Technicolour Dreaming

Beginning with the MC5’s clarion call, this week’s edition, hosted by a solo Peter Brat, ranged from local drone specialists Beige Abrasions through the electro-pop of new Australian band Total Control, Finnish surf from Laika and the Cosmonauts, classic 60’s psych from the Balloon Farm, iconic punk from X-Ray Spex, recent Australian garage from the Frowning Clouds and the Intercontinental Playboys, an Iggy cover by the Church, some Monkees, a nod to Star Trek from Spizzenergi and lots more, before finishing with a cut from the current ‘Album of the Month’ by local surf twangers DIESELWITCH.....

.....so here is the full playlist.....

MC5 – Kick Out The Jams     (‘Kick Out The Jams’ LP 1969 USA)

Wooden Shjips – Looking Out     (West 2011 USA)

Beige Abrasions – Splash of White     (demo 2011 Adelaide, Australia)

Metal Urbain – Lady Coca-Cola     (7”single 1978 France : played from Anarchy in Paris anthology CD)

Total Control – Love Performance      (Henge 2011 Aust.)

the Intercontinental Playboys – Journey to the Centre of my Dirty Mind     (Sonic Seducers 2005 Aust.)

the Church – The Endless Sea [Iggy Pop cover]     (Box Of Birds 1999 Aust.)

Mondo Phase Band – Equaliser     (split 7”single [with Nothing People] 2011 Adelaide, Aust./USA)

Sweatmaster – I am a Demon and I love Rock’n’roll     (‘Pushing Scandinavian Rock to the Man Vol.3’ compilation)

The Weirdos – We Got The Neutron Bomb     (7”single 1978 USA)

Spizzenergi – Where’s Captain Kirk?     (7”single 1979 UK)

X-Ray Spex – Identity     (‘Germfree Adolescents’ LP 1978 UK)

Klark Kent – Don’t Care     (7”single 1978 UK)

Siouxsie and the Banshees – Metal Postcard (Mittageisen)     (‘The Scream’ LP 1978 UK)

Golden Triangle – Rollercoaster     (Double Jointer 2010 USA)

Thee Oh Sees – Chem-Factor     (Carrion Crawler 2011 USA)

Laika and the Cosmonauts – The Ipcress File     (Cosmology: 1988-2008 Anthology Finland)

the Surfacers – The Russian     (from ’Continental’ magazine #11 bonus CD 2004 USA)

the Frowning Clouds – Do Like Me     (The Frowning Clouds 2010 Aust.)

the Rolling Stones – It’s Not Easy     (‘Aftermath’ LP 1965 UK)

Die Dancing Bears – N.Y. Valentine     (7”single 1982 Adelaide, Aust.)

the Monkees – Zam and Zor     (‘The Birds, the Bees and the Monkees’ LP 1968 USA)

the Twilights – Time and Motion Study Man     (7”single b-side 1967 Adelaide, Aust.)

the Balloon Farm – A Question of Temperature     (7”single 1967 USA)

DieselWitch – Find Your Own Way Home     (DieselWitch Will Kill You 2011 Adelaide, Aust.)   #

        #   “Album Of The Month”