Technicolour Dreaming

Amongst the songs we played for our first show of 2015 were still more of our picks for “Best of 2014” which we couldn’t fit in or had missed  on the final few shows last year, such as Sacred Shrines, Kikagaku Moyo, Sudden Death of Stars, and Southern Boutique, plus anthologies by Balduin and the Luck of Eden Hall. We also wish to acknowledge a bunch of very cool, small independent record companies who help make it possible for these bands to get their music pressed on vinyl or CD or cassette, as often the bands can’t afford to pay all the costs, as I personally well know [thank you Smashed Records!]. Amongst our favourites are the prolific Fruits de Mer , Beyond Beyond is Beyond, MegaDodo, State Records, Trouble In Mind, Captcha, Sunny Day Records, the Active Listener label, Sonic Cathedral, Off The Hip, Anti-Fade and many more. Without them, we wouldn’t be able to play most of the new music that we do, so thank you all [and to the others that we’ve forgotten, as no doubt we have, our apologies!] Lastly, played our final “Band of the Week”  [we’re making way for a new weekly feature, due to start next week... ] but it was a good one – Polska Radio One from Yekaterinburg in Russia, who’ve been making great psychedelic music for some years now, but with the release of their excellent debut album “Cosmos Inside” on an American label, they have moved to a new level and hopefully will gain worldwide recognition... as I think we’ve mentioned before, this new wave of psychedelia is a global movement and there are new bands everywhere. So until next week.....

...... here is the playlist, with some visuals….. plus a very cool German TV show from 1968 dedicated to the Bee Gees “Idea” album. Enjoy!.....

Les Fleurs De Pavot - À Dégager      ("Les Fleurs de Pavot" LP 1968 France)

Les Liminanas - (I've Got) Trouble in Mind      ("I've Got Trouble in Mind: 7" and Rare Stuff" anthology 2014 France)

Les Papyvores - Le Papyvore      ("Les Papyvore" EP 1967 France)

Sacred Shrines - Hung Up On Your Wall      (7"single 2014 Queensland, Australia)

the Golden Dawn - Starvation      ("Power Plant" LP 1968 Texas, USA)

Dan Hicks and His Hot Licks - I Scare Myself      ("Strikin' It Rich" LP 1972 USA)

Dead Skeletons - Dead Mantra       ("Dead Magick" LP 2011 Iceland)

Kikagaku Moyo - Smoke and Mirrors      ("Forest of Lost Children" LP 2014 Japan)

Sudden Death of Stars - Magical Mirror      ("All Unrevealed Parts of the Unknown..." 2014 Brittany, France)

Balduin - Everything      ("Post From Mars" anthology 2014 Switzerland)

Quilt - Cowboys in the Void      ("Quilt" 2014 USA)

Southern Boutique - Rabbit Trail      (7"single 2014 USA)

the Warlocks - Dead Generation      ("Skull Worship" 2014 USA)

Bee Gees - Idea (alternate mix)      ("Idea" LP 1968 Australia/UK - taken from the bonus disc of rarities/alternate mixes/unreleased songs included with 2006 re-issue)

    ###   “Band of the Week”    Polska Radio One   ###

Polska Radio One - Volga       ("North Berry" EP 2014 Yekaterinburg, Russia)

Polska Radio One - To The Delta of Aquarius      ("Cosmos Inside" LP 2014 Russia)

Polska Radio One - New Space      (CD-single 2013 Russia)

Polska Radio One - Launch #93      ("Cosmos Inside" LP 2014 Russia)

Dark Ocean Colors - She's a Cornucopia      ("Dark Ocean Colors" 2011 USA)

Crystal Jacqueline and the Honeypot - Hole in My Shoe [Traffic cover]     ("Electronic Memory" CD-box-set 2015 Wales)    

the Sunnyboys - Show Me Some Discipline     (7"single, 1983 Sydney, Australia)

the Luck Of Eden Hall - Dandy Horse      ("Greatest Hits, Volume 1"   2014 USA)

Jim Noir - Honour and Moogswings      ("Finnish Line" 2014 Scotland)

Toni and Royce - Buy Some Love      (7"single 1966 Queensland, Australia)

the Masters Apprentices - Buried and Dead      ((7"single 1966 Adelaide, Australia)

Billy Nicholls - Would You Believe (mono single version)      (bonus track on 200 re-issue of "Would You Believe" LP 1967 London, UK)

plus ....  1968 German TV show “Idea” – feat. Bee Gees, Julie Driscoll, Brian Auger & the Trinity .... and more! Enjoy.......

Technicolour Dreaming

The phones were ringing, subscribers knocking on the doors, volunteers filling out forms & taking details and payments.... yes, it was our annual Radiothon week at 3D Radio! The Cat & the Brat were busy playing a bunch of faves plus tracks from ‘giveaway’ albums, chatting to local musicians such as Brenton Manser, who brought in his latest album, and even managing to squeeze in a ‘live-in-the-studio’ interview with up-and-coming local band the Byzantines, who are releasing their debut EP this week. Whew! So we’d like to thank all those people who subscribed to help keep this great totally volunteer-run radio station continue to be independent and on-air – and you can still subscribe anytime... just go to the 3D Radio website and follow the prompts, and don’t forget that each subscriber receives a copy of the latest edition of DepthCharge, our annual CD compilation of Adelaide bands.

.....so here is the playlist plus a few associated clips.....

Ride Into The Sun – Hunt Like Wolves      (‘Ride Into The Sun’ LP 2013 Adelaide, Australia)

Thee Oh Sees – Sweets Helicopter      (‘Floating Coffin’ 2013 California, USA)

the Barbarellatones – I am Verwolf      (mp3 demo 2013 USA)

Tall Tales & True – Wasted Life      (7”single 1986 Sydney, Australia)

Cate Le Bon – What Is Worse      (‘Cyrk 11’ EP 2013 Wales, UK)

the Purple Hearts – Early In The Morning      (7”single 1966 Brisbane, Australia – taken from ‘Down Under Nuggets: Original Australian Artyfacts 1965-1967’ compilation 2013 Australia)

Embryo – The Bad Times Are Gone      (recorded ‘live’ 1976 – taken from ‘Live Kraut: Live Rock Explosions from the Heyday of Krautrock’ compilation 2013 Germany)

the Electric Banana [aka the Pretty Things] – Blow Your Mind      (‘Even More Electric Banana’ LP 1969 UK)

the Beatles – Word      (‘Rubber Soul’ LP 1965 UK)

Wire – I Should Have Known Better      (‘154’ LP 1979 UK)

the Byzantines – CFC (Colourvision Football Club)      (‘Colourvision’ EP 2013 Adelaide, Australia)

the Dagoes – We Sell Soul      (7”single 1980 Adelaide, Australia)

Metal Urbain – Lady Coca-Cola      (7”single b-side [to Panik] 1977 France)

Death In June – The Scents of Genocide      (‘Peaceful Snow’ LP 2010 Adelaide, Australia)

the Bee Gees – The Earnest of Being George      (‘Horizontal’ LP 1967 Australia/UK)

Moon Duo – Sleepwalker      (‘Circles’ 2012 California, USA)

Tom Lehrer – Poisoning Pidgeons in the Park      (7”single 1961 USA)

the Walking Who with Soko – Mini Mini Mini [Jacques Dutronc cover]      (‘Melodie Francaise’ compilation 2013 Australia)

Jacques Dutronc – Et moi et moi et moi      (‘Jacques Dutronc’ LP 1966 France)

the Monkees – Your Auntie Grizelda      (‘More of the Monkees’ LP 1966 USA)

Tame Impala – Elephant [Todd Rundgren remix]      (cd-single 2013 Perth, Australia)

Brenton Manser – Abel & the Bad One      (‘Below the Moan’ 2013 Adelaide, Australia)

Love – A Message to Pretty      (‘Love’ LP 1966 California, USA)

les Liminanas – Une Ballade Pour Clive      (‘Crystal Anis’ 2012 France)

the Alohas – Dagnabit      (‘Get Leid With The Alohas’ 2002 Australia)

Technicolour Dreaming

We had our inaugural interview in the new 3D studios this week... and the esteemed interviewee was singer/guitarist Matt from Adelaide band Brillig. He brought us in a ‘hot off the presses’ copy of their soon-to-be-released new album “I Ain’t Ever Gonna See The Sea’ to give our listeners a sneak preview and to promote their upcoming shows at the Adelaide Fringe Festival. We also featured some of the new music that has appeared in our postbox recently, such as the swirling psych pop of the debut album by England’s Beaulieu Porch and the title track of the third album by Swedish band, the Amazing, before focusing on a selection of Australian and local 1960’s garage and psych. We played a track from the new early Bee Gees retrospective as well as bands such as the Purple Hearts, the Hergs and Procession and included a tribute to the late Kevin Peek by playing his classic ‘Then I Heard the Fire Sing’ by his band, the James Taylor Move. We came back to the 21^st century to finish with a couple of recent live recordings by Adelaide favourites Dieselwitch and Slingshot Dragster and a very cool Rolling Stones cover by the Gaye Blades on a Norton Records 7”single from 2007.....

.....so here is the playlist plus a few clips.....

the Psychedelic Furs – Sister Europe        (‘The Psychedelic Furs’ LP 1980 UK)

Les Liminanas – Salvation         (‘Crystal Anis’ 2012 France)

Names and Faces – The Killer         (7” single 1968 Holland – taken from ‘Fantasio Daze’ compilation 2012 UK)

the Barbarellatones – Sperm Whale         (‘Confessions of a Teenage Prostitute’ 2010 USA)

Brillig – The Devil Wears Cowboy Boots         (‘I Ain’t Ever Gonna See the Sea’ 2013 Adelaide, Australia)

           ‘live-in-the-studio’ interview with Matt from Brillig

Brillig – Fair Warning         (‘I Ain’t Ever Gonna See the Sea’ 2013 Adelaide, Aust.)

Brillig – I Ain’t Ever Gonna See the Sea        (‘I Ain’t Ever Gonna See the Sea’ 2013 Adelaide, Aust.)

Espers – Dead King         (‘Espers II’ 2006 USA)

the Amazing – Gentle Stream         (‘Gentle Stream’ 2011 Gothenburg, Sweden)

Painted Hills – Everybody         (‘Painted Hills’ 2010 USA)

Paul Messis and Jessica Winters – As Nightmares Turn To Dreams         (7”single b-side [to Sunflower] 2012 UK)

Ant- Bee – Child of the Moon [Rolling Stones cover]         (‘Lunar Muzik’ 1996 USA)

Beaulieu Porch – Colour 55         (‘Beaulieu Porch’ 2012 UK)

the Green Pajamas – [She’s Still] Bewitching Me         (‘Seven Fathoms Down and Falling’ 2000 Seattle, USA – taken from ‘Through Glass Coloured Roses’ anthology 2003 USA))

Trip 66 – That’s What You Say         (‘Trip 66’ 1996 Pennsylvania, USA)

Kaleidoscope – Life Will Pass You By         (‘A Beacon From Mars’ LP 1968 USA)

Surf School Dropouts – Hold Onto Me         (‘Surf School Dropouts’ 2012 Denmark)

the Bee Gees – Exit Stage Right         (demo 1966 Australia – taken from ‘Morning of My Life: The Best of 1965-66’ anthology 2013 Aust.)

Machine Gun Kelly’s Rejects – I’m Going Back         (demo 1967 Adelaide, Aust. – taken from ‘Ugly Things: the CD’ compilation 1992 Aust.)

 the Purple Hearts – Early In the Morning         (7” single 1966 Brisbane, Aust.)

Toni McCann – Saturday Date      (7”single 1966 Brisbane, Aust.)

the Twilights – Cathy Come Home      (7”single 1967 Adelaide, Aust.)

Procession – Anthem       (‘Procession’ LP 1968 Aust.)

the Third Party – Russian Spy & I [Jan Akkerman/the Hunters cover]     (7”single 1967 Adelaide, Aust.)

the James Taylor Move – Then I Heard the Fire Sing      (7”single b-side [to Magic Eyes] 1967 Adelaide, Aust.)       R.I.P. Kevin Peek

the Hergs – Cadillac [Vince Taylor cover]      (7”single b-side [to Style of Love] 1967 Adelaide, Aust.)

Slingshot Dragster – Shadowplay      (recorded live at ‘the Gov’ 2012 – taken from single demo 2013 Adelaide, Aust.)

Dieselwitch – UFO Surf      (rec. October 2012 – taken from ‘Live at the Gov’ 2013 Adelaide, Aust.)

the Gaye Blades – Ruby Tuesday [Rolling Stones cover]      (7”split-single [with the Girls At Dawn] 2007 USA)