Technicolour Dreaming

This week, on the stinking-hot first day of autumn, I featured a couple of new releases from the wonderful UK vinyl-only label, Fruits de Mer - Sendelica's sublime, surreal, and lengthy take on Bowie's "Ziggy Stardust", and a track from the new 7" EP from Italian singer-songwriter Claudio Cataldi, "Here She Comes Now". And closer to home, the long-awaited new album from Melbourne's The Citradels, "Are They Still Here?" also got a spin - the band are in the middle of their national tour, and will be playing in Adelaide at The Grace Emily this Friday March 11, so check them out if you get the chance! I'll be chatting with Sunny from The Citradels on the show next week, so tune in - don't forget, you can listen to the live stream of the show by going to www.threedradio.com ...and here's the playlist from the show!

Thee Oh Sees - Putrifiers II  ("Putrifiers II" EP 2012 Los Angeles, USA)

The Barbarellatones - Electric Pussycat  (demo 2014 Hawaii, USA)
The Citradels - Incense and Pepperspray  ("Are They Still Here?" 2016 Melbourne, Australia)

Sendelica - Ziggy Stardust [Bowie]  (7" single 2016 Wales UK)

Sammy Soul Set - Moontalk  (7" single 1967 Netherlands)

Giorgio (Giorgio Moroder) - Stop  (7" single 1966 Italy/Germany)

The Sufis - No Expression  ("Inventions" 2013 Nashville USA)

The Elastic Sleep - Anywhere  (digital single 2013 Cork, Ireland)

Barbara Feldon  - 99  (7" single 1966 USA)

The Janitors - Do It Again  ("Worker, Drone, Queen" EP 2012 Stockholm, Sweden)

The Hypnotic Eye - Thought Machine  ("The Optical Sound of The Hypnotic Eye" 2012 London, UK)

The Daughters of Albion - Well Wired  ("The Daughters of Albion" LP 1968 Los Angeles, USA)

Claudio Cataldi  - All My Friends Are Here  ("Here She Comes Now" 7" EP 2016 Palermo, Italy)

White Glow - Prozac  ("Haunting the Devil" EP 2014 Rouen, France)

Children of the Mushroom - You Can't Erase a Mirror (7" single [b-side to "August Madamoiselle"] 1968 Thousand Oaks, California, USA)

Things to Come - Come Alive  (7" single [b-side to "Dancer"] 1968 California, USA)

The Sparkling Fountains of Magic Reality - Nothing Left of Me  ("Slow Death Blues" 2010 Sheffield, UK)

Adam and the Ants - Tabletalk ("Dirk Wears White Sox" LP 1979 UK)

The Bee Gees - Every Christian Lion Hearted Man Will Show You  ("Bee Gees 1st" LP 1967 Australia)

Derek's Accent - Aint Got No Feeling  (7" single 1966 Sydney, Australia)

The Thanes - She's Coming Home  ("Lost in Tyme Volume 4" compilation 2008 Edinburgh, Scotland UK)

Holly Golightly - Wherever You Were  ("The Good Things" 1995 London UK)

Kuni Kawachi and Flower Travelling Band - Kirikyogen  (7" single 1970 Japan)

Jim White - If Jesus Drove a Motorhome ("Drill a Hole in that Substrate and Tell Me What You See" 2004 Florida USA)

Goat - Goathead  (7" single 2012 Sweden)

Status Quo - When I Awake  ("Spare Parts" LP 1969 London UK)

The Rutles - Eine Kleine Middle Klasse Musik  ("Archaeology" 1996 UK)

Jacco Gardner - Cabinet of Curiosities  ("Cabinet of Curiosities" 2013 Netherlands)

Donovan - Sunny South Kensington  ("Mellow Yellow" LP 1967 UK)

Sand Pebbles - Tina Louise  ("Ceduna" 2008 Australia)

Plus an advert featuring Barabra Feldon from 1964, for Top Brass dandruff shampoo! - 

Technicolour Dreaming

More new music in our letterbox again this week to share, from the 60’s psych pop sounds of England’s Flower Pot Men, Holland’s Groep 1850 and New Zealand’s Ray Woolf through to more recent releases from Colorama, the Smoking Trees and Georgiana Starlington amongst others. Of course not all was new – there were some Monkees-related songs, some Rutles and various other faves like Thee Oh Sees, Brigitte Fontaine, Sendelica and Luke Haines....

..... so here is the playlist with some filmic bonuses.....

the Flower Pot Men – Let’s Go to San Francisco (Pts. 1&2)      (7”single 1967 UK)

White Fence – White Cat      (“Cyclops Reap” 2013 USA)

Marshmellow Steamshovel – Steamshovel      (7”single b-side [to Mr Mold] 1968 USA)

the Rutles – Eine Kleine Middle Klasse Musik      (“Archeology” 1996 UK)

Luke Haines – Rock’n’Roll Animals      (“Rock’n’Roll Animals” 2013 UK)

the Sufis – She Said to Me      (“Inventions” 2013 Nashville, USA)

Sendelica – Not the Time for Salads      (recorded 2010 Wales, UK – from “TimeMazine Vol.7” covermount-CD compilation 2012 Greece)

Surf City – I Had the Starring Role      (“We Knew It Was Not Going To Be Like This” 2013 New Zealand)

the Smoking Trees – Calling      (“Acetates” 2012 California, USA)

the Nashville Ramblers – The Trains      (7”single 1986 USA)

Assemble Head In Sunburst Sound – Two Birds      (“When the Sweet Sleep Returned” 2009 USA)

Hidden Masters – Last Days of the Sun      (“Of This & Other Worlds” 2013 UK)

the Blues Magoos – There She Goes      (“Basic Blues Magoos” 1968 USA)

Groep 1850 – We Love Life (Like We Love You)      (7” single 1968 Netherlands)

We The People – Turn Off Your Crying Gun      (recorded 1967 Orlando, Florida – taken from 7”single 2008 USA)

Boyce & Hart – P.O.Box 9847      (7”single b-side [to Alice Long, you’re still my favourite girl] 1968 USA)

the Monkees – I Wanna Be Free (fast version)      (recorded 1967 – taken from “Monkees Music Box” compilation boxset 2001 USA)

Thee Oh Sees – Destroyed Fortress Reappears      (“Help” 2009 California, USA)

Ray Woolf & the Avengers – Little Things That Happen      (recorded 1967 – 7”single 2012 New Zealand)

the Wicked Whispers – Nightbird      (7”single b-side [to Voodoo Moon] 2013 UK)

Colorama – Delaware      (“Good Music” 2013 Wales, UK)

Georgiana Starlington – Moonlight      (“Paper Moon” 2013 USA)

the Peoples Temple – Blinding City      (“More For The Masses” 2012 USA)

Brigitte Fontaine – Je suis inadaptée      (“Brigitte Fontaine est... Folle!” LP 1968 France)

Sun Yama – Subterranean Homesick Blues [Bob Dylan cover]      (7”single 1982 USA)

Dennis Wilson – River Song      (“Pacific Ocean Blue” LP 1977 California, USA)

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It was a more relaxed Cat & Brat this week, having recovered from last week’s 3D Radiothon marathon, but still, we hit the ground running as per the Gordon Gano song we began with! There was new music from the likes of UK songstress Suzi Chunk, Japan’s Tenniscoats and Adelaide’s Volcano Cleaner, with the latest single from Django Django and a track from Wizards of Time’s intriguing debut, plus interesting covers of songs written by the likes of Bowie and the Rutles... there was a 1971 New Zealand Top 10 chart hit by Timberjack as well as tunes from the more recent past by Painted Hills, Pugwash and the Scoundrelles plus much more, before we finished the show with a very humorous song by Baterz in his final appearance as our “Artiste of the Month”.....

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

Gordon Gano & PJ Harvey – Hitting the Ground      (‘Hitting the Ground’ 2002 USA)

Suzi Chunk – No Stone Unturned      (‘Girl from the Neck Down’ LP 2012 UK)

the Tamborines – The Great Division      (‘Camera & Tremor’ 2010 UK – taken from ‘Psychedelica 4’ compilation 2010 UK)

Django Django – W.O.R.      (‘Django Django’ 2012 Scotland, UK)

the Mona Lisa Overdrive – It’s Just Too Much      (demo 2008 Adelaide, Australia)

Big Richard Insect – I’m So Bored      (‘Big Richard Insect’ EP 2012 Adelaide, Aust.)

the Scoundrelles – Don’t Know Why [Rutles cover]     (‘Atomic Batteries to Power’ 2008 Aust./UK)

Wizards of Time – Hi My Name Is Body      (‘Will The Soft Curse Plague On?’ 2012 USA)

Weightless – Museum of Expired Life      (‘Self-Adjustment’ EP 2012 Adelaide, Aust.)

Tenniscoats – Shinjitsu       (‘All Aboard!’ 2012 Japan)

the Sand Pebbles – Sunshine to Burn [Long Grass cover]      (taken from the CD compilation accompanying the ‘Tomorrow is Today’ book about 60’s Australian psychedelic music 2007 Melbourne, Australia)

Volcano Cleaner – Not as Easy as it Sounds      (‘The Making of Volcano Cleaner’ 2012 Adelaide, Aust.)

Painted Hills – Kaleidoscope Eyes      (‘Painted Hills’ 2010 USA)

David Bowie – Moonage Daydream      (‘The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust & the Spiders From Mars’ LP 1972 UK)

Pugwash – A Rose in a Garden of Weeds      (‘Jollity’ 2005 UK)

Gaz Coombes – I Just Wasn’t Made For These Times [Beach Boys cover]      (‘Mojo: Pet Sounds Revisited’ compilation 2012 UK)

Black Box Recorder – Rock’n’Roll Suicide [Bowie cover]      (‘The Worst of Black Box Recorder’ anthology 2001 UK)

Mott the Hoople – All the Young Dudes [live]      (‘Uncut: Rebel Rebel’ compilation 2008 UK)

the Salt – Lucifer      (7”single 1968 USA)

Timberjack – Come to the Sabbat      (7”single 1971 New Zealand)

the Third Rail – Run, Run, Run      (7”single 1967 USA)

Baterz – You’re Not Cool      (‘Out of Hell’ 2000 Adelaide, Aust. – taken from the ‘Baterz for Beginners’ bonus CD with ‘Great Big Squiddy Fun’ tribute compilation 2009 Australia)    #

       #   “Artiste of the Month”

Obscured By...

There were songs from many genres, different decades and numerous locales from around the world... as you’d expect on this show. We began, as usual, with a bunch of local Adelaide and/or Australian bands such as Travis Wellington Hedge and Alison Gros [both with a future Little River Band connection], the short-lived Frieze [featuring a couple of ex-Zoot members] plus an 80’s recording by Wendy Saddington with the Hare Krishna Band made in New Zealand. From there we moved onto some 60’s Japanese pop from Akiko Nakamura, a song from the debut EP by Jacques Dutronc, music from such diverse places as Mexico, Bahrain, Singapore and Lebanon, plus a surf instrumental by the Stalemates from Papua New Guinea for good measure. We dug up some interesting “cover versions”, and also delved into the ‘Top of the Pops’ [“not by original artists”] phenomenon which nevertheless occasionally featured some ‘anonymous-but-later-famous’ artistes, our example being Reg Dwight, later better known as Elton John...I guess it paid the bills! We played another track by the lovely Judy Dyble [ex-Fairport Convention, Giles, Giles and Fripp etc], this time a single from 2008 with the Conspirators which actually made Top 10 in the UK Indie Charts... plus many more rarities, obscurities and forgotten gems, brought to you this week by all three ‘DOTS’ – Peter, Megan and Michael.....

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

InKase – Rene [Small Faces cover]     (7”single 1969 Adelaide, Australia)

Travis Wellington Hedge – I Put a Spell on You [Screaming Jay Hawkins cover]     7”single 1969 Adelaide)

Alison Gros – Love Song     (unreleased, recorded 1971 Adelaide)

Frieze – Friend     (‘1972 B.C.’ LP 1972 Australia)

Ronnie Burns – True True Lovin’     (‘This Is’ EP 1966 Aust.)

Wendy Saddington and Gandharvika Dasi [with the Hare Krishna Band] – Back to Gokula     (‘Where To Now?’ LP 1984 Australia/New Zealand)

Reggie Norton and the Ideas – Take It Easy     (7”single 1966 Aust.)

Akiko Nakamura – Hano San Francisco [Scott Mackenzie cover]     (‘Hit Album!’ LP 1969 Japan)

Jacques Dutronc – Mini Mini Mini     (‘Jacques Dutronc’ EP 1966 France)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWuIFB0HjKQ   

los Loud Jets – Mira     (7”single 1967 Mexico – taken from ‘Conquer the World Vol.2’ LP compilation)

los Syn – Chica Tientame     (7”single 1966 Chile – taken from ‘Conquer....’)

Simon C. Edwards and His Soul Set – The Way I Do     (7”single 1968 Lebanon – taken from ‘Conquer....’)

 

the Stalemates – Adventures in Paradise [TV show theme cover]     (7”single 1969 New Guinea)

the Barbarellatones – Pole Dancer     (mp3 pre-release 2012 USA)

Brian Eno – The Lion Sleeps Tonight [Solomon Linda cover]     (7”single 1975 UK)

Husker Du – Eight Miles High [Byrds cover]     (‘Love is all around’ EP 1991 USA)

 

the Morning After Girls – The Trip [Kim Fowley cover]     (‘He Put The Bomp In The Bomp: a tribute to Greg Shaw’ compilation 2007 USA)

 

Judy Dyble and the Conspirators – One Sure Thing     (7”single 2008 UK)

Shadrack Chameleon – Don’t let it get you down     (‘Shadrack Chameleon’ LP 1973 Ohio, USA – taken from ‘Forge Your Own Chains: Heavy Psychedelic Ballads and Dirges 1968-1974’ compilation LP 2009 USA)

Osiris – Embers of a Flame     (‘Osiris’ LP 1982 Bahrain)

Baby Grandmothers – Somebody’s Calling My Name     (7”single 1968 Sweden – taken from ‘Forge Your Own Chains....’)

“Top of the Poppers” – Hot Love [T.Rex cover]     (‘Best of Top of the Pops 71’ LP 1971 UK)

“Top of the Poppers” – Co-Co [Sweet cover]     (‘Best of Top of the Pops 71’ LP 1971 UK)

Elton John – My Baby Loves Lovin’ [White Plains cover]     (‘Hits 70’ LP 1970 UK)

The Trailers – Quiver     (7”single 1967 Singapore)

The Rutles – Major Happy’s Up and Coming Good Time Band     (‘Archaeology’ LP 1994 UK)