Technicolour Dreaming

It was a bit of an unusual show this week, with the Cat only present for the first hour and the Brat flying solo on the remainder - it's tricky living in the country and coming in each week, but when one of us needs to stay in town for 'medical experiments' [heh heh!] it gets downright complicated due to the single bus home which leaves from the city... and so on and so forth. Suffice to say, we managed to negotiate all the trials and tribulations. The Cat returned to the Cape and the Brat was successfully delivered into his world of pain in the hospital - said illness also being the reason for the lateness & briefness of this spiel. So here is the intro......   Our Band of the Week was the inimitable Roxy Music, a band who should need no introduction though sadly, probably do – unfortunately most people remember the “Avalon” period – so take a look at their film-clips (and it was film in those days!) for a reminder of this innovative group at their peak. Fittingly, early Roxy stalwart, Brian Eno, rounded off the show this week with a track from his debut solo album “Here Come The Warm Jets” replete with a suitably strange clip from 1976, posted a few years back....

.....and here is the playlist plus moving pictures.....

Heaven’s Gateway Drugs – Apropos      (“Apropos” 2014 Indiana, USA)

Cambrian Explosion – Umbra od Mind      (“The Sun EP” 2013 Portland, Oregon, USA)

Money Go Round – Endless Sun       (digital single 2013 Sydney, Australia)

Frantic Chant – Broken Biscuit Head (Mode rocker remix)      (“Ruthless Superman” rarities anthology 2014  Scotland, UK)

Napolleon – Rendez-Vous      (recorded 2014 Indonesia – taken from “Psychedelic Underground Generation : PUG #23” compilation 2014 Belgium)

Mordecai Smyth – Out in the Stars with DSP      (“Trip Inside this House Vol.6” compilation 2013 UK)

Balduin – Mirror, Mirror      (“All in a Dream” LP 2014 Bern, Switzerland)

The Karovas Milkshake – Do you Wanna Eat Me/Godiva      (mp3 2013 Moscow, Russia)

Bronco Bullfrog – Marmalade      (7”single 2014 UK)

Stuart Gray [aka Stu Spasm] – Rays of the Sun     (mp3 2013 Australia/USA – taken from “Trip Inside this House Vol.6” compilation 2013 UK)

Boeing Duveen and the Beautiful Soup – Which Dreamed It      (7”single b-side [to Jabberwocky] 1968 UK)

Cheval Sombre – She Went Walking in the Rain      (“Mad Love” 2013 UK)

Prince Rupert’s Drops – Death March      (“Climbing Light” 2014 New York, USA)

Dave Davies – Susannah’s Still Alive      (7”single 1967 UK)

Sullivan – Hashish Faction      (7”single 1966 France)

the Grease Arrestor – Strange Love      (“What Was, Is” 2014 Sydney)

    ###   “BAND OF THE WEEK”   –   Roxy Music   ###

Roxy Music – Pyjamarama      (7” single 1973 UK)

Roxy Music –The Bob (Medley)      (“Roxy Music” LP 1972 UK)

Roxy Music – Editions of You      (“For Your Pleasure” LP 1973 UK)

Roxy Music – Re-Make/Re-Model     (“Roxy Music” LP 1972 UK)

Elephant Stone – Three Poisons      (“Three Poisons” LP 2014 Montreal, Canada)

the Human Expression – Optical Sound     (7”single 1967 USA)

the State of Mickey and Tommy – I Know What I Would Be      (7” single 1967 UK/France)

Soft Hearted Scientists – Flying Horses      (“The Slow Cyclone”  2014 Wales, UK)

Brian Eno – Driving Me Backwards      (“Here Come the Warm Jets” LP 1974 UK)

Technicolour Dreaming

This week we went from Adam & the Ants to All Night Radio and Ian Skelly,  Les Fleurs de Pavot to Beaulieu Porch, Australian 90’s icons Clouds and a 1967 Brian Wilson demo, a few covers [including a briefly-reformed lineup of local punk legends, the Dagoes, covering their own classic 1980 version of a Roky Erikson gem, plus Espers acid-folk take on the Blue Oyster Cult], some new  and older vinyl & CD releases incorporating a bunch of re-issues from the 60’s, as well as a duo of songs featuring giant squids [one of which includes the immortal rhyme “the squid was vicious, Sid was delicious...”] amongst other things – what else could it be but the Cat & the Brat’s “Technicolour Dreaming” streaming psychedelic psounds to the world on Adelaide’s own 3D Radio.....

..... so here is the playlist, plus some visual accompaniment.....

the Dagoes – We Sell Soul [Roky Erikson cover]     (“Oh Yeah” 2008 Adelaide, South Australia)

Dead Skeletons – Cemalim      (“ORD” EP 2013 Iceland/Germany)

Groep 1850 – Mother No-Head      (7”single 1967 Netherlands – taken from “Group 1850 – Mother No-Head : Their 45’s” anthology 2012)

 

Adam & the Ants – Plan 9 Failed      (“Dirk Wears White Sox” LP 1979 London, UK)

Brian Wilson – Surf’s Up      (demo 1967 Los Angeles, USA)

Heaven’s Gateway Drugs – Missed Connections (Shadows)      (“CPF Cassette” 2012 Indiana, USA)

Gift of Love [aka the Atlantics] – Flowers      (7”single 1967 Australia)

Brian Jonestown Massacre – Viholliseni Maala [In the Land of my Enemy]      (“Revolution Number Zero” EP 2013 USA/Germany)

Beaulieu Porch – Greencroft Street      (“Beaulieu Porch” 2012 UK)

Soft Hearted Scientists – Seaside Sid & the Giant Squid       (“False Lights” 2013 Cardiff, UK)

Baterz – Giant Squids      (“the Red Single” 1999 Adelaide, South Australia)

Espers – Flaming Telepaths [Blue Oyster Cult cover]       (“The Weed Tree” EP 2004 USA)

the Fourmyula – Nature      (7”single 1969 New Zealand – taken from “Inside the Hutt : New Zealand's Pop-Psych Kingpins 1968-1969“ anthology 2013)

All Night Radio – Sky Bicycle [You’ve Been Ringing]      (“Spirit Stereo Frequency” 2004 USA)

Clouds – Alchemy’s Dead      (“Thunderhead” LP 1993 Australia)

Headband – Stay With Me       (7”single b-side [to Country Lady] 1973 Adelaide, South Australia)

Damon – Song for a Gypsy      (“Song for a Gypsy” LP 1969 Hollywood, USA)

Abunai! – Citadel [Rolling Stones cover]      (“Pull Up The Paisley Covers : a Psychedelic Omnibus” compilation 2002 USA)

Les Fleurs de Pavot - Pourquoi L'amour À Deux      ("Les Fleurs de Pavot" LP 1968 France)

Sudden Death of Stars – I’m Not Among Believers      (“Getting Up, Going Down” 2013 Brittany, France)

the Luck of Eden Hall – Black Sheep [SRC cover]      (“Luck of Eden Hall” EP 2013 Chicago, USA)

Ian Skelly – Paper Sky      (“Cut From A Star” 2012 Scotland, UK)

El Futuro Sonidos – Like Stars, Like Dust      (“The Throwaway Age” faux 60’s-movie soundtrack 2012 USA)

the David – I’m Not Alone      (“Another Day, Another Time” LP 1967 USA)

Procession – Mind Magician      (“Procession” LP 1968 Australia)

Mayfly – Blue Sofa      (“Mayfly” LP 1971 Holland)

Sky Picnic – Seven      (“Farther In This Fairytale” LP 2011 Brooklyn, USA)