Technicolour Dreaming

As time marches on, and the days creep inexorably by, it seems that every fortnight or so we hear of yet another luminary of the music world leaving this mortal coil … this week we paid tribute to the passing of “the Fifth Ramone” artist Arturo Vega and Jefferson Airplane drummer Joey Covington by playing the former band’s cover of the latter’s “Somebody to Love”. On a brighter note Vic Conrad, veteran of the Adelaide music scene and also known as “Mr V” to his record-shopping friends, dropped in to do a spot of guest programming, bringing with him a copy of the brand-spanking new CD and single by the Dust Collection, of which he is a member, as well as LPs by Portugal’s Saturnia, the UK’s Instant Flight and America’s Sky Picnic amongst other delights. We also played another track from Vibravoid’s new album, this time a 60’s French cover which is better known to Australians in its translated form as “No No No No No” by Marty Rhone plus a version of a song from Gilbert & Sullivan’s operetta “Iolanthe” by the inimitable Todd Rundgren, who is currently touring Australia......

...... so here is the playlist plus a few visuals to distract you.....

 the Cherokees – Minnie the Moocher [Cab Calloway cover]        (7” single 1967 Melbourne, Australia)

TC Atlantic – Faces         (7” single 1966 Minneapolis, USA)

the Zoot – Strange Things         (7” single b-side [to Hey Pinky] 1970 Adelaide, Aust.)

Roxy Music – Bogus Man         (‘For Your Pleasure’ LP 1973 UK)

Shocking Blue – Acka Raga       (“At Home” LP 1969 Holland)

the Ramones – Somebody to Love [Jefferson Airplane cover]         (“Acid Eaters” 1993 USA)

Dust Collection – Electricity In Between         (7” single 2013 Adelaide, Aust.)

Dust Collection – Maxine Brown        (“Six By Five” 2013 Adelaide, Aust.)

Molting Vultures [feat. Vic Conrad] – (Everybody) Loves a Loser         (“Get on Board” 2012 Adelaide, Aust.)

Gray Packham – Grass Grow         (“La-La Land” demo 2013 Adelaide, Aust.)

Sky Picnic – Lost Is Found         (“Paint Me a Dream” LP 2012 New York, USA)

Sky Picnic – White Plane         (“Farther in this Fairy Tale” LP 2011 New York, USA)

The Bevis Frond – Just Cause         (“White Number” 2013 UK)

Arc of Ascent – Search for Liberation        (“The Higher Key” LP 2012 New Zealand)

Qoph – In Your Face         (“Freaks” 2012 Sweden)

Saturnia – Mellifluous         (“Alpha Omega Alpha” LP 2012 Portugal)

Instant Flight – Her Mystery      (“Colours of Light” 2012 UK)

Ton Steine Scherben – Wir Mussen Hier Raus      (“Keine Macht fur Niemand” LP 1972 Germany)

Sammy Cropper & his Wire Connections – Mensonomu      (“Papa Akwasi” 1978 Ghana)

the Psychedelic Aliens – Gbomei Adesai      (“Psycho African Beat” 1971 Ghana)

Vibravoid – La Poupée qui fait non [Michel Polnareff cover]      (recorded 2012 Italy – bonus track on CD version of “Delirio Dei Sensi” 2013 Germany)

Beaulieu Porch – Golda 03      (“We Are Beautiful” 2013 UK)

Todd Rundgren – Lord Chancellor’s Nightmare [Gilbert & Sullivan cover]      (“Todd” LP 1974 USA)

Sula Bassana – Departure      (“Dark Days” 2012 Germany)

Technicolour Dreaming

Ant and Dan from Adelaide’s conquering psych heroes, Ride Into The Sun, were welcomed back from their recent US tour, which centred on their well-received appearance at the 2013 Austin Psych Fest, as interviewees & guest programmers on this week’s show. We also previewed tracks from their new, self-titled mini-LP [available in a very limited edition on psychedelic, multi-coloured vinyl, as well as on CD] which will be launched here on Saturday 6^th July, when they play alongside the Morning After Girls and Archers at ‘Jive’ in Hindley Street... certainly a contender for ‘gig of the year’! The guys had lots of stories to share from their sojourn in the US and played tracks by some of the bands they encountered, including the Black Ryder, Singapore Sling and, of course, festival hosts the Black Angels. Also thrown into the mix of sounds were Spain’s Los Chicos, German psychedelicists Sula Bassana and the debut of Adelaide’s the Byzantines plus the latest single by Pond, a classic b-side from the Stems and a track from the new Mikal Cronin LP, finishing with a French 60’s single by Les Yper Sound which was later used in the theme for TV’s ‘Futurama’.....

..... so here is the playlist plus some visuals.....

the Byzantines – Punch On      (demo 2013 Adelaide, Australia)

Mikal Cronin – Am I Wrong      (‘MC11’ 2013 USA)

Sula Bassana – Underground      (‘Dark Days’ 2012 Germany)

the Teardrop Explodes – Bouncing Babies [orig. version]      (7”single 1979 UK)

Los Chicos – War or Party      (‘In the Age of Stupidity’ 2013 Spain)

Pond – Xanman       (CD-single 2013 Perth, Australia)

Indian Puddin’ & Pipe – Hashish      (‘Fifth Pipe Dream’ compilation LP 1968 USA)

the Koala – Strange Feelings      (‘The Koala’ LP 1969 New Jersey, USA)

Dean Allen Foyd – Lovely Sort of Death      (‘The Sounds Can Be So Cruel’ 2012 Stockholm, Sweden)

Roek’s Family – Never an Everyday Thing      (7”single b-side [to Get Yourself a Ticket] 1969 Netherlands)

the Flower Machine – The Tangerine Albatross      (‘Lavender Lane’ 2010 Los Angeles, USA)

Cate Le Bon – Shoeing the Bones      (‘Me Oh My’ 2009 Wales, UK)

Nirvana – Rainbow Chaser      (7”single 1968 UK)

Malibooz – Pier Pressure      (‘New Centre of the Universe Vol.1’ compilation 2012 Australia)

Ride Into The Sun – These Are The Ones That Shoot      (‘Ride Into The Sun’ mini-LP 2013 Adelaide, Australia)

       *  Live Studio Interview with Dan & Ant from Ride Into The Sun  *

the Morning After Girls – Run For Our Lives      (7”single 2006 Australia)

Ride Into The Sun – Gun Song      (‘Ride Into The Sun’ mini-LP 2013 Aust.)

the Stems – She’s A Monster      (7”single b-side [to Make You Mine] 1985 Perth, Australia)

Singapore Sling – Nightlife       (‘Life is Killing my Rock’n’Roll’ 2004 Reykjavík, Iceland)

the Lovetones – A New Low       (‘Provenance: Collected Works’ anthology 2012 Australia)

Ride Into The Sun – Hunt Like Wolves      (CD-single 2013 Adelaide, Australia)

the Black Angels – Watch Out Boy      (7”single 2012 USA)

the Black Ryder – the Greatest Fall      (‘Buy the Ticket, Take the Ride’ 2009 Australia)

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club – Head Up High      (‘B.R.M.C.’ 2001 San Francisco, USA)

the Damned – White Rabbit [Jefferson Airplane cover]      (extended, unreleased version recorded 1980 UK – bonus track on ‘The Black Album’ deluxe reissue 2005 UK)

the Occasional Dead Flys – Dirt [Stooges cover]      (‘A Real Cool Time - Distorted Sounds from the North’ compilation LP 1985 Sweden)

Les Yper-Sound – Psyché Rock      (‘Too Fortiche’ EP 1967 France – taken from ‘Pop À Paris:  Psyché - Rock Et Minijupes,Vol.2’ compilation 2004 France)

Technicolour Dreaming

  

It was a case of “more vinyl, more vinyl” on this week’s show, playing 7” singles, new and old, from the likes of the Hidden Masters, Wooden Shjips, the Haunted, Suede and the Spikes and selections from ‘rarities’ compilations such as the double LPs “Forge Your Own Chains” and “Fairytales Can Come True”, plus album and EP tracks by the Stomachmouths, Blue Ruin, the Gootch Palms, Tyrannosaurus Rex and others. As tribute to Australian legend  Wendy Saddington who sadly passed away last week, we played her 1971 single ‘Looking Through a Window’ and for one of our favourite novelists, the late Iain M. Banks, we played a Sonny & the Sunsets song about a doomed space-robot love affair! Throw in the debut demo by Olly Holmes, some new Mikal Cronin music and a few favourite CDs, and there it was... another edition of Technicolour Dreaming, brought to you by the Cat & the Brat.....

..... and so here is the playlist plus a few visuals.....

the Len Price 3 – Australia      (‘Rentacrowd’ 2008 UK)

Peter & Gordon – I Feel Like Going Out      (7”single [Germany-only release] 1968 UK – taken from ’Fairy Cakes for Tea: Fairytales Can Come True, Vol. 2 (20 Previously Uncomped Popsike Gems 1966-71) double-LP compilation 2007 UK)

Black Cab – Summer of Love       (‘Altamont Diary’ 2004 Melbourne, Australia)

Sun Dial – Out of Space, Out of Time      (7”single 2002 UK)

the Hippy Mafia – How to Outwit a Mosquito      (‘Psychedelica 5’ compilation 2013 UK)

the Bats – Listen to my Heart      (7”single 1966 South Africa)

Wendy Saddington – Looking Through a Window      (7”single 1971 Australia)

Sonny & the Sunsets – Green Blood      (‘Antenna to the Underworld’ 2013 USA)

Fluff – Holly Golightly       (7”single 1969 USA)

the Haunted – 1-2-5       (7”single 1966 Canada)

Isabelle – Amstramgram      (‘Dis Moi Poupée’ EP 1968 France)

Shadrack Chameleon – Don’t Let It Get You Down      (‘Shadrack Chameleon’  LP 1973 Iowa, USA – taken from ‘Forge Your Own Chains: Heavy Psychedelic Ballads and Dirges 1968-1974‘ double-LP compilation 2009 USA)

Vibravoid – Optical Sound [Human Expression cover]      (‘Delirio Dei Sensei’ 2013 Germany/Italy)

Tyrannosaurus Rex – Frowning Atahuallpa      (‘My people were fair and had stars in their hair...’ LP 1968 UK)

Mikal Cronin – See It My Way       (‘MC11’ 2013 California, USA)

the Hidden Masters – Grey Walls Grey      (7”single b-side [to Nobody Knows That We’re Here] 2010 Scotland, UK)

Beaulieu Porch – The View from Gainsborough      (‘We Are Beautiful’ 2013 UK)

Plasticland – Let’s Play Pollyanna      (7”single 1989 USA)

the Gootch Palms – Watch This Space      (‘R U 4 Sirius’ EP 2013 Sydney, Australia)

the Allah-Las – Catamaran      (‘The Allah-Las’ 2012 California, USA)

the Stomachmouths – Dr Syn      (‘Something Weird’ LP 1986 Sweden)

the Rebbels – Round the World      (7”single b-side [to This Can't Go On] 1966 Germany)

Wooden Shjips – Start to Dreaming      (7”single b-side [to Loose Lips] 2007 USA)

Olly Holmes – Whiskey Barrel      (demo 2013 Adelaide, Australia)

the Spikes – Bang Shang a Lang      (‘A Bloody Mess’ EP 1985 Adelaide, Australia)

Suede – Metal Mickey      (7”single 1992 UK)

Blue Ruin – Bad Gin      (‘Flame’ LP 1987 Australia)

 

the Black Hollies – Hush [Joe South cover]      (7”split-single [with the Dansettes] 2004 USA)