Technicolour Dreaming

This week I featured some of the bands that are taking part in the Wintersteady Festival, presented by Adelaide's Going Steady Music at the Crown and Anchor on Saturday July 23rd. I played tracks by headliners Demon Parade, as well as The Dandelion, The Dunes, and Trappist Afterland, who are playing at a pre-party at the Exeter on July 22nd. For more info on the festival, take a look at https://www.facebook.com/goingsteadymusic/  And take a look at the 2-part October Country movie at the end of the blog - classic!

So here's the playlist...

Marc Almond - Late Night  ("The Madcap Laughs Again!" compilation 2010 UK)

Cool Ghouls - And It Grows  ("A Swirling Fire Burning Through the Rye" 2014 San Francisco USA)

Nozmo King - Hold On  ("Big Beat Cellar Scene" 2016 Adelaide, Australia)

Demon Parade - Cut My Ties  ("Chameleon EP" 2012 Melbourne, Australia)

The Dandelion - In The Shadow of Light  ("Seeds Flowers and Magical Powers of the Dandelion" 2015 Sydney, Australia)

The Dunes - Mountain  (Digital single 2016 Adelaide, Australia)

Trappist Afterland - The Penitents Rail  ("Like a Beehive, the Hill Was Alive" 2013 Melbourne, Australia)

October Country  - My Girlfriend is A Witch  ("October Country" LP 1968 LA, USA)

Gnoomes - Myriads  ("Ngan!" 2015 Perm, Russia)

The Pasternak Progress - Flower Eyes  (7" single [b-side to "Cotton Soul"] 1967 LA, USA)

Frantic Chant - Mushroom Jim  (Demo from "The Glass Factory" to be released 2016 Glasgow, Scotland UK)

Espectrostatic - The Corridor  ("Silhouette" 2016 Austin, Texas USA)

Sundays and Cybele - Time Mirror  ("Heaven" 2016 Tokyo, Japan)

The Resonars - Here's the Frenzy  ("That Evil Drone" 2008 Austin, Texas USA)

Sudden Death of Stars - Supernovae  ("Getting Up, Getting Down" 2011 Rennes, France)

Coloured Clocks - Green Lights  ("Particle" 2016 Melbourne, Australia)

Barbarellatones - Dark Thing  (demo 2016 Hawaii, USA)

Tommy - Love  ("Astonishing Soundshow Stories Vol 2" compilation 2016)
Deano's Hose - Henry for Judith  ("Astonishing Soundshow Stories Vol 2" compilation 2016 UK) 

Dodson and Fogg - Watch the Skies  ("The Call" 2013 Leeds, UK)
Electric Alice - Coffin Joe  ("The Electric Alice Xperiment" 2013 Edinburgh, Scotland UK)
Lord Gammonshire - Tundra  ("Lord Gammonshire's Guide to Everyday Sounds" 2009 Bristol, UK)
Martha - Lost Without You  (7" single 2013 Durham, UK)
Mouses - Psycho  ("The Mouses Album" to be released September 2016 Manchester UK) 

Rainsmoke - Mean Meanwhile  (CD Single 2015 Leeds, UK)
Soft Candy - Song for Ellie May  ("Chelsea Boots + Violet Eyelids" 2012 Chicago, USA) 

Lenguas Largas - No Wrong No Right  ("Dune Drift 2" compilation 2013 Tucson, Arizona USA)

The October Country movie - a short film shot in 1967 when the band October Country was seeking a record deal, in 2 parts

Technicolour Dreaming

It’s the 1^st show of the year and we had a large pile of new vinyl and CDs to play and thus begin as we intend to go on..... with a “kerrang”, as it were! Apart from all the formerly forgotten ‘lost’ classics from the past that are again seeing the light of day and finding appreciative audiences due to the dedication of ‘re-issue’ labels making them affordable again rather than just the preserve of a few well-heeled ‘collectors’, there is a rising swell of new, young bands from all over the world who are building on these roots and creating a plethora of new psychedelic sounds – 2014 promises to be another interesting year for psychedelia and associated sounds! So, without further ado.....

..... here is the debut 2014 playlist plus, of course, accompanying visual goodies.....

Sendelica – Something in a Grain of Sand      (“The Kaleidoscopic Kat & It’s Autoscopic Ego” 2013 Wales, UK)

Chris & Craig – Isha      (7”single 1966 Los Angeles, USA)

Penny Arkade – Color Fantasy      (recorded 1967 – taken from “Not The Freeze” anthology 2004 USA)

We All Together – Children      (“We All Together” LP 1973 Peru)

Sudden Death Of Stars – Space      (bonus track on “Getting Up, Going Down” 2013 Brittany, France)

Groep 1850 – A Point In This Life      (“Agemo’s Trip To Mother Earth” LP 1967 Netherlands)

the Future Primitives – 1-2-5 [Haunted cover]      (“Songs We Taught Ourselves” 2013 South Africa)

Mystic Brew – Don’t Cry No More      (7”single 2013 Russia)

the Brian Jonestown Massacre – Revolution Number Zero      (“Revolution Number Zero” EP 2013 USA/Germany)

Toy – It’s Been So Long      (“Join The Dots” 2013 UK)

Zane Armstrong – The Otherside [Apple cover]      (“Pull Up the Paisley Covers” compilation 2002 UK)

Crystal Jacqueline – Cousin Jane [Troggs cover]      (“A Fairytale” EP 2013 UK)

the West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band – As The World Rises & Falls      (“Vol.3 – A Child’s Guide to Good & Evil” LP 1968 California, USA)

October Country – Cowboys and Indians      (7”single 1968 California, USA)

the Smoke – October Country       (“The Smoke” LP 1968 USA)

the Dukes of Stratosphear [aka XTC] – The Mole From The Ministry      (“25 O’Clock” EP 1986 UK)

Jacco Gardner – How To Live Again      (“Trouble In Mind Records : Liverpool Psych Fest 2013”  compilation 2013 USA)

the Limiñanas – BB      (“Costa Blanca” 2013 Perpignan, France)

the Warlocks – Endless Drops      (“Skull Worship” 2013 USA)

Maston – Young Hearts      (“Shadows” 2013 USA)

Espectrostatic – Smokeface Appears      (“Espectrostatic” LP 2013 USA)

the UFO Club – My Love Is Waiting      (12”split-EP [with Night Beats] 2013 Texas, USA)

the Dead Skeletons – Odaudleg Ord      (recorded 2012 – taken from “ORD” EP 2013 Iceland)

the Dandelion – All Seeing Eye Syndrome      (“Strange Case of the Dandelion” 2013 Australia)

the Barbarellatones – Dead Man’s Curve [Jan & Dean cover]      (“Confessions of a Teenage Prostitute” 2011)

DeWolff – Gold & Seaweed      (cd-single b-side [to ‘Crumbling Heart’] 2014 Netherlands)

Technicolour Dreaming

Again this week, we had a pleasant surprise awaiting us at our local general store/post office in the form of a package from State Records in the UK, containing the Thanes latest single plus the new self-titled Higher State album. On the local front, we also featured a track by the lovely LeighStarDust from “the Wedding EP” [which also features new husband Denni’s band Brillig] as well as a cut from the 12” vinyl LP by Tea, plus one from 60’s Adelaide legends, the Twilights, taken from the lavish CD reissue of a few years back which we found at Mr V Records here in Adelaide, which, with a few other remaining independent record shops including Clarity, Funhouse and Rev Records, are still reliable sources of cool, interesting music – there’s nothing quite like flicking through stacks of vinyl and CDs, holding & examining their covers while music whirls around you and engaging in discussions with other music lovers... and with the ongoing vinyl revival, there are still places like these to be sought out and found. But we digress... and with the end of the year rapidly approaching we thought we should begin adding selections from our numerous “favourite finds of 2013” into our playlists over the coming weeks.....

..... so here is this week’s lot with some associated eye-candy.....

Octopus Syng – Listen with the Moths      (“Fruits de Mer 2014 Annual” EP 2013 UK)

the Charlatans – The Shadow Knows [Coasters cover]      (7”single 1966 San Francisco, USA)

the Rain Parade – No Easy Way Down       (“Explosions in the Glass Palace” EP 1984 USA)

Gene Clark – No Other      (7”single 1975 USA)

Colorama – Delaware       (“Good Music” 2012 Wales, UK)

the Dandelion – Paranoid Floyd in a Bliss You Can Hear      (“Strange Case of the Dandelion” 2013 Australia)

the Higher State – Need to Shine      (“the Higher State” LP 2013 Kent, UK)

the Thanes – She’s Coming Back To Me      (7”single 2013 UK)

Keith Allison – Action. Action, Action      (7”single 1966 California, USA)

Tea – Burnside Mums      (“Tea” LP 2013 Adelaide, Australia)

October Country – My Girlfriend is a Witch      (7”single 1968 California, USA)

the See See – The Day That Was The Day      (“Fountayne Mountain” 2012 UK)

Luke Haines – A Badger Called Nick Lowe      (“Rock’n’Roll Animals” 2013 UK)

We The People – My Brother The Man      (7”single 1966 USA)

Melody’s Echo Chamber – I Follow You      (“Melody’s Echo Chamber” 2012 France/Australia)

Eric Charden – Amour Limité Zéro [Dylan cover]      (7” single 1967 France – taken from “Fools On The Hill, Vol.1 – My Tailor Is Rich” compilation 2008)

the Topsy Turbys – Hey Tiger      (7”single b-side [to Snake Woman] 1965 Arizona, USA)

the Luck of Eden Hall – Dandy Horse      (“Victoria Moon” 2013 Chicago, USA)

Sands – Listen to the Sky      (7”single 1967 UK)

the Twilights – Paternosta Row      (“Once Upon a Twilight” LP 1967 Adelaide, Australia)

Glass House – And Now For The Wild      (“A Sun Full & Drowning” 2013 UK)

Laika & the Cosmonauts – The Ipcress File      (“Amazing Colossal Band” 1995 Finland)

Baker Knight & the Knightmares – Hallucination      (7”single 1967 USA)

the Velvet Underground – Satellite of Love [demo]      (recorded 1970 – bonus track on reissue of “Loaded” 2013 USA)

the Glass Family – House of Glass      (7”single 1968 USA)

LeighStarDust – Anything You Want [Roy Orbison cover]      (“The Wedding EP” 2013 Adelaide, Australia)

the Asteroid #4 – Yuba      (“The Asteroid #4” LP 2013 Philadelphia, USA)

Paul Revere & the Raiders – Where The Action Is      (7”single 1966 USA)

Tom Dyer – The Question Asked      (recorded 2007 – taken from “Songs from Academia, Vol. 1: Songs with Singing, 1981 to 2009” anthology 2009 Seattle, USA)