Technicolour Dreaming

This week’s show featured a journey around the current world of psychedelia, plus assorted oddities and a side-trip back in time to the first pop psych explosion. So much music to play, and only two hours each week to squeeze it all into! We recently acquired a copy of the brand new addition to Born Bad Records’ wonderful “Wizzz! Psychorama francais 1966 – 71” compilations, Volume 3, making this series a serendipitous choice for our Compilation of the Week, mais oui! Back in the present, we played new tracks from the Wands, Pretty Lightning, Jacco Gardner, the Noble Krell and the Barbarellatones latest demo (love the lyrics!), fitted in some surf from Chile and Denmark, and some 60’s faves such as Gary Walker and the Rain’s much covered classic, “Francis”. And we finished up with Vibravoid’s ode to the Fuzztones organ player Deb O’Nair, which can be found on the just-reissued and re-mastered edition of their classic “2001” LP, complete with extra tracks and quite stunning packaging – it certainly gets our seal of approval! So.....

..... until next week, here is the playlist plus associated visuals.....

Sula Bassana - My Blue Guitar      ("Dreamer – 10^th Year Anniversary Edition” 2012 Germany)

the Lovetones - Journeyman (Anton Newcombe mix)      ("Dimensions" 2008 Melbourne Australia)

Gary Walker and the Rain - Francis      (7" single b-side (to Come In, You'll Get Pneumonia) 1969 UK)

the Electric Prunes - Dr Do-Good      ("Underground" LP 1967 USA)

the Aardvarks - Arthur C. Clarke      (7" single 1989 London UK )

the Black Angels - Never/Ever      ("Directions to See a Ghost"  2008 Austin, Texas USA)

Three Minute Tease - When I Was 46 in the Year 13      ("Bite the Hand" 2014 UK)

 

the Barbarellatones - Electric Pussycat      (demo 2015 Hawaii USA)

the Velvet Underground - Ocean      (recorded 1969, released on "VU" LP 1984 New York, USA)

the Noble Krell - Never Ever      (7" single 2015 Baltimore USA)

the Smoking Trees - Trips      ("Home in the Morning" EP 2015 California USA)

the Surfing Arcanis - Tenbrosa Silhouetta      (digital single 2015 Region Metropolitana, Chile)

Los Explosivos - Larga-te de Aqui!!!      (7" single 2009 Mexico)

 

Surf School Dropouts - Should Have Known Better      ("Second Nature" 2015 Denmark)

Pretty Lightning - The Rainbow Machine      ("A Magic Lane of Light and Rain" 2015 Saarbrucken, Germany)

the Rolling Stones - Connection      ("Between the Buttons" LP 1967 UK)

Compilation of the week:  Wizzz! Psychorama francais 1966 - 71

 

Bernard Chabert - Helga Selzer      (7" single 1970 France – taken from “Wizzz! Vol 3” compilation 2015 France)

Les fleurs de Pavot - A 'degager      ( "Les fleurs de Pavot" LP 1969 France  – taken from “Wizzz! Vol 1”)

Bruno Leys - Hallucinations      (7" EP [unreleased] 1969 France – taken from “Wizzz! Vol 2”)

Papy - Toi Le Shazam     (7" single 1967 France  – taken from “Wizzz! Vol 3”)

Zorgones - Herr Doktor Reich      (7" single 1969 France – taken from “Wizzz! Vol 2”)

the Deep - Colour Dreams      ("Psychedelic Moods"  LP 1966 USA)

Morgan Delt - Mr Carbon Copy      ("Morgan Delt" 2014 USA)

Jacco Gardner - Another You      ("Hypnophobia" 2015 Netherlands)

the Wands - Totem Part II      ("The Dawn" 2015 Denmark)

Trolley - Love the Way you Look      ("Things that Shine and Glow" 2011 UK)

Vibravoid - She's Just 13 / Lovely Lady Deb-O-Nair      (" 2001 – 15^th Anniversary re-mastered edition" 2015 Dusseldorf, Germany)

Technicolour Dreaming

In a first for our regular “Band of the Month” feature, we had several members of this month’s selection, Adelaide’s premier psychedelic outfit, Ride Into The Sun, in the 3D studio with us for an interview and also as guest presenters. They had lots to talk about – a new drummer, the return of their keyboardist, recording plans for an EP to be produced by Christian Bland of the Black Angels, discussion of the Austin Psych Fest and much more – and a bunch of songs for us to play including tracks by the aforementioned Black Angels, ex-Sydney band the Black Ryder [featuring the Cult’s Ian Asbury’s new wife Aimee], Austin’s The UFO Club and Iceland’s Singapore Sling. Also on this week’s show were tracks from the new Pony Face album and the Murlocs latest EP plus a few classic singles from the likes of T.Rex, Wire and the Rationals. Some more music, lots of chatting and laughing, and that was it! Another episode of Technicolour Dreaming with the Cat & the Brat.....

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

T.Rex – Jeepster      (7”single 1971 UK)

the Pretty Things – In the Square/the Letter/Rain      (‘The Psychedelic Years: 1966 to 1970’ anthology 2001 UK)

the Black Hollies – Look What You’ve Done      (‘Softly Towards the Light’ 2009 New York, USA)

Pony Face – Silver Tongue      (‘Hypnotised’ 2012 Melbourne, Australia)

the Lovetones – A New Low      ('Provenance - Collected Works’ anthology 2012 Australia)

Ride Into The Sun – Drown Your Soul      (‘Rats, Thieves & Liars’ EP 2011 Adelaide, Aust.)    #

the Dunes – Transition      (‘Between Midnight & Dawn’ EP 2012 Adelaide, Aust.)

Briars – Easy Target      (demo 2012 Adelaide, Aust.)

the Black Ryder – Let It Go      (‘Buy the Ticket, Take the Ride’ 2009 Sydney, Aust.)

the See See – Keep Your Head      (‘Late Morning Light’ 2010 UK)

Ride Into The Sun – Remorse & Regret      ( unreleased – recorded 2010 Adelaide, Aust.)    #

the Black Angels – Entrance Song [rain dance version]      (‘Phosgene Nightmare’ EP 2011 Austin, Texas, USA)

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

Singapore Sling – Godman      (‘Perversity, Desperation & Death’ 2008 Iceland)

Wire – I am the Fly      (7”single 1978 UK)

the Rationals – I Need You [Carole King/Ray Davies cover]      (7”single 1968 Detroit, Michigan USA)

the UFO Club – Be My Baby [Ronettes cover]      (‘The UFO Club/Night Beats’ split 10” EP 2011 USA)

Ride Into The Sun – Detached      (unreleased – recorded 2010 Adelaide, Aust.)    #

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Technicolour Dreaming

Beginning with a psychedelic Rolling Stones gem, the Cat & the Brat juggled genres, eras and geography for your listening pleasure. But minutes into the show, we were pleasantly interrupted (twice!) by a knock at the door of Three D Radio, with members of Adelaide bands bearing their brand new releases. Not long after, hot-off-the-press tracks from Brenton Manser and the Readymades were unleashed on the airwaves – ‘seat of the pants radio’ in action!! You too can have your songs aired on Three D – send us a copy, and if we like it, we’ll play it! – regardless, it’ll go into the ‘new releases’ section of the 3D Library for other announcers to discover! But we digress – your hosts proceeded on their merry way with gems from Baker Knight and the Knightmares, Major Tom and the Atoms, the Buzzcocks, and the Great Apes, to name but a few. A highlight was the Jigsaw Seen’s version of ‘Circle of Steel’, featuring Dave Davies on backing vox, so naturally we had to follow this with a rare Davies track from his new “Hidden Treasures” anthology.  And being the first day of August, it was time to finish the show with a new “Artiste of the Month”, with Adelaide’s late, great Baterz winning the spot for the next 4 weeks.....

.....and here is the playlist.....

the Rolling Stones – She’s a Rainbow     (‘Their Satanic Majesties Request’ LP 1967 UK)

the Great Apes – Sebastopol Street [Procession cover]     (‘Tomorrow Is Today: a tribute to the Australian Psychedelic Scene 1966-70’ compilation 2007 Australia)

the Lovetones – Mantra     (‘Meditations’ 2006 Aust.)

Jacques Dutronc – Les metamorphoses      (‘Jacques Dutronc [aka Comment Elles Dorment]’ LP 1967 France)

the Good, the Bad & the Queen – the Good, the Bad & the Queen     (‘the Good, the Bad & the Queen’ 2007 UK)

the Triffids – Raining Pleasure     (‘Love in Bright Landscapes’ LP 1986 Aust.)

Brenton Manser – Don’t Shut Me Out     (‘3 Song Sampler’ 2012 Adelaide, Aust.)

Bikini Atoll – Then Amplify     (‘Moratoria’ 2004 UK)

the B-52’s – 53 Miles West of Venus     (‘Wild Planet’ LP 1980 USA)

the Royal Dave Graney Show – Bodysnatcher Blues     (‘All our Friends are Stars’ EP 2004 Aust.)

the Jigsaw Seen – Circle of Steel [Gordon Lightfoot cover]     (‘Winterland’ 2011 USA)

Dave Davies – Creeping Jean [unreleased stereo version]    (rec. 1969 – taken from ‘Hidden Treasures’ anthology 2011 UK)

Paul Revere & the Raiders – Mr Sun Mr Moon     (7”single 1969 USA – taken from ‘Hungry for Kicks: singles & choice cuts 1965-69’ Rev-Ola anthology 2009)

the Moles – Brain Garden     (‘The Future Sounds of Ashton’ 2011 UK)

the Mynd Gardeners – Falling in Love Again [Ted Mulry cover]     (hidden track on ‘Tales From The Caramel Hourglass’ EP 2010 Adelaide, Aust.)

the Readymades – Ghost & the Bones     (‘Handmade’ EP 2012 Adelaide, Aust.)

the Monkees – Love Is Only Sleeping     (‘Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones’ LP 1967 USA)

Baker Knight & the Knightmares – Hallucinations      (7”single 1967 USA – taken from ‘My Mind Goes High: Psychedelic Pop Nuggets from the WEA Vaults’ compilation 2005)

Major Tom & the Atoms – Last Dance of the Lizard King     (‘Shake It Til You Break It’ EP 2012 Melbourne, Aust.)

the Buzzcocks – Boredom     (‘Spiral Scratch’ EP 1977 UK)

the Monks – Oh, How to Do Now     (‘The Early Years 1964-1965’ anthology 2009 USA)

Kamikaze – ‘Lil Red Riding Hood [Sam the Sham cover]     (demo 2011 Adelaide, Aust.)

the Flamin’ Groovies – Teenage Head     (‘Teenage Head’ LP 1971 USA)

Baterz – Goth      (‘Goth’ EP 2000 Adelaide, Aust. – taken from the ‘Great Big Squiddy Fun: A Baterz Tribute’ compilation’s bonus disc ‘Baterz for Beginners’ 2009 Aust.)   #

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Technicolour Dreaming

We were joined on Technicolour Dreaming this week by Isomer’s David Tonkin (and his daughter Lara... at age 7, possibly our youngest interviewee yet!) who came in to promote his latest project, the debut CD by Bordel Militaire, a collaboration with a couple of Melbourne experimental /electronic /noise /punk musicians plus a few guests, including Boyd Rice. As well as playing a few songs from the album, David also ‘guest-hosted’, so scattered through the show were songs by such diverse artists as Scott Walker and Les Baxter through to Sabbath Assembly and Areyfu. Of course we also featured our regular psychedelic content, beginning with the Beatles and followed by the likes of a classic single by Hearts & Flowers, an early Bee Gees number [featuring the late Robin Gibb] and a song from the Higher State’s new album, as well as a dash of punk from the Slimeballs and early DouglasP band Crisis, plus lots more before we concluded with the Lovetones, our current “Band of the Month”.

..... and here is the full playlist.....

the Beatles – It’s all too much     (‘Yellow Submarine’ LP 1968 UK)

Ghost – Water Door, Yellow Gate     (‘In Stormy Night’ 2007 Japan)

Dallas – I sold my soul to the devil & he told me I was cheap [DJ Fuckitup remix]     (‘Four Top Ten Hits’ EP 2005 Adelaide, Australia)

the Higher State – The Gypsies Graveyard     (‘Freakout at the Gallery’ 2012 UK)

Hearts & Flowers – Tin Angel (will you ever come down)     (7”single 1968 USA – taken from ‘Where the Action Is: L.A. Nuggets 1965-1968’ compilation box-set 2009 USA)

Summer Flake – Run, Run, Run     (‘Summer Flake’ EP 2012 Adelaide, Aust.)

Bordel Militaire – And Sorrow Becomes Him / So Fear the Blinding White Light         (‘Bordel Militaire’ 2012 Australia)

Dead Boomers – Send Flirts & Modify Your Profile     (‘The Pig In The Python’ 2012 Melbourne, Aust.)

Toyland – Trotsky’s Dead     (demo 1983 Adelaide, Aust.)

Scott Walker – Big Louise     (‘Scott 3’ LP 1969 UK)

Sabbath Assembly – Glory to the God on Highest     (‘Restored to One’ 2008 USA)

Bordel Militaire – Coco Loco [feat. Boyd Rice]     (‘Bordel Militaire’ 2012 Aust.)

Les Baxter – Taboo     (‘Caribbean Moonlight’ LP 1956 USA)

Areyfu – Empty Shell     (‘Amethyst’ EP 2011 Aust.)

the Slimeballs – Shake My Ramp     (‘Pigs Might Fly’ 2012 Adelaide, Aust.)

the Cramps – Garbageman     (‘Songs the Lord Taught Us’ LP 1980 USA)

Bordel Militaire – Midnight at Martini Falls     (‘Bordel Militaire’ 2012 Aust.)

Crisis – On TV     (‘Holocaust Hymns: 1977-1980’ anthology 2006 UK)

the Bee Gees – The Earnest of Being George     (‘Horizontal’ LP 1967 UK/Aust.)

the Lovetones – Across The Sea     (‘Meditations’  2005 Australia)   #

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Technicolour Dreaming

 Thanks go out to fellow 3D Radio announcer Phil J. for so ably covering our absence last week while we were in Melbourne... we will get his playlist posted soon... but the break refreshed our enthusiasm for the music we play! The ‘Dig It Up!’ show was fabulous and inspired our choice for our new “Band of the Month” – Australian psych purveyors the Lovetones, who played an intimate, mesmerising set upstairs at the Palace Theatre. We began this week’s show with a long track from Wolfy & the Bat Cubs before later  moving on to the latest album by the Higher State, an orange vinyl single from the Black Angels, a Garden Path cover from the new album by the Molting Vultures and the debut EP from young Geelong outfit, the Murlocs, who feature Australian legend Broderick Smith’s son Ambrose on vocals and harmonica. From France, we heard Sheetah et les Weismullers, from Italy, Jennifer Gentle and from the UK there were the Horrors... throw in a psych-flavoured Bee Gees song, the sole single by Lotus from 1971, a classic from the Spikes plus many more and there you have it! The latest edition of Technicolour Dreaming on 3D Radio 93.7fm with your hosts, the Cat & the Brat.....

..... and here is the full playlist.....

Wolfy & the Bat Cubs – Guy Like Me      (‘Wolfy & the Bat Cubs’ cdEP 2012 Melbourne, Australia)

the Mynd Gardeners – Winter’s Dying     (‘The Acyd Raindrop Umbrella’ vinyl 7” EP Adelaide, Australia)

Lizard Train – Beauty Underground     (7” single 1987 Adelaide, Aust.)

the Frowning Clouds – All Night Long     (cd single 2011 Melbourne, Aust.)

the Murlocs – Delusional Blues     (‘the Murlocs’ cdEP Geelong, Aust.)

the Spikes – River of Love     (7” single 1986 Adelaide, Aust.)

the Higher State – Turn into Fall     (‘Freakout at the Gallery’ LP 2012 UK)

the Horrors – Dive-In     (‘Skying’ LP 2011 UK)

MGMT – Congratulations      (7”single 2010 USA)

Lenola – Sids     (‘Sounds from Psychedelphia’ compilation 1998 Philadelphia USA)

the Black Angels – Watch Out Boy     (7” single 2012 Texas, USA)

Paul Messis & Jessica Winters – Sunflower     (7”single 2012 UK)

Alison Gros – Naturally     (7” single 1970 Adelaide, Aust.)

Crosby, Stills & Nash – Pre-Road Downs     (‘Crosby, Stills & Nash’ LP 1969 USA)

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

Sheetah et les Weismullers – My Little Red Book [Love cover]     (‘Hola! Ye-Yeah!’ 2009 France)

the Intercontinental Playboys – Wham Bam Voodoo Wand     (‘Sonic Seducers’ 2005 Australia)

the Molting Vultures – Wear Black [Garden Path cover]     (‘Get On Board’ 2012 Adelaide, Aust.)

Jennifer Gentle – Take My Hand     (‘The Midnight Room’ 2007 Italy)

the Bee Gees – Idea     (‘Idea’ LP 1968 UK/Aust.)

the Lovetones – This Great Romance     (‘Lost’ 2010 Australia)    #

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