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Cherry Red's new 3 CD box-set "Another Splash of Colour: New Psychedelia in Britain 1980-1985" was a welcome surprise when I arrived at Three D Radio this week, box-sets being a particular weakness of mine, and The Brat was very fond of them, too - there's quite a collection at home! It features lots of familiar names, like Julian Cope, who I opened the show with, but plenty of forgotten about, or just plain obscure bands, so I'm going to enjoy delving into it's treasures over the coming weeks. Cover versions also abounded on this week's show - can't resist a good cover when it's dangled before me... so to work out who played what, peruse the playlist below..

Julian Cope - Sunspots  ("Another Splash of Colour: New Psychedelia in Britain 1980-1985" compilation 2016 UK)

Wild Rocket - I'm Not like Everybody Else [Kinks]  ("Daisy Dream" 2015 Adelaide, Australia)

Topos Locos - Come On Back ("The Great British Psychedelic Trip Revisited" 2016 UK)

Hugo - Girl In The Garden  (7" single 1969 Adelaide, Australia)

The Flower Machine - Digging Flowers  ("Marmoset Meadow" EP 2008 Los Angeles, USA)
Belles will Ring - It's Only Goodbye  ("Mood Patterns" 2007 Sydney, Australia)
Mort Garson - Taurus-The Voluptuary  ("The Zodiac: Cosmic Sounds" LP 1967 USA)

The She Creatures - Radar  ("The She Creatures Invade" 2009 UK)

Almost Numan - Factory  ("Depth Charge 11" compilation 2012 Adelaide, Australia)
El Goodo - Information Overload  ("Coyote" 2010 UK)

Le Mat - Waltz of the Fool  ("Another Splash of Colour: New Psychedelia in Britain 1980-1985" compilation 2016 UK)

Gothic Chicken - Pitta Bread Man  ("Lift the Cobweb Veil" 2016 UK)
The Nice - Flower King of Flies  ("The Thoughts of Emerlist Davjack" LP 1967 UK)

Raindrop - Home  ("Crowded Brain" EP 2015 Sydney, Australia)

Squadra Omega - Sepolto dalle Sabbie del Tempo  ("Arti Occhi ci Guardano" 2015 Italy)
Bamboo Shoot - Fox Has Gone to Ground  (7" single 1968 UK)

Diamond Incarnation - Ocean's Daughter  ("Arenaceous Flowersouls" EP 2014 Taiwan)
Laure Briand - Laure  ("Sur la Piste de Danse" [to be released June 2016] France)
Octopus Syng - Bright Trees and Symbolic Keys  ("Birds of Morning are Never Late" 2013 Helsinki, Finland)
Otomne - Ce Garcon  ("Semi-Vol 3 La Souterraine Sampler" 2016 Paris, France)
The Red Plastic Buddha - I Had Too Much To Dream Last Night [Electric Prunes] ("The Psychedelic Sounds of The Blog That Celebrates Itself" 2013 Chicago USA)

The Barbarellatones - Priscilla and the Pyronauts ("Glitter Train" 2016 Hawaii USA)
Psychlops Eyepatch - Nuclear Bombora  ("Paranoise" 2013 Sydney, Australia)

The Citradels - Track 39  ("The Citradels" 2011 Melbourne, Australia)

The Dig - 4th of July  (digital single 2015 New York, USA)

normA - Fantasma  ("Siguente" 2015 La Plata, Argentina)

Sonic Jesus - Somebody To Love [Jefferson Airplane]  ("The Psychedelic Sounds of The Blog That Celebrates Itself" 2013 Italy)

The Sorry Shop - Venus In Furs [Velvet Underground]  ("The Psychedelic Sounds of The Blog That Celebrates Itself" 2013 Brazil)

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Another of the Nuggets series of boxsets was our choice for this edition’s “Compilation of the Week”... This time it was “Where the Action Is!  Los Angeles Nuggets 1965-1968” which was released in 2009, in a hard-cover book format with the 4-CDs slotted into the back cover – lots of very cool photos and articles with detailed liner notes about each song and artist... and what great songs they are! This is probably our favourite of the Nuggets boxset collection [the 1972 original double-LP stands separately of course!] because LA was producing a plethora of wonderful bands in this period, many well-known, but most not, which in no way diminishes the quality of the sounds coming out of the area however – brilliant stuff! Basically, if you can only have one boxset, this is the one! Another producer of fine music is the UK’s Fruits de Mer label whose latest compilation “Strange Fruit & Veg” is packed with goodies. From it this week we chose a great version of the Beatles’ “Tomorrow Never Knows”, complete with filmclip. We also featured an Australian 60’s section with tracks by Ray Brown and Hugo amongst others, plus recent music from acts such as Lumerians, the Myrrors and Elephant Stone. So now, we bid you “adieu” until next week, when we’ll have more psychedelia and associated obscurities for your listening and viewing pleasure....

.....until then, here is the playlist and some visuals to amuse you, including the Kikagaku Moyo “official clip” for ‘Kodama’..... enjoy!

Lumerians - Hook for an Eye      ("Transmissions from Telos - Volume III" 2014 UK)

Elephant Stone - Between The Lines      ("The Three Poisons" 2014 Montreal, Canada)

Rob Gould - Tomorrow Never Knows [Beatles cover]      ("Fruits De Mer Records presents ‘Strange Fruit and Veg’ – promo 2” compilation 2015 UK)

Les Annees - Freaktown Stars      ("Les Annees" 2009 Melbourne, Australia)

Jake Holmes - Leaves Never Break      ("A Letter to Catherine December" LP 1968 San Francisco, USA)

Ray Brown and the Whispers - Ain't It Strange     (7”single 1966 Australia)

the Moods – ‘Cos of You       (7”single b-side [to Say Hello to Me] 1966 Australia)

the Wild Cherries - Krome Plated Yabby      (7"single 1967 Melbourne, Australia)

Hugo - Girl in the Garden      (7"single 1969 Adelaide, Australia)

Quilt - Cry Baby Cry [Beatles cover]      ("The Magical Mystery Psych Out - A Tribute to the Beatles" compilation 2015 USA)

Deep Sea Arcade featuring Megan Washington - Bonnie and Clyde [Serge Gainsbourg cover]      ("Melodie Francaise" compilation 2013 Sydney, Australia)

Peoples Temple -   Twice Burned       (7"single b-side [to Brand New Thing] 2013 USA)

Clinic - The Lion Tamer      ("Bubblegum" 2010 UK)

the Myrrors - Juana Laguna      ("Arena Negra" LP 2015 Tucson, Arizona USA)

Amon Duul II - Archangel Thunderbird     ("Yeti" LP 1970 Germany)

Dr Cosmo's Tape Lab - The Secret of Tibetan Grapefruit is...      ("Ever Evolving Lounge" 2014 USA)

the Warlocks - House of Glass      ("Rise and Fall" 2001 USA)

      “Compilation of the Week”

  “Where the Action Is! Los Angeles Nuggets 1965-1968”

WC Fields Memorial Electric String Band - Hippy Elevator Operator       (7" single 1966 USA – taken from disc 1 of “Where the Action Is! Los Angeles Nuggets 1965-1968” compilation boxset 2009 USA)

Keith Allison - Action, Action, Action          (7" Single b-side [to Glitter and Gold] 1966 – taken from disc 3 of “LA Nuggets...” boxset)

the Monkees - Daily Nightly    ("Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones Ltd" LP 1967 USA – taken from Disc 3 of “LA Nuggets...” boxset)

the Leaves - Doctor Stone      ("Hey Joe" LP 1966 USA – taken from disc 1 of “LA Nuggets...” boxset)

the Merry-Go-Round - Listen, Listen      (7" single 1968 USA – taken from disc 2 of “LA Nuggets...” boxset)

Gene Clark - Los Angeles      (recorded 1968, unissued – taken from disc 4 of “LA Nuggets...” boxset)

the Black Hollies - Benevolent Beacon      (7" single 2011 USA)

Toy - Motoring      ("Toy" LP 2012 UK)

Dead Skeletons - Dead is God      ("Ord" EP 2012 Iceland)

Kikagaku Moyo - Kodama      ("Forest of Lost Children" LP 2014 Japan)

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In the absence of the Brat, the show was presented this week by the Cat and the... Bryan. There were bands from various periods of yesteryear, such as the Purple Hearts, the Revillos and Buffalo Springfield, music from this century by the likes of Joy Zipper [when are they doing a new album? ] and Sun Shepherd and including local bands such as the Molting Vultures, Kamikaze and All The Leaves Have Fallen, plus a few favourites from whenever/wherever like Shearwater, Shower Scene From Psycho and the Monkees... and finishing with a track from the current “Album of the Month” by DieselWitch [who are one of the bands playing at this weekend’s surf festival on Kangaroo Island!]...

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

Sun Shepherd – Prevails the Beast     (‘Procession of Trampling Hoof’ 2011 Perth, Australia)

All the Leaves Have Fallen – Sic Itur Ad Astra     (demo 2011 Adelaide, Aust.)

Jay Walker & the Pedestrians – Underground St Blues     (demo 2009 Adelaide)

the Molting Vultures – Insane Jane     (‘Drop In & Go!’ 2009 Adelaide)

Buffalo Springfield – Go and Say Goodbye     (‘Buffalo Springfield’ LP 1967 USA)

the Chocolate Watchband – Let’s talk about girls     (‘No Way Out’ LP 1967 USA)

Mona Lisa Overdrive – Obviously Sally Mae     (‘The Up-Tight Sessions’ cdEP 2008 Adelaide)

Five Sided Circle – Cadillac    (recorded in Adelaide 1966 : taken from ‘Big Beat Cellar Scene’ compilation 2009 Adelaide)

Kamikaze – ‘Lil Red Riding Hood [Sam the Sham & the Pharaohs cover]     (demo 2011 Adelaide)

Hugo – Girl in the Garden     (7”single 1969 Adelaide : taken from ‘Devil’s Children Vol.2’ compilation)

Donovan – No Man’s land     (Neutronica)

Russell Morris – Part 3: Into Paper Walls     (7”single 1970 Australia)

the Purple Hearts – Early in the Morning     (7”single 1966 Australia)

Shearwater – Seventy Four, Seventy Five     (Palo Santo)

Joy Zipper – Alzheimers     (American Whip)

the Monkees – Can you dig it     (‘Head’ soundtrack LP 1968 USA)

David Vandervelde – Nothin’ No     (The MoonStation House Band)

the Revillos – Call me the Cat     (‘From the Freezer : demos & rarities’ compilation)

the Shower Scene from Psycho – Cara-lyn [Johnny Young cover]      (‘Exploding Hits : 1982-2000’ compilation)

DieselWitch – Octopus     (DieselWitch Will Kill You)     #

     # “Album of the Month”

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It was a Cat alone this week, playing an 80’s-skewed selection of her favourites ranging from Adelaide’s Nuvo Bloc to the U.K.’s Japan, Gary Numan and the wonderful voice of Billy McKenzie in the Associates, with sidetrips to Shower Scene From Psycho and the Spikes. She did venture era-wise both back and forward from there though, with the very phased sound of Caleb from 1967 through to a track from the new Wooden Shjips album. And, of course, she played another track from our ‘Album of the Month’ by Almost Numan, this time from the “ON” disc of originals...

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

Iggy Pop with Steve Jones – I Wanna be Your Dog     (‘Le Rock’ magazine – ‘Down on the Street’ cover CD)

Thrust – Your Pretty Face is Going to Hell     (‘Hard to Beat’ LP 1988 – Stooges tribute compilation, Australia)

Brian Eno – How Many Worlds     (Another Day on Earth)

Air – Sexy Boy     (Moon Safari)

Asphyxiation – L’Acrostique D’Amour     (12”single 1981 Melbourne, Aust.)

Shower Scene From Psycho – Turn Up Your Radio [Masters Apprentices cover]     (Exploding Hits 1982 – 2000)

Ash Wednesday – Love by Numbers     (7”single 1980 Adelaide, Aust.)

Gary Numan – We Are Glass     (7”single 1980 UK)

Nuvo Bloc – Equal Education     (demo 1980 Adelaide)

Japan – Taking Islands in Africa     (‘Gentlemen Take Polaroids’ LP 1980 UK)

Wooden Shjips – Phonograph     (West)

the Spikes – The Meaning of Life     (‘Colour in a Black Forest’ LP  1985 Adelaide)

Caleb – Baby Your Phrasing is Bad     (7”single 1967 UK)

the Bad Poets – Crash Sweet Crash     (“5MMM’s  Compilation of Adelaide Bands 1980” LP)

Sparks – Rock! Rock! Rock!     (Hello Young Lovers)

the Sand Pebbles – Elephant Gun     (Atlantis Regrets Nothing)

Hugo – Girl in the Garden     (7”single 1969 Adelaide – on ‘Mean, Mean City: Adelaide Scene 1965 – 1969’ compilation)

the Associates – Club Country     (‘Sulk’ LP 1982 UK)

Almost Numan – Attention Seeking Missile     (Almost Numan – disc 2: “ON”)    #

Black Box Recorder – Facts of Life     (The Facts of Life)

    # ‘Album of the Month’