Sitars, theremin and mellotron, backwards guitar, phasing and fuzz, fringes and mohawks, paisley, black, velvet and leather, feedback, bass and drone, beads, berets and safety-pins, Shindig! and Creem, 3 chord wonders, teenage symphonies and snarl, Rickenbacker, Farfisa and 4-track recorders... onstage at CBGB's, Max's Kansas City or the Trip, the Roundhouse, the 100 Club or the Crystal Ballroom, Catcher's, Big Daddy's or the Squatters Arms.... and the Cat and the Brat on 3D Radio!
Three D Radio announcer, MeganCat (up until recently with her husband, the late Peter Brat)lives in "The BratHaus" a rural seaside home about 100km from Adelaide on South Australia's scenic Fleurieu Peninsula. Veteran musician Peter, and artist/musician Megan, were long-time DJs onThree D Radio 93.7fm, Adelaide's eclectic independent music station. Together Peter & Megan, known as "The Cat and The Brat" created this blog to allow listeners to review the playlists of their radio show, "Technicolour Dreaming", watch clips of selected songs and simply join them in the enjoyment of their favourite music... psychedelia, 60's garage, surf, punk/post-punk, pop, folk-rock, glam, 'Krautrock', goth, 80's electro... and much more!
But The Cat is carrying on the tradition, with guest co-presenters, and "Technicolour Dreaming" will continue in the same format, drawing from the huge "Cat & Brat" music collection, with the addition of new releases and reissues to keep things current. The Brat is hugely missed, but the show must go on, as he wanted...
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More dreadful weather, internet outages, and a weekend away up in the big smoke to DJ at Wintersteady has meant a really big delay for this week's blog post...so no more prevarication, here it is, and on with the next one!
Vibravoid - Listen, Can't you Hear ("Delirio Dei Sensi" 2013 Dusseldorf, Germany)
Ola And the Janglers - We've Got a Groovy Thing Goin' [Paul Simon] ("Lime Light" LP 1966 Stockholm, Sweden)
Blush Response - The City Will Eat Itself ("Wintersteady - Going Steady Mix Tape #7" 2016 Adelaide, Australia)
The Misunderstood - I Can Take You to the Sun (7" single 1966 US/UK)
Holy Cosmos - Hurricane Fighter Plane [Red Krayola] ("The Psychedelic Sounds of the Blog That Celebrates Itself Vol. III" 2015 Mexico City, Mexico)
The Luck Of Eden Hall - Another High Speed Blowout ("Acceleration of Time" LP 2016 Chicago, USA)
Procul Harum - Shine On Brightly ("Shine On Brightly" LP 1968 UK)
Monochromatic Visions - Don't Let Your Youth Go To Waste ("Blue Thunder - A Tribute to Galaxie 500" compilation 2016 Athens, Greece)
Warm Sounds - Nite Is A Comin' (7" single 1967 UK)
Mystic Brew - Something More Than A Dream ("Something More Than a Dream" LP 2015 Russia)
Polska Radio One - Volga ("North Berry EP" 2014 Yekaterinburg, Russia)
Sun Mahshene - No Control (demo) ("Dog's Got A Bone #5" compilation 2016 Dublin, Ireland)
Dream Sick - Dig ("Last Little Bit" 2014 Tucson, Arizona, USA)
Violet Swells - Strange, Strange Design (CD Single 2016 Hobart, Australia)
With
all three DOTS on board again this week, it was
another excursion into the absorbingly odd world of
rare, forgotten and overlooked music that we so enjoy sharing with
you... music such as an unreleased Gary Young
[Daddy Cool et al] track or a bunch of
exceedingly obscure 1960’s singles from bands such as Adelaide’s Bentbeaks or the UK’s David
McNeil, not to mention the plethora of B-sides
(often superior to the A-sides!) from the
likes of the Gibsons and Vivien Goldman (the dub version of which we played
recently). And let’s not forget the Stranglers’
Swedish language version of “Sweden (All Quiet on
the EasternFront)” and other obscure
delights from faraway places such as tracks from Hungarian band Omega’s 1968 debut LP, Germany’s Emtidi and Japan’s wittily (?) named Flied Egg.
Ah yes, business as usual here in “Obscured by...”–land!
..... and here is the playlist.....
the Dark Ages –
Cadillac [Vince Taylor cover](7”single b-side [to Tomorrow’s Gonna Be Another Day] 1965 New Zealand)
Our
regular opening set of Australian
60’s and 70’s music this week featured a Loved Onestrack found on a rare 1966 W&G Records compilation, plus a ‘live’
1971 Wild Cherries recording from Australia’s
fondly-remembered ABC-TV series ‘GTK’. Other highlights
included the “Light &Darkness suite”, comprising the whole of side 1 of Ash RaTempel’s second album, a couple ofPerth punk
gems, a Peter Tork penned and performed song from the Monkees which remained
unissued for more than twenty years, and a
track from a new album spawned from the collaboration
of Ty SegallandWhite Fence.All rounded out
with lots more, shall we say, obscurities and
forgotten masterpieces... brought to you by the Cat & the Brat, your DOTS for this week......
While casting about in the 3D Library for the Black Angels album we needed for our opening track, we were struck by the number of CDs by bands using ‘Black’ in their name... there were almost three full shelves of them! So we couldn’t resist playing a few of our favourites from amongst them, and even managing to end the run with a song of [almost] the same name as the opening band... as we said, there were a LOT to choose from! From there however, we reverted to Technicolour and a mixture of some older tracks by bands such as the Boys Next Door, Procession, Elton Motello and Oakapple Day with some brand new ones by Russian Roulette and the Molting Vultures before finishing with our latest “Band of theMonth” the Sonics, who just happen to be touring Australia this month, including playing in Adelaide on the 24th!
.....and here is the full playlist.....
the Black Angels – Never/Ever (‘Directions to See a Ghost’ 2008 Texas, USA)
the Black Lips – Trapped in a Basement (‘200MillionThousand’ 2009 USA)
Black Mountain – Evil Ways (‘In the Future’ 2008 Vancouver, Canada)
Black Heart Procession – A Heart Like Mine (‘III’ 2000 San Diego, USA)
the Black Ryder – Grass (demo 2008 Sydney, Australia)
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club – Weapon of Choice (‘Baby 81’ 2007 USA)
the Black Hollies – Paisley Pattern Ground (‘Casting Shadows’ 2008 New Jersey, USA)
Black Cab – Black Angel (‘Call Sign’ 2009 Melbourne, Australia)
the Bee Gees – Spicks and Specks (7”single 1966 Australia)
the Alohas – Hot Doggers ( ‘Adelaide Kustom Kulture Weekend : 2003-2012’ compilation 2012 Australia – orig. released on ‘Get Leid with the Alohas’ 2000)
the B52’s – Strobelight (‘Wild Planet’ LP 1980 USA)
the Boys Next Door – These Boots are Made for Walking [Lee Hazlewood cover] (‘Lethal Weapons’ compilation LP 1978 Australia)
Jab – You Got Soul (demo 1976 Adelaide, Australia)
the Scoundrelles – Rocket USA [Suicide cover] (‘Atomic Batteries To Power’ 2008 Australia/UK)
the Human League – Rock & Roll [Gary Glitter cover] (‘Travelogue’ LP 1980 UK)
