Three D Radio announcer, Megan Cat (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 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!
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...

Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Obscured By... Oct 11 2011

You want obscurities?  OK - we have rarely heard "mod beat garagepunk" tracks from Singapore, Israel, Lebanon and beyond.  We have The Fantastic Leslie  featuring a future Chaser member, and a second version of the rare-enough-as-is Freshwater track 'Satan' - re-recorded with strings and brass.  We have a Hans Poulsen track so rare, no details can be found.  We have a Marty Rhone anti-conscription song buried on one of his B-sides.  Obscure enough so far?  Plus other US, UK and Australian tracks you probably won't hear on other shows.  Plus a collection taken at random from the various "O" sections of the Three D library.  And... well, take a look below for the rest.  All lovingly curated by this week's host, Michael Hunter.

Yvonne Barrett  Send Her Away  (7" single, Australia 1966)
Sounds Of Silence  Blame Myself  (7" single B side, Australia 1967)
Harry Young & Sabbath  Bus Driver's Son  (7" single B side, Australia 1971)
Marty Rhone  The Day The Letter Came  (7" single B side, Australia 1972)
Freshwater  Satan  (second version)  (7" single, Australia 1970)

Tracks from Conquer The World! Vol 2 : 20 More Rare Worldwide Sixties Mod Beat Garagepunkers
The Streaplers  Hard Tough Luck Girl  (Sweden)
The Stylers  Mrs Seelo  (Singapore)
The Fat & The Thin  I'm A Travellin' Man  (Israel)
The Explosion  Sunlight  (Belgium)
Simon C Edwards & His Soul Set  The Way I Do  (Lebanon)


Tracks from Ongaku 80: Alternative Waves From Japan
Tako  Funk Of The Hostage  (1981)
Daisuck & Prostitute  Ziggurat Witch Hunt  (1981)
Shinobu  Earth  (?)

The Perth County Conspiracy  Truth & Fantasy  The Perth County Conspiracy Does Not Exist  (LP Canada 1970)

Tully  The Sun Is Shining  Tully  (LP Australia 1970)

Hans Poulsen  Soundtrack, Idlers 2 Minute Cinema  (7" single, Australia c 1970)
The Final Four  Grand Central Station (7" single, Australia 1967)
Nonesuch  Ride The Wind Away  (7" single, Australia 1968)

Orange Juice  Flesh Of My Flesh  Rip It Up  (LP, UK 1982)

Hazel O'Connor  Bring It On Home To Me  (7" single B side 1980)
Oysterband  Gone West  Holy Bandits  (CD  UK 1993)

Other Peoples Children  Mood Music  (7" single, Australia 2001)

Spectrum  Limbo Man  Breathing Space As Well  (CD Australia 2011)

Daddy Cool  Zoop Bop Gold Cadillac  Daddy Who?  Daddy Cool!  40th anniversary CD  (rec 1971)

Robert Wyatt  I'm A Believer  His Greatest Misses  (comp CD 2004, rec 1974)

The Pennydrops  On A SeeSaw  Good Fortunes  (CD Aust 1999)

The Fantastic Leslie  Weatherman  A Tiny Mark  (CD Aust 1999)
Tree  Man From Nowhere  (7" single, US 1967)
Mixed Emotions  Can't You Stop It Now  (7" single, US 1968) 

Wednesday, October 5, 2011

Technicolour Dreaming

Fellow 3D Radio announcer Bryan (have a listen to his “MellowScream” breakfast show on Tuesdays, 6-9am Adelaide-time!) filled in for us again this week... keeping the sound of our show, but adding his own twist, he dug up some punk classics such as the Toy Dolls and Last Words, a taste of the 80’s with the Lime Spiders, a Beatles’ cover from 60’s Singapore, some recent Australian psych from bands such as the Dolly Rocker Movement, as well as diverse local Adelaide music from bands such as Circle Clan, the Green Circles and the Aves... finishing with a track off the Cat & the Brat’s new “Album of the Month”,  which of course is “West”, by San Francisco’s Wooden Shjips, their first album to be recorded in a “proper studio”, rather than ‘live’ or at their home studio...
..... and here is the full playlist.....

the Amorphous Androgynous   Falling Down [Oasis cover]     ( A Monstrous Psychedelic Bubble Exploding In Your Mind [Vol 1. Space Rock])
Cheap Trick – Day Tripper [Beatles cover -Live 1979]     (‘Found All The Parts’ 10” EP 1980 USA)
Shan Kuan Liu Yun – Can’t Buy Me Love [Beatles cover]     ([Singapore 1965]: from ‘The Exotic Beatles  4: Plastic Soul’ – comp. 2011)
the Mops – I Am Just A Mops     (‘Psychedelic Sound in Japan’ LP 1968 Japan)
Mach Pelican – Dance In Chicago     (‘Dance In Chicago’ cdEP 1999 Australia)
the Aves – Grow Up     (CDsingle 2011 Adelaide, Australia)
Lou Reed – Doin’ The Things That We Want To     (‘New Sensations’ LP 1984 USA)
Circle Clan – Stunned Fish     (‘Follow the White Line’ CD 2002 Adelaide)
Almost Numan – Wrong Girl     (Almost Numan –‘On Side’)
Johnny Dowd – Big Wave     (Temporary Shelter)
Russell Morris – Sweet Sweet Love     (7”single 1971 Aust.)
Pink Floyd – Julia Dream     (‘Relics’ LP 1971 UK)
the Dolly Rocker Movement – Gypsy Dancer     (A Purple Journey into the Mod Machine)
Dandelion Wine – Cat Walk Away     (Reunion)
the Sand Pebbles – Dark Magic     (Dark Magic)
Toy Dolls – She Goes to Finos     (7”single 1986 UK)
the Lime Spiders – 25th Hour     (7” EP 1983 Aust.)
the Green Circles – Bucket Full Of Nothing     (‘Get On the Outside of This’ CD 2003 Adelaide)
Last Words – Animal World     (7”single 1977 Australia... also re-released 1978 [Aust.] and 1979 [UK]!)
the Ransome Brothers – I Feel Like Dancin’     (Whiskey Set)
Dollsquad – Rock’n’Roll Boy     (Lethal In Leather)
Sin City – Summer Love Song     (Hungry For Love)
Wooden Shjips – Lazy Bones     (West)    #

  # “Album of the Month”

      Thanx Bryan!!!

Tuesday, October 4, 2011

Obscured By...

All three ‘DOTS’ – Michael Hunter, Megan Cat and Peter Brat –  were on hand for this week’s edition of Obscured by... , presenting , as always, the rare, the unusual, the forgotten and... dare we say... the obscure! From Germany [the Shiny Gnomes] to New Guinea [the Bandits], Adelaide [Red Angel Panic] to Turkey [Kerem Guney] and beyond [the Grim Reaper’s Greatest Hits?], plus a selection from our library, vinyl and CD, of bands filed under this week’s letter of the alphabet, P...
..... here is our playlist.....
the Penny Rockets – Walkout     (7”single 1961 Adelaide, Australia)
the Blue Streaks with the Cravats – Do you still want my love     (7”single 1965 Adelaide, Aust.)
Yvonne Barrett – Off and Running     (unreleased – “Go! Show” Aust. TV 1966)
Johnny Young – Geno Pts 1 and 2     (‘Surprises’ LP 1968 Aust./UK)
Red Angel Panic – Viet Rock     (7”single 1971 Adelaide, Aust.)
        selections from “Dead - The Grim Reaper’s Greatest Hits” compilation:
the Shangri Las – Give us your Blessings
the Goodees – Condition Red
Ferlin Husky – The Drunken Driver
Dickey Lee – Patches
Think – Once you understand
Gracious! – Super Nova     (‘This Is – Gracious!’ LP 1972 UK)
Garrett Lund – Silver Sails     (‘Almost Grown’ LP 1975 USA)
Trevor McNamara – Silver     (‘Yeah Captain’ LP 1969 Adelaide, Aust.)
the Units – Baby you flirt     (7”single 1980 Adelaide, Aust.)
the Bandits – Opa Tivu Tari     (7”single 1993 Papua New Guinea)
Kerem Guney – Aglayi Aglayi     (‘Turkish Freakout 2’ compilation)
Tomorrow – Real Life Permanent Dream     (‘Tomorrow’ LP 1968 UK)
the Shiny Gnomes – Temple Balls     (‘Wild Spells’ LP 1986 Germany)
Pregnant Insomnia – Wallpaper     (7”single 1967 Ireland) *
the Pastels – Yoga     (‘Yoga’ cdEP 1994 UK) *
Jean-Luc Ponty     (‘Mystical Adventures’ LP 1982 UK) *
Pop-Mechanix – Brains     (7”single 1981 New Zealand) *
Apocalypse – Let It Die     (‘Apocalypse’ LP 1970 Germany)

* from the P sections of the 3D Radio library

Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Technicolour Dreaming

This week the Cat and the Brat featured old songs and new, favourites and obscurities, with different sounds from both here in Australia and from the rest of the world... definitely Technicolour Dreaming! Beginning with a woozy track from the 2001 album by Texan trio, Lift To Experience, we ventured through some disparate psychedelic music from the likes of Suns of Arqa, Mother Tucker’s Yellow Duck, Scorpio Tube and Espers, to the garage beat of Melbourne’s Los Hories, UK band Thee Attacks, and Adelaide’s the Molting Vultures, local punk from Standard Union, Nederbeat from the Outsiders, dropping in some classic Easybeats and Death In June, with the Suburban Lawns “new-wave-novelty-hit” from 1979, ‘Gidget Goes To Hell’, thrown in as.... well, as a ‘novelty’! New to the station library were some fairly recent albums by UK band, the Psychotic Reaction, dropped in by a former member, Luke, who also brought in an advance copy of the debut album by Adelaide’s surf/garage kings, DieselWitch, his current band... so of course we played a track from both, ending the show with a ‘different’ take on Duran Duran’s “Planet Earth” by veteran Adelaide punks, Fear and Loathing!
..... and here is the full playlist....
Lift To Experience – These are the Days     (The Texas/JerUSAlem Crossroads)
Mother Tucker’s Yellow Duck – One Ring Jane     (7”single 1969 Canada)
Death In June – Burn Again     (Abandon Tracks)
Suns Of Arqa – Tomorrow Never Knows [Beatles’ cover]     (Solar Activity 1979-2001)
the West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band – Suppose they give a war and no-one comes     (‘Volume 2: (Breaking Through)’ LP 1968 USA)
Wooden Shjips – Home     (West)
Los Hories – Dead Town     (‘Antipodean Screams Vol. 2’ compilation 2007 Australia)
the Suburban Lawns – Gidget Goes to Hell     (7”single 1979 USA)
the Dacios – Liberty Lovers     (Monkey’s Blood)
Standard Union – The Slide     (‘DepthCharge 10: 3D Radio compilation of local music’ 2011 Adelaide, Aust.)
the Hands of Time – The 4th Nail     (‘Antipodean Screams Vol. 1’ compilation 2003 Aust.)
the Psychotic Reaction – A Moment Of Clarity     (Genre Music Is The Enemy)
GG Alan Bindig – Kitty Always Wins     (‘DepthCharge 10...’)
Espers – Caroline     (Espers 111)
Golden Triangle – The Melting Wall     (Double Jointer)
the Outsiders – Doctor     (‘CQ’ LP 1968 Netherlands)
the Molting Vultures – Caccamawartoo     (Get a Grip!)
the P.90s – Send Me Love     (‘Monday’ cdEP 2011 Adelaide, Aust.)
Thee Attacks – Are You?     (SHINDIG! magazine compilation : ‘It’s Happening Vol. 2’ 2010 UK)
Even – Show Me Some Discipline [Sunnyboys cover]     (Happy Man : a tribute to the Sunnyboys)
the Easybeats – I’ll Make You Happy     (‘Easyfever’ EP 1966 Aust.)
Scorpio Tube – Yellow Listen    (7”single b-side 1970? USA)
Lothar and the Hand People – Machines     (‘Presenting...’ LP 1968 USA)
DieselWitch – Kicks     (DieselWitch Will Kill You)
Fear and Loathing – Planet Earth [Duran Duran cover]     (Full Mongrel)