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”

Technicolour Dreaming

 Thanks go out to fellow 3D Radio announcer Phil J. for so ably covering our absence last week while we were in Melbourne... we will get his playlist posted soon... but the break refreshed our enthusiasm for the music we play! The ‘Dig It Up!’ show was fabulous and inspired our choice for our new “Band of the Month” – Australian psych purveyors the Lovetones, who played an intimate, mesmerising set upstairs at the Palace Theatre. We began this week’s show with a long track from Wolfy & the Bat Cubs before later  moving on to the latest album by the Higher State, an orange vinyl single from the Black Angels, a Garden Path cover from the new album by the Molting Vultures and the debut EP from young Geelong outfit, the Murlocs, who feature Australian legend Broderick Smith’s son Ambrose on vocals and harmonica. From France, we heard Sheetah et les Weismullers, from Italy, Jennifer Gentle and from the UK there were the Horrors... throw in a psych-flavoured Bee Gees song, the sole single by Lotus from 1971, a classic from the Spikes plus many more and there you have it! The latest edition of Technicolour Dreaming on 3D Radio 93.7fm with your hosts, the Cat & the Brat.....

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

Wolfy & the Bat Cubs – Guy Like Me      (‘Wolfy & the Bat Cubs’ cdEP 2012 Melbourne, Australia)

the Mynd Gardeners – Winter’s Dying     (‘The Acyd Raindrop Umbrella’ vinyl 7” EP Adelaide, Australia)

Lizard Train – Beauty Underground     (7” single 1987 Adelaide, Aust.)

the Frowning Clouds – All Night Long     (cd single 2011 Melbourne, Aust.)

the Murlocs – Delusional Blues     (‘the Murlocs’ cdEP Geelong, Aust.)

the Spikes – River of Love     (7” single 1986 Adelaide, Aust.)

the Higher State – Turn into Fall     (‘Freakout at the Gallery’ LP 2012 UK)

the Horrors – Dive-In     (‘Skying’ LP 2011 UK)

MGMT – Congratulations      (7”single 2010 USA)

Lenola – Sids     (‘Sounds from Psychedelphia’ compilation 1998 Philadelphia USA)

the Black Angels – Watch Out Boy     (7” single 2012 Texas, USA)

Paul Messis & Jessica Winters – Sunflower     (7”single 2012 UK)

Alison Gros – Naturally     (7” single 1970 Adelaide, Aust.)

Crosby, Stills & Nash – Pre-Road Downs     (‘Crosby, Stills & Nash’ LP 1969 USA)

Lotus – Lotus 1      (7” single 1971 Aust.)

Sheetah et les Weismullers – My Little Red Book [Love cover]     (‘Hola! Ye-Yeah!’ 2009 France)

the Intercontinental Playboys – Wham Bam Voodoo Wand     (‘Sonic Seducers’ 2005 Australia)

the Molting Vultures – Wear Black [Garden Path cover]     (‘Get On Board’ 2012 Adelaide, Aust.)

Jennifer Gentle – Take My Hand     (‘The Midnight Room’ 2007 Italy)

the Bee Gees – Idea     (‘Idea’ LP 1968 UK/Aust.)

the Lovetones – This Great Romance     (‘Lost’ 2010 Australia)    #

    #  ‘Band of the Month’    

Obscured By...

It was another voyage around the world of 60’s beat music this week on Obscured By..., piloted by Peter Brat, flying solo. From the Slaves in Switzerland to the Psychedelic Aliens of Ghana to Adelaide’s own Machine Gun Kelly’s Rejects, we highlighted an era where that beat was globally all-pervasive, but is only now actually available globally. Hence we got to hear from Iran’s psych legend Kourosh Yaghmaei’s 1973 LP, Chile’s Sacros [whose 1973 LP was banned by the Pinochet dictatorship], the Golden Earrings 1965 Dutch single, of which only 6 copies were pressed, a track from Lothar and the Handpeople’s 1968 LP in the US, and many more... We also played more recent songs by the likes of Lizard Train and Wooden Shjips, plus a great live version of an AC/DC classic by the inimitable Tiny Tim...

..... so here is the playlist....

Machine Gun Kelly’s Rejects – I’m Going Back     (recorded 1967 but unreleased – ‘Big Beat Cellar Scene: Adelaide 1965-69’ compilation)

Jimmy Crockett and the Shanes – That Lovin’ Touch     (7”single 1965 Aust.)

Wright of Waye – Sun God     (7”single 1968 Aust.)

Max Merritt and the Meteors – So Long baby     (7”single 1965 New Zealand)

the Playboys – The Mean One     (7”single b-side 1965 Aust.)

Marcie and the Cookies – You’re on my Mind     (7”single 1968 Aust.)

Judy Stone – Society’s Child [Janis Ian cover]     (7”single 1969 Aust.)

Tiny Tim – Tiptoe through the Tulips/ Highway to Hell [AC/DC cover]     (‘live’ 1994 – ‘Cosmic Outlaws: US Underground 1962-1970’ comp.)

Wooden Shjips – Flight     (West)

Steve Hillage – Hurdy Gurdy Man [Donovan cover]     (‘Live at Deeply Vale’ LP 1978 UK)

Terakaft – Tenere Wer Tat Zinchegh     (Ishumar [Mali-Niger Tourags])

Psychedelic Aliens – We’re laughing     (Psycho African Beat – Ghana 1967)

Psychedelic Aliens – Homowo     (Psycho African Beat)

Dug Dugs – Voy Hacia El Sol     (‘Smog’ LP 1973 Mexico)

Sacros – Manos Duras     (‘Sacros’ LP 1973 Chile)

Hugu Tugu – Fino a leri [‘Somebody to Love’-Jefferson Airplane cover]     (‘60s Beat Italiano’ comp.)

the Golden Earrings – Not to Find     (7”single 1965 Holland)

AB and C – Vies     (7”single 1965 Holland)

Lazy Bones – Driftin’     (7”single 1965 Holland)

the Sauterelles – Hong Kong     (‘Swiss Beat Live 1966’ LP)

Slaves – Shut Up     (7”single 1965 Switzerland)

Chapta – Journey to the Sun     (7”single 1968 New Zealand)

Kourash Yaghmaei – Shirin Joon     (‘Back from the Brink’ LP 1973 Iran)

Mayfly – Blue Sofa     (‘Mayfly’ LP 1971 Holland)

Threshold of Pleasure – Rain Rain Rain     (7”single 1968 UK)

Harry ‘the Hipster’ Gibson – Who Put the Benzedrine     (US 1947 – from “Who Put the Benzedrine: Best of” LP 1989)

Lothar and the HandPeople – Machines     (‘Presenting’ LP 1968 US)

Lizard Train – She’s like a Cloud     (Flexi-disc with ‘the Bob’ magazine: demo recorded 1985 Adelaide)

the Beach Nuts – Surf report     (7”single 1985 Aust.)