Technicolour Dreaming

Aah, this was the day when everything went wrong... a few minutes into the show and the computer had a hissy-fit, leading to several people pulling plugs in and out, and scrambling around under the desk, trying to find the on/off switch. Needless to say, by the time everything was up and running again, my programming was totally out the window, but at least the music went to air! These are the perils of Community Radio, but on the upside, when everything is operating as it should, we're very lucky to be able to play whatever we fancy (and without endless commercials interrupting the flow), which benefits you, the listener. As a result of the above-mentioned malfunctions, I ended up unintentionally relying on 2 very good compilations (as you'll see below, they feature very strongly in the playlist): Fruits de Mer Records' "Strange Fruit and Veg" compilation, and "Wild About You: A Tribute to the Australian Rock Underground 1963 - 1968". Both releases are collections of cover versions, and very good versions they are too! So here's the playlist, but with limited clips this week...

The 49th Parallel - Close the Barn Door  (7" single (b-side to "Twilight Woman") 1969 USA)

The Green Telescope - I'm a Living Sickness [The Calico Wall]  ("Strange Fruit and Veg" compilation 2015 Edinburgh, Scotland UK)

Oxford Circle - Foolish Woman  (7" single 1966 California, USA)

ZX+ - She's a Rainbow [Rolling Stones]  ("Strange Fruit and Veg" compilation 2015 UK)
The Mint - We're Friends  ("Endless Journey: Reverberation III" compilation 1971 Texas)

The Dragons - Heart Transplantation  (7" single 1969 Bonn, Germany)

The Hergs - Style of Love  (7" Single 1967 Adelaide, Australia)

The Dukes - The Dentist  (7" single (b-side to "Vera Petruschka") 1969 Sauerland, Germany)

M.P.D. Limited - No Regrets  (7" single 1966 Melbourne, Australia)

The Telephones - Hummmingbyrd  (7" single 2014 UK)

Mauve La Biche and Cary Grace - Archangel Thunderbird [Amon Duul]  ("Strange Fruit and Veg" compilation 2015 UK)

Mark Fry - The Witch  ("Dreaming WIth Alice" LP 1972 UK)

The Crawlin' Hex - Who Do You Love?  ("Strange Fruit and Veg" compilation 2015 Fylde Coast, UK)

The Lords of Gravity - Black [The Throb]  ("Wild About You: A Tribute to the Australian Rock Underground 1963 - 1968" 2002 Australia)

The Gruntled - Drivin' Me Insane [Missing Links]  ("Wild About You: A Tribute to the Australian Rock Underground 1963 - 1968" 2002 Australia)

Ninetynine - It's A Hard Life [The Atlantics]  ("Wild About You: A Tribute to the Australian Rock Underground 1963 - 1968" 2002 Melbourne Australia)
The Double Agents - I Want, Need, Love You  [The Black Diamonds]  ("Wild About You: A Tribute to the Australian Rock Underground 1963 - 1968" 2002 Australia)
The Cants - Saturday Date [Toni McCann]  ("Wild About You: A Tribute to the Australian Rock Underground 1963 - 1968" 2002 Australia)
Arirang - 10:15 Saturday Night [The Cure]  ("The Cure In Other Voices" 2016 Milan, Italy)
The Skating Party - Metal Baby [Teenage Fanclub]  ("TBTCI Loves TFC" 2016 Pennsylvania, USA)
Champanes - The Concept [Teenage Fanclub]  ("TBTCI Loves TFC" 2016 Washington, USA)
T Rex - Truck On (Tyke) [full-length master version]  ("Shadowhead" 2001 UK)

Frankie and the Witch Fingers - Thinking About You  ("Sidewalk" 2013 California, USA)

Jeffertitti's Nile - Midnight Siren  (7" single 2011 California, USA)

Sidewalk Society - If Only  ("Venus, Saturn and the Crescent Moon" 2012 Long Beach, California USA)

Os Noctambulos - Watching You  (7" single [b-side to "Outsider"] 2015 Paris, France)

Dusty Mush - Sometimes Good Guys Don't Wear White  ("Psychotic Reaction" compilation 2015 Île-de-France, France)

Forever Pavot - Farfichat  ("Le Passeur d'Armes" 2014 Paris, France)

39th and the Nortons - Live and Let Live [Love]  ("Forever Changing" compilation 2103 Paris, France)

Orgasmo Sonore - François de Roubaix  ("Themes International: The Lost Tapes" 2016 Montreal, Canada)

Blondi's Salvation - Your Gold Mine  ("To Our Future" 2013 Nantes, France)

Interstellar Overdrive - K1  ("Epo" 2015 Rennes, France)
Joujou Jaguar - Even If I Could Drink All the Water From Mars  ("Demo #3" 2015 Paris, France)

Technicolour Dreaming

Not only were we joined for this week’s show by Michael Hunter, the other ‘DOT’ from our old “Obscured by...” days, but also by ex-Masters Apprentices guitarist, Peter Tilbrook, who came into the studio to tell us about the current “Pop Treasures : Adelaide 60’s Music” exhibition [see link here] at the State Library and, in particular, a one-off performance event – “Memory Lane” – this coming Monday evening, the 17^th February, by the Twilight Zone – a band consisting of former members of Adelaide legends the Twilights, the Others and the Masters Apprentices, including of course Peter himself. It promises to be a night to remember, so if you’re in town, don’t miss either the performance or the exhibition! [for details of the gig, see link here] In honour of this, we also sprinkled in a few tracks from the era by bands such as the Hergs and the Zoot from Adelaide, the Turtles, the Beacon Street Union and Lotus, as well as newer exponents of that psychedelic beat such as Ponyface, Temples, Black Market Karma, Toy and Lady Strangelove, plus new singles from Beaulieu Porch and Magic Bones. See you at the library on Monday night - and until next week on Technicolour Dreaming.....

..... here is the playlist and relevant visuals.....

the Hergs – Cadillac         (7” single b-side [to ‘Style of Love’] 1967 Adelaide, Australia)    

Red Plastic Buddha – Seahorse         (“All Out Revolution” 2011 Chicago, USA)

Temples – Keep In the Dark         (“Sun Structures”  2014 UK)

BeatPack – I’m Walking         (7” single 2014 UK)

Thunder and Roses – Moon Child         (“King of the Black Sunrise” LP 1969 Philadelphia USA)

Lotus – Lotus 1         (7” single 1971 Aust.)

Beaulieu Porch – The View from Gainsborough [summer psych mix]            (7” single 2014 UK)

Lady Strangelove – Somewhere in the Universe        (“Freakquencies”  EP 2009 Adelaide, Aust.)

Thee Wylde Oscars – White Light, White Heat [Velvet Underground cover]         (“Right, Yeah” 2010 Melbourne, Aust.)

Black Market Karma – Run, Run, Run         (“Comatose” 2012 London, UK)

the Beacon Street Union – Mystic Mourning         (“The Eyes of the Beacon Street Union” LP 1968 Boston, USA)

the Turtles – Grim Reaper of Love         (7” single 1966 Los Angeles, USA)

Ponyface – Silver Tongue        (“Hypnotized”  2012 Melbourne, Aust.)

the Flower Machine – The Sea is a Mellotron Trampoline / I am the Coelacanth        (“Chalk Dust Dream of the Tea Cozy Mitten Company” 2004 California, USA)

Dark Ocean Colours – She’s a Cornucopia         (“Dark Ocean Colours” 2011 USA)

the Photon Band – 9 of Dreams         (“All Young in the Soul” LP 1998 USA)

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

Tyrnaround – Francis  [Gary Walker and the Rain cover]        (“Colour Your Mind” EP 1987 Aust.)

Magic Bones – Round the Block        (cd-single 2014 Aust.)

the Masters Apprentices – Elevator Driver         (7” single 1968 Adelaide, Aust.)

 

the Twilights – What’s Wrong with the Way I Live         (7” single 1967 Adelaide, Aust.)

the Sounds of Silence – Running High         (7” single 1967 Aust.)

the Zoot – 1x2x3x4          (7” single 1967 Adelaide, Aust.)

Technicolour Dreaming

Stormy weather here in South Australia over the past week or so, and a fallen tree knocking over powerlines in downtown Stepney, caused 3D Radio to go off-air for a while during this week’s show. What? No back-ups we hear you ask? Errrr, well, they failed also.... so it was a truncated edition alas, yet we still managed to fit in some new music, including a song from the Aves brand new EP [recorded in New York] and the soon-to-be-released vinyl single from Buried Feather [their launch show with TD faves the Sun Blindness at the Old Bar in Melbourne on October 27^th sounds like the place to be if you’re in the vicinity!] plus an as-yet-unreleased track from the Citradels. There was also a song from the new White Fence double LP (produced by Ty Segall) plus of course some 60’s gems... but then all too soon, it was time for our “Band of the Month”, the Dukes of Stratosphear, and the end of the show! Hopefully we’ll be powering back to full length next Wednesday.....

..... so here is the playlist..... 

Singapore Sling – Overdriver      (‘The Curse of Singapore Sling’ 2003 Iceland)

X-Ray Spex – I am a Poseur      (‘Germ-Free Adolescents’ LP 1978 UK)

the Electric Prunes – I       (‘Underground’ LP 1967 USA)

the Beatles – Blue Jay Way      (‘Magical Mystery Tour’ double EP 1967 UK)

                 Off-Air   [Power Failure / Blackout in Stepney]

the Church – The Unguarded Moment      (7”single 1980 Australia)

Buried Feather – Time It Takes      (7”single 2012 Melbourne, Aust.)

the Aves – In Vogue      (‘Anywhere Else’ EP 2012 Adelaide, Aust.)

King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard – Sam Cherry’s Last Shot      (’12 Bar Bruise’ 2012 Melbourne, Aust.)

the Murlocs – Tee Pee      (‘Tee Pee’ EP 2012 Melbourne, Aust.)

the Syssys – Jump Back      (7”single 1966 Adelaide, Aust.)

the Hergs – Cadillac [Vince Taylor cover]       (7”single 1967 Adelaide, Aust.)

the Citradels – John Cage, Play Nice With That Sword      (mp3 2012 Melbourne, Aust.)

White Fence – Waking Up Is Confusing      (‘White Fence and Family/Perfume Vols.1&2’ double LP 2012 California, USA)

the Dukes of Stratosphear (XTC) – Mole from the Ministry      (’25 O’Clock’ EP 1986 UK)   #

     #   “Band of the Month”

Technicolour Dreaming

Sometimes the best-laid plans for a show just disappear once you go to air, which is what happened this week! A phone call from a listener requesting an Atlantics song led us into some 60’s kicks of (primarily) the Australian kind, from Normie Rowe and the Easybeats to the Red Angel Panic and the Hergs amongst others. But different eras and locales were not to be ignored... new music from Canada’s Metz and the UK’s Galileo 7, 80’s singles by the Dentists and Close Lobsters, plus a brand new demo from Adelaide’s Alpha Beta Fox and the return of Go Kart Mozart... most of these were not on our original agenda, but hey, who really wants agendas anyway! The penultimate appearance of Ride Into The Sun as our “Band of the Month” and that was Technicolour Dreaming, and the Cat and the Brat, for another week......

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

the Doors – Moonlight Drive [alt.version]      (‘The Doors’ – 14^th Anniversary Reissue bonus track)

Paul Revere and the Raiders – Too Much Talk      (7”single 1968 USA)

Bobby and Laurie – Every Second Day      (7”single 1966 Aust.)

the Executives – Moving in a Circle      (7”single 1968 Aust.)

Dean and Britta – Moonshot [Buffy St Marie cover]       (‘L’Avventura’ 2008 USA)

Colourama – Lisa Lan      (‘Llyfr Lliwio’ [‘Colouring Book’] 2012 Wales UK)

Alpha Beta Fox – Spheres      (demo 2012 Adelaide, Aust.)

Asteroid #4 – Wicked Wire      (‘Hail to the Clear Figurines’ 2011 Philadelphia, USA)

Dead Skeletons – Kingdom of God      (‘Dead Magick’ 2011 Iceland)

the Galileo 7 – Anne Hedonia      (‘Staring at the Sounds’ LP 2012 UK)

the Atlantics – Flowers      (7”single 1967 Aust. – taken from ‘Collectibles’ anthology 2011)

the Southern Gentlemen – I Want You Back Again      (7”single 1965 Adelaide, Aust.)

Sounds of Silence – Running High      (7”single 1967 Adelaide, Aust.)

Normie Rowe – Going Home      (7”single 1967 Aust.)

Red Angel Panic – Viet Rock      (7”single 1971 Adelaide, Aust.)

Inside Looking Out – Morning Sun      (7”single 1970 Adelaide, Aust.)

the Hergs – Cadillac [Vince Taylor cover]      (7”single b-side [to Style of Love] 1966 Adelaide, Aust.)

the Easybeats – I’ll Make you Happy (Just Like Your Mama Wants)      (‘Easyfever’  7”EP 1966 Aust.)

Close Lobsters – Nature Thing      (‘Forever Until Victory: Singles Collection’ LP 1982 Paisley, Scotland, UK)

Simple Minds – I Travel      (‘Empires and Dance’ LP 1980 UK)

the Flatmates – I Could Be in Heaven      (7”single 1986 UK)

Go Kart Mozart – Retro-Glancing      (‘On The Hot Dog Streets’ double-LP 2012 UK)

the Dentists – Strawberries Are Growing in My Garden [and It’s Wintertime]      (7”single 1985 UK)

the Flies – Dr Who [version]      (‘Turtle Monster’ EP 1987 Sydney, Australia)

Metz – Headache      (‘Metz’ 2012 Canada)

Ride Into The Sun – New Sunday      (‘Goodbye Hipster, Hello Reality’ EP 2011 Adelaide, Aust.)    #

      #  “Band of the Month”