Technicolour Dreaming

We started off this week with a classic suite from the 1977 debut album by the Stranglers which was certainly a highlight of their live shows in that period, as can be personally attested. From there we ventured far and wide, with an as-yet-unreleased Barbarellatones track kindly sent to us by Robbie, their singer/guitarist, a song from Gary Numan’s “Pleasure Principle“ LP, a dreamy psychedelic take on an early Beatles song by Jacco Gardner, the new mono reissue of a Seeds favourite, a recent Raveonettes EP cut and, near the end, the Damned’s psych/punk tour de force from “The Black Album”. We also featured, amongst others, some tracks from another Psychic Circle label ‘sike-pop’ compilation of 60’s obscurities, one from the brilliant new Hidden Masters debut, the Marty Rhone version of the Michel Polnareff song we featured last week [by Vibravoid] and finally, a classic from Todd Rundgren who is currently touring here in Australia – a must-see show!

..... and so here is the playlist plus some eye-candy!.....

the Stranglers – Down in the Sewer [suite]     (“Stranglers 1V - Rattus Norvegicus” LP 1977 UK)

the Barbarellatones – Artificially Inseminate my Love      (demo 2013 USA)

Man or Astro-Man? – Sadie Hawkins Atom Bomb      (“Is It…Man or Astro-Man?” LP 1993 Alabama, USA)

John Cooper-Clarke – Psycle Sluts 1&2      (“Disguise in Love” LP 1978 UK)

Gary Numan – Metal      (“The Pleasure Principle” LP 1979 UK)

the Ears – The Lolly Hater      (7” single b-side [to Scarecrow] 1981 Melbourne, Australia)

Jacco Gardner – You Really Got a Hold on Me      (“Mojo: We’re With the Beatles” compilation 2013 UK/Netherlands)

Cate Le Bon – The Eiggy Sea      (“Cyrk 2” mini-LP 2012 Wales, UK)

Hidden Masters – Last Days of the Sun      (“Of This & Other Worlds” 2013 Scotland, UK)

Faine Jade – A Brand New Groove      (“Introspection: A Faine Jade Recital” LP 1968 USA)

the Peanut Butter Conspiracy – It’s a Happening Thing      (“The Peanut Butter Conspiracy Is Spreading” LP 1967 USA)

the Seeds – Mr Farmer [mono version]      (“A Web Of Sound” LP 1967 Los Angeles, USA)

Sight & Sound – Little Jackie Monday      (7”single b-side [to Alley, Alley] 1968 Birmingham, UK – taken from “Let’s Ride: Fairytales Can Come True, Vol.3” compilation 2008 UK)

Winston G. – Riding with the Milkman      (7”single 1967 London, UK)

Rescue Co. No. 1 – Gotta Find You      (7”single 1971 UK)

Les Irrésistibles – My Year is a Day      (7”single 1968 France/USA)

Marty Rhone – No No No No No [Michel Polnareff cover/adaption]      (7”single b-side [to Tell Me Love] 1967 Australia)

Clinic – I Wanna Get You (Woman) [Loons cover]      (7”split-single [with the Loons] 2010 UK/USA)

the Raveonettes – Night Comes Out      (“Into The Night” EP 2012 Sweden)

Sonny & the Sunsets – Girl on the Street      (“Antenna to the Afterworld” 2013 USA)

Hidden Charms – Please Give Me Something      (“A Real Cool Time” compilation LP 1985 Sweden)

Mick Farren & the Deviants – Let’s Loot the Supermarket Again Like We Did Last Summer      (“Screwed Up” EP 1977 London, UK)

the Damned – Curtain Call       (“The Black Album” double-LP 1979 London, UK)

Todd Rundgren’s Utopia – Heavy Metal Kids      (“Another Live” LP 1975 USA)

Technicolour Dreaming

 We began the show this week with a track from DeWolff who are currently touring Australia, though sadly they are not coming to Adelaide.  But if you’re in the eastern states go to see them, as reports say their live show is brilliant. From there we again ventured into the psychedelic and the obscure (and the not-so-obscure) with tracks from Germany’s Sula Bassana, Italy’s the Strange Flowers, Japan’s the Plastics and England’s Toy plus some Nico, Dave Davies and Espers as well as a track from the wonderfully named Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell’s debut LP, which was named as Shindig! magazine’s 2012 “Album of the Year”. There were some psych/folk variations from Espers and from the extremely rare album by Englishman Mark Fry, recorded in Italy in 1972, as well as some sheer poetry from John Cooper Clarke. We finished with another in our series of ‘suites’, this time from the self-titled 1968 LP by the United States of America, but prior to that we played a ‘taster’ [and have included a clip] from the soon-to-be-released album, “the Snow Bunker Tapes” by Death in June, as a means of announcing that Douglas P. will be our guest in the studio next week, the 19^th of March, talking about the new album and his recent tour, as well as guest-DJing with us – so tune in again next week!

.... so here is the playlist, with a few pictures to watch.....

DeWolff – Fever      (‘Orchards/Lupine’ 2011 Netherlands)

Black Cab – Ghost Anthems      (‘Call Signs’ 2009 Australia)

Psychodelicacy – The Elephant Has a Delicate Brain      (‘Psychodelicacy’ 2013 Adelaide, Australia)

Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell – Mark of the Beast      (‘Don’t Hear It... Fear It!’ 2012 UK)

the Plastics – Last Train to Clarkesville [Monkees cover]      (7”single 1979 Japan)

John Cooper Clarke – Beasley Street      (‘Snap, Crackle & Bop’ 1980 UK)

the Saffron – Vision is a Lonely Word      (provenance unknown – taken from Vol. 5 of ‘Electric Psychedelic Sitar Headswirlers’ boxset  2011 UK)

Nico – Purple Lips      (‘Drama of Exile’ LP 1981 UK)

 

Gary Walker & the Rain – The View      (‘Album No.1’ LP 1968 Japan)

the Byrds – Mind Gardens      (‘Younger Than Yesterday’ LP 1967 USA)

Mark Fry – The Witch      (‘Dreaming with Alice’ LP 1972 Italy/UK)

Espers – That Which Darkly Thrives      (‘Espers 111’ 2009 Philadelphia, USA)

the Girls At Dawn – That Girl Belongs To Yesterday [Rolling Stones cover]      (7”split-single [with the Gaye Blades] 2007 USA)

Bokaj Retsiem – I’m So Afraid      (‘Psychedelic Underground’ LP 1968 Germany)

Red Riders – Slide In Next To Me      (7”single 2006 Melbourne, Australia)

Galileo 7 – Anne Hedonia      (‘Staring at the Sound’ LP 2012 UK)

 

Sula Bassana – Baby Blues Shuffle in D major [Pink Floyd cover]      (‘Dreamers’ 2002 Germany)

the Strange Flowers – Rainpogamoonsister      (‘The Imaginary Space Travel of the Naked Monkeys’ 2007 Italy)

Toy – Lose My Way       (‘TOY’ 2013 UK)

All Night Radio – All Night Radio      (12”single 2003 USA)

the Black Angels – Better Off Alone      (‘Passover’ 2006 Austin, Texas, USA)

Crystal Chandelier – Suicidal Flowers      (7”single 1969 USA)

Death In June – Life Under Siege      (‘The Snow Bunker Tapes’ LP 2013 Adelaide, Australia)

 

Bernard Chabert – Olga Selzer      (7”single [late 60’s?] France)

Dave Davies – Creeping Jean [unreleased stereo version]        (rec. 1969 – taken from ‘Hidden Treasures’ anthology 2011 UK)

the United States of America – The American Way of Love [suite]      (‘The United States of America’ LP 1968 New York, USA)

Technicolour Dreaming

This week we had another of those ‘surprise guests’ that join us occasionally... Sam from Subtract-S dropped their hot-off-the-presses EP into the 3D Radio studios during the show, so we naturally asked him to stay for a short chat... Subtract-S comprises ¾ of the now-defunct Almost Numan, whose sole album is a Cat & Brat fave, so we were keen to learn about the new band, inform our listeners about upcoming live shows and hear their debut CD, all of which Sam was happy to do... and much jollity ensued! Of course we also played a myriad of diverse tunes, ranging from the Sand Pebbles through to Earthless [who are coming to town on December 9^th], a rare Luke Haines track and a song from Lothar & the Hand People’s 1968 debut LP. We featured a Bowie cover from both Brillig, our current ‘Band of the Month’ [joined on this occasion by the lovely LeighStarDust], and another from the Barbarellatones before finishing with the Triffids from their 1984 EP...

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

the Dave Clark 5 – Bits & Pieces      (7’single 1964 London, UK)

the Barbarellatones – Dolph Lundgren      (‘the Sound of Love’ 2012 USA)

 

the Sand Pebbles – Natalie      (‘live’ on 3PBSfm 2009 Melbourne, Australia)

the Black Angels – Manipulation      (‘Passover’ 2006 Austin, Texas, USA)

Traffic – Coloured Rain      (7”single 1967 UK)

Midnight Woolf – New Kind of Kick [Cramps cover]      (‘I’ll Be a Dog’ 2012 Melbourne, Aust.)

Earthless – Cherry Red  [Groundhogs cover]     (bonus track on CD version of ‘Rhythms from a Cosmic Sky’  2007 USA)

the Intercontinental Playboys – The Maestro’s Shadow      (‘Hymns of the Flesh’ 2009 Aust.)

Buried Feather – In the Sun      (7”single 2012 melbourne, Aust.)

Subtract-S – 1000 yrs      (‘Love From Outer Space’ cdEP 2012 Adelaide, Aust.)

     #  interview with Sam from Subtract-S

Subtract-S – Mb Ph [Mobile Phone]       (‘Love From Outer Space’ cdEP 2012 Adelaide, Aust.)

John Cooper Clarke – Psycle Sluts [pts 1&2]      (‘Innocents’  EP 1977 Manchester, UK)

Lothar & the Hand People – You Won’t Be Lonely      (‘Presenting...’ LP 1968 New York, USA)

John Carter & Russ Alquist – The Laughing Man      (7”single 1968 UK/USA – taken from ‘the Flowerpot Men: Midsummer Dreaming’ LP anthology 2001)

the Rolling Stones – Citadel      (‘Their Satanic Majesties Request’ LP 1967 UK)

Luke Haines – Oliver Twist Manifesto [alt. version 2001]      (prev. unreleased – taken from ‘Luke Haines is Dead’ anthology 2005 UK)

Sparks – Metaphor      (‘Hello Young Lovers’ 2006 UK/USA)

Smile Brigade – Killjoy Switch       (‘Do You Come Here Often?’ 2010 USA)

Brillig & LeighStarDust – Fashion [Bowie cover]      (‘Fashion’ split-cdEP [with LeighStarDust] 2004 Adelaide, Aust.)   #

the Screaming Dizbusters – This Ain’t the Summer of Love [Blue Oyster Cult cover]      (7”single 1986 Sweden)

the Barbarellatones – Rebel, Rebel [Bowie cover]      (‘The Sound of Love’ 2012 USA)

Mesa Cosa – Frozen Eyes      (‘Infernal Cakewalk’ 2012 Melbourne, Aust.)

the Monks – I Hate You       (‘Black Monk Time’ LP 1966 Germany/USA)

Moon Duo – Rolling Out      (‘Circles’ 2012 California, USA)

Sekret Sekret – Chimes      (7”single b-side [to Girl with a White Stick] 1984 Sydney, Aust.)

Triffids – Raining Pleasure      (‘Raining Pleasure’  12”EP 1984 Perth, Aust.)

     #   “Band of the Month”    

Technicolour Dreaming

Beginning with a 60’s classic has become a regular feature of the show and this week’s choice was the 1967 debut single by UK band Traffic, which we felt melded quite nicely with the Brian Jonestown Massacre’s eastern-tinged instrumental that followed. In fact we played a fair number of songs from “the original psychedelic era”, as Lenny Kaye named it on the Nuggets LP back in 1972... amongst them was the title-track of Donovan’s 7^th album which featured the Jeff Beck Group, the flip-side of the sole UK single by Normie Rowe’s backing-band, the Playboys, on Immediate Records, as well as a track from the “lost” LP by Gary Walker & the Rain – a 1968 ‘Japan-only’ release which just recently became available in the rest of the world. It was also the last appearance of Brian Eno as our ‘Artiste of the Week’ and we concluded the show with the brilliant opening track of his second solo album. Finally, there was also a selection of ‘punk-era’ recordings from the likes of the Ramones, Siouxsie & the Banshees and Patti Smith, which we played in memory of Ian ‘Butch Brat’ Roberts, who passed away last week... Butch was Adelaide band the Brats’ mixer, roadie and valued friend, and we saw all these bands, and more, play gigs in London in the mid/late 70’s!

R.I.P. Butch..... 

Traffic – Paper Sun     (7”single 1967 UK)

Brian Jonestown Massacre – Panic in Babylon     (‘Aufheben’ 2012 USA)

the Lovetones – Come Home     (‘Meditations’ 2006 Melbourne, Australia)

Weightless – Holding On     (‘Self-Adjustment’ 2012 Adelaide, Aust.)

the What 4 – Logan’s Run     (‘Say It Straight’ 2008 Adelaide, Aust.)

the Sunbirds – Stone     (‘Emergency Christmas’ EP 2012 Adelaide, Aust.)

the Grand Rapids – Brian’s Got a Rubber Soul     (‘Great Shakes’ 2012 Melbourne, Aust.)

Siouxsie & the Banshees – Mittageisen     (7”double A-side single [with Love in a Void] 1979 UK)

Ian Brown – F.E.A.R.     (‘Music of the Spheres’ 2001 UK)

the Smiths – How Soon Is Now?     (‘Meat Is Murder’ LP 1985 UK)

Caveman – My Room     (‘CoCo Beware’ 2011 Brooklyn, USA)

the Ramones – Blitzkrieg Bop     (‘the Ramones’ LP 1976 New York, USA)

John Cooper Clarke – I Don’t Want to be Nice     (‘Disguise in Love’ LP 1978 UK)

Patti Smith – Free Money     (‘Horses’ LP 1975 New York, USA)

the Clash – London Calling     (‘London Calling’ LP 1979 UK)

Gary Walker & the Rain – Francis     (‘Album Number One’ LP 1968 Japan/UK)

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

Donovan – Goo Goo Barabajagal (Love is Hot)     (7”single 1969 UK)

the Fleur De Lys – Circles [Who cover]     (7”single 1966 UK)

the Playboys – Sad     (7”single b-side [to Black Sheep R.I.P.] 1967 Aust./UK)

Bobby & Laurie – Every Second Day     (7”single 1966 Aust. – also on ‘Exposaic’ LP 1966 : taken from  ‘A Forest of Gold Tops in the Land of Oz - 26 Tabs from the Semiconscious Sixties’ compilation 1997 Aust.)

the Masters Apprentices – But One Day     (7”single 1968 Aust.)

Eno – Burning Airlines Give You So Much More     (‘Taking Tiger Mountain [By Strategy]’ LP 1974 UK)  #

               #   “Artiste of the Month”

Obscured By...

As always, we launched into Obscured by... with a bunch of Australian bands from the 60’s and early 70’s, this week including the pop-psych sounds of Puppy, an obscurity from the Groop, a live TV appearance by Kahvas Jute and classic garage punk from the Missing Links, and eventually bookended the show by finishing with some recent exponents of that ‘wild garage sound’... first from the USA, with Ty Segall and Thee Oh Sees, and then from Russia, with the Crushers. In between, we heard some goth from Christian Death, US punk from the Avengers, Krautrock from Faust, a pertinent classic from John Cooper Clarke, a strange electro set from Adelaide combo voiceROM, an interesting cover of a Velvet Underground standard by OMD, a 1976 live rehearsal recording from 801 and much more... even David Essex! And all brought to you by the DOTS for this week, the Cat and the Brat.....

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

the Vacant Lot – Don’t let me sleep too long [Myddle Class cover]     (7”single 1967 Adelaide, Australia)

the Missing Links – Speak No Evil     (‘You’re Driving Me Insane’ LP 1965 Australia)

Kahvas Jute – I Can’t Stop     (unreleased – live on ‘Hit Scene’ ABCTV 1971 Aust.)

Pirana – Here It Comes Again     (7”single 1971 Aust.)

Long Grass – Anywhere you wanna go     (7”single 1968 Adelaide, Aust.)

the Groop - Mandrake Wine     (Australia - recorded 1968 in London, unreleased until 1987 - on flexi-disc with "From the Vault" mag. Aust)

Puppy – Belinda     (7”single 1968 Aust.)

the Jesus and Mary Chain – Just Like Honey (recorded in 1985)     (‘Peel Sessions’ EP 1991 UK)

Xmal Deutschland – Orient     (‘Fetisch’ LP 1983 Germany)

Christian Death – Skeleton Kiss     (‘Skeleton Kiss’ 1992 USA)

Toys Went Beserk – Audrina     (‘Pieces’ double 12” EP 1987 Australia)

the  Avengers – Car Crash     (7”single 1977 USA)

Second Hand – Reality     (‘Reality’ LP 1968 UK)

Faust – J’ai Mal Aux Dents [prev.called Party 3]     (recorded 1973 – released on ‘71 Minutes’ 2004 Germany)

Tangerine Dream – Tangram     (‘Tangram’ LP 1980 Germany)

voiceROM – Sugarkeys Foreshadowing / Summon the Noodle Vendor / Kilophone     (‘Pastry Music for Pastry Chefs’ 2012 Adelaide, Australia)

the Outsiders – PrisonSong     (‘CQ’ LP 1968 Netherlands)

the Raincoats – No One’s Little Girl     (7”single 1982 UK)

John Cooper Clarke – Beasley Street     (‘Snap, Crackle and Bop’ LP 1980 UK)

David Essex – Rock On     (7”single 1973 UK)

Orchestral Manouvres in the Dark – Waiting for the Man [Velvet Underground cover]     (10”single b-side 1980 UK)

Roxy Music – Sea Breezes / Bitter End     (‘Roxy Music’ LP 1972 UK)

801 – The Fat Lady of Limbourg [Eno song]     (recorded at rehearsal  23.8.1976 – taken from ‘801 Live – Collector’s Edition re-issue’ 2009 UK)

Ty Segall – Maria Stacks [with Thee Oh Sees]     (7”single 2009 – taken from ‘Singles 2007-2010’ anthology 2011 USA)

Thee Oh Sees – Head of State     (‘Dog Poison’ 2009 USA)

the Crushers – Bonita     (‘Glory of the Day’ 2002 Moscow, Russia)