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!
Veteran musician Peter, and artist/musician Megan, were long-time DJs on Three 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!
Wednesday, March 9, 2011
Technicolour Dreaming - 9th March 2011
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
Obscured By... March 8, 2011
This week on OBSCURED BY...
We interviewed BOBBY BRIGHT (of Australian 60’s pop legends ‘Bobby & Laurie) who will be in Adelaide performing at the “Go! Show” tribute gig this weekend... the Go! Show being of course an iconic TV pop music show, broadcast from Melbourne, which ran during the mid-60’s.
...and here’s this week’s playlist :
Little Gulliver – Everything I do is Wrong (7” single 1969)
Rockin’ Rogues – Loose from my Mind (from an acetate 1965)
Love Story – Neanderthal Man (7” single 1970)
Dragon – Patina (Universal Radio)
Ticket – Reign Away (Awake)
If – What can a friend say (Anthology `1970-72)
Locomotive – Mr Armageddon (We are everything you see)
Bobby & Laurie – I Belong to You (7” single 1965)
Bobby Bright – When a man loves a woman (Bobby Bright – 1973)
Bobby & Laurie – Every Second Day (Forest of Goldtops - vol. 1)
Bobby & Laurie – Hitch-Hiker (7” single 1966)
The Twilights – Blue Roundabout (Once Upon a Twilight...)
the Beaux Jens – She was mine (Back from the Grave – Vol 3)
the Shames – The Special Ones (Back from the Grave – Vol 3)
the Elite – My Confusion (Back from the Grave – Vol 2)
the JuJus – Do you understand me (Back from the Grave – Vol 2)
HMS Bounty – A visit with Ashiwaya (Things)
S.T. Mikael – Bom Bom Mahadev (Electric Psychedelic Sitar Headswirlers – Vol 3)
Strawberry Alarm Clock – Black Butter (Electric Psych..... Vol 3)
Ray Brown & Moonstone – Story of Ali (Electric Psych..... Vol 1)
Adam & the Ants – Plastic Surgery (7” single 1977)
Wednesday, March 2, 2011
Technicolour Dreaming - 2nd March 2011
TECHNICOLOUR DREAMING 2/3/11
During the show this week we interviewed Adam, James and Tom from Ride Into the Sun - a great, and fairly new, Adelaide band
3DTV – Love Machine (orig. by Pastoral Symphony) (Tomorrow is Today)
The Molting Vultures – Drop In and Go! (7” single)
Slingshot Dragster – Stoli Chaser (Demolition e.p.)
Stu Spasm – Thunderball (Popular Male Vocal)
Smite For Tiger – Treat You Good (Schlappery When Wet e.p.)
Two Suns – Dead Seas Part 1 (Dead Seas e.p.)
Lady Strangelove – Dunes (Freakquencies)
Assemble Head in Sunburst Sound – Kolob Canyon (Uncut 2009: ‘Seeing for Miles’)
Wright Of Waye – Sun God (Forest of Goldtops Vol 1)
Apples in Stereo - Strawberry Fire (# 1 Hits Explosion)
The Rokes – When the Wind Arises (Sweet Floral Albion)
The Rolling Stones – The Lantern (Their Satanic Majesties Request)
Ride Into The Sun – The Redneck (Live at the 3D Sound Lounge, 2010)
Ride Into The Sun - Napoleon (Goodbye Hipster, Hello Reality! e.p.)
Ulysses – Sometimes (Shindig! – It’s Happening Vol. 2)
The Pretty Things – I See You (SF Sorrow)
Procol Harum – Repent Walpurgis (Procol Harum)
Peter Perret in the One – I’m not like everybody else (Woke Up Sticky)
The Monkees – Pleasant Valley Sunday (Monkees’ MusicBox: disc 2) *
(* ”the Monkees’ Song of the Week”)
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
Obscured By... March 1, 2011
This week, there was again a solo ‘dot’... this time it was the Brat, Peter Brat...
Obscuring around the world from the 60’s til now...
the Playboys – Desperado (7” single : Aust. 1965)
Larry’s Rebels – Everybody’s Girl (7” single : NZ 1968)
Colleen Hewitt – Superstar (7” single : Aust. 1971)
Sons of Bacchus – Universal (7” single : Tasmania, Aust. 1970)
King Fox – Timepiece (7” single : Aust. 1970)
Rashamra – Paradise Found [with apologies to Milton] (7” single : Adelaide 1971)
Dave Miller Set – Let’s Get Together (7” single : Adelaide 1968)
Headband – Stay With Me (Psych Bites: Aust. Acid Freakrock 1967-74)
R.D Burman – Lekar Ham Diwang Dil (Psych Funk SA-RE-GA!) - India
Apryl Fool – The Lost Motherland [Pt. 1] (Love, Peace & Poetry: 60’s Japanese Psych)
Usha Khanna – Tera Jasia Pyara Koi Nahim (... SA-RE-GA!...) - India
Gila – This Morning (Deutsche Electronische Musik) - Germany
Circus [formerly Q65] – Fairytales of truth (Nothing but Trouble) - Netherlands
Atomic Forest – Mary Long [Deep Purple cover] (Illusions ’77) – India
the Mops – Asamade Matenai (Psychedelic Sounds of Japan)
Dickens – Genocide (Royal Incarnation) – France
Music Convention – Footsteps on my mind (Through My Mind’s Mind) – New Zealand
the Ones – Love of Mine (Essential Pebbles Vol.3) – Germany
Los Bravos – Goin’ Nowhere (Nuggets II : boxset) – Spain
Ronnie Burns – Exit Stage Right (Sixties DownUnder) – Australia
the Tages – I read you like an open book (Nuggets II : boxset) – Sweden
Timebox – Gone is the Sad Man (Great British Psych Explosion) – U.K.
Suicide – Do It Nice (Dirty Water: Birth of Punk Attitude) – U.S.A.
U-Bombs – Rumour (Adelaide Punk 1976-79)
Blissbombs – Resolutions (demo : Adelaide 1983)
Garden Path – Take it all back (7” single : Adelaide 1988)
Amanda Palmer – Map of Tasmania (Amanda Palmer Goes Down Under)