Technicolour Dreaming

South Australia has been experiencing some horrible weather over the past week, with gale force winds, torrential rain, and even snow in some places! Then early Tuesday morning, a violent storm ripped through town, wreaking havoc and taking out power throughout most of the Adelaide Hills.

A bleary-eyed Cat got up at the crack of dawn in the freezing cold (no heating) to finish off programming Technicolour Dreaming - luckily the computer was fully charged - got ready for the bus trip into Adelaide (no hot coffee, so brain totally fogged), dreading the walk down the road, and having visions of umbrellas blowing inside out, tumbling along.
And then the fateful phone call - the weather gods had decreed that a combination of toppled trees and fallen power lines over the roads meant the bus couldn't get through, leaving me stranded (and cold, and even more badly needing a coffee) at home.

So no radio show this week - but at least I'm already prepared for the 19th of July! And I'll also be giving away a ticket to Wintersteady in the first half-hour of Technicolour Dreaming, so tune in!

Technicolour Dreaming

Sometimes this blog comes together so easily, other times it is exceptionally testing. This is one of those testing times! So I might just let the tunes from last week (and the clips that have managed to work) speak for themselves, so I don't delay posting this any longer....next weeks Technicolour Dreaming will feature some pre-release goodies from Kind Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, The Luck of Eden Hall, Kikagaku Moyo and Elephant Stone, so tune in on Tuesday at 2pm (Australian Central Standard Time) on Thee D Radio 93.7fm, or listen to the live stream at www.threedradio.com. You know you want to!

→ ↑ → (Tch Tch Tch) - Pop Art  (7" split single [with "Man and Machine"] 1979 Melbourne, Australia)

La Femme - Telegraphe  ("Le Podium #1" EP 2010 Paris, France)

Brain Washington - L.S.D.  (7" single 2012 London, UK)

Sonic Jesus - Triumph  ("Neither Virtue Nor Anger" 2015 Doganella di Ninfa, Italy)

New Candys - Overall  ("New Candys as Medicine" 2015 Venice, Italy)

The Luck Of Eden Hall - This Weather's Better for Velvet Clothes  ("Butterfly Revolutions Vol 1" 2011 Chicago, USA)

The Smoking Trees - Moving Picture ("The Smoking Trees" EP 2012 Los Angeles, USA)
Jacco Gardner  - Where Will You Go  (7" single 2013 Zwaag, Netherlands)

Blondi's Salvation - Mother Cloud  ("Songs of the New World Order" 2013 Nantes, France) 

The Clangers - Unguarded Moment [The Church]  ("The Clangers" 2016 Adelaide, Australia)

The Dandelion Seeds - Soul Thing  ("The Dandelion Seeds" 2014 Iceland)


Fruit Machine - I'm Alone Today  (7" single 1969 London, UK)


Eartha Kitt - Hurdy Gurdy Man [Donovan]  ("Sentimental Eartha" LP 1970 USA)

The Nice - Flower King of Flies  ("The Thoughts of Emerlist Davjack" LP 1967 UK)

The Blue Giant Zeta Puppies - Steppin' Stone [the Monkees]  ("Active Listener Presents: The Great British Psych Trip Revisited" 2016 UK)

Brainticket - Black Sand  ("Cottonwood Hill" LP 1970 Belgium/Switzerland)

The Shivas - Peele's Perfumed Garden  ("Where Have You Gone To?" 2009 Portland, Oregon USA)

The Chances Are - Fragile Child  (7" single 1967 UK)

Craig and Michael - Drifty (7" single 1966 USA)

The Ethics - It's O.K.  (7" single [b-side to "She's a Deceiver"] 1967 Oregon, USA)


The Locomotive - Mr Armageddon  ("We Are Everything You See" LP 1970 Birmingham, UK)



The Timebox - Gone is the Sad Man  (7" single [b-side to "Girl Don't Make Me Wait"] 1968 Lancashire, UK)

The Lundons - It's Gonna Be Alright  (7" single [b-side to "I Love You So"] 1966 USA)

The Yo Yo's - Crack in My Wall  (7" single [b-side to "The Raven"] 1966 New York USA)

The Sweet Acids - That Creature  (7" single 1967 USA)


Moorpark Intersection - I Think I'll Just Go and Find Me a Flower (7" single 1968 USA)

Sidewalk Skipper Band - (Would You Believe) It's Raining Flowers in my House  (7" single [b-side to "Seventeenth Summer"] 1968 USA)


Greg McCarley - Shoo Shoo Shoo Fly  ("Feeling High -The Psychedelic Sound of Memphis" compilation 2012 USA)


Changin' Tymes - Hark the Child  ("Feeling High -The Psychedelic Sound of Memphis" compilation 2012 USA)

The Tamborines - The Great Division  (7" single [b-side to "What Took You So Long"] 2006 London UK)
The Mops - Omae No Subete O  ("Psychedelic Sounds in Japan" LP 1968 Japan)

Technicolour Dreaming

A few notable new releases played on Technicolour Dreaming this week included The Honey Pot's latest, "Inside The Whale", which has a real West-Coast 60's psych feel to it, out now on MegaDodo Records; and The Murlocs new one "Young Blindness" - and if you were planning to buy the coloured vinyl, it's too late!! Melbourne bands were well represented on the show, making up 6 of the selections, plus the usual French oddities, some Canadian coolness, as well as tracks from Germany, Norway, Russia and The Ukraine - there's so much fantastic music out there, both old and new, the world over. Just 2 hours a week is never enough!
Here's the playlist, plus visuals.....

Deep Feeling - Pretty Colours  ("Deep Feeling" rec. 1966, rel. 2008 USA) 

Sula Bassana - Perry Rhodan  ("Dreamer" LP 2002 Germany) 

Serge Franklin - KKK (Le Ku Klux Klan)  ("45 Tours A La Une" 7" EP 1966 France) 

Isabelle - Amstramgram  ("Dis Moi Poupée" 7" EP 1968 France) 

The Daughters of Eve - Help Me Boy  (7" single [b-side to "Symphony of Soul"] 1967 USA) 

Elephant Stone - A Silent Moment  ("Acid Killed My Rock'n'Roll - an Intro to Elephant Stone" 2015 Montreal, Canada) 

Park Avenue Playground - The Trip  (7" single [b-side to "I Know"] 1969 Lansing, Illinois, USA) 

Tyrnaround - As I Walk With You  ("Succeeds When Daylight Fails" LP 1989 Melbourne, Australia) 

The Honey Pot - Inside the Whale  ("Inside the Whale" LP 2016 UK) 

Sagittarius - My World Fell Down  ("Present Tense" LP 1968 USA) 

Twink - 10,000 Words in a Cardboard Box  ("Think Pink" LP 1970 UK) 

The Apricot - We Believe in Zoo  ("A Forestful of Threes" 2011 Norway)

The Hoa Hoas - Postcards  ("Pop/Drone/Pedals" 2009 Canada) 

The Smoking Trees - Good Morning  ("TST" 2015 Los Angeles, California USA) 

Ummagma - Rotation  ("Singles" 2012 Ukraine)  

Tara King th with Halasan Bazar - Ventolin  ("Mostly Tara Tape" 2014 France) 

The Murlocs - Rolling On  ("Young Blindness" 2016 Melbourne, Australia)

The Living Eyes - Oh Yeah [The Shadows of Knight]  ("Nuggets: Antipodean Interpolations of the First Psychedelic Era" LP 2013 Melbourne, Australia)

The Creeping Bam - Don't Get High  (7" single 2015 Melbourne, Australia)

Deerhunter - Snakeskin  ("Fading Frontier" 2015 Atlanta, USA)

Pipe Eye - People Move Along  ("Cosmic Blip" 10" EP 2015 Melbourne, Australia)

Magic America - Comes and Goes  ("Magic America" EP 2015 Melbourne, Australia)

The Black Angels - Yellow Elevator #2  ("Phosphene Dream" 2010 Austin, Texas USA)

Edwick Rumbold - Shades of Grey  (7" single 1967 UK)

Blue Giant Zeta Puppies - Martians Don't Surf  ("12 Theories of Time Travel" 2015 UK) 

Majic Ship - Green Plant  (7" single [b-side to "Night Time Music"] 1968 New York, USA)

Vespero - One of These Days (7" single [b-side to "Careful With That Axe, Eugene"] 2013 Russia)

The Seeds - 900 Million People Daily All Make Love  ("Raw and Alive In Concert at Merlin's Music Box" LP 1968 Los Angeles, USA)