Technicolour Dreaming

Little ol' Adelaide has quite a musical heritage, which is probably why it was formally recognised by UNESCO in 2015 as a designated "City of Music", and one of only 116 cities around the globe recognised for their musical culture (OK, 116 is actually quite a few...!) So ahead of next week's Radiothon, I played a broad selection of Adelaide bands ranging from the 1960's to 2003, with some more recent examples expected to surface on the show on the 23rd (ie tomorrow). The eagle-eyed amongst you will probably notice that some of the Adelaide video clips don't match the actual song played (as the clips don't exist - yet), but I've included them as an example of the type of music (for strictly historical reasons - of course). And stop the presses, next week will be an extra special, one-off, "Obscured by ... Technicolour" with the inimitable Mr Michael Hunter returning as co-host - expect some, shall we say, unusual music on the Radiothon show. Playlist and video clips? See below...

Prince Rupert's Drops - Plague Ride  ("Run Slow" 2012 New York, USA)

The Blue Giant Zeta Puppies - Martians Don't Surf  ("12 Theories of Time Travel" 2015 UK)
Toyland - Night Flight Over Palestine  ("Toyland" 12" EP 1983 Adelaide, Australia)

The Lumerians - Xulux  ("Transmalinnia" 2011 San Francisco, USA)

The Stonefish - Cement Head  ("From 20,000 Fathoms" 12" EP 1986 Perth, Australia)

The Cure - Primary  ("Faith" LP 1981 UK)

Nuvo Bloc - Atomic Fiction  (7" single 1980 Adelaide, Australia)

The Liminanas - Zippo  ("Malamore" 2016 France)

The Third Eye - Pass Myself  (7" single 1982, UK)

Karova's Milkshake - Purple Sun of Glastonbury  ("In the Shade of the Purple Sun" 2015 Russia)

The Garden Path - Times Out Of Mind  ("Five Reasons" LP 1986 Adelaide, Australia)

Mystic Brew - Yesterday's Sky  ("Something More Than Dream" LP 2015 Russia)

Julian Cope - Sunspots ("Fried" LP 1984 UK)

The Prisoners - Hurricane  ("The Wisermiserdemelza" 1983 UK)

The Unheard - One Day  ("Burn Your Fingers on the Sun" compilation 2007 Wollongong, Australia)

3D TV - A Summation of All these Burdens  ("Burn Your Fingers on The Sun" compilation 2007 Sydney, Australia)

Zoot - Little Roland Lost  (7" single [b-side to "Monty and Me"] 1969 Adelaide, Australia)

The Music Machine - The People In Me  (7" EP 1966 USA)

The Bad Poets - Rocks and Sand  (demo 1980 Adelaide, Australia)

The Human League - Being Boiled  ("Travelogue" LP 1980 Sheffield, UK)

Baby Doll - Swamp Surfing  (demo 2003 Adelaide, Australia)

The Spikes - Pass Myself [The Third Eye]  (7" single [b-side to "River of Love"] 1986 Adelaide, Australia)

The Balloon Farm - A Question of Temperature  (7" Single 1967 USA)

Travis Wellington Hedge - Hey Bulldog [The Beatles]  (7" single 1969 Adelaide, Australia)

Captain Sensible - The 4 Marys Go Go Dance All Night At The Groovy Cellar  (7" single [b-side to "There Are More Snakes Than Ladders"] 1984 UK)

Pink Floyd - A Saucerful of Secrets ("A Saucerful of Secrets" LP 1968 UK)

Tyrnaround - Suicidal Flowers [The Crystal Chandelier]  ("Colour Your Mind" 12" EP 1986 Brisbane, Australia)

Technicolour Dreaming

The new Brian Jonestown Massacre album came into our P.O. box this week so, needless to say, we felt it was a fine way to begin this week’s show before we moved into our trawl through the wonderful world of psychedelia. Also featured this week were tracks from a couple of cool Russian bands, Mystic Brew and the Spoon Box, with more to follow in coming weeks from what appears to be a very vibrant psych scene... special thanks to Dimitry of Mystic Brew for putting us onto some of the great bands there! Northern Europe also provided us with tracks by such Scandinavian bands as Octopus Syng and the Jessica Fletchers plus, from Poland, the White Kites, while from the Philippines we played D’Swooners, as well as a bunch from the USA and Britain including Flavor Crystals and Jeffertitti’s Nile from the former and Scars, the Open Mind and Schnauser from the latter, not forgetting Australia’s entries, Shining Bird and Subtract-S and New Zealand’s the Avengers, who did a great cover of “Listen, Listen”, which has to be one of our favourite 60’s classics! That’s your lot - another “Technicolour Dreaming” streamed into your ears, so until next week.....

...... here is the playlist, plus visuals......

Enjoy!

Brian Jonestown Massacre – Vad Hände Med Dem       (“Revelation”  2014 USA/Germany)

Octopus Syng – It’s Not a Coincidence         (”Reverberating Garden no.7” 2014 Finland)

Mind Garage – Asphalt Mother         (7”single 1968 Pittsburgh, USA)

Mystic Brew – Without You         (7”single b-side [to Don’t You Want To Stay] 2014 Moscow, Russia)

MYSTIC BREW - Without You (Official Video) from Zakharkin Oleg on Vimeo.

D’Swooners – Please Please Trina         (7”single 1968 Philippines/Hong Kong)

BB Jr – Walking with Jesus [Spaceman 3 cover]         (“Captcha Records... introducing” sampler compilation 2014 California, USA)

the Barbarellatones – Sharknado         (mp3 2014 Hawaii, USA)

the Modern Lovers – She Crack’d         (“The Modern Lovers” LP 1976 New York, USA)

Frantic Chance – My Name is Warfare         (mp3 demo 2014 Scotland, UK)

the Jessica Fletchers – Bloody Seventies Love         (“What Happened to the?” 2003 Norway)

the Green Tambourine Band – From the Seed into the Flower [Sir Psych Mix]         (mp3 – song orig. on “Let Yourself Be/Aum” LP 2014 Scotland, UK)

Cheval Sombre – You’ve got to Hide Your Love Away [Beatles cover]         (mp3 2013 USA)

Three Minute Tease – Cry Baby Cry [Beatles cover]          (“The White EP” double-7” EP 2013 UK)

Southern Boutique – Don’t Be Yourself (Cowboy Song Part 2)         (7” single 2013 USA)

Flavor Crystals – Blue Haiti         (“Three” LP 2013 USA)

Shining Bird – Can’t Stop Sleeping In         (demo 2014 Australia)

Jeffertitti’s Nile – The Day the Sky Fell         (“The Electric Hour” 2014 Los Angeles, USA)

the White Kites – Percival Buck        (“Missing” LP 2014 Poland)

the Mirage – Ebenezer Beaver         (recorded 1968 UK, but unissued – taken from ”Love, Poetry and Revolution: A Journey Through the British Psychedelic and Underground Scenes 1966-72” CD-boxset 2013 UK)

the Open Mind – Magic Potion         (7” single 1969 UK)

the Avengers – Listen, Listen [Merry-Go-Round cover]         (7” single 1969 New Zealand)

Scars – All About You         (“Author! Author!” LP 1981 UK)

Tall Tales and True – Wasted Life         (“Tale Tales and True” mini-LP 1986 Sydney, Australia)

Toys Went Berserk – Guns at My Head        (7” single [b-side to Don’t Run Away] 1986 Sydney, Australia)

Subtract-S – mb ph         (“Love From Outer Space” EP 2012 Adelaide, Australia)

Schnauser – Astral Traveller [Yes cover]         (7”single 2014 Wales, UK)

the Spoon Box – Два расиста [Two Racists]         (“The Spoon Box” EP 2012 Samara, Russia)

Technicolour Dreaming

Lots of music was played this week from all around the world, some new, some older, but all interesting. Amongst them, from Moscow we heard the excellent new single by Mystic Brew, from Tokyo a track off of Kikagaku Moyo’s 2013 debut album, from Chicago we heard the Luck of Eden Hall and Secret Colours, as well as a single by the Hedgehogs from Denmark, Blondi’s Salvation from Nantes in France with a song from their new “Crusades” album, plus the UK’s Elephant Stone and Chile’s Föllakzoid,  both with a track from their respective debuts, and not forgetting a few 60’s gems such as Scott Walker’s “The Amorous Humphrey Plugg” for good measure. We were saddened this week by the passing of the Masters Apprentices’ singer Jim Keays, the only constant member of the band from their early days here in Adelaide through to their final recordings many years later in London. I was fortunate enough to know Jim in the early ‘70’s and even play in a band with him for a while – being a teenager I was slightly in awe of him as a rock hero, but he always just treated me as a fellow musician which was a good lesson to learn – famous people are still just ‘people’ after all. Jim continued playing until this year and recently released a great new album of 60’s garage covers – a fine last release! However, we chose to play his 1971 ode to another psychedelicist, “Our Friend Owsley Stanley III” not just as a tribute to him but also to Swedish psychedelic philosopher Patrick Lundborg, who also died suddenly this week. He was a well-known music-writer and author, most well-known for his “Acid Archives” compendium, his recent opus “Psychedelia : an ancient culture, a modern way of life”, his articles in Shindig!, Ugly Things, Mojo and other magazines, plus his website of everything psychedelic at http://www.lysergia.com . Both will be sorely missed!

...... so here is the playlist, plus visuals.......

Kikagaku Moyo – Zo No Senaka      (“Kikagaku Moyo” LP 2013 Japan)

Elephant Stone – Setting Sun      (“Elephant Stone” LP 2013 UK)

New Electric Ride – All Who You Know      (digital-only single 2013 UK)

Mystic Brew – Don’t You Want To Stay      (7”single b-side [to Your Reality] 2014 Moscow, Russia)

the Luck of Eden Hall – Chrysalide      (“Greatest Hits, Vol.1” anthology 2014 Chicago, USA)

Secret Colours – Tomorrow Never Knows [Beatles cover]      (digital-only single 2010 Chicago, USA)

Human Expression – Optical Sound      (7”single 1966 California, USA)

Children of the Night – World of Tears      (7”single 1967 Connecticut, USA)

the Hedgehogs – Make Me Wanna Cry      (7”single 2014 Denmark)

Pinkunoizu – Death Is Not A Lover      (“Free Time!” LP 2013 USA)

Andrew Douglas Rothbard – Golden Calf      (“Abandoned Meander” 2006 Canada)

Jack Ellister – Dear Prudence [Beatles cover]      (“The White EP” 2012 UK)

Cranium Pie – the Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill [Beatles cover]      (“The White EP” 2012 UK)

Blondi’s Salvation – Just a Puppet      (“Crusades” 2014 Nantes, France)

Forever Pavot –  Le pénitent le passe      (“Christophe Colomb” EP 2014 Paris, France)

 

the Masters Apprentices – Our Friend Owsley Stanley 111      (”Choice Cuts” LP 1971 Australia)

Dungen – Panda      (“Ta Det Lungt” 2004 Sweden)

Ursula – Through the Ether      (“A Silhouette in the Hourglass“ 2014 Los Angeles, USA)

Jim Noir – The Tired Hairy Man With Parts      (“Jimmy’s Show” 2012 UK)

the Flower Machine – Summer Ever Comes      (demo 2012 Los Angeles, USA)

Scott Walker – The Amorous Humphrey Plugg      (“Scott 2” LP 1968 UK)

Joy Zipper – Transformation Fantasy      (7”single 1999 Brooklyn, USA)

Octopus Syng – If You Were a Flower      (prev. unreleased 2014 Finland – taken from “Evolver : Mega Dodo Records compilation” EP 2014 UK)

Föllakzoid – Loop      (“Föllakzoid” 2012 Chile)

 

Technicolour Dreaming

There were plenty of recent, new and soon-to-be-released songs featured on this edition of the show from the likes of Temples, Fogbound, the Luck of Eden Hall and Vintage Cucumber, as well as local releases by Black Coral and  Bubonic Babe, plus the usual plethora of tracks from the past, this week ranging from the 60’s psychedelic beat of the Netherlands’ Mother’s Love, the Standells and C.A.Quintet, the ‘exploito’ sitar sounds of Rajput & the Sepoy Mutiny, on to local punk legends, the U-Bombs, and up to Italy’s Strange Flowers, Russia’s Mystic Brew and Canada’s Sheepman, amongst others. But the primary feature this week was the up-coming series of releases from UK vinyl record label Fruits de Mer which are due out in March. Especially grabbing our immediate attention [apart from inspirational mottoes such as “a smile, a song and a nice piece of cod”!] were the brilliant version of Jefferson Airplane’s “White Rabbit” by Welsh band the Honey Pot, Schizo Fun Addict’s intriguing take on the theme from 70’s Italian horror movie “Suspiria”, originally done by Goblin, and a new interpretation of Lewis Carroll’s “Jabberwocky” by Swedish duo, Us & Them... But fear not, dear listeners, for we shall be bringing you more cool sounds from these fine artyfacts over the coming weeks, so until next time....

..... here is the playlist plus some visual treats.....

Fogbound – Whispering  Corridors       (demo 2013 Spain)

Vintage Cucumber – Das Mönchsgebrabbel        (“Yoki Style” 2013 Berlin, Germany)

the Strange Flowers – Please When You Come         (“The Imaginary Space Travel of the Naked Monkeys” 2007 Italy)

Mother’s Love – Saint Without Glory         (“Take One” LP 1968 Netherlands)

Black Coral – Swollen         (demo  2013 Adelaide, Australia)

Los Zooms – Algo Mas        (7” single 1968 Spain)

the U-Bombs – (What’s) Your Problem?         (7” single b-side [to Give Me a Medal] 1978 Adelaide, Aust.)

the Stained Glass – If I Needed Someone         (7” single 1966 USA – taken from “A Scene In-Between 1965-1967” anthology 2013 UK)

Sky Picnic – Abbie’s Bike Ride         (“Farther in this Fairytale” LP 2010 USA)

the Standells – All Fall Down         (“Try It” LP 1967 California, USA)

the Strawberry Alarm Clock – Sit With The Guru [2011 version]        (“Wake Up Where You Are” LP 2012 USA)

Permanent Clear Light – And the Skies Will Fall         (demo 2012 Finland)

Rajput and the Sepoy Mutiny – Do It With Flowers         (“Flower Power Sitar” LP 1967 USA)

Bubonic Babe – Jibber Jabber Jill          (“Jubilant Kiss” LP 2014 Adelaide, Australia)

Mystic Brew – Your Reality         (7” single 2014 Russia)

Dark Ocean Colours – My Barbara Closed the Doors         (“Dark Ocean Colours” 2011 USA)

 

the Luck of Eden Hall – Super Phantasmal Heroine         (“Victoria Moon” 2014 Chicago, USA)

Ringo Deathstarr – Rip         (“Mauve” 2012 Texas, USA)

Temples – Sun Structures         (“Sun Structures” 2014 UK)

Fairfield Parlour – Free         (recorded live on ‘Top Gear’ BBC Radio 1970 London, UK – taken from “Please Listen to the Pictures” compilation 2003 UK)

Walter Ghoul’s Lavender Brigade – Mary Jane         (“Retrospectoscope 1966-1970” faux-anthology 2009 UK)

Gary Walker and the Rain – Francis         (“Album No. 1” LP 1968 UK/Japan)

CA Quintet – Doctor of Philosophy         (7” single b-side [to Smooth As Silk] 1968 USA)

Lothar and the Hand People – Machines         (“Presenting ... Lothar and the Hand People” LP 1968 USA)

Sheepman – Chetwynd         (7” split EP 2014 Halifax, Canada)

Us and Them – Jabberwocky [Lewis Carroll/Donovan cover]         (7” single b-side [to By the Time it Gets Dark] 2014 Sweden)

Schizo Fun Addict – Theme from “Suspiria” [Goblin cover]         (7” single 2014 USA)

Bronco Bullfrog – Listen to the Sky [Sands cover]         (7” single b-side [to Time waits for Norman] 2014 UK)

Crystal Jacqueline and The Honey Pot – White Rabbit [Grace Slick cover]        (double-7” EP 2014 Wales, UK)

Schnauser – As Long as He Lies Perfectly Still [Soft Machine cover]         (7” single b-side [to Astral Traveller] 2014 Bristol, UK)