Technicolour Dreaming

In this internet age, it never fails to surprise me how much music is now available from all over the world, that once wouldn't have been accessible unless you were lucky enough to travel extensively. Bands from Norway, Denmark, New Zealand, Belgium and Spain all appeared on the Technicolour Dreaming playlist this week, along with the usual selections from Australia, France and the USA. But even the most obscure releases from those more familiar countries, especially the ones from the 60's, and once available only to dedicated crate diggers, can now be bought at most on-line shops. So enjoy the fruits of the computer age, complete with a few clips to give you the idea...

Sula Bassana - Perry Rhodan  ("Dreamer" LP 2002 Germany)

Brigitte Bardot and Serge Gainsbourg - Bonnie and Clyde  (7" single 1968 France)

Deep Feeling  - Blues for Witley  ("Pretty Colours" 1968 UK)

Cato Salsa Experience - So, The Circus Is Back in Town  ("A Good Tip for a Good Time" 2000 Norway)

King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - Invisible Face  ("Nonagon Infinity" 2016, Australia)

The Drab Do Riffs - Gold Coin  ("Postcards from Uranus" EP 2010 New Zealand)

Doug Tuttle - Failing to Believe  ("It Calls on Me" 2015 New Hampshire, USA)

Alex Chilton - Take it Off  ("High Priest" 1987 USA)

Hal Blaine - Wiggy (November)  ("Psychedelic Percussion" LP 1967 USA)

The Daisy Chain - Zzotto  ("Straight or Lame" LP 1967 California USA)

Somebody's Image - Livin' In Style  (7" single [b-side to "Hide and Seek" 1968 Melbourne, Australia)

The In-Betweens - While My Guitar Gently Weeps [Beatles]  (7" single [b-side to "Make A Wish, Amanda"] 1970 Dunedin, New Zealand)

Kingdom of the Holy Sun - Cat Sounds  ("At The Gates of Dawn" 2016 Seattle, USA)

Raindrop - Out of Sight  ("Crowded Brain" 10" EP 2015 Sydney, Australia)

Wild Al Hotchkiss - You're Gonna Miss Me [13th Floor Elevators]  ("Wild Al Hotchkiss and the Three-Eyed Men" 2016 Glasgow, UK)

De Underjordiske - Kravler Ind I Sig Selv  ("Ind I Flammerne" 2015 Denmark)

The Hare and the Moon - Cruel Henry  ("Wood Witch" 2015 Edinburgh, Scotland UK)

Blondi's Salvation - War or Hands of Time [The Master's Apprentices] ("Nuggets 2 Revisited" 2015)

Alice Artaud - La Mort De La Rose  ("Ouroboros" 2015 Belgium)

Buried Feather - Time it Takes  (7" single 2012 Melbourne, Australia)

Frankie and the Witch Fingers - Lou Reed  ("Frankie and the Witch Fingers" 2015 LA, USA)

Gilligan Smiles - Sorry  ("Nuggets 2 Revisited" 2015 Melbourne, Australia)

Invisible Ships - Acid Tide  (digital single 2013 UK)

Jim Noir - In Hell  (7" single 2015 Manchester, UK)

Levitation Room - Crystal Ball  ("Levitation Room" LP 2016 LA, USA)

Throw Down Bones - Our Home, The Holy Mountain  ("Throw Down Bones" 2015 London UK)

Ozarks - One Thing  ("Ozarks" EP 2015 Portland, Oregon USA)

Frantic Chant - Echoes [Gene Clark]  ("The Psychedelic Sounds of the Blog That Celebrates Itself" 2013 Scotland, UK)

Requin Chagrin - Poisson Lune  ("Requin Chagrin" LP 2015 France)

The Extended Plays - Street In Colours  ("Fruitful Shower" 2002 Bilbao, Spain)

The Triptides - Couch Surfer  ("Predictions" LP 2013 LA, California USA)

Violet Swells - The Strange, Strange Design  (digital single 2016 Hobart, Australia)

Technicolour Dreaming

We devoted a chunk of this week’s show to a phone interview with one of our favourite bands... Melbourne’s dulcimer-driven Dandelion Wine, who are in town on June 16 as part of their ‘Light Streaming Down 10th Anniversary Tour’ commemorating the release of their first EP back in 2002. Amongst other things, we spoke to Nicholas about their German record label, Black Rain, the upcoming European tour (their 7^th), favourite toy lobsters and, of course, dulcimers and other exotic string instruments. They are a great live act, so try and catch them next time they are in your locale. Speaking of great live performances, we also played a track from the lovely LeighStarDust who is making her first live appearance in over a year, supporting Dandelion Wine. During the rest of the show there were tracks from new releases by the likes of Gravenhurst and Suzi Chunk from the UK  and Aussie outfits, the Fabergettes and King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard, as well as 60’s gems by Kaleidoscope and Chris Farlowe, 80’s Australian singles by Salamander Jim (Tex Perkins et al) and the Sacred Cowboys, plus local surf tunes from Dieselwitch and GT Stringer, before we finished with our current “Band of the Month”, the Sunnyboys... all this, and more, brought to you by the Cat and the Brat on 3D Radio 93.7fm, Adelaide’s foremost eclectic music station.....

..... and here is the full playlist.....

Wooden Wand – Baby, You’re a Rich Man [Beatles cover]     (‘Mojo: Yellow Submarine Resurfaced’ compilation 2012 UK)

Gravenhurst – The Prize     (‘The Ghost in Daylight’ 2012 UK)

Kaleidoscope – (Further Reflections) In the Room of Percussion     (7”single 1968 UK)

Eric Burdon & the Animals – Anything     (7”single 1966 UK)

the Screaming Tribesmen – A Stand Alone     (7”single 1984 Australia)

the Drab Doo Riffs – Trouble     (‘Postcards from Uranus’ 2010 New Zealand)

Salamander Jim – Hot Cakes For Daddy     (‘Lorne Greene Shares His Precious Fluids’ mini-LP 1984 Aust.)

the Damned & Lemmy – Ballroom Blitz [Sweet cover]     (7”single 1979 UK)

King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard – Bloody Ripper     (CD-single 2012 Melbourne, Aust.)

the Sacred Cowboys – Nothing Grows in Texas     (7”single 1982 Melbourne, Aust.)

Dandelion Wine – Twins      (‘Selected Anachronisms’ EP 2008 Aust.)

       [phone interview with Nicholas from Dandelion Wine]

Dandelion Wine – Found     (‘An Inexact Science’ 2006 Aust.)

Trembling Bells – All Good Men Come Last     (‘Shindig: It’s Happening Vol.2’ compilation 2010 UK)

Houdini Dax – Fizzy Moon     (‘You Belong to Dax, Darling’ 2011 Wales, UK)

the Fabergettes – Ding Dong     (‘the Fabergettes’ EP 2012 Sydney, Aust.)

the Booby Traps – Another Day, Another Man     (‘the Booby Traps’ 2006 Aust.)

Dieselwitch – Surf Wagon     (‘Surfedelica’ 2009 Adelaide, Aust.)

GT Stringer – Nothing Else Matters     (‘Surfrospective’ CD-anthology 2008 Adelaide, Aust.)

the Race Marbles – Like a Dribbling Fram     (7”single 1966 Toronto, Canada)

LeighStarDust – The Moll Song [Matt’s Little Brother cover]     (‘They Make Good Pets But I Don’t Have One’ 2005 Adelaide, Aust.)

Chris Farlowe – Moanin’ [sitar mix]     (7”single 1967 UK – taken from ‘Immediate Mod Box Set’ compilation 2005)

Suzi Chunk – Tripwire     (7”single b-side 2012 UK)

the Sunnyboys – Show Me Some Discipline     (7”single 1982 Australia)   #

     # “Band of the Month”

Technicolour Dreaming

We played a lot of 60s garage and psych goodies this week as we often do, as well as some current coolies and more. Sad to hear of the passing of Poly Styrene from X-Ray Spex... Peter Brat was lucky enough to see them in 1978 at ‘the Roundhouse’ in London – a great show, which also featured [‘Dirk wears White Sox’-era] Adam & the Ants and the Adverts! We also decided on our May “Album of the Month”... and it’s “Meat the Zombeatles” by the Zombeatles! It’s the first album from “the Fab Gore”, the “undead pop combo” who are purveyors of the “No-Mercybeat Sound” and you can see a trailer for their new movie on youTube! Are they the Rutles of the 21^st century? You decide! And of course we finished this week’s show with the Monkees ‘Song of the Week’...

...so here is the playlist...

the Frantics – Just for a While (Green Crystal Ties Volume 6 : US compilation)

the Blues Magoos – Ain’t got Nothin’ Yet (Kaleidoscope Compendium)

Marty Rhone – Every Minute of You (Pretty Ugly : Aust. comp.)

the Syssys – Cadillac (Devil’s Children Volume 3 : Aust. comp.)

the Tolpuddle Martyrs – Time Will Come (It’s a Kave-In : Aust. comp.)

Johnny Young – Hold On (Surprises LP 1968 Aust. [recorded in UK])

the Mourning Reign – Satisfaction Guaranteed (San Francisco Nuggets - ‘Love is the Song We Sing’ : US comp.)

the DrabDooRiffs – Hot Tanya (Postcards from Uranus!)

DieselWitch – Lost in the Desert (demo 2010 Adelaide, Aust.))

Thee Wylde Oscars – White Light, White Heat (Right, Yeah)

the Stranglers – Something Better Change (The UA Singles: 1977 – 1982)

the Molting Vultures – Insane Jane (Drop In and Go)

the Systemaddicts – You Make Me (Live at the 3D Radio ‘Sound Lounge’ Dec.2010 Adelaide)

Fluffy – Nya Nya (Fluffy Loves You ... In the Baddest way)

the Zombeatles – Brain (Meat the Zombeatles) #

the Residents – A Day in the Valley of the Life (The Third Reich and Roll)

Zombina and the Skeletones – Nobody Likes you [when you’re dead] (demo 2005 USA)

Zombie Ghost Train – Girl U Want (Glad Rags and Body Bags)

Roxy Music – Amazona (Stranded)

T Rex – Ballrooms of Mars (The Slider)

X-Ray Spex – Identity (Germ Free Adolescents) R.I.P. Poly Styrene 2011

Love – 7 and 7 is (‘Forever Changes Concert’ 2005 UK)

the Monkees – Daydream Believer (Monkees Music Box) *

# May ‘Album of the Month’

* ‘Monkees Song of the Week’