“I write and make music as a form of therapy and I put it out there. If people like it, that’s great. But that’s not the driving motivation for it.” — Davey Lane
Davey Lane joins me on Time To Talk this week to chat about ARC taking on Hotel California live on stage.
We also talk about his time playing with Crowded House, working with Todd Rundgren and his long-running “day job” with You Am I. Streaming everywhere now. @daveyhellolane@youami_gbtflou@rpm_pr@morellocherries@timeoffmagazine
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Us Three, Thee Marshmallow Overcoat, will be at the BB on Sundee May Three from Five Thirtee.
If you like all things 60s then this is the gig for thee. 😍🎸🧡
⚡ ~2 weeks til @daveyhellolane and @thevascoera join forces for a one off co-headline show at La’s -- April 25 / ANZAC Day ⚡️ With 20+ years as You Am I's guitarist, and collabs with the likes of Todd Rundgren, Crowded House, Jimmy Barnes + Robyn Hitchcock, Davey Lane has a rock’n’roll pedigree 2nd to none. 👉 #important
🚨 Don’t miss em – Tix ➡️ .au + link in bio
OUT TODAY - DAVEY LANE & NITIDA - AN ABSENT LOVER
Sometimes the best collaborations come around when no-one is asking for them. Then again, is the best art made under duress of expectation anyway?
Davey Lane is a musician, now freshly furnished with a place in ARIA Hall Of Fame for his work with You Am I. He has played with many artists over the years but his work in the field of "Davey Lane” is his primary creative outlet.
A hottmess on the public transport system of northern Melbourne, Nitida is best known for being 50% of the pop duo on the rise to stardom, Don’t Thank Me, Spank Me! A fashion icon, a force of life & a guaranteed good time. Nitida is a naturally charming & vivacious performer & songwriting powerhouse.
An Absent Lover came about years ago when Davey found a arpeggiated synth combination that spoke to all his synapses & realigned his chakras. It was the pandemic times. House-bound and bored, he turned this abhorrent oscillating electronic noise into a backing track for a song. “I sat on it for years & I didn’t think it’d ever get finished. I had ideas but they were always just too busy or too stupid. I always need solitude to work through things, but his one was just a dry tap. Nothing. Then I heard Don’t Thank Me, Spank Me! What a band. What a record. Their brand of ingenuity, sass & musical nous was very refreshing. It was brassy & unapologetic, & an antidote to self-serious doe-eyed misery so I got in touch with Nitida, thinking she may be the perfect collaborator for this song, & may be able to pull me out of my usual depresso-pop comfort zone. And did she what!”
An Absent Lover is a psych-disco psychodrama. Hitherto unchartered terrain for both Davey & Nitida, designed to elicit unbridled, ecstatic enthusiasm.
Listen to the single via the link in our bio, or get Davey's latest album 'Finally, A Party Record.'
Davey supports Augie March on their 20th anniversary tour through April & May.
As well as Gumball Fest Apr 24 & La La Las in Wollongong w Vasco Era Apr 25.
Don’t Thank Me, Spank Me support Bad Dreems on their “Ultra Dundee” tour, through Apr & May
Live photo by Heather McDonald @heatherlauramc@dont_thank_me_spank_me
NEW SINGLE!
Sometimes the best collaborations come around when no-one is asking for them. Then again, is the best art made under duress of expectation anyway?
Fo those who don’t know Davey, he is a recent ARIA Hall Of Fame inductee for his work playing guitar with his beloved You Am I. He also makes largely unpopular weirdo depresso-pop music under his own name, which is why you are reading this right now.
Nitida is best known for being 50% of the pop duo on the rise to stardom, Don’t Thank Me, Spank Me! Or maybe you saw her show-ponying clad head-to-toe in Sherrin red Edgeley on telly with @markseymourandtheundertow at the MCG for the AFL Grand Final? Or perhaps you know her from her cult one-woman Elton John singalong residency “Beltin’ Elton” at the @ragtimetavern ? Or maybe you don’t know her at all? A fashion icon, a force of life and a guaranteed good time. Nitida is a naturally charming and vivacious performer and songwriting powerhouse.
An Absent Lover is a psych-disco psychodrama that’s out and done in just over 4 minutes. Hitherto unchartered terrain for both Davey and Nitida and designed to elicit unbridled, ecstatic enthusiasm and terror.
Out March 25. Presave link in the thingy.
Davey is on tour supporting @augiemarchmusic throughout April as well as appearing at @thegumballfestival and @lalalaswollongong with @thevascoera on April 25.
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Nitida is also on tour through April and May with @dont_thank_me_spank_me as they support @baddreems on their “Ultra Dundee” tour.
