Technicolour Dreaming

Ant and Dan from Adelaide’s conquering psych heroes, Ride Into The Sun, were welcomed back from their recent US tour, which centred on their well-received appearance at the 2013 Austin Psych Fest, as interviewees & guest programmers on this week’s show. We also previewed tracks from their new, self-titled mini-LP [available in a very limited edition on psychedelic, multi-coloured vinyl, as well as on CD] which will be launched here on Saturday 6^th July, when they play alongside the Morning After Girls and Archers at ‘Jive’ in Hindley Street... certainly a contender for ‘gig of the year’! The guys had lots of stories to share from their sojourn in the US and played tracks by some of the bands they encountered, including the Black Ryder, Singapore Sling and, of course, festival hosts the Black Angels. Also thrown into the mix of sounds were Spain’s Los Chicos, German psychedelicists Sula Bassana and the debut of Adelaide’s the Byzantines plus the latest single by Pond, a classic b-side from the Stems and a track from the new Mikal Cronin LP, finishing with a French 60’s single by Les Yper Sound which was later used in the theme for TV’s ‘Futurama’.....

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

the Byzantines – Punch On      (demo 2013 Adelaide, Australia)

Mikal Cronin – Am I Wrong      (‘MC11’ 2013 USA)

Sula Bassana – Underground      (‘Dark Days’ 2012 Germany)

the Teardrop Explodes – Bouncing Babies [orig. version]      (7”single 1979 UK)

Los Chicos – War or Party      (‘In the Age of Stupidity’ 2013 Spain)

Pond – Xanman       (CD-single 2013 Perth, Australia)

Indian Puddin’ & Pipe – Hashish      (‘Fifth Pipe Dream’ compilation LP 1968 USA)

the Koala – Strange Feelings      (‘The Koala’ LP 1969 New Jersey, USA)

Dean Allen Foyd – Lovely Sort of Death      (‘The Sounds Can Be So Cruel’ 2012 Stockholm, Sweden)

Roek’s Family – Never an Everyday Thing      (7”single b-side [to Get Yourself a Ticket] 1969 Netherlands)

the Flower Machine – The Tangerine Albatross      (‘Lavender Lane’ 2010 Los Angeles, USA)

Cate Le Bon – Shoeing the Bones      (‘Me Oh My’ 2009 Wales, UK)

Nirvana – Rainbow Chaser      (7”single 1968 UK)

Malibooz – Pier Pressure      (‘New Centre of the Universe Vol.1’ compilation 2012 Australia)

Ride Into The Sun – These Are The Ones That Shoot      (‘Ride Into The Sun’ mini-LP 2013 Adelaide, Australia)

       *  Live Studio Interview with Dan & Ant from Ride Into The Sun  *

the Morning After Girls – Run For Our Lives      (7”single 2006 Australia)

Ride Into The Sun – Gun Song      (‘Ride Into The Sun’ mini-LP 2013 Aust.)

the Stems – She’s A Monster      (7”single b-side [to Make You Mine] 1985 Perth, Australia)

Singapore Sling – Nightlife       (‘Life is Killing my Rock’n’Roll’ 2004 Reykjavík, Iceland)

the Lovetones – A New Low       (‘Provenance: Collected Works’ anthology 2012 Australia)

Ride Into The Sun – Hunt Like Wolves      (CD-single 2013 Adelaide, Australia)

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

the Black Ryder – the Greatest Fall      (‘Buy the Ticket, Take the Ride’ 2009 Australia)

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club – Head Up High      (‘B.R.M.C.’ 2001 San Francisco, USA)

the Damned – White Rabbit [Jefferson Airplane cover]      (extended, unreleased version recorded 1980 UK – bonus track on ‘The Black Album’ deluxe reissue 2005 UK)

the Occasional Dead Flys – Dirt [Stooges cover]      (‘A Real Cool Time - Distorted Sounds from the North’ compilation LP 1985 Sweden)

Les Yper-Sound – Psyché Rock      (‘Too Fortiche’ EP 1967 France – taken from ‘Pop À Paris:  Psyché - Rock Et Minijupes,Vol.2’ compilation 2004 France)

Technicolour Dreaming

For the final show for 2011 we played a selection of our favourite music, new and old... pretty much your regular Technicolour Dreaming really! We roamed from the new Horrors album to the debut from Adelaide’s Systemaddicts, from the psychedelic harmonies of Mikal Cronin to the garage brilliance of Clinic and from a Rolling Stones gem to a great version of a ‘wormy’ classic by Adelaide’s brillig. We also paid tribute to the late Sean Bonniwell... the Music Machine were one of the great bands of the 60’s, precursors of punk dressed in black and leather, who did the ‘one-gloved-hand’ thing way before that Jackson guy! We also featured a track from our newest boxset (though it was released in 2009)... a very groovy collection by the Dukes of Stratosphear [i.e. XTC in psychedelic disguise] packaged in purple velour and including a jigsaw puzzle... what better holiday gift could we get ourselves! And in finishing with the last pick from the current “band of the month”, Paul Revere and the Raiders, we bid our listeners/readers [i.e. YOU] a “Happy New Year” and we look forward to bringing you more great music in 2012...

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

the Horrors – Moving Further Away     (‘Skying’ 2011 UK)

Mikal Cronin – Is It Alright?     (‘Mikal Cronin’ 2011 USA)

Kelley Stoltz – I Like, I Like     (‘To Dreamers’ 2010 USA)

Grant-Lee Phillips – Spring Released     (‘Mobilize’ 2002 USA)

the Lovetones – A Place For Us      (‘Meditations’ 2006 Australia)

the Brian Jonestown Massacre – It Girl     (‘Thank God for Mental Illness’ 1996 USA – taken from the ‘Tepid Peppermint Wonderland’ anthology 2005 USA)

the Mynd Gardeners – Discotheque     (‘Tales from the Caramel Hourglass’ EP 2010 Adelaide, Australia)

DieselWitch – Gina the Gypsy     (‘DieselWitch Will Kill You!’ 2011 Adelaide)

Jay Walker and the Pedestrians – Purple, Black and Blue     (demo 2009 Adelaide)

Kamikaze – ‘Lil Red Riding Hood [Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs cover]     (demo 2011 Adelaide)

God God Dammit Dammit – Factory Man     (‘The Very First Day Of Sunshine’ 2011 Adelaide)

the Molting Vultures – Gulls Rock     (‘Drop In and Go’ 2009 Adelaide)

Mike Furber and the Bowery Boys – You Stole My Love     (7”single 1965 Australia)

Clinic – Walking With Thee      (‘Walking With Thee’ 2002 UK)

Dean and Britta – Not a Young Man Anymore [Velvet Underground cover]     (’13 Most Beautiful: Songs for Andy Warhol’s Screen Tests’ 2010 UK/USA)

Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick and Tich – Zabadak     (7”single 1967 UK)

the Rolling Stones – Get Off My Cloud     (7”single 1965 UK)

the Sparkles – [Ain’t] No Friend of Mine     (7”single 1967 USA)

the Dukes of Stratosphear – The Mole From The Ministry     (’25 O’Clock’ EP [released on April Fool’s Day] 1985 UK – taken from “The Complete and Utter Dukes” boxset 2009)

the Music Machine – Talk Talk     (7”single 1966 USA)  * R.I.P. Sean Bonniwell  [1940-2011]

 

brillig – The Hearse Song     (CD-single 2011 Adelaide)

 

 the Systemaddicts – Can’t Put You Down     (‘The Systemaddicts’ 2011 Adelaide)

 

Paul Revere and the Raiders – Hungry     (7”single 1965 USA)   #

 

     #  “Band of the Month”