Technicolour Dreaming

The show this week had another guest presenter in the form of Michael Hunter - no stranger to the timeslot in the Obscured By… days but for one week only, back doing the show on his own.  Actually that’s not quite true, as he was joined on the phone for an interesting chat with Bobby Bright, on the nearly-50 year anniversary of the first Bobby & Laurie single, and on the recent release of Bob’s own new EP “Child Of Rock & Roll” (available on iTunes or his own website).  The news that Led Zeppelin were being sued by the band Spirit for alleged pilfering of a musical phrase on “Stairway To Heaven” led to a few related pieces, including Frank Zappa’s take on the iconic song.  A few unreleased gems by Australian musical heavyweights such as Wendy Saddington and the Wild Cherries also found their way to air, as did some 60s European pop delights - the glam rock band Blue Vamp featuring a pre-Oxygene Jean Michel Jarre!  And so a jolly good time was had by all, and normal service will resume soon.....

..... and here is the playlist plus some vids.....

the Clevedonaires - Lost Women      (7”single 1967 New Zealand)
the National Reps - Back Streets      (unreleased demo 1967 Brisbane, Australia)
Dave Miller Set - Why? Why? Why? [Paul Revere & the Raiders cover]      (7”single 1967 Sydney, Australia)

Toni & Royce - Buy Some Love      (7”single 1966 Brisbane, Australia)
Spirit - Taurus      (“Spirit” LP 1968 US)
Frank Zappa - Stairway To Heaven      (“The Best Band You Never Heard In Your Life” - recorded 1988, released 1991 USA)
Sun Kil Moon - I Watched The Film The Song Remains The Same      (“Benji” 2014 USA)
the Wild Cherries - Alice Is (Coming Through)       (unreleased demo 1968 Brisbane, Australia)

the Wendy Saddington Band - Hypocrite Heaven     (unreleased demo 1987 Australia)
X-Ray-Z - Poor Image     (7”single 1977 Australia)
Karma - Iron Fisted Woman     (7”single 1974 Australia)
Red Angel Panic - Viet Rock     (7”single 1971 Adelaide,  Australia)

Bobby & Laurie - I Belong With You      (7”single 1964 Melbourne, Australia)
Bobby & Laurie - Strange Rain      (“Bobby & Laurie” LP 1965 Australia)

              *** phone interview with Bobby Bright from Melbourne ***

Bobby Bright - Great Life (Elsie’s Song)      (“Child Of Rock & Roll” 2014 Australia)
Bobby Bright - Younger Days      (“Child Of Rock & Roll” 2014 Australia)
Bobby & Laurie - Every Second Day      (7”single 1966 Australia)
Marta Kubišová  - Nechte Zvony Znit      (7”single 1967 Czech)

Michel Polnareff - La Poupee Qui Fait Non      (7”single 1966 France)

les Hou-Lops - Vendredi m’obsède [Friday On My Mind – Easybeats cover]      (7”single 1967 Quebec, Canada)
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Blue Vamp - Jolly Dolly       (7”single 1973 France)
Omnia - I Don’t Speak Human      (“Musick & Poetree” 2011 Netherlands)

Frank Zappa - Bolero      (“The Best Band You Never Heard In Your Life” - recorded 1988, released 1991 USA)

Technicolour Dreaming

  

It was a case of “more vinyl, more vinyl” on this week’s show, playing 7” singles, new and old, from the likes of the Hidden Masters, Wooden Shjips, the Haunted, Suede and the Spikes and selections from ‘rarities’ compilations such as the double LPs “Forge Your Own Chains” and “Fairytales Can Come True”, plus album and EP tracks by the Stomachmouths, Blue Ruin, the Gootch Palms, Tyrannosaurus Rex and others. As tribute to Australian legend  Wendy Saddington who sadly passed away last week, we played her 1971 single ‘Looking Through a Window’ and for one of our favourite novelists, the late Iain M. Banks, we played a Sonny & the Sunsets song about a doomed space-robot love affair! Throw in the debut demo by Olly Holmes, some new Mikal Cronin music and a few favourite CDs, and there it was... another edition of Technicolour Dreaming, brought to you by the Cat & the Brat.....

..... and so here is the playlist plus a few visuals.....

the Len Price 3 – Australia      (‘Rentacrowd’ 2008 UK)

Peter & Gordon – I Feel Like Going Out      (7”single [Germany-only release] 1968 UK – taken from ’Fairy Cakes for Tea: Fairytales Can Come True, Vol. 2 (20 Previously Uncomped Popsike Gems 1966-71) double-LP compilation 2007 UK)

Black Cab – Summer of Love       (‘Altamont Diary’ 2004 Melbourne, Australia)

Sun Dial – Out of Space, Out of Time      (7”single 2002 UK)

the Hippy Mafia – How to Outwit a Mosquito      (‘Psychedelica 5’ compilation 2013 UK)

the Bats – Listen to my Heart      (7”single 1966 South Africa)

Wendy Saddington – Looking Through a Window      (7”single 1971 Australia)

Sonny & the Sunsets – Green Blood      (‘Antenna to the Underworld’ 2013 USA)

Fluff – Holly Golightly       (7”single 1969 USA)

the Haunted – 1-2-5       (7”single 1966 Canada)

Isabelle – Amstramgram      (‘Dis Moi Poupée’ EP 1968 France)

Shadrack Chameleon – Don’t Let It Get You Down      (‘Shadrack Chameleon’  LP 1973 Iowa, USA – taken from ‘Forge Your Own Chains: Heavy Psychedelic Ballads and Dirges 1968-1974‘ double-LP compilation 2009 USA)

Vibravoid – Optical Sound [Human Expression cover]      (‘Delirio Dei Sensei’ 2013 Germany/Italy)

Tyrannosaurus Rex – Frowning Atahuallpa      (‘My people were fair and had stars in their hair...’ LP 1968 UK)

Mikal Cronin – See It My Way       (‘MC11’ 2013 California, USA)

the Hidden Masters – Grey Walls Grey      (7”single b-side [to Nobody Knows That We’re Here] 2010 Scotland, UK)

Beaulieu Porch – The View from Gainsborough      (‘We Are Beautiful’ 2013 UK)

Plasticland – Let’s Play Pollyanna      (7”single 1989 USA)

the Gootch Palms – Watch This Space      (‘R U 4 Sirius’ EP 2013 Sydney, Australia)

the Allah-Las – Catamaran      (‘The Allah-Las’ 2012 California, USA)

the Stomachmouths – Dr Syn      (‘Something Weird’ LP 1986 Sweden)

the Rebbels – Round the World      (7”single b-side [to This Can't Go On] 1966 Germany)

Wooden Shjips – Start to Dreaming      (7”single b-side [to Loose Lips] 2007 USA)

Olly Holmes – Whiskey Barrel      (demo 2013 Adelaide, Australia)

the Spikes – Bang Shang a Lang      (‘A Bloody Mess’ EP 1985 Adelaide, Australia)

Suede – Metal Mickey      (7”single 1992 UK)

Blue Ruin – Bad Gin      (‘Flame’ LP 1987 Australia)

 

the Black Hollies – Hush [Joe South cover]      (7”split-single [with the Dansettes] 2004 USA)    

Technicolour Dreaming

Joining the Cat & the Brat for this week’s show was our ‘Obscured by...’ co-DOT  Michael Hunter, who brought in some interesting items to share, including a bizarre one by Estonian band Winny Puhh, two versions of the song ‘You Never Know’, both from 1975, and a Steve Kilbey demo from his pre-Church days in Canberra. We also featured a sitar-drenched track from the brand-new EP by the Mynd Gardeners, a song from the latest Citradels recordings and another taster from the just-released Paul Messis LP, plus a few French 60’s delights from the likes of Claude Francois and Antoine, as well as playing a track in remembrance of Divinyls’ singer Chrissie Amphlett, who has passed away after a long illness..... Of course there were the regular nods to both 60’s and current psych from bands such as Pisces and Life On Earth! respectively, with oddities such as Giles, Giles & Fripp thrown in for good measure... all in all, another Technicolour Dream....

...... and here is the playlist, plus a few visuals.....

the Ones – Lady Greengrass      (7”single 1967 Germany – taken from ‘Ultima Thule: the Electronic Magic of Tangerine Dream’ anthology 2008 UK/Germany)

Eileen – Ces Bottes Sont Fait Pour Marcher [Nancy Sinatra cover]      (7”single 1966 France)

the Citradels – Here To Know      (‘Psychotic Syndrone’ cd-EP 2013 Melbourne, Australia)

the Mynd Gardeners – Shadow Man      (‘Partial Spyral Staircase Entanglement’ digital-EP 2013 Australia)

Richard Lockwood – Highest of the High      (‘Highest of the High’ cassette-EP 1993 Australia)

Charlie Drake – You Never Know      (7”single 1975 UK)

Charlie Drake : You Never Know by nearlyoutofideas

Giles, Giles & Fripp – Newlyweds       (‘The Cheerful Insanity of Giles, Giles & Fripp’ LP 1968 UK)

Claude Francois – Eloise [Barry Ryan cover]      (7”single 1968 France)

Paul Messis – It Doesn’t Matter to Me      (‘Case Closed’ LP 2013 UK)

Peter Gabriel – You Never Know      (demo 1975 UK)

Chrissie Amphlett & friends – Money [Barrett Strong cover]      (recorded ‘live’ at E.A.T. Benefit Concert 1985 Melbourne, Aust.)

       * R.I.P.  Chrissie Amphlett   1959-2013   [the Divinyls]

Split Enz – Xmas message for fanclub      (‘Friends of the Enz’ message 1983 Aust.)

Wendy Saddington & the Copperwine – Tomorrow Never Knows [Beatles cover]      (‘Live’ LP 1971 Aust.)

Baby Grande – Pure, White & Deadly      (demo 1977 Canberra – taken from ‘Steve Kilbey: Addenda One’ anthology 2012 Australia)

Red Angel Panic – Viet Rock      (7”single 1971 Adelaide, Aust.)

Antoine – Les Elucubrations d’Antoine      (7”single 1966 France)

the Cherokees – Minnie the Moocher [Cab Calloway cover]       (7”single 1967 Melbourne, Australia)

 

Bruner (aka Pisces) – Sam      (7”single 1969 USA – taken from ‘Pisces - A Lovely Sight: 1967-1970’ anthology 2009 USA)

Les Liminanas – Longanisse      (‘Crystal Anis’ 2012 France)

Life On Earth! – Listen       (‘A Space Water Loop’ 2009 Sweden)

Winny Puhh – Meiecundimees uks Korsakov laks eile latti       (recorded/filmed live on ‘Eesti Laul’ concert TV show 2013 Estonia)   [there are several clips of this with different costumes etc, but we liked the drummer playing upside-down suspended from the roof on this one – feel free to check out the others!]

the Five Man Electrical Band – Man with the Horse and Wagon      (‘Goodbyes & Butterflies’ LP 1970 Ottawa, Canada)

Machine – God’s Children      (‘Machine’ LP 1970 Netherlands)

the Magnificent Brotherhood of Eternal Love & the Happiness’s Close Companions – Old Tattoo      (taken from ‘Peace Frog #2’ covermount-CD compilation 2006 Greece)

the Warlocks – Bleed Without You Babe      (‘Surgery’ 2005 Los Angeles, USA)