Technicolour Dreaming

In an effort to get this long-overdue playlist posted, I'll skip the long, drawn-out intro, and let the music, and the moving pictures, do the talking. The eagle-eyed among you will notice that I played a couple of the same selections from last week - accidentally, I assure you! So until next week...

The Beachnuts- Cycle Annie  ("The Velvet Underground - Etc" LP 1979 USA)

The Sunnyboys - Show Me Some Discipline  (7" single 1983 Sydney, Australia)

The Wands - War  ("The Dawn" 2014 Copenhagen, Denmark)

Loose Tooth  - Bites Will Bleed  ("Saturn Returns" EP 2016 Melbourne, Australia)

Plasticland  - Alexander [The Pretty Things]  ("Plasticland" LP 1984 Wisconsin, USA)

The Flower Machine - I am the Coelacanth  ("Chalk Dust Dream of the Tea Cozy Mitten Company" 2004 Los Angeles, USA)

Pony Face - Silver Tongue  ("Hypnotised" 2012 Melbourne, Australia)

Mugwump Establishment - Mondo Hollywood Freakout  ("Monday Hollywood OST" LP 1967 USA)

The Brats - Hoodlums  (demo 1980 Adelaide, Australia)

The Carnaby - Jump and Dance  (7" single 1965 UK)

Jacques Dutronc - L'Augmentation, 7" single [b-side to "Il Est Cinq Heure, Paris S'Eveille"] 1968 France)

Jacques Dutronc - Hippie Hippie Hourrah  (7" EP 1967 France)

Aquaserge - La Femme De Tahiti  ("MOSTLA-mix-SERGE-tape" 2013 France)

Balduin - I See Rainbows  ("Rainbow Tapes" 2009 Switzerland)

Blondi's Salvation - Ventoline  ("Wisdom Whisper" 2015 Nantes, France)

Los VV's - Fancy Car  ("Los VV's" EP 2015 Paris, France)

Steeple Remove - Mirrors  ("Position Normal" 2015 France)

Diamond Incarnation - Spacespin ("Scorpio 15" EP 2014 Taipei, Taiwan)

Kikagaku Moyo - Melted Crystal  ("House in the Tall Grass" LP Japan 2016)

Kingdom of the Holy Sun - Trip Out  ("Thirteen Eyes" EP 2014 Seattle, USA)

King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - Gamma Knife  ("Nonagon Infinity" 2016 Melbourne, Australia)

The Luck Of Eden Hall - A Man of Conservative Style  ("Acceleration of Time" 2016 Chicago, USA)
MIMICO - Astroblade  ("MIMICO" 2013 Toronto, Canada)

Night Beats - Puppet on a String  ("Night Beats" LP 2011 Seattle, USA)

Polska Radio One - North Berry  ("North Berry (Северная Ягода)" EP 2014 Yekaterinburg, Russia)

Halasan Bazar and Tara King th. - Dreamt Mutation Part 1 and 2  ("Mostla Tara Tape" 2014 France)

THANES - Kingdom of the Nobots  (digital single 2015 Adelaide, Australia)

The Dentists - Burning the Thoughts From My Skin  (7" single [b-side to "Strawberries Are Growing In My Garden (And It's Wintertime)] 1985 UK)

Vespero - K.A.M.S.A.S.  ("[Night Collectors] Psych Fest" compilation 2014 Moscow, Russia)

Vibravoid - Stepping Stone  (7" single 2015 Dusseldorf, Germany)

Technicolour Dreaming

As promised, this week I featured a veritable plethora of recent, new and soon to be released tracks (well, compared to previous weeks, a few, anyway!) from the likes of Technicolour Dreaming faves The Luck of Eden Hall, Kikagaku Moyo, King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard and Violet Swells. After a reasonably quiet couple of months, it seems that I hear word of great new stuff every couple of days. Could it be a publicity flurry in advance of Record Store Day on April 16th, or just a coincidence? Who knows, but it's great to see the vinyl resurgence continue to grow, though unfortunately slowed somewhat due to the major labels jumping on the bandwagon with pointless re-issues, and clogging up the pressing plant schedules at the expense of the small independent labels, who were the ones that supported them through the tough times. 

So here's the play-list, with even more new stuff in store for the next show...

Billy Nicholls - Girl From New York  ("Would You Believe" LP 1968 UK)

Richard De Bordeaux Et Daniel Beretta - La Drogue ("Extrait Du Film 'Le Temps Fou' Du Marcel Camus" EP 1968 France)

Elephant Stone (featuring Alex Maas) - The Devil's Shelter  (digital single 2015 Montreal, Canada)

Kikagaku Moyo  - Kogarishi ("House in the Tall Grass" LP [to be released in May 2016] Japan)

King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - Gamma Knife  ("Nonagon Infinity" LP [to be released 29 April 2016] Melbourne, Australia)

Murmurs of Irma - Vacuum Cleaner [Tintern Abbey]  ("The Great British Psychedelic Trip Revisited" 2016 Portsmouth UK)

Violet Swells -  Gravity Wins Again (digital single 2015 Hobart, Australia)

Circassian  - Eastern Patterns  ("Procrastinational" EP 2012 Greece) 

The Small Faces - I Feel Much Better  ("There Are But Four Small Faces" LP 1967 UK)

The Orange Revival - Lying in The Sand ("Futurecent" 2015 Sweden)

Signal to Noise Ratio - Magician [The Amazing Friendly Apple]  ("The Great British Psychedelic Trip Revisited" 2016 Warsaw, Poland) 
The Luck Of Eden Hall - A Procession of Marshmallow Soldiers Across the Clockwork Pudding  ("The Acceleration of Time" LP [to be released 1 June 2016] Chicago USA)

Black Market Karma - Run Run Run  ("Comatose" 2012 London, UK)

Neighb'rhood Childr'n - She's Got No Identification  ("Neighb'rhood Childr'n" LP 1968 San Francisco, USA)

Elephant Stone - Dhun  ("The Glass Box" EP 2010 Montreal, Canada)
The Reverb Syndicate - Return of the Angry Gentleman ("Mondo Cacti" 2011 Ottawa, Canada)

Mystic Brew - Something More Than A Dream  ("Something More Than A Dream" LP 2015 Russia)
Sacagawea and the Hunter - Boris the Assassin  ("Lewis and Clark" EP 2013 Philadelphia, USA)

Ipissimus - Hold On [Sharon Tandy]  (7" single 1969 UK)

ESP Limited - Tell Me  ("It Came From the Garage - Nuggets from Southern California"
compilation 2007 USA)  


A Little Bit of Sound - Girls Who Paint Designs  (7" single 1967 Long Island, New York USA)


The Black Ryder - Let Me Be Your Light  ("The Door Behind The Door" 2015 Australia/USA)

McGough and McGear - So Much To Love  ("McGough and McGear" LP 1968 UK) 

D.C. Drifters - Louisiana Blues  (7" single b-side [to "I Know"] 1967 USA)


The Sweet Acids - That Creature  (7" single 1969 Georgia, USA) 


Grateful Dead - Morning Dew (Take Me For A Walk)  ("The Grateful Dead" LP1967 San Francisco USA)




The Messengers - We Can't Get Along  ("The Messengers" EP 2013 Melbourne, Australia)




The Sensational Alex Harvey Band - Action Strasse  ("Tomorrow Belongs To Me" LP 1975 UK)




The Peep Tempel - People Don't Get You  ("The Peep Tempel" 2012 Melbourne, Australia)



Shake Spears - I Can't Tell (7" single 1965 Belgium) 



The Sand Pebbles - Red Orange Purple and Blue  ("Ceduna" 2008 Melbourne, Australia)





And an extra little treat - another track from King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard's soon to be released LP "Nonagan Infinity" - it's called "People - Vultures".....enjoy!!

Technicolour Dreaming

I don’t know whether I was thinking on a subconscious level about Australia’s change of Prime Minister the previous evening, when making musical selections for the show, but the tracks by Scott Walker, The Lovetones, Jason Crest and Halasan Bazar & Tara King th. all seemed to fit the feel of the moment! I played a couple of recent Adelaide releases - Black Coral, whose EP, “The Big Nothing” came out in August, and the very new, very exclusive “Ya Dig?” EP by Snobby Oxalis; plus a good assortment of Melbourne bands featured also - Murlocs, Witch Hats, and the inimitable King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard.  A great melody has always been a Technicolour Dreaming favourite, with tracks from The Left Banke, The Turtles, The Monkees  and The Story UK and Quilt all fitting the bill nicely, and proving that there are still bands today carrying on the tradition. Speaking of The Turtles, I’ve included a clip from the trailer of “Guide for the Married Man”, their second foray into the land of movie music, the first being a track for the 1966 movie “Out of Sight” a spoof of "The Man From U.N.C.L.E." - look it up, it’s so bad it’s good!   

…so here’s the playlist for the show, with (a hell of a lot of) associated visuals…

The Lovetones - Genius     ("Meditations" 2006 Australia)

The Story UK - A Stone's Throw Away     ("A Joy Ride on Memory Lane" 2011 UK)

Scott Walker - The Old Man's Back Again [Dedicated to the Neo-Stalinist Regime]     ("Scott 4" LP 1969 UK)

Jason Crest - Black Mass     ( 7” single b-side [to “A Place in the Sun”] 1969 UK)

Snobby Oxalis - Kings of Seaford     ("Ya Dig? EP 2015 Adelaide, Australia)

Octopus Syng - It's Not a Coincidence     ("Reverberating Garden Number 7" 2014 Finland)

Black Coral - Chemical Reasoning     ("Big Nothing" EP 2015 Adelaide, Australia)

Halasan Bazar and Tara King th. - Below Your Deepest Expectations     ("8" 2014 Denmark/France)

The Turtles - Guide for the Married Man   (7” single 1967 USA)

and the trailer for the movie:

Sons of Hippies - The Soft Parade [the Doors]     ("A Psych Tribute to the Doors" 2014 Germany)

The Turtles - Chevrolet Camaro Commercial     ("Save the Turtles - Greatest Hits" compilation 2009 USA)

The Left Banke - Shadows Breaking Over my Head     (“Walk Away Renee/Pretty Ballerina” LP 1967 USA)

King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard - Paper Mache     (“Paper Mache Dream Balloon” LP 2015 Melbourne, Australia)

Lumerians - Burning Mirrors      (“Transmalinnia” 2011 Oakland, California USA)

Thee Oh Sees - Palace Doctor     (“Mutilator Defeated at Last” 2015 San Francisco, USA)

The Greek Theatre - Frozen Highway     (“Lost Out At Sea” LP 2014 UK)

Quilt - Eye of the Pearl     (“Held in Splendour” 2014 Boston USA)

July - The Way     (7” single b-side [to “Hello, Who’s There?” 1968 Ealing, London UK)

Momus - Poison boy friend     (7” single b-side [to “Right Hand Heart” 1988 Scotland, UK)

The Mystery Trend - Johnny Was a Good Boy     (7” single 1967 USA)

Terry Manning - Guess Things Happen That Way      (“Home Sweet Home” LP 1967 USA)

The Monkees - Daily Nightly [alternative version]     (“Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn and Jones Ltd” LP  1967 USA)

Witch Hats - Slow Eyes     (“Pleasure Syndrome” 2011 Melbourne, Australia)

Peanut Butter Conspiracy - It's a Happening Thing     (“The Peanut Butter Conspiracy Is Spreading” LP 1967  California USA)

Daddy Dewdrop - March of the White Corpuscles     (7” single 1972 Los Angeles, USA)

Murlocs - Control Freak     (“Loopholes”  2014 Melbourne, Australia)

New Dream - You've Got That Certain Style     (7” single b-side [to “Catchin’ Up On Fun”] 1969 Australia)

Blair Smith - Echoes     (7” single b-side [to “Vision of Molly”] 1968 USA)

Strawberry Alarm Clock - The Worlds on Fire     (“Incense and Peppermints” LP 1967 Los Angeles, USA)

And an extra clip, cos I felt like it!

The Story UK - Standing in the Rain  ("A Joy Ride on Memory Lane" 2011 UK) 

Technicolour Dreaming

We began this week’s edition with a tribute to the late Ian McLagan, keyboard-player extraordinaire with the Small Faces, and, later, the Faces.... plus appearing on a plethora of other bands’ records as an ‘in-demand’ sessioneer and playing ‘live’ until now, being about to tour with Nick Lowe. I was fortunate enough to see him play with the Small Faces during their notorious Australian tour with the Who... it was one of the first concerts I went to and, as a piano-player myself, his commanding style certainly made a big impression!  A brilliant career – he will be missed! We continued our 60’s venture for a while with the Twilights and Ultimate Spinach, plus a great version of the “Avengers’ Theme” by Icarus Peel, before returning to present day Adelaide with the Archers and then veering off into our usual forage through the world of psychedelia and associated obscurities. Towards the end of the show we featured King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard as our “Band of the Week”... they are a great band whose career we have followed since the early days in Geelong until their recent successes in Europe and the UK, where they have been signed by the prestigious “Heavenly” label for the release of their much-anticipated new album. Good on ‘em!! We finished with Brittany psychedelecists Sudden Death of Stars whose latest album rewards with each listening – a gem, and certainly a contender for our “releases of 2014” list. Until next week then.....

..... here is the playlist, with some attendant visuals.....

the Small Faces - Afterglow [of your love]      ("Odgen's Nut Gone Flake" LP 1967 UK)

Icarus Peel - The Avengers’ Theme [John Barry cover]      ("Postcards from the Deep" flexi-disc box-set 2014 UK)

the Twilights  - Devendra      ("Once Upon a Twilight" LP 1967 Adelaide, Australia)

Ultimate Spinach - (Ballad of) the Hip Death Goddess      ("Ultimate Spinach" LP 1968 Boston, USA)

the Archers - Nobodies       (digital single 2013 Adelaide – taken from "Going Steady Mixtape # 4 – Hillside Fest" compilation  2014 Adelaide, Australia)

the Dandelion - On a June Morning      (rec. 2014 Sydney – taken from "Going Steady Mixtape # 5 – Sydney Psych Fest" compilation 2014 Adelaide, Australia)

Slight - Spirit School      (7"single 2104 Quebec, Canada)

Beaulieu Porch -  Carmelite Divine    (7"single [b-side to Golden Face] 2014 UK)

Allah-Las - Buffalo Nickel      ("Worship the Sun" 2014 LA, USA)

the Black Angels - Indigo Meadow      ("Live in San Francisco 2013" EP 2014 Austin, Texas USA)

Jouis - All That Is and Is One      ("Dojo" LP 2014 UK)

Rick Nelson - Marshmallow Skies      ("Another Side of Rick" LP 1967 USA)

Del Shannon - I Think I Love You      ("The Further Adventures of Charles Westover" LP 1968 USA)

the Byrds - Change Is Now      ("The Notorious Byrd Brothers"  1968 Los Angeles, USA)

the Paperhead - Eye for Eye      ("Africa Avenue"  2014 USA)

Soft Hearted Scientists - The Up and Downs      ("The Slow Cyclone"  2014 Wales, UK)

Quilt - I Sleep In Nature      ("Held in Splendour"  2014 USA)

Halasan Bazar - Am I Blind     ("Space Junk"  2013 Denmark)

Christine Pilzer - Champs Elysees     (“Cafe Creme" EP 1967 France)

Delphine - Le Fermeture Eclair [cover of "In the Past" by We the People]     (7”single 1967 Belgium)

Thee Oh Sees - Penetrating Eye      (“Drop” 2014 USA)

Singapore Sling - Godman      (“The Curse of Singapore Sling” 2010 Iceland)

Vibravoid - Do It Alright      (“Mind Drugs”  2011 Dusseldorf, Germany – taken from “Fruits de MerRecords : Friends of the Fish” compilation 2014 UK)

   ###   “Band of the Week”   King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard  ###

King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - Dust in the Wind/Guns and Horses   ("Eyes Like the Sky" 2013 Geelong, Australia)

King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - 30 past 7    ("Float Along – Fill Your Lungs" 2013 Australia)

King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - Crying      ("Oddments"  2014 Australia)

Sudden Death of Stars - The Void       ("All Unrevealed parts of the Unknown..." 2014 Brittany, France)

Technicolour Dreaming

Beginning and ending with some woozy psychedelia from the Lucid Dream and Wooden Shjips respectively, this Xmas Eve show continues our rundown of highlights & faves from 2013 and beyond including that great Space Agency single, the new Limiñanas LP, the latest Asteroid #4 opus, new finds such as Sudden Death of Stars, King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard, Mystic Brew and the Dandelion alongside older faves like Mick Ronson, the Human Expression and the D-Coys, plus some cool compilations and reissues such as Psychedelica 5, Down Under Nuggets, the Bee Gees anthology and the Procol Harum & Strawberry Alarm Clock’s reissued 1^st albums. Again, too much music from all around the globe to play in one show, or even three, but we try! So, until next week.....

..... here is the playlist with some visual nuggets.....

the Lucid Dream – Sweet Hold on Me      (“Songs of Lies & Deceit” 2013 Carlisle, UK)

Tandyn Almer – Sunset Strip Soliloquy      (“Along Comes Tandyn” anthology 2013 USA)

Mr Elevator & the Brain Hotel – Are You Hypnotised?      (7”single 2013 Los Angeles, USA)

Woods – Be All, Be Easy      (7”single 2013 USA)

Buried Feather – Maybe      (“Buried Feather” 2013 Melbourne, Australia)

the Strawberry Alarm Clock – The World’s On Fire      (“Incense and Peppermints” LP 1967 USA)

Mystic Brew – Zig Zag Wanderer [Capt Beefheart cover]      (demo EP 2013 Russia)

Sonny & the Sunsets – Those Drawings I Told You About      (“I Need You Bad” compilation LP 2013 San Francisco, USA)

les  Limiñanas – Liverpool [LP version]      (“Costa Blanca” 2013 Perpignan, France)

Sudden Death of Stars – This Vision of You       (bonus track on “Sudden Death of Stars” EP 2010 Brittany, France)

King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard – Evil Man / Fort Whipple / the God Man’s Goat Lust      (“Eyes Like the Sky” LP 2013 Melbourne, Australia)

Singapore Sling – Nothing Inside      (“Never Forever” 2011 Reykjavík, Iceland)

People’s Temple – Brand New Thing      (7”single 2013 USA)

the Medicine – Changing of the Times      (“Psychedelica 5” compilation 2013 UK)

the Space Agency – Bombay Potatoes      (7”single 2013 UK)

Mick Ronson – Only After Dark      (“Slaughter on 10^th Avenue” LP 1974 UK)

the Bee Gees – Like Nobody Else      (recorded 1966 Sydney, Australia – taken from “Morning of my Life – the Best of 1965-66” anthology 2013 Australia)

the D-Coys – Bad Times      (7”single 1966 Adelaide, Australia – taken from “Down Under Nuggets: Original Australian Artyfacts 1965-67” compilation 2013 Australia)

the Human Expression – Optical Sound      (7”single b-side [to Calm Me Down] 1967 Los Angeles, USA)

the Tombstones – Times Will Be Hard      (7” single 1967 USA)

Procol Harum – Conquistador      (“Procol Harum” LP 1967 UK)

the Hook – Show You the Way      (7”single b-side [to In The Beginning] 1969 USA)

the Asteroid #4 – Back of Your Mind      (“the Asteroid #4” LP 2013 USA)

the Dandelion – Toxic Flower Power  & The Ascension To Infinity      (“Strange Case of the Dandelion” 2013 Sydney, Australia)

Wooden Shjips – Everybody Knows      (“Back To Land” 2013 San Francisco, USA)