Technicolour Dreaming

Another eclectic show which wandered from our opening song by July from their 1968 LP through to the1978 debut EP by Brisbane  legends the Riptides, onto a song put out by the Mysterion Art Factory by Idaho Nash featuring a faux-Dylan video clip, a brilliant pairing of Danish outfit Halasan Bazar with French popsters Tara King th. through to a 1985 version of “Lucifer Sam” by Adelaide band, the Spikes, with some Gene Clark, Beach House and Scott Walker added to the mix, amongst others. And we remained in Europe for our latest “Band of the Week” – specifically les Limiñanas who hail from Perpignan, France. We’ve been hailing their virtues for quite some time now, playing tracks from all three of their albums plus the occasional 7”single and so we were pleased to see a new ‘rarities’ anthology released by the excellent US label “Trouble In Mind”, and even happier when our own copy arrived in the mailbox! If you haven’t discovered the delights of les Limiñanas thus far [and it’s a mystery of the modern world as to why this band is not yet huge! ] this new compilation is as good as anywhere to start... you won’t regret it! So, until the next edition, this is the Cat and the Brat signing off.....

..... and here is the full playlist, with a number of visual diversions....

July – Jolly Mary      (“July” LP 1968 UK)

Les Grys-Grys – Hot Gully Wind [Masters Apprentices cover]      (7”single 2014 France)

Idaho Nash – Hullabaloo      (“Mysterion Art Factory: Singles EP, Volume 1” compilation 2014 Melbourne, Australia)

the Chosen Lot – Time Was      (7”single 1967 Ohio USA)

Scott Walker – The Plague      (“Scott 2” LP 1968 UK)

Groovy Uncle – Wet Weekend      (“Persuaded” LP 2014 UK)

Davie Allan and the Arrows – War Path      (7”single 1964 USA)

the Riptides – Sunset Strip      (“Sunset Strip”  EP 1978 Brisbane, Australia)

the Plastic Fangs – Four on the Floor      (“The Plastic Fangs”  EP  2014 Brisbane, Australia)

Gene Clark – No Other      (“No Other”  LP 1974 Los Angeles, USA)

Beach House – Lazuli      (“Bloom” 2012 Baltimore, USA)

Halasan Bazar & Tara King th. – Rot Inside      (“8”  LP 2014 Denmark/France)

Lorelle Meets the Obselete – What’s Holding You?      (“Chambers”  2014 Mexico)

Firefriend – Loveage Moondream      (“Strange Feelings” LP 2015 [pre-release] Sao Paolo, Brazil)

Scars – All About You      (“Author! Author!”  LP 1981 UK)

Woods – Shining      (“With Light and With Love” 2014 New York, USA)

   ###  “BAND OF THE WEEK”   –   les Limiñanas   ###

les Limiñanas – I know there’s an answer [Beach Boys cover]      (“I’ve got Trouble in Mind : 7” & Rare Stuff 2009 –2014” anthology 2014 France)

les Limiñanas – BB      (“Costa Blanca” 2013 France)

les Limiñanas – Je Suis Une Go-Go Girl      (“Les Limiñanas”  LP 2010 France)

les Limiñanas – Salvation      (“Crystal Anis” 2012 France)

Nick Nicely – Hilly Fields (1892)      (7”single 1982 UK)

The Story – Standing in the Rain      (“Joy Ride on Memory Lane” 2011 UK)

Quilt – Mary Mountain      (“Held In Splendour” 2014 USA)

the Dandelion – Paranoid Floyd in a Bliss You Can Hear     (“Strange Case of the Dandelion” 2013 Australia)

Brillig – Ghost Riders in the Sky [Stan Jones cover]      (‘Ghost Riders in the Sky” EP 2014 Adelaide, Australia)

Southern Boutique – Rabbit Trail      (“Southern Boutique” LP 2014 Austin, Texas)

the Spikes – Lucifer Sam [Pink Floyd cover]      (“A Greasy Selection from the Studios and Garages of Adelaide” compilation 1985 Adelaide, Australia)

Richard Pash and the Backdoor Society – I’m the Kind      (7”single 1967 Avon Lake, Ohio USA)

Technicolour Dreaming

It’s been good to see that the vinyl 7”single is thriving again in the modern world and we featured quite a few on this week’s show, both old and new, though with a bias towards b-sides, plus a few ‘digital-only’ singles, such as the Vintage Cucumber song we finished with, which is only available as a bonus track with last year’s “Yoki Style” album. Also featured were EP tracks from the likes of Tasmania’s Violet Swells and Circassian from Athens, as well as some vinyl album tracks by 60’s L.A. band, the Leaves, and Italy’s Magic Cat, plus much more.....

.....so here is the playlist, along with some visual treats.....

Violet Swells – Jupiter’s Garden         (“The Soft Focus” EP 2014 Tasmania, Australia)

Jeffertitti’s Nile – Play With Fire [Rolling Stones cover]         (“Hypnotic River of Sound” 2010 California USA)

Circassian – Greeting to the Guns         (“Circassian” EP 2011 Athens Greece)

the Besnard Lakes – Love You [Syd Barrett cover]         (recorded in Canada 2009 for “Mojo: The Madcap Laughs Again” magazine covermount CD-compilation 2009 UK)

the Leaves – Words [Boyce & Hart/ Monkees cover]         (“Hey Joe” LP 1966 California USA)

the Plague – The Face of Time         (7”single 1967 Toronto, Canada)

the Mockers – God Only Knows [Beach Boys cover]         (“The Lonesome Death of Electric Campfire”  2006 Virginia USA)

Jacco Gardner – A House on the Moon         (7”single b-side [to Clear the Air] 2012 Netherlands)

Peter Sarstedt – Mary Jane         (7”single b-side [to I must go on] 1968 UK)

House of Nimrod – Ragged Patch         (7”single b-side [to Psychothartic] 1968 New Zealand)

Soft-Hearted Scientists – Seeing         (“False Lights” Wales UK 2013)

Southern Boutique – Rabbit Trails         (digital-single 2014 Austin, Texas, USA)

Coloured Clocks – Mr Green and the Telescope Console         (“All is Round” 2014 Melbourne, Australia)

Kingdom of the Holy Sun – Yama         (“Surya’s Smile 11”  2013 Los Angeles, USA)

Buried Feather – In the Sun         (7”single 2013 Melbourne, Australia)

the Pretty Things – Helter Skelter [Beatles cover]      (“The White EP” double-7”single compilation 2012 UK)

Nikola Tesla & Thee Coils – Sweet Rays      (“Cerebus” 2014 Moscow, Russia)

the Luck of Eden Hall – Looking Glass      (7”single b-side [to Hook Line & Sinker] 1991 Chicago, USA)

Thomas Edisun’s Electric Light Bulb Band – Hope      (“The Red Day Album” – recorded 1967-68, unreleased until 2014 USA)

Psychic TV – Good Vibrations [Beach Boys cover]      (7”single b-side [to Roman P] 1987 UK)

the Tegoku Batake Japon – Karomi No Step      (“GuruGuru Brain Wash – GuruGuruBrain Records label sampler Vol.1” compilation 2014 Tokyo, Japan)

Magic Cat – She’s Like Danger      (“For Friends Only” LP 2013 Rome, Italy)

Toy – You Won’t Be The Same      (“Join the Dots” LP 2013 London, UK)

Temples – Mesmerise      (“Sun Structures” 2014 Kettering, UK)

Running Stream – She’s My Queen      (“2^nd Album” LP 1988 Italy)

Vintage Cucumber – Alles in Butter 78      (digital-only bonus track on “Yoki Style” LP 2013 Germany)

Technicolour Dreaming

The new Brian Jonestown Massacre album came into our P.O. box this week so, needless to say, we felt it was a fine way to begin this week’s show before we moved into our trawl through the wonderful world of psychedelia. Also featured this week were tracks from a couple of cool Russian bands, Mystic Brew and the Spoon Box, with more to follow in coming weeks from what appears to be a very vibrant psych scene... special thanks to Dimitry of Mystic Brew for putting us onto some of the great bands there! Northern Europe also provided us with tracks by such Scandinavian bands as Octopus Syng and the Jessica Fletchers plus, from Poland, the White Kites, while from the Philippines we played D’Swooners, as well as a bunch from the USA and Britain including Flavor Crystals and Jeffertitti’s Nile from the former and Scars, the Open Mind and Schnauser from the latter, not forgetting Australia’s entries, Shining Bird and Subtract-S and New Zealand’s the Avengers, who did a great cover of “Listen, Listen”, which has to be one of our favourite 60’s classics! That’s your lot - another “Technicolour Dreaming” streamed into your ears, so until next week.....

...... here is the playlist, plus visuals......

Enjoy!

Brian Jonestown Massacre – Vad Hände Med Dem       (“Revelation”  2014 USA/Germany)

Octopus Syng – It’s Not a Coincidence         (”Reverberating Garden no.7” 2014 Finland)

Mind Garage – Asphalt Mother         (7”single 1968 Pittsburgh, USA)

Mystic Brew – Without You         (7”single b-side [to Don’t You Want To Stay] 2014 Moscow, Russia)

MYSTIC BREW - Without You (Official Video) from Zakharkin Oleg on Vimeo.

D’Swooners – Please Please Trina         (7”single 1968 Philippines/Hong Kong)

BB Jr – Walking with Jesus [Spaceman 3 cover]         (“Captcha Records... introducing” sampler compilation 2014 California, USA)

the Barbarellatones – Sharknado         (mp3 2014 Hawaii, USA)

the Modern Lovers – She Crack’d         (“The Modern Lovers” LP 1976 New York, USA)

Frantic Chance – My Name is Warfare         (mp3 demo 2014 Scotland, UK)

the Jessica Fletchers – Bloody Seventies Love         (“What Happened to the?” 2003 Norway)

the Green Tambourine Band – From the Seed into the Flower [Sir Psych Mix]         (mp3 – song orig. on “Let Yourself Be/Aum” LP 2014 Scotland, UK)

Cheval Sombre – You’ve got to Hide Your Love Away [Beatles cover]         (mp3 2013 USA)

Three Minute Tease – Cry Baby Cry [Beatles cover]          (“The White EP” double-7” EP 2013 UK)

Southern Boutique – Don’t Be Yourself (Cowboy Song Part 2)         (7” single 2013 USA)

Flavor Crystals – Blue Haiti         (“Three” LP 2013 USA)

Shining Bird – Can’t Stop Sleeping In         (demo 2014 Australia)

Jeffertitti’s Nile – The Day the Sky Fell         (“The Electric Hour” 2014 Los Angeles, USA)

the White Kites – Percival Buck        (“Missing” LP 2014 Poland)

the Mirage – Ebenezer Beaver         (recorded 1968 UK, but unissued – taken from ”Love, Poetry and Revolution: A Journey Through the British Psychedelic and Underground Scenes 1966-72” CD-boxset 2013 UK)

the Open Mind – Magic Potion         (7” single 1969 UK)

the Avengers – Listen, Listen [Merry-Go-Round cover]         (7” single 1969 New Zealand)

Scars – All About You         (“Author! Author!” LP 1981 UK)

Tall Tales and True – Wasted Life         (“Tale Tales and True” mini-LP 1986 Sydney, Australia)

Toys Went Berserk – Guns at My Head        (7” single [b-side to Don’t Run Away] 1986 Sydney, Australia)

Subtract-S – mb ph         (“Love From Outer Space” EP 2012 Adelaide, Australia)

Schnauser – Astral Traveller [Yes cover]         (7”single 2014 Wales, UK)

the Spoon Box – Два расиста [Two Racists]         (“The Spoon Box” EP 2012 Samara, Russia)