Category: Davey Dreamnation (page 22 of 31)

Despite the fact that it does not yet feature a title track, Davey Dreamnation’s “Islands in the stream of consciousness” has debuted at #4 on the mp3.com.au lo-fi album charts.

In addition, Davey is ranked as the 4th most popular lo-fi artist of all time, and his nine songs released so far are all in the top 30.
“Well, after the ups and downs over the weekend [where Davey achieved 56 downloads in one day, only to score a depressing 6 the next], these stats confirm that Davey is no mere fluke. They also confirm that releasing an album on a Friday night is a very clever move indeed,” admitted an obviously miffed Stung this morning.

“I mean, for the month of August, Davey’s songs have been downloaded an amazing 172 times. 110 of those have been in the last four days. Clearly, someone out there likes him very much.”

Davey Dreamnation is in shock tonight, after learning that the release yesterday (Majorca time) of his debut album “islands in the stream of consciousness” has led to a stampede on the mp3.com.au charts.

“It’s quite overwhelming, to tell you the truth,” gasped his latest interpreter and spokesperson Stung. “I mean, before today, Davey was averaging a couple or three downloads per day, just a trickle really, compared to some of my own releases. But fifty six (56) downloads in one day is simply amazing. I’m seething, naturally.”

The immediate popularity of the kaleidoscopic masterpiece has been spoiled somewhat by the failure of mp3.com.au officials to release the title track, an anthemic lighter-waving epic that’s sure to stir more than a few idle hearts into action.

“Yes, well, we haven’t told Davey that “islands in the stream of consciousness” itself remains on the shelf, so to speak. He’s currently tucked away in bed, pinching himself in order to make sure the whole thing isn’t just a dream. I’ve personally had to change his sheets several times in the past hour. I think it’s best to just let him bask in the glory. I’m sure tomorrow’s download statistics will bring him right back to earth again.

“I’m still seething, but. Damn him,” spluttered the obviously deflated and shattered Kiwi crooner, before returning to the Camp Davey linen closet, where he is expected to spend the next 24 hours at least.

Davey Dreamnation is ensconsed in his Majorca studio today, busily tinkering with the track listing and cover art for his debut album, to be entitled “Islands in the stream of consciousness”.

As fans of the puzzling but sincere star would already know, the album has been plagued by controversies, last minute jitches and downright annoying technical problems, none of which seem yet to have been resolved.

Even Davey’s spokesperson, Tori Amos (no relation) was unable to comment on the album’s progress this morning.

“What I can tell you, however, is that “guns of davey” has finally passed the censors at mp3.com.au and has already been downloaded at least once.

“In addition, Davey is making another track from the forthcoming album available on his international website, for a limited time only. The track is called sonic you and is dedicated to Davey’s hero, Daniel Johns of Silverchair.

“Further, Davey has extended the period of time that “Last night betty” will be available for download, due to the fact that the mp3.com.au servers won’t touch the “variable bit rate” at which it is encoded with a ten foot barge pole. Such is life, but it still sux.”

Davey Dreamnation has emerged from a self-imposed silence to find that nothing has changed, and that he shouldn’t have even bothered coming back.

The confused artist’s bitterness follows a week of “hard slog” at Camp Davey, involving numerous emu parades and rubbish runs, disputes with DNRC over the title of Davey’s debut album and scuffles with a boatload of Australian politicians, who were at one stage attempting to seek asylum at the paradisical resort and holiday camp.

“Messrs Howard, Crean, Downer and Costello were refused entry to Camp Davey and were instead held for interrogation at the Camp Davey Illegal Immigrant Processing Centre, which is basically a hole in the ground half-filled with human and llama excrement,” Dreamnation spokesperson and rumoured live-in Camp entertainer Tori Amos (no relation) announced today.

“They were found not to be genuine refugees and will therefore be sent back to where they came from at the earliest opportunity. This is further evidence that the “Dreamnation Solution” is finally working, and should send a clear message to any other hypocritical, semi-human, so-called political “representatives” that their quaint brand of xenophobia is simply not welcome here, or anywhere else for that matter.

“We also believe that the release later this week of a video containing footage of a recent concert by Davey Dreamnation will act as a further deterrant to any other fuckwits wishing to strap their imbecilic, misleading and mean-spirited “policies” onto the Davey Dreamnation, which as you know is founded on a spirit of tolerance, equality and human rights.”