Technicolour Dreaming

A diverse range of bands from round the world - Chile, Sweden, Switzerland, Russia and the Netherlands - found their way onto the Technicolour Dreaming playlist this week, but then again, that’s nothing unusual! This was really a show of old favourites, both Harry’s and The Cat’s, and one of those particular favourites is Adelaide stalwarts, the Molting Vultures, who are playing one of their infrequent gigs at the Grace Emily this Saturday night 26th September, and bringing with them Melbourne’s rock’n’roll garage swamp-meisters Red Motors, - so don’t miss it!!

so… here’s the playlist, with a stack of videos for good measure!

The Zoot - Eleanor Rigby (Beatles)     (7" single 1967 Adelaide, Australia)

Gravenhurst - She Dances     ("The Western Lands" 2007 UK)

Polska Radio One - Time - Eternity     ("Cosmos Inside" 2014  Yekaterinburg, Russia)

The Holydrug Couple - Paisley     ("Noctuary" 2013 Chile)

Les Big Byrd - Back to Bagarmossen     ("They Worshiped Cats" 2014 Sweden)

Espectrostatic - Escape from Witchtropolis      ("Escape From Witchtropolis" 2014 Austin, Texas USA)

New Electric Ride - Marquis De Sade     ("Balloon Age" 2014 UK)

Balduin - Mirror Mirror     ("All in a Dream" 2014 Switzerland)

The Luck of Eden Hall - Dandy Horse     ("Victoria Moon" 2013 Chicago, USA) 

Front Office  - Wow     (7” single b-side [to ”Girl”] 1967 San Jose, California, USA)

Crystal Chandlier - Suicidal Flowers     (7” single b-side [to “Your Land of Love”] 1969 USA)

The Gothic Archies - Crows     ("The Tragic Treasury - Songs from a Series of Unfortunate Events" 2006 Los Angeles, USA)

De Wolff - Don't You Go Up In The Sky     (“Strange Fruits and Undiscovered Plants” 2009 Netherlands )

Molting Vultures - Hang Up     ("Get a Grip”  2007 Adelaide, Australia)

Fuzztones - I Gotta Way With Girls     (released in 2007, New York USA; taken from “He put the Bomp! In the Bomp” compilation)

Von Bondies - Take a Heart     ("Raw & Rare" 2003 Detroit USA)

Blues Magoos - (we aint got) Nothing Yet     (“Psychedelic Lollipop” 1966 New York, USA)

Dirtbombs - Chains of Love     ("Ultraglide in Black” 2001 Detroit, Michigan USA)

Richard in Your Mind - Creation     ("My Volcano" 2010 Sydney, Australia)

Higher State - The Gypsies Graveyard     (“Freakout at the Gallery" 2011 Folkestone, Kent, UK)

Facetime - Channel Love     ("New Centre of the Universe #1” compilation 2012 Geelong, Australia)

Murlocs - Bogan Grove     (“Teepee EP” 2012 Melbourne, Australia)

King Gizzard & Lizard Wizard - Trench Foot     ("New Centre of the Universe #1” 2012 Melbourne, Australia)

Brian Jonestown Massacre - Oh Lord     ("Tepid Peppermint Wonderland")

Mesa Cosa - Day of the Dead     ("Infernal Cakewalk")

House of Fire - Walking Along The Sun     (“House of Fire“ 2008 USA)

Black Angels - Mission District     (“ Directions to See a Ghost” 2008 Austin, Texas USA)

Chemical Brothers -  The Private Psychedelic Reel     (“The Private Psychedelic Reel" 2007 UK)

Technicolour Dreaming

 We began the show this week with a track from DeWolff who are currently touring Australia, though sadly they are not coming to Adelaide.  But if you’re in the eastern states go to see them, as reports say their live show is brilliant. From there we again ventured into the psychedelic and the obscure (and the not-so-obscure) with tracks from Germany’s Sula Bassana, Italy’s the Strange Flowers, Japan’s the Plastics and England’s Toy plus some Nico, Dave Davies and Espers as well as a track from the wonderfully named Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell’s debut LP, which was named as Shindig! magazine’s 2012 “Album of the Year”. There were some psych/folk variations from Espers and from the extremely rare album by Englishman Mark Fry, recorded in Italy in 1972, as well as some sheer poetry from John Cooper Clarke. We finished with another in our series of ‘suites’, this time from the self-titled 1968 LP by the United States of America, but prior to that we played a ‘taster’ [and have included a clip] from the soon-to-be-released album, “the Snow Bunker Tapes” by Death in June, as a means of announcing that Douglas P. will be our guest in the studio next week, the 19^th of March, talking about the new album and his recent tour, as well as guest-DJing with us – so tune in again next week!

.... so here is the playlist, with a few pictures to watch.....

DeWolff – Fever      (‘Orchards/Lupine’ 2011 Netherlands)

Black Cab – Ghost Anthems      (‘Call Signs’ 2009 Australia)

Psychodelicacy – The Elephant Has a Delicate Brain      (‘Psychodelicacy’ 2013 Adelaide, Australia)

Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell – Mark of the Beast      (‘Don’t Hear It... Fear It!’ 2012 UK)

the Plastics – Last Train to Clarkesville [Monkees cover]      (7”single 1979 Japan)

John Cooper Clarke – Beasley Street      (‘Snap, Crackle & Bop’ 1980 UK)

the Saffron – Vision is a Lonely Word      (provenance unknown – taken from Vol. 5 of ‘Electric Psychedelic Sitar Headswirlers’ boxset  2011 UK)

Nico – Purple Lips      (‘Drama of Exile’ LP 1981 UK)

 

Gary Walker & the Rain – The View      (‘Album No.1’ LP 1968 Japan)

the Byrds – Mind Gardens      (‘Younger Than Yesterday’ LP 1967 USA)

Mark Fry – The Witch      (‘Dreaming with Alice’ LP 1972 Italy/UK)

Espers – That Which Darkly Thrives      (‘Espers 111’ 2009 Philadelphia, USA)

the Girls At Dawn – That Girl Belongs To Yesterday [Rolling Stones cover]      (7”split-single [with the Gaye Blades] 2007 USA)

Bokaj Retsiem – I’m So Afraid      (‘Psychedelic Underground’ LP 1968 Germany)

Red Riders – Slide In Next To Me      (7”single 2006 Melbourne, Australia)

Galileo 7 – Anne Hedonia      (‘Staring at the Sound’ LP 2012 UK)

 

Sula Bassana – Baby Blues Shuffle in D major [Pink Floyd cover]      (‘Dreamers’ 2002 Germany)

the Strange Flowers – Rainpogamoonsister      (‘The Imaginary Space Travel of the Naked Monkeys’ 2007 Italy)

Toy – Lose My Way       (‘TOY’ 2013 UK)

All Night Radio – All Night Radio      (12”single 2003 USA)

the Black Angels – Better Off Alone      (‘Passover’ 2006 Austin, Texas, USA)

Crystal Chandelier – Suicidal Flowers      (7”single 1969 USA)

Death In June – Life Under Siege      (‘The Snow Bunker Tapes’ LP 2013 Adelaide, Australia)

 

Bernard Chabert – Olga Selzer      (7”single [late 60’s?] France)

Dave Davies – Creeping Jean [unreleased stereo version]        (rec. 1969 – taken from ‘Hidden Treasures’ anthology 2011 UK)

the United States of America – The American Way of Love [suite]      (‘The United States of America’ LP 1968 New York, USA)