Three D Radio's Top 100+1

Technicolour Dreaming had a rest this week, as it was time for Three D Radio's Top 100+1 countdown, which is held on the Australia Day public holiday each year, and features 12 hours of the most-played new releases for 2015, and interviews with local bands. Three D announcers get to choose the music that they play, as there are no set playlists, so the countdown features a very diverse range of musical styles, and a very high proportion of local Adelaide artists. 

So it was into this musical maelstrom that I was thrown, with co-announcer Jamie (from Thursday's excellent drive-time show "Follow the Sound") at the controls, to interview 11 of the 16 bands that fell into our 2-4pm time-slot. Much chaos and hilarity ensued, with a revolving door of musicians coming and going - before we knew it, our 2 hours was over, and it was time for a well deserved beer!

I've included clips for as many of the Adelaide bands that I can find - some aren't for the song that we played, but will give you an idea of their style of music. Enjoy! 

38: William Street Strikers - No Surrender ("Nothing's Going On" 2015 Adelaide, Australia)

37: The Clangers - I Live My Life That Way  ("The Clangers" 2015 Adelaide, Australia)

36: Goldstein - King Muck  ("Playing Dog" 2015 Adelaide, Australia) 

35: Sparkspitter - Vortechne  ("Techne" 2015 Adelaide, Australia)

34: Andy and Marta - She's Coming Home  ("Dressed in Blue" 2015 Adelaide, Australia)

33: The Violet Crams - We Drip From the Mezzanine  ("Cram It In Ya" 2015 Adelaide,

Australia)

32: Rule of Thirds - Pleasure Hive  ("Rule of Thirds" 2015 Adelaide, Australia)

31: Squeaker - Solitude  ("In Love / In Madness" 2015 Adelaide, Australia)

30: Thee Oh Sees - Withered Hand  ("Mutilator Defeated at Last" 2015 Los Angeles, USA)

29: Fiendish Cavendish - Junkyard Dog  ("Aim Low and Hit" 2015 Adelaide, Australia)

28: The Dagoes - Kids Got Style  ("Supreme" [reissue with bonus tracks] 2015 Adelaide,

Australia)

27: Thanes -Kingdom of the Nobots ("Let All The Poisons That Lurk In The Mud Hatch Out" 2015 Adelaide, Australia)

26: Courtney Barnett - Dead Fox  ("Sometimes I Sit and Think, Sometimes I Just Sit" 2015 Melbourne, Australia)

25: Flangipanis - Getting Shit for Free  ("Gouge Out Your Eyes" 2015 Brisbane, Australia)

24: The Saucermen - Voodoo Stomp / Black Sheep  ("Fangs" 2015 Adelaide, Australia)

23: Rapid Transport - Dolatov's T  ("In Transit" 2015 Adelaide, Australia)

And for the full listing of the chart, as well as photos of the fun and mayhem had by all at the Top 100+1, take a look at Three D Radio's Facebook page . Thanks also to Spoz, ranter about Adelaide music extraordinaire, for a couple of the clips that I've used this week.

And to finish things off, here's a photo of a very sun-burnt Megan Cat, and the back of Jamie's head, interviewing The Clangers. Thanks to Michael Hunter for the picture!

Technicolour Dreaming

Regular listeners to our shows will be aware that we are rather fond of boxsets and compilations of obscurities and this week we had a couple of new ones to plunder. We were excited to find a new addition to the wonderful ‘Electric Psychedelic Sitar Headswirlers’ series, now up to Volume Eleven, playing tracks from disparate locales such as Indonesia, the USA and Holland. We also got our hands on the new 5-CD boxset edition of the long-running ‘Electric Sound Show’ compilation LP series featuring obscure psychedelia found worldwide from the 1960’s (plus a few from the early 70’s) for our delectation! We only got it last week and have yet to hear it all, but played a few of the songs which have grabbed our attention so far, particularly tracks such as the very odd, lone single by Me Myself & Eye... very strange indeed! For our penultimate track, we played Adelaide’s own Fluffy as a ‘taster’ for 3D Radio’s annual TOP 101 which is being held on Monday 28^th January, with the Cat & the Brat hosting the 2-4pm slot... so tune in and hear the most played artists heard on 3D Radio in 2012, the bulk of whom are local Adelaide talent...

..... until then, here is the playlist for the 22^nd January edition of Technicolour Dreaming.....

the Hollies – Water on the Brain      (‘Evolution’ LP 1967 UK)

Sir Richard Bishop – Sidi Masour      (‘The Freak of Araby’ LP 2009 USA)

Eternal Tapestry – Galactic Derelict      (‘Beyond the 4^th Door’ 2011 Oregon, USA)

Jason Lytle – Your Final Setting Sun      (‘Dept. of Disappearance’ 2012 USA)

Sparkspitter – Fearsplishing      (cd-single 2012 Adelaide, Australia)

FEARSPLISHING from sparkspitter on Vimeo.

Earth – The Rakehead      (‘Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light II’ LP 2012 USA)

Fripp & Eno – Swastika Girls [excerpt]      (‘(No Pussyfooting)’ LP 1973 UK)

the Flower Machine – Blown      (‘Lavender Lane’ 2010 Los Angeles, USA)

Gary Knight – World, 2000      (7”single b-side [to Greta Green Grass] 1967 UK – taken from ‘Electric Sound Show: an Assortment of Antiquities for the Psychedelic Connoisseur’  5-CD boxset compilation 2012 UK)

Paisley Patterns – Doomsday Plus One      (7”single 1968 Hollywood, USA)

Owl – Aunt Cate is Dead      (7”single b-side [to The World Keeps Turning] 1971 Massachusetts, USA)

Me Myself & Eye – I Come from the Andromeda Galaxy [A Pioneer in Celestial Music]      (7”single 1969 California, USA)

Oxford Watchband – Diagnosis (One Way Empty and Down)      (7”single 1969 Rochester, USA)

the Panbers- Rock & the Sea      (‘Sound 2’ LP 1972 Sumatra, Indonesia – taken from ‘Electric Psychedelic Sitar Headswirlers, volume eleven’ compilation 2012 UK)

the David – People Saying, People Doing      (7”single 1967 California, USA)

the Whatt Four – Dandelion Wine      (7”single 1967 California, USA)

Sagittarius – Glass      (‘Present Tense’ LP 1968 Los Angeles, USA)

Shocking Blue – Acka Raga      (‘Scorpio’s Dance’ LP 1970 Holland)

the Spazzys – Dissolution [is the only solution]      (‘Dumb Is Forever’ 2012 Melbourne, Australia)

the Stomachmouths – Doctor Syn      (‘Something Weird’ LP 1986 Sweden)

the Len Price 3 – Mourn, My Health      (‘Rentacrowd’ LP 2008 UK)

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

Blank Realm – Working on Love      (‘Go Easy’ 2012 Brisbane, Australia)

Useless Eaters – Addicted to the Blade      (7”single 2012 USA)

Smith Westerns – Weekend      (‘Dye It Blonde’ 2010 USA)

the Psychedelic Furs – Mack the Knife [Kurt Weill cover]      (7”single b-side [to Pretty In Pink] 1981 UK)

Tin Tin – She Said Ride      (‘Toast & Marmalade For Tea’ LP 1971 Australia)

Paul Roland – The Puppet Master      (recorded 1980 Denmark – released on ‘The League of Psychedelic Gentlemen’ split-EP 2012 UK)

the Unspoken Things – Puppets      (‘Bourbon Eyes’ cd-EP 2005 Adelaide, Australia)

the Green Mist – Roadside Graves      (‘Next Stop Antartica’ LP 2007 Australia/Spain)

Fluffy – Textas & Chocolate Cake      (‘A Rock’n’Roll Opera’ cd-EP 2012 Adelaide, Australia)

Zacharias & the Tree People – We’re All Paul Bearers [Part 1]      (‘I Buried Paul’ compilation 2005 USA)