Technicolour Dreaming

From Adelaide  to Ohio, California to Copenhagen, from 1966 through to 2013 and from French pop to Swedish psych via UK glam and assorted places/times/music between, with a whole bunch of new arrivals in the Cat&BratHaus letterbox to plunder along with some old faves to rediscover, this week’s edition of Technicolour Dreaming was a wylde ride, both to deliver & to hear! Standouts were the latest Luke Haines album, a children’s adventure for adults featuring Sham69’s Jimmy Pursey as a crafty fox, Gene Vincent as a cool cat and Nick Lowe as a wise old badger – needless to say, Megan Cat picked the Gene Vincent song as one of the cuts to play from it! Then there was the excellent new psych pop album from the Sufis which has been also hogging our music machine since its arrival and keeps getting better with each listen, though it’s been vying with the Citradels’ latest  and the Tages’ 1968 “Studio” LP re-issue for the title of “king of the machine”. Then there was Adelaide’s own LeighStarDust with a 2005 track [plus a clip starring loads of our friends], which we played to celebrate her upcoming nuptials to brillig’s Denni [who just happened to produce that EP] , new releases from Melbourne’s Flyying Colours and the Ancients, plus a track from Chad & Jeremy’s 1967 psych-pop masterpiece, as well as one from Asteroid #4’s debut way back in 1997 and... and... and...

..... so here is the full playlist plus pictures for your perusal.....

Chapta – Journey to the Sun      (“Chapta One” LP 1970 New Zealand)

the Citradels – Black Holes      (“Our Lord’s Secret Service” 2013 Melbourne, Australia)

the Loose Enz – The Black Door     (7”single 1968 Pennsylvania, USA)

Bats – Listen to my Heart      (7”single 1966 South Africa)

the Asteroid #4 – No More Vitamins/Underbelly of a Mushroom      (“Introducing the Asteroid #4” 1997 Philadelphia, USA)

Luke Haines – Three Frendz/Gene Vincent      (“Rock’n’Roll Animals” 2013 UK)

Kristine Sparkle – 8 Days a Week [Beatles cover]      (7”single 1974 UK)

Jason Faulkner – The Plan      (“Can You Still Feel It?” LP 1999 USA)

LeighStarDust – They Make Good Pets (But I Don’t Have One)      (“They Make Good Pets...” EP 2005 Adelaide, Australia)

Devo – (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction [Rolling Stones cover]      (7”single 1978 Ohio, USA)

the Rolling Stones – Citadel      (“Their Satanic Majesties Request” LP 1967 London, UK)

Flyying Colours – Like You Said       (“Flyying Colours” EP 2013 Melbourne, Australia)

Chad & Jeremy – I’ll Get Around To It When I Can      (“Of Cabbages & Kings” LP 1967 UK)

the Aerovons – The Train      (7”single 1969 USA/UK)

White Fence – New Edinburgh Man      (“Cyclops Reap” 2013 California, USA)

Ty Segall – Thank God For Sinners      (“Twins” 2013 California, USA)

Mayfly – Secondhand Dream      (“Mayfly” LP 1973 Holland)

Surf School Dropouts – Destination Sunshine      (demo 2013 Copenhagen, Denmark)

Girls – Lust For Life      (“Album” 2009 USA)

the Sufis – The Most Peculiar Happening Cat      (“Inventions” 2013 Nashville, USA)

the Tages – To Be Free      (7”single b-side [to Fantasy Island] 1968 Sweden)

Serge Gainsbourg – Qui Est “in”, Qui Est “out”      (“Qui Est ‘In’, Qui Est ‘out’” EP 1966 France)

the Ancients – Hey Now       (“Night Bus” 2013 Australia)

Lady Strangelove – Hypnotised      (“Freakquencies” EP 2009 Adelaide, Australia)

Bronco Bullfrog – Never Been To California      (7”single b-side [to Clarifoil] 2013 UK)

Lumerians – High Frontier      (“High Frontier” 2013 USA)

Obscured By...

Normally we wouldn’t play quite so many songs from a pair of albums, but the 40^th anniversary re-issue of the original 1972 Nuggets compilation has prompted a couple of Australian releases to join the on-going series and thankfully didn’t just contain ‘the hits’ or ‘oft-comped’... so we felt free to plunder! Of particular interest were the ‘versions’ by current bands... some interesting interpretations indeed [though why so very few bands from outside the Sydney/Melbourne axis, hmmm?] To balance this outpouring of Australiana, we threw in a bunch of Swedish psych/freakbeat singles from the 60’s, an obscure Luke Haines recording, a 17 minute Neil Young track from his new album [yes, he’s hardly ‘obscure’, but well, who else but we three DOTS would play such long songs on radio?], plus a brand-new demo from garage/surf kings Dieselwitch...

... so here is the playlist...

the Moods – Rum Drunk      (7”single 1966 Melbourne, Australia – taken from ‘Down Under Nuggets: Original Australian Artyfacts 1965-1967’ compilation 2012 Australia)

Derek’s Accent – Ain’t Got No Feelin’      (7”single 1966 Sydney, Aust. – taken from ‘Down Under Nuggets...’)

the Bee Gees – Like Nobody Else      (rec. 1966, released on ‘Inception/Nostalgia’ double-LP anthology 1970 Germany – taken from ‘Down Under Nuggets...’)

Barrington Davis – Raining Teardrops      (7”single 1967 Sydney, Aust. – taken from ‘Down Under Nuggets...’)

the Sunsets – Hot Generation [soundtrack version]      (rec. 1967 for film but unreleased until ‘Down Under Nuggets...’)

the Straight Arrows – Lies [Knickerbockers cover]      (‘Nuggets: Antipodean Interpolations of the First Psychedelic Era’ compilation 2012 Australia)    

Step-Panther – Liar, Liar [Castaways cover]      (‘Nuggets: Antipodean Interpolations ...’)     

Pond – Hey Joe [Leaves cover]      (‘Nuggets: Antipodean Interpolations ...’)    

Montero – My World Fell Over [Sagittarius cover]      (‘Nuggets: Antipodean Interpolations ...’)    

King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard – Open My Eyes [Nazz cover]      (‘Nuggets: Antipodean Interpolations ...’)     

Good Weather For An Airstrike – the Beginning of the Rest of our Lives [reprise with Inachus]      (‘A Summer’ 2011 Scotland, UK)

Neil Young with Crazy Horse – Ramada Inn      (‘Psychedelic Pill’ 2012 USA)

the Hounds – Summertime      (7”single b-side [to Portrait of my Love] 1969 Sweden)

the Bootwigs – Outside Civilization      (7”single 1966 Sweden)

the Most – This is our Family      (7”single 1967 Katrineholm, Sweden)

the Moderations – Hard to Forget       (7”single 1966 Malmo, Sweden)

the Shakers – Sing This All Together [Rolling Stones cover]      (7”single 1968 Gothenburg, Sweden)

the Stockings – Good Luck       (7”single 1981 Perth, Australia)

Ross Ryan – the Ballad of the Double Bay Batman      (7”single b-side [to Hello Stranger] 1981 Aust.)

TNT – 99^th Floor [Moving Sidewalks cover]      (‘TNT: Mod Psych Power Pop from Central Pennsylvania – the Complete Studio Recordings 1974-76’ anthology 1995 USA)

Pandora – Space Amazon       (rec. 1974 – released on ‘Space Amazon’ 1997 USA)

Gina X – Drive My Car [Beatles cover]      (12”single 1984 Germany)

Luke Haines – The Upper Classes      (rec. live at the BBC 1994 – taken from ‘Luke Haines Is Dead’ anthology 2005 UK)

Dieselwitch – The Pit of the Morning      (demo - November 2012  Adelaide, Australia)

Technicolour Dreaming

Digging into the 3D Radio “New Releases” section this week, we found some great songs on both new and older bands’ recent offerings and re-issues, including a single by the Sunday Reeds, EPs by Adelaide’s Horror My Friend and Self Preservation Society and a singles and demos anthology from Orange County’s Ty Segall. We played selections from some current psychedelic bands such as Australia’s Black Cab and the Black Ryder, a track off the debut album by Dark Ocean Colors as well as one from the sole album (and sadly neglected masterpiece) by All Night Radio... there was some Bowie and Bolan, classics from the Pixies and the Sunnyboys plus lots more before we finished with our current ‘Band of the Month’, the fabulous Barbarellatones (and check out the award-winning film-clip for the song!)... all brought to you by the Cat and the Brat......

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

Black Cab – Rescue     (‘Call Signs’ 2009 Australia)

the Dolly Rocker Movement – My Heavenly Way     (‘Our Days Mind the Tyme’ 2009 Australia)

Black Ryder – To Never Know You     (‘Buy the Ticket, Take the Ride’ 2009 Australia)

Mona Lisa Overdrive – No Way Out [Chocolate Watchband cover]     (demo 2008 Adelaide, Australia)

Digger and the Pussycats – Just a Little Bit [Purple Hearts cover]     (‘Wild About You : a Tribute to the Australian Rock Underground 1963-1968’ compilation 2004 Melbourne, Aust.)

the Sunday Reeds – Fall from Grace     (cd-single 2012 Australia)

the Lime Spiders – 1-2-5 [Haunted cover]     (‘25^th Hour’ double 7” single 1983 Aust.)

the Sunnyboys – You Need a Friend     (7”single 1982 Aust.)

the Demon Parade – Beyond Us     (7”single b-side 2010 Aust.)

David Bowie – The Supermen     (‘The Man Who Sold The World’ LP 1970 UK)

T.Rex – Life’s an Elevator     (orig. 7”single b-side 1976 UK – bonus track on reissue of “Futuristic Dragon” 2006)

Self Preservation Society – Don’t You Forget About Me [Simple Minds cover]     (‘Don’t You Forget About Me’ cdEP 2012 Adelaide, Aust.)

brillig – The Old Captain     (‘The Red Coats’ 2010 Adelaide, Aust.)

Grandaddy – For the Dishwasher     (cd-single 1998 USA)

Luke Haines – Wot a Rotter     (‘21^st Century Man’ 2009 UK)

Horror My Friend – Leave Me Alone     (‘Shivers and Spines’ cdEP 2012 Adelaide, Aust.)

Ty Segall – My Sunshine     (‘Singles 2007-2010’ anthology 2011 USA)

the Sailors – Bury Your Problems     (‘Antipodean Screams Vol.2’ compilation 2007 Aust.)

the She Creatures – Space Madness     (‘She Creatures Invade’  2009 UK)

the Pixies – Is She Weird?     (‘Pixies @ the BBC’ anthology 1998 UK/USA)

Dark Ocean Colors – My Barbara Closed the Doors     (‘Dark Ocean Colors’ 2012 Ohio, USA)

All Night Radio – Daylight Til Dawn     (‘Spirit Stereo Frequency’ 2004 USA)

Dandelion – Liverpool Kiss     (‘Dandelion’ EP 2009 Adelaide, Aust.)

the Barbarellatones – Get Your Freak On     (‘The Breakup Ghost’  2009 USA)   #

     #   “Band of the Month”

Obscured By...

This week on Obscured by... again there was a solo ‘DOT’... this time Peter Brat. I followed our regular policy of rarities and obscurities from around the world in various genres and from varied sources... including a ‘live on TV’ song from Australian 70’s band Kelly, a previously unreleased 1982 Kimberly Rew track with the Waves [later known as Katrina & the Waves], the first ever Rough Trade record [by French electro-punks Metal Urbain, who I was lucky enough to see in London in 1977], the 1978 b-side teaming Eno and UK punks Snatch [Judy Nylon & Patti Palladin] and which also featured Phil Collins on drums, 80’s psych from the United States of Existence, a couple of long tracks from the debut albums by Germany’s Guru Guru and Can, some Australian 60’s grooviness, the song by Luke Haines that ought to have featured in TV show “Spooks”, and much, much more...

...so here is the playlist...

the Vacant Lot – Don’t let me sleep too long [Myddle Class cover]     (7”single 1967 Sydney, Aust.)

Marty Rhone – No No No No     (7”single 1967 Aust.)

the Groop – Mandrake Wine     (recorded London 1968, released on flexidisc with ‘The Vault’ magazine 1989)

Dave Miller Set – Let’s Get Together     (7”single 1968 Aust.)

Kelly – See My Way [Blodwyn Pig cover]     (‘live’ on ABC-TV “Hit Scene” 1971 Aust.)

The Harts – Little Girl     (7”single 1967 Adelaide, Aust.)

Flying Circus – Turn Away     (‘Bonza Beaut & Boom Boom’ LP 1971 Aust.)

Frog Hollow – Slowish One     (‘Over, Under, Sideways, Down’ EP 1972 Aust.)

the Gentlemen – No Chance     (‘Psychedelic Super Pjotr’ compilation of Eastern Bloc psych etc)

Country Joe & the Fish – Section 43     (‘Country Joe & the Fish’ LP 1966 USA)

BabyGrandmothers – Being is more than Life      (‘Psychedelic Phinland: Finnish hippie and underground music 1967-74’ compilation)

the Firesign Theatre – More Undermutterances     (Best of the Firesign Theatre)

the Byrds – 5D     (‘Fifth Dimension’ LP 1966 USA)

the Chambers Brothers – Time Has Come Today     (‘Even More Nuggets Vol. 3’ compilation)

Love – You Set The Scene     (‘Forever Changes’ LP 1967 USA)

the Waves – Animal Song     (previously unreleased 1982 recording – bonus track on ‘Bible of Bop’)

the United States of Existence – Love to the 44^th power    (‘Introducing...’ LP 1986 USA)

the Shower Scene from Psycho – She [Monkees’ cover]     (Exploding Hits)

Eno & Snatch – RAF     (7’single b-side 1978 UK)

Metal Urbain – Paris Maquis     (7”single 1977 France/UK [1^st release of ‘Rough Trade Records’])

Cabaret Voltaire – The Set Up     (‘Extended Play’ EP 1978 UK)

Sunglasses After Dark – Swamp Baby     (7”single 1984 UK)

the Urinals – I’m a Bug     (‘Another E.P.’ 1979 USA)

the Virgin Prunes – Bau Dachong     (7”single 1982 UK)

Guru Guru – Oxymoron     (‘KanGuru’ LP 1972 Germany)

Can – Thief     (‘Delay’ LP 1968 Germany)

Luke Haines – the Spook Manifesto     (The Oliver Twist Manifesto)

Technicolour Dreaming

Once again, the Cat and the Brat featured an eclectic mix of bands and locales, ranging from the USA with the 60s garage/psych/pop of Penny Arkade and the Moving Sidewalks and into the 70s with Devo and Suicide, a cluster of Australian 80s, from the obscure Nick Gogol to the original ‘Le’ Hoodoo Gurus, right up to new releases from Queensland’s Lobster Prophets, Melbourne’s YIS and Adelaide’s Jay Walker & the Pedestrians. We also played a track by great Adelaide 80s band, the Spikes, in memory of their guitarist Ian List, who passed away this week. Naturally we concluded the show with a song from our current “Album of the Month” by Sydney’s Belles Will Ring...

... so here is the playlist...

Blue Sunshine Minds – How Does it Feel? (‘Burn Your Fingers on the Sun’ – compilation)

Penny Arkade – Colour Fantasy   (‘Not the Freeze’ LP 1968 US)

Lady Strangelove – In Meltdown   (‘Sweet Exchange’ EP, Aust. 2011)

the Stevenson Ranch Dravidians – Stargazer   (‘Psychedelica 3’ – compilation)

Andrew Douglas Rothbard – Lucien   (Abandoned Meander)

Sir Lord Von Raven – The Glass Castle (Please Throw Me Back in the Ocean)

Jay Walker and the Pedestrians – Summer at Last   (Liquid Sun)

Lobster Prophet – Krill of Krull   (Tropical Alien)

the Moving Sidewalks – 99^th floor   (7”single 1967 US)

the Spikes – River Of Love   (‘Colour In A Black Forest’ LP, 1986 Adelaide)

Luke Haines – Russian Futurists Black Out The Sun   (21^st Century Man)

White Denim – Street Joy   (“D”)

Gang of Four – 5:45   (Entertainment)

Suicide – Rocket USA   (Suicide)

Nick Gogol – Girl From Tractor Factory (7”single 1985 Adelaide)

YIS – (I Feel) Repulsed   (Kingdom Of Fuzz)

Devo – Gut Feeling/Slap Your Mammy (Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo)

the Minutemen – Voodoo Slaves (7”single 1982 Aust.) 

Le Hoodoo Gurus – Leilani [Original 1983 Version]   (7”single Aust.)

Belles Will Ring – Palisade Alley   (Crystal Theatre)  #

     # Album of the Month