Davey Dreamnation

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 [...]

DNRC077 | 7″ | 2011 | DELETED
One thing for certain in this day and age is that at the end of the day you’ve got to start somewhere in order to make a name for yourself. Nowhere is this more true than in the case of the music industry, where publicity minus talent can still [...]

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 [...]

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). [...]

DNRC074 | LP | 2010 | DELETED
Ostensibly formed in response to the death of Allen Carr, and inspired by The Fauves’ Lazy Highways album, The Carrs weren’t fooling anyone on this release, a shameful collection of Cars covers. In a year when Davey Dreamnation released more albums than bats, Eazy Hi-ways might have been forgiveable, [...]

DNRC073 | EP | 2010 | DELETED
And well may we ask. What’s the point of classifying “share-house” as a musical genre? And who bothered to buy milk this morning? Not us, and not The Point Breaks, it seems. Formed from the detritus of The Points, a sand-case trio with a penchant for EMO who disbanded [...]

DNRC072 | LP | 2010 | DELETED
Critics spent most of the year 2010 panning other bands’ records - hence there’s not much actually to speak of here, on their debut album for DNRC, except perhaps bitterness in the form of lead single “Sourer Than Lemon”, an apparent reference to an argument within the band about [...]

DNRC071 | LP | 2010 | DELETED
Having released their self-titled debut in early 1900, Inspirational Magnets took just one hundred and ten years to record the follow-up and boy, was the wait worth it. “Pop and Lock” updates the band’s original manifesto for a new century, stopping off at various moments in C20 history along [...]

DNRC070 | LP | 2010 | DELETED
Formed by brother-sister act Meiko and Kenji Kawabata in order to challenge the common Western view that Japanese music is all about screaming, hari-kiri and feeling slightly “kooky” onstage, Wasabi Peace delivered this steaming collectiion of nose-jam and incendiary riot police uniforms in the death summer of 2010, when [...]

DNRC069 | LP | 2010 | DELETED
Dedicated to his friend and mentor Scaramouche, the long-awaited debut album from Australasia’s finest Galaga player was met with lukewarm tea and biscuits upon its instant deletion in 2010. Citing “irreconciled accounts” and “bonus points disputes”, Clint Bo Dean went into instant retirement after his album’s shock deletion, telling [...]

DNRC568 | LP | 2009 | DELETED
Disgracefully derivitive release from the band who once called themselves Rumour, in honour of Fleetwood Mac’s album of almost the same name. Taking up where the Toilet Cleaners flushed off, The Four Calling Birds somehow convinced DNRC founder and Grade-A idiot Davey Dreamnation to sign them up for a [...]

DNRC067 | LP | 2009/2012 | DELETED
Otherwise known as the better-looking half of now-defunct comic duo Hoodie ‘n’ Heels, Hoodie Over Heels released this, her one and only blistering collection of heart-on-sleeve tear-jerkers in the summer of 2009, thus capitalising on the apparent inability of consumers to tell the difference between herself and her former [...]

DNRC066 | LP | 2008 | DELETED
Astonishing Tribesco-only import, re-packaging Dreamnation’s original Islands In the Stream of Consciousness LP with one or two surprises - the first being opening track “Theme Song”, a previously-unreleased call to arms. In addition, an extended version of the presumed-drowned “Scaramouche’s Theme” sees Davey teaming with his llama pal to [...]

DNRC065 | LP | 2007 | DELETED
This blistering release from CST, his first for DNRC, came at an important moment in international sea-bed relations. Following his split with Tenille (due to artistic disturbances), Captain changed tack, switching to the highly emotive and moving sea-shanty format. What you get on this rocking release is sixteen tales [...]

DNRC064 | LP | 2007 | DELETED
Redundant release from Canberra’s Heroin Archers, originally released in 2007 to coincide with their belief that they were on the verge of becoming Bona Fide, a name change suggested by their barmy management team of Davey Dreamnation and his sidekick Scaramouche. before approving the name change, however, Dreamnation insisted [...]