Obscured By... June 7 2011

Hidden music from North Korea, 1960s US garage rock, New Zealand jugband, rare Australian singles, an interview with Mr David Bridie on the 21st anniversary of My Friend The Chocolate Cake and their new CD, and more besides. Where else but on Obscured By..., this week with a solo Michael Hunter. Oh, and an unusual preoccupation with the year 1970...

Allan Johnstone - A Preferential Matter (7" flexi, rec for Amoco (Aust) 1970)
Whistler's Mother - Mister Big (7" Aust 1971)
Toby Jugg - Dawn (7" b-side Aust 1970)
Fourmyula - Otaki (NZ 7" 1970)
Skyhooks - You Just Like Me 'Cause I'm Good In Bed (demo with Steve Hill on vocals, Aust 1973)
Five Sided Circle - Hungry (live at the Brunswick Hotel, Adelaide June 2010, demo)
Pochonbo Electronic Ensemble - Spring Of Home Village / Song Of Bean Paste (Both Paektu and Halla Belong To My Motherland, Nth Korea 2009)

In memory of Martin Rushent:
Human League - Don't You Want Me (12" mix 1981)
Buzzcocks - Fiction Romance (Another Music In A Different Kitchen, 1978)

The Sandmen - World Full Of Dreams (US 7' 1967)
The Monacles - Everybody Thinks I'm Lonely (US 7" 1967)
The Disciples - Junior Saw It Happen (US 7' 1966)
The Distant Sounds - It Reminds Me (US 7" 1966)
New Chains III - The End (US 7" 1967)
Samurai - As I Dried The Tears Away (Samurai, UK 1971)

David Bridie live phone interview, including tracks:
Not Drowning Waving - Up In The Mountains (Through The One Last Door, Aust 2005)
My Friend The Chocolate Cake - 25 Stations / Foreigner / The Centre Cannot Hold (Fiasco, Aust 2011)

Trembling Bells - Colour Of Night (The Constant Pageant, Scot 2011)
Ersen - Cagmigicak (Turkish Freakout, 2010)
Onder Bali - Karni Buyuk Koca Dunya (Turkish Freakout, 2010)
The Cleves - You & Me (7" NZ 1970)
Hogsnort Rupert - Aunty Alice (Bought Us This) (7" NZ 1970)
John Vincent - Put It In A Bin (7" Aust 1970)

Technicolour Dreaming

This week’s show featured a variety of Australian artists, both new and from the past, including a song from this week’s “No. 1” album on 3D Radio by Adelaide’s own Avant Gardeners, as well as the ‘A-side’ of the new 7” single by the Amcats... the vinyl revival continues to gain pace! From the 80’s, we played a favourite from the Church and from the 60’s, a track by the brilliant, but largely forgotten, Toni McCann... she is, in our view, one of the best rockin’ singers of the era, the equal of the ‘stars’ such as Normie Rowe or Stevie Wright of the Easybeats! Also featured this week were tracks from the new six CD “Circus Days : Pop Psych Obscurities 1966-1972” box-set compilation and of course, a song from our new “Album of the Month” for June, “Crystal Theatre” by Belles Will Ring, the second album from this great Sydney psychedelic-flavoured outfit...

...and here is the full playlist...

Spacemen 3 – Suicide (live) (Playing with Fire)

Asteroid Belt - Slant Six (Blank Horizon)

Sand Pebbles – Sioux City Falls (Ghost Transmissions)

the Sun Blindness – Crack in the Concrete (Like Pearly Clouds)

August Born – You Will Be Warm (August Born)

Slingshot Dragster – Dil Mohammed (demo 2010 Adelaide)

Kelley Stoltz – I Like, I Like (To Dreamers)

Avant Gardeners – We Love Our Audience (Mine Errant VanGarden)

the Amcats – Peggy Sue (7”single Adelaide 2011)

Normie Rowe – She Used to Be Mine (7”single 1965 Aust)

Toni McCann – If You Don’t Come Back (7”single 1965 Queensland, Aust)

Mike Furber & The Bowery Boys – That’s When Happiness Began (Diddy Wah Diddy: Best of...))

(unknown artist)* – Junior Newsgirl (“Devil’s Children Vol.3” : compilation, 1960’s Aust.)

Radio Spectacular – Little Stevie (demo 2006 Adelaide)

Amelia Smile – Father Good’s Space Flight (“Circus Days” Vol 6 : comp.)

the Cat’s Pyjamas – Virginia Water (“Circus Days” Vol 4)

Arzachel – Garden of Earthly Delights (“Circus Days” Vol 1)

the Mirage – Tomorrow Never Knows [Beatles’ cover] (“Circus Days” Vol 3)

Sheila Chandra – Storm Trance (“Electric Psychedelic Sitar Headswirlers” Vol 5 : comp.)

Belles Will Ring – The River (Crystal Theatre) #

the Church – When You Were Mine (‘Hindsight’ : Best of...)

(* backing track by ‘the Wild Colonials’, singer unknown)

# “Album of the Month”

Obscured By...

Peter Brat was the lone ‘DOT’ this week on “Obscured by...” and focused primarily on 1960’s music, though a few more recent tracks (...well, 80’s anyway!) were also played, including the version of ‘Greggary Peckory’ by Siouxsie & the Banshees’ drummer Budgie, taken from the British TV series, “Play for Today”, as well as a song from Adelaide post-punk band, Nuvo Bloc. But back to the 60’s... a smattering of local and Australian talent started the show, including a couple of live TV performances; one by Procession, the other featuring Wendy Saddington singing in a rare duo performance with Jeff St John... both sang with the band, Copperwine, but not in the same line-ups. I also played the full 17 minute suite, “In Held Twas In I”, from the second Procol Harum LP, the theme song from the classic “Bedazzled” movie by Peter Cook & Dudley Moore, plus a selection from the new “Circus Days: Pop/Psych Obscurities 1966-70” six cd boxset put out by UK label ‘Past&Present’, including a couple of “mystery tracks” contained therein.... hmmmm!?

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

the Vacant Lot – Don’t let me sleep too long (7”single 1967 Australia)

Wendy Saddington [with Jeff St John] – Don’t Get Me Wrong (live on ‘GTK’ TV 1970 Australia)

Procession – Up, Up & Away/Happy Times (live on ‘UpTight’ TV 1967 Aust.)

Freshwater – Hello Sunshine (7”single 1971 Aust.)

Lynne Randell – Wasn’t It You (7”single 1968 – US-only release)

Magic – I Want to Fly (7”single 1969 Aust.)

Headband – Stay With Me (7”single 1973 Adelaide, Aust.)

Jim Sullivan – Jerome (UFO)

the Walker Brothers – Child of Flames (Nite Flight [written & sung by the late John Maus])

Hawkwind – Paranoia [Pts 1&2] (Hawkwind)

Mad River – Wind Chimes (‘Ah Feel Like Ahcid’ : US 60’s comp.)

Budgie – Greggary Peccary (‘Play for Today’ BBC-TV 1982 UK)

Procol Harum – In Held Twas In I (Shine On Brightly)

‘promo’ – Psych-Out (ad for the 1967 US movie)

Peter Cook & Dudley Moore – Bedazzled (theme from 1967 UK movie)

Russell Morris – Into Paper Walls [the Real Thing: Part 3] (7”single 1969 Aust.)

? – (my dream world?)? (‘mystery track’ from ‘Circus Days: Pop/Psych Obscurities 1966-1972’ Vol 2 – UK comp.)

the Scots of St James – Eiderdown Clown (1967 single: taken from ‘Circus Days...’ Vol 6)

Alex Harvey – Dance of the Seven Scarabs (1967 acetate: from ‘Circus Days...’ Vol 2)

Shy Limbs – Reputation (1969 single: from ‘Circus Days...’ Vol 3)

Bent Frame – Fairy Lights (1971 single: from ‘Circus Days...’ Vol 4)

Cecil McCartney – Liquid Blue (1968 single: from ‘Circus Days...’ Vol 5)

? – ? (‘mystery track’ from ‘Circus Days...’ Vol 4)

the Triffids – Family Name (from their self-released 1983 ‘Dungeon Tape’, Perth, Aust.)

Seems Twice – Look at It (‘Non-Plussed’ EP 1980 Aust.)

Nuvo Bloc – Equal Education (demo 1978 Adelaide Aust.)

Technicolour Dreaming

The Cat and the Brat interviewed Adelaide singer/songwriter Emily Davis on the show this week, in the run-up to her CD release show on 4^th June in Adelaide, and played an exclusive pre-release track from that album. We also played a track from the new Belles Will Ring album, a ‘live’ version of Donovan’s “Hurdy Gurdy Man” from 2007 (with amusing ad-libbing), some 60’s Australian psych, and Peter Brat & the Molting Vultures recent ‘Life on the Dole’ 7” single (which will also be performed ‘live’ this Friday at the Grace Emily). And we played the final “Monkees’ Song of the Week” in our series of 25 songs... appropriately it was ‘Swami’, which played over the end-credits of their 1968 movie ‘Head’...

... and here is the playlist...

Thee Oh Sees – Destroyed Fortress Re-Appears (Help)

Thee Attacks – Are you? (‘Shindig! – It’s Happening 2’, comp.)

The Dave Miller Set – No Need To Cry (‘Psych Bites Vol. 1’, comp.)

James Taylor Move – Magic Eyes (‘Peculiar Hole in the Sky’, comp.)

Belles Will Ring – Do You Know What I See? (Crystal Theatre)

Emily Davis and the Open Road – Home is Where the Heart Is (Undone)

Higamos Hogamos – The Illuminoids – (Higamos Hogamos)

Donovan – Hurdy Gurdy Man (‘live’ 2007)

The Executives – Movin’ In a Circle (7” single, 1968 Australia)

McGough and McGear – So Much In Love (Acid Drops, Space Dust and Flying Saucers, Disc 1 : comp.)

The Green Circles – Let Me Through (‘Burn Your Fingers on the Sun’ comp.)

The Gnomes of Zurich – Hang On Baby (‘With The Sun In My Eyes’ comp.)

Sand Pebbles – A Thousand Flowers (A Thousand Flowers)

Foggy – She’s Far Away (US 1972 from ‘With The Sun In My Eyes’ compilation)

Peter Brat and The Molting Vultures – Life On the Dole (7” single 2010 Adelaide)

The Monkees – Swami [with strings] (‘Head’ soundtrack) *

*the 25^th, and Final, “Monkees’ Song of the Week”