Three D Radio announcer, Megan Cat (up until recently with her husband, the late Peter Brat) lives in "The BratHaus" a rural seaside home about 100km from Adelaide on South Australia's scenic Fleurieu Peninsula.
Veteran musician Peter, and artist/musician Megan, were long-time DJs on Three D Radio 93.7fm
, Adelaide's eclectic independent music station.
Together Peter & Megan, known as "The Cat and The Brat" created this blog to allow listeners to review the playlists of their radio show, "Technicolour Dreaming" , watch clips of selected songs and simply join them in the enjoyment of their favourite music... psychedelia, 60's garage,
surf, punk/post-punk, pop, folk-rock, glam, 'Krautrock', goth, 80's electro... and much more!
But The Cat is carrying on the tradition, with guest co-presenters, and "Technicolour Dreaming" will continue in the same format, drawing from the huge "Cat & Brat" music collection, with the addition of new releases and reissues to keep things current. The Brat is hugely missed, but the show must go on, as he wanted...

Wednesday, December 28, 2011

Technicolour Dreaming


For the final show for 2011 we played a selection of our favourite music, new and old... pretty much your regular Technicolour Dreaming really! We roamed from the new Horrors album to the debut from Adelaide’s Systemaddicts, from the psychedelic harmonies of Mikal Cronin to the garage brilliance of Clinic and from a Rolling Stones gem to a great version of a ‘wormy’ classic by Adelaide’s brillig. We also paid tribute to the late Sean Bonniwell... the Music Machine were one of the great bands of the 60’s, precursors of punk dressed in black and leather, who did the ‘one-gloved-hand’ thing way before that Jackson guy! We also featured a track from our newest boxset (though it was released in 2009)... a very groovy collection by the Dukes of Stratosphear [i.e. XTC in psychedelic disguise] packaged in purple velour and including a jigsaw puzzle... what better holiday gift could we get ourselves! And in finishing with the last pick from the current “band of the month”, Paul Revere and the Raiders, we bid our listeners/readers [i.e. YOU] a “Happy New Year” and we look forward to bringing you more great music in 2012...
..... and so here is the full playlist.....
the Horrors – Moving Further Away     (‘Skying’ 2011 UK)
Mikal Cronin – Is It Alright?     (‘Mikal Cronin’ 2011 USA)
Kelley Stoltz – I Like, I Like     (‘To Dreamers’ 2010 USA)
Grant-Lee Phillips – Spring Released     (‘Mobilize’ 2002 USA)
the Lovetones – A Place For Us      (‘Meditations’ 2006 Australia)
the Brian Jonestown Massacre – It Girl     (‘Thank God for Mental Illness’ 1996 USA – taken from the ‘Tepid Peppermint Wonderland’ anthology 2005 USA)


the Mynd Gardeners – Discotheque     (‘Tales from the Caramel Hourglass’ EP 2010 Adelaide, Australia)
DieselWitch – Gina the Gypsy     (‘DieselWitch Will Kill You!’ 2011 Adelaide)
Jay Walker and the Pedestrians – Purple, Black and Blue     (demo 2009 Adelaide)
Kamikaze – ‘Lil Red Riding Hood [Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs cover]     (demo 2011 Adelaide)
God God Dammit Dammit – Factory Man     (‘The Very First Day Of Sunshine’ 2011 Adelaide)
the Molting Vultures – Gulls Rock     (‘Drop In and Go’ 2009 Adelaide)
Mike Furber and the Bowery Boys – You Stole My Love     (7”single 1965 Australia)


Clinic – Walking With Thee      (‘Walking With Thee’ 2002 UK)
Dean and Britta – Not a Young Man Anymore [Velvet Underground cover]     (’13 Most Beautiful: Songs for Andy Warhol’s Screen Tests’ 2010 UK/USA)
Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick and Tich – Zabadak     (7”single 1967 UK)


the Rolling Stones – Get Off My Cloud     (7”single 1965 UK)
the Sparkles – [Ain’t] No Friend of Mine     (7”single 1967 USA)
the Dukes of Stratosphear – The Mole From The Ministry     (’25 O’Clock’ EP [released on April Fool’s Day] 1985 UK – taken from “The Complete and Utter Dukes” boxset 2009)


the Music Machine – Talk Talk     (7”single 1966 USA)  * R.I.P. Sean Bonniwell  [1940-2011]
 

brillig – The Hearse Song     (CD-single 2011 Adelaide)
 

 the Systemaddicts – Can’t Put You Down     (‘The Systemaddicts’ 2011 Adelaide)
 

Paul Revere and the Raiders – Hungry     (7”single 1965 USA)   #
 
     #  “Band of the Month”