Technicolour Dreaming

One could suspect that for UK legend Mick Farren, dying suddenly on stage during a gig with his boots on would not have been an entirely inappropriate way to end an eventful life! A musician, writer, journalist and bon vivant, he first gained notoriety in the London of the late 1960’s with his band, the Deviants, from whose debut album “Ptoof!” we played a track exemplifying his anarcho-punk spirit, in tribute to a true original. Another rock notable, JJ Cale, also passed away this week, and so as not to forget his role as a studio session player in mid-60’s L.A. we played a track he wrote as part of a very cool faux-soundtrack ‘exploito’ album, “A Trip Down Sunset Strip”. Arriving in our letterbox this week was some new vinyl, including a recent tribute LP to the Velvet Underground’s debut which includes cover versions by the likes of Thee Oh Sees, White Fence, Ty Segall and the two we played this week, Kelley Stoltz and Blasted Canyons – expect to hear more in coming weeks. Of course there was also the usual variety of sounds you’ve come to expect from Technicolour Dreaming, with tracks from Sweden’s Leather Nun, London’s Toy and Teeth of the Sea, H.P. Lovecraft’s 1967 debut, Vibravoid and Joy Zipper plus some classic Scott Walker, a spoken word piece from Viv Stanshall’s Bonzo Dog Band and a delicious slice of instrumental psychedelia by Carlton Melton, all brought to you on Adelaide’s 3D Radio by the Cat & the Brat....

..... so here is the playlist plus a few moving pictures.....  

H.P. Lovecraft – The White Ship      (‘H.P. Lovecraft’ LP 1967 Chicago, USA)

Teeth of the Sea – A.C.R.O.N.Y.M.      (‘Your Mercury’ 2010 London, UK)

White Fence – Cyclops Reap      (7”single b-side [to Pink Gorilla] 2013 California, USA)

Ty Segall – Ghost      (‘Twins’ 2012 California, USA)

Edwyn Collins – The Gospel According to Tony Day [David Bowie cover]      (‘Uncut Magazine: Starman’ cover-mount CD compilation 2003 UK)

the Leathercoated Minds – Sunset & Clark      (‘A Trip Down Sunset Strip’ LP 1967 Los Angeles, USA)

the Deviants – Garbage      (‘Ptoof!’ LP 1967 London, UK)

Kelley Stoltz – Sunday Morning [Velvet Underground cover]      (‘The Velvet Underground & Nico by Castleface Records & Friends’ compilation LP 2012 USA)

Joy Zipper – For Lenny’s Own Pleasure      (‘The Heartlight Set’ 2005 USA)

Luna – The Owl & the Pussycat      (‘Rendezvous’ 2004 USA/UK)

Carlton Melton – Smoke Drip      (‘Photos of Photos’ 2012 San Francisco, USA)

Scott Walker – The Seventh Seal      (‘Scott 4’ LP 1969 UK/USA)

the Velvet Underground – Femme Fatale      (‘The Velvet Underground & Nico‘ LP 1967 New York, USA)

Hidden Masters – She Broke the Clock of the Long Now      (‘Of This & Other Worlds’ 2013 Scotland, UK)

the Bonzo Dog Band – Rawlinson End, Part 14      (‘Let’s Make Up And Be Friendly’ LP 1971 UK)

John Bryant – I Bring The Sun      (7”single 1968 UK – taken from the ‘Electric Sound Show’ compilation CD-boxset 2012 UK)

the Beacon Street Union – The Prophet      (‘The Eyes Of The Beacon Street Union’ LP 1968 Boston, USA)

Blasted Canyons [with Jeremy Cox] – Venus In Furs [Velvet Underground cover]      (‘The Velvet Underground & Nico by Castleface Records & Friends’ compilation LP 2012 USA)

Vibravoid – Brainplane      (‘Gravity Zero’ 2012 Düsseldorf, Germany)

Toy – The Reasons Why      (‘TOY’ 2012 UK)

Leather Nun – Prime Mover      (‘Alive’ LP 1985 Gothenburg, Sweden)

Anne Richmond Boston – You Just May Be The One [Monkees cover]      (‘Here No Evil: tribute to the Monkees’ compilation 1992 USA)

Technicolour Dreaming

Once again, due to the unavailability of the Cat & the Brat, this week’s show was presented by our good friend and fellow 3D-er, Bryan... (listen in to his Tuesday morning brekkie show ‘MellowScream’ on 3D Radio for three hours of aural goodies!) He played an eclectic selection ranging from 60’s garage, with tracks from likes of the Monks and the Cryan’Shames, some punk from M.O.T.O. and through to new stuff from Belles Will Ring, brillig and DieselWitch, with assorted stops along the way. There was a Devo-themed bracket which included versions of their songs by Adelaide’s Tardis Retardis and Almost Numan, as well as a bunch of songs from the Bad Afro compilation series ‘Pushing Scandinavian Rock to the Man’, some Trashmen and Trashwomen, and finishing with the final appearance of Wooden Shjips “West” as ‘Album of the Month’... Thanks for a great show Bryan... indeed a high standard for us to match on our return next week!!!

..... and here is his full playlist....

Status Quo – Technicolour Dream     (‘Technicolour Dreams of Status Quo’ – compilation cd)

brillig – Bird from the Ashes     (‘Jack Davey’ cdEP 2009 Adelaide, Australia)

Black Box Recorder – British Racing Green     (Passionoia)

the Triffids – Joan of Arc     (‘Reverie’ EP 1982 Australia)

the West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band – Suppose they gave a war and no-one came     (‘Volume 2: (Breaking Through)’ LP 1968 USA)

Devo – Witch Doctor     (‘Rugrats’ soundtrack cd)

Tardis Retardis – Be Stiff [Devo cover]     (Recorded ‘live’ at the Century Hotel, Adelaide 1988 – taken from ‘The Devo Years’ section of their 3-CD anthology, Adelaide Aust.)

Devo – Too Much Paranoia     (‘Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo’ LP 1978 USA)

Almost Numan – Secret Agent Man [Devo cover]     (Almost Numan)

Annexus Quom – Osmose 11     (‘Jazz Kraut’ comp. 2011)

the Monks – Blast Off     (‘Black Monk Time’ LP 1966 USA/Germany)

the Launderettes – Nobody But Me     (‘Pushing Scandinavian Rock To The Man Vol.3’ comp.)

the Shindiggers – Black’n’Hairy     (‘Maximum Beat’ comp.)

Belles Will Ring – Come to the Village     (Crystal Theatre)

Wayne County – Max’s Kansas City     (At the Trucks!)

the Trashwomen – I’m Trash     (‘Spend the night with the Trashwomen’ LP 1993 USA)

the Trashmen – Bird Dance Beat     (Bird City: Best of the Trashmen)

the Bee Gees – The Earnest of Being George     (‘Horizontal’ LP 1968 UK)

Jim Jones Revue – hey hey hey hey     (‘Shindig! It’s Happening Vol.1’ comp. UK)

the Gothic Chicken – Pitta Bread Man     (‘Shindig! It’s Happening Vol.1’ comp. UK)

M.O.T.O. – Crystallize my Penis     (Battle of the Band)

the Only Ones – Another Girl, Another Planet     (7”single 1978 UK)

the Cryan’ Shames – Sugar and Spice     (7”single 1966 USA)

DieselWitch – Reptile Surf     (DieselWitch Will Kill You)

the Duplo – Hey Hey Hey       (‘Pushing Scandinavian Rock To The Man Vol.1’ comp.)

Mother Superior – Have you seen that Cat     (‘Pushing Scandinavian Rock To The Man Vol.2’ comp.)

Wooden Shjips – Crossing     (West)     #

    # “Album of the Month”

Technicolour Dreaming

The Cat and the Brat interviewed Adelaide singer/songwriter Emily Davis on the show this week, in the run-up to her CD release show on 4^th June in Adelaide, and played an exclusive pre-release track from that album. We also played a track from the new Belles Will Ring album, a ‘live’ version of Donovan’s “Hurdy Gurdy Man” from 2007 (with amusing ad-libbing), some 60’s Australian psych, and Peter Brat & the Molting Vultures recent ‘Life on the Dole’ 7” single (which will also be performed ‘live’ this Friday at the Grace Emily). And we played the final “Monkees’ Song of the Week” in our series of 25 songs... appropriately it was ‘Swami’, which played over the end-credits of their 1968 movie ‘Head’...

... and here is the playlist...

Thee Oh Sees – Destroyed Fortress Re-Appears (Help)

Thee Attacks – Are you? (‘Shindig! – It’s Happening 2’, comp.)

The Dave Miller Set – No Need To Cry (‘Psych Bites Vol. 1’, comp.)

James Taylor Move – Magic Eyes (‘Peculiar Hole in the Sky’, comp.)

Belles Will Ring – Do You Know What I See? (Crystal Theatre)

Emily Davis and the Open Road – Home is Where the Heart Is (Undone)

Higamos Hogamos – The Illuminoids – (Higamos Hogamos)

Donovan – Hurdy Gurdy Man (‘live’ 2007)

The Executives – Movin’ In a Circle (7” single, 1968 Australia)

McGough and McGear – So Much In Love (Acid Drops, Space Dust and Flying Saucers, Disc 1 : comp.)

The Green Circles – Let Me Through (‘Burn Your Fingers on the Sun’ comp.)

The Gnomes of Zurich – Hang On Baby (‘With The Sun In My Eyes’ comp.)

Sand Pebbles – A Thousand Flowers (A Thousand Flowers)

Foggy – She’s Far Away (US 1972 from ‘With The Sun In My Eyes’ compilation)

Peter Brat and The Molting Vultures – Life On the Dole (7” single 2010 Adelaide)

The Monkees – Swami [with strings] (‘Head’ soundtrack) *

*the 25^th, and Final, “Monkees’ Song of the Week”

Technicolour Dreaming - 20th April 2011

Peter Brat here... I hosted this week’s show without the help of my Cat, and so started with Patti Smith’s “Ain’t It Strange” which summed it up! However I played one of her (and my) fave current bands, the Sand Pebbles plus her favourite Models’ song, knowing she was listening in... The show wandered, as is our wont, from the Australian 60s psychedelia of the Dave Miller Set, through the Swedish 80s garage rock of the Wylde Mammoths, to the 21^st century sounds of the Telescopes, Death In June, Black Box Recorder and Adelaide’s Green Circles... plus of course this week’s Monkees song and another track from our album of the month, Moon Duo’s “Mazes”...

...so here is the playlist...

Patti Smith – Ain’t It Strange (Radio Ethiopia)

Pere Ubu – Non-Alignment Pact (the Modern Dance)

the Models – Atlantic Romantic (Cut Lunch e.p. 1981 Melbourne, Aust.)

Black Box Recorder – Rock’n’Roll Suicide (Worst of Black Box Recorder)

Death In June – Peaceful Snow (Peaceful Snow)

the Higher State – Know That You Know (Shindig! It’s Happening Vol.1)

the Mynd Gardeners – The Psychedelicatessan (I Can See Through My Own Time e.p. 2009 Adelaide)

the Wylde Mammoths – Help That Girl (Real Cool Time Revisited [comp.])

the Telescopes – Another Sky (Hungry Audio Tapes)

the Sun Blindness – Panta Rhei (Like Pearly Clouds)

the Zen Circus & Brian Ritchie – Punk Lullaby (Villa Inferno)

the Green Circles – Given Time (Brass Knobs, Bevilled Edges)

3DTV – A summation of all these burdens (Burn Your Fingers on the Sun [comp.])

Perpetual Motion Workshop – Won’t Come Down (Psychedelic Disaster Whirl [comp.])

the Dave Miller Set – Mr Guy Fawkes (Peculiar Hole In The Sky [comp.])

Moon Duo – Fallout (Mazes) #

the Sand Pebbles – Black Sun Ensemble (Ghost Transmissions)

the Monkees – Auntie Grizelda (Monkees Music Box) *

# April Album of the Month

*the Monkees Song of the Week