Technicolour Dreaming

The focus this week was again the on-going vinyl revival with selections from a plethora of bands using that format, including Germany’s Vibravoid, Finland’s Octopus Syng and Spain’s Stay from the UK’s brilliant Fruits de Mer label catalogue, Jacco Gardner on the Trouble In Mind label, a rare split single by Kelley Stoltz and a 7”single re-issue by We The People, plus the new LP by the Asteroid #4 on 12” black 180gm vinyl... all very cool stuff! We also featured new albums by Chile’s the Holydrug Couple, Crystal Stilts, Cate Le Bon and ex-Coral drummer Ian Skelly plus a track from the fabulous Night Beats’ latest offering, as well as a Barbarellatones song which was featured in a recent episode of TV’s “Sons of Anarchy” series, plus lots more.....

..... so here is the playlist with attendant visuals.....

Vibravoid - La Poupée Qui Fait Non [Michel Polnareff cover]      (“Colour Your Mind” EP 2013 Germany)

Wheat Fields – Saturnalia      (“Saturnalia” EP 2013 Sydney, Australia)

Octopus Syng – Listen With The Moths      (“Fruits de Mer Records 2014 Annual”  7”single 2013 Finland)

Fluffy – Boy’s Club      (cd-single 2013 Adelaide, Australia)

the Barbarellatones – Drag Queens on Choppers      (mp3 demo 2013 USA)

the Night Beats – Love Ain’t Strange (Everything Else Is)      (“Sonic Bloom” 2013 Texas, USA)

We The People – You Burn Me Up And Down      (7”single 1966 Florida, USA)

Tages – She’s Having a Baby Now      (“Studio” LP 1967 Sweden)

Cate Le Bon – Mug Museum      (“Mug Museum” 2013 Wales, UK)

Crystal Jacqueline – Play With Fire [Rolling Stones cover]      (“A Fairy Tale” EP 2013 UK)

the Holydrug Couple – Wonder      (“Noctuary” 2013 Chile)

Jacco Gardner – Notus      (7”single b-side [to End of August] 2013 Netherlands)

Crystal Stilts – Nature Noir      (“Nature Noir” 2013 USA)

Ian Skelly – I See You      (“Cut From a Star” 2013 Scotland, UK)

Klaatu – Doctor Marvello      (“3.47 EST” LP 1976 Canada)

Stay – I See The Rain [Marmalade cover]      (“Mersey Dream” EP 2013 Spain)

the Asteroid #4 – Rukma Vimana      (“The Asteroid #4” LP 2013 USA)

the Strawberry Alarm Clock – Black Butter : Past, Present, Future      (“Wake Up... It’s Tomorrow” LP 1968 USA)

the Saddhu Brand – I Give You Johnee      (“Whole Earth Rhythm” LP 1970 USA)

Elmer Gantry’s Velvet Opera – Air      (“Elmer Gantry’s Velvet Opera” LP 1967 UK)

the Intelligence with Kelley Stoltz – (they found me in the back of) the Galaxy      (7” single 2012 USA)

the Pink Snow Flakes – Like Icecream      (“Sun Chasing” 2006 USA)

Daniel Beretta & Richard de Bordeaux – La Drogue      (“Extrait Du Film ‘Le Temps Fou’ Du Marcel Camus“ EP 1968 France)

Balduin – Autumn Almanac [Kinks cover]      (recorded 2013 Switzerland – taken from “the Active Listener Sampler 13” compilation 2013 Australia)

Jack Ellister – Flaming [Syd Barrett cover]      (“Dawn Dream Club” EP 2013 Netherlands)

the Left Banke – There’s Gonna Be a Storm      (7”single b-side [to Nice To Meet You] 1969 USA)

Technicolour Dreaming

We began the show this week with two tracks from Eric Burdon & the Animals 1967 album ‘Winds of Change’ and finished it with one from the new album by Australia’s Cloud Control, and so it was for the music we played in-between – the old and the new, here and overseas, soft and loud, fast blasts and slow drones – all the regular ingredients you’ve come to expect in the sounds of Technicolour Dreaming. From the b-side of Temples’ debut single to the Sons of Adam’s Arthur Lee-penned 1966 single a-side via Sula Bassana, Scott Walker, the Millennium and ex-Smallgoods songwriter Ben Mason’s latest psych-pop masterpiece and through to Beaulieu Porch, Mikal Cronin and the new Mynd Gardeners vinyl release, it was a varied journey through psychedelic realms and related states, which included a tribute to long-time Devo drummer Alan Myers who passed away recently, a1966 VOX radio ad, a track from the Gang of Four’s 1980 debut LP, a very electric version of a Serge Gainsbourg classic by Deep Sea Arcade and a strange 1970 b-side by Janie Jones, the London ‘identity’ immortalised by the Clash on their debut LP. So, business as usual here on 3D Radio with the Cat & the Brat.....

..... and here is the playlist, with some visual goodies thrown in.....   

Eric Burdon and the Animals – Poem By The Sea / Paint it Black [Rolling Stones cover]         (“Winds of Change” LP 1967 UK)

Crystal Stilts – The Dazzled         (“Alright of Night” 2008 New York, USA)

Scott Walker – Get Behind Me         (“Scott 4” LP 1969 UK/USA)

Janie Jones – Psycho         (7”single [b-side to Back on my Feet Again] 1970 UK)

Gang of Four – Return the Gift         (“Entertainment” LP 1980 UK)

Devo – The Day My Baby Gave Me A Surprize         (“Duty Now for the Future” LP 1979 Akron, Ohio, USA)

the Mynd Gardeners – Misinterpreted         (7”split-single [with the Stanleys] 2013 Australia)

Temples – Colours to Life         (7”single [b-side to Shelter Song] 2013 UK)

Sula Bassana – Perry Rhodan         (“Dark Days” 2013 Germany)

Deep Sea Arcade (with Megan Washington) – Bonnie and Clyde [Serge Gainsbourg cover]         (“Melodie Francaise” compilation 2013 Aust.)

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club – Hate the Taste         (“Spectre at the Feast” CD single 2013 USA)

the Cosmic Gardeners – Way of Going         (“Fortune Bells and Magic Candles” 1995 Bavaria, Germany)

Blue Effect – Snakes         (“Blue Effect” EP 1969 Czechoslovakia)

the Millennium – It’s You         (“Begin” LP 1968 USA)

the Executives – Summerhill Road         (7”single 1969 Sydney, Aust.)

Django Django – Hail Bop         (“Django Django” 2012 Scotland, UK)

Drivin’ n’ Cryin’ – The Little Record Store Just Around the Corner         (“Songs from the Psychedelic Time Clock” EP 2013 Georgia, USA)

the Brian Jonestown Massacre – Stairway to the Best Party in the Universe         (“Aufheben” 2012 USA)

Vibravoid – La Vie En Dusseldorf         (“Gravity Zero” 2012 Germany)

Ben Mason – I Can See Again         (“Holes and Corners” 2013 Melbourne, Aust.)

the Sufis – I Don’t Know         (“The Sufis” 2013 USA)

Love – The Red Telephone         (“Forever Changes” LP 1967 USA)

the Amazing – Evil          (“Wait for a Light to Come” 2010 Sweden)

Beaulieu Porch – We Are Today         (“We Are Beautiful” 2013 UK)

Mikal Cronin – Shout It Out         (“MC II” 2013 California, USA)

Sons of Adam – Feathered Fish [Arthur Lee cover]         (7”single 1966 California, USA – taken from “Pebbles Volume 1” compilation LP 1979 USA)

Radio Promo – VOX ‘wah-wah’ advert 1966 [featuring the Electric Prunes]         (‘mystery’ track on “Pebbles Volume 1”)

Adnan Othman and the Wanderers – Revolusi!         (7”single 1970(?) Malaysia – taken from “Pop Yeh Yeh – Psychedelic Rock from Singapore & Malaysia – 1964-1970, Vol.1” compilation 2013 Seattle, USA)

Les 5 Gentleman – LSD 25 ou les Metamorphoses de Margaret Steinway        (“Qu’as-tu Katioucha?” EP 1968 France)

Cloud Control – Promises         (“Dream Cave” 2013 Aust.)

Technicolour Dreaming

It was once again a diverse show this week, with the Cat & the Brat ranging through old favourites such as Iggy & the Stooges, Clinic and Magazine through Adelaide stalwarts the Asteroid Belt and Van Cleef, plus some recent releases from Ty Segall, Crystal Stilts and Maya. We also sadly bid farewell to a couple of our favourite Australian bands, Belles Will Ring and the Amcats, who have both announced their final performances and that they are going on an indefinite hiatus, as well as playing the Dukes of Stratosphear’s final showing as our “Band of the Month”, plus of course, much more, so without further ado.....

..... here is the playlist.....

the Church – Hiroshima Mon Amour [Ultravox cover]      (‘Box of Birds’ 1999 Australia)

Magazine – The Light Pours Out of Me      (recorded 1978 on BBC ‘Peel Sessions’ – taken from ‘...Magazine [Maybe it’s right to be nervous now]’ anthology boxset  2000 UK)

Clinic – Sunlight Bathes Our Home      (‘Walking With Thee’ 2002 UK)

Maya – Running Low (On Empty)      (‘EPs 1 + 2’ 2012 Aust.)

the Asteroid Belt – Incantations      (‘Incantations/Exultations’ 2009 Adelaide, Aust.)

Van Cleef – Dalek Gulch      (‘Where the River Meets the Rock’ 2010 Adelaide, Aust.)

the Amcats – Why Can’t You See Her      (7”single 2012 Adelaide, Aust.)

Belles Will Ring – Pallisade Alley      (‘Crystal Theatre’ 2011 Sydney, Aust.)

the Wild Cherries – Krome Plated Yabby      (7”single 1967 Aust.)

Capt. Groovy – Capt. Groovy & his Bubblegum Army      (7”single 1969 USA)

Ty Segall & White Fence – Time      (‘Hair’ 2012 USA)

Tyrnaround – Colour Your Mind      (‘Colour Your Mind’ 12”EP 1987 Aust.)

Crystal Stilts – Through the Floor      (‘In Love with Oblivion’ 2011 USA)

Eric Burdon & the Animals – A Girl Called Sandoz      (7”single b-side [to When I Was Young] 1967 UK)

the Weirdos – Life of Crime      (7”single 1977 USA)

Naz Nomad & the Nightmares – She Lied [Rockin’ Ramrods cover]      (‘Give Daddy The Knife Cindy’ LP 1984 UK)

Iggy & the Stooges – Search and Destroy      (‘Raw Power’ LP 1973 USA)

13^th Floor Elevators – You’re Gonna Miss Me      (7”single 1966 Texas, USA – taken from ‘Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era, 1965-1968’ compilation LP 1972 USA)

Lowell George & the Factory – Candy Cane Madness      (recorded 1967 – taken from ‘Where the Action Is! Los Angeles Nuggets 1965-1968’ compilation boxset 2009 USA)

David Bowie – All the Madmen      (‘The Man Who Sold The World’ LP 1970 UK)

the Dukes of Stratosphear – Vanishing Girl      (‘Psonic Psunspot’ LP 1987 UK)   #

     #   “Band of the Month”