Technicolour Dreaming

The first few songs played this week showed the way for the following two hours – a mix featuring a fair smattering of 80’s oddities and faves such as the Leopards and the Prisoners, some 60’s goodness from, for example, Australia’s Oak Apple Day and the Looking Glasses, seasoned with a plethora of recent tunes from the likes of Switzerland’s Balduin, Wheat Fields, Sky Picnic and the Red Plastic Buddha to name but a few. Then there was our “Band of the Week” ... the Hollies are too often dismissed as an “oldies radio staple” while the duration, variety and sheer brilliance of their 60’s output is ignored... along with the Beach Boys they were THE supreme harmonisers and, like the Beatles, seemed able to keep effortlessly throwing out pop masterpieces - so yes, we salute the Hollies! So, until next week, let’s all ponder the Vanilla Fudge’s timeless query – “Where Is My Mind?”......

..... here is the playlist, with a few diverting images while you ponder.....

Permanent Clear Light – Higher Than the Sun      (“Beyond These Things” 2013 Finland)

the Leopards – Psychedelic Boy      (“Magic Still Exists” LP 1987 USA)

Oak Apple Day plus the Deadly Pair – Moonshot      (7”single b-side [to Let’s Do It On The Moon] 1969 Australia)

Red Plastic Buddha – She’s an Alien      (“Songs For Mara” 2014 Chicago, USA)

Ultravox! – Hiroshima Mon Amour      (“Ha! Ha ! Ha !” LP 1977 UK)

the Church – Silver Machine [Hawkwind cover]      (“Box of Birds” 1999 Australia)

 

the Luck of Eden Hall – Sassafras Overcoat      (“Victoria Moon” LP 2014 Chicago, USA)

the Sunchymes – S S Serene      (“Let Your Free Flag Fly” 2012 UK)

the Greek Theatre – Frozen Highway      (“Lost Out At Sea” 2013 Sweden)

the Looking Glasses – Visions      (7”single 1967 USA)

Elephant Stone – Into The Great Wide Open [Tom Petty cover]      (“Acid Killed My Rock’n’Roll” anthology 2013 Canada/USA)

Wheat Fields – Saturnalia      (“Saturnalia” EP 2013 Sydney, Australia)

Soft Hearted Scientists – Brother Sister      (“The Bethesda” EP 2004 Wales, UK)

***    BAND OF THE WEEK    –   the Hollies    ***

the Hollies – Leave Me      (“Evolution” LP 1967 UK)

the Hollies – King Midas In Reverse      (7”single 1967 UK)

the Hollies – Dear Eloise      (“Butterfly” LP 1967 UK)

Balduin – Everything      (“Post From Mars” 2014 Switzerland)

 

the Unknowns – Not My Memory      (“Dream Sequence” LP 1981 Los Angeles, USA)

the Prisoners – Far Away       (“thewisermiserdemelza” LP 1983 Medway, UK)

Chapter V1 – Fear      (7”single 1968 USA)

the Dentists – Strawberries are Growing in my Garden [and it’s Winter-time]      (7”single 1985 UK)

Quilt – Cowboys in the Void      (“Quilt” 2012 USA)

Sky Picnic – Where the Memories Stirred [Lady Juniper]      (“Her Dawn Wardrobe” LP 2014 USA)

the Fast Camels – Ken’s Sad Vice      (“Deadrooms and Butterfly Dreams” 2014 Scotland, UK)

   

  

the Vanilla Fudge – Where Is My Mind      (7”single 1968 USA – taken from “Vanilla Fudge: the Complete ATCO Singles” anthology 2014 USA)

Technicolour Dreaming

We began the show this week with a prime example of 21^st Century psychedelia by American band Eternal Tapestry. We then ventured far and wide for the next two hours, with a mix of singles and album tracks by bands such the Leopards, the Lee Kings and the Turtles as examples of the former, and the Barbarellatones, the Apricot,  Moon Duo and Jim Noir representing the latter. We featured a song from Ben Mason’s fine new album, another from the latest Mynd Gardeners release, plus the A-side of a very cool 7”single by the Space Agency which is due for release at the end of the month on Market SquareRecords [we’ve attached their suitably spacey clip!]. Throw in some Cate le Bon, a live track from Germany’s Vibravoid, a slice of French 60’s psych by Bruno Leys, a Nilsson single B-side [he’s on the cover of the current Shindig! magazine] and lots more, finish with a track from Lumerians [whose new album we eagerly await!] and there you have it... another edition of Technicolour Dreaming, brought to you again by the Cat & the Brat!

...... so here is the playlist plus assorted visuals.....

Eternal Tapestry – Cosmic Manhunt      (‘Beyond the 4^th Door’ 2011 Chicago, USA)

the Chocolate Watchband – Don’t Need Your Lovin’      (‘Riot on Sunset Strip’ soundtrack LP 1967 USA)

the Barbarellatones – Gothic City      (‘The Breakup Ghost’ 2009 USA)

the Apricot – Mind Your Head      (‘A Forestful of Threes’ 2011 Finland)

the Leopards – Psychedelic Boy      (7”single 1986 Kansas City, USA)

the Sand Pebbles – Black Sun Ensemble      (‘Ghost Transmissions’ 2004 Melbourne, Australia)

Ben Mason – Black Sky Yellow Moon      (‘Holes and Corners’ 2013 Melbourne, Australia)

the Gothic Archies – The World is a Very Scary Place      (‘The Tragic Treasury: Songs from A Series of Unfortunate Events’ 2006 UK)

Cate le Bon – Feel  [Syd Barrett cover]      (recorded 2010 Wales, UK – taken from ‘Mojo: The Madcap Laughs Again’ magazine covermount-CD compilation 2010 UK)

Syd Barrett – Dolly Rocker      (recorded 1970 UK – taken from ‘Opel’ 1988 UK)

the Dolly Rocker Movement – Enjoy a Paranoia      (‘Our Days Mind The Tyme’ 2009 Australia)

the Avengers – Midnight Visitation      (‘Medallion’ LP 1969 New Zealand)

Moon Duo – Seer [Psychic Ills remix]      (‘Mazes Remixed’ 2011 San Francisco, USA)

Golden Triangle – Blood & Arrow      (‘Double Jointer’ 2010 USA)

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

the Lee Kings – Oriental Express      (7”single 1968 Sweden)

the Mynd Gardeners – Recharge Your Mynd      (7”split-EP [with the Stanleys] 2013 Australia)

Vibravoid – Suppose They Give a War & No-one Comes [West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band cover]      (recorded live 2011 Germany – taken from ‘Timemazine Vol.6’ magazine covermount-CD compilation 2011 Greece)

Jim Noir – Happy Day Today      (‘Jim Noir’ 2008 UK)

Bruno Leys – Hallucinations      (‘Maintenant je suis un voyou’ EP 1968 France)

the Fresh & Onlys – All Tomorrow’s Parties [Velvet Underground cover]      (‘The Velvet Underground & Nico by Castleface Records and Friends’ compilation LP 2012 California, USA)

Plasticland – Alexander [Pretty Things cover]      (‘Plasticland’ LP 1984 Milwaukee, USA)

the Whatt Four – You’re Wishing I Was Someone Else      (7”single b-side [to Dandelion Wine] 1967 Los Angeles, USA)

the Pillbugs – Here’s To The End Of Time      (‘Monclovia’ 2008 Ohio, USA)

the Turtles – Grim Reaper of Death      (7”single 1966 USA)

Nilsson – Sister Marie      (7”single b-side [to One] 1968 USA)

Lumerians – Hashshashin      (‘Transmilinnia’ 2011 USA)