Technicolour Dreaming

We began the show with one of our favourite recent earworms, the wonderful “Persuaded” by Groovy Uncle which features the Shirley Bassey-style voice of new recruit, Miss Modus... great stuff! From there we ventured into the usual mix of old and new, soft and loud, here and overseas, plus a few semi-obscurities such as Sapphire Thinkers , Space Yacob and the Giant Yeti and the Glass Family to shake things up. We also said “Vale!” to Kim Fowley and Leonard Nimoy aka Mr Spock who both passed away recently, before moving on with our “Compilation [boxset] of the Week”, namely “Children of Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the Second Psychedelic Era, 1976–1995”, the third in the “Nuggets” 4-CD boxset series put out by Rhino Records, from which we played a selection of faves, including the Church, which featured a very young Richard Ploog [ex-Brats] on drums... but only in the film-clips, since the song had already been recorded using the drummer he replaced. Richard of course went on to play for almost a decade with the Church during their heyday years, notching up many “best drummer” awards in the process. We finished with a trip back to the mid-70’s to the second Roxy Music LP and an instrumental from David Bowie’s brilliant “Low” album.... and regular listeners will know how much the Cat & the Brat love a good instro!! So until next time....

..... here is the playlist plus moving pictures, including that first “Countdown” TV appearance of Richard in the Church, plus Bowie playing “Warszawa” live in Japan in 1978, and the Times’ nod to cult TV show “The Prisoner” – enjoy!

Groovy Uncle featuring Suzi Chunk and Miss Modus - Persuaded (Vocal version)   ("Persuaded" LP 2014 UK)

Moon Duo - Animal      (digital single 2015 USA)

the Watchmakers - To Be Part of You      (7" single b-side [to Before Questions Became] 2014 UK)

Sapphire Thinkers - From Within      ("From Within" LP 1968 USA)

the Glass Family - Guess I'll Let You Go      ("Electric Band" LP 1967 USA)

the Citradels - Another Dream Theme      ("Nepenthe" 2014 Melbourne, Australia)

the Murlocs - Adolescence     (digital single 2015 Geelong, Australia)

the Liminanas - La fille de la ligne 15      (7”single 2013 France – taken from "I've Got Trouble in Mind : 7" and Rare Stuff - 2009/2014" anthology 2014 France/USA)

the Amazing - Defect      ("Wait For A Light To Come"  EP 2010 Sweden)

ZX⁺ - She's a Rainbow [Rolling Stones cover]      (“Fruits de Mer present ‘Strange Fruits and Veg’" promo compilation 2015 UK)

the Chemistry Set - We Luv You [Rolling Stones cover]   ("This Day will Never Happen Again" 2011 UK)

Yuri Gagarin - Sonic Invasion 2910      ("Yuri Gagarin - 2014 Remix" 2015 Sweden)

Black Box Recorder - Uptown Top Ranking      ("England Made Me" 1998 UK)

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

Leonard Nimoy - Star Trek Theme      ("Leonard Nimoy Presents Mr Spock's Music from Outer Space" LP 1967 USA)

Space Yacob and the Giant Yeti - Alaveska      ("YACOB II"  EP 2014 Japan)

Barbarellatones - Tuesday Near Death      (demo USA 2015)

Sparks - Thank God it's Not Christmas      ("Kimono My House" LP 1974 USA/UK)

Haleiwa - Harbour      (7" single 2015 Stockholm, Sweden)

         ###  COMPILATION OF THE WEEK  ###  

     “Children of Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the Second Psychedelic Era, 1976–1995” 4-CD Boxset

                                                 

the Unknowns - Not My Memory ("Dream Sequence" LP 1981 LA, USA – taken from “Children of Nuggets” Volume 4)

the Church - The Unguarded Moment      (7" single 1980 Australia – taken from “Children of Nuggets” Volume 3)

Vibrasonic - Kingsley J.       (7" single 1994 Brighton, UK – taken from “Children of Nuggets” Volume 2)

the Times - I Helped Patrick McGoohan Escape      ("I Helped Patrick McGoohan Escape" LP 1983 UK – taken from “Children of Nuggets” Volume 1)

Roxy Music - Beauty Queen      ("For Your Pleasure" LP 1973 UK)

Bowie - Warszawa      ("Low" LP 1977 UK)

Technicolour Dreaming

Sometimes there are highlights on Technicolour Dreaming that are selected for any number of reasons. Take, for instance, the Merry-Go-Round … “Listen, Listen” is a great slice of pop-perfection, but take a look at those groovy clothes!! (our clip shows their ill-fated appearance on “the Dating Game” in 1967).  New London outfit Weird Dreams made the grade due to their sheer delicious musical wooziness, and seeing as it had been stuck in our heads all week, we just had to play the catchy track “Lucifer” by the Salt (in reality a studio-only band headed by Joey Levine, who also made Chewy, Chewy and Yummy, Yummy, Yummy!) Other picks included a Kim Fowley classic, co-written with Michael Lloyd of the West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band (who coincidentally also played with the late Darryl Cotton, as featured in last week’s tribute), and cool cover versions by the Barbarellatones and the Church (of Jan and Dean, and Hawkwind, respectively). The Adelaide artists featured this week included local legends the Dagoes and Lizard Train and, of course, the late great Baterz, our current “Artiste of the Month,” who concluded the set.

And here is the playlist…

Lizard Train – Explosion in a Room     (‘Thirteen Hour Daydream’ EP 1986 Adelaide, Australia)

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

the Knickerbockers – Lies     (7”single 1965 USA)

Penetration – Don’t Dictate     (7”single 1977 UK)

the Merry-Go-Round – Listen, Listen     (7”single 1967 USA)

the Green Circles – Brown House in Stepney     (‘Brass knobs, bevelled edges [and in 23 different positions]’ 2003 Adelaide, Aust.)

Jefferson Airplane – We Can Be Together     (‘Volunteers’ LP 1969 USA)

Marc Bolan & T.Rex – Teenage Dream     (‘Zinc Alloy and the Hidden Riders of Tomorrow – A Creamed Cage in August ‘ LP 1974 UK)

Scott Walker – The Old Man’s Back Again [dedicated to the neo-Stalinist regime]     (‘Scott 4’ LP 1970 UK)

the Church – Silver Machine [Hawkwind cover]     (‘Box of Birds’ 1999 Aust.)

the Dagoes – Little Blackie     (7”single b-side [to We Sell Soul] 1980 Adelaide, Aust. – taken from ‘Supreme’ anthology)

the Readymades – Big Shoe Shuffle     (‘Handmade’ EP 2012 Adelaide, Aust.)

Suzi Chunk – Tripwire     (7”single b-side [to Look Back and Laugh] 2012 UK)

the Barbarellatones – Dead Man’s Curve [Jan & Dean cover]     (‘Confessions of a Teenage Prostitute’ 2011 USA)

Tea – Birthday Boy     (pre-release/demo 2012 Adelaide, Aust.)

?  and the Mysterians – 96 Tears     (7”single 1966 Michigan, USA)

Kim Fowley – Strangers from the Sky     (7”single 1967 California, USA)

the Salt – Lucifer     (7”single 1968 USA)

City Riots – Wait For You     (‘Sea of Bright Lights’ 2012 Adelaide, Aust.)

Weird Dreams – Vague Hotel     (‘Choreography’ 2012 London, UK)

Baterz – Darling     (‘Out of Hell’ 2000 Adelaide, Aust.)     #

      #   “Artiste of the Month”

Obscured By...

Beginning again with a clutch of 60’s Australian rarities, including the 1961 collaboration of Vicky Simms, a 13-year-old indigenous boy, with perennial instrumental band, the Joyboys, an unreleased recording by Procession and a great Tony Worsley single, this week’s presenters, the Cat and the Brat, ranged through time and place, vinyl and CD, to bring you the late 70’s/early 80’s electronic delights of Ultravox! and the Human League, some Finnish psychedelia from Eero Koivistoinen and a couple of tracks from the classic 1981 film “Urgh! A Music War”. We raided the extensive 3D Radio Library to pick random G selections for our regular “Letter of the Week” feature, which included the Welsh sunshine pop of Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci and a children’s song by Professor Elliot Gnash, and ending this week’s episode with the Dandy Warhols take on the Cure....

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

the Echomen – Ski Run     (7”single 1963 Australia)

Chris Hall and the Torquays – Don’t ask me why     (7”single 1966 Australia)

Procession – I Love My Dog [Cat Stevens cover]     (unreleased : from ‘UpTight’ TV show 1967 Australia)

Vicky Simms and the Joyboys – I wanna bop     (7”single 1961 Australia)

Tony Worsley and the Fabulous Blue Jays – How Can It Be     (7”single 1966 Australia)

Billy Thorpe and the Aztecs – Blue Day     (7”single 1964 Australia)

the Godz – Turn On     (‘Contact High With the Godz’ LP 1966 USA)

Galliard – Ask for Nothing     (‘New Dawn’ LP 1971 UK)

Eero Koivistoinen – Small Games inside an Urban Limousine     (1968 – taken from ‘Psychedelic Phinland: Finnish Hippie and Underground Music 1967-1974’ CD compilation 2006 Finland)

Kim Fowley – Strangers from the Sky     (7”single 1967 USA)

Hans Poulson – Comin’ Home the Long Way     (‘Lost and Found’ LP 1972 Australia)

Shel Silverstein – Have another Expresso     (‘Inside Folk Songs’ LP 1962 USA)

the Human League – WXJL Tonight     (‘Travelogue’ LP 1980 UK)

Kollectiv – Rambo Zambo     (‘Kollectiv’ LP 1973 Germany)

Ultravox! – The man who dies everyday     (‘Ha! Ha! Ha!’ LP 1977 UK)

Klaus Nomi – Total Eclipse     (recorded 1980 NYC – taken from ‘Urgh! A Music War’ double-LP compilation 1981 USA)

the Au Pairs – Come Again     (recorded 1980 London – from ‘Urgh! A Music War’)

Green On Red – Death and Angels     (‘Green On Red’ EP 1982 USA)

the Rain Parade – You are my friend     (‘Explosions in the Glass Palace’ LP 1984 USA)

the Long Ryders – Good Times Tomorrow, Hard Times Today     (‘State of our Union’ 1986 USA)

Thee Wylde Maniacs – Why (love ain’t fair)     (7” single 1966 USA – taken from ‘Bam Caruso Waxworks Vol. 1’ compilation CD)

George W. Bush – El Dorado     (split 7” EP with the St Alban Kids 2003 Adelaide, Australia)   #

Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci – Miss Trudy      (‘Llanfwrog’ EP 1998 Wales, UK)   #

Professor Elliot Gnash – It’s Heaps Good in the Garden     (‘The most groovy album ever’ 2004 Adelaide, Australia)   #

King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard – Dead-Beat     (‘Willoughby Beach’ 2011 Australia)   #

Redd Cross – Disco Bitch     (‘Jimmy’s Fantasy’ cdEP 1993 USA)

the Dandy Warhols – Primary [Cure cover]     (‘NME: Picture This - a tribute to the Cure’ CD 2009 UK)

       # “Letter of the Week”