Author: Davey Dreamnation
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BAP ‘n’ all
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Now that the embargo has ended on mentioning UQP’s Best Australian Poetry of 2003, I can breathe a sigh of relief and inform you, in all openness, that I am in it. Or at least, a poem of mine is in it. “In A Dim Sea Nation” was first published in papertiger #2 last year.…
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Hankies and Robert Palmer
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Yesterday I had the rare pleasure of seeing Hot Soup Girl live in poetic performance, reading some of her classic pieces, including the one about handkerchiefs. The Babble venue in Fitzroy was pretty packed for a Sunday, which was encouraging to see (though I suspect most of the attendees were part of the Visible Ink…
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Simply “The Best”
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Would anyone be interested in helping me put out an anthology of poetry simply entitled Simply The Best? How about an album called Recognition of Prior Learning? Well, in relation to the final point, the wait is almost over. Davey Dreamnation has released the title track from his incendiary second album and it’s available right…
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And so …
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I’ll just continue on tinkering away here, in self-imposed exile, on the deck of my careening schooner. Some people grow gardenias. Others derive simple pleasure from a McDonalds brown paper bag, stuffing themselves with shit on public transport, gloating. Maybe a cultural studies academic could write a brief, but explosive diatribe on the issue. The…
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Spring*
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First published in Southerly (3/2004).
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Davey Dreamnation: “Intake”
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DNRC013 | EP | 2003
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[d/dn] search strings
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All search strings from November 2002 to August 2003: julia ormond’s hairstyle jo bailey dating a girl in lubeck germany fashion and pearls ford telstar review davey fashion line the cockroaches lyrics pixel mouse silverchair tomorrow download mp3 the beatles tour of australia russell crowe teen sensations in hong kong davey jones bio* tori amos…
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[d/dn] sets himself on fire
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Fire services in the Camp Davey region were still on high alert last night, after a freak accident within the superstar’s secluded compound. While details, as ever, remain sketchy, it appears that the local fire brigade’s resources were stretched to their very limits when Davey accidentally set himself on fire. “I think he was trying…
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Branford Marsalis on Sting and his jacket
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“He [Sting] will not look into the audience when he plays. He has this sense of decorum, because if he does look down, he’s afraid he will laugh. We threw dead chickens across the stage, all kinds of shit, trying to get him. Nothing …” … Marsalis finally got to Sting when the group appeared…
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[d/dn] back in the studio
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A no-fly zone was enforced over the Camp Davey compound last night as preparations were made for Davey’s descent into his custom-built recording studio, where he will begin work on the follow-up to his sensational and blistering debut album, Islands In the Stream of Consciousness. “I’m not sure what he’s thinking of calling it –…
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[d/dn] slams NME ‘hacks’
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Camp Davey erupted this morning after it was learnt that the NME has apparently rejected a request from the troubled artist to stop the war in Iraq. “Look, I don’t know who you are or what camp you belong to,” snapped a harried-sounding NME staffer via telephone from London, “but there’s a war going on,…
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I am the penguin
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Tyrone hears me coming. He?s got the back door open as I pull up, heaving, in a compressed mess of jass-fumes and the motorway?s electricity evaporating out of me. “Davey, jack your freaking payload, hey? I?m not burning hydro time hanging around for any more scenarios, okay?” “Buff my ram, Tyrone!” “Davey?” “Kick it, man…
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[d/dn] celebrates his 1st birthday
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Camp Davey was in pandemonium mode today after the first night of what sources close to the megalomaniacal star describe as “a four night bash to outdo Russell Crowe’s wedding.” Having brought in armed police to calm the massive crowds outside the Camp Davey gates, camp administrator Pixel Mouse ordered the use of lemonade cannons.…
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Signalling that he is champing at the bit to re-install a more democratic comments system on his site, Davey Dreamnation has taken the drastic step of discontinuing the use of his name in blog headlines. “I think it’s all part of an attempt to make this crummy site look less home-made. Hats off to him,…
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imaginary cities: vera
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if velo wears a cardboard crown then surely vera appears draped in green. her streets lean lovingly into nature strips, storm drains and kerbs. through electric streets traffic whirs as through a blender, anti-clockwise, in unsprawled packets. and the ever insisting mosquito, its visa due to expire momentarily then mysteriously validated, like a light switch…