Technicolour Dreaming

It’s the final show for 2013 and it was on New Year’s Eve, so it was appropriate we wrapped up our series of “Favourites of the Year” with what was certainly a highlight of 2013 – the new Wooden Shjips LP. Before we got there though, there was a plethora of other faves to be played, though of course some slipped through the cracks and these will no doubt ooze into our early 2014 shows! Anyway, we hope you all have a great New Year – one that promises to build on the growing eruption of excellent psychedelia that seems to be overtaking us... 2014 should hold some very intriguing new music! So, without further ado.....

..... here is the playlist plus a bunch of eye-candy to enjoy.....

Sundial – She’s Looking All Around      (“Other Way Out” LP 1990 UK)

Me & My Kites – Isis’ Adventure      (7”single b-side [to The Band] 2013 UK)

Brenton Manser – Dogged Old Joy      (“The Edge of Forgiveness” 2013 Adelaide, Australia)

the Easybeats – Amanda Storey      (recorded 1968, unreleased – taken from “The Definitive Anthology” 2-CD box 2003 Australia)

the Sufis – I’ll Come to See You      (“Inventions” 2013 Nashville, USA)

Plastic Penny – Give Me Money      (“Currency” LP 1969 UK)

the Seeds – Mr Farmer      (“A Web of Sound” LP 1967 Los Angeles, USA)

Corey – Come On, Let’s Go      (7”single b-side [to Is It Really Really Real?] 2013 San Francisco, USA)

Peter Sarstedt – Mary Jane      (“Peter Sarstedt” LP 1969 UK)

Montero – My World Fell Down [Sagittarius/Ivy League cover]      (“Nuggets : Antipodean Interpolations of the First Psychedelic Era” compilation 2013 Australia)

Sendelica – Set the Controls for the Heart of the Buddha      (“The Kaleidoscopic Kat And It’s Autoscopic Ego” 2013 Wales, UK)

Temples – Mesmerise      (pre-release from forth-coming “Sun Structures” LP 2014 UK)

the Hidden Masters – Last Days of the Sun      (“Of This & Other Worlds” 2013 UK)

the Lovetones – Was I There In Your Future?      (“Meditations” 2006 Melbourne, Australia)

Kaleidoscope – Flight From Ashiya       (7”single 1967 UK)

France Gall – Teenie Weenie Boppie      (“Teenie Weenie Boppie” EP 1967 France)

the Mynd Gardeners – Misinterpreted      (split-EP [with the Stanleys] 2013 Australia)

Ride Into The Sun – Lost At Sea [a love song]      (“Ride Into The Sun” LP 2013 Adelaide, Australia)

the Black Angels – The Day      (“Indigo Meadow” 2013 Texas, USA)

Warm Soda – Waiting For The Man [Velvet Underground cover]      (“The Velvet Underground & Nico by Castleface Records and Friends” tribute compilation LP 2013 San Francisco, USA)

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

Fuzz – Sunderberry Dream      (7”single 2013 USA)

the Monkees – Mary, Mary      (“More of the Monkees” LP 1966 USA)

Kak – Rain      (7”single 1968 USA – taken from “The Gathering of the Tribes” compilation boxset 2013)

the Dandelion – Here Comes Love      (“Strange Case of the Dandelion” 2013 Australia)

Espers – Blue Mountain [Michael Hurley cover]      (“The Weed Tree” EP 2004 USA)

Olly Holmes – Mercedes Benz [trad. cover]      (“Whiskey Barrel” EP 2013 Adelaide, Australia)

the Warlocks – Dead Generation      (“Skull Worship” 2013 USA)

Wooden Shjips – Ghouls      (“Back to Land” 2013 San Francisco, USA)

Technicolour Dreaming

This week as always, we played a diverse bunch of records, ranging from the 60’s pop of Nancy Sinatra, the Twilights and Jacques Dutronc through to new albums from Mikal Cronin, Dark Ocean Colors and Norway’s the Apricot, plus a garage/psych side-project by Robert Schneider of Apples In Stereo called Thee American Revolution, as well as some Australian sounds from, amongst others, the Riptides, the Molting Vultures, Asteroid Belt and Space Party. We went electronic with John Foxx before ending the show with the final appearance as “Band of the Month” by California’s the Barbarellatones... all brought to you, of course, by the Cat and the Brat.....

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

Starstream – Don’t Leave (Honey)     (‘Burn your Fingers on the Sun’ compilation 2007 Australia)

the Selfish Cales – State of Eternity     (‘Selfish Cales II’ EP 2011 Italy)

Treetops – Leaving Tidal River     (‘Treetops’ EP 2005 Melbourne, Australia)

the Twilights – Comin’ On Down     (7” single b-side 1968 Aust.)

the Easybeats – Come and See Her     (7”single 1966 Aust.)

Mikal Cronin – Green & Blue     (‘Trouble In Mind’ 2012 USA)

the Asteroid Belt – Watching You     (‘Blank Horizon’ 2011 Adelaide, Aust.)

Thee American Revolution – Electric Flame     (‘Buddha Electrostorm’ 2012 USA)

Moon Duo – Run Around [Cave ‘Organ Desert’ mix]     (‘Mazes – Remixed’ EP 2011)

the Misunderstood – I Can Take You To The Sun     (recorded 1967 – taken from ‘Before the Dream Faded’ anthology 2010 UK)

Comus – In the Lost Queen’s Eyes     (‘First Utterance’ LP 1971 UK)

the Druids of Stonehenge – Pale Dream      (‘Creation’ LP 1968 USA)

Jacques Dutronc – Les gens sont fous, les temps sont flous     (7”single 1966 France)

the Apricot – Too Far Behind     (‘Forestful of Threes’ 2011 Norway)

Dark Ocean Colors – Lazy Lighthouse Jupiter Band     (‘Dark Ocean Colors’ 2012 USA)

Nancy Sinatra – Bang Bang     (7”single 1966 USA)

the Molting Vultures – Morning Sun     (demo 2010 Adelaide, Aust.)

Slingshot Dragster – Stoli Chaser [Tremelo Beergut cover]     (‘Demolition’ EP 2009 Adelaide)

Space Party – Get Surfed     (‘Invasion of the Surfer Men’ 2009 Canberra, Aust.)

the Riptides – Sunset Strip     (7”single 1978 Aust.)

John Foxx – Underpass     (‘Metamatic’ LP 1980 UK)

the Barbarellatones – I had Sex with a C.H.U.D.     (‘Invasion of the Surf Zombies’ 2006 USA)   #

 

     #  “Band of the Month”   : www.cdbaby.com/cd/barbarellatones

Technicolour Dreaming

This week the Cat and the Brat featured old songs and new, favourites and obscurities, with different sounds from both here in Australia and from the rest of the world... definitely Technicolour Dreaming! Beginning with a woozy track from the 2001 album by Texan trio, Lift To Experience, we ventured through some disparate psychedelic music from the likes of Suns of Arqa, Mother Tucker’s Yellow Duck, Scorpio Tube and Espers, to the garage beat of Melbourne’s Los Hories, UK band Thee Attacks, and Adelaide’s the Molting Vultures, local punk from Standard Union, Nederbeat from the Outsiders, dropping in some classic Easybeats and Death In June, with the Suburban Lawns “new-wave-novelty-hit” from 1979, ‘Gidget Goes To Hell’, thrown in as.... well, as a ‘novelty’! New to the station library were some fairly recent albums by UK band, the Psychotic Reaction, dropped in by a former member, Luke, who also brought in an advance copy of the debut album by Adelaide’s surf/garage kings, DieselWitch, his current band... so of course we played a track from both, ending the show with a ‘different’ take on Duran Duran’s “Planet Earth” by veteran Adelaide punks, Fear and Loathing!

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

Lift To Experience – These are the Days     (The Texas/JerUSAlem Crossroads)

Mother Tucker’s Yellow Duck – One Ring Jane     (7”single 1969 Canada)

Death In June – Burn Again     (Abandon Tracks)

Suns Of Arqa – Tomorrow Never Knows [Beatles’ cover]     (Solar Activity 1979-2001)

the West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band – Suppose they give a war and no-one comes     (‘Volume 2: (Breaking Through)’ LP 1968 USA)

Wooden Shjips – Home     (West)

Los Hories – Dead Town     (‘Antipodean Screams Vol. 2’ compilation 2007 Australia)

the Suburban Lawns – Gidget Goes to Hell     (7”single 1979 USA)

the Dacios – Liberty Lovers     (Monkey’s Blood)

Standard Union – The Slide     (‘DepthCharge 10: 3D Radio compilation of local music’ 2011 Adelaide, Aust.)

the Hands of Time – The 4^th Nail     (‘Antipodean Screams Vol. 1’ compilation 2003 Aust.)

the Psychotic Reaction – A Moment Of Clarity     (Genre Music Is The Enemy)

GG Alan Bindig – Kitty Always Wins     (‘DepthCharge 10...’)

Espers – Caroline     (Espers 111)

Golden Triangle – The Melting Wall     (Double Jointer)

the Outsiders – Doctor     (‘CQ’ LP 1968 Netherlands)

the Molting Vultures – Caccamawartoo     (Get a Grip!)

the P.90s – Send Me Love     (‘Monday’ cdEP 2011 Adelaide, Aust.)

Thee Attacks – Are You?     (SHINDIG! magazine compilation : ‘It’s Happening Vol. 2’ 2010 UK)

Even – Show Me Some Discipline [Sunnyboys cover]     (Happy Man : a tribute to the Sunnyboys)

the Easybeats – I’ll Make You Happy     (‘Easyfever’ EP 1966 Aust.)

Scorpio Tube – Yellow Listen    (7”single b-side 1970? USA)

Lothar and the Hand People – Machines     (‘Presenting...’ LP 1968 USA)

DieselWitch – Kicks     (DieselWitch Will Kill You)

Fear and Loathing – Planet Earth [Duran Duran cover]     (Full Mongrel)