Technicolour Dreaming

And after an absence of nearly 3 months, The Cat finally returns to the airwaves, though without husband and partner-in-music, Peter Brat, who tragically passed away in July. All those who knew The Brat, whether personally, or by association with Three D Radio’s “Technicolour Dreaming”, “Obscured by …”, or his musical career, will surely agree that his death is great loss to music of all kinds, and especially his particular love, anything that could remotely be construed as psychedelic. 

Hats off to Harry and Michael Hunter, who have been keeping the Technicolour Dreaming driver’s seat warm this past couple of months & doing a fine job- the show must go on!

Needless to say, the “comeback show” featured many Cat and Brat faves from round the world, including The Fast Camels, Jim Noir, Nick Nicely, Thee Oh Sees, Vibravoid and Dolly Rocker Movement from the past decade, Roxy Music and Brian Eno from the 70’s, and many more. Particularly exciting is the news that Moon Duo will finally be playing in Adelaide in November, after their disappointing cancellation as the support for John Spencer Blues Explosion a while back. Hopefully an interview with Riley and Sanae is in the works when they get here - fingers crossed !

So …. until next week, here is the playlist plus associated visuals..... including footage of The Pretty Things performing “SF Sorrow” for the first time in its entirety, at Abbey Road Studios in 1998.

The Atlantics - Take A Trip     (“Collectibles” 2011 Australia)

High Learys - Letter to Alice     (CD single, 2015 Perth, Australia)

Fast Camels - 50 Things on your Mind     ("The Magic Optician" 2007 Glasgow, UK)

Nick Nicely - 49 Cigars     ("49 Cigars" EP 2015 UK)

Toy - Conductor      ("Join the Dots” 2013 UK)

The Moles - We are the Moles (pt 1)      (7" single 1968 UK)

Sand Pebbles - Elephant Gun      ("Atlantis Regrets Nothing" 2006 Australia)

Roxy Music - Out of the Blue     ("Country Life” LP 1974 UK)

Jim Noir - The Cheese of Jim's Command     ("Jimmy's Show" 2012 UK)

Halasan Bazar - Scroll Down     ("How to be Ever Happy" 2012, Copenhagen, Denmark)

The Mystic Tide - Psychedelic Journey Part 1     (7" single b-side [to "Frustration"] 1967 New York, USA)

Moon Duo - Slow Down Low     ("Shadow of the Sun” 2014 USA)

Dolly Rocker Movement - The Only One     ("Our Days Mind the Tyme" 2009 Australia) 

The Seed Coat - She was Happy     (“Adolescence” 2014 Stockholm, Sweden) 

Brian Eno - Dead Finks Don't Talk     ("Here Come the Warm Jets” LP  1973 UK)

July - Friendly Man     ("July" LP 1968 UK)

Pretty Things - SF Sorrow is Born     ("SF Sorrow" LP 1968 UK)

Baby Woodrose - Nothing is Real     ("Third Eye Surgery" 2012 Denmark)

Vibravoid - The White Ship  [HP Lovecraft]     ("Stepping Stone” 7” EP 2015 Dusseldorf, Germany)    

Galileo 7 - You're Not Dreaming     ("False Memory Lane" 2014 UK)

The Dead Heir - Wolves At my Door     (CD Single 2015 Melbourne, Australia)

The Who - Armenia City in the Sky     (“The Who Sell Out" LP 1967 UK)

Thee Oh Sees - Sticky Hulks     ("Mutilator Defeated at Last" 2015 USA)

And as an extra bit of eye candy, The Pretty Things performing their 1968 LP “SF Sorrow” in it’s entirety, at Abbey Road Studios in 1998, narrated by Arthur Brown - 

Technicolour Dreaming

Our Compilation of the Week for this edition was “A Forest of Goldtops in the Land of Oz” plus its companion volume, “Datura Dreamtime”, a 2-CD series of Australian psychedelia put out in very limited numbers in 1997 and 1999 respectively. They are classed as “unofficial” releases, but most of the songs are long deleted, unknown or very rare, and though a few, by such artists as the Twilights and Bobby & Laurie were on major labels, most, for instance by Glass Web [whose bass-player, incidentally, later found some reknown as Stan Brat of Adelaide’s the Brats, the band of which this writer was also a member], were put out by small independent record companies or self-released and thus extremely hard, not to mention expensive, to find. Hence, these early compilations gave modern fans of psychedelia a chance to hear these songs, often for the first time, and to rescue them from oblivion, a job they seem to have done successfully when one looks at the growing number of such Aussie psych compilations today. Staying in that same Australian vein, we also played from the limited edition vinyl double-LP of 2013’s great “Nuggets : Antipodean Interpolations of the First Psychedelic Era” of current Australian artists playing versions of the original “Nuggets” compilation of 1972 and which features 7 more tracks than the CD version. Needless to say there was also music from diverse sources and eras such as songs by Pinkunoizu, Permanent Clear Light, the Luck of Eden Hall, Vibravoid and others as is our wont. So, until next week.....

.....  here is the playlist plus the occasional visuals..... enjoy!

New Electric Ride - Marquis De Sade      ("Balloon Age" 2014 UK)

People - I Love You [Zombies cover]      ("I Love You" LP 1968 San Jose, California USA)

Shocking Blue - Acka Raga      ("Shocking Blue" LP 1969 Sweden)

the Rolling Stones - My Obsession      ("Between the Buttons"  LP 1967 UK)

Thee Jezebels - Black Book      (7"single 2015 UK)

Rocket From the Tombs - Sonic Reducer       (recorded live 1975 Cleveland, Ohio USA –  originally unreleased; taken from "Babylon's Burning:The Rough and Ready Rise of Punk Rawk 1973-1978" boxset compilation 2007)   

Ty Segall - Love Fuzz      ("Twins" 2012 California, USA)

Melodie Nelson - Tobacco Road [Trad./Blues Magoos cover]      ("Nuggets: Antipodean Interpolations of the First Psychedelic Era" double-LP 2013 Australia)

Bad//Dreems – Pushin’ Too Hard  [Seeds cover]      ("Nuggets: Antipodean Interpolations of the First Psychedelic Era" double-LP 2013 Adelaide, Australia)

Pinkunoizu - Death is not a Lover     ("Free Time!" 2012 Denmark)

Permanent Clear Light - The Skies Will Fall      ("Beyond These Thngs" 2012 Finland)

Cary Grace - Cirrus Minor [Pink Floyd cover]     ("Fruits de Mer: A Temporary Lapse of Vinyl" compilation 2015 UK)

the Luck of Eden Hall - This is Strange      ("Alligators Eat Gumdrops" 2012 Chicago, USA)

Spacegarden - Blood Red Dawn of Opium   ("Psychedelica 1" compilation 2006 York, UK)

ScotDrakula - Run Run Run [Third Rail cover]      ("Nuggets: Antipodean Interpolations of the First Psychedelic Era" double-LP 2013 Australia)

Compilation of the Week

"A Forest of Gold Tops in the Land of Oz" and "A Forest of Gold Tops – Vol. 2 : Datura Dreamtime"

the Proclamation - King of the Mountain     (7" single 1968, Perth, Australia – taken from “A Forest of Goldtops...” compilation 1997 Australia)

Glass Web - In a Year or So         (7" single 1971 Adelaide, Australia – taken from “A Forest of Gold Tops... vol.2 – Datura Dreamtime” compilation 1999 Australia)

Peter Tilbrook - All Mine to Play With      (7" single b-side [to Stop the Time] 1971 Adelaide, Australia – taken from “A Forest of Goldtops.....”)

Doug Ashdown - Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On [version]     (7" single 1969, Australia – taken from “...vol.2 – Datura Dreamtime”)

the Vegetable Garden - Even Stevens      (7" single 1969, Perth, Australia– taken from “A Forest of Goldtops.....”)

Travis Wellington Hedge - Hey Bulldog [Beatles cover]      (7" single 1969 Adelaide, Australia – taken from “...vol.2 – Datura Dreamtime”)

Mick Harvey - Comic Strip [Gainsbourg/Bardot cover]      ("Pink Elephants" 1995 Melbourne, Australia)

Quilt - Cowboys in the Void     (“Quilt” 2013 New Hampshire, USA)

Vibravoid - Astronomy Domine [Pink Floyd cover]    ("Vibravoid 2001 – the 15th Anniversary Deluxe Edition“ 2015 Dusseldorf, Germany)

Roxy Music - Sea Breezes / Bitters End      ("Roxy Music"LP 1972 UK)

Technicolour Dreaming

We began the show with one of our favourite recent earworms, the wonderful “Persuaded” by Groovy Uncle which features the Shirley Bassey-style voice of new recruit, Miss Modus... great stuff! From there we ventured into the usual mix of old and new, soft and loud, here and overseas, plus a few semi-obscurities such as Sapphire Thinkers , Space Yacob and the Giant Yeti and the Glass Family to shake things up. We also said “Vale!” to Kim Fowley and Leonard Nimoy aka Mr Spock who both passed away recently, before moving on with our “Compilation [boxset] of the Week”, namely “Children of Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the Second Psychedelic Era, 1976–1995”, the third in the “Nuggets” 4-CD boxset series put out by Rhino Records, from which we played a selection of faves, including the Church, which featured a very young Richard Ploog [ex-Brats] on drums... but only in the film-clips, since the song had already been recorded using the drummer he replaced. Richard of course went on to play for almost a decade with the Church during their heyday years, notching up many “best drummer” awards in the process. We finished with a trip back to the mid-70’s to the second Roxy Music LP and an instrumental from David Bowie’s brilliant “Low” album.... and regular listeners will know how much the Cat & the Brat love a good instro!! So until next time....

..... here is the playlist plus moving pictures, including that first “Countdown” TV appearance of Richard in the Church, plus Bowie playing “Warszawa” live in Japan in 1978, and the Times’ nod to cult TV show “The Prisoner” – enjoy!

Groovy Uncle featuring Suzi Chunk and Miss Modus - Persuaded (Vocal version)   ("Persuaded" LP 2014 UK)

Moon Duo - Animal      (digital single 2015 USA)

the Watchmakers - To Be Part of You      (7" single b-side [to Before Questions Became] 2014 UK)

Sapphire Thinkers - From Within      ("From Within" LP 1968 USA)

the Glass Family - Guess I'll Let You Go      ("Electric Band" LP 1967 USA)

the Citradels - Another Dream Theme      ("Nepenthe" 2014 Melbourne, Australia)

the Murlocs - Adolescence     (digital single 2015 Geelong, Australia)

the Liminanas - La fille de la ligne 15      (7”single 2013 France – taken from "I've Got Trouble in Mind : 7" and Rare Stuff - 2009/2014" anthology 2014 France/USA)

the Amazing - Defect      ("Wait For A Light To Come"  EP 2010 Sweden)

ZX⁺ - She's a Rainbow [Rolling Stones cover]      (“Fruits de Mer present ‘Strange Fruits and Veg’" promo compilation 2015 UK)

the Chemistry Set - We Luv You [Rolling Stones cover]   ("This Day will Never Happen Again" 2011 UK)

Yuri Gagarin - Sonic Invasion 2910      ("Yuri Gagarin - 2014 Remix" 2015 Sweden)

Black Box Recorder - Uptown Top Ranking      ("England Made Me" 1998 UK)

Kim Fowley - Strangers from the Sky      (7" single 1967 USA)

Leonard Nimoy - Star Trek Theme      ("Leonard Nimoy Presents Mr Spock's Music from Outer Space" LP 1967 USA)

Space Yacob and the Giant Yeti - Alaveska      ("YACOB II"  EP 2014 Japan)

Barbarellatones - Tuesday Near Death      (demo USA 2015)

Sparks - Thank God it's Not Christmas      ("Kimono My House" LP 1974 USA/UK)

Haleiwa - Harbour      (7" single 2015 Stockholm, Sweden)

         ###  COMPILATION OF THE WEEK  ###  

     “Children of Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the Second Psychedelic Era, 1976–1995” 4-CD Boxset

                                                 

the Unknowns - Not My Memory ("Dream Sequence" LP 1981 LA, USA – taken from “Children of Nuggets” Volume 4)

the Church - The Unguarded Moment      (7" single 1980 Australia – taken from “Children of Nuggets” Volume 3)

Vibrasonic - Kingsley J.       (7" single 1994 Brighton, UK – taken from “Children of Nuggets” Volume 2)

the Times - I Helped Patrick McGoohan Escape      ("I Helped Patrick McGoohan Escape" LP 1983 UK – taken from “Children of Nuggets” Volume 1)

Roxy Music - Beauty Queen      ("For Your Pleasure" LP 1973 UK)

Bowie - Warszawa      ("Low" LP 1977 UK)