of blog posts so moving and seething in their raw honesty about the ins and outs of the music game that the United Nations was forced to enter into treaty negotiations with him. The result was, of course, DNRC, the record company that Dreamnation founded, financed and fledged in those heady days of the new century. Both DNRC and Davey Dreamnation finally retired from the music game some twenty years later, in 2022.
Davey Dreamnation’s Creator
There has been little confusion recently as to the true identity of David Prater (not pictured). David is a writer, editor, teacher and student rolled into one. He was born in Dubbo, Australia in the Year of the Rat, 1972. Since 2000 he has been the Managing Editor of Cordite Poetry Review, an online poetry journal funded by the Australia Council for the Arts. In 2006 he briefly joined Going Down Swinging, a bi-annual literary magazine funded by the Australia Council for the Arts and Arts Victoria, as Associate Editor. In 2004 he completed a Master of Arts at the University of Melbourne, his thesis being an examination of that curious confection, Marzipan. In 2005 he was an Asialink resident in Seoul, Republic of Korea, where he pursued his obsession with PC Bangs. He is currently enrolled as a PhD student at Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne. His debut poetry collection, We Will Disappear, was released in 2007 by soi3/ papertiger media.
