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...
Theshow started with a French-language version ("Noir C'Est Noir") of a Spanish hit ("Negro Es Negro"), which later became the disco anthem"Black is Black" ... cover versions seemed to be the only unifying factor for the next 2 hours of music, which stylistically wandered all over the place. I don't think that Technicolour Dreaming could ever be accused of being predictable!
Here's the playlist for your edification, with some clips to ponder while wondering what in the world will be on the show next week!
Johnny Hallyday Avec The Blackburds [Los Bravos] - Noir C'Est Noir (7" single 1966 France)
The Black Angels - Yellow Elevator #2 ("Phosphene Dream" 2010 Austin, Texas USA)
The Gurus - Blue Snow Night (alt version) ("The Gurus are Hear!" rec. 1966, rel.2003 USA)
David Hemmings - Talkin' LA ("David Hemmings Happens" LP 1967 UK)
Radio Moscow - I Just Wanna Make Love to You ("He Put the Bomp! In the Bomp" compilation 2007 Iowa, USA)
Black Moth Super Rainbow - Sun Lips ("Dandelion Gum" 2007 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania USA)
Dungen - Gjort Bort Sig ("Ta Det Lugnt" 2004 Stockholm, Sweden)
Wooden Shjips - Shrinking Moon For You ("Wooden Shjips" 2007 San Francisco, USA)
And as a little added extra, an amusing clip of the band "The Smart Alecs", featuring David Hemmings and Steve Marriott, from the 1963 movie "Live It Up!"
Once again this week the Cat and the Brat played a diverse set, ranging from the modern psych of America’s Andrew Douglas Rothbard, Sweden’s Dungen and Italy’s the Selfish Cales, to the 6o’s UK freakbeat of the Eyes and an early Frank Zappa cover by the West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band..... from some iconic Roxy Music to a Mexican revolutionary anthem by Adelaide’s Van Cleef, from an ode to the discotheque by Adelaide’s Mynd Gardeners to Mick Ronson’s brilliant ‘Only After Dark’, and from the Demon Parade to the Church to Ride Into The Sun to God! Ain’t that rock’n’roll religion?! And we ended the show with the surf’n’sleaze of the Barbarellatones, our current “Band Of The Month”, giving their unique spin to a Jan & Dean classic.....
..... and here is the full playlist.....
Dungen – Du e för fin för mig (‘Ta Det Lugnt’ 2004 Sweden)
Andrew Douglas Rothbard – Indigo (‘Abandoned Meander’ 2006 USA)
the Balloon Farm – A Question of Temperature (7”single 1967 USA)
the West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band – Help, I’m a Rock [Frank Zappa cover] (7”single 1967 USA)
the Eyes – When the Night Falls (7”single 1965 UK)
the Beatles – Tell me what you see (‘Help!’ LP 1965 UK)
the Church – When you were mine (‘The Blurred Crusade’ LP 1982 Australia)
Pel Mel – No Word From China (7”single 1981 Aust.)
the Mynd Gardeners – Discotheque (‘Tales from the Caramel Hourglass’ EP 2009 Aust.)
Van Cleef – Zapatistas! (‘Zapatistas!!’ EP 2011 Adelaide, Aust.)
Secret Machines – Atomic Heels (‘Secret Machines’ 2008 USA)
the Demon Parade – All the cool kids (CD-single 2011 Aust.)
the Selfish Cales – Psychedelic Eyes (‘Selfish Cales II’ EP 2011 Italy)
the Moffs – Another Day in the Sun (7”single 1985 Aust.)
God – My Pal (7”single 1988 Aust.)
Ride Into The Sun – Enemy (‘Rats, Thieves & Liars’ 2011 Adelaide, Aust.)
Mick Ronson – Only After Dark (‘Slaughter on 10th Avenue’ LP 1973 UK)
Roxy Music – Ladytron (‘Roxy Music’ LP 1972 UK)
the Barbarellatones – Dead Man’s Curve [Jan & Dean cover] (‘Confessions of a Teenage Prostitute’ 2009 USA) #
