Technicolour Dreaming

It’s been good to see that the vinyl 7”single is thriving again in the modern world and we featured quite a few on this week’s show, both old and new, though with a bias towards b-sides, plus a few ‘digital-only’ singles, such as the Vintage Cucumber song we finished with, which is only available as a bonus track with last year’s “Yoki Style” album. Also featured were EP tracks from the likes of Tasmania’s Violet Swells and Circassian from Athens, as well as some vinyl album tracks by 60’s L.A. band, the Leaves, and Italy’s Magic Cat, plus much more.....

.....so here is the playlist, along with some visual treats.....

Violet Swells – Jupiter’s Garden         (“The Soft Focus” EP 2014 Tasmania, Australia)

Jeffertitti’s Nile – Play With Fire [Rolling Stones cover]         (“Hypnotic River of Sound” 2010 California USA)

Circassian – Greeting to the Guns         (“Circassian” EP 2011 Athens Greece)

the Besnard Lakes – Love You [Syd Barrett cover]         (recorded in Canada 2009 for “Mojo: The Madcap Laughs Again” magazine covermount CD-compilation 2009 UK)

the Leaves – Words [Boyce & Hart/ Monkees cover]         (“Hey Joe” LP 1966 California USA)

the Plague – The Face of Time         (7”single 1967 Toronto, Canada)

the Mockers – God Only Knows [Beach Boys cover]         (“The Lonesome Death of Electric Campfire”  2006 Virginia USA)

Jacco Gardner – A House on the Moon         (7”single b-side [to Clear the Air] 2012 Netherlands)

Peter Sarstedt – Mary Jane         (7”single b-side [to I must go on] 1968 UK)

House of Nimrod – Ragged Patch         (7”single b-side [to Psychothartic] 1968 New Zealand)

Soft-Hearted Scientists – Seeing         (“False Lights” Wales UK 2013)

Southern Boutique – Rabbit Trails         (digital-single 2014 Austin, Texas, USA)

Coloured Clocks – Mr Green and the Telescope Console         (“All is Round” 2014 Melbourne, Australia)

Kingdom of the Holy Sun – Yama         (“Surya’s Smile 11”  2013 Los Angeles, USA)

Buried Feather – In the Sun         (7”single 2013 Melbourne, Australia)

the Pretty Things – Helter Skelter [Beatles cover]      (“The White EP” double-7”single compilation 2012 UK)

Nikola Tesla & Thee Coils – Sweet Rays      (“Cerebus” 2014 Moscow, Russia)

the Luck of Eden Hall – Looking Glass      (7”single b-side [to Hook Line & Sinker] 1991 Chicago, USA)

Thomas Edisun’s Electric Light Bulb Band – Hope      (“The Red Day Album” – recorded 1967-68, unreleased until 2014 USA)

Psychic TV – Good Vibrations [Beach Boys cover]      (7”single b-side [to Roman P] 1987 UK)

the Tegoku Batake Japon – Karomi No Step      (“GuruGuru Brain Wash – GuruGuruBrain Records label sampler Vol.1” compilation 2014 Tokyo, Japan)

Magic Cat – She’s Like Danger      (“For Friends Only” LP 2013 Rome, Italy)

Toy – You Won’t Be The Same      (“Join the Dots” LP 2013 London, UK)

Temples – Mesmerise      (“Sun Structures” 2014 Kettering, UK)

Running Stream – She’s My Queen      (“2^nd Album” LP 1988 Italy)

Vintage Cucumber – Alles in Butter 78      (digital-only bonus track on “Yoki Style” LP 2013 Germany)

Obscured By...

Though this week’s hosts, the Cat & the Brat, are a ‘duo’, this show was mostly about singles... the 7” vinyl kind ... and sometimes, their b-sides! From the Syssys and the Revillos to Psychic TV and Metal Urbain, we voyaged from decade to decade and country to country to bring them to you, even including a b-side featuring ubiquitous 60’s Sydney DJ, Ward ‘Pally’ Austin on the debut single by Python Lee Jackson! Not that we forgot the EP and LP formats either, with rarities from the likes of Frog Hollow and the Urinals to the Cosmic Dead and Apryl Fool... and with our predilection for boxsets, how could we fail to play a selection from “the Lost Tapes” set by Can? All in all, a singular show...

(NB: a couple of videos wouldn't allow embedding, so please use the provided links instead!)

..... and here is the playlist..... 

the Imagination – We Got Fun      (7”single b-side [to A Day in the Life] 1969 Australia)

Frog Hollow – A Slowish One      (‘Over Under Sideways Down’ 7”EP 1972 Aust.)

Alison Gros –Weaver of Life      (7”single b-side [to All the Days] 1971 Adelaide, Aust.)

the Syssys – Take a Heart      (7”single b-side [to Jump Back] 1966 Adelaide, Aust.)

Marty Rhone – No No No No No      (7”single 1967 Aust.)

Ward Austin (with Python Lee Jackson) – Who Do You Love [Bo Diddley cover]      (7”single b-side [to Python Lee Jackson-Emergency Ward] 1966 Sydney, Aust.)

Felt – Sunlight Bathed The Golden Glow      (‘The Strange Idols Pattern & Other Short Stories’ LP 1984 UK)

Psychic TV – Just Drifting      (7”single 1982 UK)

Hurrah! – Sweet Sanity      (7” single 1986 UK)

Skeletal Family – Promised Land      (7”single 1985 West Yorkshire, UK)

the Urinals – I’m a Bug      (‘Another EP’ EP 1978 Los Angeles, USA)

Sunglasses After Dark – Morbid Silence      (12”single 1984 UK – taken from ‘Sunglasses After Dark’ 2008)

Metal Urbain – Hysterie Connective      (7”single 1978 France/UK – taken from ‘Anarchy in Paris’ anthology 2004)

Can – Bubble Rap      (‘The Lost Tapes’ boxset 2012 Germany – disc 1)

Can – Your Friendly Neighbourhood Whore      (‘The Lost Tapes’ boxset – disc 2)

Can – One More Saturday Night      (‘The Lost Tapes’ boxset – disc 3)

Apryl Fool – The Lost Motherland Part 1      (‘Apryl Fool’ LP 1969 Japan)

Pierrot Lumiere – Narciso      (‘Pierrot Lumiere’ LP 1974 Italy)

the Revillos – Scuba Scuba      (7”single 1980 UK)

the Psychedelic Aliens – Gbe Keke Wo Taoo [Give us a chance]      (rec. 1975 Ghana – taken from ‘Psycho African Beat’ anthology  2010)

the Music Convention – Bellyboard Beat      (‘Children of the Sun’ soundtrack EP 1968 New Zealand)

the Grim Reepers – Two Souls      (7”single 1966 California, USA)

Plasticland – Let’s Play Pollyanna      (7”single 1990 Wisconsin, USA)

the Misunderstood – I Can Take You To The Sun      (7”single 1966 UK/USA)

Big Boy Peter – Cold Turkey      (7”single 1968 Norwich, UK)

the Cosmic Dead – White Rabbit      (‘The Cosmic Dead’ LP 2012 Iceland)