Sources just outside Davey Dreamnation’s Tribesco compound remain staggered and stunned by the incredible rise of “out-take” Boost Bass, Free Quincey, which has now been streamed more than one hundred (100) times from the mp3.com.au server farm. The track, which shouldn’t even be on the album (RPL) continues to weave its spell despite not possessing any discernable structure and production values that would make even the Tin Lids blush. “Yes, it is weird,” admitted a tired [d/dn] after returning from a gruelling film clip shot inside a giant edible donut, “I’m not sure if the film clip was even from my own song, you know. It could have been HoJo’s new video, though I’m pretty sure he hasn’t released *anything* for the past five years. Well, as they say, things can only get better.” On the subject of BBFQ, however, [d/dn] remained tight-lipped. “Well, as you know, the song is dedicated to my sick friend Quito, whose life-support system is still going strong after five years of constant use. Quito is really my lifeline to the outside world. The life-support system also doubles as a handy power source for my mobile phone, and I can even make and receive international telephone calls. We’re in the process of making it internet-enabled, so that I can switch Quito off remotely, if I so wish, simply by sending him an email. Technology, eh!” Fans of the beleagured jump-suit wearing freak are asked to download Davey’s songs as many times as possible between now and this Wednesday (Tribesco time), when the latest mp3.com.au charts are expected to show an even more dramatic rise in Davey’s fortunes.
Category: Davey Dreamnation (page 13 of 31)
Davey Dreamnation (not pictured) was conceived during the playing of a Genesis L.P. in April 2001. A legend in his own signature drawstring jarmies, a colossus of lo-fidelity, a harbinger of jitches and drum fills and ‘the Skylab of his generation’, Davey describes himself as an Australasian pirate who lives in the third person, and that’s good enough for us. Davey is apparently fluent in Esperanto and enjoys ice hockey and Joy Division. Read posts from the last five or ten years, then consider for a moment a world without Davey. Sad, isn’t it?
Tribesco was in a heightened state of preparedness this morning, upon the discovery that Davey Dreamnation’s sophomore album, the industrial nose-bleeder Recognition of Prior Learning has entered the mp3.com.au lo fi charts at #4. Meanwhile Davey’s overall popularity has also risen. He now sits pretty at #5 on the Lo-Fi artist charts. “This is a vindication of our decision to delay the release of the album for a period of over one year, in order to give the listening public time to grow in maturity, and thus also to give them the chance to really appreciate the music,” an obviously drunk Stung managed to lisp at cowering journalists, before adding, “I just don’t think people would have got this record a year ago. It’s light years ahead of its own use-by date.” The huge increase in Davey’s popularity has been driven largely by the freak single “Boost Bass Free Quincey”, whose title alone seems to have entranced the listening public. “75 streams and counting, and that’s just in the past three weeks,” beamed a delighted Dreamnation, who later dedicated the song, once again, to his seriously ill friend and muse Quito. As reported previously on Tribesco, the artist’s former Esperanto translator Scaramouche has been put out to pasture, somewhere in the wilds of the Albury-Wodonga region. “I’m hoping I can just get on with making music now, instead of freaking quiche lorraine and marmalade,” Davey added, this time in English.
In a victory for animal rights lovers everywhere, Davey Dreamnation has taken out an injunction against his former llama and interpreter Scaramouche, in a move to block the release of “Scaramouche’s Theme” as part of his triumphant return to form, the trail-blazing Recognition of Prior Learning. Tribesco sources have confirmed that the “barnstorming” album is now available, after weeks, nay, years of inactivity on [d/dn]’s once flourishing international web portal. With listener interest increasing exponentially over the past few days, all is set for an exhilirating countdown to the next batch of mp3.com.au download statistics, due Wednesday (Tribesco time). Davey Dreamnation remains quietly confident that his position (currently #8) will rise even more dramatically, now that the album itself has been fully released. “You have to understand that this record was born out of extreme frustration, and there are a great deal of political references in the lyrics of the songs. Which makes it a shame that Davey hasn’t released the lyrics online, as the words in many of these songs are unintelligible. Take “Dim Stars 2″, for example. I have no idea what that’s about at all,” admitted a sad and disconsolate Stung, upon learning that Davey’s new album has risen further on the charts in the last ten seconds than Nothing Like the Stung did in the past two years. “That being said, and despite the woeful recording techniques employed on this release, I salute my good friend and collaborator. He’s finally booted that freaking llama out of the band, which should make it easier for me to score some co-writing credits.” Scaramouche himself confirmed the split, whilst smoking a cigarette outside his tailor made cage, which has now been cleaned out of straw, carrots and quiche lorraine. “It’s very sad but unfortunately, there was no room left on the album for my delightful and melodious theme song. By extension, that means there’s no room left for me here in Tribesco any more either. I am deeply distressed by what has happened in the last 24 minutes. All I can say is, if they’re doing animal research, they should at least make the effort to ask me to sign a consent form. I can speak, after all, and only just recently Stung made me a pen holder which I have attached to my front left hoof, enabling me to sign documents and write down my lyrics and poetry. I guess I’ll have to give it back now. That freaking Sting strap-on says it’s his intellectual property. Sniff. Well, I guess he’s right. Good bye everyone, and thanks for all the ham rolls. No, I couldn’t possibly eat pressed chicken meat, not today.”
Never let it be said that Davey Dreamnation fails to live up to expectations. Fans of the reclusive musical genius awoke rejoicing this morning after discovering that nine out of the eleven tracks that comprise the masterstroke that is Recognition of Prior Learning have now been released. Fans of Scaramouche, however, will be disappointed to learn that the talented llama’s theme song remains on the mp3.com.au top shelf, along with another track, “Dim Stars 2”, which was supposed to be released over a year ago. It seems, however, that listeners around the world have not been affected by the album’s protracted gestation and birth in the slightest, choosing instead to download tracks at will. The puzzling popularity of “Boost Bass, Free Quincey” continues unabated, with more than 50 streams of the song having been recorded on the mp3.com.au statistics page in the last three weeks. “It’s not even a song,” admitted Scaramouche this morning, “and yet it’s headed for the top of the charts. Just imagine what’s going to happen when people catch onto the other “songs” on RPL. It’s going to force Davey to re-think his isolationist “lo-fi” categorisation. Frankly, there’s nothing lo-fi about my theme song at all. Its soaring, angelic vocals please me upon even my fifty-first listen, and that’s just today. I’m seething that Davey hasn’t seen fit to release it yet. In fact, I’m considering taking my name and talent elsewhere if he doesn’t hurry up.”
Just moments after slagging off the folks at mp3.com.au, Davey Dreamnation was hit by a piece of news flying at him through the air: fans have begun to download his music in droves. Statistics, while ever meaningless, suggest that Davey’s popularity, seemingly on the wane until this point, is beginning to pick up again. The demented artist and former Spirit Levels member has jumped from a neither-here-nor-there 38 on the Lo-Fi charts to the interstellar (and incendiary) position of #8. “I’m getting that Buffalo feeling again,” said Scaramouche upon receiving the news. “This could be very serious indeed. Recognition of Prior Learning hasn’t even come out yet. I feel sorry for the artists who have to compete with Davey at the moment. He’s unstoppable.” Leading the charge, incredibly, is “Boost Bass, Free Quincey”, a track that was deemed unfit for release a year ago, and which made it onto the mp3.com.au site only by accident. The quirky track, featuring Scaramouche on linoleum, has been streamed an amazing 31 times in the past two weeks. Perhaps more importantly, “Boost Bass, Free Quincey” has only been actually downloaded once, which in a way confirms its status as a hastily-cobbled together sham. “Not my words, but if you say so yes – it’s complete crap,” Stung agreed readily when it was put to him that Davey Dreamnation’s success has been completely coincidental. “But I’m happy to eat my words should Davey’s chart position rise any higher than #8. I mean, eighth, that’s not really all that good. Hell, even I came eighth at my primary school swimming carnival. Anyone can do that.”