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We're the reason you heard a theremin solo coming from a bin behind The Lanes that one time. Probably.
It was a damp Tuesday in Brighton, 2023. The kind of day where the sea and the sky merge into one indecisive shade of grey. At a sticky pub table, three figures huddled: an artist who’d run out of blue paint, a musician whose synth had started playing sea shanties of its own accord, and a technologist trying to teach an AI to feel regret.
Fuelled by a shared pint and a mutual suspicion of London, they made a pact. They would unite their disparate, arguably useless skills to create... something. Something weird. Something wonderful. Something that would almost certainly get them mistaken for a cult.
And so, Dave's Collective was accidentally born.
We are a pseudonymous cabal of painters, noise-makers, coders, and professional ponderers.
// The Rules We Occasionally Follow
All profits are split equally, whether that’s £10,000 or £10.32 for a round of chips. All voices are equal, which is why our meetings are so legendarily long.
We work under pseudonyms not for mystique, but because one of us has significant library fines and another's mum thinks they have a "proper job" in IT.
If the code compiles perfectly the first time, or the synth is perfectly in tune, we get suspicious. Beauty is in the buffer overflow and the happy accident.
It should be for making plants sing, projecting poetry onto scaffolding, and building robots that serve no purpose other than to look disappointed in you.
And our landlady. And the reason everything we own has a faint, persistent aroma of salt, vinegar, and spiritual wellness.
It’s hard to say, really. But it often involves one or more of the following:
// Fresh from the digital easel
// Our Next Gloriously Absurd Project
We're aiming to raise £50,000 to create the ultimate Brighton bar experience: a place where art, music, and weird tech collide, and every single person's name is Dave.
We're in talks with Dave Gorman to perform a special set. All art sales will be split 50/50 with the artist.
Pledge your Dave-ness
Are you an artist, a musician, or a technologist who finds the term "synergy" deeply upsetting? Do you believe the best ideas happen after midnight?
To be considered, send us one of the following: a three-word manifesto, a schematic for a pointless invention, a sound file that makes cats nervous, or a photograph of a truly magnificent puddle.
