Technicolour Dreaming

This edition’s featured compilation is a 3-CD boxset released in 2013 by Grapefruit Records in the UK called "Love, Poetry and Revolution: A Journey Through the British Psychedelic and Underground Scenes 1966-72" which has mostly rare and unreleased tracks by obscure bands, many of which have never appeared on compilations, or indeed anywhere, before. Yet many of these tracks are real gems which deserve to be heard by a much wider audience – for example, Deep Feeling were comprised

of some of the best musicians in the UK. They later went on to renown in bands such as Traffic, Spooky Tooth, Mott the Hoople, Blossom Toes, Family and more, yet the tracks they recorded for a debut album and single were left unreleased and untouched until 2012. Indeed, the track we played, “Pretty Colours”, is arguably one of the finest examples of mid-60’s English psychedelia, yet it remained unheard until recently, so for us, this is the best reason for record companies to release, and us to buy these types of compilations. This music should be heard! The rest of the show was comprised of more recent releases from the likes of the Black Ryder, Worthless, Les Limiñanas and Crystal Jacqueline plus the title track from the outstanding new LP from Swedish band the Amazing, as well as a smattering of older songs by artists such as the Strawberry Alarm Clock, Lost & Found and Traffic, before finishing with New Yorker Amen Dunes from the recently released “Cowboy Worship” EP .....

..... so here is the playlist plus some related clips .....

the Strawberry Alarm Clock - The World's On Fire      ("Incense and Peppermints" LP 1967 USA)

the Black Ryder  - Seventh Moon      ("The Door Behind the Door" LP 2015 Australia/USA)

the Luck of Eden Hall - This is Strange      ("Alligators Eat Gumdrops" 2012 USA)   

Les Limiñanas - Tu Es À Moi        ("(I've Got) Trouble In Mind: 7" And Rare Stuff 2009/2014" compilation 2014 France)

Tintern Abbey - Do What You Must      (demo acetate recorded 1968, taken from "What's The Rush, Time Machine Man? Psychedelic Jumble Volume 1" compilation 2007 USA)

Wesley Fuller - Melvista      (7" single [b-side to Change Your Mind] 2015 Melbourne, Australia)

the Horrors - Still Life       ("Skying"  2011 UK)

the Amazing - Picture You      ("Picture You" 2015 Sweden)

the Orange Drop - Electric Sitar Beat      ("Drone Pop" EP 2014 Philadelphia USA)

the Dandelion - On a June Morning      ("Going Steady Mixtape #5" compilation 2015 Adelaide, Australia)

Crystal Jacqueline - Siren      ("The Rainflower" 2015 Wales, UK)

Claudio Cataldi - Here She Comes Now [Velvet Underground cover]      ("Fruits de Mer Records presents ‘Strange Fruit and Veg’ - promo 2" compilation 2015 UK)

Sapphire Thinkers - I Feel a Bit Strange      ("From Within" 1968 USA)

Worthless - Dee Minor      ("All my Friends are Stone" LP 2015 UK)

Traffic - Coloured Rain      ("Mr Fantasy" LP 1967 UK)

“COMPILATION OF THE WEEK”

"Love, Poetry and Revolution: A Journey Through the British Psychedelic and Underground Scenes 1966-72" 2013 Grapefruit Records     

the Liverpool Scene- We'll All be Spacemen Before We Die      ("the Amazing Adventures of..."  compilation 2009 – taken from “Love, Poetry and Revolution...” compilation, disc 2)

Tuesday's Children - A Strange Light from the East      (7" single 1967 – taken from “Love, Poetry and Revolution...” compilation, disc 1)

Beau - Creation      ("Creation" LP 1971 UK – taken from “Love, Poetry and Revolution...” compilation, disc 3)

Deep Feeling - Pretty Colours      (recorded 1966 UK, unissued, released on “Pretty Colours” anthology 2012 – taken from “Love, Poetry and Revolution...” compilation, disc 1)

the Sorrows - The Makers      ("Old Songs, New Songs" LP 1969 UK – taken from “Love, Poetry and Revolution...” compilation, disc 2)

Crocheted Doughnut Ring - Two Little Ladies (Azalea  and Rhododendron)      (7" single 1967 – taken from “Love, Poetry and Revolution...” compilation, disc 1)

the Apricot - Too Far Behind     ("A Forestful of Threes" LP 2011 Norway)

Lost and Found - When Will You Come Through      (7" single 1968 USA)

Amen Dunes - I Know Myself (Montreal)        ("Cowboy Worship" 2015 USA)

Technicolour Dreaming

Beginning with a track from the latest LP by Germany’s Vibravoid, the Cat & the Brat once again this week weaved a tenuous path through the labyrinths of their collective archives of favourite tunes, to bring you an assortment of sounds by bands as diverse as the Long Ryders, Death In June, Amon Düül, Melody’s Echo Chamber, Plasticland and the brilliant Espers, plus solo efforts from the likes of Cate Le Bon, Eric Ghardin and Chris Bell, before finishing on a ‘1-2 knockout’ with the Seeds and the Sufis. We confess to rather long and verbose introductions to a couple of our latest acquisitions, namely the wonderful second album from the UK’s Beaulieu Porch and the debut by young Dutch psychstar Jacco Gardner – both artists have rapidly won a high spot in our ‘all-time fave’ list! Have a listen....

..... so here is the playlist plus some clips.....

Vibravoid – Listen, Can’t You Hear?      (‘Delirio Dei Sensei’ 2013 Germany)

Chris Bell – I Am the Cosmos      (7”single 1978 USA)

Stiff Little Fingers – Bloody Dub      (‘Nobody’s Heroes’ LP 1980 UK)

Espers – Dead Queen       (‘Espers 11’ 2006 USA)

Death In June – We Drive East      (‘Heaven Street’ 12”EP 1981 UK – taken from ‘Lesson 1: Misanthropy’ anthology reissue 2006 UK/Australia)

Death in June - We Drive East (1982) by riton23

Beaulieu Porch – Limestone Head of the Year      (‘we are beautiful’ 2013 UK)

Traffic – Paper Sun      (7”single 1967 UK)

Gary Walker & the Rain – Magazine Woman      (‘Album No.1’ LP 1968 UK/Japan)

Black Box Recorder – Rock’n’Roll Suicide [Bowie cover]      (CD-single b-side [to Art of Driving] 2000 UK – taken from ‘Worst of Black Box Recorder’ anthology 2001 UK)

David Bowie – Joe the Lion      (‘Heroes’ LP 1977 UK/Germany)

Amon Düül – Hymn For The Hardcore      (‘Fool Moon’ LP 1989 Germany)

Cate Le Bon – Fold The Cloth      (‘Cyrk’ 2012 Wales, UK)

Melody’s Echo Chamber – Quand Vas Tu Rendrer       (‘Melody’s Echo Chamber’ 2012 France/Australia)

Dickens – Genocide      (‘Royal Incarnation’ LP 1969 France)

Eric Ghardin – Amour Limité Zéro      (7”single 1967 France)

Ted Mulry - Remember Me       (7”single b-side [to Memories] 1972 Australia/UK)

the Long Ryders – Lookin’ for Lewis & Clarke      (7”single 1985 Los Angeles, USA)

the Daily Flash – Jack of Diamonds      (7”single 1966 USA)

Jacco Gardner – Clear the Air      (‘Cabinet of Curiosities’ 2013 Netherlands)

Assemble Head In Sunburst Sound – Drunken Leaves      (‘When Sweet Sleep Returned’ 2009 USA)

Plasticland (featuring Twink) – Iris of the Waterfall      (7”single test-pressing b-side [to Seize the Time] 1989 USA – collected on ‘Make Yourself a Happening Machine’ anthology 2006 USA)

Children of the Mushroom – You Can’t Erase a Mirror      (7”single b-side [to August Mademoiselle] 1968 USA)

the Gripweeds – Love’s Lost On You      (‘Summer of a Thousand Years’ 2001 USA)

the Seeds – Two Fingers Pointing at You      (‘Psych-Out’ soundtrack LP 1968 USA)

the Sufis – Where Did She Go?      (‘the Sufis’ 2012 Nashville, USA)

 

Technicolour Dreaming

Beginning with a 60’s classic has become a regular feature of the show and this week’s choice was the 1967 debut single by UK band Traffic, which we felt melded quite nicely with the Brian Jonestown Massacre’s eastern-tinged instrumental that followed. In fact we played a fair number of songs from “the original psychedelic era”, as Lenny Kaye named it on the Nuggets LP back in 1972... amongst them was the title-track of Donovan’s 7^th album which featured the Jeff Beck Group, the flip-side of the sole UK single by Normie Rowe’s backing-band, the Playboys, on Immediate Records, as well as a track from the “lost” LP by Gary Walker & the Rain – a 1968 ‘Japan-only’ release which just recently became available in the rest of the world. It was also the last appearance of Brian Eno as our ‘Artiste of the Week’ and we concluded the show with the brilliant opening track of his second solo album. Finally, there was also a selection of ‘punk-era’ recordings from the likes of the Ramones, Siouxsie & the Banshees and Patti Smith, which we played in memory of Ian ‘Butch Brat’ Roberts, who passed away last week... Butch was Adelaide band the Brats’ mixer, roadie and valued friend, and we saw all these bands, and more, play gigs in London in the mid/late 70’s!

R.I.P. Butch..... 

Traffic – Paper Sun     (7”single 1967 UK)

Brian Jonestown Massacre – Panic in Babylon     (‘Aufheben’ 2012 USA)

the Lovetones – Come Home     (‘Meditations’ 2006 Melbourne, Australia)

Weightless – Holding On     (‘Self-Adjustment’ 2012 Adelaide, Aust.)

the What 4 – Logan’s Run     (‘Say It Straight’ 2008 Adelaide, Aust.)

the Sunbirds – Stone     (‘Emergency Christmas’ EP 2012 Adelaide, Aust.)

the Grand Rapids – Brian’s Got a Rubber Soul     (‘Great Shakes’ 2012 Melbourne, Aust.)

Siouxsie & the Banshees – Mittageisen     (7”double A-side single [with Love in a Void] 1979 UK)

Ian Brown – F.E.A.R.     (‘Music of the Spheres’ 2001 UK)

the Smiths – How Soon Is Now?     (‘Meat Is Murder’ LP 1985 UK)

Caveman – My Room     (‘CoCo Beware’ 2011 Brooklyn, USA)

the Ramones – Blitzkrieg Bop     (‘the Ramones’ LP 1976 New York, USA)

John Cooper Clarke – I Don’t Want to be Nice     (‘Disguise in Love’ LP 1978 UK)

Patti Smith – Free Money     (‘Horses’ LP 1975 New York, USA)

the Clash – London Calling     (‘London Calling’ LP 1979 UK)

Gary Walker & the Rain – Francis     (‘Album Number One’ LP 1968 Japan/UK)

Caleb – Baby Your Phrasing is Bad     (7”single 1967 UK)

Donovan – Goo Goo Barabajagal (Love is Hot)     (7”single 1969 UK)

the Fleur De Lys – Circles [Who cover]     (7”single 1966 UK)

the Playboys – Sad     (7”single b-side [to Black Sheep R.I.P.] 1967 Aust./UK)

Bobby & Laurie – Every Second Day     (7”single 1966 Aust. – also on ‘Exposaic’ LP 1966 : taken from  ‘A Forest of Gold Tops in the Land of Oz - 26 Tabs from the Semiconscious Sixties’ compilation 1997 Aust.)

the Masters Apprentices – But One Day     (7”single 1968 Aust.)

Eno – Burning Airlines Give You So Much More     (‘Taking Tiger Mountain [By Strategy]’ LP 1974 UK)  #

               #   “Artiste of the Month”

Technicolour Dreaming

A mixed bag of tunes was on our menu again this week, starting with Traffic’s second single... still a great song despite bringing to mind ‘Neil the hippy’ every time we hear it! We featured cuts from an assortment of new releases, including two of our current faves, Ty Segall & White Fence’s ‘Hair’ LP and ‘Bloom’ by Beach House, plus tracks taken off slightly older albums by the likes of Espers, Asteroid #4 and the Frowning Clouds, as well as a brilliant Beatles’ cover by Pete Shelley and a classic from the Psychedelic Furs debut LP, before finishing with our June “Band of the Month”, the mighty Sunnyboys... these and a whole bunch more were played for your listening delight by  the Cat & the Brat.....

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

Traffic – Hole in My Shoe     (7”single 1967 London, UK)

Like Leaves – Dancing On Glass     (‘Like Leaves’ 2011 Adelaide, Australia)

the Questions – We Got Love     (7”single b-side 1968 Sydney, Aust.)

the Vibrants – Something About You     (7”single 1967 Adelaide, Aust.)

the Frowning Clouds – That Girl’s Something Else     (‘Listen Closlier’ 2010 Melbourne, Aust.)

Wolfy & the Batcubs – Railroad Track     (‘Wolfy & the Batcubs’ EP 2012 Melbourne, Aust.)

Ty Segall & White Fence – Time     (‘Hair’ 2012 California, USA)

Frank Black – Los Angeles     (‘Frank Black’ 1993 USA)

the Daylight Braves – Summer At Last     (‘Liquid Sun’ EP 2011 Adelaide, Aust.)

Pete Shelley – Think For Yourself [Beatles cover]     (‘Mojo: Yellow Submarine Resurfaced’ compilation 2012 UK)

the Thanes – Buzz Buzz Yeh Yeh     (‘Evolver’ anthology 2004 Scotland, UK)

the Molting Vultures – Train Crash      (‘Get On Board’ 2012 Adelaide, Australia)

the Psychedelic Furs – Pulse     (‘the Psychedelic Furs’ LP 1979 UK)

Beach House – Myth      (‘Bloom’ 2012 USA)

Espers – Another Moon Song     (‘Espers III’ 2009 USA)

Brightblack Morning Light – Black Feather Wishes Rise     (‘Brightblack Morning Light’ 2006 USA)

Asteroid #4 – Belong      (‘An Amazing Dream’ 2006 Philadelphia, USA)

the Laurels – Black Cathedral     (‘Mesozoic’ 2011 Sydney, Aust.)

the Mondo Phase Band – Chase     (‘Major Input Live’ 2011 Adelaide, Aust.)

the Photon Band – 9 Of Dreams     (‘All Young In The Soul’ 1998 Philadelphia, USA)

the Sunnyboys – This Is Real     (7”single 1982 Sydney, Aust.)    #

     #  “Band of the Month”