Technicolour Dreaming

A diverse range of bands from round the world - Chile, Sweden, Switzerland, Russia and the Netherlands - found their way onto the Technicolour Dreaming playlist this week, but then again, that’s nothing unusual! This was really a show of old favourites, both Harry’s and The Cat’s, and one of those particular favourites is Adelaide stalwarts, the Molting Vultures, who are playing one of their infrequent gigs at the Grace Emily this Saturday night 26th September, and bringing with them Melbourne’s rock’n’roll garage swamp-meisters Red Motors, - so don’t miss it!!

so… here’s the playlist, with a stack of videos for good measure!

The Zoot - Eleanor Rigby (Beatles)     (7" single 1967 Adelaide, Australia)

Gravenhurst - She Dances     ("The Western Lands" 2007 UK)

Polska Radio One - Time - Eternity     ("Cosmos Inside" 2014  Yekaterinburg, Russia)

The Holydrug Couple - Paisley     ("Noctuary" 2013 Chile)

Les Big Byrd - Back to Bagarmossen     ("They Worshiped Cats" 2014 Sweden)

Espectrostatic - Escape from Witchtropolis      ("Escape From Witchtropolis" 2014 Austin, Texas USA)

New Electric Ride - Marquis De Sade     ("Balloon Age" 2014 UK)

Balduin - Mirror Mirror     ("All in a Dream" 2014 Switzerland)

The Luck of Eden Hall - Dandy Horse     ("Victoria Moon" 2013 Chicago, USA) 

Front Office  - Wow     (7” single b-side [to ”Girl”] 1967 San Jose, California, USA)

Crystal Chandlier - Suicidal Flowers     (7” single b-side [to “Your Land of Love”] 1969 USA)

The Gothic Archies - Crows     ("The Tragic Treasury - Songs from a Series of Unfortunate Events" 2006 Los Angeles, USA)

De Wolff - Don't You Go Up In The Sky     (“Strange Fruits and Undiscovered Plants” 2009 Netherlands )

Molting Vultures - Hang Up     ("Get a Grip”  2007 Adelaide, Australia)

Fuzztones - I Gotta Way With Girls     (released in 2007, New York USA; taken from “He put the Bomp! In the Bomp” compilation)

Von Bondies - Take a Heart     ("Raw & Rare" 2003 Detroit USA)

Blues Magoos - (we aint got) Nothing Yet     (“Psychedelic Lollipop” 1966 New York, USA)

Dirtbombs - Chains of Love     ("Ultraglide in Black” 2001 Detroit, Michigan USA)

Richard in Your Mind - Creation     ("My Volcano" 2010 Sydney, Australia)

Higher State - The Gypsies Graveyard     (“Freakout at the Gallery" 2011 Folkestone, Kent, UK)

Facetime - Channel Love     ("New Centre of the Universe #1” compilation 2012 Geelong, Australia)

Murlocs - Bogan Grove     (“Teepee EP” 2012 Melbourne, Australia)

King Gizzard & Lizard Wizard - Trench Foot     ("New Centre of the Universe #1” 2012 Melbourne, Australia)

Brian Jonestown Massacre - Oh Lord     ("Tepid Peppermint Wonderland")

Mesa Cosa - Day of the Dead     ("Infernal Cakewalk")

House of Fire - Walking Along The Sun     (“House of Fire“ 2008 USA)

Black Angels - Mission District     (“ Directions to See a Ghost” 2008 Austin, Texas USA)

Chemical Brothers -  The Private Psychedelic Reel     (“The Private Psychedelic Reel" 2007 UK)

Technicolour Dreaming

Again this week, we had a pleasant surprise awaiting us at our local general store/post office in the form of a package from State Records in the UK, containing the Thanes latest single plus the new self-titled Higher State album. On the local front, we also featured a track by the lovely LeighStarDust from “the Wedding EP” [which also features new husband Denni’s band Brillig] as well as a cut from the 12” vinyl LP by Tea, plus one from 60’s Adelaide legends, the Twilights, taken from the lavish CD reissue of a few years back which we found at Mr V Records here in Adelaide, which, with a few other remaining independent record shops including Clarity, Funhouse and Rev Records, are still reliable sources of cool, interesting music – there’s nothing quite like flicking through stacks of vinyl and CDs, holding & examining their covers while music whirls around you and engaging in discussions with other music lovers... and with the ongoing vinyl revival, there are still places like these to be sought out and found. But we digress... and with the end of the year rapidly approaching we thought we should begin adding selections from our numerous “favourite finds of 2013” into our playlists over the coming weeks.....

..... so here is this week’s lot with some associated eye-candy.....

Octopus Syng – Listen with the Moths      (“Fruits de Mer 2014 Annual” EP 2013 UK)

the Charlatans – The Shadow Knows [Coasters cover]      (7”single 1966 San Francisco, USA)

the Rain Parade – No Easy Way Down       (“Explosions in the Glass Palace” EP 1984 USA)

Gene Clark – No Other      (7”single 1975 USA)

Colorama – Delaware       (“Good Music” 2012 Wales, UK)

the Dandelion – Paranoid Floyd in a Bliss You Can Hear      (“Strange Case of the Dandelion” 2013 Australia)

the Higher State – Need to Shine      (“the Higher State” LP 2013 Kent, UK)

the Thanes – She’s Coming Back To Me      (7”single 2013 UK)

Keith Allison – Action. Action, Action      (7”single 1966 California, USA)

Tea – Burnside Mums      (“Tea” LP 2013 Adelaide, Australia)

October Country – My Girlfriend is a Witch      (7”single 1968 California, USA)

the See See – The Day That Was The Day      (“Fountayne Mountain” 2012 UK)

Luke Haines – A Badger Called Nick Lowe      (“Rock’n’Roll Animals” 2013 UK)

We The People – My Brother The Man      (7”single 1966 USA)

Melody’s Echo Chamber – I Follow You      (“Melody’s Echo Chamber” 2012 France/Australia)

Eric Charden – Amour Limité Zéro [Dylan cover]      (7” single 1967 France – taken from “Fools On The Hill, Vol.1 – My Tailor Is Rich” compilation 2008)

the Topsy Turbys – Hey Tiger      (7”single b-side [to Snake Woman] 1965 Arizona, USA)

the Luck of Eden Hall – Dandy Horse      (“Victoria Moon” 2013 Chicago, USA)

Sands – Listen to the Sky      (7”single 1967 UK)

the Twilights – Paternosta Row      (“Once Upon a Twilight” LP 1967 Adelaide, Australia)

Glass House – And Now For The Wild      (“A Sun Full & Drowning” 2013 UK)

Laika & the Cosmonauts – The Ipcress File      (“Amazing Colossal Band” 1995 Finland)

Baker Knight & the Knightmares – Hallucination      (7”single 1967 USA)

the Velvet Underground – Satellite of Love [demo]      (recorded 1970 – bonus track on reissue of “Loaded” 2013 USA)

the Glass Family – House of Glass      (7”single 1968 USA)

LeighStarDust – Anything You Want [Roy Orbison cover]      (“The Wedding EP” 2013 Adelaide, Australia)

the Asteroid #4 – Yuba      (“The Asteroid #4” LP 2013 Philadelphia, USA)

Paul Revere & the Raiders – Where The Action Is      (7”single 1966 USA)

Tom Dyer – The Question Asked      (recorded 2007 – taken from “Songs from Academia, Vol. 1: Songs with Singing, 1981 to 2009” anthology 2009 Seattle, USA)

Technicolour Dreaming

Once again the Cat and the Brat fossicked through sounds, past and present, for your delectation... beginning with the opening track from Earth’s brilliant 2007 album, we also played some Australian garage/psych from the Molting Vultures and the Sand Pebbles, a bunch of 60’s grooves from the likes of the Sonics and the Chambers Brothers, two distinct UK bands called the Moles separated by more than 40 years, a track from Quebec’s finest, the High Dials, plus a cut from the latest Deerhoof album before finishing with the Troggs’ first single... Technicolour Dreaming indeed!

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

Earth – Ourobouros is Broken     (‘Hibernaculum’ 2007 USA)

Chatham Rise – Tranquilized     (‘No One’ cdEP 2011 Minnesota USA)

the Molting Vultures – Insane Jane     (‘Drop In And Go’ 2009 Adelaide, Australia)

the Unspoken Things – Car Crash     (‘Bourbon Eyes’ cdEP 2005 Adelaide)

Gravenhurst – Hollowmen     (‘The Western Lands’ 2007 UK)

the Black Angels – Sunday Afternoon     (‘Phosphene Dream’ 2011 Texas USA)

Best Coast [feat. Johnny Marr] – In Your Sleep     (Promo single for “Ray Ban Raw Sounds” 2011 USA)

the Higher State – Clear Motive     (‘Darker By The Day’ 2009 UK)

the Moles – We are the Moles [Part 1]     (7”single 1968 UK - aka Simon Dupree and the Big Sound)

the Moles – The Mysterious End of Friend No 2?    (‘It’s Happening, Vol 2’ : Shindig magazine comp. 2010 UK)

the High Dials – Your Eyes are a Door     (‘War of the Wakening Phantoms’ 2005  Quebec, Canada)

Dieselwitch – Kicks     (‘Dieselwitch Will Kill You’ 2011 Adelaide)

Deerhoof – Secret Mobilisation (‘Deefhoof vs Evil’ 2011 USA)

the Chambers Brothers – Time Has Come Today     (7”single 1968 USA)

the Sand Pebbles – Wild Season     (‘Ceduna’ 2008 Australia)

Dave Davies – Creeping Jean     (7”single b-side, 1969 UK)

First Crow to the Moon – The Sun Lights Up the Shadows of Your Mind     (7”single 1967 New York, USA)

the Sonics – Psycho     (‘Here are the Sonics’ LP 1965 Seattle, USA)     

the Troggs – Lost Girl     (7”single 1966 UK)