Sitars, theremin and mellotron, backwards guitar, phasing and fuzz, fringes and mohawks, paisley, black, velvet and leather, feedback, bass and drone, beads, berets and safety-pins, Shindig! and Creem, 3 chord wonders, teenage symphonies and snarl, Rickenbacker, Farfisa and 4-track recorders... onstage at CBGB's, Max's Kansas City or the Trip, the Roundhouse, the 100 Club or the Crystal Ballroom, Catcher's, Big Daddy's or the Squatters Arms.... and the Cat and the Brat on 3D Radio!
Three D Radio announcer, MeganCat (up until recently with her husband, the late Peter Brat)lives in "The BratHaus" a rural seaside home about 100km from Adelaide on South Australia's scenic Fleurieu Peninsula. Veteran musician Peter, and artist/musician Megan, were long-time DJs onThree D Radio 93.7fm, Adelaide's eclectic independent music station. Together Peter & Megan, known as "The Cat and The Brat" created this blog to allow listeners to review the playlists of their radio show, "Technicolour Dreaming", watch clips of selected songs and simply join them in the enjoyment of their favourite music... psychedelia, 60's garage, surf, punk/post-punk, pop, folk-rock, glam, 'Krautrock', goth, 80's electro... and much more!
But The Cat is carrying on the tradition, with guest co-presenters, and "Technicolour Dreaming" will continue in the same format, drawing from the huge "Cat & Brat" music collection, with the addition of new releases and reissues to keep things current. The Brat is hugely missed, but the show must go on, as he wanted...
Aah, this was the day when everything went wrong... a few minutes into the show and the computer had a hissy-fit, leading to several people pulling plugs in and out, and scrambling around under the desk, trying to find the on/off switch. Needless to say, by the time everything was up and running again, my programming was totally out the window, but at least the music went to air! These are the perils of Community Radio, but on the upside, when everything is operating as it should, we're very lucky to be able to play whatever we fancy (and without endless commercials interrupting the flow), which benefits you, the listener. As a result of the above-mentioned malfunctions, I ended up unintentionally relying on 2 very good compilations (as you'll see below, they feature very strongly in the playlist): Fruits de Mer Records'"Strange Fruit and Veg"compilation, and "Wild About You: A Tribute to the Australian Rock Underground 1963 - 1968". Both releases are collections of cover versions, and very good versions they are too! So here's the playlist, but with limited clips this week...
The 49th Parallel - Close the Barn Door (7" single (b-side to "Twilight Woman") 1969 USA)
The Green Telescope - I'm a Living Sickness [The Calico Wall] ("Strange Fruit and Veg" compilation 2015 Edinburgh, Scotland UK)
Oxford Circle - Foolish Woman (7" single 1966 California, USA)
ZX+ - She's a Rainbow [Rolling Stones] ("Strange Fruit and Veg" compilation 2015 UK)
The Mint - We're Friends ("Endless Journey: Reverberation III" compilation 1971 Texas)
The Dragons - Heart Transplantation (7" single 1969 Bonn, Germany)
The Hergs - Style of Love (7" Single 1967 Adelaide, Australia)
The Dukes - The Dentist (7" single (b-side to "Vera Petruschka") 1969 Sauerland, Germany)
M.P.D. Limited - No Regrets (7" single 1966 Melbourne, Australia)
The Telephones - Hummmingbyrd (7" single 2014 UK)
Mauve La Biche and Cary Grace - Archangel Thunderbird [Amon Duul] ("Strange Fruit and Veg" compilation 2015 UK)
Mark Fry - The Witch ("Dreaming WIth Alice" LP 1972 UK)
The Crawlin' Hex - Who Do You Love? ("Strange Fruit and Veg" compilation 2015 Fylde Coast, UK)
The Lords of Gravity - Black [The Throb] ("Wild About You: A Tribute to the Australian Rock Underground 1963 - 1968" 2002 Australia)
The Gruntled - Drivin' Me Insane [Missing Links] ("Wild About You: A Tribute to the Australian Rock Underground 1963 - 1968" 2002 Australia)
Ninetynine - It's A Hard Life [The Atlantics] ("Wild About You: A Tribute to the Australian Rock Underground 1963 - 1968" 2002 Melbourne Australia)
The Double Agents - I Want, Need, Love You [The Black Diamonds] ("Wild About You: A Tribute to the Australian Rock Underground 1963 - 1968" 2002 Australia)
The Cants - Saturday Date [Toni McCann] ("Wild About You: A Tribute to the Australian Rock Underground 1963 - 1968" 2002 Australia)
Arirang - 10:15 Saturday Night [The Cure] ("The Cure In Other Voices" 2016 Milan, Italy)
The Skating Party - Metal Baby [Teenage Fanclub] ("TBTCI Loves TFC" 2016 Pennsylvania, USA)
Champanes - The Concept [Teenage Fanclub] ("TBTCI Loves TFC" 2016 Washington, USA)
T Rex - Truck On (Tyke) [full-length master version] ("Shadowhead" 2001 UK)
Frankie and the Witch Fingers - Thinking About You ("Sidewalk" 2013 California, USA)
Jeffertitti's Nile - Midnight Siren (7" single 2011 California, USA)
Sidewalk Society - If Only ("Venus, Saturn and the Crescent Moon" 2012 Long Beach, California USA)
Os Noctambulos - Watching You (7" single [b-side to "Outsider"] 2015 Paris, France)
Dusty Mush - Sometimes Good Guys Don't Wear White ("Psychotic Reaction" compilation 2015Île-de-France, France)
The first show of winter, and it seems that I was a bit fixated on all things spacey, with bands "Death By Raygun", "Spaceman", "Spacegazer" and "Basement Spaceman" all featuring this week. And I just hadto start the show with a track off Eno's classic"Here Come the Warm Jets" LP, as I've had it on high rotation at home for days, and when a song gets stuck in your head, sometimes the best way to exorcise it from your mind is to play it for the masses - works for me! And here are some other songs that caught my ear or took my fancy this week..check out the playlist below -
Brian Eno - Cindy Tells Me ("Here Come the Warm Jets" LP 1973 UK)
The Onlookers - You Know Everything ("Blue and Green and Tangerine" 2012 UK)
The Magnificent Brotherhood - Lifetime ("The Magnificent Brotherhood" LP 2008 Berlin, Germany)
Circulus - Within You Is The Sun ("Thought Becomes Reality" 2009 UK)
The Outsiders - Daddy Died on Saturday ("CQ" LP 1968 Netherlands)
The Higher State - Know That You Know ("Darker By The Day"2009 Kent, UK)
The Moles - Ginger Tom ("Future Sounds of Ashton" 2010 UK)
Mark Fry - Mandolin Man ("Dreaming With Alice" LP 1972 UK)
Magazine - Shot By Both Sides ("Real Life" LP 1978 Manchester, UK)
Cato Salsa Experience - I Can Give You Everything ("A Good Tip For A Good Time" 2000 Oslo, Norway)
My Expansive Awareness - Liar Liar [The Castaways] ("The Psychedelic Sounds of The Blog That Celebrates Itself Vol III" 2015 Spain)
Algae and Tentacles - Cuddle Up ("Algae and Tentacles" cassette 2015 Tucson, USA)
The Prefab Messiahs - Flight Reaction [The Calico Wall] ("The Psychedelic Sounds of The Blog That Celebrates Itself Vol III"2015 USA )
The Shivas - We Go On ("Freezing to Death" 2010 Portland, Oregon USA)
The Butterscotch Cathedral - Waterfall Parasol ("The Butterscotch Cathedral" 2015 Tucson, USA)
The Coathangers - Stomp Stomp Stompin' ("Scramble" 2009 Atlanta, Georgia USA)
Wight Lhite - Counting Diamonds ("Beyond the Satellites" 2014 Tucson, USA)
Black Vacation - Hold ("Germantown,TN" 2016 Melbourne, Australia)
Death By Raygun - Sheila Comes Back ("The Clifford Hoyt Experience" 2012 Japan)
Dick Diver - Tearing the Posters Down ("Melbourne, Florida" 2015 Melbourne, Australia)
Epsilon One - Sweet Airwaves and TV Spells ("Spirals" EP 2012 Edinburgh, UK)
Spacegazer - Not Your Steppin' Stone [Monkees] ("The Psychedelic Sounds of TBTCI Vol 2", 2013 Paris, France)
This
week’s edition was bookended with tracks by Welsh band Soft
Hearted Scientists, who have rapidly wormed their way into our “fave band list”
since we discovered their 2013 album “False Lights” and then began working our way
through their back-catalogue. Then there were our “just-arrived-in-the-mail”
features, the first of which, “The Drop” LP
by Denmark’s Pinkunoizu, came in a very cool
gatefold sleeve and has barely been off the turntable all week. Though it was
released late last year and has taken us a while to get our own copy, we found
it to be a brilliant slice of modern psychedelia and well worth the wait –
thoroughly recommended! The other new arrival was the debut album from Doug Tuttle, formerly of Cat
& Brat faves, MMOSS, whose two
albums have frequently reverberated around our house over the past year or so.
Now recording under his own name this album finds him further refining his
idiosyncratic take on psychedelic music, with a textured 60’s pop feel more
evident than in the past. Catchy yet woozy with lots of his trademark reverb
and effects, it, like the afore-mentioned Pinkunoizu,
keeps insinuating itself into your mind more with each hearing –we’ll
definitely be playing more tracks from both albums for you in coming weeks! Also
featured were tracks from the Citradels, Slingshot Dragster and Bronco
Bullfrog, new mp3s from both the Red Plastic
Buddha and the Luck of Eden Hall plus
cuts from Schnauser, Dark Ocean Colors, the High Learys and
many more.....
..... so here is the playlist with attendant visuals.....
