Technicolour Dreaming

And after an absence of nearly 3 months, The Cat finally returns to the airwaves, though without husband and partner-in-music, Peter Brat, who tragically passed away in July. All those who knew The Brat, whether personally, or by association with Three D Radio’s “Technicolour Dreaming”, “Obscured by …”, or his musical career, will surely agree that his death is great loss to music of all kinds, and especially his particular love, anything that could remotely be construed as psychedelic. 

Hats off to Harry and Michael Hunter, who have been keeping the Technicolour Dreaming driver’s seat warm this past couple of months & doing a fine job- the show must go on!

Needless to say, the “comeback show” featured many Cat and Brat faves from round the world, including The Fast Camels, Jim Noir, Nick Nicely, Thee Oh Sees, Vibravoid and Dolly Rocker Movement from the past decade, Roxy Music and Brian Eno from the 70’s, and many more. Particularly exciting is the news that Moon Duo will finally be playing in Adelaide in November, after their disappointing cancellation as the support for John Spencer Blues Explosion a while back. Hopefully an interview with Riley and Sanae is in the works when they get here - fingers crossed !

So …. until next week, here is the playlist plus associated visuals..... including footage of The Pretty Things performing “SF Sorrow” for the first time in its entirety, at Abbey Road Studios in 1998.

The Atlantics - Take A Trip     (“Collectibles” 2011 Australia)

High Learys - Letter to Alice     (CD single, 2015 Perth, Australia)

Fast Camels - 50 Things on your Mind     ("The Magic Optician" 2007 Glasgow, UK)

Nick Nicely - 49 Cigars     ("49 Cigars" EP 2015 UK)

Toy - Conductor      ("Join the Dots” 2013 UK)

The Moles - We are the Moles (pt 1)      (7" single 1968 UK)

Sand Pebbles - Elephant Gun      ("Atlantis Regrets Nothing" 2006 Australia)

Roxy Music - Out of the Blue     ("Country Life” LP 1974 UK)

Jim Noir - The Cheese of Jim's Command     ("Jimmy's Show" 2012 UK)

Halasan Bazar - Scroll Down     ("How to be Ever Happy" 2012, Copenhagen, Denmark)

The Mystic Tide - Psychedelic Journey Part 1     (7" single b-side [to "Frustration"] 1967 New York, USA)

Moon Duo - Slow Down Low     ("Shadow of the Sun” 2014 USA)

Dolly Rocker Movement - The Only One     ("Our Days Mind the Tyme" 2009 Australia) 

The Seed Coat - She was Happy     (“Adolescence” 2014 Stockholm, Sweden) 

Brian Eno - Dead Finks Don't Talk     ("Here Come the Warm Jets” LP  1973 UK)

July - Friendly Man     ("July" LP 1968 UK)

Pretty Things - SF Sorrow is Born     ("SF Sorrow" LP 1968 UK)

Baby Woodrose - Nothing is Real     ("Third Eye Surgery" 2012 Denmark)

Vibravoid - The White Ship  [HP Lovecraft]     ("Stepping Stone” 7” EP 2015 Dusseldorf, Germany)    

Galileo 7 - You're Not Dreaming     ("False Memory Lane" 2014 UK)

The Dead Heir - Wolves At my Door     (CD Single 2015 Melbourne, Australia)

The Who - Armenia City in the Sky     (“The Who Sell Out" LP 1967 UK)

Thee Oh Sees - Sticky Hulks     ("Mutilator Defeated at Last" 2015 USA)

And as an extra bit of eye candy, The Pretty Things performing their 1968 LP “SF Sorrow” in it’s entirety, at Abbey Road Studios in 1998, narrated by Arthur Brown - 

Technicolour Dreaming

Apologies for the late posting and abbreviated introduction ..... does “technical difficulties” strike a chord?  Perhaps more of a dis-chord!?  Anyway, this week we ventured into New Zealand’s golden era of psychedelia, which ran far longer than elsewhere, going  from about 1966 through to the early 1970’s, with a supportive industry  of small studios recording this output on vinyl, with most being distributed a large company, EMI and preserved for posterity.  Hence the large number of bands and songs from all over New Zealand to be found in the on-going “A Day In My Mind’s Mind” compilation series which we featured as our “Compilation of the Week”. Of course we also played our usual selection of old and new from around the world for your edification... so, barring any further technical problems, we’ll join you again next week, whilst in the meantime.....

..... here is the playlist, complete with visual aids.....

Sun Dial - Plains of Nazca      ("Other Way Out" LP 1990 UK)

Sonny and the Sunsets - Green Blood      ("Antenna to the Afterworld" 2013 San Francisco, USA)

the Fast Camels - Der Nazi Tea     ("The Magic Optician" 2007 Scotland, UK)

Schnauser - Walking Stick & Cat      ("Where Business Meets Fashion" 2013 Wales, UK)

Johnny Young - Every Christian Lionhearted Man Will Show You [Bee Gees cover]      ("Surprises" LP 1968 Australia)

the Striped Bananas - Lady Sunshine      ("Lady Sunshine" 2013 Ann Arbor, Michigan USA)

Dickens - Genocide      ( "Royal Incarnation" LP 1969 France)

Jim Noir - The Ancoats Dream      ("Finnish Line" 2014 Scotland UK)

the Luck of Eden Hall - The Crystal Ship (Doors cover)      ("The Luck of Eden Hall" EP 2012 Chicago, USA)

Diane Coffee - WWWoman      ("My Friend Fish" 2013 USA)

Brian Jonestown Massacre - Don't Do It      ("Revolution Zero" EP 2013 USA)

Salvadarlings - Beta Swan     (digital single 2014 Brisbane, Australia – taken from "Going Steady Records Mixtape #5" compilation 2014 Adelaide, Australia)

Mordecai Smyth - Georgina Jones      (7"single 2012 UK)

The Third Party - Russian Spy and I       (7"single b-side [to Now It's Time] 1967 Adelaide, Australia)

The Sunsets - Hot Generation     (7"single 1967 Australia)

Judy Carne - Sock It To Me (7"single 1968 USA)

    #  “Compilation of the Week” 

         "A Day In My Mind's Mind – Volumes 1-4”   #

Human Instinct - A Day in My Mind's Mind      (7"single 1967 New Zealand – taken from "A Day In My Mind's Mind Vol. 1" compilation 2005 NZ)

Timberjack Donaghue - Dahli Mohammed      (7"single 1972 NZ – taken from "A Day In My Mind's Mind, Vol. 2 - Fantasies, Polka Dots & Flowers" compilation 2008 NZ)

Ray Columbus and the Art Collection - Snap, Crackle, Pop      (recorded 1968 USA, released on a 7" EP 1993 NZ – taken from "A Day In My Mind's Mind, Vol. 3 - Spinning Spinning Spinning" compilation 2008 NZ)

Lew Pryme - Gracious Lady (Alice Dee)      (7"single 1972 NZ – taken from "A Day In My Mind's Mind, Vol. 4 - Hurt, Love and Fire" compilation 2014 NZ)

Aether Beach - The Same Things      ("Aether Beach" EP 2014 Sydney, Australia)

El Goodo - Stuck in the 60's      ("El Goodo" 2006 UK)

Singapore Sling - You Drive Me Insane      ("Tower of Foronicity" 2014 Iceland")

the Koobas - Barricades      ("Koobas" LP 1969 UK)

Brian Eno - Driving Me Backwards      ("Here Come the Warm Jets" LP 1974 UK)

Technicolour Dreaming

There were lots of “cover versions” on the show this week, including ones by bands such as MMOSS, Pesky Gee and the Scientists, to celebrate the arrival of the promo-CDs for the Fruits de Mer Records upcoming ‘September Collection’, centring on their “7 & 7 Is” boxset of seven vinyl 7”singles, featuring current bands each doing ‘covers’ of their favourite songs by a particular US 60’s band. For example, we played one side of the single by King Penguin who chose a pair of songs by the Byrds, and another by the Chemistry Set, who picked Love to cover – we’ll be playing further selections over coming weeks [for more details about upcoming releases check out the FdM website here] Another part of the new collection is the debut single release of Simones “Majic Ship” which we also played – it’s previously only been available on limited edition LPs so hopefully this great song will gain wider exposure now as a single. Amongst other releases we were pleased to be able to share was “Balloon Age” by New Electric Ride, a young UK band who are currently doing a major UK & European tour and getting great reviews in the process. The album is “on high rotation” in our house, as is the brilliant “We Worshipped Cats” LP by Swedish psychedelecists Les Big Byrd – both are serious contenders for “Best Album of 2014”! Another contender, and a welcome surprise in the P.O. box, was a pre-release copy of the latest Soft Hearted Scientists album “The Slow Cyclone”, which is due for release at the end of September; this Welsh band are a “Cat & Brat all-time fave” and yet they just keep getting better and better, so have a listen to them – you won’t be disappointed! Then there was this edition’s “Band of the Week” – the Red Plastic Buddha – who hail from Chicago in the US and who have been making great music for nearly ten years, with their latest LP, “Songs For Mara”, about to be released and hopefully gaining them new fans – one of the tracks we featured, “Little White Pills” is easily one of the catchiest songs we’ve heard all year and features Curvey [from fellow Chicagoans, the Luck of Eden Hall] guesting on guitar – great stuff! And don’t forget that next week is our annual “Radiothon” so please open your hearts and wallets and help support 3D Radio [and, of course, our show Technicolour Dreaming] by subscribing to this great all-volunteer community music radio station – we’ve got a sort of “best of...” show planned for you plus some cool giveaways as “bribes to subscribe”, so until then.....

..... here is the full playlist, plus assorted visuals.....

the Psychedelic  Furs – India         (“The Psychedelic Furs” LP 1980 UK)

Sky Picnic – Upon Further Reflection        (“Her Dawn Wardrobe” 2014 USA)

Simones – Majic Ship         (recorded & released for “Balloon Ride”[private-press-LP 1999 Purple Phrogg Records USA] – re-issued as 7”single 2014 UK)

Quilt – Milo         (“Quilt” 2011 USA)

Fogbound – Whispering Corridors         (7”single 2014 Spain)

the Fast Camels – Penny Pinching Debt Collector         (“Deadrooms and Butterfly Dreams” 2014 Scotland, UK)

White Fence – Fear         (“For the Recently Found Innocent” 2014 USA)

King Penguin – 5D (Fifth Dimension) [Byrds cover]         (recorded 2014 New York, USA – taken from “Fruits de Mer label:‘7 and 7 Is’” vinyl 7”singles box-set 2014 UK)

the Gaye Blades – Ruby Tuesday [Rolling Stones cover]         (7”split-single [with the Girls at Dawn] 2010 New York, USA)

Violet Swells – Miracles of a Clockwork Kingdom         (“The Soft Focus EP” 2014 Tasmania, Australia)

the Scientists – You Only Live Twice [John Barry(James Bond theme) / Nancy Sinatra cover]         (orig. 7”single 1985 Perth, Australia - taken from "Weird Love" LP 1986 Australia)

Soft Hearted Scientists – Drifting Away         (“The Slow Cyclone” 2014 Wales, UK)

MMOSS – Cathy’s Clown [Everly Brothers cover]         (“Trouble In Mind Record Store Day 2013 Covers Split-EP” compilation EP 2013 USA)

Les Big Byrd – They Worshipped Cats         (“They Worshipped Cats” 2014 Sweden)

the Chemistry Set – Live and Let Live [Love cover]        (recorded 2014 UK – taken from “Fruits de Mer label:‘7 and 7 Is’” vinyl 7”singles box-set 2014 UK)

Paul Messis – Nightmares         (7”single 2014 UK)

Jason Crest – Teagarden Lane         (recorded 1968 UK, unreleased – taken from “Love, Poetry and Revolution: A Journey Through the British Psychedelic and Underground Scenes 1966-72” compilation boxset 2013 UK)

New Electric Ride – Ode to a Bumblebee / Here Comes the Bloom        (“Balloon Age” 2014 UK)

Pesky Gee – Where Is my Mind? [Vanilla Fudge cover]         (7”single 1969 UK)

the Black Angels – The Occurrence at 4507 South Third Street         (“Clear Lake Forest” EP 2014 USA)

        #   BAND OF THE WEEK   –   the Red Plastic Buddha   #

the Red Plastic Buddha – Daisy Love         (“All Out Revolution” 2011 Chicago, USA)

the Red Plastic Buddha – Little White Pills      (“Songs For Mara” 2014 USA)

the Red Plastic Buddha – I Had Too Much to Dream (Last Night) [Electric Prunes cover]      (“All Out Revolution” 2011 USA)

the Byrds – Why?      (7”single 1966 USA – taken from “the Byrds : There Is A Season” cd/DVD anthology boxset 2006 USA)

Technicolour Dreaming

We began this week with a 2011 track by Jackie Paper [aka Josh Dowell from Philadelphia in the USA], an artist we’d not heard of before but discovered, like many others, through the always intriguing “Active Listener Sampler” series of free compilations emanating from New Zealand via Bandcamp – as we’ve mentioned previously, it’s a great way to find “new favourite bands”! Also featured this week were tracks from new releases by Mexico’s Lorelle Meets The Obsolete, California’s White Manna and Adelaide favourites, the Byzantines, soon to head off on their debut European tour which they’ve heralded by releasing a free digital demo single – hopefully we’ll have their guitarist Rhys on the show as guest-programmer/interviewee to share more details before they leave. Next, our selection for “Band of the Week” in this edition was Chicago’s the Luck of Eden Hall, who have won our hearts over the past few years with their uber-catchy take on modern psychedelic garage pop via their contributions to the Fruits de Mer Records series of releases, not to mention their brilliant albums, the latest of which, “Victoria Moon”, has just been released on groovy purple vinyl – LoEH... we salute you! We also peered into the past with a listen to 60’s singles by the likes of the Ivy League, the State of Mickey and Tommy and the Starfires, plus an obscurity by the Easybeats [who do have a 6-CD boxset of their albums despite our earlier statements to the contrary – our thanks to several listeners who gave us that info!] as well as another in that weird sub-genre of songs which emanated [primarily in the US] in the wake of those bizarre “Paul McCartney Is Dead” rumours in 1968/1969. Finally, we ended with The End and part one of the title track from their sole LP, the 1969 Bill Wyman-produced “Introspection”.  So until next time.....

..... here is the full playlist, plus a few dollops of eye-candy......

Jackie Paper – All Is All      (recorded 2011 Philadelphia, USA – taken from “The Active Listener Psychedelic Sampler : vol. 9” compilation 2013 New Zealand)

White Manna – Hassan       (“Come Down Safari” 2014 California, USA)

Lamposts – Melodramatics      (“...Adolt Cartoon” 2013 USA)

the State of Mickey and Tommy – With Love From 1 to 5      (7”single 1967 UK/France)

Robyn Hitchcock – The Crystal Ship [Doors cover]      (“The Man Upstairs” 2014 UK)

the Byzantines – I’m going to change the world      (mp3 2014 Adelaide, Australia)

Balduin – My Love Soon      (recorded 2012 – taken from “Post From Mars” 2014 Switzerland)

Jacco Gardner – Always On My Mind [Billy Nichols cover]      (“Trouble In Mind Record Store Day 2013 Covers Split-EP” compilation EP 2013 USA)

Hindenburg Lyon – Eden      (recorded 1967 – taken from “Acid & Flowers” compilation 1996 USA)

the Walking Who – Walrus      (mp3 demo 2014 Sydney, Australia)

the Starfires – There’s Still Time       (7”single 1966 USA)

the Mystery Tour – The Ballad of Paul      (7”single 1968 USA – taken from “I Buried Paul – the Paul McCartney Death Rumour Singles” compilation 2012 USA)

the Easybeats – All Gone Boy      (“Easyfever Vol.2” EP 1968 Australia)

Maston – I Go To Sleep [Ray Davies/Kinks cover]      (“Trouble In Mind Record Store Day 2013 Covers Split-EP” compilation EP 2013 USA)

Kelley Stoltz – I Am Your Singer [McCartney cover]      (rec. 2014 USA – taken from “Mojo: Songs in the Key of Paul” magazine-covermount-CD compilation 2014 UK)

Toy – Too Far Gone To Know      (“Join the Dots” 2013 UK)

Lorelle Meets The Obsolete – What’s Holding You      (“Chambers” LP 2014 Guadalajara, Mexico)

            ***   “BAND OF THE WEEK” – THE LUCK OF EDEN HALL   ***

the Luck of Eden Hall – High Heeled Flippers      (“Alligators Eat Gumdrops” 2012 Chicago, USA)

the Luck of Eden Hall – A Carney’s Delirium       (“The Active Listener presents.... Greatest Hits Vol.1” compilation 2014 USA/NZ)

the Luck of Eden Hall – Everybody’s Got Something to Hide (Except for Me and My Monkey) [Beatles cover]      (“Fruits de Mer presents : The White E.P.” double 7”vinyl EP compilation 2012 UK)

Anna Karina – Roller Girl      (7”single France 1967)

Anna Karina - Rollergirl by clkleb

the Fast Camels – Camera Assassin      (“Deadrooms & Butterfly Dreams” 2014 Scotland, UK)

the Yardbirds – Glimpses      (“Little Games” LP 1968 UK)

the Carnaby – Jump & Dance      (7”single 1965 UK)

the Ivy League – My World Fell Down [Sagittarius cover]      (7”single 1966 UK)

the Dials – Bluebell Line      (“End of the Pier” 2013 UK)

the End – Introspection (Part 1)      (“Introspection” LP 1969 UK)