Technicolour Dreaming

I actually managed to stay for the whole 2 hours of this week's show, whichwas a welcome change, while Harry had a well-earned rest. Amongst the bands I played were The Moving Sidewalks, which included Billy Gibbons,later of ZZ Top, as well as The WC Fields Memorial Electric String Band,who were the first band to release Stepping Stone, the classic version of which was made famous by The Monkees not long after. Also featured were a selectionof bands playing at the "Going Steady Festival" at Jive on December 13 2015, such as local acts The Dunes, Black Coral and Glass Skies, and headliners Moon Duo.

...and here's the playlist,moving pictures and all!

Pinkunoizu - Necromancer ("The Drop" LP 2013 Copenhagen, Denmark) 

Sudden Death of Stars - I'm Not Among Believers ("Getting Up, Going Down" LP 2011

Rennes, France)

Dead Skeletons - Dead Mantra ("Dead Magick" 2011 Reykjavík, Iceland)

The Moving Sidewalks - 99th floor (7" single 1967 Texas USA)

The Purple Gang - Granny Takes a Trip (7" single 1967 UK)

The Litter - Action Woman (7" single 1967 Minneapolis USA)

The WC Fields Memorial Electric String Band - Hippy Elevator Operator 

(7 " single 1966 California USA)

The Rokes - When the Wind Arises (7" single 1968 UK)

The Pretty Things - Defecting Grey (7" single 1967 UK)

Flamin Groovies - Slow Death (7" single 1972 San Francisco USA)

Goat - Gathering of Ancient Tribes ("Commune" 2014  Sweden)

The Night Beats - Outta Mind ("Sonic Bloom" 2013 Seattle USA)

Holy Wave - Spooky Fuckin' Blues ("Evil Hits" LP 2012 Austin, Texas USA)

Wall of Death  - Marble Blues     ("Main Obsession" LP 2012 Paris, France)

Magician - Fuck for Peace ("Golden State Psychedelia" compilation, late 1960's San Francisco USA)

Wooden Shjips - We Ask You To Ride ("Wooden Shjips" 2007 San Francisco, USA)

Six Organs of Admittance - Actaeon's Fall (Against the Hounds) ("Luminous Night" 2009

California USA)

Espers - Widow's Weeds ("Espers II" 2006) 

Black Coral - Please Never (CD Single 2014 Adelaide, Australia)

Moon Duo - In A Cloud ("Shadow of the Sun" 2015 San Francisco, USA)

Glass Skies - Highway ("Glass Skies" EP 2014 Adelaide, Australia)

The Dunes - When You Wake Up ("Live at the Sound Lounge, Three D Radio" 2015 Adelaide Australia)

The Systemaddicts - Black [The Throb] ("Broken Hearted on the Nullarbor" 2015 AdelaideAustralia)

Richard Hell - (I Belong To The) Blank Generation ("Ork Records: New York, New York" compilation 2015 USA)

Alex Chilton - Can't Seem to Make You Mine [Seeds] ("Ork Records: New York, New York"

compilation 2015 USA)

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I don’t know whether I was thinking on a subconscious level about Australia’s change of Prime Minister the previous evening, when making musical selections for the show, but the tracks by Scott Walker, The Lovetones, Jason Crest and Halasan Bazar & Tara King th. all seemed to fit the feel of the moment! I played a couple of recent Adelaide releases - Black Coral, whose EP, “The Big Nothing” came out in August, and the very new, very exclusive “Ya Dig?” EP by Snobby Oxalis; plus a good assortment of Melbourne bands featured also - Murlocs, Witch Hats, and the inimitable King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard.  A great melody has always been a Technicolour Dreaming favourite, with tracks from The Left Banke, The Turtles, The Monkees  and The Story UK and Quilt all fitting the bill nicely, and proving that there are still bands today carrying on the tradition. Speaking of The Turtles, I’ve included a clip from the trailer of “Guide for the Married Man”, their second foray into the land of movie music, the first being a track for the 1966 movie “Out of Sight” a spoof of "The Man From U.N.C.L.E." - look it up, it’s so bad it’s good!   

…so here’s the playlist for the show, with (a hell of a lot of) associated visuals…

The Lovetones - Genius     ("Meditations" 2006 Australia)

The Story UK - A Stone's Throw Away     ("A Joy Ride on Memory Lane" 2011 UK)

Scott Walker - The Old Man's Back Again [Dedicated to the Neo-Stalinist Regime]     ("Scott 4" LP 1969 UK)

Jason Crest - Black Mass     ( 7” single b-side [to “A Place in the Sun”] 1969 UK)

Snobby Oxalis - Kings of Seaford     ("Ya Dig? EP 2015 Adelaide, Australia)

Octopus Syng - It's Not a Coincidence     ("Reverberating Garden Number 7" 2014 Finland)

Black Coral - Chemical Reasoning     ("Big Nothing" EP 2015 Adelaide, Australia)

Halasan Bazar and Tara King th. - Below Your Deepest Expectations     ("8" 2014 Denmark/France)

The Turtles - Guide for the Married Man   (7” single 1967 USA)

and the trailer for the movie:

Sons of Hippies - The Soft Parade [the Doors]     ("A Psych Tribute to the Doors" 2014 Germany)

The Turtles - Chevrolet Camaro Commercial     ("Save the Turtles - Greatest Hits" compilation 2009 USA)

The Left Banke - Shadows Breaking Over my Head     (“Walk Away Renee/Pretty Ballerina” LP 1967 USA)

King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard - Paper Mache     (“Paper Mache Dream Balloon” LP 2015 Melbourne, Australia)

Lumerians - Burning Mirrors      (“Transmalinnia” 2011 Oakland, California USA)

Thee Oh Sees - Palace Doctor     (“Mutilator Defeated at Last” 2015 San Francisco, USA)

The Greek Theatre - Frozen Highway     (“Lost Out At Sea” LP 2014 UK)

Quilt - Eye of the Pearl     (“Held in Splendour” 2014 Boston USA)

July - The Way     (7” single b-side [to “Hello, Who’s There?” 1968 Ealing, London UK)

Momus - Poison boy friend     (7” single b-side [to “Right Hand Heart” 1988 Scotland, UK)

The Mystery Trend - Johnny Was a Good Boy     (7” single 1967 USA)

Terry Manning - Guess Things Happen That Way      (“Home Sweet Home” LP 1967 USA)

The Monkees - Daily Nightly [alternative version]     (“Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn and Jones Ltd” LP  1967 USA)

Witch Hats - Slow Eyes     (“Pleasure Syndrome” 2011 Melbourne, Australia)

Peanut Butter Conspiracy - It's a Happening Thing     (“The Peanut Butter Conspiracy Is Spreading” LP 1967  California USA)

Daddy Dewdrop - March of the White Corpuscles     (7” single 1972 Los Angeles, USA)

Murlocs - Control Freak     (“Loopholes”  2014 Melbourne, Australia)

New Dream - You've Got That Certain Style     (7” single b-side [to “Catchin’ Up On Fun”] 1969 Australia)

Blair Smith - Echoes     (7” single b-side [to “Vision of Molly”] 1968 USA)

Strawberry Alarm Clock - The Worlds on Fire     (“Incense and Peppermints” LP 1967 Los Angeles, USA)

And an extra clip, cos I felt like it!

The Story UK - Standing in the Rain  ("A Joy Ride on Memory Lane" 2011 UK) 

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As always, the music this week ranged far & wide.... through tracks by the likes of Billy Nicholls and ? and the Mysterians from five decades ago, via Truth [a late incarnation of Them], Roxy Music, Dog Age and Galaxie 500 in the succeeding years, to the latest releases of Doug Tuttle and the Citradels, and scattered across both hemispheres, from the northern climes of Iceland, the abode of the Dandelion Seeds, to the southern reaches of Tasmania, from whence come the Green Mist. Whenever or wherever, we hope you enjoyed the ride.....

..... so here is the playlist, with the occasional visual accompaniment .....

Dog Age – Here Comes the Summer      (“Good Day” LP 1989 Norway)

Truth – Archimedes’ Pad      (recorded 1971 USA/UK – taken from “Of Them & Other Takes” anthology 2008 USA)

Brigitte Bardot – Contact      (7”single b-side [to Harley-Davidson] 1968 France]

Wooden Shjips – Contact [Brigitte Bardot cover]      (12”single 2009 San Francisco, USA)

Galaxie 500 – Submission [Sex Pistols cover]      (recorded live on BBC Peel Session 1990 UK – taken from bonus disc of “On Fire” reissue 2010 USA)

Doug Tuttle – Forget the Days      (“Doug Tuttle” 2014 USA)

the Daylight Braves – The Absent Ground      (“Liquid Sun” EP 2011 Adelaide, Australia)

? and the Mysterians – 96 Tears      (7”single 1966 USA)

the Green Mist – The Rumbler      (“Next Stop Antarctica” LP 2007 Tasmania, Australia)

the Movements – Deserted Town      (10”split-EP [with Angry Dead Pirates] 2012 Sweden]

the Horrors – I Can See Through You      (“Skying”2011 UK)

Roxy Music – For Your Pleasure      (“For Your Pleasure” LP 1973 UK)

the Citradels – Dervish      (“Droned & Rethroned” 2014 Melbourne, Australia)

Black Coral – Swollen      (demo EP 2013 Adelaide, Australia)

the Dunes – A Thousand Crimes      (“La Musique Nouveau” 2013 Adelaide, Australia)

the Asteroid #4 – Dead Blues      (”TheWindmill of the Autumn Sky” EP 2013 USA)

the Coral – 1000 Years      (“Butterfly House” 2010 Scotland, UK)

Soft Hearted Scientists – Mountain Delight      (“Wandermoon” 2011 Wales, UK)

Billy Nicholls – Daylight Girl      (“Would You Believe” LP 1968 London, UK)

the Apricot – Mind Your Head      (“A Forestful of Threes” 2011 Norway)

the Dandelion Seeds – Al Azif      (“The Dandelion Seeds” 2014 Iceland)

Psychic Ills – Drop Out       (“One Track Mind” 2012 USA)

the Avengers – Midnight Visitations       (“Medallion” LP 1968 New Zealand)

Dean & Britta – Silver Factory Theme      (“13 Most Beautiful :Songs for Andy Warhol’s Screen Tests” 2010 USA)

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We had a plethora of eagerly awaited releases to play this week, including tracks from the brand new Wooden Shjips and les Limiñanas LPs, plus, from the Sandgate Studios in the UK, new albums by the Higher State and Groovy Uncle featuring Suzi Chunk – Cat & Brat faves all! We were also pleased to discover, from Italy, the debut LP by Milan’s Selfish Cales whose earlier EPs had quite a bit of airplay here on 3D Radio, plus the latest album by the Dials and an Asteroid #4 EP from May this year, as well as tracks from a few of our favourite vinyl labels such as Fruits de Mer and the Reverberation Appreciation Society. Of course there was also some 60’s goodness from artists such as Dave Davies, Johnny Young and Evariste, with more cuts from the Dandelion, Sky Picnic and Black Hollies albums and finishing with Adelaide’s own Black Coral, before we once again ran out of time! So until next week.....

...... here is the playlist plus a few vital visuals.....

Wings – Venus and Mars (reprise)/Spirits of Ancient Egypt      (“Venus and Mars” LP 1975 UK)

the Asteroid #4 – Windmill of the Autumn Sky      (“Windmill of the Autumn Sky” EP 2013 USA)

the Dandelion – Here Comes Love      (“Strange Case of the Dandelion” 2013 Australia)

the Night Beats – The Seven Poison Wonders      (“Sonic Bloom” 2013 USA)

Jay Tausig – The Glorious Om Riff [Gong cover]      (“Shrunken Head Music – Fruits de Mer Records compilation” EP 2013 UK)

Allen Pound’s Get Rich – Searchin’ in the Wilderness      (7”single 1966 UK)

Dave Davies – Creeping Jean      (7”single b-side [to Hold My Hand] 1969 UK)

Wooden Shjips – Servants      (“Back To Land” 2013 San Francisco, USA)

West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band – Smell of Incense      (“Vol. 2” LP 1967 Los Angeles, USA)

the Higher State – Sky Clears to Blue      (“The Higher State” LP 2013 Kent, UK)

Groovy Uncle with Suzi Chunk – Neptune Girl      (“One Vowel Away From the Truth” LP 2013 UK)

the Dials – A Good Flying Day/Show at the End of the Pier      (“The End of the Pier” 2013 Brighton, UK)

the Luck of Eden Hall – Bangalore      (“The Luck of Eden Hall” EP 2012 USA)

Mikal Cronin – Weight      (“MC11” 2013 USA)

les Limiñanas – My Black Sabbath      (“Costa Blanca” LP 2013 Perpignan, France)

Sky Picnic – Freak Out Ethel      (“Paint Me a Dream” LP 2013 USA)

the Selfish Cales – State of Eternity      (“Light Worms & Old Dancing Ladies” 2013 Turin, Italy)

Johnny Young – Craise Finton Kirk [Bee Gees cover]      (7”single 1967 Australia)

Évariste – To The Fans      (“E=MC2” EP 1967 France – taken from “Do You Know The Beast?” anthology LP 2011 France)

the Monkees – All Of Your Toys (alt. mix)      (recorded 1967, unreleased – bonus track on  “Headquarters” reissue 1995 USA)

the Story UK – ‘Roundabout      (“Joy Ride On Memory Lane” 2011 UK)

the Black Hollies – Lunatic Influenza (suite) : Part 1-Yesterday’s Sorrows (the past is washed away with change)/Part 2-Take Me as I Am/Part 3-Path into the Sun      (“Somewhere Between Here & Nowhere” LP 2013 USA)

Black Coral – Swollen      (demo 2013 Adelaide, Australia)