Technicolour Dreaming

Another eclectic show which wandered from our opening song by July from their 1968 LP through to the1978 debut EP by Brisbane  legends the Riptides, onto a song put out by the Mysterion Art Factory by Idaho Nash featuring a faux-Dylan video clip, a brilliant pairing of Danish outfit Halasan Bazar with French popsters Tara King th. through to a 1985 version of “Lucifer Sam” by Adelaide band, the Spikes, with some Gene Clark, Beach House and Scott Walker added to the mix, amongst others. And we remained in Europe for our latest “Band of the Week” – specifically les Limiñanas who hail from Perpignan, France. We’ve been hailing their virtues for quite some time now, playing tracks from all three of their albums plus the occasional 7”single and so we were pleased to see a new ‘rarities’ anthology released by the excellent US label “Trouble In Mind”, and even happier when our own copy arrived in the mailbox! If you haven’t discovered the delights of les Limiñanas thus far [and it’s a mystery of the modern world as to why this band is not yet huge! ] this new compilation is as good as anywhere to start... you won’t regret it! So, until the next edition, this is the Cat and the Brat signing off.....

..... and here is the full playlist, with a number of visual diversions....

July – Jolly Mary      (“July” LP 1968 UK)

Les Grys-Grys – Hot Gully Wind [Masters Apprentices cover]      (7”single 2014 France)

Idaho Nash – Hullabaloo      (“Mysterion Art Factory: Singles EP, Volume 1” compilation 2014 Melbourne, Australia)

the Chosen Lot – Time Was      (7”single 1967 Ohio USA)

Scott Walker – The Plague      (“Scott 2” LP 1968 UK)

Groovy Uncle – Wet Weekend      (“Persuaded” LP 2014 UK)

Davie Allan and the Arrows – War Path      (7”single 1964 USA)

the Riptides – Sunset Strip      (“Sunset Strip”  EP 1978 Brisbane, Australia)

the Plastic Fangs – Four on the Floor      (“The Plastic Fangs”  EP  2014 Brisbane, Australia)

Gene Clark – No Other      (“No Other”  LP 1974 Los Angeles, USA)

Beach House – Lazuli      (“Bloom” 2012 Baltimore, USA)

Halasan Bazar & Tara King th. – Rot Inside      (“8”  LP 2014 Denmark/France)

Lorelle Meets the Obselete – What’s Holding You?      (“Chambers”  2014 Mexico)

Firefriend – Loveage Moondream      (“Strange Feelings” LP 2015 [pre-release] Sao Paolo, Brazil)

Scars – All About You      (“Author! Author!”  LP 1981 UK)

Woods – Shining      (“With Light and With Love” 2014 New York, USA)

   ###  “BAND OF THE WEEK”   –   les Limiñanas   ###

les Limiñanas – I know there’s an answer [Beach Boys cover]      (“I’ve got Trouble in Mind : 7” & Rare Stuff 2009 –2014” anthology 2014 France)

les Limiñanas – BB      (“Costa Blanca” 2013 France)

les Limiñanas – Je Suis Une Go-Go Girl      (“Les Limiñanas”  LP 2010 France)

les Limiñanas – Salvation      (“Crystal Anis” 2012 France)

Nick Nicely – Hilly Fields (1892)      (7”single 1982 UK)

The Story – Standing in the Rain      (“Joy Ride on Memory Lane” 2011 UK)

Quilt – Mary Mountain      (“Held In Splendour” 2014 USA)

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

Brillig – Ghost Riders in the Sky [Stan Jones cover]      (‘Ghost Riders in the Sky” EP 2014 Adelaide, Australia)

Southern Boutique – Rabbit Trail      (“Southern Boutique” LP 2014 Austin, Texas)

the Spikes – Lucifer Sam [Pink Floyd cover]      (“A Greasy Selection from the Studios and Garages of Adelaide” compilation 1985 Adelaide, Australia)

Richard Pash and the Backdoor Society – I’m the Kind      (7”single 1967 Avon Lake, Ohio USA)

Technicolour Dreaming

This week as always, we played a diverse bunch of records, ranging from the 60’s pop of Nancy Sinatra, the Twilights and Jacques Dutronc through to new albums from Mikal Cronin, Dark Ocean Colors and Norway’s the Apricot, plus a garage/psych side-project by Robert Schneider of Apples In Stereo called Thee American Revolution, as well as some Australian sounds from, amongst others, the Riptides, the Molting Vultures, Asteroid Belt and Space Party. We went electronic with John Foxx before ending the show with the final appearance as “Band of the Month” by California’s the Barbarellatones... all brought to you, of course, by the Cat and the Brat.....

..... and here is the full playlist.....

Starstream – Don’t Leave (Honey)     (‘Burn your Fingers on the Sun’ compilation 2007 Australia)

the Selfish Cales – State of Eternity     (‘Selfish Cales II’ EP 2011 Italy)

Treetops – Leaving Tidal River     (‘Treetops’ EP 2005 Melbourne, Australia)

the Twilights – Comin’ On Down     (7” single b-side 1968 Aust.)

the Easybeats – Come and See Her     (7”single 1966 Aust.)

Mikal Cronin – Green & Blue     (‘Trouble In Mind’ 2012 USA)

the Asteroid Belt – Watching You     (‘Blank Horizon’ 2011 Adelaide, Aust.)

Thee American Revolution – Electric Flame     (‘Buddha Electrostorm’ 2012 USA)

Moon Duo – Run Around [Cave ‘Organ Desert’ mix]     (‘Mazes – Remixed’ EP 2011)

the Misunderstood – I Can Take You To The Sun     (recorded 1967 – taken from ‘Before the Dream Faded’ anthology 2010 UK)

Comus – In the Lost Queen’s Eyes     (‘First Utterance’ LP 1971 UK)

the Druids of Stonehenge – Pale Dream      (‘Creation’ LP 1968 USA)

Jacques Dutronc – Les gens sont fous, les temps sont flous     (7”single 1966 France)

the Apricot – Too Far Behind     (‘Forestful of Threes’ 2011 Norway)

Dark Ocean Colors – Lazy Lighthouse Jupiter Band     (‘Dark Ocean Colors’ 2012 USA)

Nancy Sinatra – Bang Bang     (7”single 1966 USA)

the Molting Vultures – Morning Sun     (demo 2010 Adelaide, Aust.)

Slingshot Dragster – Stoli Chaser [Tremelo Beergut cover]     (‘Demolition’ EP 2009 Adelaide)

Space Party – Get Surfed     (‘Invasion of the Surfer Men’ 2009 Canberra, Aust.)

the Riptides – Sunset Strip     (7”single 1978 Aust.)

John Foxx – Underpass     (‘Metamatic’ LP 1980 UK)

the Barbarellatones – I had Sex with a C.H.U.D.     (‘Invasion of the Surf Zombies’ 2006 USA)   #

 

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