Sitars, theremin and mellotron, backwards guitar, phasing and fuzz, fringes and mohawks, paisley, black, velvet and leather, feedback, bass and drone, beads, berets and safety-pins, Shindig! and Creem, 3 chord wonders, teenage symphonies and snarl, Rickenbacker, Farfisa and 4-track recorders... onstage at CBGB's, Max's Kansas City or the Trip, the Roundhouse, the 100 Club or the Crystal Ballroom, Catcher's, Big Daddy's or the Squatters Arms.... and the Cat and the Brat on 3D Radio!
Three D Radio announcer, MeganCat (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 onThree 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...
With Michael Hunter in the Technicolour Dreaming chair for the week, the music ranged from the Croatian psych pop of Pridjevi to stoner psych metal (OHHMS) and a couple of examples of psy-chill and psy-dub. This came via some unreleased demos of 1960s Australian rock from The Wild Cherries and The Down'N'Out and live unreleased Screaming Believers, with a nod to Peter Brat with one of Rashamra's hit singles and a mash-up of The Cure and The Commodores (!) via BRAT Productions (no relation). No wonder the Sapphire Thinkers felt a bit strange by the end! Pridjevi - 1. Svijet Na Dlanu 2. Lucifer
I Ja ("Pridjevi" 2014 Croatia)
Ancient Sky - 1. Garbage Brain 2. Protection ("Mosaic" 2015 US) New Zealand Avengers - Love Hate Revenge (7" single 1968 NZ)
Wild Cherries - Alice Is (Coming Through) (unreleased demo 1968 Australia)
Jim Keays - Shake Some Action ("Age Against The Machine" 2015 Australia) John Michael Roch - 1. Sky 2. Silver Rain ("With You In My Arms" 1976, reissued 2015 US) Trembling Bells - 'Tween The Womb And The Tomb ("The Sovereign Self" 2015 Scotland) OHHMS - Dawn Of The Swarm ("Cold" 2015 UK) Normala - Dreamwards Again ("The Return Of Quetzalcoatl" compilation 2011 UK)
Digital Conception - The Mystical Quest ("The Return Of Quetzalcoatl" compilation 2011 UK) Rashamra - Mr Timekeeper (7" single 1972 Australia, Adelaide) The Down'N'Out - I'm Not Talking (unreleased demo 196? Australia, Brisbane) Screaming Believers - Baby You Flirt (station live to air 1982 Australia, Adelaide)
Koral & the Goodbye Horses - Pony (Nocturne For A Night Drive) ("Nocturnes" 2015 Australia, Adelaide) BRAT Productions - Easy Heaven (mash-up of The Cure & The Commodores 2015 UK) David Bowie - Width Of A Circle ("The Man Who Sold The World" 1971 UK)
Pridjevi - Pjesma
O Drvecu ("Pridjevi" 2014 Croatia) Sapphire Thinkers - I Feel A Bit Strange ("From Within" 1968 US)
We’re deeply saddened by the passing of Peter Staben, aka Peter Brat, influential and much loved presenter of Technicolour Dreaming and Obscured By… and member of The Brats and Rashamra. Peter passed away Thursday, July 16 2015 surrounded by his family. Rest in peace our friend, you will be sorely missed. See http://www.threedradio.com/vale-peter-staben/ for a bio written by Megan Cat on Peter's colourful life. Many thanks to Harry for filling in and keeping the show going during this time. Where to from here? The show shall continue, and the Cat looks set to return. Watch this space. RIP Peter Brat.
For one week only, "Obscured By..." alumni Michael Hunter filled in for Technicolour Dreaming. Unsurprisingly, a few obscurities therefore surfaced such as the completely unknown Australian band Melody Mae, and Adam & The Ants' cover of a Village People song! Some sad RIPs were also acknowledged for Gulliver Smith and John McInerney (both from classic Australian 70s band Company Caine), and Jim Keays' excellent new, posthumous album, chok full of garage classics. New psych-folk-rock from Trembling Bells and Wand also merged with 70s jazz rock fusion from Mackenzie Theory, and it all made sense, in a Technicolour Dreaming kind of way! Not quite so many videos to be found for this selection of songs, as it happens. Wand - Fire On The Mountain I-II-III ("Ganglion Reef" 2014 US) Trembling Bells - Killing Time In London Fields ("The Sovereign Self" 2015 Scotland)
Go Home Productions - 2000 Light Years From Bolan (Rolling Stones / T.Rex mash-up)
The Lammas Tide - 1. Soldier Of The Sun 2. Bethnal Green ("Barefoot Electric" 2014 Australia)
Mackenzie Theory - Supreme Love ("Highlights Of Sunbury '74" 1974 Australia) Melody Mae - The Stars They Are In Line ("Melody Mae" EP, c1978 Australia) Jim Keays - 1. Come On 2. Hot Smoke & Sassafras ("Age Against The Machine" 2015 Australia) Peter Tilbrook - Goodbye My Friend ("Living In The Sixties", 2015 Adelaide, Australia )
Company Caine - The Day Superman Got Busted ("Product Of A Broken Reality" 1971, Aztec reissue 2015 Australia)
The Rope Sect - Da Da Da (7" single year unknown Germany) Tom Dae Turned On - I Shall Walk (7" single c.1970 US) Berry Clan & The Revolution - My Crock (7" single year unknown Belgium) Illes - Nem Erdekel, Amit Monsz (7" single year unknown Hungary)
"Flexipop" magazine flexidiscs, 1981/2: Adam & The Ants - A N T S
Altered Images - Leave Me Alone The Cure - Lament Fad Gadget - King Of The Flies
Mystic Siva - 1. Keeper Of The Keys 2. And When You Go ("Mystic Siva" 1970 US) Wand - 1. Growing Up Boys 2. Generator Larping ("Ganglion Reef" 2014 US) Trembling Bells - I Is Someone Else ("The Sovereign Self" 2015 Scotland)
It is
appropriate that this edition’s Compilation of the Week
is the 2014 Electric Sound Show 5-CD box-set,
a series that describes itself as ‘An Assortment of
Antiquities for the Psychedelic Connoisseur’, which, in part, is what we
aim to play for our listeners each week, along with more recent releases we pick from the current
psychedelic outpouring and its 20th century predeccessors! It
has a slightly murky history (you try getting any CONSISTENT, accurate
information about this series on the internet!) with the first
instalment of the original vinyl series, the “We
All Live On Candy Green” LP, put out by Soundshow
Records in 2004, followed by “In King
Solomon’s Minds” in 2010. The next LP was “Apricot
Hash in the Hourglass” in
2011, “Paper Thoughts of Polly Pan” (2013)
and finishing with “Green Eyed Gods of Smoke” (also
2013). The set covers rare 60’s psychedelia from Britain and the USA,
plus what is variously described as ‘Pop-Psych’, ‘Mindblowing Nuggets’ and
‘Heavy Psychedelic Stoners’ from the rest of the world. The limited edition 5CD
box set released by ParticlesRecords that is our particular focus this week is
based on the original vinyl albums, but with some different tracks to confuse
the issue.... whatever, it is a great boxset, and deserved its place as
our feature. Another highlight was a rare interview with Nickof Adelaide’s Molting Vultures... much merriment ensued as he
regaled us with tales of the music scene in Melbourne where he now resides. This
move several years ago means however that the Molting
Vultures now only play occasionally in either city, but have a great
turnout of loyal garage-psych aficionados whenever they appear and hopefully a
new album release will also ensue in the not too distant future with Nick promising he has some new songs ready for the
band to develop. For the rest of our playlist simply see below, and so until
next Tuesday, between 2
and 4pm (Central Australian Time)
on 3D Radio, we bid you “adieu”.....
......
and here’s the complete song-list, including some associated clips, including scenes from the Cat & Brat's wedding performance of 'Life On The Dole' with the Molting Vultures, the complete Andy Warhol tribute, “Songs for Drella”, played
live in 1990 by John Cale and Lou Reed, plus an episode of Julian Cope's "Modern Antiquarian" TV show..... Enjoy!!
Three
Minute Tease -
Bravely Fade Away ("Bite the
Hand" 2014 UK)
Pinkunoizu- The
Abyss ("Free Time" 2013
Denmark)
White
Noise - Phase In –
Firebird ("An Electric Storm" 1969 UK)
Halasan
Bazar and Tara King th.
- Ventolin ("8" LP 2014 Denmark/France)
the Molting Vultures
- Here Come the Mushroom People ("Drop in and
Go" 2009 Adelaide, Australia)
Interviewwith Nick
Molty ofthe MoltingVultures
Peter Brat and the Molting Vultures - Life on the
Dole (7"single 2010 Adelaide,
Australia)
Lothar
and the Hand People
- Sex and Violence ("Presenting ... Lothar and
the Hand People" LP 1968 New York, USA)
Dodson
and Fogg [feat. Nigel Planer] - Entrepreneur in the
Garden ("In a Strange Slumber"
2014 UK)
Octopus
Syng - Listen to
the Moths ("Reverberating Garden Number 7” 2014
Helsinki)
