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The result of hundreds of hours of stalking and surveillance of Mr David Callan. If
you have anything to add, please write us and let us know.
- Date of birth is 20 September 1974. He's a virgo, allegedly.
- "Callan was born in the Irish border town of Dundalk. He migrated to Perth with his parents and
younger brothers in 1990 at 15" (SMH).
- Went to Edith Cowan University ("Didn't you get into TAFE?"). Possibly did a degree in PR or marketing or
some such.
- Has stacked shelves and pumped gas.
- Has questionable dress sense.
- Used to dress up, in Perth, as "Constable Care". Little kids would either scream and run, or punch him
in the nuts.
- Shovelled elephant shit for a circus for two weeks, and was gypped on the payment.
- In 2005, did the voiceover for a television commercial for "Tuff nuts", a brand of crunchy peanuts.
- In 2006, appeared in a commercial advertising reduction of smoking in NSW pubs. (Unconfirmed: Also appeared
in an ad for "CP Trouser Solution", holding a toaster?)
- In Melbourne he lives off St David's Street, Thornbury. In Perth, he
lives on Iolanthe Street in Bassendean.
- Ms Steph from Tamworth thinks Dave's e-mail address is davecallan@abc.net.au. But we have reason to suspect
the format Surname.Firstname@abc.net.au (so either Callan.David@abc.net.au or
Callan.Dave@abc.net.au).
- Started on Rove in 1999.
- Does impressions of, among others, Yoda, Chewbacca, Germans, Arnie ("Forget about it"), and Billy Connolly.
- One of his standard bits is to recite a list of "words that found funny when said by Dave". Includes such
humorous items as "trousers" and "haberdashery".
- Can pole-dance to Living Dead Girl.
- Has sexual fantasies about his beard entwining with Gandalf's.
- Once found cheese in his beard.
- Enjoys exchanging flamboyantly camp text messages with his mate Tom.
- In the stinking hot summer of 1992, made a film, "Thirsty Blade", with his friend Marcus Plato, in the wilds of Bassendean. Dressed as a mediaeval warrior, another guy dressed as a Mexican, and a bunch of ninjas somersaulted out of bushes with nunchuku and sai. The police finally showed up.
- Once dislocated his knee dancing to "Everybody's kung-fu fighting".
- Is a yellow belt green tip in tae kwon do.
- ?One of his brothers is named "Christopher Peter" and is in the
Panda Band.
- There's also a "Stephen Callan" in the Panda Band. Don't know if this is also a brother or not.
- His mum's name is Cathy (see soundfiles for Saturday 17 and 24 December 2005).
- Father is a mechanic.
- Has headbutted people when drunk, fallen down stairs, and been kicked out of pubs. Was also once hit
by a drink driver when he was 7 or 4.
- Since the start of 2005 (maybe earlier) has been off computer games, porn, meat, drugs. Has been off alcohol since 2003.
- Dave and food. -- Is vegetarian, not vegan. -- Doesn't like onions, dates, raisins or sultanas. Eats risotto. Probably likes
potatoes. -- Eats eggs, but throws out the yolk. -- Is lactose intolerant. On the whole, doesn't
do dairy (in particular, yoghurt), but seems to like chocolate. -- Sometimes has dinner during the show (maybe around
7.30pm).
- Doesn't in general watch TV.
- Is often told he is vocally sexy. But is also told, often, that he is thinner than expected -- so he's worried he
has a "fat voice".
- Does the occasional water colour. Possibly is enrolled in some sort of art school.
- Is Dave a "goth"? He often (usually?) plays obscure goth covers. He has attended
goth clubs (not looking particularly goth), loves horror movies, and has
been quoted in a Good Weekend article on goth culture as saying, apparently knowledgeably, that most
people in the scene are all right, but
a few have chips on their shoulders. He's also appeared (says Countess Dracul: 27 May 2006)
in Fiend Magazine, but I don't know which issue. No doubt he'd deny the
label (or any label), but perhaps he went through a
goth phase anyway. Ask him yourself and find out.
- If "natural state of consciousness" sounds like New Age bullshit to you, it probably is. Dave
does courses in Melbourne with Mysticweb. On one occasion
(13 May 2006), some carnie was talking about how his out of body experience had nothing to do with the acid
he'd just dropped -- and Dave (apparently seriously) went along with it.
- When did the Graveyard Shift start? Well, Anne-Marie says it started at the end of 2004. Dave mentions on
6 January 2006 that it started "around this time last year". The earliest guestbook entry is 7 March 2005. The
earliest reference we found online
was in a goth forum, dated 18 February 2005, by "Lobotomy": "One of
the nicest human beings I have ever encountered, Dave Callan, has scored his own weekly Radio
Show Saturday nights on Triple J (technically Sunday Mornings) from 01:00-06:00am. // The theme
of the show is a mix of Dave's Comedy combined with his lifelong interest in horror
movies + music features like 'It came from beneath the vaults' so should be of interest to a
lot of you." I think Dave once said that the offer came when he was at a party, and
someone asked if he wanted to talk to a bunch of
nutcases on Saturday night. But perhaps
the original concept was less carnie-centred and more horror-themed.
- For further information (though we don't know how reliable any of this is), try the following:
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