Technicolour Dreaming

After last week’s ‘technical difficulties’, it was a pleasure to have a veteran of the Adelaide music scene, Vic Conrad [aka Mr V] join us in the studio for a chat about Gray Packham’s new album ‘La La Land’, the latest release from one of his ventures, Walking Bird Records. The album will be launched at the Grace Emily Hotel on Sunday afternoon with performances by most of the musicians involved, both individually and playing Gray’s songs, and should prove to be one of this year’s live musical highlights, so get along if you can. We also featured a number of other Australian releases including those of Melbourne psychedelicists the Grand Rapids, Davey Lane’s new E.P. and the latest compilation from Geelong’s prolific Anti-Fade Records. We also played the A-side of the debut single by our Finnish faves Permanent Clear Light on the wonderful vinyl-only Fruits De Mer label, presented in a 3D pic-sleeve [glasses included!] as well as a slice of dreamy pop from the UK’s Amor De Dias plus, as always, a bunch of 60’s psychedelic rarities from bands such as Pisces, the Golden Dawn and Austria’s Hide & Seek. So, until next week.....

..... here is the playlist plus some eye-candy.....

the Locked Ward – Breaker of Lives & Souls      (“Voyages into the Inner Psych of the Locked Ward” 2011 UK)

Bruner [aka Pisces] – Sam      (7”single 1968 USA – taken from “Pisces: A Lovely Sight” anthology 2012 USA)

the Wondermints – Truth or Consequences      (recorded 1992 – taken from “Kaleidoscopin’: Exploring Prisms of the Past” anthology 2009 USA)

the Strange Flowers – Mars Behind Your Eyes      (“Ortoflorovivaistica” 2006 Italy)

Hide & Seek – Riven Street      (7”single b-side [ of The Beggar of St. Pair] 1970 Austria)

Gift of Love [aka the Atlantics] – Flowers      (7”single 1967 Australia)

the Intercontinental Playboys – Can’t Find My Mind [Cramps cover]      (7”vinyl split-E.P. with “Larsen Magazine #19”  2004 France)

Davey Lane – You Got Me On Side      (“The Good Borne of Bad Tymes” EP 2013 Australia)

Jacco Gardner – Help Me Out      (“Cabinet of Curiosities” 2013 Holland)

Rasputin & the Mad Monks – Too Much to Dream Last Night [Electric Prunes cover]      (7”single 1968 Massachusetts, USA)

the Grand Rapids – Blow Up      (“Great Shakes” 2013 Melbourne, Australia)

Demons of Negativity – Resurrection      (7”single 1988 Boston, USA)

Sic Alps – Drink Up!      (“Sic Alps” 2012 USA)

the Deep Six – What Would You Wish from the Golden Fish?      (7”single 1966 California, USA)

White Fence – Run Run Run [Velvet Underground cover]      (“The Velvet Underground & Nico by Castleface Records and Friends” tribute compilation LP 2012 California, USA)

Permanent Clear Light – Higher Than The Sun      (7”single 2013 Finland)

the Golden Dawn – Starvation      (“Power Plant” LP 1968 Texas, USA)

Tommy James & the Shondells – Crystal Blue Persuasion      (“Crimson & Clover” LP 1969 USA)

Fantastic Zoo – Light Show      (7”single 1967 California, USA)

the Baroques – Musical Tribute to the Oscar Meyer Weiner Wagon      (7”single 1967 Chicago, USA)

the Jigsaw Seen – Choreography Killed the Cat      (“Bananas Foster” 2010 USA)

the Stevens – Elpho Beach      (“New Centre of the Universe Vol.2” compilation 2013 Geelong, Australia)

the Apples in Stereo – Behind the Waterfall      (7”single b-side [to Everybody Let Up] 2000 USA)

Amor De Dias – Viento del Mar      (“The House at Sea” 2013 USA)

Gray Packham – Lincoln Told Me / The Way I Am      (“La La Land” 2013 Adelaide, Australia)

Technicolour Dreaming

Ahh, technology... don’t you love it? For this week’s show we’d lined up a ‘live-to-air’ phone interview with Rick Brewer, drummer with Australian pop legends the Zoot, and were looking forward to discussing his experiences with that band, their new CD/DVD of their 2011 reunion tour, his perspective on Australian music in the 60’s and 70’s and other highlights of his long musical career – he was on the line chatting and we went to air and...... nothing! A “technical difficulty” had intervened so the interview didn’t happen – ahh, the wonders of the age! Grrr!! Fortunately, the ability to spin discs was unaffected so we were able to play a selection of the music he was involved with, including 1960’s Adelaide group the Third Party and of course the Zoot. The rest of the show went without a hitch however, and we featured the latest recordings by Technicolour Dreaming favourites such as the Barbarellatones, Lumerians and Permanent Clear Light as well as new tracks by Adelaide bands, Glass Skies and Last Days of Kali. We also couldn’t refrain from throwing in a musical commentary on the recent Australian elections with our first few songs – the X-Ray-Z song, in particular, still remains a relevant reflection on the Liberal Party’s election, both in 1978 and 2013! And with summer approaching we thought it appropriate to play some Surf School Dropouts and Sunnyboys, plus a forgotten Move b-side, a perennial Mike Furber fave and much more.....

...... so here is the playlist plus some visual treats..... 

David Bowie – Big Brother / Chant of the Ever Circling Skeletal Family     (‘Diamond Dogs’ LP 1974 UK)

X-Ray-Z – Three Glorious Years      (‘Lethal Weapons’ compilation LP 1978 Australia)

the Bitter Lemons – Canberra Blues      (7”single 1965 Australia)

Glass Skies – To Be True      (CDsingle b-side [to Highway] 2013 Adelaide, Australia)

Peter Daltrey & the Asteroid No.4 – Holy      (‘The Journey’ 2013 UK/USA)

Cheval Sombre – Hyacinth House [Doors cover]      (‘Cheval Sombre’ 2008 USA)

Permanent Clear Light – Constant Gardener      (‘Beyond These Things’ 2013 Finland)

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

the Monkees – Daily Nightly      (‘Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones Ltd.’ LP 1967 USA)

the Move – Omnibus      (7”single b-side [to Wild Tiger Woman] 1968 UK)

the Sunnyboys – Love in a Box      (7”single 1984 Sydney, Australia)

Lumerians – Dogon Genesis      (‘The High Frontier’ 2013 California, USA)

the Third Party – Russian Spy & I [Regents cover] / Now It’s Time     (7”single 1967 Adelaide, Australia)

Zoot – Better Get Going Now/1x2x3x4/Flying      (‘Zoot Live – the Reunion’ CD/DVD 2013 Australia/USA)

the Ferrets – This Night      (‘Fame At Any Price’ LP 1978 Australia)

the Zoot – Little Roland Lost      (7”single b-side [to Monty and Me] 1969 Australia)

the Demon Parade – Open Up Your Mind      (CDsingle 2013 Australia)

Matthew Sweet & Susanna Hoffs – Sorry [Easybeats cover]      (bonus track on Australian edition of ‘Under the Covers, Vol.1’ compilation 2006 USA)

Last Days of Kali – Last Days of Kali      (‘Last Days of Kali’ EP 2013 Adelaide, Australia)

the Electric Prunes – Get Me To The World On Time      (7”single 1967 California, USA)

Surf School Dropouts – Searching for the Perfect Wave      (‘Summer is a State of Mind’ 2012 Copenhagen, Denmark)

Mike Furber & the Bowery Boys – You Stole My Love [Mockingbirds cover]      (7”single 1966 Australia)

the Barbarellatones – Mermad      (‘mp3 final mix’ 2013 USA)

Technicolour Dreaming

We got a nice surprise in the mail today in the form of the new Permanent Clear Light CD all the way from Helsinki, Finland. We were most impressed by a track we played earlier this year so we had high hopes for the album... and were not disappointed – it’s brilliant! Don’t know what it is about those northern climes, but many of our recent faves such as the Apricot, Vibravoid, Life On Earth, the Amazing and many others have come from northern Europe and now PCL joins that list, so “do yourself a favour” and check them out – we’ll certainly be playing more songs from the album in the weeks to come for you to hear. Also featured this week was the latest release by the ever-prolific Ty Segall plus a bunch of cool 60’s tracks from around the world by the likes Rainbow Ffolly, We All Together, the Churchills, Ultimate Spinach and Adelaide’s own Masters Apprentices – in other words, back to business as usual for the Cat & the Brat on Technicolour Dreaming after last week’s hectic 3D Radio-thon edition.....

...... and so here is the playlist, with an assortment of visuals.....

DeWolff – Silver Lovemachine      ("Strange Fruits & Undiscovered Plants" 2011 Netherlands)

 

Rainbow Ffolly – She's Alright      ("Rainbow Ffolly Sallies Fforth" LP 1968 UK)

the Turtles – Down In Suburbia      ("You, Baby" LP 1965 Los Angeles, USA)

the Sand Pebbles – Occupied Europe (Take Me Across the Water)         (“Dark Magic” 2011 Melbourne, Australia)

 

Prince Rama – Incarnation         (“Trust Now” 2012 USA)

 

the Masters Apprentices – Buried and Dead         (7”single 1967 Adelaide, Australia)

 

Ty Segall – Crazy          (“Sleeper” 2013 California, USA)

 

Toni McCann – No         (7”single b-side [to My Baby] 1965 Brisbane, Australia)

 Darker My Love – 18^th Street Shuffle         (“Alive as You Are” 2010 USA)

 

the Sounds Like Us – The Other Side of a Record         (7”single 1966 USA)

Deep Purple – Emmaretta [BBC Top Gear session 14/01/69]         (“Deep Purple” LP 1969 [bonus track on 2000 reissue] UK)

 We All Together – It’s a Sin to Go Away         (“We All Together” LP 1970 Peru)

    

Permanent Clear Light – Skirmish         (“Beyond These Things” 2013 Helsinki, Finland)

 the Church – Is this where you Live?         (“Of Skins and Heart” LP 1981 Australia)

 Cheval Sombre – I Found It Not So         (“Cheval Sombre” 2008 New York, USA)

 

the Lovetones – Genius        (“Meditations” 2006 Melbourne, Australia)

Andrew Douglas Rothbard – Golden Calf         (“Abandoned Meander” 2006 Canada)

 Thunderclap Newman – The Reason         (“Hollywood Dream” LP 1970 UK)

 Ultimate Spinach – (Ballad of) The Hip Death Goddess         (“Ultimate Spinach” LP 1968 USA)

 

the Churchills – Debka      (7”single 1970 Israel)