Sitars, theremin and mellotron, backwards guitar, phasing and fuzz, fringes and mohawks, paisley, black, velvet and leather, feedback, bass and drone, beads, berets and safety-pins, Shindig! and Creem, 3 chord wonders, teenage symphonies and snarl, Rickenbacker, Farfisa and 4-track recorders... onstage at CBGB's, Max's Kansas City or the Trip, the Roundhouse, the 100 Club or the Crystal Ballroom, Catcher's, Big Daddy's or the Squatters Arms.... and the Cat and the Brat on 3D Radio!
Three D Radio announcer, MeganCat (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 onThree 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...
This week I featured some of the bands that are taking part in the Wintersteady Festival, presented by Adelaide's Going Steady Music at the Crown and Anchor on Saturday July 23rd. I played tracks by headliners Demon Parade, as well as The Dandelion, The Dunes, and Trappist Afterland, who are playing at a pre-party at the Exeter on July 22nd. For more info on the festival, take a look at https://www.facebook.com/goingsteadymusic/ And take a look at the 2-part October Country movie at the end of the blog - classic!
So here's the playlist...
Marc Almond - Late Night ("The Madcap Laughs Again!" compilation2010 UK)
Cool Ghouls - And It Grows ("A Swirling Fire Burning Through the Rye" 2014 San Francisco USA)
Nozmo King - Hold On ("Big Beat Cellar Scene" 2016 Adelaide, Australia)
Demon Parade - Cut My Ties ("Chameleon EP" 2012 Melbourne, Australia)
The Dandelion - In The Shadow of Light ("Seeds Flowers and Magical Powers of the Dandelion" 2015 Sydney, Australia)
The Dunes - Mountain (Digital single 2016 Adelaide, Australia)
Trappist Afterland - The Penitents Rail ("Like a Beehive, the Hill Was Alive" 2013 Melbourne, Australia)
October Country - My Girlfriend is A Witch ("October Country" LP 1968 LA, USA)
Gnoomes - Myriads ("Ngan!" 2015 Perm, Russia)
The Pasternak Progress - Flower Eyes (7" single [b-side to "Cotton Soul"] 1967 LA, USA)
Frantic Chant - Mushroom Jim (Demo from "The Glass Factory" to be released 2016 Glasgow, Scotland UK)
Espectrostatic - The Corridor ("Silhouette" 2016 Austin, Texas USA)
Sundays and Cybele - Time Mirror ("Heaven" 2016 Tokyo, Japan)
The Resonars - Here's the Frenzy ("That Evil Drone" 2008 Austin, Texas USA)
Sudden Death of Stars - Supernovae ("Getting Up, Getting Down" 2011 Rennes, France)
Coloured Clocks - Green Lights ("Particle" 2016 Melbourne, Australia)
Barbarellatones - Dark Thing (demo 2016 Hawaii, USA)
Tommy - Love ("Astonishing Soundshow Stories Vol 2" compilation 2016)
Deano's Hose - Henry for Judith ("Astonishing Soundshow Stories Vol 2" compilation2016 UK)
Dodson and Fogg - Watch the Skies ("The Call" 2013 Leeds, UK)
Electric Alice - Coffin Joe ("The Electric Alice Xperiment" 2013 Edinburgh, Scotland UK)
Lord Gammonshire - Tundra ("Lord Gammonshire's Guide to Everyday Sounds" 2009 Bristol, UK)
Martha - Lost Without You (7" single2013 Durham, UK)
Mouses - Psycho ("The Mouses Album" to be released September 2016 Manchester UK)
Rainsmoke - Mean Meanwhile (CD Single 2015 Leeds, UK)
Soft Candy - Song for Ellie May ("Chelsea Boots + Violet Eyelids" 2012 Chicago, USA)
Lenguas Largas - No Wrong No Right ("Dune Drift 2" compilation 2013 Tucson, Arizona USA)
The October Country movie - a short film shot in 1967 when the band October Country was seeking a record deal, in 2 parts
We
began and ended the show with songs from the late 1960s of diverse style and from
various locales, beginning with some fuzzed-out Scott
Walker, an equally fuzzed track by Israeli band, Churchill’s and a sitar-drenched album cut by the Hollies, while finishing with a classic slice
of “Nederbiet” by Q65,
which followed an updated version of a classic Michel
Polnareff song by Germany’s Vibravoid
from their 2013 EP on the Fruits de Mer Records
label... and so it went for the rest of the show, with a mixture of new
releases from the likes of Sydney’s Grease Arrestor
andSan
Francisco’s Cool Ghouls with older faves such
as the Monkees through to Permanent Clear Light and the
Sand Pebbles. Then of course there was our “Compilation
of the Week”. Following on the heels of the
Doors and the Rolling Stones in their “A Psych Tribute To...” series, Cleopatra Records is releasing "Magical
Mystery Psych Out: A Tribute to theBeatles"
next month and since we managed to grab a pre-release copy, we thought we’d get
in early and make it this edition’s featured compilation and give you a sneak
preview of some of the delights on offer, with great interpretations and
remakes by Quilt, the
KVB and Sugar Candy Mountain amongst
others, so stay tuned to 3D Radio for further
tracks in coming weeks. That was the show that was, so until next week.....
..... here
is the full playlist, with bonus moving pictures.....
Scott Walker - The
Plague ("Scott 2" LP 1968 UK/USA)
Churchill's - Open Up Your
Eyes ("Churchill's" LP 1968
Israel)
the
Hollies - The
Maker ("Butterfly" LP 1967 UK)
Clinic - It's Only Rock and Roll (But I
Like It) [Rolling Stones cover]
("Stoned: A Psych Tribute to the Rolling
Stones" 2014 USA)
Pond - Man it Feels Like Space Again
("Man It Feels Like Space Again" LP 2015 Perth, Australia)
the Monkees - Porpoise Song [mono version]
(7"single 1968 USA)
the David
- Another
Day, Another Life Time / I would Like to
Know ("Another Day, Another Life
Time" LP recorded 1968, released 2001 New York)
Violet
Woods- Electric
Fascination ("Violet Woods" 2014
UK)
the
Amazing -
Defect ("Wait for a Light to Come" 2010 Sweden)
the Sand
Pebbles - Future
Proofed ("Ceduna" 2008
Melbourne, Australia)
Permanent
Clear Light -
Harvest Time ("Beyond These Things"
2013 Finland)
the Beep
Seals - I Used
to Work at the Zoo ("Things that
Roar" 2008 UK)
Jim Noir -
Tea ("Jimmy's Show" 2010 Scotland,
UK)
“Compilation of the Week”
Magical Mystery Psych Out: A Tribute to the
Beatles
Electric Moon – Tomorrow Never Knows [Beatles
cover] (rec. 2014 Germany – taken from "Magical
Mystery Psych Out: A Tribute to the Beatles" 2015 USA)
Sugar Candy Mountain – Rain [Beatles
cover] (rec. 2014 California, USA – taken from "Magical
Mystery Psych Out: A Tribute to the Beatles" 2015 USA)
the KVB – Taxman [Beatles
cover] (rec. 2014 Germany – taken from "Magical
Mystery Psych Out: A Tribute to the Beatles" 2015 USA)
Fantasmes – Love You To [Beatles cover] (rec.
2014 Puerto Rico – taken from "Magical Mystery Psych Out: A Tribute to
the Beatles" 2015 USA)
Quilt – Cry Baby Cry [Beatles cover] (rec.
2014 USA – taken from "Magical Mystery Psych Out: A Tribute to the
Beatles" 2015 USA)
Cool Ghouls - And it
Grows ("A Swirling Fire Through the
Rye" 2014 San Francisco, USA)
the Grease Arrestor - Let it Go ("Volume Two" 2015
Sydney, Australia)
Ty Segall - Drug
Mugger ("Mr. Face" double 7”EP
2015 California USA)