Technicolour Dreaming

A real mixed bag of music this time round, with way more 1960's USA singles than in recent weeks - which can only be a good thing!! - and only a few new releases (The Warlocks' "Songs from the Pale Eclipse", Beaulieu Porch's "Sarum Sounds", Anton Barbeau's "Magic Act", Garden Gate's "Dark Harvest" and the latest single from The Embrooks, "Helen" pretty much covers it). The rest of the show was a melange of new acquisitions of older albums, plus the usual romp through the decades....hope you enjoyed it! So here's the playlist, for those who have been nagging me for it...

The Moving Sidewalks - I Want to Hold Your Hand  (7" single 1968 Texas, USA)

The Loose Enz - The Black Door  (7" single 1968, USA)

Ron Wray Light Show - Speed  (7" single 1970 USA)

Johnny Thunders and the Heartbreakers - Born to Lose  ("L.A.M.F." LP 1977 New York, USA)

The Embrooks - Helen  (7" single 2016 Kent, UK)

R.E.M. - Dark Globe [Syd Barrett]  ("Orange Crush" 12" EP 1989 USA)

Doug Tuttle - Falling To Believe  ("It Calls on Me" 2016 New Hampshire, USA)

Jacco Gardner - Puppets Dangling  ("Cabinet of Curiosities" 2013 Netherlands)

The Cords - The Lesson  ("Get Ready to Fly- Pop Psych From The Norman Petty Vaults" compilation 2007 USA)

Pillow - Choirs  (7" single [b-side to "Oh, Carol"] 1969 Sweden)
Tin Tin - Swans On the Canal  (7" single [b-side to "Is That The Way"] 1971 Australia)

The David - People Saying, People Seeing  (7" single 1967 Los Angeles, California USA)

The Whatt Four - Dandelion Wine  (7" single 1967 USA)

Triops - Hybrid Taxidermy  ("Close to the Hedge" compilation 2013 UK)
Barracudas - Watching the World Go By  ("Through the Mysts of Time" 1999 London, UK)

The Raunchies - Little B  ("Falk" EP 2015 Italy)

The Warlocks - Dance Alone  ("Songs From The Pale Eclipse" 2016 California, USA)

The Deep Freeze Mice - A Red Light for the Greens  ("The Gates of Lunch" LP 1982 Leicester, UK)

Schnauser - National Grid  ("Protein For Everyone" 2014 UK)

Mordecai Smyth - Dream On (Marnie)  ("Dial M for Mordecai" 7" EP 2013 UK)

Anton Barbeau - Broken in Two  ("Magic Act" 2016 UK)

Garden Gate - Dark Harvest  ("Dark Harvest" 2016)

Beaulieu Porch - Burn  ("Sarum Sounds" 2016 UK)

The High Tide - Electric Blue  (7" single [b-side to "Dancing In My Mind"] 1981 UK)

Mark and the Clouds - Blue Skies Opening  ("Blue Skies Opening" LP 2014 UK)

Mordecai Smyth - Psychedelic Sarah  ("Dial M for Mordecai" 7" EP 2013 UK)

The High Tide - Dancing in My Mind  (7" single 1981 UK))

The Karova's Milkshake - Freak Out  ("Freakout Factory" 7" single 2012 Russia)

Nick Nicely - Hilly Fields (1892)  (7" single 1982 UK)

Barbarellatones - Psychedelic Freakout  ("Glitter Train" 2016 Hawaii, USA)
Le Superhomard - Maple Key  ("Maple Key" LP 2016 France)

Technicolour Dreaming

Amongst the songs we played for our first show of 2015 were still more of our picks for “Best of 2014” which we couldn’t fit in or had missed  on the final few shows last year, such as Sacred Shrines, Kikagaku Moyo, Sudden Death of Stars, and Southern Boutique, plus anthologies by Balduin and the Luck of Eden Hall. We also wish to acknowledge a bunch of very cool, small independent record companies who help make it possible for these bands to get their music pressed on vinyl or CD or cassette, as often the bands can’t afford to pay all the costs, as I personally well know [thank you Smashed Records!]. Amongst our favourites are the prolific Fruits de Mer , Beyond Beyond is Beyond, MegaDodo, State Records, Trouble In Mind, Captcha, Sunny Day Records, the Active Listener label, Sonic Cathedral, Off The Hip, Anti-Fade and many more. Without them, we wouldn’t be able to play most of the new music that we do, so thank you all [and to the others that we’ve forgotten, as no doubt we have, our apologies!] Lastly, played our final “Band of the Week”  [we’re making way for a new weekly feature, due to start next week... ] but it was a good one – Polska Radio One from Yekaterinburg in Russia, who’ve been making great psychedelic music for some years now, but with the release of their excellent debut album “Cosmos Inside” on an American label, they have moved to a new level and hopefully will gain worldwide recognition... as I think we’ve mentioned before, this new wave of psychedelia is a global movement and there are new bands everywhere. So until next week.....

...... here is the playlist, with some visuals….. plus a very cool German TV show from 1968 dedicated to the Bee Gees “Idea” album. Enjoy!.....

Les Fleurs De Pavot - À Dégager      ("Les Fleurs de Pavot" LP 1968 France)

Les Liminanas - (I've Got) Trouble in Mind      ("I've Got Trouble in Mind: 7" and Rare Stuff" anthology 2014 France)

Les Papyvores - Le Papyvore      ("Les Papyvore" EP 1967 France)

Sacred Shrines - Hung Up On Your Wall      (7"single 2014 Queensland, Australia)

the Golden Dawn - Starvation      ("Power Plant" LP 1968 Texas, USA)

Dan Hicks and His Hot Licks - I Scare Myself      ("Strikin' It Rich" LP 1972 USA)

Dead Skeletons - Dead Mantra       ("Dead Magick" LP 2011 Iceland)

Kikagaku Moyo - Smoke and Mirrors      ("Forest of Lost Children" LP 2014 Japan)

Sudden Death of Stars - Magical Mirror      ("All Unrevealed Parts of the Unknown..." 2014 Brittany, France)

Balduin - Everything      ("Post From Mars" anthology 2014 Switzerland)

Quilt - Cowboys in the Void      ("Quilt" 2014 USA)

Southern Boutique - Rabbit Trail      (7"single 2014 USA)

the Warlocks - Dead Generation      ("Skull Worship" 2014 USA)

Bee Gees - Idea (alternate mix)      ("Idea" LP 1968 Australia/UK - taken from the bonus disc of rarities/alternate mixes/unreleased songs included with 2006 re-issue)

    ###   “Band of the Week”    Polska Radio One   ###

Polska Radio One - Volga       ("North Berry" EP 2014 Yekaterinburg, Russia)

Polska Radio One - To The Delta of Aquarius      ("Cosmos Inside" LP 2014 Russia)

Polska Radio One - New Space      (CD-single 2013 Russia)

Polska Radio One - Launch #93      ("Cosmos Inside" LP 2014 Russia)

Dark Ocean Colors - She's a Cornucopia      ("Dark Ocean Colors" 2011 USA)

Crystal Jacqueline and the Honeypot - Hole in My Shoe [Traffic cover]     ("Electronic Memory" CD-box-set 2015 Wales)    

the Sunnyboys - Show Me Some Discipline     (7"single, 1983 Sydney, Australia)

the Luck Of Eden Hall - Dandy Horse      ("Greatest Hits, Volume 1"   2014 USA)

Jim Noir - Honour and Moogswings      ("Finnish Line" 2014 Scotland)

Toni and Royce - Buy Some Love      (7"single 1966 Queensland, Australia)

the Masters Apprentices - Buried and Dead      ((7"single 1966 Adelaide, Australia)

Billy Nicholls - Would You Believe (mono single version)      (bonus track on 200 re-issue of "Would You Believe" LP 1967 London, UK)

plus ....  1968 German TV show “Idea” – feat. Bee Gees, Julie Driscoll, Brian Auger & the Trinity .... and more! Enjoy.......

Technicolour Dreaming

It’s the 1^st show of the year and we had a large pile of new vinyl and CDs to play and thus begin as we intend to go on..... with a “kerrang”, as it were! Apart from all the formerly forgotten ‘lost’ classics from the past that are again seeing the light of day and finding appreciative audiences due to the dedication of ‘re-issue’ labels making them affordable again rather than just the preserve of a few well-heeled ‘collectors’, there is a rising swell of new, young bands from all over the world who are building on these roots and creating a plethora of new psychedelic sounds – 2014 promises to be another interesting year for psychedelia and associated sounds! So, without further ado.....

..... here is the debut 2014 playlist plus, of course, accompanying visual goodies.....

Sendelica – Something in a Grain of Sand      (“The Kaleidoscopic Kat & It’s Autoscopic Ego” 2013 Wales, UK)

Chris & Craig – Isha      (7”single 1966 Los Angeles, USA)

Penny Arkade – Color Fantasy      (recorded 1967 – taken from “Not The Freeze” anthology 2004 USA)

We All Together – Children      (“We All Together” LP 1973 Peru)

Sudden Death Of Stars – Space      (bonus track on “Getting Up, Going Down” 2013 Brittany, France)

Groep 1850 – A Point In This Life      (“Agemo’s Trip To Mother Earth” LP 1967 Netherlands)

the Future Primitives – 1-2-5 [Haunted cover]      (“Songs We Taught Ourselves” 2013 South Africa)

Mystic Brew – Don’t Cry No More      (7”single 2013 Russia)

the Brian Jonestown Massacre – Revolution Number Zero      (“Revolution Number Zero” EP 2013 USA/Germany)

Toy – It’s Been So Long      (“Join The Dots” 2013 UK)

Zane Armstrong – The Otherside [Apple cover]      (“Pull Up the Paisley Covers” compilation 2002 UK)

Crystal Jacqueline – Cousin Jane [Troggs cover]      (“A Fairytale” EP 2013 UK)

the West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band – As The World Rises & Falls      (“Vol.3 – A Child’s Guide to Good & Evil” LP 1968 California, USA)

October Country – Cowboys and Indians      (7”single 1968 California, USA)

the Smoke – October Country       (“The Smoke” LP 1968 USA)

the Dukes of Stratosphear [aka XTC] – The Mole From The Ministry      (“25 O’Clock” EP 1986 UK)

Jacco Gardner – How To Live Again      (“Trouble In Mind Records : Liverpool Psych Fest 2013”  compilation 2013 USA)

the Limiñanas – BB      (“Costa Blanca” 2013 Perpignan, France)

the Warlocks – Endless Drops      (“Skull Worship” 2013 USA)

Maston – Young Hearts      (“Shadows” 2013 USA)

Espectrostatic – Smokeface Appears      (“Espectrostatic” LP 2013 USA)

the UFO Club – My Love Is Waiting      (12”split-EP [with Night Beats] 2013 Texas, USA)

the Dead Skeletons – Odaudleg Ord      (recorded 2012 – taken from “ORD” EP 2013 Iceland)

the Dandelion – All Seeing Eye Syndrome      (“Strange Case of the Dandelion” 2013 Australia)

the Barbarellatones – Dead Man’s Curve [Jan & Dean cover]      (“Confessions of a Teenage Prostitute” 2011)

DeWolff – Gold & Seaweed      (cd-single b-side [to ‘Crumbling Heart’] 2014 Netherlands)