Technicolour Dreaming

This show leaned more towards garage than psych for a little while, compliments of lots of new goodies to play - Adelaide's The Systemaddicts kicked things off with their latest album, "Broken Hearted on the Nullarbor", followed by a couple of new releases from State Records, by The Embrooks (UK) and The Missing Souls (France), and squeezed in the middle was a track from Juliette Seizure and the Tremor Dolls debut long-player, "Chewing Out Your Rhythm on My Bubblegum." Somehow I managed to play THREE Tyrnaround tracks, twice from their classic 12" EP, as well as a cover of the title-track, "Colour Your Mind" by Vibravoid! And I musn't forget a selection from Sidewalk Society's new 4-track 7" EP, which is one of Fruits De Mer Records latest crop of releases - with more to be featured next week. Some "soon-to-be" releases from Heaters, Elkhorn and Drakkar Nowhere rounded out the show: luckily this entry didn't take as long to put together as the last one! Enjoy!

The Systemaddicts - Prison  ("Broken Hearted on the Nullarbor" 2016 Adelaide, Australia)

Goldfrapp - Lovely Head  ("Felt Mountain" 2000 UK)

Tyrnaround - Carroll by Candlelight  ("Colour Your Mind" 12" EP 1986 Brisbane, Australia)

The Embrooks - Nightmare  (7" single 2016 UK)

Juliette Seizure and the Tremor Dolls - Self-Defeating Blues  ("Chewing Out Your Rhythm on My Bubblegum" 2016 Adelaide, Australia)

The Missing Souls - The Alligator  (7" single 2016 Lyon, France)

The Chemistry Set - Albert Hoffman  ("The Endless More and More" LP 2016 UK/Spain)

Sidewalk Society - Can't Help Thinking About Me [David Bowie and The Lower Third]  (7" 4-track EP 2016 California, USA)

Ultravox! - ROckwrok  ("Ha!-Ha!-Ha!" LP 1977 UK)

The Spikes - Spy In My House  ("Colour In A Black Forest" LP 1986 Adelaide, Australia)

Elephant Stone - Love the Sinner, Hate the Sin  ("Elephant Stone" 2013 Montreal, Canada)

The Merry-Go-Round - Listen, Listen  (7" single 1968 Los Angeles, USA)

The Lovetones - The Colour and the Cut  ("Meditations" 2005 Melbourne, Australia)

The Liminanas - Longanisse  ("Crystal Anis" 2012 Perpignan, France)

Trabants - Mecca  ("Freakout" 2015 Los Angeles, USA)

Tyrnaround - Francis [Gary Walker]  ("Colour Your Mind" 12" EP 1986 Brisbane, Australia)

Fuzz - Let It Live  ("Fuzz II" 2015, Los Angeles, USA)

Drakkar Nowhere - Higher Now  ("Drakkar Nowhere" (to be released September 2016) New York, USA)

The Love Explosion - Wonderful Wonderful Wonderful  ("Movies in Your Mind" 2016 Leichardt, New South Wales, Australia)

Elkhorn - Seed  ("Elkhorn" (to be released August 2016) New York, USA)

Frantic Chant - Spellbound  ("Active Listener Sampler #42" 2016 Scotland, UK)
Opus 1 - Back Seat '38 Dodge  (7" single 1966 Los Angeles, USA)

Gilligan Smiles - Hopefully  ("Active Listener Sampler #42" 2016 Melbourne, Australia)

Heaters - Centennial  ("Baptistina" (to be released August 2016) Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA)

Vibravoid - Colour Your Mind [Tyrnaround]  ("Delirio Dei Sensi" 2014 Dusseldorf, Germany)

W.C. Fields Memorial Electric String Band - Hippy Elevator Operator  (7" single 1966 Los Angeles, USA)

Moonsicles - The Frozen Pond  ("Bay of Seething" 2016 Austin Texas)

Sir Robin and the Longbowmen - I Would Like  ("Sir Robin and the Longbowmen" 2016 Dresden, Germany)

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More dreadful weather, internet outages, and a weekend away up in the big smoke to DJ at Wintersteady has meant a really big delay for this week's blog post...so no more prevarication, here it is, and on with the next one!

Vibravoid - Listen, Can't you Hear  ("Delirio Dei Sensi" 2013 Dusseldorf, Germany)

Ola And the Janglers - We've Got a Groovy Thing Goin' [Paul Simon] ("Lime Light" LP 1966 Stockholm, Sweden)

Blush Response - The City Will Eat Itself  ("Wintersteady - Going Steady Mix Tape #7" 2016 Adelaide, Australia)

Captain Sensibile - Octopus [Syd Barrett]  ("The Madcap Laughs Again!" compilation 2009 UK)

Flyying Colours - Wavy Gravy  ("Wintersteady - Going Steady Mix Tape #7" 2016 Melbourne, Australia)

King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - Float Along-Fill Your Lungs  ("Float Along - Fill Your Lungs" LP 2013 Melbourne, Australia)

Demon Parade - Succumb to a Feather  ("Wintersteady - Going Steady Mix Tape #7" 2016 Melbourne, Australia)

Tyrnaround - Colour Your Mind  ("Colour Your Mind" 12" EP 1987 Brisbane, Australia)

Love - The Red Telephone  ("Forever Changes" LP 1967 Los Angeles, USA)

The Selfish Cales - Sulphureous Haze  ("Throw Your Watch to the Water" LP 2015 Torino, Italy)

The Red Plastic Buddha - Little White Pills  ("Songs for Mara" 2014 Chicago, USA)

King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard - Gamma Knife  ("Nonagon Infinity" 2016 Melbourne, Australia)

Heaters - Sanctuary Blues  ("Holy Water Pool" 2015 Grand Rapids, Michigan USA)

Psychlops Eyepatch - God's Armchair  ("Paranoise EP" 2013 Sydney, Australia)

The Misunderstood - I Can Take You to the Sun  (7" single 1966 US/UK)

Holy Cosmos - Hurricane Fighter Plane [Red Krayola]  ("The Psychedelic Sounds of the Blog That Celebrates Itself Vol. III" 2015 Mexico City, Mexico)

The Luck Of Eden Hall - Another High Speed Blowout  ("Acceleration of Time" LP 2016 Chicago, USA)
Procul Harum - Shine On Brightly  ("Shine On Brightly" LP 1968 UK)

Monochromatic Visions - Don't Let Your Youth Go To Waste  ("Blue Thunder - A Tribute to Galaxie 500" compilation 2016 Athens, Greece)
Warm Sounds - Nite Is A Comin'  (7" single 1967 UK)

Mystic Brew - Something More Than A Dream  ("Something More Than a Dream" LP 2015 Russia)
Polska Radio One - Volga  ("North Berry EP" 2014 Yekaterinburg, Russia)

Sun Mahshene - No Control (demo)  ("Dog's Got A  Bone #5" compilation  2016 Dublin, Ireland)

Dream Sick - Dig  ("Last Little Bit" 2014 Tucson, Arizona, USA)
Violet Swells - Strange, Strange Design  (CD Single 2016 Hobart, Australia)

and something extra...

Captain Sensible - Astronomy Domine

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A few notable new releases played on Technicolour Dreaming this week included The Honey Pot's latest, "Inside The Whale", which has a real West-Coast 60's psych feel to it, out now on MegaDodo Records; and The Murlocs new one "Young Blindness" - and if you were planning to buy the coloured vinyl, it's too late!! Melbourne bands were well represented on the show, making up 6 of the selections, plus the usual French oddities, some Canadian coolness, as well as tracks from Germany, Norway, Russia and The Ukraine - there's so much fantastic music out there, both old and new, the world over. Just 2 hours a week is never enough!
Here's the playlist, plus visuals.....

Deep Feeling - Pretty Colours  ("Deep Feeling" rec. 1966, rel. 2008 USA) 

Sula Bassana - Perry Rhodan  ("Dreamer" LP 2002 Germany) 

Serge Franklin - KKK (Le Ku Klux Klan)  ("45 Tours A La Une" 7" EP 1966 France) 

Isabelle - Amstramgram  ("Dis Moi Poupée" 7" EP 1968 France) 

The Daughters of Eve - Help Me Boy  (7" single [b-side to "Symphony of Soul"] 1967 USA) 

Elephant Stone - A Silent Moment  ("Acid Killed My Rock'n'Roll - an Intro to Elephant Stone" 2015 Montreal, Canada) 

Park Avenue Playground - The Trip  (7" single [b-side to "I Know"] 1969 Lansing, Illinois, USA) 

Tyrnaround - As I Walk With You  ("Succeeds When Daylight Fails" LP 1989 Melbourne, Australia) 

The Honey Pot - Inside the Whale  ("Inside the Whale" LP 2016 UK) 

Sagittarius - My World Fell Down  ("Present Tense" LP 1968 USA) 

Twink - 10,000 Words in a Cardboard Box  ("Think Pink" LP 1970 UK) 

The Apricot - We Believe in Zoo  ("A Forestful of Threes" 2011 Norway)

The Hoa Hoas - Postcards  ("Pop/Drone/Pedals" 2009 Canada) 

The Smoking Trees - Good Morning  ("TST" 2015 Los Angeles, California USA) 

Ummagma - Rotation  ("Singles" 2012 Ukraine)  

Tara King th with Halasan Bazar - Ventolin  ("Mostly Tara Tape" 2014 France) 

The Murlocs - Rolling On  ("Young Blindness" 2016 Melbourne, Australia)

The Living Eyes - Oh Yeah [The Shadows of Knight]  ("Nuggets: Antipodean Interpolations of the First Psychedelic Era" LP 2013 Melbourne, Australia)

The Creeping Bam - Don't Get High  (7" single 2015 Melbourne, Australia)

Deerhunter - Snakeskin  ("Fading Frontier" 2015 Atlanta, USA)

Pipe Eye - People Move Along  ("Cosmic Blip" 10" EP 2015 Melbourne, Australia)

Magic America - Comes and Goes  ("Magic America" EP 2015 Melbourne, Australia)

The Black Angels - Yellow Elevator #2  ("Phosphene Dream" 2010 Austin, Texas USA)

Edwick Rumbold - Shades of Grey  (7" single 1967 UK)

Blue Giant Zeta Puppies - Martians Don't Surf  ("12 Theories of Time Travel" 2015 UK) 

Majic Ship - Green Plant  (7" single [b-side to "Night Time Music"] 1968 New York, USA)

Vespero - One of These Days (7" single [b-side to "Careful With That Axe, Eugene"] 2013 Russia)

The Seeds - 900 Million People Daily All Make Love  ("Raw and Alive In Concert at Merlin's Music Box" LP 1968 Los Angeles, USA)

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The third show of the year and we’re getting a feel for this ‘amalgamation of two shows into one’ thingee! There was current stuff from bands such as the Surf Zombies, Earth and Japandroids, a selection of 60’s music ranging from the Byrds to Svensk to the Brain [a pre-Giles, Giles & Fripp project by the Giles brothers], and a plethora of tracks in between from artists such as Echo & the Bunnymen, Wooden Shjips, Suede, Tyrnaround, Jennifer Gentle, Custard and T.Rex. Our feature this week was a 7”EP from the Fruits de Mer label called The League of Psychedelic Gentlemen, consisting of a track each by four such gentlemen, including nick nicely and Anton Barbeau... we’ll be playing the other two next week! We finished the show with the 1999 single by Jason Falkner which, in a just world, would have been a huge hit, but in this one was torpedoed by ‘major label’ shenanigans... his back catalogue is well worth checking out as he writes and plays great pop music, in the classic sense of the word!

.....So here is the playlist and a few clips to whet your interest.....

Jennifer Gentle – Couple in Bed by a Green Flashing Light      (‘Funny Creatures Lane’ LP 2002 Italy – taken from ‘Ectoplasmic Garden Party’ anthology 2003 Italy)

Tyrnaround – Carroll by Candlelight      (‘Colour Your Mind’ EP 1986 Australia)

Svensk – Dream Magazine      (7”single 1967 UK)

Procession – Mind Magician      (‘Procession’ LP 1968 Australia/UK)

the Dave Miller Set – Mr Guy Fawkes      (7”single 1969 New Zealand/Australia)

the Brain – Nightmares in Red      (7”single b-side [to Kick the Donkey] 1967 UK)

Earth – Father Midnight      (‘Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light, Vol.1’ 2011 USA)

Custard – A View to a Kill [Duran Duran cover]      (‘Undone: Songs of Duran Duran’ compilation 1999 Australia)

British Sea Power – Tugboat [Galaxie 500 cover]      (‘Rough Trade - Stop Me If You’ve Heard This One Before’ compilation 2003 UK)

Melody’s Echo Chamber – I Follow You      (‘Melody’s Echo Chamber’ 2012 France/Australia)

 

Rhubarb Rhubarb – Rainmaker      (7”single 1968 UK)

Timberjack Donaghue – Dahli Mohammed      (7”single 1970 New Zealand)

the Byrds – Natural Harmony      (‘The Notorious Byrd Brothers’ LP 1968 USA)

the Surf Zombies – Flat Black      (‘Lust For Rust’  2012 Iowa, USA – taken from ‘Continental Magazine #20’ cover-mount CD 2012 USA)

the Dead Rocks – La Terrible Maldicion de Tutenkamon      (‘One Million Dollar Surf Band’ 2008 Sao Carlo, Brazil)

Y Niwl – Dauddegpump      (‘Y Niwl 4’ EP 2012 Gwynned, Wales, UK)

 Japandroids – For the Love of Ivy [Gun Club cover]      (‘Celebration Rock’ 2012 USA)

 

T.Rex – Ripoff      (‘Electric Warrior’ LP 1971 London, UK)

the Barbarellatones – White Light, White Heat [Velvet Underground cover]      (‘The Sound of Love’ 2012 USA)

nick nicely – Rosemary’s Eyes      (‘The League of Psychedelic Gentlemen’ split-EP 2012 UK/USA/France)

Wooden Shjips – Out of my Head      (recorded 2009 – taken from ‘Yeti 7’ magazine cover-mount CD 2009 USA)

the House of Love – Christine      (‘House of Love’ LP 1988 UK)

Suede – The Drowners      (‘Suede’ LP 1993 UK)

Echo & the Bunnymen – Crocodiles      (‘Crocodiles’ LP 1980 UK)

Crocodiles – My Surfing Lucifer      (‘Endless Flowers’ 2012 USA)

Anton Barbeau & the Three Minute Tease – When I Was 46 [In The Year 13]      (‘The League of Psychedelic Gentlemen’ split-EP 2012 UK/USA/France)

Jason Falkner – Holiday      (7”single 1999 USA)

 

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It was once again a diverse show this week, with the Cat & the Brat ranging through old favourites such as Iggy & the Stooges, Clinic and Magazine through Adelaide stalwarts the Asteroid Belt and Van Cleef, plus some recent releases from Ty Segall, Crystal Stilts and Maya. We also sadly bid farewell to a couple of our favourite Australian bands, Belles Will Ring and the Amcats, who have both announced their final performances and that they are going on an indefinite hiatus, as well as playing the Dukes of Stratosphear’s final showing as our “Band of the Month”, plus of course, much more, so without further ado.....

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

the Church – Hiroshima Mon Amour [Ultravox cover]      (‘Box of Birds’ 1999 Australia)

Magazine – The Light Pours Out of Me      (recorded 1978 on BBC ‘Peel Sessions’ – taken from ‘...Magazine [Maybe it’s right to be nervous now]’ anthology boxset  2000 UK)

Clinic – Sunlight Bathes Our Home      (‘Walking With Thee’ 2002 UK)

Maya – Running Low (On Empty)      (‘EPs 1 + 2’ 2012 Aust.)

the Asteroid Belt – Incantations      (‘Incantations/Exultations’ 2009 Adelaide, Aust.)

Van Cleef – Dalek Gulch      (‘Where the River Meets the Rock’ 2010 Adelaide, Aust.)

the Amcats – Why Can’t You See Her      (7”single 2012 Adelaide, Aust.)

Belles Will Ring – Pallisade Alley      (‘Crystal Theatre’ 2011 Sydney, Aust.)

the Wild Cherries – Krome Plated Yabby      (7”single 1967 Aust.)

Capt. Groovy – Capt. Groovy & his Bubblegum Army      (7”single 1969 USA)

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

Tyrnaround – Colour Your Mind      (‘Colour Your Mind’ 12”EP 1987 Aust.)

Crystal Stilts – Through the Floor      (‘In Love with Oblivion’ 2011 USA)

Eric Burdon & the Animals – A Girl Called Sandoz      (7”single b-side [to When I Was Young] 1967 UK)

the Weirdos – Life of Crime      (7”single 1977 USA)

Naz Nomad & the Nightmares – She Lied [Rockin’ Ramrods cover]      (‘Give Daddy The Knife Cindy’ LP 1984 UK)

Iggy & the Stooges – Search and Destroy      (‘Raw Power’ LP 1973 USA)

13^th Floor Elevators – You’re Gonna Miss Me      (7”single 1966 Texas, USA – taken from ‘Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era, 1965-1968’ compilation LP 1972 USA)

Lowell George & the Factory – Candy Cane Madness      (recorded 1967 – taken from ‘Where the Action Is! Los Angeles Nuggets 1965-1968’ compilation boxset 2009 USA)

David Bowie – All the Madmen      (‘The Man Who Sold The World’ LP 1970 UK)

the Dukes of Stratosphear – Vanishing Girl      (‘Psonic Psunspot’ LP 1987 UK)   #

     #   “Band of the Month”