Technicolour Dreaming

Cherry Red's new 3 CD box-set "Another Splash of Colour: New Psychedelia in Britain 1980-1985" was a welcome surprise when I arrived at Three D Radio this week, box-sets being a particular weakness of mine, and The Brat was very fond of them, too - there's quite a collection at home! It features lots of familiar names, like Julian Cope, who I opened the show with, but plenty of forgotten about, or just plain obscure bands, so I'm going to enjoy delving into it's treasures over the coming weeks. Cover versions also abounded on this week's show - can't resist a good cover when it's dangled before me... so to work out who played what, peruse the playlist below..

Julian Cope - Sunspots  ("Another Splash of Colour: New Psychedelia in Britain 1980-1985" compilation 2016 UK)

Wild Rocket - I'm Not like Everybody Else [Kinks]  ("Daisy Dream" 2015 Adelaide, Australia)

Topos Locos - Come On Back ("The Great British Psychedelic Trip Revisited" 2016 UK)

Hugo - Girl In The Garden  (7" single 1969 Adelaide, Australia)

The Flower Machine - Digging Flowers  ("Marmoset Meadow" EP 2008 Los Angeles, USA)
Belles will Ring - It's Only Goodbye  ("Mood Patterns" 2007 Sydney, Australia)
Mort Garson - Taurus-The Voluptuary  ("The Zodiac: Cosmic Sounds" LP 1967 USA)

The She Creatures - Radar  ("The She Creatures Invade" 2009 UK)

Almost Numan - Factory  ("Depth Charge 11" compilation 2012 Adelaide, Australia)
El Goodo - Information Overload  ("Coyote" 2010 UK)

Le Mat - Waltz of the Fool  ("Another Splash of Colour: New Psychedelia in Britain 1980-1985" compilation 2016 UK)

Gothic Chicken - Pitta Bread Man  ("Lift the Cobweb Veil" 2016 UK)
The Nice - Flower King of Flies  ("The Thoughts of Emerlist Davjack" LP 1967 UK)

Raindrop - Home  ("Crowded Brain" EP 2015 Sydney, Australia)

Squadra Omega - Sepolto dalle Sabbie del Tempo  ("Arti Occhi ci Guardano" 2015 Italy)
Bamboo Shoot - Fox Has Gone to Ground  (7" single 1968 UK)

Diamond Incarnation - Ocean's Daughter  ("Arenaceous Flowersouls" EP 2014 Taiwan)
Laure Briand - Laure  ("Sur la Piste de Danse" [to be released June 2016] France)
Octopus Syng - Bright Trees and Symbolic Keys  ("Birds of Morning are Never Late" 2013 Helsinki, Finland)
Otomne - Ce Garcon  ("Semi-Vol 3 La Souterraine Sampler" 2016 Paris, France)
The Red Plastic Buddha - I Had Too Much To Dream Last Night [Electric Prunes] ("The Psychedelic Sounds of The Blog That Celebrates Itself" 2013 Chicago USA)

The Barbarellatones - Priscilla and the Pyronauts ("Glitter Train" 2016 Hawaii USA)
Psychlops Eyepatch - Nuclear Bombora  ("Paranoise" 2013 Sydney, Australia)

The Citradels - Track 39  ("The Citradels" 2011 Melbourne, Australia)

The Dig - 4th of July  (digital single 2015 New York, USA)

normA - Fantasma  ("Siguente" 2015 La Plata, Argentina)

Sonic Jesus - Somebody To Love [Jefferson Airplane]  ("The Psychedelic Sounds of The Blog That Celebrates Itself" 2013 Italy)

The Sorry Shop - Venus In Furs [Velvet Underground]  ("The Psychedelic Sounds of The Blog That Celebrates Itself" 2013 Brazil)

Technicolour Dreaming

Sometimes this blog comes together so easily, other times it is exceptionally testing. This is one of those testing times! So I might just let the tunes from last week (and the clips that have managed to work) speak for themselves, so I don't delay posting this any longer....next weeks Technicolour Dreaming will feature some pre-release goodies from Kind Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, The Luck of Eden Hall, Kikagaku Moyo and Elephant Stone, so tune in on Tuesday at 2pm (Australian Central Standard Time) on Thee D Radio 93.7fm, or listen to the live stream at www.threedradio.com. You know you want to!

→ ↑ → (Tch Tch Tch) - Pop Art  (7" split single [with "Man and Machine"] 1979 Melbourne, Australia)

La Femme - Telegraphe  ("Le Podium #1" EP 2010 Paris, France)

Brain Washington - L.S.D.  (7" single 2012 London, UK)

Sonic Jesus - Triumph  ("Neither Virtue Nor Anger" 2015 Doganella di Ninfa, Italy)

New Candys - Overall  ("New Candys as Medicine" 2015 Venice, Italy)

The Luck Of Eden Hall - This Weather's Better for Velvet Clothes  ("Butterfly Revolutions Vol 1" 2011 Chicago, USA)

The Smoking Trees - Moving Picture ("The Smoking Trees" EP 2012 Los Angeles, USA)
Jacco Gardner  - Where Will You Go  (7" single 2013 Zwaag, Netherlands)

Blondi's Salvation - Mother Cloud  ("Songs of the New World Order" 2013 Nantes, France) 

The Clangers - Unguarded Moment [The Church]  ("The Clangers" 2016 Adelaide, Australia)

The Dandelion Seeds - Soul Thing  ("The Dandelion Seeds" 2014 Iceland)


Fruit Machine - I'm Alone Today  (7" single 1969 London, UK)


Eartha Kitt - Hurdy Gurdy Man [Donovan]  ("Sentimental Eartha" LP 1970 USA)

The Nice - Flower King of Flies  ("The Thoughts of Emerlist Davjack" LP 1967 UK)

The Blue Giant Zeta Puppies - Steppin' Stone [the Monkees]  ("Active Listener Presents: The Great British Psych Trip Revisited" 2016 UK)

Brainticket - Black Sand  ("Cottonwood Hill" LP 1970 Belgium/Switzerland)

The Shivas - Peele's Perfumed Garden  ("Where Have You Gone To?" 2009 Portland, Oregon USA)

The Chances Are - Fragile Child  (7" single 1967 UK)

Craig and Michael - Drifty (7" single 1966 USA)

The Ethics - It's O.K.  (7" single [b-side to "She's a Deceiver"] 1967 Oregon, USA)


The Locomotive - Mr Armageddon  ("We Are Everything You See" LP 1970 Birmingham, UK)



The Timebox - Gone is the Sad Man  (7" single [b-side to "Girl Don't Make Me Wait"] 1968 Lancashire, UK)

The Lundons - It's Gonna Be Alright  (7" single [b-side to "I Love You So"] 1966 USA)

The Yo Yo's - Crack in My Wall  (7" single [b-side to "The Raven"] 1966 New York USA)

The Sweet Acids - That Creature  (7" single 1967 USA)


Moorpark Intersection - I Think I'll Just Go and Find Me a Flower (7" single 1968 USA)

Sidewalk Skipper Band - (Would You Believe) It's Raining Flowers in my House  (7" single [b-side to "Seventeenth Summer"] 1968 USA)


Greg McCarley - Shoo Shoo Shoo Fly  ("Feeling High -The Psychedelic Sound of Memphis" compilation 2012 USA)


Changin' Tymes - Hark the Child  ("Feeling High -The Psychedelic Sound of Memphis" compilation 2012 USA)

The Tamborines - The Great Division  (7" single [b-side to "What Took You So Long"] 2006 London UK)
The Mops - Omae No Subete O  ("Psychedelic Sounds in Japan" LP 1968 Japan)

Technicolour Dreaming

We began this week with some modern psychedelia from Italy. Sonic Jesus released this debut EP on Fuzz Club Records last year and more recently have done a split 10” single with the Black Angels on the same label. They were just one of some great new bands we played on the show today, including Sydney’s Aether Beach and Los Tones, and the UK’s Violet Woods. Needless to say there were also a bunch of our regular faves such as Balduin, the See See, Singapore Sling and the Dandelion, as well as some brilliant music by the Rolling Stones, the Throb, the Bee Gees and others from the mid-1960’s, since acknowledged as ‘the first psychedelic era’. This then led us into our new feature, “Compilation of the Week”, which we debuted by playing a bunch of classic singles taken from that original garage psych compilation, the one which has since spawned a plethora of successors, namely the 1972 double-LP, “Nuggets : Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic  Era, 1965-1968”, which was compiled of course by Lenny Kaye, who later found renown in the Patti Smith Group, though Nuggets will probably be his real legacy, and thus a fitting start to our new feature. So, until next week.....

..... here is the playlist, complete with visual extras.....

Sonic Jesus - Monkey On My Back      ("Sonic Jesus" 10" EP 2014 Lazio, Italy)

Toy - To a Death Unknown      ("Join the Dots" 2014 UK)

the Dandelion - Paranoid Floyd in a Bliss You Can Hear      ("Strange Case of The Dandelion" 2013 Sydney, Australia)

Aether Beach - Friends      ("The Aether Beach EP" 2014 Sydney, Australia)

Okko - Painted Sails on Ganges      ("Sitar and Electronics" LP 1971 Germany)

Davie Allen and the Arrows - Experiment in Terror [Henry Mancini cover]    ("Shots in the Dark" compilation 1996 USA)

the Throb - Black      (7"single 1966 Australia)

the Rolling Stones - Citadel      ("Their Satanic Majesties Request" LP 1967 UK)

Balduin - Love is You       ("All in A Dream" LP 2014 Switzerland)

Bronco Bullfrog - Listen to the Sky [Sands cover]       ("Time Waits for Norman" EP 2014 UK)

Jim Jenkin - Bike [Syd Barrett cover]      ("Fruits de Mer Records presents: A Momentary Lapse of Vinyl" double-CD compilation 2014 UK)

the See See - The Rain and the Snow      (7”single 2013 UK – taken from "Days, Nights and Late Morning Lights" anthology 2014 UK)

the Left Banke - Shadows Breaking Over my Head       ("Walk Away Renee / Pretty Ballerina" LP 1967 New York, USA)

Psychic Ills - Come Around      (recorded 2014 UK – taken from "Psych For Sore Eyes 2" compilation 2014 Germany)

the Spyrals - Sunflower Microphone      ( 7"single 2011 San Francisco USA)

Sun Eater - Twin Peaks      (digital single b-side [to Wild Arum] 2014 Tacoma, Washington)

Cheval Sombre - She Went Walking in the Rain       (“Mad Love” 2013 UK)

              ###   “Compilation of the Week”   ###  

      Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era, 1965-1968

the Strangeloves - Night Time      (7"single 1965 USA – taken from “Nuggets : Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic  Era” double-LP compilation 1972 USA)

the Seeds - Pushin' Too Hard      (7"single 1966 San Francisco, USA– taken from “Nuggets...” double-LP compilation 1972 USA)

Count Five - Psychotic Reaction      (7"single 1966 San Jose, California USA– taken from “Nuggets...” double-LP compilation 1972 USA)

the Third Rail - Run, Run, Run      (7"single 1967 New York, USA– taken from “Nuggets...” double-LP compilation 1972 USA)

Sagittarius - My World Fell Down      (7"single 1967 Los Angeles, USA– taken from “Nuggets...” double-LP compilation 1972 USA)

Davey Lane - Molty [Barbarians cover]     (recorded 2012 Sydney – taken from "Nuggets: Antipodean Interpolations of the First Psychedelic Era 1965-1967" compilation 2012 Australia)

Los Tones - Speedboat      ("Psychotropic" LP 2014 Sydney, Australia)

Singapore Sling  - Who Put the Ebb in the Ebbebbeb      ("The Tower of Foronicity"  2014 Reykjavik, Iceland)

Violet Woods - Cyanide Suns       (7"single [b-side to "Raw Love"] 2014 Cambridge, UK)

the Carnaby - Jump and Dance      (7"single 1965 UK)

the Bee Gees - Like Nobody Else      (recorded 1966 Australia, unreleased – taken from "Downunder Nuggets" compilation 2012 Australia)

Orange Seaweed - Pictures in the Sky      (7"single b-side [to "Stay Awhile"] 1968 UK)

Mona Lisa Overdrive - It's Just Too Much      (demo 2008 Adelaide, Australia)

the Wands - Sound of the Machine     ("The Dawn" 2014 Denmark)