Technicolour Dreaming

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)

Technicolour Dreaming

It is appropriate that this edition’s Compilation of the Week is the 2014 Electric Sound Show 5-CD box-set, a series that describes itself as ‘An Assortment of Antiquities for the Psychedelic Connoisseur’, which, in part, is what we aim to play for our listeners each week, along with  more recent releases we pick from the current psychedelic outpouring and its 20^th century predeccessors! It has a slightly murky history (you try getting any CONSISTENT, accurate information about this series on the internet!) with the first instalment of the original vinyl series, the “We All Live On Candy Green” LP, put out by Soundshow Records in 2004, followed by “In King Solomon’s Minds” in 2010. The next LP was “Apricot Hash in the Hourglass” in 2011, “Paper Thoughts of Polly Pan” (2013) and finishing with “Green Eyed Gods of Smoke” (also 2013). The set covers rare 60’s psychedelia from Britain and the USA, plus what is variously described as ‘Pop-Psych’, ‘Mindblowing Nuggets’ and ‘Heavy Psychedelic Stoners’ from the rest of the world. The limited edition 5CD box set released by Particles Records that is our particular focus this week is based on the original vinyl albums, but with some different tracks to confuse the issue.... whatever, it is a great boxset, and deserved its place as our feature. Another highlight was a rare interview with Nick of Adelaide’s Molting Vultures... much merriment ensued as he regaled us with tales of the music scene in Melbourne where he now resides. This move several years ago means however that the Molting Vultures now only play occasionally in either city, but have a great turnout of loyal garage-psych aficionados whenever they appear and hopefully a new album release will also ensue in the not too distant future with Nick promising he has some new songs ready for the band to develop. For the rest of our playlist simply see below, and so until next Tuesday, between 2 and 4pm (Central Australian Time) on 3D Radio, we bid you “adieu”.....

...... and here’s the complete song-list, including some associated clips, including scenes from the Cat & Brat's wedding performance of 'Life On The Dole' with the Molting Vultures, the complete Andy Warhol tribute, “Songs for Drella”, played live in 1990 by John Cale and Lou Reed, plus an episode of Julian Cope's "Modern Antiquarian" TV show..... Enjoy!!

Three Minute Tease - Bravely Fade Away      ("Bite the Hand"  2014 UK)

Pinkunoizu - The Abyss      ("Free Time" 2013 Denmark)

White Noise - Phase In – Firebird     ("An Electric Storm" 1969 UK)

Halasan Bazar and Tara King th. - Ventolin     ("8" LP 2014 Denmark/France)

the Molting Vultures - Here Come the Mushroom People    ("Drop in and Go" 2009 Adelaide, Australia)

Interview with Nick Molty of  the Molting Vultures 

Peter Brat and the Molting Vultures - Life on the Dole      (7"single 2010 Adelaide, Australia)

Lothar and the Hand People - Sex and Violence     ("Presenting ... Lothar and the Hand People" LP 1968 New York, USA)

Dodson and Fogg [feat. Nigel Planer] - Entrepreneur in the Garden      ("In a Strange Slumber" 2014 UK)

Octopus Syng - Listen to the Moths      ("Reverberating Garden Number 7”  2014 Helsinki)

Julian Cope - Psychedelic Odin      ("Trip Advizer" 2015 UK)

the Icy Poles - Sugar and Spice      ("Antipodean Interpolations of the First Psychedelic Era" 2013 Aust)

Baby Grandmothers - Being is More than Life     (7"single 1968 Sweden)

the Black Hollies - No Illusion      ("Somewhere Between Here and Nowhere" USA 2013)

Dave Clark Five - Lost In His Dreams     ("Everybody Knows" LP 1968 UK)

Jacco Gardner - All Over      ("Hypnophobia" 2015 Netherlands )

the Wands - The Name of the Mountain      ("The Dawn" 2015 Denmark)

COMPILATION OF THE WEEK  

“ELECTRIC SOUND SHOW: An Assortment of Antiquities for the Psychedelic Connoisseur”   [5-CD boxset 2013 UK]

Tapestry - Who Wants Happiness      (7" single b-side (to Heart and Soul) 1969 UK : taken from CD1 - We All Live on Candy Green)

the Avengers - Listen, Listen      (7" single 1969 Wellington, New Zealand : taken from CD 2 - In King Solomon's Minds)

American Revolution - Opus #1      (7”single 1969 USA : taken from CD 3 - Apricot Hash on the Hourglass)

Tages - You're Too Incomprehensible    (7”single 1968 Sweden - taken from CD 4 : Paper Thoughts of Polly Pan)

William Sheller - Living East, Dreaming West (7"single b-side (to She Opened the Door) 1970 France - taken from CD 5 : Green Eyed Gods of Smoke)

Jacques Dutronc  - Hippie Hourrah      (7"EP  b-side [to “La Publicité"] 1968 France – taken from "Jacques Dutronc" LP 1968 France)

Lou Reed and John Cale - Work      ("Songs For Drella" CD/DVD 1990 USA)

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

plus.....

Technicolour Dreaming

Again this week we indulged our fondness for ‘suites’, this time by playing all the tracks from side 2 of DeWolff’s latest album ‘IV’, which are collectively entitled “A Mind Slip” – in our opinion, the best thing they’ve yet done! There were also songs from current bands such as Pugwash, Vibravoid, Youngteam and Clue to Kalo plus the debut recording by Melbourne psychsters Flyying Colours, as well as a selections from the past by luminaries such as the Adverts, Johnny Young, Naz Nomad & the Nightmares and the gloriously-named Frumious Bandersnatch. Finally, we featured a mystery song whose unknown provenance has been commented on by the ‘arch-drood’ himself – Julian Cope – who noted: “the track ‘A Walk Down Emily Lane’ by The Unexplained, I was informed by a pretty reliable source, ... was an 80's studio creation by a mystery group that was recorded exclusively for the album, so don't waste your time trying to find the record, I don't think it exists”  ..... http://www.headheritage.co.uk/unsung/review/1731/  

..... so here is the playlist, with some moving pictures.....

Pugwash – Even I        (‘Jollity’ 2005 Ireland)

Steve Hillage – It’s All Too Much [George Harrison cover]         (‘L’ LP 1976 UK)

A Little Bit of Sound – Incense and Peppermints [Strawberry Alarm Clock cover]         (7” single 1967 California, USA)

Clue to Kalo – What Went Down Around         (‘Lily Perdida’ 2008 Adelaide, Australia)

the Mecki Mark Men – Free         (‘The Mecki Mark Men’ LP 1967 Sweden)

Flyying Colours – Wavygravy         (CD single 2013 Melbourne, Aust.)

Crocodiles – Hollow Hollow Eyes         (‘Sleep Forever’ 2010 USA)

Manfred Mann – A “B” Side         (7” single b-side [to Ragamuffin Man] 1969 UK)

Nazz Nomad and the Nightmares – Cold Turkey [Big Boy Pete cover]         (‘Give Daddy the Knife, Cindy’ LP 1984 UK)

Henri Salvador – Carnaby Street         (‘Pikabou’ 7” EP 1967 France)

the Adverts – One Chord Wonders         (7” single 1977 UK)

the Times – Glad Not Sad         (live recording, unreleased – taken from ‘Devil’s Children: Vol.2’ compilation 2000 Australia)

Johnny Young and Kompany – Caralyn [Strangeloves cover]         (7” single b-side [to Step Back] 1966 Australia)

 

the Apple – The Otherside         (‘An Apple a Day’ LP 1969 Cardiff, Wales)

the Unexplained – A Walk down Emily Lane         (‘Chocolate Soup for Diabetics Vol. 1’ compilation LP 1980 UK – taken from the ‘Chocolate Soup for Diabetics’ 5-CD boxset 2010 UK)

DeWolff – A Mind Slip [suite]   i Devil on a Wire   ii The Telephone   iii Black Hole Raga   iv Sixth Dimension Blues   v The Telephone Pt.2   vi Astral Awareness   vii Vicious Times      (‘DeWolff IV’ 2013 Limburg, Netherlands)

Vibravoid – The Politics of Ecstacy      (‘The Politics of Ecstacy’ 2006 Germany)

Pink Floyd – Come In Number 51, Your Time Is Up      (‘Zabriskie Point’ soundtrack LP 1970 USA/Italy)

Youngteam – Daydreamer      (‘Daydreamer’ 2011 Sweden)

Southwest F.O.B. – Smell of Incense [West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band cover]      (7”single 1968 Texas, USA) 

the Higher State – Levitation [13^th Floor Elevators cover]      (‘Texas’ EP 2010 UK)

the Rising Sons – Take a Giant Step [Monkees cover]      (recorded 1966, unreleased – taken from ‘LA Nuggets - Where the Action Is: 1965-1968’ compilation boxset  2009 USA)

the British North-American Act – Don’t Run Away      (‘In the Beginning...’ LP 1968 Canada)

Frumious Bandersnatch – Hearts to Cry      (‘Frumious Bandersnatch’ EP 1968 San Francisco, USA)

Technicolour Dreaming

The Cat & the Brat again brought a mixture of genres and eras to the airwaves this week, including, of course, some diverse psychedelia from the likes of the Rainbow Ffolly, Sundial, Jacco Gardner and Beaulieu Porch, power pop from the Knickerbockers  and Adelaide’s own Arch Menaces, plus some 70’s German bands such as Gila and Electric Sandwich. There were a bunch of singles, primarily b-sides, from Paul Jones, the Syn, the Market Squares and more – slabs of vinyl genius. We have included amongst the clips we chose this week, Part 1 of “The Modern Antiquarian” doco by ‘arch-druid’ Julian Cope – the other parts are linked to this one – as we couldn’t find an original video of our chosen track ‘Sunspots’ from the time it was recorded, but thought that some Cope-archaeology-spieling was a rather good alternative....

.....so here is the playlist, with pictures.....

Sundial – World Without Time         (‘Other Way Out’ LP 1990 USA)

 

the Dandy Warhols – Everyday Should Be A Holiday         (‘Dandy Warhols Come Down’ 1997 USA) 
the Mynd Gardeners – East of Where         (‘Partial Spyral Staircase Entanglement’ digital-EP 2013 Adelaide, Australia) 
Bronco Bullfrog – Never Been to California         (7”single [b-side to Clarifoil] 2013 UK) 
the Arch Menaces – Fancy Free         (‘Primitive Germs’ 2013 Adelaide, Aust.) 
Dave Dee Dozy Beaky Mick and Tich – Zabadak         (7”single 1967 UK) 
 
Paul Jones – The Dog Presides         (7”single [b-side to And the Sun Will Shine] 1966 UK)

 

the Market Squares – Inside My Mind         (7”single [b-side to Afternoon] 2013 UK)
the Blue Angel Lounge – Ashes Round the Skull       (‘The Blue Angel Lounge’ 2009 Germany)
the Intricate Blend – Door Knob         (recorded in 1968 New Mexico, unissued – taken from ‘Get Ready to Fly: Pop-Psych from the Norman Petty Vaults’ compilation 2007 USA) 
    
the Bee Gees – Play Down         (‘Spicks and Specks’ LP 1966 Aust.)
Stu Mitchell and Wes Dakus’ Rebels – Acid         (7” single 1966 Canada)
Jacco Gardner – Puppets Dangling         (‘Cabinet of Curiosities’ 2013 Netherlands) 
 
the Rainbow Ffolly – She’s Alright         (‘The Rainbow Ffolly Rallies Fforth’ LP 1968 UK)

Gila – Sundance Chant         (‘Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee’ LP 1966 Germany)

Wolfgang Riechmann – Himmelblau         (‘Wunderbar’ LP 1978 Germany)

Electric Sandwich – China      (‘Electric Sandwich’ LP 1973 Germany – taken from ‘Deutsche Elektronische Musik Vol. 2’ compilation 2013)

the Morgans – Rasal      (7”single b-side [to Sitar Beat] 1966 Germany)

Clinic – the Magician      (‘Winchester Cathedral’ 2004 UK)

 

Turn Me On Dead Man – Wondermint      (‘Technicolour Mother’ 2006 San Francisco, USA)

Sands – Listen to the Sky      (7”single b-side [to Mrs Gillespie’s Refridgerator] 1967 UK)

Boeing Duveen & the Beautiful Soup – Which Dreamed It      (7”single b-side [ to Jabberwock] 1968 UK)

Endle St Cloud In The Rain – Tell Me One More Time      (7”single 1969 Texas, USA)

the Syn – Grounded      (7”single b-side [to Created By Clive] 1967 UK)

 

Ride Into The Sun – Devil’s Soul      (‘Ride Into The Sun : 2010-2012’ anthology 2013 Adelaide, Aust.)

Julian Cope – Sunspots       (recorded live on ‘the Peel Sessions’  1984 London, UK – taken from ‘Floored Genius 2 - Best of the BBC Sessions 1983-91’ anthology 1993 UK)

  

the Beach Boys – Heroes & Villains [alternate take]      (recorded 1966/67 during ‘Smile’ sessions, Los Angeles, unissued – taken from ‘Smiley Smile/Wild Honey’ re-issue 1990 USA) 

Beaulieu Porch – Laminations are Loaded      (‘Beaulieu Porch’ 2012 UK)

 

the Knickerbockers – High On Love      (7”single b-side [to Stick To Me] 1966 USA)

Kelley Stoltz – Keeping the Flame      (‘To Dreamers’ 2010 USA)