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)

Technicolour Dreaming

Perusing the ‘New Releases’  section of the Three D library, we discovered the new Black Angels’ album had arrived – and with only a few weeks until the annual ‘Austin Psych Fest’, of which they are the primary organisers, we naturally felt we should give it an airing, plus play a couple of the other bands of similar ilk such as Permanent Clear Light and Ringo Deathstarr, as well as Adelaide’s own Ride Into The Sun, spinning the b-side of their new single, which is being launched this week in Adelaide. From there it was a mixture of newer music from the likes of Cate le Bon, Decoys and Los Straightjackets and a fair smattering of 60’s magic by bands such as the Strawberry Alarm Clock, July and the Avengers. We also played a cool 1967 single by Mark Radice which caught our attention recently. Though only 10 years old, he wrote, performed and produced it himself – later in life he went on to tour with Aerosmith, Cheap Trick, Johnny Mathis and many others before finding fame as ‘Elmo’ on TV’s ‘Sesame Street’, thus going from child entertainer to children’s entertainer! We then spun some more UK and European psych singles before featuring a classic piece by one of our favourite bands of the 1970’s, the Sensational Alex Harvey Band, to wrap up the show.... all brought to you by the Cat and Brat on Adelaide’s 3D Radio......

..... and here is the playlist, with a few filmclips accompanying.....

the Strangers – Magical Mystery Tour [Beatles cover]      (unreleased, recorded 1967 Australia – taken from ‘A Magical Mystery Tour : 1967-1971 – the David Fraser Tapes, Vol. 1’ compilation 2001 Australia)

Julian Cope – Safesurfer      (‘Peggie Suicide’ LP 1991 UK)

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

 

Los Straightjackets – Space Mosquito      (‘Jet Set’ 2012 Nashville, USA)

Sir Richard Bishop – The Pillars of Baalbek      (‘The Freak of Araby’ LP 2009 USA)

Ed Harcourt – Rain [Beatles cover]      (rec. 2006 – taken from ‘Mojo’ magazine covermount-CD compilation : ‘Revolver Reloaded’ 2006 UK)

the Black Angels – I Hear Colours (Chromaesthesia)       (‘Indigo Meadow’ 2013 Austin, Texas, USA)

Melody’s Echo Chamber – Bisou Magique      (‘Melody’s Echo Chamber’ 2012 Australia/France)

Cate le Bon – Falcon Eyed      (‘Cyrk’ 2012 Wales, UK)

the Fast Camels – Der Nazi Tea      (‘The Magic Optician’ 2007 Scotland, UK)

Mark Fry – Mandolin Man      (‘Dreaming With Alice’ LP 1972 Italy/UK)

the Luck of Eden Hall – This Is Strange      (‘The Luck of Eden Hall’ EP 2012 Chicago, USA)

 Permanent Clear Light – And The Skies Will Fall      (unreleased, recorded 2012 Finland – taken from ‘TimeMazine Vol.6’ covermount-CD compilation 2012  Greece)

Ride Into The Sun – Hunt Like Wolves      (cd-single b-side [to Lost At Sea] 2013 Adelaide, Australia)

Ringo Deathstarr – Fifteen      (‘Mauve’ 2012 Texas, USA)

Decoys – It’s All Mine      (‘Psychedelica 4’ compilation 2010 Bristol, UK)

the Strawberry Alarm Clock – The World’s On Fire [long version]      (‘Psych-Out’ soundtrack LP 1968 USA)

the Avengers – Listen, Listen [Merry-Go-Round cover]      (7”single 1967 New Zealand)

the American Revolution – Opus #1      (‘The American Revolution’ LP 1968 USA)

the Tokens – How Nice      (7”single 1967 USA)

Mark Radice – Save Your Money      (7”single 1967 USA – taken from ‘Fading Yellow Vol.3’ compilation 2001 USA)

July – The Way      (‘July’ LP 1968 London, UK)

Ramases & Selket – Mind’s Eye      (7”single b-side [of Crazy One] 1968 UK)

Groep 1850 [as 1850] – 1,000 Years Before       (‘Polyandri’ LP 1975 Netherlands)

the Sensational Alex Harvey Band – Hot City Symphony Part 1 [Vambo]      (‘The Impossible Dream’ LP 1974 UK)

Technicolour Dreaming

A new year – a new show format. As mentioned in the previous few posts, the Cat & the Brat now do one show only – every Tuesday afternoon between 2 and 4pm here at 3D Radio 93.7fm in Adelaide, South Australia – so basically we’ve rolled the two old ones into a single streamlined spectacular (errrr, well, radio show – apologies for the hyperbole, but we ARE pretty happy about it!) containing the essences of the old in a new format, but keeping the ‘Technicolour Dreaming’ brand name – it does relate to what we play, after all!. Basically, we’re still playing our favourite psych, surf, garage, Krautrock, punk, pop etc etc from all over the place, some new, some old, some obscure, some better-known – you get the picture? And on the blog we’ll put up some clips to accompany the list that you can watch and perhaps take you further into related music – and don’t forget that we stream the show on the internet from the 3D website and iTunes Radio (under ‘eclectic’ – about right, eh?), so even if you live at the North Pole or the Sahara, you can work out the time difference to Adelaide and listen in! Anyway, enough chatter... here’s the playlist for the first show, appropriately on the 1^st of January, 2013!!! Happy New Year!

the Rolling Stones – We Love You      (7”single 1967 UK)

Baptism of Uzi – Baby, Please Don’t Go [Them/Shadows of Knight cover]      (‘Nuggets: Antipodean Interpolations of the First Psychedelic Era’ compilation 2012 Australia)

the Laurels – One Step Forward [two steps back)      (‘Plains’ 2012 Australia)

Step-Panther – Maybe Later      (cd-single 2012 Sydney, Aust.)

the Rationals – I Need You      (7”single 1968 Michigan, USA)

DeWolff – Don’t You Go Up The Sky      (‘Strange Fruits and Undiscovered Plants’ 2010 Holland)

Ghost – Gareki No Toshi      (‘In Stormy Nights’ 2007 Japan)

Mick Ronson – Slaughter on 10^th Avenue      (‘Slaughter on 10^th Avenue’ LP 1974 UK)

the Bee Gees – Kitty Can [alt. version]      (from bonus disc with 2006 CD re-issue of ‘Idea’ LP 1968 UK)

Rhubarb Rhubarb – Rainmaker       (7”single 1968 UK)

Dizzy Limits – Mare Tranquility       (7”single b-side [to Alone] 1969 New Zealand)

Herman’s Hermits – Marcel’s      (7”single b-side [to I can take or leave your lovin’] 1967 UK)

the Monkees – P.O.Box 9847      (‘the Birds, the Bees & the Monkees’ LP 1967 USA)

Django Django – Skies Over Cairo      (‘Django Django’ 2012 Scotland, UK)

Dead Skeletons – Dead Magick 1      (‘Dead Magick’ LP 2011 Iceland)

the Brian Jonestown Massacre – Panic in Babylon      (‘Aufheben’ 2012 USA)

Jason Lytle – Willow Wand Willow Wand      (‘Dept. of Disappearance’ 2012 Washington, USA)

Ty Segall – Who Are You      (‘Twins’ 2012 California, USA)

Toy – Kopter      (‘TOY’ 2012 London, UK)

Hagar the Womb – Armchair Observer      (‘Funnery in a Nunnery’ LP 1985 UK)

Belligerent Slaves – A Butler to Some Weirdo      (‘Belligerent Slaves’ LP 1986 Adelaide, Australia)

Systematics – Mmmmm      (‘Rural’ LP 1980 Australia)

the Bad Poets – Unexpected Rainfall      (demo 1980 Adelaide, Australia)

Ringo Deathstarr – Waste      (‘Mauve’ 2012 Texas, USA)

Salamander Jim – Fly in Dark Ointment      (‘Lorne Greene Shares His Precious Fluids’ EP 1985 Australia)

Felt – Sunlight Bathed the Golden Glow      (12”single 1981 UK)

the Gothic Archies – This Abyss       (‘the Tragic Treasury: songs from A Series of Unfortunate Events’ 2006 UK)

Jacques Dutronc – Hippie Hippie Hourrah      (‘Jacques Dutronc’ LP 1967 France)