Obscured By...

We had Blue Jays, Duck, Dragon, Canaries and Matching Mole.  We had a Wheelbarrow and a US radio star asking what a girl is.  The resuscitated Aztec Music provided some rare live Normie Rowe, while John Laws just wanted us to be kind to each other.  We said goodbye to Col Joye's Joy Boys drummer John Bogie, and heard some latter-day Ray Hoff, from only the second (and final) album of his long career.  Nigerian prog and Malaysian punk.  A Nazi-era German propaganda swing band and the whimsy of George Formby.  Brand new Bob Dylan.  Dare you to name another show besides Obscured By... (this week hosted by Michael Hunter) that would provide such a musical smorgasbord.  Can't, can you...?

Grade Wicker - Prettiest Baby  (7”single 1959 Aust)

John Laws with The New Notes and The Band-Its - Be Kind To Each Other   (7”single, B-side to Someone New 1959 Aust)

Toni McCann & The Blue Jays -  If You Don't Come Back  (7”single, B-side to Saturday Date 1965 Aust)

The Wheelbarrow - Dame Zara   (7”single 1970 Aust)

Duck - Dog Breath  ('Laid' 1972  Aust) 

Dragon - Love's Not Enough  (7”single 1979 Aust)

John Bogie & Milan Troha - In A Persian Market  ('Drum Crazy' comp, 2000 Aust, recorded ?) 

Ray Hoff & His Combo - Thinkin' 'Bout Lightnin'  ('Loud, Dirty & Rocking' 2000 Aust)

Normie Rowe - Shakin' All Over / I (Who Have Nothing)  ('It Ain't Necessarily So, But It Is... Normie Rowe' released 1965, reissued 2012 Aust - these are bonus tracks recorded live at Festival Hall) 

Tirogo - Float  ('Float'  Nigeria 1977)

Selma & Sabina Agha - Dancing Queen  ('Selma & Sabina Agha Sing The Songs Of ABBA In Hindi'  India 1981)

Brayok - Muke Taik (Shit Head)  ('Give And Take: Malaysian Hardcore Punk Compilation 2012')

Charlie & His Orchestra - Submarines  (78, early to mid 1940s Germany)

George Formby - Swimmin' With The Wimmin'  (78, 1933, UK)

Ira Cook - What Is A Girl?   (7”single 1959 US)

Hartz Mountain Master Radio Canaries - Humoresque  ('Canary Training Record' EP, year unknown, US)

Faust - J'ai Mal Aux Dents ('The Faust Tapes' 1973 Germany)

Matching Mole - Marchides / Instant Pussy / Smoke Signal (John Peel Session 1972)  ('Matching Mole' 2CD, LP orig issued 1972, reissue with bonus tracks, 2012 UK)

Bob Dylan - Duquesne Whistle  ('Tempest' 2012 US)

Tenpole Tudor - Wunderbar  (7”single 1981 UK)

Desmond Dekker - Allamana  ('Compass Point' 1981 Jamaica / UK)

The Damned - Lovely Money (extended mix)  (prob 12" single 1982 UK)

Obscured By...

 After the regular opening set of 60’s Australian rarities, we ventured off into space with Jim Keays and eventually ended with ‘Moondawn’, a slice of 70’s deutsche drone from Klaus Schultze... all very ethereal! Stuffed within these bookends however, we ventured, as usual, all over the place! Included was a track from Harvey Matusow, once named “America’s Most Hated Man” for his role in the McCarthy anti-communist witch-hunt of the ‘50s before reinventing himself as an avant-garde artiste and moving to the UK, hanging out with Yoko Ono, Warhol and Mailer etc (check out his story on wiki) and recording an LP. We also indulged our fondness for obscure compilations such as the ‘Sounds from Psychedelphia’ put out in the ‘90s by US label, Lounge Records, as well as some rarities made so by being ‘limited editions’, for example, the 7" orange vinyl single by the Black Angels and the 1979 Brian Sands EP featuring the Monkees cover... All brought to you by this week’s ‘DOTS’,  the Cat and the Brat.....

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

the Reverbs – Say Mama     (7”single b-side 1966 Tasmania, Australia)

the Syssys – Three Long Days     (unreleased acetate 1966 Adelaide, Australia – taken from ‘Big Beat Cellar Scene’ compilation 2010 Adelaide)

Ray Brown – That’s it, I quit, I’m movin’ on    (7”single b-side 1967 Australia)

Animation Unlimited – Big Bad Woman     (unreleased acetate 1966 Adelaide – taken from ‘Big Beat Cellar Scene’ comp.)

Lloyd’s World – Goodbye Goodbye     (7”single b-side 1968 Aust.)

1863 Establishment – Picture of a Girl     (7”single 1968 Aust.)

Toni McCann – My Baby     (7”single 1965 Brisbane, Aust.)

Jim Keays – Space Brothers     (‘Jim Keays as... The Boy From The Stars’ LP 1974 Aust.)

Three 4 Tens – I Feel Fine     (‘Sounds from Psychedelphia’ compilation 1998 Philadelphia, USA)

Harvey Matusow’s Jews Harp Band – Wet Socks     (‘War Between Fats and Thins’ LP 1969 USA/UK)

Soundpool – Do What You Love     (‘Just Like a Daydream’ compilation 2008 UK)

Agitation Free – A Quiet Walk     (‘2ND’  LP 1973 Germany)

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

the Black Angels – I’d Rather Be Lonely     (7”single 2012 Austin, Texas, USA)

the Higher State – These Things Take Time     (‘Freakout at the Gallery’ 2012 UK)

Roxy Music – Pyjamarama     (7”single 1972 UK)

801 – RongWrong     (rehearsal tape August, 1976 UK – released as bonus disc on ‘801 Live: Collector’s Edition’ 2010 UK)

the Plastics – Last Train to Clarkesville [Monkees cover]     (bonus 7”flexi-disc with their 1^st LP 1979 Japan)

Brian Sands – Baby, You’re a Rich Man [Beatles cover]     (‘Reheated Chocolate Tangos’ 12” EP 1979 USA)

Gina X – Drive My Car [Beatles cover]     (12”single 1984 Germany)

Klaus Schultze – Floating     (‘Moondawn’ LP 1976 Germany)

Technicolour Dreaming

This week it was the Cat... without her Brat... presenting Technicolour Dreaming! The show featured some new releases, including ones from local Adelaide bands such as Friends and D.D.Divine & Psycho Green, and a track from the new “Rats, Thieves & Liars” EP by Ride Into The Sun... plus, from the US and the UK, songs from the new Thee Oh Sees and the Horrors albums, respectively. Naturally, there was a smattering of older faves ranging from the 60’s sounds of Toni McCann and the Human Expression, to local 80’s electro-punk outfit, Nuvo Bloc, through to the Black Angels, Joy Zipper and Russia’s Messer Chups, and finishing with the final spin of the Laurels as the current “Album of the Month”... hmmm, what will be the August selection?

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

Tyrnaround – Colour Your Mind     (12” EP 1987 Brisbane, Australia)

the Horrors – I can see through you     (Skying)

the Lovetones – Was I there in your future?     (Meditations)

Dios Malos – You got me all wrong     (Dios Malos)

Thee Oh Sees – Corrupted Coffin     (Castlemania)

Tim Whitt – The Litany [LeighStarDust cover]     (‘If I Dress Up: A Tribute to LeighStarDust’ comp. 2006 Adelaide, Aust.)

Messer Chups – Diabolik Boogie     (Crazy Price)

The Revillos – Rev Up     (‘Rev Up’ LP 1979 UK)

Caleb – Baby your Phrasing is bad     (7”single 1967 UK)

 the Human Expression – Optical Sound     (7”single 1966 US)

the Rolling Stones – 2000 Light Years from Home     (‘Their Satanic Majesties’ Request’ LP 1967 UK)

Joy Zipper – Drugs/Dosed & Became Invisible     (American Whip)

Siouxsie & the Banshees – Israel     (7”single 1980 UK)

the Black Angels – Manipulation     (Passover)

Nuvo Bloc – Atomic Fiction     (7”single 1980 Adelaide)

Roxy Music – Both Ends Burning     (‘Siren : the Fifth Roxy Music Album’ LP 1975 UK)

Ride Into The Sun – Run to the Hills     (‘Rats, Thieves & Liars’ cdEP 2011 Adelaide)

D.D.Divine & Psycho Green – Higher Dreams     (demo 2011 Adelaide)

Friends – Honey, I Lost the Dog     (demo 2011 Adelaide)

the Chocolate – I’m an Animal     (7”single 1967 Adelaide)

Toni McCann – Saturday Date     (7”single 1965 Brisbane, Australia)

the Laurels – What she does to me     (Mesozoic)   #

     #  ”Album of the Month”

Technicolour Dreaming

This week’s show featured a variety of Australian artists, both new and from the past, including a song from this week’s “No. 1” album on 3D Radio by Adelaide’s own Avant Gardeners, as well as the ‘A-side’ of the new 7” single by the Amcats... the vinyl revival continues to gain pace! From the 80’s, we played a favourite from the Church and from the 60’s, a track by the brilliant, but largely forgotten, Toni McCann... she is, in our view, one of the best rockin’ singers of the era, the equal of the ‘stars’ such as Normie Rowe or Stevie Wright of the Easybeats! Also featured this week were tracks from the new six CD “Circus Days : Pop Psych Obscurities 1966-1972” box-set compilation and of course, a song from our new “Album of the Month” for June, “Crystal Theatre” by Belles Will Ring, the second album from this great Sydney psychedelic-flavoured outfit...

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

Spacemen 3 – Suicide (live) (Playing with Fire)

Asteroid Belt - Slant Six (Blank Horizon)

Sand Pebbles – Sioux City Falls (Ghost Transmissions)

the Sun Blindness – Crack in the Concrete (Like Pearly Clouds)

August Born – You Will Be Warm (August Born)

Slingshot Dragster – Dil Mohammed (demo 2010 Adelaide)

Kelley Stoltz – I Like, I Like (To Dreamers)

Avant Gardeners – We Love Our Audience (Mine Errant VanGarden)

the Amcats – Peggy Sue (7”single Adelaide 2011)

Normie Rowe – She Used to Be Mine (7”single 1965 Aust)

Toni McCann – If You Don’t Come Back (7”single 1965 Queensland, Aust)

Mike Furber & The Bowery Boys – That’s When Happiness Began (Diddy Wah Diddy: Best of...))

(unknown artist)* – Junior Newsgirl (“Devil’s Children Vol.3” : compilation, 1960’s Aust.)

Radio Spectacular – Little Stevie (demo 2006 Adelaide)

Amelia Smile – Father Good’s Space Flight (“Circus Days” Vol 6 : comp.)

the Cat’s Pyjamas – Virginia Water (“Circus Days” Vol 4)

Arzachel – Garden of Earthly Delights (“Circus Days” Vol 1)

the Mirage – Tomorrow Never Knows [Beatles’ cover] (“Circus Days” Vol 3)

Sheila Chandra – Storm Trance (“Electric Psychedelic Sitar Headswirlers” Vol 5 : comp.)

Belles Will Ring – The River (Crystal Theatre) #

the Church – When You Were Mine (‘Hindsight’ : Best of...)

(* backing track by ‘the Wild Colonials’, singer unknown)

# “Album of the Month”