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...
As you can see from the playlist below, I have finally received my copy of the "Astonishing Sound Show Stories Volume 2" compilation. Most of the bands are so unknown and obscure that I couldn't find any clips for the songs I played, but there's some great music on this comp, so if you want to get a copy, you'd better get your skates on, as there's under 50 copies left. I've included the quite frankly, strange and bizarre, but entertaining promo videos for this release below. And speaking of strange, I had to include the extremely groovyBrigitte Bardot clip for "Contact", which pretty unusual, even by 1967 standards. Enjoy!
The Seeds - 900 Million People Daily (All Making Love) (7" single [b-side to "Satisfy You" 1968 Los Angeles, USA)
Rolling Stones - Dandelion (7" single 1967 UK)
The Stonefish - Boobalooba Beach ("From 20,000 Fathoms" 12" EP 1986 Perth, Australia)
Baker Knight and the Knightmares - Hallucinations (7" single 1967 Los Angeles, USA)
James Taylor Move - And I Hear the Fire Sing (7" single [b-side to "Magic Eyes"] 1967 Adelaide, Australia)
The Vegetable Garden - Even Stevens (7" single 1969 Perth, Australia)
Here's the latest batch of tunes from the show - couldn't resist a few old favourites from the likes of The Died Pretty, The Move, Naz Nomad and the Nightmares(an off-shoot from The Damned, while Captain Sensible was having his run of hit singles - far prefer this to "Happy Talk"!), The Seeds, and perennial favourites Vibravoid. Also featured were 2 tracks from the soon-to-be-released Systemaddicts CD, "Broken Hearted on the Nullarbor" (for those not in the know, Nullarbor literally means "no trees", and is an area of desolate desert to the north-west of Adelaide, the band's hometown, which any road-trip to western Australia heads right through the middle of - a famous spot for cars breaking down!). Anyway, as there are no clips for the tracks played (yet), included at the end of the blog is a little taster of a recent live show - enjoy! ...and here's the playlist, with associated visuals...(and I've given up on trying to fix all the different font sizes - it's driving me mad!!!)
Electric Moon - Tomorrow
Never Knows (“Magical Mystery Psych Out – A Tribute to the Beatles” 2015
Germany)
Died Pretty - Out of the Unknown (7" single 1984 Sydney, Australia)
Pond - Man it
Feels Like Space Again (“Man It Feels Like Space Again” 2015 Perth,
Aust.)
Schnauser - White
Plastic Blender(“The Missing Link” 2011 Bristol UK)
Mikal Cronin - Is It Alright? (“Mikal Cronin” 2011 California USA)
Ty Segall - Love
Fuzz (“Twins” 2012 California USA)
robotmonkeyarm - Il
Brutto (“robotmonkeyarm part one...robot senza nome!” 2012 Boston,
Massachusetts, USA)
Ian Skelly - I
Call Her Name (“Cut From A Star” 2012 UK)
Medicine Mike – I’ve
Never Been (So High) (7" single
[b-side to “Night On Fire”] 1969
Aust.)
Bryce Peterson [House
of Nimrod] - Slightly-Delic (demo 1970's
New Zealand)
Wayne Mason and Ali
Richardson – Nature (demo 1968 New
Zealand)
Baker Knight and the Knightmares - Hallucinations (7"
single 1967 USA)
Naz Nomad and the
Nightmares - The Trip [Kim Fowley] (“Give Daddy the Knife Cindy”
LP 1984 UK)
Groovy Uncle - Barefoot
in the Car Park(“Persuaded” 2015 UK)
Three Minute Tease
- Coffee that Makes the Man Go Mad(“Bite the Hand” 2014 UK)
Vibravoid - Listen,
Can't You Hear (“Delirio Dei Sensi” 2013 Germany)
Cloud War - Whence
and Whither (digital single 2013
Seattle, Washington USA)
The Move - (Here
We Go Round) The Lemon Tree (“Move” LP 1968 UK)
Halasan Bazar - Live
Without Love (“Space Junk” LP 2013 Denmark)
Spacemen 3 – Revolution(“Playing
With Fire” 1988 UK)
Warlocks - Hurricane
Heart Attack(“Phoenix” 2002 Los Angeles USA)
Systemaddicts - Can
I Follow You? (“Broken Hearted on the Nullarbor” 2015 Adelaide, Australia - pre-release)
Systemaddicts - Into
the Light (“Broken Hearted on the Nullarbor” 2015 Adelaide, Australia - pre-release)
The Seeds – Bad
Part of Town (7” single 1970 USA)
Les Liminanas –
Alicante(“Costa Blanca” 2013 Perpignan, France)
The Pretty Things – Buzz The Jerk(“Get
the Picture?” LP 1965 UK)
...plus, a clip of The Systemaddicts playing live during their November residency at the Grace Emily - thanks guys for covering The Brat's"Life on the Dole" (guest vocals by Olly Holmes) - the Brat usually hated brass, but I think he would have really liked this version!
We
began and ended the show with songs from the late 1960s of diverse style and from
various locales, beginning with some fuzzed-out Scott
Walker, an equally fuzzed track by Israeli band, Churchill’s and a sitar-drenched album cut by the Hollies, while finishing with a classic slice
of “Nederbiet” by Q65,
which followed an updated version of a classic Michel
Polnareff song by Germany’s Vibravoid
from their 2013 EP on the Fruits de Mer Records
label... and so it went for the rest of the show, with a mixture of new
releases from the likes of Sydney’s Grease Arrestor
andSan
Francisco’s Cool Ghouls with older faves such
as the Monkees through to Permanent Clear Light and the
Sand Pebbles. Then of course there was our “Compilation
of the Week”. Following on the heels of the
Doors and the Rolling Stones in their “A Psych Tribute To...” series, Cleopatra Records is releasing "Magical
Mystery Psych Out: A Tribute to theBeatles"
next month and since we managed to grab a pre-release copy, we thought we’d get
in early and make it this edition’s featured compilation and give you a sneak
preview of some of the delights on offer, with great interpretations and
remakes by Quilt, the
KVB and Sugar Candy Mountain amongst
others, so stay tuned to 3D Radio for further
tracks in coming weeks. That was the show that was, so until next week.....
..... here
is the full playlist, with bonus moving pictures.....
Scott Walker - The
Plague ("Scott 2" LP 1968 UK/USA)
Churchill's - Open Up Your
Eyes ("Churchill's" LP 1968
Israel)
the
Hollies - The
Maker ("Butterfly" LP 1967 UK)
Clinic - It's Only Rock and Roll (But I
Like It) [Rolling Stones cover]
("Stoned: A Psych Tribute to the Rolling
Stones" 2014 USA)
Pond - Man it Feels Like Space Again
("Man It Feels Like Space Again" LP 2015 Perth, Australia)
the Monkees - Porpoise Song [mono version]
(7"single 1968 USA)
the David
- Another
Day, Another Life Time / I would Like to
Know ("Another Day, Another Life
Time" LP recorded 1968, released 2001 New York)
Violet
Woods- Electric
Fascination ("Violet Woods" 2014
UK)
the
Amazing -
Defect ("Wait for a Light to Come" 2010 Sweden)
the Sand
Pebbles - Future
Proofed ("Ceduna" 2008
Melbourne, Australia)
Permanent
Clear Light -
Harvest Time ("Beyond These Things"
2013 Finland)
the Beep
Seals - I Used
to Work at the Zoo ("Things that
Roar" 2008 UK)
Jim Noir -
Tea ("Jimmy's Show" 2010 Scotland,
UK)
“Compilation of the Week”
Magical Mystery Psych Out: A Tribute to the
Beatles
Electric Moon – Tomorrow Never Knows [Beatles
cover] (rec. 2014 Germany – taken from "Magical
Mystery Psych Out: A Tribute to the Beatles" 2015 USA)
Sugar Candy Mountain – Rain [Beatles
cover] (rec. 2014 California, USA – taken from "Magical
Mystery Psych Out: A Tribute to the Beatles" 2015 USA)
the KVB – Taxman [Beatles
cover] (rec. 2014 Germany – taken from "Magical
Mystery Psych Out: A Tribute to the Beatles" 2015 USA)
Fantasmes – Love You To [Beatles cover] (rec.
2014 Puerto Rico – taken from "Magical Mystery Psych Out: A Tribute to
the Beatles" 2015 USA)
Quilt – Cry Baby Cry [Beatles cover] (rec.
2014 USA – taken from "Magical Mystery Psych Out: A Tribute to the
Beatles" 2015 USA)
Cool Ghouls - And it
Grows ("A Swirling Fire Through the
Rye" 2014 San Francisco, USA)
the Grease Arrestor - Let it Go ("Volume Two" 2015
Sydney, Australia)
Ty Segall - Drug
Mugger ("Mr. Face" double 7”EP
2015 California USA)
Vibravoid - La Poupée
Qui Fait Non [Michel Polnareff
cover] ("Colour Your Mind" EP 2013
Germany)
Q65 - So High I've Been, So Down I Must
Fall (7"single 1967 Netherlands)
