Technicolour Dreaming

Sometimes the best-laid plans for a show just disappear once you go to air, which is what happened this week! A phone call from a listener requesting an Atlantics song led us into some 60’s kicks of (primarily) the Australian kind, from Normie Rowe and the Easybeats to the Red Angel Panic and the Hergs amongst others. But different eras and locales were not to be ignored... new music from Canada’s Metz and the UK’s Galileo 7, 80’s singles by the Dentists and Close Lobsters, plus a brand new demo from Adelaide’s Alpha Beta Fox and the return of Go Kart Mozart... most of these were not on our original agenda, but hey, who really wants agendas anyway! The penultimate appearance of Ride Into The Sun as our “Band of the Month” and that was Technicolour Dreaming, and the Cat and the Brat, for another week......

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

the Doors – Moonlight Drive [alt.version]      (‘The Doors’ – 14^th Anniversary Reissue bonus track)

Paul Revere and the Raiders – Too Much Talk      (7”single 1968 USA)

Bobby and Laurie – Every Second Day      (7”single 1966 Aust.)

the Executives – Moving in a Circle      (7”single 1968 Aust.)

Dean and Britta – Moonshot [Buffy St Marie cover]       (‘L’Avventura’ 2008 USA)

Colourama – Lisa Lan      (‘Llyfr Lliwio’ [‘Colouring Book’] 2012 Wales UK)

Alpha Beta Fox – Spheres      (demo 2012 Adelaide, Aust.)

Asteroid #4 – Wicked Wire      (‘Hail to the Clear Figurines’ 2011 Philadelphia, USA)

Dead Skeletons – Kingdom of God      (‘Dead Magick’ 2011 Iceland)

the Galileo 7 – Anne Hedonia      (‘Staring at the Sounds’ LP 2012 UK)

the Atlantics – Flowers      (7”single 1967 Aust. – taken from ‘Collectibles’ anthology 2011)

the Southern Gentlemen – I Want You Back Again      (7”single 1965 Adelaide, Aust.)

Sounds of Silence – Running High      (7”single 1967 Adelaide, Aust.)

Normie Rowe – Going Home      (7”single 1967 Aust.)

Red Angel Panic – Viet Rock      (7”single 1971 Adelaide, Aust.)

Inside Looking Out – Morning Sun      (7”single 1970 Adelaide, Aust.)

the Hergs – Cadillac [Vince Taylor cover]      (7”single b-side [to Style of Love] 1966 Adelaide, Aust.)

the Easybeats – I’ll Make you Happy (Just Like Your Mama Wants)      (‘Easyfever’  7”EP 1966 Aust.)

Close Lobsters – Nature Thing      (‘Forever Until Victory: Singles Collection’ LP 1982 Paisley, Scotland, UK)

Simple Minds – I Travel      (‘Empires and Dance’ LP 1980 UK)

the Flatmates – I Could Be in Heaven      (7”single 1986 UK)

Go Kart Mozart – Retro-Glancing      (‘On The Hot Dog Streets’ double-LP 2012 UK)

the Dentists – Strawberries Are Growing in My Garden [and It’s Wintertime]      (7”single 1985 UK)

the Flies – Dr Who [version]      (‘Turtle Monster’ EP 1987 Sydney, Australia)

Metz – Headache      (‘Metz’ 2012 Canada)

Ride Into The Sun – New Sunday      (‘Goodbye Hipster, Hello Reality’ EP 2011 Adelaide, Aust.)    #

      #  “Band of the Month”

Obscured By...

An all-vinyl single version of the programme this week, to rekindle all three "dots"' memories of the joys of such a show, with all the snap, crackle, different playing speeds and record sizes that it entails.  Everything from a 5-inch Jona Lewie single to a rare XTC 12" EP - rare Australian singles by The Numbers (before this band became The Riptides)  and a Leonard Teale promotional 45 - obscure UK punk by the Martian Schoolgirls and The Skids - Plastic Bertrand with something resembling Krautrock disco - near forgotten but very worthwhile songs by the likes of Fischer-Z and Classix Nouveaux - and plenty more.   The full playlist of vinyl delights is as follows...

Max Hamilton & the Impacts – Shake with Me     (7”single b-side [to Jenny Jenny] 1965 Australia)

Johnny Broome & the Handels – Didn’t Know Her Name     (7”single b-side [to Do’s  and  Don’ts] 1965 Adelaide, Aust.)

Janice Slater – I’m Gonna Live     (7”single 1965 Adelaide, Aust.)

Leonard Teale – “The Ballad of Chesty Bond” advertisement     (7”single c.1965 Aust.)

Cheryl Gray – You’re the Boy     (7”single b-side [to When You’re Not Near] 1967 Aust.)

Ross D. Wylie – Do the Uptight     (7”single b-side [to The Star] 1969 Aust.)

the Numbers – Magic Castle     (7”single b-side [to Sunset Strip] 1978 Queensland, Aust.)

the Pandoras – Hot Generation [Sunsets cover]     (7”single 1984 California, USA)

the Stems – My Beach      (7”single b-side [to Sad Girl] 1987 Aust.)

Kim Salmon & the Surrealists – The Crying Game     (7”single b-side [to Put Your Trust In Me] 1997 Aust.)

the Martian Schoolgirls – Life in the 1980’s     (7”single 1980 UK)

Plastic Bertrand – Tout petite la planete     (12”single 1979 Belgium)

the Associates – Ulcragyceptemol      (12”single b-side [to Club Country] 1982 Scotland, UK) 

Soft Cell – Born to Lose [Johnny Thunders cover]     (12”single b-side [to Down In The Subway] 1984 UK)

XTC – We Kill The Beast     (‘Go+’ 12” EP 1978 UK)

Jona Lewie – Big Shot-Momentarily     (5”single 1980 UK)

Yoko Ono – Don’t worry Kyoko, mummy’s only looking for a hand in the snow     (7”single b-side [to Cold Turkey] 1969 UK)

the Jesus and Mary Chain – Kill Surf City     (7”single b-single [to April Skies] 1987 UK)

Adam & the Ants – Fall-In     (7”single b-side [to Ant Music] 1981 UK)

Husker Du – Ticket to Ride [Beatles cover]     (7” promo EP with NME magazine 1986 UK)

Fischer Z – So Long     (7”single 1980 UK)

Snakefinger – The Spot     (7”single 1978 USA)

Classix Nouveaux – Guilty     (7”single 1981 UK)

Echo & the Bunnymen – The Subject     (12”single b-side [to The Back Of Love] 1982 UK)

the Skids – Fields     (7”single 1982 UK)

Simple Minds – The American      (12”single 1981 UK)

Genet Tic Toc – Theory of Permutation      (7”single b-side [to Darwin’s Machine] 1982 Adelaide, Australia)

Foetus uber Frisco – Finely Honed Machine     (12”single 1984 USA)

technicolour dreaming

21.3.12 - Palindrome Dreaming in Technicolour!!  Beginning with local outfit Ride Into The Sun, we voyaged back to some early Dandy Warhols and even earlier Simple Minds, as well as a Beach Boys song allegedly adapted from a Charlie Manson demo, before returning to the present with Thee American Revolution, Melbourne’s Magic Bones, the Sunburners and the brand new vinyl EP from the Mynd Gardeners. Along the way we played a classic from Scratch Acid, a side of the sole single by Adelaide’s Die Dancing Bears,  a great 13^th Floor Elevators cover by the Dagoes, plus, from the 60's, the original version of ‘Faster Pussycat, Kill! Kill!’ by the Bostweeds..... these, and many more, were played for your delectation before we signed off with our current ‘Band of the Month’, the Zoot.....

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

Ride Into The Sun – I’m Just Dandy     (cd single 2010 Adelaide, Australia)

the Dandy Warhols – Be-In     (‘Come Down’ 1997 USA)

Simple Minds – Theme for Great Cities     (‘Sister Feelings Call’ LP 1981 UK)

Almost Numan – M.E. [Gary Numan cover]     (‘Almost Numan – Off’ 2011 Adelaide, Aust.)

the Beach Boys – Never Learn Not to Love      (‘20/20’ LP 1969 USA)

De Wolff – Don’t you go up to the sky     (‘Strange Fruits & Undiscovered Plants’ LP 2009 Holland)

Laika & the Cosmonauts – Psycko [Themes from Psycho and Vertigo]     (‘Instruments of Terror’ LP 1994 Finland)

Slingshot Dragster – Agent 0069     (‘Demolition’ EP 2008 Adelaide, Aust.)

Thee American Revolution – Blow My Mind     (‘Buddha Electrostorm’ 2012 USA)

the Mynd Gardeners – Where Tomorrow Lands     (‘The Acyd Raindrop Umbrella’ EP 2012 Adelaide, Aust.)

the Lovetones – Was I there in your future?     (‘Meditations’ 2006 Australia)

the Scoundrelles – The Betrayed     (‘Organic Molecules in Action’ 2004 Aust./UK)

Thee Pink Stainless Tail – Sitting By a Tree [Escorts cover]     (‘Tomorrow Is Today” compilation 2007 Aust.)

King Daddy – She     (‘She’ EP 2006 Adelaide, Aust.)

the Sunburners – three d radio [city rock]     (‘The Ocean and Booze and Other Things to Drown in’ 2012 Adelaide, Aust.)

the Dagoes – We Sell Soul [13^th Floor Elevators cover]     (7”single 1981 Adelaide, Aust.)

Magic Bones – Devil’s Spawn     (‘Magic Bones’ EP 2012 Melbourne, Aust.)

Scratch Acid – Owner’s Lament     (‘The Greatest Gift’ LP 1984 Austin Texas, USA)

Die Dancing Bears – New York Valentine     (7”single 1981 Adelaide, Aust.)

the Bostweeds – Faster Pussycat, Kill! Kill!     (orig. movie s/t theme - taken from‘Born Bad Vol.1’ compilation LP 1986 USA)

the Mystreated – Sometimes     (‘Lovely Sunday Dreaming’ 1999 USA)

the Zoot – Strange Things     (7”single 1969 Adelaide, Aust.)    #   

    #  “Band of the Month”