Technicolour Dreaming

Quite a diverse show this week - close to home, there were new singles from Perth's Wheelers of Oz and Melbourne's The Creeping Bam, proving that psychedelia in Australia is still well and truly alive and relevant, plus a re-release from The Monocles, later known as The Higher Elevation, famous in their latter form for the much comped "Spider and the Fly" - that squeaky "help me" fro the fly makes my heart melt for the little insect every time! Added to that, a couple of reasonably recent Fruits de Mer releases from the Soft Hearted Scientists and Ex Norwegian, and tracks from Poland, Finland, Rhode Island, Miami Beach, Houston, San Francisco and of course, my hometown, Adelaide...we try to be as inclusive as we can - but the music dictates!!

And here is the playlist, with associated visuals....

John Foxx - Europe after the Rain  (7" single 1981 UK)

Bliss Bombs - Trees at Night  ("Adelaide Demos 1979-1981" 1981 Adelaide, Australia)

Combustible Edison - Carnival of Souls  ("I, Swinger" 1994 Rhode Island, USA)

The Love Machine - Mindblower ("Electronic Music to Blow Your Mind With" LP 1968 USA)

Ex Norwegian - It's a Game  (7" single 2015 from future album "Pure Gold" Miami Beach, Florida USA)

Soft Hearted Scientists - Surferella  ("Exorcising the Demos Part 3" 2015 Wales, UK)

All in the Golden Afternoon - Tidal Wave  ("Magic Lighthouse on the Infinite Sea" 2011Austin, Texas USA)

1984 - This Little Boy (demo )  (demo version of the later 7" single 1969 UK) 

The Moving Sidewalks - I Want to Hold your Hand  (7" single 1968 Houston, Texas USA)

The Iguana - California My Way (7" single 1968 Melbourne, Aust.)

No to Co ("So What") - Saturday to Sunday  (7" single 1969 Poland)

The Easybeats - Come and See Her  (7" single 1966 Sydney, Aust.)

House of Fire - Drifting Sunward (Ship of the Dead)  ("Keeper of the Doors" 2014 Pennsylvania, USA)

Quilt - Secondary Swan  ("Held in Splendor" 2014 Boston, USA)

The Smoking Trees - Awake in Your Dreams    ("TST" 2015, Los Angeles USA)

Octopus Syng - If You were a flower    ("Evolver - Mega Dodo sampler" 2014 Finland)

The Monocles and the Higher Elevation - Psychedelic  ("The Spider, the Fly and the Boogie Man" 2015 Boulder, Colorado USA)

The Monocles and the Higher Elevation - The Spider and the Fly  ("The Spider, the Fly and the Boogie Man" 2015 Boulder, Colorado USA)

The Dunes - Transition  ("Between Midnight and Dawn" 2012 Adelaide, Aust.)

The Chocolate Watchband - Baby Blue  ("The Inner Mystique" LP 1968 San Jose, California USA)

The December Sound - Painkiller  ("The December Sound [Silver Album]" 2007, Boston Massachusetts USA)

The Dials - Watch Her Walk Away  ("Companions of the Rosy Hours" 2009 UK)

The High Dials - Chinese Boxes    ("Anthems for a Doomed Youth" 2010 Montreal, Canada)

Kim Fowley - Strangers From the Sky  (7" single 1967 USA)

The Morning After Girls - The Trip [Kim Fowley]  ("He Put The Bomp! In the Bomp" compilation 2007 New York, USA/Australia)

The Creeping Bam - Don't Get High  (CD single 2015 Melbourne, Aust.)

Wheelers of Oz - La Petit Mort  ("Revivalised" 2015 Perth, Aust.)

The Amazing Friendly Apple - Magician  (7" single [b-side to "Water Woman"] 1969 UK)

Wooden Shjips - Down By The Sea  ("Dos" 2009 San Francisco, California USA)

Technicolour Dreaming

The Scientists are in Adelaide this week so we thought we’d feature one of their classic songs, albeit one originally released as a single b-side, and this kind of set the tone for the rest of the show. Yes there were some recent releases, including songs from Pinkunoizu, the Luck of Eden Hall and Temples and even pre-releases from the Barbarellatones and the Dandelion Seeds, but the bulk of rest were from all over the place, with tracks from artists such as Chad & Jeremy, John Foxx, nick nicely, the Good, the Bad & the Queen, This Mortal Coil and the Frantics, with Mordecai Smyth finishing off on a suitably British psych-pop note.....

..... so here is the playlist, with some visuals to divert.....

Pinkunoizu – Necromancer      (“The Drop” LP 2014 Denmark)

 

nick nicely – 49 Cigars      (7”single b-side [to Hilly Fields (1892)] 1981 UK – taken from “Psychotropia” anthology 2010 UK)

the Arnold Corns (aka David Bowie) – Hang On To Yourself      (7”single b-side [to Moonage Daydream] 1971 UK)

Soft Hearted Scientists – Westward Leading      (“Wandermoon” 2011 Wales, UK)

John Foxx – Endlessly      (7”single 1982 UK)

the Scientists – Swampland      (7”single b-side [to Happy Hour] 1982 Perth, Australia)

King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard – Alluda Majaka      (“Oddments” 2014 Melbourne, Australia)

The Good, the Bad & the Queen – Herculean      (CD-single 2006 UK)

This Mortal Coil – Strength of Strings [Gene Clark cover]      (“Filigree & Shadow” LP 1986 UK)

the West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band – In the Arena/Suppose They Give a War and No One Comes      (“Vol. 2” LP 1967 USA)

the Frantics – Just For a While      (7”single 1968 USA – taken from “Relax Your Mind” anthology LP 1994 USA)

the Luck of Eden Hall – The Collapse of Suzy Star      (“Victoria Moon” LP 2014 Chicago, USA)

the Dandelion Seeds – Crazy Sun      (“Dandelion Seeds” LP 2014 Iceland)

Chad & Jeremy – Rest In Peace/The Gentle Cold of Dawn      (“Of Cabbages & Kings” LP 1967 UK/USA)

the Amazing – Kirwan Song      (“The Amazing” 2010 Sweden)

Temples – Move With The Season      (“Sun Structures” 2013 UK)

the Sun Blindness – Velvet Apple      (“Far Arden” 2011 Australia)

the Barbarellatones – Then the Sausage      (mp3 demo 2014 California, USA)

the Black Hollies – Toy Boat Toy Boat Toy Boat      (7”single b-side [to Benevolent Beacon] 2011 USA)

Mordecai Smyth – I’ve Been So Tired      (“Sticky Tape & Rust” LP 2011 UK)

Technicolour Dreaming

We began this week’s show with some psych-pop, old and new, by such luminaries as the Twilights, Jacco Gardner and Dungen, then plunged into the late 70’s/early 80’s UK electronic scene, exemplified by artists such as John Foxx and Death In June, before heading into orbit with the b-side of the Space Agency’s new single. We had tracks from Hookworms and Baptism of Uzi, and then plunged back in a psychedelic haze with the Sky Falling and the Seeds, plus tracks from the debut Byzantines E.P. We paid tribute to the late Bill Putt of Spectrum fame and also to ‘lost’ 60’s song-writer legend Tandyn Almer, who passed away earlier this year just as a retrospective of his work was being released, before ending with another track from the excellent new Sonny & the Sunsets LP. That was Technicolour Dreaming with the Cat & the Brat on 3D Radio for another week.....

....... and here is the playlist, complete with some clips [see the “Shebang!” dancers from 1967 grooving to the Seeds – worth the free admission alone!].....

Jimi Hendrix Experience – If Six Was Nine        (“Axis: Bold As Love” LP 1969 USA)

the Church – Myrrh         (“Heyday” LP 1985 Australia)

Jacco Gardner – The Riddle         (“Cabinet of Curiosities” 2013 Netherlands)

the Twilights – What a Silly Thing to Do          (“Once Upon a Twilight” LP 1968 Adelaide, Australia)

Dungen – Har du Vart I Stockholm?         (“Stadsvandringar” 2002 Stockholm, Sweden)

the Monkees – Shake ‘Em Up and Let ‘Em Roll / DW Washburn [alt. version] / Alvin [alt. version]      (recorded during sessions for “The Birds, the Bees and the Monkees” LP 1967 USA – bonus tracks on Rhino Records 3-CD reissue boxset 2009 USA)

Lene Lovich – Birdsong         (7”single 1979 UK)

the Byzantines – Cat’s Got Boots         (“Colourvision” EP 2013 Adelaide, Australia)

John Foxx – Europe After the Rain         (“The Garden” LP 1981 UK)

Tubeway Army – Replicas         (“Replicas” LP 1979 UK)

Eurythmics – Caveman Head        (“In the Garden” LP 1981 UK)

Death in June – We Drive East         (12”single [b-side to Heaven St.] 1981 UK)

Brian Eno – Dead Finks Don’t Talk         (“Here Come the Warm Jets” LP 1973 UK)

the Space Agency – Purple Power         (7”single [b-side to Bombay Potatoes] 2013 East Sussex, UK)

Leonard Nimoy – Theme from Star Trek         (“Leonard Nimoy Presents Mr Spock’s Music from Outer Space” LP 1967 USA)

Baptism of Uzi – Stray Current        (CD-single 2013 Melbourne, Australia)

Hookworms – Since We Had Changed         (“Pearl Mystic” California, USA)

the Sky Falling – Aimee-Lee         (“Burn Your Fingers on the Sun” compilation 2007 Australia)

Giles, Giles and Fripp – Elephant Song         (“The Cheerful Insanity of Giles, Giles and Fripp” LP 1967 UK)

the Byzantines – Cat’s Got Boots         (“Colourvision EP” 2013 Adelaide, Australia)

Spectrum – I’ll Be Gone [demo version]         (recorded 1969 Melbourne, Australia – bonus track on “Spectrum Part 1” reissue 2007 Australia)

The Rationals – I Need You          (7”single 1966 USA – taken from “Think Rational” anthology 2011 USA)

the Seeds – A Thousand Shadows      (“Future” LP 1967 California, USA)

Tandyn Almer – Sunset Strip Soliloquy [demo]      (recorded 1966 Los Angeles, USA – taken from “Along Comes Tandyn” anthology 2013 USA)

Mikal Cronin – I’m Done Running From You      (“MCII” 2013 California, USA)

Sonny & the Sunsets – Mutilator      (“Antenna to the Stars” 2013 USA)

Technicolour Dreaming

This week as always, we played a diverse bunch of records, ranging from the 60’s pop of Nancy Sinatra, the Twilights and Jacques Dutronc through to new albums from Mikal Cronin, Dark Ocean Colors and Norway’s the Apricot, plus a garage/psych side-project by Robert Schneider of Apples In Stereo called Thee American Revolution, as well as some Australian sounds from, amongst others, the Riptides, the Molting Vultures, Asteroid Belt and Space Party. We went electronic with John Foxx before ending the show with the final appearance as “Band of the Month” by California’s the Barbarellatones... all brought to you, of course, by the Cat and the Brat.....

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

Starstream – Don’t Leave (Honey)     (‘Burn your Fingers on the Sun’ compilation 2007 Australia)

the Selfish Cales – State of Eternity     (‘Selfish Cales II’ EP 2011 Italy)

Treetops – Leaving Tidal River     (‘Treetops’ EP 2005 Melbourne, Australia)

the Twilights – Comin’ On Down     (7” single b-side 1968 Aust.)

the Easybeats – Come and See Her     (7”single 1966 Aust.)

Mikal Cronin – Green & Blue     (‘Trouble In Mind’ 2012 USA)

the Asteroid Belt – Watching You     (‘Blank Horizon’ 2011 Adelaide, Aust.)

Thee American Revolution – Electric Flame     (‘Buddha Electrostorm’ 2012 USA)

Moon Duo – Run Around [Cave ‘Organ Desert’ mix]     (‘Mazes – Remixed’ EP 2011)

the Misunderstood – I Can Take You To The Sun     (recorded 1967 – taken from ‘Before the Dream Faded’ anthology 2010 UK)

Comus – In the Lost Queen’s Eyes     (‘First Utterance’ LP 1971 UK)

the Druids of Stonehenge – Pale Dream      (‘Creation’ LP 1968 USA)

Jacques Dutronc – Les gens sont fous, les temps sont flous     (7”single 1966 France)

the Apricot – Too Far Behind     (‘Forestful of Threes’ 2011 Norway)

Dark Ocean Colors – Lazy Lighthouse Jupiter Band     (‘Dark Ocean Colors’ 2012 USA)

Nancy Sinatra – Bang Bang     (7”single 1966 USA)

the Molting Vultures – Morning Sun     (demo 2010 Adelaide, Aust.)

Slingshot Dragster – Stoli Chaser [Tremelo Beergut cover]     (‘Demolition’ EP 2009 Adelaide)

Space Party – Get Surfed     (‘Invasion of the Surfer Men’ 2009 Canberra, Aust.)

the Riptides – Sunset Strip     (7”single 1978 Aust.)

John Foxx – Underpass     (‘Metamatic’ LP 1980 UK)

the Barbarellatones – I had Sex with a C.H.U.D.     (‘Invasion of the Surf Zombies’ 2006 USA)   #

 

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