Technicolour Dreaming

Some old 60's Aussie favourites, a few new discoveries, and the usual suspects - this week's show had it all. I particularly liked the track by Sir Robin and the Longbowmen, who hail from Dresden in Germany - can't believe that I hadn't come across this band before! Somehow I also managed to miss the latest release from The Selfish Cales, which came out last year - more psych goodness from these natives of Torino, Italy. Speaking of which, I've also included (at the end of the blog) a groovy promo clip that I came across, of the 2014 Psych Out 25 Degrees festival in Italy - the things you find on YouTube. Enjoy!

Zoot - Turn Your Head (7" single (b-side to "Eleanor Rigby") 1970 Adelaide, Australia)

Joel Jerome - Strawberry Fields Para Siempre  (digital single 2014 Los Angeles, USA)

Pesky Gee! - Where is My Mind?  ("Exclamation Mark" LP 1969 UK)

Espectrostatic - Carpe Nacht ("The Daemonum" EP 2014 Texas, USA)

The Glass Menagerie - Frederick Jordan  (7" single 1968 Manchester UK)

Go-Go Sapien - Sick Love  ("This Body Is Wrong for Us" 2011 Melbourne, Australia)

Marty Rhone - Every Minute of You  (7" single (b-side to "Nature Boy") 1966 Melbourne, Australia)

Icarus Peel - Auntie Powders Her Nose  ("Icarus Peel vs Mordecai Smyth Barnburner" 10" EP 2014 UK)

Mike Furber - Watch Me Burn  (7" single (b-side to "I'm on Fire") 1969 Sydney, Australia)

Mt Mountain - Chantry  (7" single 2014 Perth, Australia)

Jon - Upstairs Downstairs  (7" single 1966 Brisbane, Australia)

Dino, Desi and Billy - The Rebel Kind  (7" single 1965 Hollywood, California USA)

Ultraviolet - Ocean Rain  ("Gods Will Be Gods: A Reverence to the Bunnymen" 2016 Austin, Texas USA)

Borderline Symphony - Rubik's Cube  ("Borderline Symphony" 2016 Switzerland)

Psychedelic Trips to Death - Bang Bang [Nancy Sinatra]  ("The Psychedelic Sounds of The Blog That Celebrates Itself Vol 2" 2013 Greece)

Sir Robin and the Longbowmen - I Would Like  ("Active Listener Sampler #34" 2015 Dresden, Germany) 

The David - Light of Your Mind  (7" Single 1969 UK)

Demontre - The Vale Of Health Part 2  ("Masculin/Feminin" 2010 UK)

The Citradels - Every Christian Lion Hearted Man Will Show You [Bee Gees]   ("The Psychedelic Sounds of The Blog That Celebrates Itself Vol 2" 2013 Melbourne, Australia)

The Who - Armenia City In The Sky  ("The Who Sell Out" LP 1967 UK)

The Selfish Cales - See Tomorrow's Shores  ("Throw Your Watch to the Water" 2015 Torino, Italy)

Sundays and Cybele - Almost Heaven  ("Heaven" 2015 Japan)

Josephines - The Cutter ("Gods Will Be Gods: A Reverence to the Bunnymen" 2016 Rio Grande, Brazil)

Felius Andromeda - Meditations  (7" single 1967 UK)

The Mushroom Club - Into Something Good [Herman's Hermits]  ("The Psychedelic Sounds of The Blog That Celebrates Itself Vol 2" 2013 Glasgow, UK)

Shapes Have Fangs - Dinner In The Dark  ("Dinner in the Dark" 2011 USA)

Pin Ups - Some Candy Talking [Jesus and Mary Chain]   ("Psychocandy Revisited" 2015)
The Baudelaires - Colour Mary  (digital single 2015 Melbourne, Australia)

Trabants - Mecca  ("Freakout" 2015 Los Angeles, USA)

The Octopus Syng - Woman  ("Hollow Dust/Rochelle Salt" LP 2016 Helsinki, Finland)

Plus an old promo clip for the 2014 "Psych Out 25 Degrees" festival in Italy:

Technicolour Dreaming

Some old 60's Aussie favourites, a few new discoveries, and the usual suspects - this week's show had it all. I particularly liked the track by Sir Robin and the Longbowmen, who hail from Dresden in Germany - can't believe that I hadn't come across this band before! Somehow I also managed to miss the latest release from The Selfish Cales, which came out last year - more psych goodness from these natives of Torino, Italy. Speaking of which, I've also included (at the end of the blog) a groovy promo clip that I came across, of the 2014 Psych Out 25 Degrees festival in Italy - the things you find on YouTube. Enjoy!

Zoot - Turn Your Head (7" single (b-side to "Eleanor Rigby") 1970 Adelaide, Australia)

Joel Jerome - Strawberry Fields Para Siempre  (digital single 2014 Los Angeles, USA)

Pesky Gee! - Where is My Mind?  ("Exclamation Mark" LP 1969 UK)

Espectrostatic - Carpe Nacht ("The Daemonum" EP 2014 Texas, USA)

The Glass Menagerie - Frederick Jordan  (7" single 1968 Manchester UK)

Go-Go Sapien - Sick Love  ("This Body Is Wrong for Us" 2011 Melbourne, Australia)

Marty Rhone - Every Minute of You  (7" single (b-side to "Nature Boy") 1966 Melbourne, Australia)

Icarus Peel - Auntie Powders Her Nose  ("Icarus Peel vs Mordecai Smyth Barnburner" 10" EP 2014 UK)

Mike Furber - Watch Me Burn  (7" single (b-side to "I'm on Fire") 1969 Sydney, Australia)

Mt Mountain - Chantry  (7" single 2014 Perth, Australia)

Jon - Upstairs Downstairs  (7" single 1966 Brisbane, Australia)

Dino, Desi and Billy - The Rebel Kind  (7" single 1965 Hollywood, California USA)

Ultraviolet - Ocean Rain  ("Gods Will Be Gods: A Reverence to the Bunnymen" 2016 Austin, Texas USA)

Borderline Symphony - Rubik's Cube  ("Borderline Symphony" 2016 Switzerland)

Psychedelic Trips to Death - Bang Bang [Nancy Sinatra]  ("The Psychedelic Sounds of The Blog That Celebrates Itself Vol 2" 2013 Greece)

Sir Robin and the Longbowmen - I Would Like  ("Active Listener Sampler #34" 2015 Dresden, Germany) 

The David - Light of Your Mind  (7" Single 1969 UK)

Demontre - The Vale Of Health Part 2  ("Masculin/Feminin" 2010 UK)

The Citradels - Every Christian Lion Hearted Man Will Show You [Bee Gees]   ("The Psychedelic Sounds of The Blog That Celebrates Itself Vol 2" 2013 Melbourne, Australia)

The Who - Armenia City In The Sky  ("The Who Sell Out" LP 1967 UK)

The Selfish Cales - See Tomorrow's Shores  ("Throw Your Watch to the Water" 2015 Torino, Italy)

Sundays and Cybele - Almost Heaven  ("Heaven" 2015 Japan)

Josephines - The Cutter ("Gods Will Be Gods: A Reverence to the Bunnymen" 2016 Rio Grande, Brazil)

Felius Andromeda - Meditations  (7" single 1967 UK)

The Mushroom Club - Into Something Good [Herman's Hermits]  ("The Psychedelic Sounds of The Blog That Celebrates Itself Vol 2" 2013 Glasgow, UK)

Shapes Have Fangs - Dinner In The Dark  ("Dinner in the Dark" 2011 USA)

Pin Ups - Some Candy Talking [Jesus and Mary Chain]   ("Psychocandy Revisited" 2015)
The Baudelaires - Colour Mary  (digital single 2015 Melbourne, Australia)

Trabants - Mecca  ("Freakout" 2015 Los Angeles, USA)

The Octopus Syng - Woman  ("Hollow Dust/Rochelle Salt" LP 2016 Helsinki, Finland)

Plus an old promo clip for the 2014 "Psych Out 25 Degrees" festival in Italy:

Technicolour Dreaming

We started off this week with a classic suite from the 1977 debut album by the Stranglers which was certainly a highlight of their live shows in that period, as can be personally attested. From there we ventured far and wide, with an as-yet-unreleased Barbarellatones track kindly sent to us by Robbie, their singer/guitarist, a song from Gary Numan’s “Pleasure Principle“ LP, a dreamy psychedelic take on an early Beatles song by Jacco Gardner, the new mono reissue of a Seeds favourite, a recent Raveonettes EP cut and, near the end, the Damned’s psych/punk tour de force from “The Black Album”. We also featured, amongst others, some tracks from another Psychic Circle label ‘sike-pop’ compilation of 60’s obscurities, one from the brilliant new Hidden Masters debut, the Marty Rhone version of the Michel Polnareff song we featured last week [by Vibravoid] and finally, a classic from Todd Rundgren who is currently touring here in Australia – a must-see show!

..... and so here is the playlist plus some eye-candy!.....

the Stranglers – Down in the Sewer [suite]     (“Stranglers 1V - Rattus Norvegicus” LP 1977 UK)

the Barbarellatones – Artificially Inseminate my Love      (demo 2013 USA)

Man or Astro-Man? – Sadie Hawkins Atom Bomb      (“Is It…Man or Astro-Man?” LP 1993 Alabama, USA)

John Cooper-Clarke – Psycle Sluts 1&2      (“Disguise in Love” LP 1978 UK)

Gary Numan – Metal      (“The Pleasure Principle” LP 1979 UK)

the Ears – The Lolly Hater      (7” single b-side [to Scarecrow] 1981 Melbourne, Australia)

Jacco Gardner – You Really Got a Hold on Me      (“Mojo: We’re With the Beatles” compilation 2013 UK/Netherlands)

Cate Le Bon – The Eiggy Sea      (“Cyrk 2” mini-LP 2012 Wales, UK)

Hidden Masters – Last Days of the Sun      (“Of This & Other Worlds” 2013 Scotland, UK)

Faine Jade – A Brand New Groove      (“Introspection: A Faine Jade Recital” LP 1968 USA)

the Peanut Butter Conspiracy – It’s a Happening Thing      (“The Peanut Butter Conspiracy Is Spreading” LP 1967 USA)

the Seeds – Mr Farmer [mono version]      (“A Web Of Sound” LP 1967 Los Angeles, USA)

Sight & Sound – Little Jackie Monday      (7”single b-side [to Alley, Alley] 1968 Birmingham, UK – taken from “Let’s Ride: Fairytales Can Come True, Vol.3” compilation 2008 UK)

Winston G. – Riding with the Milkman      (7”single 1967 London, UK)

Rescue Co. No. 1 – Gotta Find You      (7”single 1971 UK)

Les Irrésistibles – My Year is a Day      (7”single 1968 France/USA)

Marty Rhone – No No No No No [Michel Polnareff cover/adaption]      (7”single b-side [to Tell Me Love] 1967 Australia)

Clinic – I Wanna Get You (Woman) [Loons cover]      (7”split-single [with the Loons] 2010 UK/USA)

the Raveonettes – Night Comes Out      (“Into The Night” EP 2012 Sweden)

Sonny & the Sunsets – Girl on the Street      (“Antenna to the Afterworld” 2013 USA)

Hidden Charms – Please Give Me Something      (“A Real Cool Time” compilation LP 1985 Sweden)

Mick Farren & the Deviants – Let’s Loot the Supermarket Again Like We Did Last Summer      (“Screwed Up” EP 1977 London, UK)

the Damned – Curtain Call       (“The Black Album” double-LP 1979 London, UK)

Todd Rundgren’s Utopia – Heavy Metal Kids      (“Another Live” LP 1975 USA)

Obscured By...

Though this week’s hosts, the Cat & the Brat, are a ‘duo’, this show was mostly about singles... the 7” vinyl kind ... and sometimes, their b-sides! From the Syssys and the Revillos to Psychic TV and Metal Urbain, we voyaged from decade to decade and country to country to bring them to you, even including a b-side featuring ubiquitous 60’s Sydney DJ, Ward ‘Pally’ Austin on the debut single by Python Lee Jackson! Not that we forgot the EP and LP formats either, with rarities from the likes of Frog Hollow and the Urinals to the Cosmic Dead and Apryl Fool... and with our predilection for boxsets, how could we fail to play a selection from “the Lost Tapes” set by Can? All in all, a singular show...

(NB: a couple of videos wouldn't allow embedding, so please use the provided links instead!)

..... and here is the playlist..... 

the Imagination – We Got Fun      (7”single b-side [to A Day in the Life] 1969 Australia)

Frog Hollow – A Slowish One      (‘Over Under Sideways Down’ 7”EP 1972 Aust.)

Alison Gros –Weaver of Life      (7”single b-side [to All the Days] 1971 Adelaide, Aust.)

the Syssys – Take a Heart      (7”single b-side [to Jump Back] 1966 Adelaide, Aust.)

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

Ward Austin (with Python Lee Jackson) – Who Do You Love [Bo Diddley cover]      (7”single b-side [to Python Lee Jackson-Emergency Ward] 1966 Sydney, Aust.)

Felt – Sunlight Bathed The Golden Glow      (‘The Strange Idols Pattern & Other Short Stories’ LP 1984 UK)

Psychic TV – Just Drifting      (7”single 1982 UK)

Hurrah! – Sweet Sanity      (7” single 1986 UK)

Skeletal Family – Promised Land      (7”single 1985 West Yorkshire, UK)

the Urinals – I’m a Bug      (‘Another EP’ EP 1978 Los Angeles, USA)

Sunglasses After Dark – Morbid Silence      (12”single 1984 UK – taken from ‘Sunglasses After Dark’ 2008)

Metal Urbain – Hysterie Connective      (7”single 1978 France/UK – taken from ‘Anarchy in Paris’ anthology 2004)

Can – Bubble Rap      (‘The Lost Tapes’ boxset 2012 Germany – disc 1)

Can – Your Friendly Neighbourhood Whore      (‘The Lost Tapes’ boxset – disc 2)

Can – One More Saturday Night      (‘The Lost Tapes’ boxset – disc 3)

Apryl Fool – The Lost Motherland Part 1      (‘Apryl Fool’ LP 1969 Japan)

Pierrot Lumiere – Narciso      (‘Pierrot Lumiere’ LP 1974 Italy)

the Revillos – Scuba Scuba      (7”single 1980 UK)

the Psychedelic Aliens – Gbe Keke Wo Taoo [Give us a chance]      (rec. 1975 Ghana – taken from ‘Psycho African Beat’ anthology  2010)

the Music Convention – Bellyboard Beat      (‘Children of the Sun’ soundtrack EP 1968 New Zealand)

the Grim Reepers – Two Souls      (7”single 1966 California, USA)

Plasticland – Let’s Play Pollyanna      (7”single 1990 Wisconsin, USA)

the Misunderstood – I Can Take You To The Sun      (7”single 1966 UK/USA)

Big Boy Peter – Cold Turkey      (7”single 1968 Norwich, UK)

the Cosmic Dead – White Rabbit      (‘The Cosmic Dead’ LP 2012 Iceland)

Obscured By...

A special radiothon edition of Obscured By... with all three dots in fundraising mood.  Special guest from Melbourne via telephone was Nick from the Molting Vultures talking about life and music in his new home city - and the importance of bands supporting community radio.  We could only agree.  The playlist is as below, and shows the usual diversity of time, place and genre - and indeed therefore the importance of EVERYONE supporting Three D if at all possible, to keep the musical obscurity flowing!

Noeleen Batley - Running Around In Circles  (7”single 1966 Aust, B of Heartaches And Kisses)

Marty Rhone - She's Coming Home   (7”single 1968 Aust)

Heart'n'Soul -  Good Things Come To Those Who Wait   (7”single 1969 Aust, B of Lazy Life)

Dave Miller Set - Someone Is Sure To  (7”single 1969 Aust, B of Mr Guy Fawkes)

The Zoot - I'm Only Sleeping   (GTK 1971, released on 'The GTK Tapes Vol.1'  1994  Aust)

Velvet Underground - A Murder Mystery (alt mix)  (rec 1968, from 'What Goes On' box set 1993 Aust) 

Pink Floyd - Crumbling Land   ('Zabriskie Point'  soundtrack 1970  UK)

Patti Page - Tennessee Waltz   ('Zabriskie Point'  soundtrack 1970  UK)

Gabba - Knowing Me Knowing You  ('Gabba Leave Stockholm' 1999 UK)

Shin Joong Hyun - Beautiful Rivers And Mountains ('Beautiful Rivers And Mountains: The Psychedelic Rock Sound Of South Korea's Shin Joong Hyun 1958-74'  2011 Sth Korea)

Los Sacros -  En Primavera  ('Sacros'  1973 Brazil)

The Molting Vultures - Ken The Zombie Dancer  ('Get A Grip'  2007 Aust, Adelaide)

Johnny Casino & The Secrets - If You Want It ('New Clothes, Old Shoes' 2007 Aust)

The D-Coys - Bad Times  (7”single 1966 Aust, Adel)

The Blue Stars - Social End Product  (7”single 1966 NZ)

Death In June - Carousel  ('Nada Plus!' orig 1985, reissue 2011 UK/Aust)

Pony Face - Disco Cops  ('Hypnotised'  Aust 2012)

Silver Apples - Rust  ('Silver Apples' LP 1968 US) 

The Wildkat Tamers - The Wildcat Tamers  ('The Wildcat Tamers' EP 2012 UK)

Suzi Chunk & Groovy Uncle - Girl From The Neck Down   ('Girl From The Neck Down' LP 2012 UK)

Galileo 7 - Anne Hedonia  ('Staring At The Sound' LP 2012 UK)

The Bonniwells - Ms Anderson  ('Sneeze Weed' 2012 Aust)

Prince Rama - Rest In Peace  ('Trust Now' 2011 US)

Biggles - Gimme Gimme Some Lovin' (7”single 1971 UK)