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...
Lots of new and soon-to be released music tracks found their way onto this latest playlist - a sneak preview of Lorelle Meets the Obselete's new one,"Balance"; Volume 2 in the "Big Beat Cellar Scene" compilation series of 1960's Adelaide bands (sorry, no videos for these tracks); the latest pop-acid-folk musings of Dodson and Fogg's Chris Wade on "Walk On"; and the Netherlands' Eerie Wanda with "Hum", among others. Also featured were a selection of Melbourne bands, care of the "Magic Mixtapes from Melbourne". Just a normal show, really. Enjoy!!!!
The Assassins - Kill The Prime Minister (12" split single [with Ian List and the UV's] 1990 Adelaide, Australia)
The Good the Bad and the Queen - Herculean ("The Good, The Bad and the Queen" 2007 UK)
Brigitte Bardot and Serge Gainsbourg - Bonnie and Clyde ("Bonnie and Clyde" LP 1968 France)
The Force - You Keep Me Hanging On ("Big Beat Cellar Scene Vol 2" Adelaide, Australia)
Some old 60's Aussie favourites, a few new discoveries, and the usual suspects - this week's show had it all. I particularly liked the track by Sir Robin and the Longbowmen, who hail from Dresden in Germany - can't believe that I hadn't come across this band before! Somehow I also managed to miss the latest release from The Selfish Cales, which came out last year - more psych goodness from these natives of Torino, Italy. Speaking of which, I've also included (at the end of the blog) a groovy promo clip that I came across, of the 2014 Psych Out 25 Degrees festival in Italy - the things you find on YouTube. Enjoy! Zoot - Turn Your Head (7" single (b-side to "Eleanor Rigby") 1970 Adelaide, Australia)
Joel Jerome - Strawberry Fields Para Siempre (digital single 2014 Los Angeles, USA)
Pesky Gee! - Where is My Mind? ("Exclamation Mark" LP 1969 UK)
Espectrostatic - Carpe Nacht ("The Daemonum" EP 2014 Texas, USA)
The Glass Menagerie - Frederick Jordan (7" single 1968 Manchester UK)
Go-Go Sapien - Sick Love ("This Body Is Wrong for Us" 2011 Melbourne, Australia)
Marty Rhone - Every Minute of You (7" single (b-side to "Nature Boy") 1966 Melbourne, Australia)
Icarus Peel - Auntie Powders Her Nose ("Icarus Peel vs Mordecai Smyth Barnburner" 10" EP 2014 UK)
Mike Furber - Watch Me Burn (7" single (b-side to "I'm on Fire") 1969 Sydney, Australia)
Mt Mountain - Chantry (7" single 2014 Perth, Australia)
Jon - Upstairs Downstairs (7" single 1966 Brisbane, Australia)
Dino, Desi and Billy - The Rebel Kind (7" single 1965 Hollywood, California USA)
Ultraviolet - Ocean Rain ("Gods Will Be Gods: A Reverence to the Bunnymen" 2016 Austin, Texas USA)
Psychedelic Trips to Death - Bang Bang [Nancy Sinatra] ("The Psychedelic Sounds of The Blog That Celebrates Itself Vol 2" 2013 Greece)
Sir Robin and the Longbowmen - I Would Like ("Active Listener Sampler #34" 2015 Dresden, Germany)
The David - Light of Your Mind (7" Single 1969 UK)
Demontre - The Vale Of Health Part 2 ("Masculin/Feminin" 2010 UK)
The Citradels - Every Christian Lion Hearted Man Will Show You [Bee Gees] ("The Psychedelic Sounds of The Blog That Celebrates Itself Vol 2" 2013 Melbourne, Australia)
The Who - Armenia City In The Sky ("The Who Sell Out" LP 1967 UK)
The Selfish Cales - See Tomorrow's Shores ("Throw Your Watch to the Water" 2015 Torino, Italy)
Sundays and Cybele - Almost Heaven ("Heaven" 2015 Japan)
Josephines - The Cutter ("Gods Will Be Gods: A Reverence to the Bunnymen" 2016 Rio Grande, Brazil)
Felius Andromeda - Meditations (7" single 1967 UK)
The Mushroom Club - Into Something Good [Herman's Hermits] ("The Psychedelic Sounds of The Blog That Celebrates Itself Vol 2" 2013 Glasgow, UK)
Shapes Have Fangs - Dinner In The Dark ("Dinner in the Dark" 2011 USA)
Pin Ups - Some Candy Talking [Jesus and Mary Chain] ("Psychocandy Revisited" 2015)
The Baudelaires - Colour Mary (digital single 2015 Melbourne, Australia)
Trabants - Mecca ("Freakout" 2015 Los Angeles, USA)
Some old 60's Aussie favourites, a few new discoveries, and the usual suspects - this week's show had it all. I particularly liked the track by Sir Robin and the Longbowmen, who hail from Dresden in Germany - can't believe that I hadn't come across this band before! Somehow I also managed to miss the latest release from The Selfish Cales, which came out last year - more psych goodness from these natives of Torino, Italy. Speaking of which, I've also included (at the end of the blog) a groovy promo clip that I came across, of the 2014 Psych Out 25 Degrees festival in Italy - the things you find on YouTube. Enjoy! Zoot - Turn Your Head (7" single (b-side to "Eleanor Rigby") 1970 Adelaide, Australia)
Joel Jerome - Strawberry Fields Para Siempre (digital single 2014 Los Angeles, USA)
Pesky Gee! - Where is My Mind? ("Exclamation Mark" LP 1969 UK)
Espectrostatic - Carpe Nacht ("The Daemonum" EP 2014 Texas, USA)
The Glass Menagerie - Frederick Jordan (7" single 1968 Manchester UK)
Go-Go Sapien - Sick Love ("This Body Is Wrong for Us" 2011 Melbourne, Australia)
Marty Rhone - Every Minute of You (7" single (b-side to "Nature Boy") 1966 Melbourne, Australia)
Icarus Peel - Auntie Powders Her Nose ("Icarus Peel vs Mordecai Smyth Barnburner" 10" EP 2014 UK)
Mike Furber - Watch Me Burn (7" single (b-side to "I'm on Fire") 1969 Sydney, Australia)
Mt Mountain - Chantry (7" single 2014 Perth, Australia)
Jon - Upstairs Downstairs (7" single 1966 Brisbane, Australia)
Dino, Desi and Billy - The Rebel Kind (7" single 1965 Hollywood, California USA)
Ultraviolet - Ocean Rain ("Gods Will Be Gods: A Reverence to the Bunnymen" 2016 Austin, Texas USA)
Psychedelic Trips to Death - Bang Bang [Nancy Sinatra] ("The Psychedelic Sounds of The Blog That Celebrates Itself Vol 2" 2013 Greece)
Sir Robin and the Longbowmen - I Would Like ("Active Listener Sampler #34" 2015 Dresden, Germany)
The David - Light of Your Mind (7" Single 1969 UK)
Demontre - The Vale Of Health Part 2 ("Masculin/Feminin" 2010 UK)
The Citradels - Every Christian Lion Hearted Man Will Show You [Bee Gees] ("The Psychedelic Sounds of The Blog That Celebrates Itself Vol 2" 2013 Melbourne, Australia)
The Who - Armenia City In The Sky ("The Who Sell Out" LP 1967 UK)
The Selfish Cales - See Tomorrow's Shores ("Throw Your Watch to the Water" 2015 Torino, Italy)
Sundays and Cybele - Almost Heaven ("Heaven" 2015 Japan)
Josephines - The Cutter ("Gods Will Be Gods: A Reverence to the Bunnymen" 2016 Rio Grande, Brazil)
Felius Andromeda - Meditations (7" single 1967 UK)
The Mushroom Club - Into Something Good [Herman's Hermits] ("The Psychedelic Sounds of The Blog That Celebrates Itself Vol 2" 2013 Glasgow, UK)
Shapes Have Fangs - Dinner In The Dark ("Dinner in the Dark" 2011 USA)
Pin Ups - Some Candy Talking [Jesus and Mary Chain] ("Psychocandy Revisited" 2015)
The Baudelaires - Colour Mary (digital single 2015 Melbourne, Australia)
Trabants - Mecca ("Freakout" 2015 Los Angeles, USA)
A diverse range of bands from round the world - Chile, Sweden, Switzerland, Russia and the Netherlands - found their way onto the Technicolour Dreamingplaylist this week, but then again, that’s nothing unusual! This was really a show of old favourites, both Harry’s and TheCat’s, and one of those particular favourites is Adelaide stalwarts, the MoltingVultures, who are playing one of their infrequent gigs at the Grace Emily this Saturday night 26th September, and bringing with them Melbourne’s rock’n’roll garage swamp-meisters Red Motors, - so don’t miss it!!
so… here’s the playlist, with a stack of videos for good measure!
The Zoot - Eleanor Rigby (Beatles) (7" single 1967 Adelaide, Australia)
Gravenhurst - She Dances ("The Western Lands" 2007 UK)
Polska Radio One - Time - Eternity ("Cosmos Inside" 2014 Yekaterinburg, Russia)
The Holydrug Couple - Paisley ("Noctuary" 2013 Chile)
Les Big Byrd - Back to Bagarmossen ("They Worshiped Cats" 2014 Sweden)
Espectrostatic - Escape from Witchtropolis ("Escape From Witchtropolis" 2014 Austin, Texas USA)
New Electric Ride - Marquis De Sade ("Balloon Age" 2014 UK)
Balduin - Mirror Mirror ("All in a Dream" 2014 Switzerland)
The Luck of Eden Hall - Dandy Horse ("Victoria Moon" 2013 Chicago, USA)
Front Office - Wow (7” single b-side [to ”Girl”] 1967 San Jose, California, USA)
Crystal Chandlier - Suicidal Flowers (7” single b-side [to “Your Land of Love”] 1969 USA)
The Gothic Archies - Crows ("The Tragic Treasury - Songs from a Series of Unfortunate Events" 2006 Los Angeles, USA)
De Wolff - Don't You Go Up In The Sky (“Strange Fruits and Undiscovered Plants” 2009 Netherlands)
Molting Vultures - Hang Up ("Get a Grip” 2007 Adelaide, Australia)
Fuzztones - I Gotta Way With Girls(released in 2007, New York USA; taken from “He put the Bomp! In the Bomp” compilation)
Von Bondies - Take a Heart ("Raw & Rare" 2003 Detroit USA)
Blues Magoos - (we aint got) Nothing Yet (“Psychedelic Lollipop” 1966 New York, USA)
Dirtbombs - Chains of Love("Ultraglide in Black” 2001 Detroit, Michigan USA)
Richard in Your Mind - Creation("My Volcano" 2010 Sydney, Australia)
Higher State - The Gypsies Graveyard (“Freakout at the Gallery" 2011 Folkestone, Kent, UK)
Facetime - Channel Love ("New Centre of the Universe #1” compilation2012 Geelong, Australia)
Murlocs - Bogan Grove (“Teepee EP” 2012 Melbourne, Australia)
King Gizzard & Lizard Wizard - Trench Foot ("New Centre of the Universe #1” 2012 Melbourne, Australia)
Brian Jonestown Massacre - Oh Lord("Tepid Peppermint Wonderland")
Mesa Cosa - Day of the Dead("Infernal Cakewalk")
House of Fire - Walking Along The Sun(“House of Fire“ 2008 USA)
Black Angels - Mission District(“ Directions to See a Ghost” 2008 Austin, Texas USA)
Chemical Brothers - The Private Psychedelic Reel (“The Private Psychedelic Reel" 2007 UK)
