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

  

It was a case of “more vinyl, more vinyl” on this week’s show, playing 7” singles, new and old, from the likes of the Hidden Masters, Wooden Shjips, the Haunted, Suede and the Spikes and selections from ‘rarities’ compilations such as the double LPs “Forge Your Own Chains” and “Fairytales Can Come True”, plus album and EP tracks by the Stomachmouths, Blue Ruin, the Gootch Palms, Tyrannosaurus Rex and others. As tribute to Australian legend  Wendy Saddington who sadly passed away last week, we played her 1971 single ‘Looking Through a Window’ and for one of our favourite novelists, the late Iain M. Banks, we played a Sonny & the Sunsets song about a doomed space-robot love affair! Throw in the debut demo by Olly Holmes, some new Mikal Cronin music and a few favourite CDs, and there it was... another edition of Technicolour Dreaming, brought to you by the Cat & the Brat.....

..... and so here is the playlist plus a few visuals.....

the Len Price 3 – Australia      (‘Rentacrowd’ 2008 UK)

Peter & Gordon – I Feel Like Going Out      (7”single [Germany-only release] 1968 UK – taken from ’Fairy Cakes for Tea: Fairytales Can Come True, Vol. 2 (20 Previously Uncomped Popsike Gems 1966-71) double-LP compilation 2007 UK)

Black Cab – Summer of Love       (‘Altamont Diary’ 2004 Melbourne, Australia)

Sun Dial – Out of Space, Out of Time      (7”single 2002 UK)

the Hippy Mafia – How to Outwit a Mosquito      (‘Psychedelica 5’ compilation 2013 UK)

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

Wendy Saddington – Looking Through a Window      (7”single 1971 Australia)

Sonny & the Sunsets – Green Blood      (‘Antenna to the Underworld’ 2013 USA)

Fluff – Holly Golightly       (7”single 1969 USA)

the Haunted – 1-2-5       (7”single 1966 Canada)

Isabelle – Amstramgram      (‘Dis Moi Poupée’ EP 1968 France)

Shadrack Chameleon – Don’t Let It Get You Down      (‘Shadrack Chameleon’  LP 1973 Iowa, USA – taken from ‘Forge Your Own Chains: Heavy Psychedelic Ballads and Dirges 1968-1974‘ double-LP compilation 2009 USA)

Vibravoid – Optical Sound [Human Expression cover]      (‘Delirio Dei Sensei’ 2013 Germany/Italy)

Tyrannosaurus Rex – Frowning Atahuallpa      (‘My people were fair and had stars in their hair...’ LP 1968 UK)

Mikal Cronin – See It My Way       (‘MC11’ 2013 California, USA)

the Hidden Masters – Grey Walls Grey      (7”single b-side [to Nobody Knows That We’re Here] 2010 Scotland, UK)

Beaulieu Porch – The View from Gainsborough      (‘We Are Beautiful’ 2013 UK)

Plasticland – Let’s Play Pollyanna      (7”single 1989 USA)

the Gootch Palms – Watch This Space      (‘R U 4 Sirius’ EP 2013 Sydney, Australia)

the Allah-Las – Catamaran      (‘The Allah-Las’ 2012 California, USA)

the Stomachmouths – Dr Syn      (‘Something Weird’ LP 1986 Sweden)

the Rebbels – Round the World      (7”single b-side [to This Can't Go On] 1966 Germany)

Wooden Shjips – Start to Dreaming      (7”single b-side [to Loose Lips] 2007 USA)

Olly Holmes – Whiskey Barrel      (demo 2013 Adelaide, Australia)

the Spikes – Bang Shang a Lang      (‘A Bloody Mess’ EP 1985 Adelaide, Australia)

Suede – Metal Mickey      (7”single 1992 UK)

Blue Ruin – Bad Gin      (‘Flame’ LP 1987 Australia)

 

the Black Hollies – Hush [Joe South cover]      (7”split-single [with the Dansettes] 2004 USA)