Technicolour Dreaming

Some old 60's Aussie favourites, a few new discoveries, and the usual suspects - this week's show had it all. I particularly liked the track by Sir Robin and the Longbowmen, who hail from Dresden in Germany - can't believe that I hadn't come across this band before! Somehow I also managed to miss the latest release from The Selfish Cales, which came out last year - more psych goodness from these natives of Torino, Italy. Speaking of which, I've also included (at the end of the blog) a groovy promo clip that I came across, of the 2014 Psych Out 25 Degrees festival in Italy - the things you find on YouTube. Enjoy!

Zoot - Turn Your Head (7" single (b-side to "Eleanor Rigby") 1970 Adelaide, Australia)

Joel Jerome - Strawberry Fields Para Siempre  (digital single 2014 Los Angeles, USA)

Pesky Gee! - Where is My Mind?  ("Exclamation Mark" LP 1969 UK)

Espectrostatic - Carpe Nacht ("The Daemonum" EP 2014 Texas, USA)

The Glass Menagerie - Frederick Jordan  (7" single 1968 Manchester UK)

Go-Go Sapien - Sick Love  ("This Body Is Wrong for Us" 2011 Melbourne, Australia)

Marty Rhone - Every Minute of You  (7" single (b-side to "Nature Boy") 1966 Melbourne, Australia)

Icarus Peel - Auntie Powders Her Nose  ("Icarus Peel vs Mordecai Smyth Barnburner" 10" EP 2014 UK)

Mike Furber - Watch Me Burn  (7" single (b-side to "I'm on Fire") 1969 Sydney, Australia)

Mt Mountain - Chantry  (7" single 2014 Perth, Australia)

Jon - Upstairs Downstairs  (7" single 1966 Brisbane, Australia)

Dino, Desi and Billy - The Rebel Kind  (7" single 1965 Hollywood, California USA)

Ultraviolet - Ocean Rain  ("Gods Will Be Gods: A Reverence to the Bunnymen" 2016 Austin, Texas USA)

Borderline Symphony - Rubik's Cube  ("Borderline Symphony" 2016 Switzerland)

Psychedelic Trips to Death - Bang Bang [Nancy Sinatra]  ("The Psychedelic Sounds of The Blog That Celebrates Itself Vol 2" 2013 Greece)

Sir Robin and the Longbowmen - I Would Like  ("Active Listener Sampler #34" 2015 Dresden, Germany) 

The David - Light of Your Mind  (7" Single 1969 UK)

Demontre - The Vale Of Health Part 2  ("Masculin/Feminin" 2010 UK)

The Citradels - Every Christian Lion Hearted Man Will Show You [Bee Gees]   ("The Psychedelic Sounds of The Blog That Celebrates Itself Vol 2" 2013 Melbourne, Australia)

The Who - Armenia City In The Sky  ("The Who Sell Out" LP 1967 UK)

The Selfish Cales - See Tomorrow's Shores  ("Throw Your Watch to the Water" 2015 Torino, Italy)

Sundays and Cybele - Almost Heaven  ("Heaven" 2015 Japan)

Josephines - The Cutter ("Gods Will Be Gods: A Reverence to the Bunnymen" 2016 Rio Grande, Brazil)

Felius Andromeda - Meditations  (7" single 1967 UK)

The Mushroom Club - Into Something Good [Herman's Hermits]  ("The Psychedelic Sounds of The Blog That Celebrates Itself Vol 2" 2013 Glasgow, UK)

Shapes Have Fangs - Dinner In The Dark  ("Dinner in the Dark" 2011 USA)

Pin Ups - Some Candy Talking [Jesus and Mary Chain]   ("Psychocandy Revisited" 2015)
The Baudelaires - Colour Mary  (digital single 2015 Melbourne, Australia)

Trabants - Mecca  ("Freakout" 2015 Los Angeles, USA)

The Octopus Syng - Woman  ("Hollow Dust/Rochelle Salt" LP 2016 Helsinki, Finland)

Plus an old promo clip for the 2014 "Psych Out 25 Degrees" festival in Italy:

Technicolour Dreaming

Some old 60's Aussie favourites, a few new discoveries, and the usual suspects - this week's show had it all. I particularly liked the track by Sir Robin and the Longbowmen, who hail from Dresden in Germany - can't believe that I hadn't come across this band before! Somehow I also managed to miss the latest release from The Selfish Cales, which came out last year - more psych goodness from these natives of Torino, Italy. Speaking of which, I've also included (at the end of the blog) a groovy promo clip that I came across, of the 2014 Psych Out 25 Degrees festival in Italy - the things you find on YouTube. Enjoy!

Zoot - Turn Your Head (7" single (b-side to "Eleanor Rigby") 1970 Adelaide, Australia)

Joel Jerome - Strawberry Fields Para Siempre  (digital single 2014 Los Angeles, USA)

Pesky Gee! - Where is My Mind?  ("Exclamation Mark" LP 1969 UK)

Espectrostatic - Carpe Nacht ("The Daemonum" EP 2014 Texas, USA)

The Glass Menagerie - Frederick Jordan  (7" single 1968 Manchester UK)

Go-Go Sapien - Sick Love  ("This Body Is Wrong for Us" 2011 Melbourne, Australia)

Marty Rhone - Every Minute of You  (7" single (b-side to "Nature Boy") 1966 Melbourne, Australia)

Icarus Peel - Auntie Powders Her Nose  ("Icarus Peel vs Mordecai Smyth Barnburner" 10" EP 2014 UK)

Mike Furber - Watch Me Burn  (7" single (b-side to "I'm on Fire") 1969 Sydney, Australia)

Mt Mountain - Chantry  (7" single 2014 Perth, Australia)

Jon - Upstairs Downstairs  (7" single 1966 Brisbane, Australia)

Dino, Desi and Billy - The Rebel Kind  (7" single 1965 Hollywood, California USA)

Ultraviolet - Ocean Rain  ("Gods Will Be Gods: A Reverence to the Bunnymen" 2016 Austin, Texas USA)

Borderline Symphony - Rubik's Cube  ("Borderline Symphony" 2016 Switzerland)

Psychedelic Trips to Death - Bang Bang [Nancy Sinatra]  ("The Psychedelic Sounds of The Blog That Celebrates Itself Vol 2" 2013 Greece)

Sir Robin and the Longbowmen - I Would Like  ("Active Listener Sampler #34" 2015 Dresden, Germany) 

The David - Light of Your Mind  (7" Single 1969 UK)

Demontre - The Vale Of Health Part 2  ("Masculin/Feminin" 2010 UK)

The Citradels - Every Christian Lion Hearted Man Will Show You [Bee Gees]   ("The Psychedelic Sounds of The Blog That Celebrates Itself Vol 2" 2013 Melbourne, Australia)

The Who - Armenia City In The Sky  ("The Who Sell Out" LP 1967 UK)

The Selfish Cales - See Tomorrow's Shores  ("Throw Your Watch to the Water" 2015 Torino, Italy)

Sundays and Cybele - Almost Heaven  ("Heaven" 2015 Japan)

Josephines - The Cutter ("Gods Will Be Gods: A Reverence to the Bunnymen" 2016 Rio Grande, Brazil)

Felius Andromeda - Meditations  (7" single 1967 UK)

The Mushroom Club - Into Something Good [Herman's Hermits]  ("The Psychedelic Sounds of The Blog That Celebrates Itself Vol 2" 2013 Glasgow, UK)

Shapes Have Fangs - Dinner In The Dark  ("Dinner in the Dark" 2011 USA)

Pin Ups - Some Candy Talking [Jesus and Mary Chain]   ("Psychocandy Revisited" 2015)
The Baudelaires - Colour Mary  (digital single 2015 Melbourne, Australia)

Trabants - Mecca  ("Freakout" 2015 Los Angeles, USA)

The Octopus Syng - Woman  ("Hollow Dust/Rochelle Salt" LP 2016 Helsinki, Finland)

Plus an old promo clip for the 2014 "Psych Out 25 Degrees" festival in Italy:

Technicolour Dreaming

Sometimes the direction an edition of Technicolour Dreaming takes is as much of a surprise for the announcers as for the listeners! One song suggests another, and before we know it, we’re on a rollercoaster ride of sound! This was such a week, with some of our favourites – Plasticland, Go-Go Sapien, Jacques Dutronc and the Bee Gees for instance - interspersed with oddities – such as a bizarre version Big Star’s Holocaust by Los Bichos – and brand, spanking new releases (from Buried Feather and the Love Parade). A couple of 1980 Adelaide vinyl treasures from Nuvo Bloc and the Noise rounded out a particularly satisfying show! Hope you enjoyed it as much as we did bringing it to you!

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

801 – Third Uncle      (‘801 Live’ LP 1976 UK)

Plasticland – Iris of the Waterfall [feat. narration by Twink]      (unreleased 7”single b-side [to Seize the Time] 1989 USA – taken from ‘Make Yourself a Happening Machine’ anthology 2006 USA)

Buried Feather – In the Sun      (CD-single 2012 Melbourne, Australia)

Go-Go Sapien – Sick Love       (‘This Body Is Wrong For Us’ 2011 Melbourne, Aust.)

Lene Lovich – Say When      (‘Stateless’ LP 1978 UK)

Der Plan – Persisches Cowboy-Golf      (‘Geri Regi’ LP 1980 Germany)

Jacques Dutronc – Metamorpheses      (‘Jacques Dutronc’ LP 1967 France)

Makers of the Dead Travel Fast – Tael of the Saeghors      (7”single 1980 Sydney, Aust.)

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

Machinations – Average Inadequacy      (7”single 1980 Sydney, Aust.)

Nuvo Bloc – Kidney X-Ray      (7”single b-side [to Atomic Fiction] 1980 Adelaide, Aust.)

the Noise – Think About Tomorrow Tomorrow      (7”single 1981 Adelaide, Aust.)

Los Bichos – Holocaust [Big Star cover]      (‘In Bitter Pink’ 1991 Pamplona, Spain – taken from ‘Not the Singer but the Songs: an Alex Chilton Tribute’ compilation 1991 Spain)

Sex Wizards – Freight Train      (‘Grey Matter White Matter’ 2012 Adelaide, Aust.)

the Cramps – Garbage Man      (‘Songs The Lord Taught Us’ LP 1980 USA)

Stu Spasm – Kill Somebody Today      (‘Popular Male Vocal’ EP 2004 USA/Adelaide, Aust.)

the Bee Gees – The Earnest Of Being George      (‘Horizontal’ LP 1967 UK/Aust.)

the Love Parade – Surfin’ NSW      (CD-single 2012 Aust. – from the forthcoming album ‘King Me’)

Thee Mysterious Tapeman – Ace of Spades      (rec. 2006 New Zealand – taken from ‘Antipodean Screams Vol. 2’ compilation 2007 Aust.)

the Medicine – Send the Rain     (‘Psychedelica 4’ compilation 2010 UK)

the Iron Butterfly – Gentle as it may seem     (‘Heavy’ LP 1968 California, USA)

the Seeds – (You’re) Pushin’ Too Hard      (7”single 1965 [re-issued 1966] USA – taken from ‘the Seeds’ LP 1966 Los Angeles, USA)

the Higher State – Yeah For Sure      (‘From Round Here’ 2006 UK)

the Dukes of Stratosphear – Brainiac’s Daughter     (‘Psonic Psunspot’ LP 1987 UK – taken from the ‘XTC as the Dukes of Stratosphear’ boxset 2010 UK)   #

     #   “Band of the Month”

     

Technicolour Dreaming

The Cat and the Brat are back... and thanks to 3D compadre Phil J for filling-in for us again at short notice last week! We devoted half the show to Australian bands this week, beginning with the wonderful Go Go Sapiens from Melbourne, before continuing with acts such as Ride Into The Sun, Thee Wylde Oscars and Love Parade, as well as new local band Summer Flake and fondly-remembered 80’s outfit, Toyland. Spreading out to the rest of the globe, we played new stuff from Gravenhurst and King Tuff, plus a song each from two of this week’s visitors to Adelaide, the Raveonettes and the Brian Jonestown Massacre... and of course there was a track from the Lovetones, our current ‘Band of the Month’! These, and more, and it’s another Technicolour Dreaming for your delectation....

..... and here is the complete playlist.....

Go Go Sapiens – Space Garbage      (‘Merman’ 2009 Melbourne, Australia)

Human Don’t Be Angry – Pet Sounds [Beach Boys cover]     (‘Pet Sounds Revisited’ – MOJO magazine cover CD compilation 2012 UK)

Simply Saucer – I can change my mind     (7”single 1978 USA)

Ride Into The Sun – Drown Your Soul     (7”split-single [with the Amcats] 2012 Adelaide, Australia)

the Amcats – Overtime     (mp3 single 2012 Adelaide, Aust.)

Thee Wylde Oscars – White Light, White Heat [Velvet Underground cover]     (‘Right, Yeah!’ 2010 Melbourne, Aust.)

King Tuff – Anthem      (‘King Tuff’ 2012 USA)

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

Love Parade – Like Lovers Do     (cd-single 2012 Perth, Australia)

the Lemonheads – A Different Drum [Stone Poneys cover]      (cd-single 1990 USA)

The Left Banke – Pretty Ballerina     (7”single 1966 USA)

Brian Jonestown Massacre – Blue Order New Monday     (‘Aufheben’ 2012 USA)

Summer Flake – Walk the Plank     (‘Summer Flake’ EP 2012 Adelaide, Aust.)

Moon Duo – Fall-out [Sonic Boom remix]     (‘Mazes – Remixed’ 2012 USA)

the Raveonettes – Veronica Fever     (‘Whip It On’ 2003 USA/Denmark)

the Dolly Rocker Movement – A Sound For Two      (‘A Sound For Two’ EP 2008 Aust.)

the Lovetones – Be What You Want     (cd-single 2003 Aust.)   #

Public Nuisance – America     (7”single 1967 San Francisco, USA)

Toyland – Night Flight Over Palestine     (‘Toyland’ EP 1984 Adelaide, Australia)

    #  “Band of the Month”

Technicolour Dreaming

As our nod to the holiday season, we thought we’d feature a pile of songs about ‘The Trip’, and as you can imagine, there was no shortage to choose from... from Dr Timothy Leary to Kim Fowley, with Dantalion’s Chariot, the Intercontinental Playboys and Bobby and Laurie thrown in as a tongue in cheek warning against the perils of travelling.  For this penultimate show of the year, we also played a slew of Cat and Brat favourites including Black Cab, Black Mountain, the soon-to-be-touring Australia Thee Oh Sees and Sun Araw, and Canada’s Andrew Douglas Rothbard...  and of course, another pick from our “Band of the Month”, 60’s hit makers Paul Revere and the Raiders...

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

Black Cab – Church in Berlin     (‘Call Signs’ 2009 Australia)

 

the Sand Pebbles – Altered Images      (‘Atlantis Regrets Nothing’ 2006 Aust.)

the Warlocks – Zombie Like Lovers     (‘Heavy Deavy Skull Lover’ 2008 USA)

Shadow Reichenstein – Borgo Pass/Dracula     (‘Three More Haunted Hits’ cdEP 2003 USA)

the Beasts of Bourbon – Drop Out [Scientists cover]     (‘Axeman’s Jazz’ LP 1984 Aust.)

Go-Go Sapien – Hatewind     (‘This Body is Wrong for Us’ 2011 Aust.)

 

Sun Araw – Fit For Caesar     (‘Ancients Romans’ 2011 USA)

Andrew Douglas Rothbard – Rabbit Hole     (‘Abandoned Meander’ 2009 Canada)

Tame Impala – Lucidity    (‘Inner Speaker’ 2010 Aust.)

Black Mountain – Angels     (‘In The Future’ 2008 Canada)

Thee Oh Sees – Crack In Your Eye     (‘The Dream’ EP 2011 USA)

 

Donovan – The Trip     (‘Sunshine Superman’ LP 1965 UK)

Kim Fowley – The Trip     (7” single 1966 USA)

the Morning After Girls – The Trip [Kim Fowley cover]     (‘He Put The Bomp In The Bomp: Tribute to Greg Shaw’ compilation 2007 USA)

Park Avenue Playground – The Trip     (7” single 1967 USA – taken from “2131 South Michigan Avenue... USA and Destination Records” compilation 2009)

Dr Timothy Leary – Freakout/Turn On, Tune In     (‘Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out’ LP 1967 USA)

Dantalion’s Chariot – Madman Running Through the Fields     (7” single 1967 UK)

 

Bobby and Laurie – Hitchhiker     (7” single 1965 Aust.)

the Intercontinental Playboys – Driving Sideways     (‘Hymns of the Flesh’ 2009 Aust.)

the Seeds – Can’t Seem to Make You Mine     (7” single 1965 USA)

 

Paul Revere and the Raiders – Just Like Me     (‘Just Like Us!’ LP 1965 USA)   #

 

     # “Band of the Month”

Technicolour Dreaming

Ahhhh... the Cat and the Brat were reunited on the airwaves this week after an enforced bunch of solo shows (two heads are always better than one!) resulting in a musical melange ranging from the neo-psych stylings of Prince Rama to  Josephine XV’s riposte to Napoleon XIV. We played two distinct 60’s bands called Kaleidoscope from two different continents, 80’s Adelaide rockabilly legends the Milky Bar Kids, the Mexican garage riot of Los Explosivos and was that an ode to decapitation by Dutch band Groep 1850? We also featured an interview with Melbourne psych-poppers Go Go Sapien prior to their Adelaide shows, including ‘behind-the-scenes’ anecdotes about the limited-release film which accompanies their new album, an homage to classic Australian schlock-horror B-movies... very groovy indeed! And we bid farewell to DieselWitch Will Kill You as our ‘Album of the Month’...

..... so here is the full playlist..... 

Prince Rama – Portaling      (‘Trust Now’ 2011 USA)

Plasticland – Alexander [Pretty Things cover]     (‘Colour Appreciation’ LP 1984 USA)

3D TV – A Summation Of All These Burdens     (orig. recorded 1991 – released on ‘Burn Your Fingers on the Sun’ compilation 2009 Australia)

Les Goths – Out of the Sun     (7”single 1968 Normandy, France)

the Masters Apprentices – Buried and Dead     (7”single 1967 Adelaide, Australia)

Josephine XV – I’m Happy They Took You Away      (7”single 1966 New York. USA)

Kurt Vile – It’s Alright     (‘So Outta Reach’ 2011 USA)

City Riots – She Never Wants to Dance     (‘In My Head’ cdEP 2011 Adelaide, Australia)

the Honey Pies – Henny Penny     (‘Carpe Carp’ 2011 Adelaide, Australia)

the Milky Bar Kids – If You Remember Me     (orig. released on ‘Regular Rockabilly’ Australian compilation LP 1984 – taken from ‘SouthBound’ compilation 2011 Adelaide, Australia)

Los Explosivos – Hey Monstro!     (7”single 2009 Mexico)

the Great Apes – Sebastapol Street [Procession cover]     (‘Tomorrow Is Today’ compilation 2006 Australia)

-          phone interview with Will Hindmarsh from Go Go Sapien

Go Go Sapien – Sick Love     (‘This Body Is Wrong For Us’ 2011 Australia)

Van Cleef – Barracuda     (‘Zapatistas!’ cdEP 2011 Adelaide, Australia)

Groep 1850 – Mother No-Head     (7”single 1967 Holland)

Kaleidoscope – A Dream For Julie     (7”single 1968 UK)

Kaleidoscope – Keep Your Mind Open     (‘Side Trips’ LP 1967 USA)

Scars – Your Attention Please     (‘Author! Author!’ LP 1981 Scotland, UK)

DieselWitch – Try Me     (‘DieselWitch Will Kill You!’ LP 2011 Adelaide, Australia)   #

        # “Album of the Month”

Technicolour Dreaming

Lots of local and Australian music on this week’s show from bands such as the P90’s and Mondo Phase Band from Adelaide, and the likes of WitchHats and Lords of Gravity from around Australia, but with cuts from the rest of the world as well, from bands such as Thee Oh Sees, the Monkees and Ghost. There was an interview with a couple of members of the Baron to promote their CD launch and, of course, a track from our album of the month, DieselWitch Will Kill You... all presented by a solo Peter Brat.

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

Ghost – Water Door Yellow Gate     (‘In Stormy Night’ 2007 Japan)

Wire – Two People in a Room     (‘154’ LP 1979 UK)

the Sex Pistols – Submission [Rotten mix]     (demo 1977 UK)

the Brian Jonestown Massacre – This is why you love me     (‘The Singles Collection’ 2011 USA)

Black Mountain – Don’t run our hearts around     (‘Black Mountain’ 2007 USA)

Dallas – I sold my soul to the devil and he said I was cheap [DJ Fuckitup remix]     (‘4 Top 10 Hits’ 2005 Adelaide, South Australia)

the Demon Parade – All the Cool Kids     (CD single 2011 Aust.)

Mondo Phase Band – Horseshoe     (7”split-single [with Nothing People – USA] 2011 Adelaide, Aust.)

WitchHats – The Bounty      (‘Pleasure Syndrome’ 2011 Aust.)

the P90’s – Kraken     (‘Songs For Plastic Savages’ 2011 Adelaide, Aust.)

Pimpin’ Horus – Stranger      (‘House of Horus’ 2010 Adelaide, Aust.)

the Baron – Grace     (‘The Baron’ cdEP 2011 Adelaide, Aust.)

    ...... interview with the Baron.....

Wolf People – Time [Pink Floyd cover]     (from Mojo magazine CD : ‘Dark Side of the Moon- the Return’ 2011 UK)

the Monkees – P.O.Box 9817 [alt. mix]     (‘The Birds, The Bees and the Monkees’ CD re-issue)

Lords of Gravity – Come On [Atlantics cover]     (‘Contact’ 2005 Aust.)

Puta Madre Brothers – Para Su Madre     (7”single 2011 Melbourne, Aust.)

Thee Oh Sees – Wrong Idea     (‘Carrion Crawlers’ 2011 USA)

Go Go Sapien – Celebrities Are Your Gods Now     (‘This Body Is Wrong For Us’ 2011 Melbourne, Aust.)

DieselWitch – Voodoo Doll     (‘DieselWitch Will Kill You’ 2011 Adelaide, Aust.)   #

             #   “Album Of The Month”