Technicolour Dreaming

Well, this is the 350th post on The Cat and The Brat blog, which has been going since January 2011, with early posts only consisting of a playlist, but gradually with video clips, and full release details being added along the way. Except for the short period when the Brat was unable to do the show, and until my return to radio after his passing, the Brat and I posted every week since that first attempt, with co-hosts Michael Hunter and Harry keeping things going when I've had to take a rare week off.

My silent current co-host, Harry, seems to have an uncanny knack of picking tracks for the second half of the show, that I was intending to play the following week, making my job all the trickier, but increasing your listening pleasure! It's always interesting to see what Harry will come up with (Harry doesn't like pronouncing French and Swedish track names, hence the silence)...but I digress... anyway, here is the playlist for this week's show - and enjoy your Easter break, if you get one!

Tara King th - Il en aura du temps  ("Hirondelle Et Beretta" 2013 France)

Tara King th - Pretty Mess  ("Extravagant, Grotesque and Nonchalant" 2008 France)

Sky Picnic - 14 Hour Technicolour Dream [The Syn]  ("Active Listener: Nuggets II Revisited" 2015 Brooklyn, New York USA)
Sudden Death of Stars - Why Won't You Try  ("All Unrevealed Parts Of The Unknown" 2014 Brittany, France)

Sultan Bathery - Fog  ("Manimal-Lingam" 7" EP 2012 Vicenza, Italy)

Paul Roland - Born in the 60's  ("Bitter and Twisted" 2015 UK)

The Buzzcocks - Autonomy  ("Another Music in a Different Kitchen" 1978 Manchester, UK)

Jerome and the Psychics - No Stone Unturned  ("Money Is Violence" 2014 Brazil/Nashville, USA) 

The Citradels - Getting Bloody with the Virgin Mary  ("Are They Still Here?" 2016 Melbourne, Australia)

Sir Psych - Out There  ("The Sir" 2013 Los Angeles, California USA)

Frequent Seahorse - The Rabbitman Show  ("For Mu(sic) Lovers" 2006 Adelaide, Australia)

The Honey Pot  - White Rabbit [Jefferson Airplane]  ("The Honey Pot Live in London" 2016 UK)

The Moving Sidewalks - I Wanna Hold Your Hand (7" single 1968 Houston, Texas USA)

The Loose Enz - The Black Door  (7" single 1968 York, Pennsylvania USA)

Ron Wray Light Show - Speed (7" single 1970 USA)

The Besnard Lakes - Towers Sent Her To Sheets of Sound ("A Coliseum Complex Museum" 2016 Montreal, Canada)

Mt Mountain - FX-My Love  ("Mt Mountain" EP 2014 Perth, Australia)

The Red Crayola - Hurricane Fighter Plane  ("The Parable of Arable Land" LP 1967 Houston, Texas USA)

School of Seven Bells - Wired for Light  ("Alpinisms" 2008 New York USA)

Thee Wylde Oscars - All For Naught  ("Right, Yeah" 2010 Melbourne, Australia)

The Black Hollies - Bruised Tangerines  ("Casting Shadows" 2008 New Jersey, USA)

Syd Barrett - Octopus  (7" single 1969 Cambridge, UK)

Richard In Your Mind - Tear Filled Ocean  ("Sun" 2011 Sydney, Australia)

The Wylde Mammoths - Help That Girl  ("Help That Girl" 7" EP 1988 Stockholm, Sweden)

Esko Affair - Morning Dull Fires  (7" single [b-side to "Salt and Pepper"] 1968 Philadelphia, USA)

The Shag - Stop and Listen (7" single 1967 Milwaukee, Wisconsin USA)

The Golden Dawn - Starvation  ("Power Plant" LP 1968 Austin, Texas USA)

Azitis - The Prophet  ("Help" LP 1971 Sacramento, California USA)

Eric Burdon and the Animals - Coloured Rain  ("Love Is" LP 1968 UK)

And an extra clip that I thought I'd throw in - Tara King th's "It's Hard To Be A Cat" Indeed.

Technicolour Dreaming

On this, the third-to-last show of 2014, our choice for “Band of the Week” was Denmark’s Halasan Bazar, who regular listeners will recognise from previous shows – we do play them a lot, but for good reason – just listen to their music and you’ll surely become a fan! We first discovered them though through their collaboration with France’s Tara King th. – another Cat & Brat fave – on the “8” album, released through their common  label, California’s Moon Glyph Records, and worked back from there to their earlier releases – great stuff! During the rest of the programme, we did play a few new releases, such as tracks from Ty Segall’s “$ingle$ 2” anthology and Los Trasgos Muertos’ new EP, but the bulk of the show featured some of our faves of this year, such as Balduin, les Limiñanas, the Chemistry Set and Southern Boutique, as well as a number of older releases which we discovered [or rediscovered] this year, such as Slight, the Rain Parade and Morgen. It’s been a great year for psychedelia and we look forward to the next two shows, when we’ll feature our picks for “best LP/single/band/etc of 2014” amongst all our other favourites of the year [and beyond!]! It should be fun, so tune in to 3D Radio and join us.....

..... but in the meantime, here is this week’s playlist, with visual appendages.....

les Limiñanas – Intro / I'm Dead [2013 live recording]    (“I’ve got Trouble in Mind : 7” & Rare Stuff 2009 –2014” anthology 2014 France)

MMOSS & Quilt - Sandy      ("New Hampshire Freaks" EP 2013 US)

Balduin - Kite Come Back      ("All In A Dream" LP 2014 Switzerland)

Slight - The Freakwave      ("Melodion " EP 2013 Quebec, Canada)

Morgen - Of Dreams      ("Morgen" LP 1969 New York, USA)

Ty Segall - Femme Fatale [Velvet Underground cover]      ("$ingle$ 2" 2014 Los Angeles, USA)

los Trasgos Muertos - Roll With the Punches      ("Eponymous" EP 2014 Manchester UK)

the Churchills  - Debka      ("The Churchills" LP 1969 Israel)

the Vagrants - I Can't Make a Friend      (7"single 1966 New York, USA)

Bill Plummer and his Cosmic Brotherhood - Journey to the East      ("Cosmic Brotherhood" LP 1968 Los Angeles, USA)

the Allah-Las - No Werewolf       ("Worship the Sun" 2014 California, USA)

Morgan Delt - Elastic Id      ("Psych For Sore Eyes Volume 2" compilation 2014 USA/Germany)   

Southern Boutique  - Afterglow      ("Southern Boutique" 2014 Austin, Texas, USA)

Sky PIcnic - The Good Humor Man (He Sees Everything like this) [Love cover]     (recorded 2013 USA for "The Active Listener Presents...Forever Changing - A Tribute to Love's ‘Forever Changes’ LP" compilation 2014 New Zealand)

Love - You Set the Scene      ("Forever Changes" LP 1967 Los Angeles, USA)

Crystal Jacqueline - You Just Gotta Know My Mind [Dana Gillespie/Donovan cover}     (recorded in Wales, UK 2014 – taken from "Postcards from the Deep" flexi-disc box-set 2014 UK)

the Junipers - Our Budgerigar (is addicted to rasmalai)      ("Euphonious Trolley EP 1" 2014 UK)

     ###     “Band of the Week”    –   HALASAN BAZAR     ###

Halasan Bazar - Am I Blind     ("Space Junk" LP 2013 Denmark)

Halasan Bazar -Tin Foiled      ("How to be Ever Happy" 2012 Denmark)

Halasan Bazar & Tara King th. - Rot Inside      ("8" LP 2014 Denmark/France )

the Chemistry Set - Elapsed Memories      (7"single 2014 UK)

the Rain Parade - What's She Done to Your Mind      ("Emergency Third Rail Power Trip" LP 1983  USA)

Bronco Bullfrog - Rocking Horse Mender      (“Time waits for Norman” EP 2014 UK)

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)