Sitars, theremin and mellotron, backwards guitar, phasing and fuzz, fringes and mohawks, paisley, black, velvet and leather, feedback, bass and drone, beads, berets and safety-pins, Shindig! and Creem, 3 chord wonders, teenage symphonies and snarl, Rickenbacker, Farfisa and 4-track recorders... onstage at CBGB's, Max's Kansas City or the Trip, the Roundhouse, the 100 Club or the Crystal Ballroom, Catcher's, Big Daddy's or the Squatters Arms.... and the Cat and the Brat on 3D Radio!
Three D Radio announcer, MeganCat (up until recently with her husband, the late Peter Brat)lives in "The BratHaus" a rural seaside home about 100km from Adelaide on South Australia's scenic Fleurieu Peninsula. Veteran musician Peter, and artist/musician Megan, were long-time DJs onThree D Radio 93.7fm, Adelaide's eclectic independent music station. Together Peter & Megan, known as "The Cat and The Brat" created this blog to allow listeners to review the playlists of their radio show, "Technicolour Dreaming", watch clips of selected songs and simply join them in the enjoyment of their favourite music... psychedelia, 60's garage, surf, punk/post-punk, pop, folk-rock, glam, 'Krautrock', goth, 80's electro... and much more!
But The Cat is carrying on the tradition, with guest co-presenters, and "Technicolour Dreaming" will continue in the same format, drawing from the huge "Cat & Brat" music collection, with the addition of new releases and reissues to keep things current. The Brat is hugely missed, but the show must go on, as he wanted...
The first show of winter, and it seems that I was a bit fixated on all things spacey, with bands "Death By Raygun", "Spaceman", "Spacegazer" and "Basement Spaceman" all featuring this week. And I just hadto start the show with a track off Eno's classic"Here Come the Warm Jets" LP, as I've had it on high rotation at home for days, and when a song gets stuck in your head, sometimes the best way to exorcise it from your mind is to play it for the masses - works for me! And here are some other songs that caught my ear or took my fancy this week..check out the playlist below -
Brian Eno - Cindy Tells Me ("Here Come the Warm Jets" LP 1973 UK)
The Onlookers - You Know Everything ("Blue and Green and Tangerine" 2012 UK)
The Magnificent Brotherhood - Lifetime ("The Magnificent Brotherhood" LP 2008 Berlin, Germany)
Circulus - Within You Is The Sun ("Thought Becomes Reality" 2009 UK)
The Outsiders - Daddy Died on Saturday ("CQ" LP 1968 Netherlands)
The Higher State - Know That You Know ("Darker By The Day"2009 Kent, UK)
The Moles - Ginger Tom ("Future Sounds of Ashton" 2010 UK)
Mark Fry - Mandolin Man ("Dreaming With Alice" LP 1972 UK)
Magazine - Shot By Both Sides ("Real Life" LP 1978 Manchester, UK)
Cato Salsa Experience - I Can Give You Everything ("A Good Tip For A Good Time" 2000 Oslo, Norway)
My Expansive Awareness - Liar Liar [The Castaways] ("The Psychedelic Sounds of The Blog That Celebrates Itself Vol III" 2015 Spain)
Algae and Tentacles - Cuddle Up ("Algae and Tentacles" cassette 2015 Tucson, USA)
The Prefab Messiahs - Flight Reaction [The Calico Wall] ("The Psychedelic Sounds of The Blog That Celebrates Itself Vol III"2015 USA )
The Shivas - We Go On ("Freezing to Death" 2010 Portland, Oregon USA)
The Butterscotch Cathedral - Waterfall Parasol ("The Butterscotch Cathedral" 2015 Tucson, USA)
The Coathangers - Stomp Stomp Stompin' ("Scramble" 2009 Atlanta, Georgia USA)
Wight Lhite - Counting Diamonds ("Beyond the Satellites" 2014 Tucson, USA)
Black Vacation - Hold ("Germantown,TN" 2016 Melbourne, Australia)
Death By Raygun - Sheila Comes Back ("The Clifford Hoyt Experience" 2012 Japan)
Dick Diver - Tearing the Posters Down ("Melbourne, Florida" 2015 Melbourne, Australia)
Epsilon One - Sweet Airwaves and TV Spells ("Spirals" EP 2012 Edinburgh, UK)
Spacegazer - Not Your Steppin' Stone [Monkees] ("The Psychedelic Sounds of TBTCI Vol 2", 2013 Paris, France)
I always try to cover as much ground, globally-speaking, as possible -
this week's offerings included music from Israel, Japan, Russia, France, Iceland,
and the Netherlands, and of course the USA, UK, and Australia,
including several tracks from the home of Three D Radio,
Adelaide, Australia.
So here's the play-list, plus quite a few clips for your visual edification...
The Churchills - So Alone Today / Debka ("Churchills" LP 1969 Tel Aviv, Israel)
David Bowie - Speed of Life ("Low" LP 1977 UK)
Subtract-S - Mb Ph ("Love From Outer Space" 2012 Adelaide, Australia)
Nuvo Bloc - Western Drugs (demo 1981 Adelaide, Australia)
Exhibit A - Confusion (demo 1982 Adelaide, Australia)
Kikagaku Moyo - Streets of Calcutta ("Forest of Lost Children" LP 2014 Japan)
Sun Dial - Let It Go ("Fazer" EP 1992 UK)
Polska Radio One - Time Eternity ("Cosmos Inside" 2013 Yekaterinburg, Russia)
White Fence - Wolf Gets Red Faced ("For the Recently Found Innocent" 2014 Los Angeles UK)
Soft Hearted Scientists - At Night the Quarry Glows Like A Mother Ship
("Uncanny Tales From the Everyday Undergrowth" 2016 UK)
Liverpool Scene - Batpoem ("Amazing Adventures Of..." LP 1968 UK )
Jacques Dutronc - Hippie Hippie Hourrah (7" single 1968 France)
Balthazar - La Marche Des Travailleurs (7" single 1968 France)
Jane et Julie [Barry Green]- Notre homme a moi (7"single b-side [to "Boomerang"] 1972 France)
Mandrake Paddle Steamer - Strange Walking Man (7" single 1969 UK)
The Brian Jonestown Massacre - Mandrake Handshake ("Thingy-Wingy" Mini-Album 2015 USA)
Dead Skeletons - Dead is God ("Orð" 2012 Reykjavík, Iceland)
Royal Chant - Dick Move ("War Cry of Failure" 2015 Sydney, Australia)
Tooth and Tusk - Nothing Makes Sense (CD Single 2015 Melbourne, Australia)
David Bowie - Pictures of Lily ("Substitute -The Songs of the Who" compilation 2001 UK)
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - Paper Mache Dream Balloon ("Paper Mache Dream Balloon" 2015
Sydney, Australia)
The Mynd Gardeners - Where Tomorrow Lands ("The Acyd Raindrop Umbrella" 2012 Adelaide, Australia)
The Salt - Lucifer (7" single 1968 USA)
Moon Duo - Mazes ("Mazes" 2011 San Francisco USA)
Frowning Clouds - Do Like Me ("Listen Closlier" 2009 Geelong, Australia)
The Mops - Inside Looking Out ("Psychedelic Sounds in Japan" LP 1968 Japan)
The Molting Vultures - It's What I Wanted ("Drop In and Go" 2009 Adelaide, Australia)
Adjeef the Poet - Iekk! (Eek!), I'm a.... Freak (7" single 1967, The Netherlands)
The Sand Pebbles - All My Life (I Love You) ("Ghost Transmissions" 2004 Australia)
The Break - Cylinders ("Church of the Open Sky" 2010 Australia)
This was a very, very sad weekfor losing legendary front-men - first, the news that the Easybeats'Stevie Wright, later a successful solo musician in his own right, had died on December 26; and 3 days later we lost Lemmy, best known from Motorhead, but prior to this the Rockin' Vickers, Sam Gopal, Opal Butterfly, and of course Hawkwind. At least The Brat will have some more people to jam with! So of course a few tribute songs were in order, but of course the show must go on - with quite a few instrumentals - Wiskey Biscuit,Scantharies and White Candlesfeatured, plus some French tracks (which I'd been missing) from Jacques du Tronc, Bernard Chabert and Dansez avec Moa. There was also a bit of a "Garden" and "Violet" theme going on for a while there, too, and another track from Sir Psych & LA Al'sSmoking Trees. Plus the usual mix...
...so here is the playlist, with candy to feast your eyeballs upon!!!
White Candles - Behold! The Abstract Eye ("Flowers for Delia" EP 2014 Philadelphia, USA)
The Scantharies - The Bear ("The Scantharies" 2012 UK)
The Smoking Trees - Victoria's Garden ("TST" 2015 Los Angeles, USA)
Violet Swells - Jupiter's Garden (CD Single 2014 Hobart, Aust.)
Violet Woods - Take Your Time ("Violet Woods" 2014 Cambridge UK)
Frantic Chant - Spittin' Fire ("Ruthless Supermen" 2014 Edinburgh, Scotland)
Love - Seven and Seven Is ("Da Capo" LP 1966 Los Angeles USA)
Wiskey Biscuit - A Shot in the Dark [Henry Mancini] ("Shots in the Dark" comp 1996 USA)
Sagittarius - My World Fell Down ("Present Tense" LP 1968 USA)
The Church - Silver Machine [Hawkwind] ("Box of Birds" 1999 Aust.)
The Easybeats - Sorry (7" Single 1966 Sydney, Aust.)
Thursday's Children - E Too D [Small Faces] ("Kaptain Kavemen From Brisbane" 2015 Aust.)
Running Jumping Standing Still - Diddy Wah Diddy (7" single 1967 Melbourne, Aust.)
Lord and the Flies - Echoes (7" single 1966 USA)
Purple Hearts - Early in the Morning (7" single 1966 Brisbane, Aust.)
The Cryan Shames - Ben Franklin's Almanac (7" single [b-side to "Sugar and Spice"] 1966 USA)
Jacques Du Tronc - Les Gens Sont Fous, Les Temps Sont Flous ("Jacques Du Tronc" (1) LP 1966 France)
Dansez avec Moa - Les Francais sont des veaux (7” single late 1960s, taken from “Wizzz Psychorama Francais Vol 3 "compilation 2015 France)
Bernard Chabert - Helga Selzer (7" single (b-side to L'homme De L'univers {Neanderthal Man] 1970 France)
Flyying Colours - Like You Said ("Flyying Colours" EP 2013 Melbourne, Aust.)
Myrchents - Indefinite Inhibition (7" single 1967 Ohio, USA)
The Craig - I Must Be Mad (7" single 1967 USA)
Les Mistigris - Summer Nights ("Psychedelic Super Pjotr (Original Motion Score)" 1999 Ukraine)
George & Beathovens - Jdi Dal ("Psychedelic Super Pjotr (Original Motion Score)" 1999 Ukraine)
