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...
In an effort to get this long-overdue playlist posted, I'll skip the long, drawn-out intro, and let the music, and the moving pictures, do the talking. The eagle-eyed among you will notice that I played a couple of the same selections from last week - accidentally, I assure you! So until next week...
The Beachnuts- Cycle Annie ("The Velvet Underground - Etc" LP 1979 USA)
The Sunnyboys - Show Me Some Discipline (7" single 1983 Sydney, Australia)
The Wands - War ("The Dawn" 2014 Copenhagen, Denmark)
Loose Tooth - Bites Will Bleed ("Saturn Returns" EP 2016 Melbourne, Australia)
Plasticland - Alexander [The Pretty Things] ("Plasticland" LP 1984 Wisconsin, USA)
The Flower Machine - I am the Coelacanth ("Chalk Dust Dream of the Tea Cozy Mitten Company" 2004 Los Angeles, USA)
Pony Face - Silver Tongue ("Hypnotised" 2012 Melbourne, Australia)
Mugwump Establishment - Mondo Hollywood Freakout ("Monday Hollywood OST" LP 1967 USA)
The Brats - Hoodlums (demo 1980 Adelaide, Australia)
The Carnaby - Jump and Dance (7" single 1965 UK)
Jacques Dutronc - L'Augmentation, 7" single [b-side to "Il Est Cinq Heure, Paris S'Eveille"] 1968 France)
Jacques Dutronc - Hippie Hippie Hourrah (7" EP 1967 France)
Aquaserge - La Femme De Tahiti ("MOSTLA-mix-SERGE-tape" 2013 France)
Balduin - I See Rainbows ("Rainbow Tapes" 2009 Switzerland)
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)
Just when you think that the recent spate of musical heroesdeparting this earth has abated, along comes a very big lightning bolt from the blue - David Bowie has joined them. Not a promising start for the year, but a fitting reason to re-listen to Bowie's collected works, and play some favourites on the radio. Indeed, on the day in question, by the time 1pm had rolled around, there had been a massive 29Bowietracks aired, with not a single repetition amongst them! Just goes to show that Bowie's different stylistic twists and turns appealed to a very wide range of fans over the years. Sadly, so many inspirational musicians are approaching an age where their mortality is becoming more and more apparent - as a friend recently wrote, someone should go find Keith Richards and roll him up in bubble-wrap, pronto!
..and here's the playlist for this week's show, clips and all...David Bowie - Scream Like a Baby ("Scary Monsters" LP 1980 UK)
Vespero - Scream thy Last Scream [Pink Floyd] ("A Momentary Lapse of Vinyl" 2014 Russia)
Soft Hearted Scientists - Mount Palomar ("Uncanny Tales from the Everyday Undergrowth" 2015 reissue Wales UK)
Wild Pink Yonder - Two of a Kind [Syd Barrett] ("A Momentary Lapse of Vinyl" 2014 UK)
Crystal Jacqueline - Somebody to Love [Jefferson Airplane] ("Sun Arise" 2015 UK)
Soft Hearted Scientists - Diving Bell ("Uncanny Tales from the Everyday Undergrowth" 2015reissue Wales UK)
