Technicolour Dreaming

It was a bit of an unusual show this week, with the Cat only present for the first hour and the Brat flying solo on the remainder - it's tricky living in the country and coming in each week, but when one of us needs to stay in town for 'medical experiments' [heh heh!] it gets downright complicated due to the single bus home which leaves from the city... and so on and so forth. Suffice to say, we managed to negotiate all the trials and tribulations. The Cat returned to the Cape and the Brat was successfully delivered into his world of pain in the hospital - said illness also being the reason for the lateness & briefness of this spiel. So here is the intro......   Our Band of the Week was the inimitable Roxy Music, a band who should need no introduction though sadly, probably do – unfortunately most people remember the “Avalon” period – so take a look at their film-clips (and it was film in those days!) for a reminder of this innovative group at their peak. Fittingly, early Roxy stalwart, Brian Eno, rounded off the show this week with a track from his debut solo album “Here Come The Warm Jets” replete with a suitably strange clip from 1976, posted a few years back....

.....and here is the playlist plus moving pictures.....

Heaven’s Gateway Drugs – Apropos      (“Apropos” 2014 Indiana, USA)

Cambrian Explosion – Umbra od Mind      (“The Sun EP” 2013 Portland, Oregon, USA)

Money Go Round – Endless Sun       (digital single 2013 Sydney, Australia)

Frantic Chant – Broken Biscuit Head (Mode rocker remix)      (“Ruthless Superman” rarities anthology 2014  Scotland, UK)

Napolleon – Rendez-Vous      (recorded 2014 Indonesia – taken from “Psychedelic Underground Generation : PUG #23” compilation 2014 Belgium)

Mordecai Smyth – Out in the Stars with DSP      (“Trip Inside this House Vol.6” compilation 2013 UK)

Balduin – Mirror, Mirror      (“All in a Dream” LP 2014 Bern, Switzerland)

The Karovas Milkshake – Do you Wanna Eat Me/Godiva      (mp3 2013 Moscow, Russia)

Bronco Bullfrog – Marmalade      (7”single 2014 UK)

Stuart Gray [aka Stu Spasm] – Rays of the Sun     (mp3 2013 Australia/USA – taken from “Trip Inside this House Vol.6” compilation 2013 UK)

Boeing Duveen and the Beautiful Soup – Which Dreamed It      (7”single b-side [to Jabberwocky] 1968 UK)

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

Prince Rupert’s Drops – Death March      (“Climbing Light” 2014 New York, USA)

Dave Davies – Susannah’s Still Alive      (7”single 1967 UK)

Sullivan – Hashish Faction      (7”single 1966 France)

the Grease Arrestor – Strange Love      (“What Was, Is” 2014 Sydney)

    ###   “BAND OF THE WEEK”   –   Roxy Music   ###

Roxy Music – Pyjamarama      (7” single 1973 UK)

Roxy Music –The Bob (Medley)      (“Roxy Music” LP 1972 UK)

Roxy Music – Editions of You      (“For Your Pleasure” LP 1973 UK)

Roxy Music – Re-Make/Re-Model     (“Roxy Music” LP 1972 UK)

Elephant Stone – Three Poisons      (“Three Poisons” LP 2014 Montreal, Canada)

the Human Expression – Optical Sound     (7”single 1967 USA)

the State of Mickey and Tommy – I Know What I Would Be      (7” single 1967 UK/France)

Soft Hearted Scientists – Flying Horses      (“The Slow Cyclone”  2014 Wales, UK)

Brian Eno – Driving Me Backwards      (“Here Come the Warm Jets” LP 1974 UK)

Technicolour Dreaming

Usual co-host Peter Brat being ‘indisposed’, your presenters for this week’s show were ‘the Bryan & the Cat’, playing our usual mix of psych, garage, surf, pop, punk, electro and so much more... including, from the vaults, Adelaide music from the Dagoes, the Brats and Liz Dealey, plus the un-released single by Exhibit A (produced by Tony Cohen in Melbourne in 1982, featuring Peter Brat, Stu Spasm, Chris Walsh of the Moodists, Richard Ploog from the Church and Brendon Walker) ... a clutch of classic Lipstick Killers, Jason Crest and Revillos tracks, plus artists ranging from perennial favourites Sparks through Apples In Stereo and Japan to the Detroit Cobras. They also featured recent recordings from bands such as Scotland’s the Fast Camels, the Horrors, the Brutes and Adelaide’s All the leaves have fallen plus, of course, our new “Album of the Month” by local legends Almost Numan...

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

Japan – Canton     (‘Tin Drum’ LP 1981 UK)

All the leaves have fallen – Ruby Bland     (demo 2011 Adelaide, Australia)

Exhibit A – Confusion     (un-released single 1982 Melbourne/Adelaide)

the Brats – Hoodlums      (demo 1980 Adelaide)

the Brutes – Last of a Dying Crowd     (‘It’s Happening Vol 2’ Shindig! magazine comp. 2010 UK)

the Detroit Cobras – You’ll never change     (Tied & True)

Liz Dealey – Goodbye     (‘Pure Purple demos’ 2011 Aust.)

Sparks – Let the Monkey Drive     (Exotic Creatures of the Deep)

the Undertones – Girls Don’t Like it     (‘The Undertones’ LP 1979 UK)

the Bellrays – Remember     (The Red, White & Black)

the Flamin’ Groovies – Slow Death     (7”single 1972 USA)

the Lipstick Killers – Hindu Gods (of Love)     (7”single 1979 Sydney, Aust.)

the Dagoes – We Sell Soul [Roky Erikson cover/version]     (7”single 1979 Adelaide)

Jason Crest – Black Mass     (7”single 1969 UK)

the Fast Camels – Like a Magic Optician     (Magic Optician)

Apples In Stereo – Strawberryfire     (Her Wallpaper Reverie)

Toyah – Angels & Demons     (‘Four from Toyah’ EP 1983 UK)

the Revillos – Voodoo [demo version]     (‘From the Freezer – Demos and Rarities’)

Almost Numan – Blockhead [Devo cover]     (Almost Numan : ‘OFF’ side)     #

the Horrors – Crawdaddy Simone [Syndicats cover]     (the Horrors)

     # “Album of the Week”