Sitars, theremin and mellotron, backwards guitar, phasing and fuzz, fringes and mohawks, paisley, black, velvet and leather, feedback, bass and drone, beads, berets and safety-pins, Shindig! and Creem, 3 chord wonders, teenage symphonies and snarl, Rickenbacker, Farfisa and 4-track recorders... onstage at CBGB's, Max's Kansas City or the Trip, the Roundhouse, the 100 Club or the Crystal Ballroom, Catcher's, Big Daddy's or the Squatters Arms.... and the Cat and the Brat on 3D Radio!
Three D Radio announcer, MeganCat (up until recently with her husband, the late Peter Brat)lives in "The BratHaus" a rural seaside home about 100km from Adelaide on South Australia's scenic Fleurieu Peninsula. Veteran musician Peter, and artist/musician Megan, were long-time DJs onThree D Radio 93.7fm, Adelaide's eclectic independent music station. Together Peter & Megan, known as "The Cat and The Brat" created this blog to allow listeners to review the playlists of their radio show, "Technicolour Dreaming", watch clips of selected songs and simply join them in the enjoyment of their favourite music... psychedelia, 60's garage, surf, punk/post-punk, pop, folk-rock, glam, 'Krautrock', goth, 80's electro... and much more!
But The Cat is carrying on the tradition, with guest co-presenters, and "Technicolour Dreaming" will continue in the same format, drawing from the huge "Cat & Brat" music collection, with the addition of new releases and reissues to keep things current. The Brat is hugely missed, but the show must go on, as he wanted...
A real mixed bag of music this time round, with way more 1960's USA singles than in recent weeks - which can only be a good thing!! - and only a few new releases (The Warlocks'"Songs from the Pale Eclipse", Beaulieu Porch's"Sarum Sounds", Anton Barbeau's"Magic Act", Garden Gate's"Dark Harvest" and the latest single from The Embrooks, "Helen" pretty much covers it). The rest of the show was a melange of new acquisitions of older albums, plus the usual romp through the decades....hope you enjoyed it! So here's the playlist, for those who have been nagging me for it...
The Moving Sidewalks - I Want to Hold Your Hand (7" single 1968 Texas, USA)
The Loose Enz - The Black Door (7" single 1968, USA)
Ron Wray Light Show - Speed (7" single 1970 USA)
Johnny Thunders and the Heartbreakers - Born to Lose ("L.A.M.F." LP 1977 New York, USA)
The Embrooks - Helen (7" single 2016 Kent, UK)
R.E.M. - Dark Globe [Syd Barrett] ("Orange Crush" 12" EP 1989 USA)
Doug Tuttle - Falling To Believe ("It Calls on Me" 2016 New Hampshire, USA)
Jacco Gardner - Puppets Dangling ("Cabinet of Curiosities" 2013 Netherlands)
The Cords - The Lesson ("Get Ready to Fly- Pop Psych From The Norman Petty Vaults" compilation 2007 USA)
Pillow - Choirs (7" single [b-side to "Oh, Carol"] 1969 Sweden)
Tin Tin - Swans On the Canal (7" single [b-side to "Is That The Way"] 1971 Australia)
The David - People Saying, People Seeing (7" single 1967 Los Angeles, California USA)
The Whatt Four - Dandelion Wine (7" single 1967 USA)
Triops - Hybrid Taxidermy ("Close to the Hedge" compilation 2013 UK)
Barracudas - Watching the World Go By ("Through the Mysts of Time" 1999 London, UK)
The Raunchies - Little B ("Falk" EP 2015 Italy)
The Warlocks - Dance Alone ("Songs From The Pale Eclipse" 2016 California, USA)
The Deep Freeze Mice - A Red Light for the Greens ("The Gates of Lunch" LP 1982 Leicester, UK)
Schnauser - National Grid ("Protein For Everyone" 2014 UK)
Mordecai Smyth - Dream On (Marnie) ("Dial M for Mordecai" 7" EP 2013 UK)
Anton Barbeau - Broken in Two ("Magic Act" 2016 UK)
Garden Gate - Dark Harvest ("Dark Harvest" 2016)
Beaulieu Porch - Burn ("Sarum Sounds" 2016 UK)
The High Tide - Electric Blue (7" single [b-side to "Dancing In My Mind"] 1981 UK)
Mark and the Clouds - Blue Skies Opening ("Blue Skies Opening" LP 2014 UK)
Mordecai Smyth - Psychedelic Sarah ("Dial M for Mordecai" 7" EP 2013 UK)
The High Tide - Dancing in My Mind (7" single 1981 UK))
The Karova's Milkshake - Freak Out ("Freakout Factory" 7" single 2012 Russia)
Nick Nicely - Hilly Fields (1892) (7" single 1982 UK)
Barbarellatones - Psychedelic Freakout ("Glitter Train" 2016 Hawaii, USA)
Le Superhomard - Maple Key ("Maple Key" LP 2016 France)
This week’s show featured a journey
around the current world of psychedelia,
plus assorted oddities and a side-trip back in time to the first pop psych
explosion. So much music to play, and only two hours each week to squeeze it
all into! We recently acquired a copy of the brand new addition to Born Bad Records’ wonderful “Wizzz!Psychorama francais 1966
– 71” compilations, Volume 3, making this series a serendipitous
choice for our Compilation of the Week, mais oui! Back in the present, we
played new tracks from the Wands, Pretty Lightning, Jacco
Gardner, the Noble Krell and the Barbarellatones latest demo (love the lyrics!),
fitted in some surf from Chile and Denmark, and some 60’s faves such as Gary Walker and the Rain’s much covered classic, “Francis”. And we finished up with Vibravoid’s ode to the Fuzztones organ player Deb
O’Nair, which can be found on the just-reissued and re-mastered edition
of their classic “2001” LP, complete with extra tracks and quite stunning packaging
– it certainly gets our seal of approval! So.....
..... until next week, here
is the playlist plus associated visuals.....
Sula
Bassana - My
Blue Guitar ("Dreamer –10th Year Anniversary Edition” 2012
Germany)
There
was a plethora of 1960’s goodness in this edition of TechnicolourDreaming with the centrepiece
being our featured Compilation of the Week,"2131 South
Michigan Avenue: 60's Garage and Psychedelia from U.S.A. and
Destination Records", a
double-CD from America released in 2009
by Sundazed Records, certainly one of the
leading, and most interesting, reissue labels around today. This particular
compilation features a few bands you may recognise, such as the Cryan’ Shames and Park
Avenue Playground, but many you probably don’t but should – for example
the excellent Daughters of Eve and the Lost Agency – and that’s the fun of these type
of ‘rarities’ compilations, finding great bands you’ve not heard before.
Zooming to current releases, we played a tracks from the long-awaited and finally soon-to-be-released new album
from Dutch psych hero, Jacco Gardner and the “Crocodilians” LP by the UK’s Moth Effect, plus recent releases from bands such
as Psychic Ills, My
Expansive Awareness, Vibravoid and
France’s Moodoid, amongst a bunch of other
delights. So, until next week.....
..... here is the playlist, complete
with sundry visuals.....
Wall of Voodoo - Ring of Fire [Johnny
Cash cover] ("Wall of Voodoo" EP
1980 USA)
Moodoid [featuring Melody's Echo
Chamber] - Le lac
d'or (digital single 2105 Paris, France)
Southern Gentlemen - I Want You Back Again
(7" single 1966 Adelaide, Australia)
We All Together - Tomorrow [Paul
& Linda McCartney cover] ("We All
Together" LP 1972 Peru)
Psychic Ills – Come Around(recorded 2014 USA – taken from “Psych
For Sore Eyes 2” compilation 2014 Germany)
Boeing Duveen and the Beautiful
Soup -
Jabberwock (7" single 1968 UK)
Eternal Tapestry - When I Was In Your
Mind ("A World Out Of Time" 2012
Portland USA)
Palace of Light - Books (7" single
b-side [to Catherine] UK - 2015
reissue of 1991 release)
the Left Banke - Shadows Breaking Over My
Head ("Walk Away Renee/Pretty
Ballerina" LP 1967 USA)
James McKeown and the Negative
Drivers - I See
The Rain Again [Marmalade cover]
("Active Listener : Record Store Day 2013" compilation 2103 New Zealand)
Compilation of the Week
"2131
South Michigan Avenue : 60's Garage and Psychedelia from U.S.A. and
Destination Records" – double-CD pack
the Shady Daze - I'll Make
You Pay (7”single b-side [to Love is a Beautiful Thing] 1967 USA –
taken from "2131 South Michigan Avenue : 60's Garage and Psychedelia from
U.S.A. and Destination Records"compilation 2009 USA - disc 1)
Lord of the Flies - You Made a Fool of
Me (7"single Indiana, USA – taken from
disc 2)
the Cryan' Shames - Ben Franklin's Almanac(7”single b-side [to Sugar & Spice] 1966 USA taken from disc
1)
the Daughters of
Eve - Help Me Boy [Animals cover](7”single 1967 USA – taken from disc 2)
the Lost Agency - Time to Dream (7”single 1967 USA – taken from disc 1)
Park Avenue
Playground - The
Trip (7”single b-side [to I Know] 1968 USA – taken from disc 2)
[the Daughters
of Eve Radio Spot 1967] (taken from disc
2)
White Manna - Acid Head ("White
Manna" 2012 California, USA)
Bleeding Knees Club - It's-A-Happening [Magic Mushrooms cover] ("Nuggets:
Antipodean Interpolations of the First Psychedelic Era" double-LP
compilation2012 Australia)
Traffic - Paper Sun
(7" single 1967 UK)
Moth Effect - Ghosts Afraid of the
Dark ("Crocodilians" 2015 UK)
White Noise - Black Mass: [Electric Storm in Hell]
("An
Electric Storm" 1969 UK)
