Seething words greeted shocked journalists queued outside the Tribesco compound this morning, having been invited to attend a secret slap-dash interview press conference with the increasingly erratic Davey Dreamnation. It seems success has bypassed his head and gone straight for the jugular, as the journos soon found out. “I’m pretty happy with the second album actually. We were going for a harder, more spaced out pogo sound that was also softer and focussed on reality. That probably sounds like a tall order – just ask the engineers! But seriously, with Islands…, we knew we had something special there, it was just a matter of coaxing it out of its pen. Turned out that something special was a llama, so with Recognition …, we decided to ditch the llama and hire professional musicians instead. The results speak for themselves. Not a bum note in sight. I haven’t had quiche lorraine for three months. I’m fit, healthy and sane. The llama is gone, I’ve even forgotten his name. I just have so many songs inside my head at the moment, and I’d like to make sure that from now on a few more of them are my own. It’s always difficult coming up with a sophomore album. That’s why we went for the third year album instead. Our graduation album is coming up next, followed by postgraduate, doctoral, post-doctoral and professorial albums. But it’ll be the chancellor’s album where we finally break through, I believe. The Tribesco compound turned out to be just the tonic for us after the gruelling sessions we endured at Camp Davey trying to turn Islands… into something listenable. While I don’t think we ended up achieving that, in a way I’m pleased. I mean, who knows what people will make of it anyway. I try not to talk about my lyrics because everyone has their own interpretation of them. I try not to play my guitar when I’m singing in the shower because that’s just stupid. Anyone can do it, that’s why no one does.”
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Hold onto your jarmies, all ye fans of Davey Dreamnation. Today, for the second time, a full-length record by Davey Dreamnation has reached Number 1 on the mp3.com.au Lo-Fi album charts, astounding critics, chiropractors, cotton pickers and chopper pilots. Long-term fans will recall that the last time this happened, Davey was halfway through his debut US tour, and was thus forced to cancel several sound checks in order to attend a hastily-arranged press conference in the deadbeat surrounds of downtown Buffalo, New York State. This second #1 position finds Davey relaxed and comfortable in his new-look Tribesco compound, complete with seventy foot walls to discourage journalists and llamas from peeking inside. What makes this time around different is that the album in question, the seething Recognition of Prior Learning, has only been on the charts for three weeks in total, prompting calls from fellow lo-fi artists for Davey to “move up a division”, possibly to the “indie” or “pop” category. While Dreamnation himself remains, as ever, tight-panted, sources close to the troubled walnut suggest the news has sent him spinning out of control, like a slinkie trying to get out of the World Trade Centre. “I realise that’s in very poor taste,” admitted a crestfallen Stung, who refused to believe the news, “but I don’t care. My new album will be called Smear and will feature personal attacks on Boz Scaggs, Billy Field, Neu! and the artist formerly known as Shannon Numbnuts.” RPL now sits at #36 on the cross-genre Alternative charts. Most improbably, it’s ranked as the #128th most popular album overall. The album’s success comes hot on the heels of the phenomenal streaking star that is Boost Bass, Free Quincey, a song that has now been streamed over 150 times, but actually downloaded only once. “I think that pretty much sums it up,” chuckled an obviously drugged Scaramouche from his new Pissweak World franchise just outside of Wogonga.
Davey Dreamnation’s popularity is at its highest since his infamous breakthrough to #1 on the mp3.com.au charts in October 2002. Recognition of Prior Learning, the astonishing aural experience that has been described by Howard Jones as “theft – pure and simple”, by Chris de Burgh as “Not a patch on Eastern Wind” and by Stung as “seething” has climbed to #2 on the Lo Fi Album charts, only one step away from #1, obviously. BBFQ, meanwhile, has crept up a notch or two since last week also. The “out-take” track now trembles on the edge of greatness, at #6, with Maple Lanes also making a charge, sitting just outside the top ten. The success of RPL is seen by some as vindication of Davey’s decision not to appear on Sigue Sigue Sputnik’s come-back album. Others, however, see the whole affair as a hoax. “Well, what proof have we got that it’s not just Davey downloading his own songs?” seethed an exiled Scaramouche from a paddock adjacent to the Hume Weir near Albury. “Davey’s a cheat, and you can quote me on that, all day long.” Sources resident in Tribesco suggest that Dreamnation has another album already recorded, though of course spokesperson and gifted flautist Stung is saying nothing at this point. Rod Stewart also weighed into the debate yesterday, making an unexpected attack on his former friend and lacrosse partner. “Look, my greatest fear is that Davey will switch to covering old standards and dressing in a tuxedo. So far I’ve managed to corner that part of the market, but if I start to get competition, well there goes my weekly perm and bleach job. I’m seething, and I can understand why Stung is seething too. I taught him the meaning of the word. My larynx is wilting under the strain.” Dreamnation meanwhile refused to comment on Stewart’s “absurd verbal diahorrea”, claiming that “that tosser’s ‘music’ can’t even speak for itself.”
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.
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.