Technicolour Dreaming

Beginning with the likes of Spacemen 3 and Adelaide’s Asteroid Belt, the Cat and the Brat played some 60’s garage from the Chocolate Watchband and the Plague, some 70’s punk from X Ray Spex and France’s Metal Urbain (the very first single ever to be released by the UK’s Rough Trade Records), a selection of recent releases including Adelaide’s Isomer and DieselWitch and much, much more... all in all, the regular Technicolour Dreaming.....

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

Gun – Take Off     (‘Gun’ LP 1970 UK – played from ‘Sweet Floral Albion’ compilation cd)

Spacemen 3 – Revolution     (‘Playing with Fire’ LP 1989 UK)

the Asteroid Belt – Incantations      (demo 2009 Adelaide, Aust.)

Thee Oh Sees – Destroyed Fortress Reappears     (Help)

the Hoa Hoas – Intensity     (Pop/Drone/Pedals)

The Plague – The Face of Time     (7”single 1966 Canada)

The Chocolate Watchband – Don’t need your lovin’     (‘Riot on Sunset Strip’ soundtrack compilation LP 1967 USA)

DieselWitch – I Set Bugs on Fire    (pre-release from forthcoming album 2011 Adelaide)

the Sand Pebbles – Occupied Europe (take me across the water)     (Dark Magic)

Black Cab – Ghost Anthems     (Call Signs)

Clinic – Baby     (Bubblegum)

Dean and Britta – Not a Young Man Anymore [Velvet Underground cover]     (Andy Warhol’s 13 Most Beautiful)

Ladytron – Sugar     (Witching Hour)

Isomer – Poison the Well     (Face Toward the Sun)

Metal Urbain – Paris Maquis [fasciste!]     (7”single 1977 France/UK)

X Ray Spex – Identity     (‘Germ Free Adolescents’ LP 1978 UK)

Thee Stag Knights – Come On     (‘Wild About You’ CD compilation 2004 Australia)

Rebecca and the Sunnybrook Farmers – What do you think of the War     (‘Birth’ LP 1969 UK – played from ‘Electric Psychedelic Sitar Headswirlers Vol. 10’ compilation CD)

Plasticland – Mink Dress     (7”single 1980 USA)

Eddy Current Suppression Ring – We got the Beat [Go-Go’s cover]     (So Many Things)   

Technicolour Dreaming

On this week’s show, we ranged from the debut 7” singles by mid-70’s New Yorkers, Patti Smith and Blondie (the original version of ‘X Offender’ and, in our opinion, superior to the better known album take!), to more recent tracks from San Francisco’s fantastic Thee Oh Sees, Toronto’s brilliant psych band, the Hoa Hoa’s, and Melbourne’s all-girl punk rockers, the Spazzys. We interviewed two members of Adelaide band Van Cleef, Chris and Mike, who also chose an eclectic set for us to play... including a song from the sound-track to Dario Argento’s 1982 movie, ‘Tenebre’, to a Roger Taylor-sung Queen track, to the Stooges. Naturally, we also played a number from the current ‘Album of the Month’ by Belles Will Ring... plus much more...

...so here is the playlist...

Dean & Britta – Incandescent Innocent     (13 Most Beautiful... Songs for Andy Warhol’s screen tests)

Dallas – I sold myself to the Devil & he told me I was cheap [Odd remix]     (‘4 Top Ten Hits’, cdEP 2004 Adelaide, Aust.)

Julian Cope – Safesurfer     (Peggy Suicide)

Patti Smith – Piss Factory     (7”single 1974 USA)

Blondie – X Offender     (7”single 1976 USA)

Thee Oh Sees – Ruby Come Home     (Help)

the Spazzys – I don’t want to go to the party     (‘Paco Doesn’t Love Me’ cdEP, 2004 Aust.)

the Hoa Hoa’s – Feels So Good Inside     (Pop/Drone/Pedals)

the Rolling Stones – We Love You     (7”single 1967 UK)

Firewater – Paint It Black     (Songs We Should Have Written)

Goblin – Waiting Death     (soundtrack from ‘Tenebre’ 1982 Italy)

Queen – Fight from the Inside     (News of the World)

Van Cleef – Outrider     (Where the River Meets the Rock)

Van Cleef – Dalek Gulch     (Where the River Meets the Rock)

White Knuckle Fever – White Knuckle Ride     (demo 2010 Sydney, Aust.)

Isolation Valve – Virus Envy     (‘Dear Warren Ellis’ – demo 2011 Adelaide)

the Stooges – Down on the Street     (‘Fun House’ LP 1970 USA)

Belles Will Ring – Redwood Hill     (Crystal Palace)  #

    # “Album of the Month”