Author: Davey Dreamnation

  • velo city, the velvet night trips me, i can’t see jack via fistlight. this causeway’s all gone soupy, overpasses to nowhere, streetlights disappearing like forests or an empty highway. how they thought they’d inhabit this sprawl of a mountain, i don’t know. thirty five ke-los from one end to the other, grand population: zero. even…

  • In the clearest sign yet that he is planning on trading in his zoot suit for a mortar board, Davey Dreamnation today announced his intention to provide the Australian government with “top quality and highly useful security research”. Unveiling the research as part of a broad-sweeping response to the Howard government’s recently-announced higher education research…

  • Holly

    Tread gently here, we are in Turkey. Holly and I walk down to the markets, past the massive stone museum with its solitary memorial tree, down the cracked bitumen paths to the river. The markets are closed. Cardboard boxes, flung from deserted stalls, fill the alleys with their stuck stenches – fish, olives, fruit. Over…

  • Despite a distinct lack of fanfare and barely the faintest whiff of media attention, Davey Dreamnation has determined to put his past behind him and as of today has moved his international web presence to a new home, under his own domain name. “It’s obviously going to take people a while to get used to…

  • In late-breaking news, it was revealed today that Camp Davey is still in close-down mode, despite the festive season having long passed by. Sources within the Camp could not be roused from a deep, post-prandial slumber this morning, leading to speculation that Christmas hampers distributed to friends and guests of the obscure pop genius may…

  • Brixton

    Rain fell in Brixton this morning, I looked out the window and saw little spittle fields on the bricks. Searching for my keys while News 2 blared, I felt a shadow cloud my concentration. I trudged up and down the stairs three times in my squeaky new boots. If I keep this sort of exercise…

  • With the festive season fast approaching, boffins at the Camp Davey Information Technology hub have been working around the clock, in order to spruce things up a bit ahead of an expected influx of Christmas web traffic. “That’s right,” confirmed Camp Davey IT Support Officer Quito via facsimile this afternoon, “I need three bananas and…

  • Never one to submit to public expectations, Davey Dreamnation has rumoured that he may re-release an edited version of his rise to fame, as documented in Davey Dreamnation v 1.01, just weeks after taking the website down. Sources at a slight distance from the obviously megalomaniacal star suggest the re-release may be an attempt to…

  • Davey Dreamnation has sold out and has thus been temporarily shut down. Davey wishes to thank all his fans for their continued support and understanding during this difficult time. He is reported to be hard at work on his new album, Recognition of Prior Learning and will return in the near future with a new…

  • Davey Dreamnation’s demolition of the British music establishment continued with unabated fury this morning, after a series of awe-inspiring gigs marked by communal violence, extended encores and several arrests. Speaking from the D-Team tour bus, spokesperson and security expert Scaramouche confirmed that all seven of Davey’s gigs today have been sold out, with police erecting…

  • Sorry not to have written before now, it’s a long story but before I tell it, I just wanted to say i miss you, but I know you’re having a really incredible time. Soweto sounds like just the kind of place every person in the western world needs to see, at least once. How incredibly…

  • Davey Dreamnation has taken a break from his hectic world tour to hold an impromptu press conference in Buffalo, New York, after hearing news of his breakthrough to the coveted #1 position on the mp3.com.au charts in both the lo-fi artist and album categories. Sources close to the travelling sideshow artist confirmed this morning (NY…

  • I love the sound of the road rules over there. So orderly. It sounds like Kakadu, but also a bit strange … I hope you and your mum aren’t driving each other nuts. Contrary to what I might have let on, I haven’t really been able to catch up with anyone yet – I spoke…

  • Re the flight – yeah, it was hellish, bumpy and scary on the way to LA and very long. But the flight to NYC was only five hours, and we got to see some pretty amazing stuff out the window – deserts, snow covered mountains (in the desert), hundreds of miles of farms in squares…

  • As Davey’s fortunes on the mp3.com.au rankings took another battering, wild rumours that the self-obsessed superstar is set to embark on a world tour were confirmed this morning, Majorca time. “I know that last sentence seems a bit out of order,” admitted Davey’s new spokesperson, Alex Lloyd, “but the fact is that Davey’s packed his…