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 began this week’s show with some psych-pop, old and new, by such luminaries as the Twilights, Jacco Gardner and Dungen, then plunged into the late 70’s/early 80’s UK electronic scene, exemplified by artists such as John Foxx and Death In June, before heading into orbit with the b-side of the Space Agency’s new single. We had tracks from Hookworms and Baptism of Uzi, and then plunged back in a psychedelic haze with the Sky Falling and the Seeds, plus tracks from the debut Byzantines E.P. We paid tribute to the late Bill Putt of Spectrum fame and also to ‘lost’ 60’s song-writer legend Tandyn Almer, who passed away earlier this year just as a retrospective of his work was being released, before ending with another track from the excellent new Sonny & the Sunsets LP. That was Technicolour Dreaming with the Cat & the Brat on 3D Radio for another week.....

....... and here is the playlist, complete with some clips [see the “Shebang!” dancers from 1967 grooving to the Seeds – worth the free admission alone!].....

Jimi Hendrix Experience – If Six Was Nine        (“Axis: Bold As Love” LP 1969 USA)

the Church – Myrrh         (“Heyday” LP 1985 Australia)

Jacco Gardner – The Riddle         (“Cabinet of Curiosities” 2013 Netherlands)

the Twilights – What a Silly Thing to Do          (“Once Upon a Twilight” LP 1968 Adelaide, Australia)

Dungen – Har du Vart I Stockholm?         (“Stadsvandringar” 2002 Stockholm, Sweden)

the Monkees – Shake ‘Em Up and Let ‘Em Roll / DW Washburn [alt. version] / Alvin [alt. version]      (recorded during sessions for “The Birds, the Bees and the Monkees” LP 1967 USA – bonus tracks on Rhino Records 3-CD reissue boxset 2009 USA)

Lene Lovich – Birdsong         (7”single 1979 UK)

the Byzantines – Cat’s Got Boots         (“Colourvision” EP 2013 Adelaide, Australia)

John Foxx – Europe After the Rain         (“The Garden” LP 1981 UK)

Tubeway Army – Replicas         (“Replicas” LP 1979 UK)

Eurythmics – Caveman Head        (“In the Garden” LP 1981 UK)

Death in June – We Drive East         (12”single [b-side to Heaven St.] 1981 UK)

Brian Eno – Dead Finks Don’t Talk         (“Here Come the Warm Jets” LP 1973 UK)

the Space Agency – Purple Power         (7”single [b-side to Bombay Potatoes] 2013 East Sussex, UK)

Leonard Nimoy – Theme from Star Trek         (“Leonard Nimoy Presents Mr Spock’s Music from Outer Space” LP 1967 USA)

Baptism of Uzi – Stray Current        (CD-single 2013 Melbourne, Australia)

Hookworms – Since We Had Changed         (“Pearl Mystic” California, USA)

the Sky Falling – Aimee-Lee         (“Burn Your Fingers on the Sun” compilation 2007 Australia)

Giles, Giles and Fripp – Elephant Song         (“The Cheerful Insanity of Giles, Giles and Fripp” LP 1967 UK)

the Byzantines – Cat’s Got Boots         (“Colourvision EP” 2013 Adelaide, Australia)

Spectrum – I’ll Be Gone [demo version]         (recorded 1969 Melbourne, Australia – bonus track on “Spectrum Part 1” reissue 2007 Australia)

The Rationals – I Need You          (7”single 1966 USA – taken from “Think Rational” anthology 2011 USA)

the Seeds – A Thousand Shadows      (“Future” LP 1967 California, USA)

Tandyn Almer – Sunset Strip Soliloquy [demo]      (recorded 1966 Los Angeles, USA – taken from “Along Comes Tandyn” anthology 2013 USA)

Mikal Cronin – I’m Done Running From You      (“MCII” 2013 California, USA)

Sonny & the Sunsets – Mutilator      (“Antenna to the Stars” 2013 USA)