Technicolour Dreaming

In a first for our regular “Band of the Month” feature, we had several members of this month’s selection, Adelaide’s premier psychedelic outfit, Ride Into The Sun, in the 3D studio with us for an interview and also as guest presenters. They had lots to talk about – a new drummer, the return of their keyboardist, recording plans for an EP to be produced by Christian Bland of the Black Angels, discussion of the Austin Psych Fest and much more – and a bunch of songs for us to play including tracks by the aforementioned Black Angels, ex-Sydney band the Black Ryder [featuring the Cult’s Ian Asbury’s new wife Aimee], Austin’s The UFO Club and Iceland’s Singapore Sling. Also on this week’s show were tracks from the new Pony Face album and the Murlocs latest EP plus a few classic singles from the likes of T.Rex, Wire and the Rationals. Some more music, lots of chatting and laughing, and that was it! Another episode of Technicolour Dreaming with the Cat & the Brat.....

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

T.Rex – Jeepster      (7”single 1971 UK)

the Pretty Things – In the Square/the Letter/Rain      (‘The Psychedelic Years: 1966 to 1970’ anthology 2001 UK)

the Black Hollies – Look What You’ve Done      (‘Softly Towards the Light’ 2009 New York, USA)

Pony Face – Silver Tongue      (‘Hypnotised’ 2012 Melbourne, Australia)

the Lovetones – A New Low      ('Provenance - Collected Works’ anthology 2012 Australia)

Ride Into The Sun – Drown Your Soul      (‘Rats, Thieves & Liars’ EP 2011 Adelaide, Aust.)    #

the Dunes – Transition      (‘Between Midnight & Dawn’ EP 2012 Adelaide, Aust.)

Briars – Easy Target      (demo 2012 Adelaide, Aust.)

the Black Ryder – Let It Go      (‘Buy the Ticket, Take the Ride’ 2009 Sydney, Aust.)

the See See – Keep Your Head      (‘Late Morning Light’ 2010 UK)

Ride Into The Sun – Remorse & Regret      ( unreleased – recorded 2010 Adelaide, Aust.)    #

the Black Angels – Entrance Song [rain dance version]      (‘Phosgene Nightmare’ EP 2011 Austin, Texas, USA)

the Murlocs – Tee Pee      (‘Tee Pee’ EP 2012 Geelong, Aust.)

Singapore Sling – Godman      (‘Perversity, Desperation & Death’ 2008 Iceland)

Wire – I am the Fly      (7”single 1978 UK)

the Rationals – I Need You [Carole King/Ray Davies cover]      (7”single 1968 Detroit, Michigan USA)

the UFO Club – Be My Baby [Ronettes cover]      (‘The UFO Club/Night Beats’ split 10” EP 2011 USA)

Ride Into The Sun – Detached      (unreleased – recorded 2010 Adelaide, Aust.)    #

       #    “Band of the Month”

Obscured By...

This week’s edition, hosted by the Cat & the Brat, seemed to come in batches.... beginning with a b-side from Bitch [the band were formerly known as the Cleves and it’s under that name that we have featured them before] we moved into our customary start-up of Australasian 60’s-70’s rarities, including a live TV version of Fraternity’s ‘Seasons of Change’ and the sole single from the Harts. Then we moved up a decade or so with a bunch of mostly unreleased Australian demos from the likes of Adelaide’s legendary Speedboat and Melbourne’s Tlot Tlot [taken from a ‘Fast Forward’ cassette magazine], before going all over the world for some proggy psych goodness, ranging from Switzerland’s Krokodil to Seoul’s Jang Hyun. Then it was New Zealand’s turn – for such a small country they certainly turned out an impressively large quantity of excellent pop-psych in the late 60’s, even continuing into the early 70’s – so it was only fair that we featured some of the more prominent acts such as the Fourmyula, Quincy Conserve and House of Nimrod, before paying tribute to the late Neil Armstrong by playing Dizzy Limits’ “Mare Tranquility” and Oak Apple Day’s classic “Moonshot” singles. A few other obscurities along the way, such as Deep Feeling’s version of “I Put a Spell on You” from 1966 and a psychobilly classic from Sunglasses After Dark, then it was all over – until next time.....

..... so here’s the full playlist for your perusal.....

Bitch – House Where I Live       (7”single b-side [to Laughing] 1971 New Zealand/Australia/UK)

Glass Web – Two Faced Woman     (7”single b-side [to In a Year or So] 1971 Adelaide, Aust.)

Fraternity – Seasons of Change      (Live on ‘GTK’ ABC-TV 1971 Aust.)

Inside Looking Out – HMS Buffalo       (7”single 1970 Adelaide, Aust.)

Ticket – Gypsy Rover       (‘Let Sleeping Dogs Lie’ LP 1972 New Zealand)

the Harts – Little Girl      (7”single 1967 Adelaide, Aust.)

Equal Local – Lamp That       (demo – released on ‘Fast Forward’ cassette magazine 1982 Melbourne, Aust.)

Nuvo Bloc – Never Mind      (demo – released on ‘5MMM’s Compilation of Adelaide Bands 1980’ LP 1980 Aust.)

Tubby Justice – The Laugh      (demo 1990 Adelaide, Aust.)

Tlot Tlot – Love Potion #9 [Clovers/Searchers cover]      (demo 1992 Melbourne, Aust.)

Just Kidding – Get up off the Fence      (demo 1986 Adelaide, Aust.)

Speedboat – The Monk      (demo 1982 Adelaide, Aust.)

Kollektiv – Rambo Zambo      (‘Kollectiv’ LP 1973 Germany)

Jang Hyun – Sunset      (‘Jang Hyun 2’ LP 1972 Seoul, South Korea)

Krokodil – Sunlight’s Beautiful Daughter      (‘Swamp’ LP 1970 Switzerland)

Kuni Kawachi & the Flower Travelling Band – Graveyard of Love      (‘Kirikyogen’ LP 1970 Japan)

Wizards of Time – 2^nd Son      (‘Will The Soft Curse Plague On?’ 2012 USA)

the Fourmyula – Mr Whippy      (7”single b-side [to Forever] 1969 New Zealand – taken from ‘Best of the Fourmyula’ anthology 1999 NZ)

Shane & Quincy Conserve – San Francisco Girls      (backing tracks recorded 1969/vocals recorded 2005 – taken from ‘A Day In My Mind’s Mind, Vol.3’ compilation 2008 NZ)

Tom Thumb – If I were a Carpenter [Tim Hardin cover]      (7”single 1969 NZ)

the Top Shelf – Time Beyond       (7”single b-side [to Baby, the World Really Turns] 1969 NZ)

the Gremlins – Kingsforth Hemmingseem      (7”single 1968 NZ)

House of Nimrod – Slightly Delic      (7”single 1967 NZ)

Dizzy Limits – Mare Tranquility      (7”single b-side [to Alone] 1970 NZ)

Oak Apple Day [plus the Deadly Pair] – Moonshot      (7”single 1969 Aust.)

the Peppermint Trolley Company – 9 O’Clock Business Man      (7”single 1968 USA)

Deep Feeling – I Put A Spell On You [Screamin’ Jay Hawkins cover]      (recorded 1966 – released on ‘Pretty Colours’ anthology 2008 UK)

Sunglasses After Dark – Swamp Baby      (7”single 1984 UK)

Technicolour Dreaming

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It was a more relaxed Cat & Brat this week, having recovered from last week’s 3D Radiothon marathon, but still, we hit the ground running as per the Gordon Gano song we began with! There was new music from the likes of UK songstress Suzi Chunk, Japan’s Tenniscoats and Adelaide’s Volcano Cleaner, with the latest single from Django Django and a track from Wizards of Time’s intriguing debut, plus interesting covers of songs written by the likes of Bowie and the Rutles... there was a 1971 New Zealand Top 10 chart hit by Timberjack as well as tunes from the more recent past by Painted Hills, Pugwash and the Scoundrelles plus much more, before we finished the show with a very humorous song by Baterz in his final appearance as our “Artiste of the Month”.....

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

Gordon Gano & PJ Harvey – Hitting the Ground      (‘Hitting the Ground’ 2002 USA)

Suzi Chunk – No Stone Unturned      (‘Girl from the Neck Down’ LP 2012 UK)

the Tamborines – The Great Division      (‘Camera & Tremor’ 2010 UK – taken from ‘Psychedelica 4’ compilation 2010 UK)

Django Django – W.O.R.      (‘Django Django’ 2012 Scotland, UK)

the Mona Lisa Overdrive – It’s Just Too Much      (demo 2008 Adelaide, Australia)

Big Richard Insect – I’m So Bored      (‘Big Richard Insect’ EP 2012 Adelaide, Aust.)

the Scoundrelles – Don’t Know Why [Rutles cover]     (‘Atomic Batteries to Power’ 2008 Aust./UK)

Wizards of Time – Hi My Name Is Body      (‘Will The Soft Curse Plague On?’ 2012 USA)

Weightless – Museum of Expired Life      (‘Self-Adjustment’ EP 2012 Adelaide, Aust.)

Tenniscoats – Shinjitsu       (‘All Aboard!’ 2012 Japan)

the Sand Pebbles – Sunshine to Burn [Long Grass cover]      (taken from the CD compilation accompanying the ‘Tomorrow is Today’ book about 60’s Australian psychedelic music 2007 Melbourne, Australia)

Volcano Cleaner – Not as Easy as it Sounds      (‘The Making of Volcano Cleaner’ 2012 Adelaide, Aust.)

Painted Hills – Kaleidoscope Eyes      (‘Painted Hills’ 2010 USA)

David Bowie – Moonage Daydream      (‘The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust & the Spiders From Mars’ LP 1972 UK)

Pugwash – A Rose in a Garden of Weeds      (‘Jollity’ 2005 UK)

Gaz Coombes – I Just Wasn’t Made For These Times [Beach Boys cover]      (‘Mojo: Pet Sounds Revisited’ compilation 2012 UK)

Black Box Recorder – Rock’n’Roll Suicide [Bowie cover]      (‘The Worst of Black Box Recorder’ anthology 2001 UK)

Mott the Hoople – All the Young Dudes [live]      (‘Uncut: Rebel Rebel’ compilation 2008 UK)

the Salt – Lucifer      (7”single 1968 USA)

Timberjack – Come to the Sabbat      (7”single 1971 New Zealand)

the Third Rail – Run, Run, Run      (7”single 1967 USA)

Baterz – You’re Not Cool      (‘Out of Hell’ 2000 Adelaide, Aust. – taken from the ‘Baterz for Beginners’ bonus CD with ‘Great Big Squiddy Fun’ tribute compilation 2009 Australia)    #

       #   “Artiste of the Month”

Obscured By...

We had Blue Jays, Duck, Dragon, Canaries and Matching Mole.  We had a Wheelbarrow and a US radio star asking what a girl is.  The resuscitated Aztec Music provided some rare live Normie Rowe, while John Laws just wanted us to be kind to each other.  We said goodbye to Col Joye's Joy Boys drummer John Bogie, and heard some latter-day Ray Hoff, from only the second (and final) album of his long career.  Nigerian prog and Malaysian punk.  A Nazi-era German propaganda swing band and the whimsy of George Formby.  Brand new Bob Dylan.  Dare you to name another show besides Obscured By... (this week hosted by Michael Hunter) that would provide such a musical smorgasbord.  Can't, can you...?

Grade Wicker - Prettiest Baby  (7”single 1959 Aust)

John Laws with The New Notes and The Band-Its - Be Kind To Each Other   (7”single, B-side to Someone New 1959 Aust)

Toni McCann & The Blue Jays -  If You Don't Come Back  (7”single, B-side to Saturday Date 1965 Aust)

The Wheelbarrow - Dame Zara   (7”single 1970 Aust)

Duck - Dog Breath  ('Laid' 1972  Aust) 

Dragon - Love's Not Enough  (7”single 1979 Aust)

John Bogie & Milan Troha - In A Persian Market  ('Drum Crazy' comp, 2000 Aust, recorded ?) 

Ray Hoff & His Combo - Thinkin' 'Bout Lightnin'  ('Loud, Dirty & Rocking' 2000 Aust)

Normie Rowe - Shakin' All Over / I (Who Have Nothing)  ('It Ain't Necessarily So, But It Is... Normie Rowe' released 1965, reissued 2012 Aust - these are bonus tracks recorded live at Festival Hall) 

Tirogo - Float  ('Float'  Nigeria 1977)

Selma & Sabina Agha - Dancing Queen  ('Selma & Sabina Agha Sing The Songs Of ABBA In Hindi'  India 1981)

Brayok - Muke Taik (Shit Head)  ('Give And Take: Malaysian Hardcore Punk Compilation 2012')

Charlie & His Orchestra - Submarines  (78, early to mid 1940s Germany)

George Formby - Swimmin' With The Wimmin'  (78, 1933, UK)

Ira Cook - What Is A Girl?   (7”single 1959 US)

Hartz Mountain Master Radio Canaries - Humoresque  ('Canary Training Record' EP, year unknown, US)

Faust - J'ai Mal Aux Dents ('The Faust Tapes' 1973 Germany)

Matching Mole - Marchides / Instant Pussy / Smoke Signal (John Peel Session 1972)  ('Matching Mole' 2CD, LP orig issued 1972, reissue with bonus tracks, 2012 UK)

Bob Dylan - Duquesne Whistle  ('Tempest' 2012 US)

Tenpole Tudor - Wunderbar  (7”single 1981 UK)

Desmond Dekker - Allamana  ('Compass Point' 1981 Jamaica / UK)

The Damned - Lovely Money (extended mix)  (prob 12" single 1982 UK)