Technicolour Dreaming

It was a Cat alone this week, playing an 80’s-skewed selection of her favourites ranging from Adelaide’s Nuvo Bloc to the U.K.’s Japan, Gary Numan and the wonderful voice of Billy McKenzie in the Associates, with sidetrips to Shower Scene From Psycho and the Spikes. She did venture era-wise both back and forward from there though, with the very phased sound of Caleb from 1967 through to a track from the new Wooden Shjips album. And, of course, she played another track from our ‘Album of the Month’ by Almost Numan, this time from the “ON” disc of originals...

.....so here is the full playlist....

Iggy Pop with Steve Jones – I Wanna be Your Dog     (‘Le Rock’ magazine – ‘Down on the Street’ cover CD)

Thrust – Your Pretty Face is Going to Hell     (‘Hard to Beat’ LP 1988 – Stooges tribute compilation, Australia)

Brian Eno – How Many Worlds     (Another Day on Earth)

Air – Sexy Boy     (Moon Safari)

Asphyxiation – L’Acrostique D’Amour     (12”single 1981 Melbourne, Aust.)

Shower Scene From Psycho – Turn Up Your Radio [Masters Apprentices cover]     (Exploding Hits 1982 – 2000)

Ash Wednesday – Love by Numbers     (7”single 1980 Adelaide, Aust.)

Gary Numan – We Are Glass     (7”single 1980 UK)

Nuvo Bloc – Equal Education     (demo 1980 Adelaide)

Japan – Taking Islands in Africa     (‘Gentlemen Take Polaroids’ LP 1980 UK)

Wooden Shjips – Phonograph     (West)

the Spikes – The Meaning of Life     (‘Colour in a Black Forest’ LP  1985 Adelaide)

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

the Bad Poets – Crash Sweet Crash     (“5MMM’s  Compilation of Adelaide Bands 1980” LP)

Sparks – Rock! Rock! Rock!     (Hello Young Lovers)

the Sand Pebbles – Elephant Gun     (Atlantis Regrets Nothing)

Hugo – Girl in the Garden     (7”single 1969 Adelaide – on ‘Mean, Mean City: Adelaide Scene 1965 – 1969’ compilation)

the Associates – Club Country     (‘Sulk’ LP 1982 UK)

Almost Numan – Attention Seeking Missile     (Almost Numan – disc 2: “ON”)    #

Black Box Recorder – Facts of Life     (The Facts of Life)

    # ‘Album of the Month’

Technicolour Dreaming

Usual co-host Peter Brat being ‘indisposed’, your presenters for this week’s show were ‘the Bryan & the Cat’, playing our usual mix of psych, garage, surf, pop, punk, electro and so much more... including, from the vaults, Adelaide music from the Dagoes, the Brats and Liz Dealey, plus the un-released single by Exhibit A (produced by Tony Cohen in Melbourne in 1982, featuring Peter Brat, Stu Spasm, Chris Walsh of the Moodists, Richard Ploog from the Church and Brendon Walker) ... a clutch of classic Lipstick Killers, Jason Crest and Revillos tracks, plus artists ranging from perennial favourites Sparks through Apples In Stereo and Japan to the Detroit Cobras. They also featured recent recordings from bands such as Scotland’s the Fast Camels, the Horrors, the Brutes and Adelaide’s All the leaves have fallen plus, of course, our new “Album of the Month” by local legends Almost Numan...

..... so here is the full playlist.....

Japan – Canton     (‘Tin Drum’ LP 1981 UK)

All the leaves have fallen – Ruby Bland     (demo 2011 Adelaide, Australia)

Exhibit A – Confusion     (un-released single 1982 Melbourne/Adelaide)

the Brats – Hoodlums      (demo 1980 Adelaide)

the Brutes – Last of a Dying Crowd     (‘It’s Happening Vol 2’ Shindig! magazine comp. 2010 UK)

the Detroit Cobras – You’ll never change     (Tied & True)

Liz Dealey – Goodbye     (‘Pure Purple demos’ 2011 Aust.)

Sparks – Let the Monkey Drive     (Exotic Creatures of the Deep)

the Undertones – Girls Don’t Like it     (‘The Undertones’ LP 1979 UK)

the Bellrays – Remember     (The Red, White & Black)

the Flamin’ Groovies – Slow Death     (7”single 1972 USA)

the Lipstick Killers – Hindu Gods (of Love)     (7”single 1979 Sydney, Aust.)

the Dagoes – We Sell Soul [Roky Erikson cover/version]     (7”single 1979 Adelaide)

Jason Crest – Black Mass     (7”single 1969 UK)

the Fast Camels – Like a Magic Optician     (Magic Optician)

Apples In Stereo – Strawberryfire     (Her Wallpaper Reverie)

Toyah – Angels & Demons     (‘Four from Toyah’ EP 1983 UK)

the Revillos – Voodoo [demo version]     (‘From the Freezer – Demos and Rarities’)

Almost Numan – Blockhead [Devo cover]     (Almost Numan : ‘OFF’ side)     #

the Horrors – Crawdaddy Simone [Syndicats cover]     (the Horrors)

     # “Album of the Week”