Technicolour Dreaming

Here's the latest batch of tunes from the show - couldn't resist a few old favourites from the likes of The Died Pretty, The Move, Naz Nomad and the Nightmares (an off-shoot from The Damned, while Captain Sensible was having his run of hit singles - far prefer this to "Happy Talk"!), The Seeds, and perennial favourites Vibravoid. Also featured were 2 tracks from the soon-to-be-released Systemaddicts CD, "Broken Hearted on the Nullarbor" (for those not in the know, Nullarbor literally means "no trees", and is an area of desolate desert to the north-west of Adelaide, the band's hometown, which any road-trip to western Australia heads right through the middle of  - a famous spot for cars breaking down!). Anyway, as there are no clips for the tracks played (yet), included at the end of the blog is a little taster of a recent live show - enjoy!

...and here's the playlist, with associated visuals...(and I've given up on trying to fix all the different font sizes - it's driving me mad!!!)

Electric Moon - Tomorrow Never Knows     (“Magical Mystery Psych Out – A Tribute to the Beatles” 2015 Germany) 

Died Pretty - Out of the Unknown    (7" single 1984 Sydney, Australia)

Pond - Man it Feels Like Space Again     (“Man It Feels Like Space Again” 2015 Perth, Aust.)

Schnauser - White Plastic Blender      (“The Missing Link” 2011 Bristol UK)                                              

Mikal Cronin - Is It Alright?     (“Mikal Cronin” 2011 California USA)

Ty Segall - Love Fuzz     (“Twins” 2012 California USA)

                                                      

robotmonkeyarm - Il Brutto     (“robotmonkeyarm part one​.​.​.​robot senza nome​!​” 2012 Boston, Massachusetts, USA)                                 

Ian Skelly - I Call Her Name     (“Cut From A Star” 2012 UK)

Medicine Mike – I’ve Never Been (So High)     (7" single [b-side to “Night On Fire”] 1969 Aust.)

Bryce Peterson [House of Nimrod] - Slightly-Delic     (demo 1970's New Zealand)                                              

Wayne Mason and Ali Richardson – Nature     (demo 1968 New Zealand)   
                              

Baker Knight and the Knightmares - Hallucinations     (7" single 1967 USA)

Naz Nomad and the Nightmares - The Trip [Kim Fowley]     (“Give Daddy the Knife Cindy” LP 1984 UK)



Groovy Uncle - Barefoot in the Car Park     (“Persuaded” 2015 UK)



Three Minute Tease - Coffee that Makes the Man Go Mad     (“Bite the Hand” 2014 UK)                                

Vibravoid - Listen, Can't You Hear     (“Delirio Dei Sensi” 2013 Germany) 

Cloud War - Whence and Whither     (digital single 2013 Seattle, Washington USA)                           

The Move - (Here We Go Round) The Lemon Tree     (“Move” LP 1968 UK) 

Halasan Bazar - Live Without Love     (“Space Junk” LP 2013 Denmark)                                                    

Dukes of Stratosphear - 25 O'Clock     (“25 O’Clock” LP 1985 UK)



Spacemen 3 – Revolution     (“Playing With Fire” 1988 UK)



Warlocks - Hurricane Heart Attack     (“Phoenix” 2002 Los Angeles USA)

Systemaddicts - Can I Follow You?     (“Broken Hearted on the Nullarbor” 2015 Adelaide, Australia - pre-release)

Systemaddicts - Into the Light     (“Broken Hearted on the Nullarbor” 2015 Adelaide, Australia - pre-release) 
  

The Seeds – Bad Part of Town     (7” single 1970 USA)



Les Liminanas – Alicante     (“Costa Blanca” 2013 Perpignan, France)



The Pretty Things – Buzz The Jerk     (“Get the Picture?” LP 1965 UK)

...plus, a clip of The Systemaddicts playing live during their November residency at the Grace Emily - thanks guys for covering The Brat's "Life on the Dole" (guest vocals by Olly Holmes) - the Brat usually hated brass, but I think he would have really liked this version!

Technicolour Dreaming

This edition’s “Compilation of the Week” is actually a series which began in 1998, was compiled in 2011 into two boxsets covering volumes 1-5 and 6-10, and continues with volume 11 being released in 2012. We are of course speaking of the eclectic “Electric Psychedelic Sitar Headswirlers” series which, as regular listeners will have noticed, we have been happily plundering for the show since we discovered their existence several years ago, and which are well-deserving of being acknowledged in our weekly feature; indeed the hardest part was choosing only five tracks to play with so many goodies on offer! The rest of the show also had a plethora of fine new music and older faves, including a track from the long-awaited second album from Australia’s Black Ryder, as well as more from the new one by Sydney’s the Grease Arrestor and Cleopatra Records’ soon-to-be-released Beatles psych tribute album, plus a bunch of re-issues and re-discoveries, such as tracks by the Lost and Found, the Byrds, the Aardvarks and XTC (in their Dukes of Stratosphear guise). So until next Tuesday afternoon.....

...... here is the playlist with some visuals, plus a movie at the end to enjoy.....

the Lost and Found - I'm So Hip to Pain      ("Forever Lasting Plastic Words" LP 1968 Texas, USA)

Powder Blue - Sunfire Drug Haus      ("II" 2014 Manitoba, Canada)

the Aardvaarks - Arthur C. Clarke   ("Arthur C. Clarke" EP, 1989 London UK)

the Black Ryder - Santaria      ("Door Behind the Door" 2015  Australia/USA)

the Doors - Summer's Almost Gone      ("Waiting for the Sun" LP 1968 Los Angeles, USA)

the Dukes of Stratosphear - Collideascope      ("Psonic Psunspot" LP 1987 UK)

Baron Samedi - Vulture Purple      ("Dollars Eye" 2014 Zaragoza, Spain)

Groep 1850 - We Love Life (Like We Love You)     (7"single 1968 Netherlands)

the Grease Arrestor - Come Together      ("Volume 2" 2015 Sydney, Australia)

Ty Segall - The Clock      ("Manipulator" 2014 USA)

the Byrds - Why? [alternate/ RCA studios version]      ("Fifth Dimension” – bonus track on 1996 CD re-issue USA)

Johnny Young - Craise Finton Kirk [Bee Gees cover]     ("Suprises" LP 1968 Australia)

the Vegetable Garden - Even Stevens      (7"single b-side [to Hypnotic Suggestion] 1969 Perth, Australia)

Jan and Dean - Laurel and Hardy      ("Carnival of Sound" LP 1968 USA)

the Prisoners - Far Away      ("The Wisermiserdemelza" LP 1983 UK)

the Sun Blindness - The Carousel      ("Far Arden" 2011 Melbourne, Australia)

            ### “Compilation Series of the Week” ###

"Electric Psychedelic Sitar Headswirlers" Volumes One to Eleven

Sagittarius - Glass      ("Present Tense" LP 1968 California USA – taken from Vol 11)

Lord Sitar - I Am the Walrus [Beatles cover]      ("Lord Sitar" LP 1968 USA – taken from Vol 1)

Ray Brown and Moonstone - Start of a New Day      ("Mad House" LP 1970 Australia – taken from Vol 3)

Tomorrow - Real Life Permanent Dream      ("Tomorrow" LP 1968 UK – taken from Vol 6)

Boeing Duveen and the Beautiful Soup - Jabberwocky      (7" single 1968 UK – taken from Vol 8)

My Invisible Friend - O.N.S.      ("My Invisible Friend" EP 2015 Fidenza, Italy)

Man or Astro-man?  - Taxidermist Surf      ("Is It... Man or Astroman? 1993 USA)

the Neptunes - Hydrophobia      ("Hydrophobia" LP 1988 Perth, Australia)

Intercontinental Playboys - Faster Pussycat, Kill! Kill! Kill! [Bostweeds cover]     (bonus track on "Hymns of the Flesh" 2009 Australia)

Mike Furber & the Bowery Boys – You      (7”single 1966 Australia)

the Blank Tapes - The Word   (“The Magical Mystery Psych Out – A Tribute to the Beatles” compilation 2015 USA)

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”

Technicolour Dreaming

Beginning with the Psychedelic Furs debut album and a track whose title says it all, we spent the next hour and a half playing songs from various eras and locales, linked in some way by that most elastic of terms, psychedelic!... “The Damned... psych?” you may be thinking, but they proudly wore their 60’s influences... and LeighStarDust’s achingly beautiful version of Brillig’s ‘Weighed Down’? Well, there are those initials! Then there’s the current crop of paisley-patterned popsters worldwide such as Pony Face, Youngteam, the Sun Blindness and the High Dials who are updating that 60’s swirl and jangle for the 21^st century... not forgetting the Monkees... or our “band of the month”, XTC in psych-pop disguise... hmmm, not such a stretch after all for the Cat and the Brat....

..... and so here is the playlist.....

the Psychedelic Furs – We Love You      (‘The Psychedelic Furs’ LP 1980 UK)

the Damned – Neat, Neat, Neat      (rec. 1976 on BBC Radio ‘Peel Sessions’ – taken from disc2 of ‘Babylon’s Burning: the Rough’n’Ready Rise of Punk Rawk 1973-1978’ compilation boxset 2007 UK)

Normie Rowe – She Used to Be Mine      (‘It ain’t necessarily so, but it is... Normie Rowe’ LP 1965 Australia)

the Factory – Path Through the Forest      (7”single 1968 UK)

Lloyd’s World – Brass Bird      (7”single 1968 Aust.)

the High Dials – Master of the Clouds      (‘War of the Wakening Phantoms’ 2005 Montreal, Canada)

the Buffalo Springfield – For What It’s Worth      (‘The Buffalo Springfield’ LP 1966 USA/Canada)

LeighStarDust – Weighed Down [Brillig cover]      (‘Fashion’ split EP [with Brillig] 2004 Adelaide, Aust.)

Wooden Wand & the Sky High Band – Sweet Xiao Li      (‘Second Attention’ 2006 USA)

the Allah-Las – Catamaran      (‘The Allah-Las’ 2012 USA)

 

Woods – Find Them Empty      (‘Bend Beyond’ 2012 USA)

Youngteam – Not From Here      (‘Daydreamer’ 2011 Sweden)

the Dandy Warhols – The Autumn Carnival [radio edit]      (CDsingle 2012 USA)

Tame Impala – Nothing That Has Happened So Far Has Been Anything That We Could Control      (‘Lonerism’ 2012 Aust.)

Moon Duo – I Been Gone      (‘Circles’ 2012 California, USA)

Pony Face – Alabama      (‘Hypnotised’ 2012 Melbourne, Aust.)

Ride Into The Sun – Redneck      (demo 2010 Adelaide, Aust.)

Magic Bones – Gouge Out A View      (‘Magic Bones’ EP 2012 Melbourne, Aust.)

the Sunbirds – I Shook      (‘Emergency Christmas’ EP 2012 Adelaide, Aust.)

Buried Feather – Time It Takes      (7”single 2012 Melbourne, Aust.)

the Sun Blindness – Lazy Livin’      (‘Like Pearly Clouds’ 2008 Melbourne, Aust.)

the Monkees – You Told Me      (‘Headquarters’ LP 1967 USA)

the Dukes of Stratosphear – The Affiliated      (‘Psonic Psunspot’ LP 1987 UK)   #

 

      #   “Band of the Month”