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'Dan Kelly's Dream' - Dan Kelly

Dan Kelly in Dream mode
Aug 5, 2010 Updated Aug 5, 2010

Dan's latest release is a collection of self styled "environmental freak-out songs and dreams".

Track List:

   1. The Decommissioner
   2. Hold On, I'm Coming On
   3. Dan Kelly's Dream
   4. Thinkin' About Alien City Blues
   5. Stretching Out
   6. West Coast Fishing Incident
   7. Bindi Irwin Apocolypse Jam
   8. A Classical DJ At Dandenong Station
   9. Gap Year Blues
  10. The Catholic Leader
  11. Grown Up Solutions

External Review and interview:

"It’s a doozy. Nodding to “wordy Dylan” and Ray Davies alike, it’s an immensely colourful songwriter album that’s also quite light on its feet. ‘Bindi Irwin Apocalypse Jam’ is charismatic cheek as only Kelly can pull off, while ‘West Coast Fishing Incident’ riffs on Twitter and ‘Stretching Out’ chimes in with Beach Boys harmonies. ‘Poisoned Estuary Jam’ stretches to nearly 10 minutes before the standout ‘Grown Up Solution’ brings the album home".

(Doug Wallen, Mess and Noise)

 

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Daniel "Dan" Kelly is an Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist. He is the second oldest of six children and the nephew of Paul Kelly. He grew up in Queensland and learnt the guitar at thirteen, studying Environmental Science at University, in Brisbane, in 1990. He formed his first band, Nord, in Brisbane before moving to Melbourne in 1996, where in 2000 he started playing solo shows, under...

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