Tag: Davey Dreamnation
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Davey Dreamnation announces artwork for next single/album without actually releasing a song
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2 min read
Music lovers around the world are stunnned and amazed at the events that have unfolded in the past twenty four hours. Riding high on the commercial success of his second single theme song, not to mention the runaway popularity of his first single “Hot soup girl”, Davey Dreamnation has fuelled speculation of a third single…
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Davey Dreamnation: “Theme Song”
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DNRC004 | 7″ single | 2002
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Davey Dreamnation releases ‘Hot Soup Girl’ b-side
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Following hot on the heels of his phenomenal first single, “Hot Soup Girl”, Davey Dreamnation has confounded all public expectations by releasing a b-side, entitled, fittingly enough, “Davium”. “Yeah,” the popular but enigmatic entertainer announced today through his Esperanto-fluent interpreter, “I’ve discovered this new element, it’s called Davium. It’s so rare and so miniscule, it…
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Wild scenes reminiscent of the Beatles’ tour of Australia confronted the rapidly icon-becoming Davey Dreamnation when he touched down at Darwin International Airport last Saturday. The handsome singer was whisked through security checks and bundled into a waiting armoured personnel carrier, before expressing his amazement at the welcome through his interpreter. “Davey is amazed,” confirmed…
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Davey Dreamnation lashes out at critics
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On a day characterised by freak weather accidents and unexplained shortages of light bulbs, Davey Dreamnation has lashed out at critics of his music, his audacious tour of the top end and – most paradoxically – himself, in an extraordinary series of outbursts at Melbourne’s Tullamarine airport. Virtually no single pop star in the world…
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In a week fast becoming known for its unexpected news stories, Stung, New Zealand’s answer to Sting, has announced Davey Dreamnation as number one support act for his upcoming tour of Australasia. Under the moniker of Stung’s “Nothing Like the Stung” Tour, Davey will play a variety of outdoor venues around Australia, in a set…
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Davey Dreamnation announces new band name, line-up
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Hot on the heels of what has been described as “a very strange piece of music”, Davey Dreamnation’s interpreter announced at lunch time today that Davey will be joined on stage for his tour of the top end by manic flugel horn combo, The Abbatoir. Clearly speaking from a payphone in an airport departure lounge,…
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Citing “masses of evidence” and “hours of 4-track tapes”, a man claiming to be the ex-manager of The Spirit Levels last night aired some extraordinary claims in relation to said band’s demise, the fallout from which will quite possibly render the earth uninhabitable for several years. The man, who would only identify himself as O.N.…
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Davey Dreamnation announces top end tour dates
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Following the rise and fall this week of one of Melbourne’s most sensational pop trios, Davey Dreamnation, enigmatic pop ironist and rumoured scientologist, announced today (again through an interpreter) details of his forthcoming tour of the Northern Territory. Despite the fact that he is no longer a member of The Spirit Levels, Davey has assembled…
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The Spirit Levels
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New teen sensations The Spirit Levels have arrived back in Australia after an exhausting eight hour tour of Tasmania, where they recorded what they hope will become both sides of a double a-sided single, prospectively entitled “wood chip monks/ girder”. “Yeah,” opines lead flautist and bush-bass player Bailey, “we needed to get out there, get…
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‘Hot Soup Girl’ b/w ‘Davium’
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3 min read
DNRC003R | 7″ single | 2002 (DELETED) | 2020 (REISSUED)
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Except mine, of course, on my second last morning in the Sprawl, when the floodtide abated and the rooftops peeked, like a billion kids in straw hats, from the syrupy dawned surface of the City. An hour later the water had disappeared altogether, and I was able to clamber down into the Street. AC had…
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City-sprawl, sprawl-city
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Of course, Yogi wasn’t the only one beginning to have battery problems. Me and AC rode in one of the huge cigarette shaped carriages in Sally’s light speed train, strapping in for the lift-off, and taking the opportunity to rev ourselves up a bit via the on-board jacker. Energy levels rose, in small increments, orange…
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Palmerston Sprawl, satellitic
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The Sprawl roams erratically through space, tracking stray electrons packed with micro-information – refugees from a computer age, when bits were free. For the moment, in this aftermath, the City survives on its landlines alone. Obeying a tendency to cluster itself according to subtle shifts in information balances, the City metamorphoses its rhizomic tangential growth…
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What I couldn’t figure out
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5 min read
was why they’d built Palmerston Sprawl so far away from the pad in the first place, a syntax error so freaking massive that only the driver of the new mega freaked corporation train ever saw the funny side of it, and even then, not often. Sally was her name, though she probably wouldn’t tell you.…