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...

Wednesday, October 31, 2012

Technicolour Dreaming


It was once again a diverse show this week, with the Cat & the Brat ranging through old favourites such as Iggy & the Stooges, Clinic and Magazine through Adelaide stalwarts the Asteroid Belt and Van Cleef, plus some recent releases from Ty Segall, Crystal Stilts and Maya. We also sadly bid farewell to a couple of our favourite Australian bands, Belles Will Ring and the Amcats, who have both announced their final performances and that they are going on an indefinite hiatus, as well as playing the Dukes of Stratosphear’s final showing as our “Band of the Month”, plus of course, much more, so without further ado.....
..... here is the playlist.....
the Church – Hiroshima Mon Amour [Ultravox cover]      (‘Box of Birds’ 1999 Australia)
Magazine – The Light Pours Out of Me      (recorded 1978 on BBC ‘Peel Sessions’ – taken from ‘...Magazine [Maybe it’s right to be nervous now]’ anthology boxset  2000 UK)
Clinic – Sunlight Bathes Our Home      (‘Walking With Thee’ 2002 UK)
Maya – Running Low (On Empty)      (‘EPs 1 + 2’ 2012 Aust.)
the Asteroid Belt – Incantations      (‘Incantations/Exultations’ 2009 Adelaide, Aust.)
Van Cleef – Dalek Gulch      (‘Where the River Meets the Rock’ 2010 Adelaide, Aust.)
the Amcats – Why Can’t You See Her      (7”single 2012 Adelaide, Aust.)
Belles Will Ring – Pallisade Alley      (‘Crystal Theatre’ 2011 Sydney, Aust.)
the Wild Cherries – Krome Plated Yabby      (7”single 1967 Aust.)
Capt. Groovy – Capt. Groovy & his Bubblegum Army      (7”single 1969 USA)
Ty Segall & White Fence – Time      (‘Hair’ 2012 USA)
Tyrnaround – Colour Your Mind      (‘Colour Your Mind’ 12”EP 1987 Aust.)
Crystal Stilts – Through the Floor      (‘In Love with Oblivion’ 2011 USA)
Eric Burdon & the Animals – A Girl Called Sandoz      (7”single b-side [to When I Was Young] 1967 UK)
the Weirdos – Life of Crime      (7”single 1977 USA)
Naz Nomad & the Nightmares – She Lied [Rockin’ Ramrods cover]      (‘Give Daddy The Knife Cindy’ LP 1984 UK)
Iggy & the Stooges – Search and Destroy      (‘Raw Power’ LP 1973 USA)
13th Floor Elevators – You’re Gonna Miss Me      (7”single 1966 Texas, USA – taken from ‘Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era, 1965-1968’ compilation LP 1972 USA)
Lowell George & the Factory – Candy Cane Madness      (recorded 1967 – taken from ‘Where the Action Is! Los Angeles Nuggets 1965-1968’ compilation boxset 2009 USA)
David Bowie – All the Madmen      (‘The Man Who Sold The World’ LP 1970 UK)
the Dukes of Stratosphear – Vanishing Girl      (‘Psonic Psunspot’ LP 1987 UK)   #
     #   “Band of the Month”


Tuesday, October 30, 2012

Obscured By...

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Sadly, we again paid tribute to another late, great Australian musician.... this week it was Mick Hadley [1942-2012], vocalist with the Purple Hearts et al ... but even though the ranks of those that made all those brilliant records grow ever thinner, the music remains undimmed!  Early in the Morning’, and Ray Brown’s ‘That’s Evil’ for example, still have the power to inspire, as numerous younger bands continue to testify, and in their turn inspire the next wave and so on, and thus why we include current bands such as Psychic Ills in our search for the path less trodden here on ‘Obscured by...’ – this week with just two dots to do the exploring! And it was not merely 60’s music we found, but a bunch of Los Angeles punkers such as X and the Zeros, some Krautrock from Sergius Golowin plus UK neo-psych trailblazers Echo & the Bunnymen and electronic post-punk pioneers the Human League... all in all, just another day in the [obscured] office.....
..... so here is the playlist.....
Normie Rowe – I Just Don’t Understand      (‘It Ain’t Necessarily So, But It Is... Normie Rowe’ LP 1965 Australia)
the D-Coys – You’re Against      (7”single b-side [to Bad Times] 1966 Adelaide, Aust.)
Procession – Up, Up & Away [Jimmy Webb cover]/Happy Times     (unreleased – performed on ‘UpTight’ TV show 1967 Melbourne, Aust.)
Ray Brown & the Whispers – That’s Evil      (‘Heading for the Top’ LP 1965 Aust.)
the Purple Hearts – Early in the Morning      (7”single 1966 Aust.)
the Purple Hearts – Of Hopes & Dreams & Tombstones      (7”single 1966 Aust.)
the Walker Brothers – Archangel      (7”single b-side [to Deadlier Than The Male] 1966 UK)
Sparks – Ugly Guys with Beautiful Girls      (‘Lil’ Beethoven’ 2002 UK)
Lou Reed & John Cale – Trouble With Classicists      (‘Songs for Drella – a fiction’ LP 1990 USA)
the Electric Prunes – Sanctus      (‘Mass in F minor’ LP 1968 USA)
Echo & the Bunnymen – My Kingdom      (‘Ocean rain’ LP 1984 UK)
Julian Cope – Head Hang Low      (BBC ‘Peel Sessions’ 1983 – taken from ‘Floored Genius 2’ compilation 1993 UK)
Gary Walker & the Rain – Come In, You’ll Get Pneumonia [Easybeats cover]      (‘Album No. 1’ LP 1968 Japan/UK)
the State of Mickey & Tommy – I know what I would do      (7”single b-side [to With Love From One To Five] 1967 France/UK)
the Elastic Band – Juice      (‘Expansion of Life’ LP 1970 UK)
 unknown#5 mystery track [+ Radio England promo]     (on disc 5 of ‘Circus Days: Pop-Psych Obscurities 1966-1972’ compilation boxset 2010 UK)
Chad & Jeremy – Sunstroke      (‘The Ark’ LP 1968 UK/USA)
Watermelon [aka the Lemon Drops] – Popsicle Girl      (rec. December 1968 – taken from ‘From the Lemon Drops to the Vibrations of Sequence in Order’ anthology 1996 USA)
Mother’s Love – Saint Without Glory       (‘Take One’ LP 1968 Holland)
the Human League – You’ve Lost that Lovin’ Feeling [Righteous Brothers cover]      (‘Reproduction’ LP 1979 UK)
Psychic Ills – The Way Of       (‘Mirror Eye’ 2009 New York, USA)
Sergius Golowin – Die Wiesse Alm      (‘Lord Krishna von Goloka’ LP 1973 Germany)
Hoochudahn – Reefer Madness     (‘Esoteric Release 1978-1981’ LP 1981 Aust. – taken from CD re-issue 2012 Adelaide, Aust.)
X – We’re Desperate      (7”single b-side [ to Adult Books] 1978 Los Angeles, USA)
the Cortinas – Fascist Dictator      (7”single 1977 Bristol, UK)
the Quick – Pretty Please      (from maxi-single ‘In Tune With Our Times’ [fanclub issue] 1977 Los Angeles, USA)
Johnny Moped – Incendiary Device      (7”single b-side [to No One]1977 London, UK)
the Zeros – Don’t Push me Around      (7”single b-side [to Wimp] 1977 Los Angeles, USA)
the Other Ends – Without You      (7”single 1967 Sydney, Aust. – taken from ‘Oz Beat Frenzy’ compilation 2009 Aust.)

Wednesday, October 24, 2012

Technicolour Dreaming


Beginning with the Psychedelic Furs debut album and a track whose title says it all, we spent the next hour and a half playing songs from various eras and locales, linked in some way by that most elastic of terms, psychedelic!... “The Damned... psych?” you may be thinking, but they proudly wore their 60’s influences... and LeighStarDust’s achingly beautiful version of Brillig’s ‘Weighed Down’? Well, there are those initials! Then there’s the current crop of paisley-patterned popsters worldwide such as Pony Face, Youngteam, the Sun Blindness and the High Dials who are updating that 60’s swirl and jangle for the 21st century... not forgetting the Monkees... or our “band of the month”, XTC in psych-pop disguise... hmmm, not such a stretch after all for the Cat and the Brat....
..... and so here is the playlist.....
the Psychedelic Furs – We Love You      (‘The Psychedelic Furs’ LP 1980 UK)
the Damned – Neat, Neat, Neat      (rec. 1976 on BBC Radio ‘Peel Sessions’ – taken from disc2 of ‘Babylon’s Burning: the Rough’n’Ready Rise of Punk Rawk 1973-1978’ compilation boxset 2007 UK)
Normie Rowe – She Used to Be Mine      (‘It ain’t necessarily so, but it is... Normie Rowe’ LP 1965 Australia)
the Factory – Path Through the Forest      (7”single 1968 UK)
Lloyd’s World – Brass Bird      (7”single 1968 Aust.)
the High Dials – Master of the Clouds      (‘War of the Wakening Phantoms’ 2005 Montreal, Canada)
the Buffalo Springfield – For What It’s Worth      (‘The Buffalo Springfield’ LP 1966 USA/Canada)
LeighStarDust – Weighed Down [Brillig cover]      (‘Fashion’ split EP [with Brillig] 2004 Adelaide, Aust.)
Wooden Wand & the Sky High Band – Sweet Xiao Li      (‘Second Attention’ 2006 USA)
the Allah-Las – Catamaran      (‘The Allah-Las’ 2012 USA)
 
Woods – Find Them Empty      (‘Bend Beyond’ 2012 USA)
Youngteam – Not From Here      (‘Daydreamer’ 2011 Sweden)
the Dandy Warhols – The Autumn Carnival [radio edit]      (CDsingle 2012 USA)
Tame Impala – Nothing That Has Happened So Far Has Been Anything That We Could Control      (‘Lonerism’ 2012 Aust.)
Moon Duo – I Been Gone      (‘Circles’ 2012 California, USA)
Pony Face – Alabama      (‘Hypnotised’ 2012 Melbourne, Aust.)
Ride Into The Sun – Redneck      (demo 2010 Adelaide, Aust.)
Magic Bones – Gouge Out A View      (‘Magic Bones’ EP 2012 Melbourne, Aust.)
the Sunbirds – I Shook      (‘Emergency Christmas’ EP 2012 Adelaide, Aust.)
Buried Feather – Time It Takes      (7”single 2012 Melbourne, Aust.)
the Sun Blindness – Lazy Livin’      (‘Like Pearly Clouds’ 2008 Melbourne, Aust.)
the Monkees – You Told Me      (‘Headquarters’ LP 1967 USA)
the Dukes of Stratosphear – The Affiliated      (‘Psonic Psunspot’ LP 1987 UK)   #
 
      #   “Band of the Month”


Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Obscured By...


This week, we (Michael Hunter, Cat & Brat) played some 60s Asian obscurities that were so rare, we had no details for them at all.  Detective work now reveals their details below!  Equally rare Swedish bands of the era were also featured, and luckily videos of The Tages and Steampacket (no relation to the UK band of that name) were discovered, showing the quality of their work.  We also said goodbye to legendary session man Big Jim Sullivan, and brought things right up to date with music by the Allah-Las and Moon Duo, via strange mash-ups (RIAA) and medleys (Captain Sensible).  All in a day's work for Obscured By...
Treo + 1 – What you gonna do [Small Faces cover]     (unreleased acetate, circa 1966/67 Australia)
the Dymond – Ice Cream Man      (7”single b-side [to Anna J] 1968 Melbourne, Aust.)
Spectrum – Play a song that I know      (7”single b-side [to That’s Alright] 1971 Aust.)
Tully – Sea of Joy, Pt.1      (‘Sea of Joy’ soundtrack LP 1971 Aust.)
the Dedikation – Greenburg, Glickstein, Charles, David Smith & Jones [Cryan’ Shames cover]      (‘The Dedikation’ LP 1969 New Zealand) 
Kassim Slamat & the Swallows – La-Karebna      (‘Kassim Slamat & the Swallows’ EP 1968 Singapore)
the ADD 4 – If Late, It’ll Be Serious      (‘The ADD 4 First Album’ LP 1964 South Korea)
Mike Ibrahim & the Nite Walkers – Gadis Sama Saja      (provenance unknown – circa 1970 Malaysia)
the Pearl Sisters (feat. Shin Joong Hyun) – A Cup of Coffee      (‘Nimah’ LP 1968 South Korea)
Moon Duo – High Over Blue      (one-sided 12”single 2012 California, USA – taken from Australia-only bonus CD with ‘Circles’ 2012 USA)
Allah-Las – Long Journey      (‘Allah-Las’ 2012 California, USA)
‘Big’ Jim Sullivan – She’s Leaving Home [Beatles cover]      (‘Sitar Beat’ LP 1968 UK)
Harry H. Corbett – Like the big guys do       (7”single 1963 UK)
the Rolling Stones – ‘Rice Crispies’ ad      (radio advertisement 1963 UK)
the Bee Gees – Deeply, Deeply Me      (recorded 1967 – previously unreleased bonus track on ‘Horizontal’ re-issue 2006 UK)
Captain Sensible – Damned on 45      (7”single b-side [to Glad It’s All Over] 1984 UK)
Steampacket – Bara ett par dar      (7”single 1966 Sweden)
the Tages – She’s having a baby now      (7”single 1967 Sweden)
the Objections – I’m Through      (7”single b-side [to Your Ever Changin’ Mind] 1967 Sweden)
Steve Croall – Sometimes You Stumbled      (7”single 1966 UK/Sweden)
Youngteam – Your Love      (‘Daydreamer’ 2011 Sweden)
Bubonic Plague (feat. Ariel Pink) – Who’s That Girl [Madonna cover]      (‘through the wilderness: a tribute to Madonna’ compilation 2007 USA)
the Tyde – Hung Up [Madonna cover]      (‘through the wilderness: a tribute to Madonna’ compilation 2007 USA/UK)
the Black Angels – She’s Not There [Zombies cover]      (bonus mp3 download with ‘Watch Out Boy’ 7”single 2012 USA)
RIAA – Johnny SKAsh      (‘Tech-xotica!!’ ‘mash-up’ compilation 2010 USA)
the Fabulon Triptometer – Little Star of Bethlehem [Can cover]      (‘Padded Lounge’ LP 1992 Milwaulkee, USA)

Wednesday, October 17, 2012

Technicolour Dreaming


Sometimes the direction an edition of Technicolour Dreaming takes is as much of a surprise for the announcers as for the listeners! One song suggests another, and before we know it, we’re on a rollercoaster ride of sound! This was such a week, with some of our favourites – Plasticland, Go-Go Sapien, Jacques Dutronc and the Bee Gees for instance - interspersed with oddities – such as a bizarre version Big Star’s Holocaust by Los Bichos – and brand, spanking new releases (from Buried Feather and the Love Parade). A couple of 1980 Adelaide vinyl treasures from Nuvo Bloc and the Noise rounded out a particularly satisfying show! Hope you enjoyed it as much as we did bringing it to you!
.....and here is the playlist.....

801 – Third Uncle      (‘801 Live’ LP 1976 UK)
Plasticland – Iris of the Waterfall [feat. narration by Twink]      (unreleased 7”single b-side [to Seize the Time] 1989 USA – taken from ‘Make Yourself a Happening Machine’ anthology 2006 USA)
Buried Feather – In the Sun      (CD-single 2012 Melbourne, Australia)
Go-Go Sapien – Sick Love       (‘This Body Is Wrong For Us’ 2011 Melbourne, Aust.)
Lene Lovich – Say When      (‘Stateless’ LP 1978 UK)
Der Plan – Persisches Cowboy-Golf      (‘Geri Regi’ LP 1980 Germany)
Jacques Dutronc – Metamorpheses      (‘Jacques Dutronc’ LP 1967 France)
Makers of the Dead Travel Fast – Tael of the Saeghors      (7”single 1980 Sydney, Aust.)
the Sacred Cowboys – Nothing Grows in Texas      (7”single 1982 Melbourne, Aust.)
Machinations – Average Inadequacy      (7”single 1980 Sydney, Aust.)
Nuvo Bloc – Kidney X-Ray      (7”single b-side [to Atomic Fiction] 1980 Adelaide, Aust.)
the Noise – Think About Tomorrow Tomorrow      (7”single 1981 Adelaide, Aust.)
Los Bichos – Holocaust [Big Star cover]      (‘In Bitter Pink’ 1991 Pamplona, Spain – taken from ‘Not the Singer but the Songs: an Alex Chilton Tribute’ compilation 1991 Spain)
Sex Wizards – Freight Train      (‘Grey Matter White Matter’ 2012 Adelaide, Aust.)
the Cramps – Garbage Man      (‘Songs The Lord Taught Us’ LP 1980 USA)
Stu Spasm – Kill Somebody Today      (‘Popular Male Vocal’ EP 2004 USA/Adelaide, Aust.)
the Bee Gees – The Earnest Of Being George      (‘Horizontal’ LP 1967 UK/Aust.)
the Love Parade – Surfin’ NSW      (CD-single 2012 Aust. – from the forthcoming album ‘King Me’)
Thee Mysterious Tapeman – Ace of Spades      (rec. 2006 New Zealand – taken from ‘Antipodean Screams Vol. 2’ compilation 2007 Aust.)
the Medicine – Send the Rain     (‘Psychedelica 4’ compilation 2010 UK)
the Iron Butterfly – Gentle as it may seem     (‘Heavy’ LP 1968 California, USA)
the Seeds – (You’re) Pushin’ Too Hard      (7”single 1965 [re-issued 1966] USA – taken from ‘the Seeds’ LP 1966 Los Angeles, USA)
the Higher State – Yeah For Sure      (‘From Round Here’ 2006 UK)
the Dukes of Stratosphear – Brainiac’s Daughter     (‘Psonic Psunspot’ LP 1987 UK – taken from the ‘XTC as the Dukes of Stratosphear’ boxset 2010 UK)   #
     #   “Band of the Month”
     

Tuesday, October 16, 2012

Obscured By...


Though this week’s hosts, the Cat & the Brat, are a ‘duo’, this show was mostly about singles... the 7” vinyl kind ... and sometimes, their b-sides! From the Syssys and the Revillos to Psychic TV and Metal Urbain, we voyaged from decade to decade and country to country to bring them to you, even including a b-side featuring ubiquitous 60’s Sydney DJ, Ward ‘Pally’ Austin on the debut single by Python Lee Jackson! Not that we forgot the EP and LP formats either, with rarities from the likes of Frog Hollow and the Urinals to the Cosmic Dead and Apryl Fool... and with our predilection for boxsets, how could we fail to play a selection from “the Lost Tapes” set by Can? All in all, a singular show...
(NB: a couple of videos wouldn't allow embedding, so please use the provided links instead!)
..... and here is the playlist..... 
the Imagination – We Got Fun      (7”single b-side [to A Day in the Life] 1969 Australia)
Frog Hollow – A Slowish One      (‘Over Under Sideways Down’ 7”EP 1972 Aust.)
Alison Gros –Weaver of Life      (7”single b-side [to All the Days] 1971 Adelaide, Aust.)
the Syssys – Take a Heart      (7”single b-side [to Jump Back] 1966 Adelaide, Aust.)
Marty Rhone – No No No No No      (7”single 1967 Aust.)
Ward Austin (with Python Lee Jackson) – Who Do You Love [Bo Diddley cover]      (7”single b-side [to Python Lee Jackson-Emergency Ward] 1966 Sydney, Aust.)
Felt – Sunlight Bathed The Golden Glow      (‘The Strange Idols Pattern & Other Short Stories’ LP 1984 UK)
Psychic TV – Just Drifting      (7”single 1982 UK)
Hurrah! – Sweet Sanity      (7” single 1986 UK)
Skeletal Family – Promised Land      (7”single 1985 West Yorkshire, UK)
the Urinals – I’m a Bug      (‘Another EP’ EP 1978 Los Angeles, USA)
Sunglasses After Dark – Morbid Silence      (12”single 1984 UK – taken from ‘Sunglasses After Dark’ 2008)
Metal Urbain – Hysterie Connective      (7”single 1978 France/UK – taken from ‘Anarchy in Paris’ anthology 2004)
Can – Bubble Rap      (‘The Lost Tapes’ boxset 2012 Germany – disc 1)
Can – Your Friendly Neighbourhood Whore      (‘The Lost Tapes’ boxset – disc 2)
Can – One More Saturday Night      (‘The Lost Tapes’ boxset – disc 3)
Apryl Fool – The Lost Motherland Part 1      (‘Apryl Fool’ LP 1969 Japan)
Pierrot Lumiere – Narciso      (‘Pierrot Lumiere’ LP 1974 Italy)
the Revillos – Scuba Scuba      (7”single 1980 UK)
the Psychedelic Aliens – Gbe Keke Wo Taoo [Give us a chance]      (rec. 1975 Ghana – taken from ‘Psycho African Beat’ anthology  2010)
the Music Convention – Bellyboard Beat      (‘Children of the Sun’ soundtrack EP 1968 New Zealand)
the Grim Reepers – Two Souls      (7”single 1966 California, USA)
Plasticland – Let’s Play Pollyanna      (7”single 1990 Wisconsin, USA)
the Misunderstood – I Can Take You To The Sun      (7”single 1966 UK/USA)
Big Boy Peter – Cold Turkey      (7”single 1968 Norwich, UK)
the Cosmic Dead – White Rabbit      (‘The Cosmic Dead’ LP 2012 Iceland)

Wednesday, October 10, 2012

Technicolour Dreaming


Stormy weather here in South Australia over the past week or so, and a fallen tree knocking over powerlines in downtown Stepney, caused 3D Radio to go off-air for a while during this week’s show. What? No back-ups we hear you ask? Errrr, well, they failed also.... so it was a truncated edition alas, yet we still managed to fit in some new music, including a song from the Aves brand new EP [recorded in New York] and the soon-to-be-released vinyl single from Buried Feather [their launch show with TD faves the Sun Blindness at the Old Bar in Melbourne on October 27th sounds like the place to be if you’re in the vicinity!] plus an as-yet-unreleased track from the Citradels. There was also a song from the new White Fence double LP (produced by Ty Segall) plus of course some 60’s gems... but then all too soon, it was time for our “Band of the Month”, the Dukes of Stratosphear, and the end of the show! Hopefully we’ll be powering back to full length next Wednesday.....
..... so here is the playlist..... 

Singapore Sling – Overdriver      (‘The Curse of Singapore Sling’ 2003 Iceland)
X-Ray Spex – I am a Poseur      (‘Germ-Free Adolescents’ LP 1978 UK)
the Electric Prunes – I       (‘Underground’ LP 1967 USA)
the Beatles – Blue Jay Way      (‘Magical Mystery Tour’ double EP 1967 UK)
                 Off-Air   [Power Failure / Blackout in Stepney]
the Church – The Unguarded Moment      (7”single 1980 Australia)
Buried Feather – Time It Takes      (7”single 2012 Melbourne, Aust.)
the Aves – In Vogue      (‘Anywhere Else’ EP 2012 Adelaide, Aust.)
King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard – Sam Cherry’s Last Shot      (’12 Bar Bruise’ 2012 Melbourne, Aust.)
the Murlocs – Tee Pee      (‘Tee Pee’ EP 2012 Melbourne, Aust.)
the Syssys – Jump Back      (7”single 1966 Adelaide, Aust.)
the Hergs – Cadillac [Vince Taylor cover]       (7”single 1967 Adelaide, Aust.)
the Citradels – John Cage, Play Nice With That Sword      (mp3 2012 Melbourne, Aust.)
White Fence – Waking Up Is Confusing      (‘White Fence and Family/Perfume Vols.1&2’ double LP 2012 California, USA)
the Dukes of Stratosphear (XTC) – Mole from the Ministry      (’25 O’Clock’ EP 1986 UK)   #
     #   “Band of the Month”

Tuesday, October 9, 2012

Obscured By...



Featuring The Damned as the psychedelic group Naz Nomad & the Nightmares, from an album purporting to be the soundtrack of a non-existant film.  Also starring a rare orchestrated Fraternity B-side, some Moving Parts and a Radioactive Sandwich.  Ably supported by The Searchers, Nico and rare Australian power pop from the abysmally named but somewhat groovy Beaut.  International stars included Singapore Sling, the Golden Earrings, Pussycat and the interestingly named Ladies WC.  All this and more, produced by Michael Hunter, Cat & Brat dot dot dot.
 
Drummond – For You Blue      (7”single 1970 Adelaide, Australia)
Phil Jones & the Unknown Blues – Brave New World  (Of Fairy Tales)    (7”single 1969 Sydney, Aust.)
Fraternity – Raglan’s Folly      (7”single b-side [to If You Got It] 1971 Adelaide, Aust.)
Esperanto – Publicity      (7”single 1973 Aust./UK)
Beaut – Goodbye Judy      (7”single 1976 Melbourne, Aust.)
the Citradels – John Cage, Play Nice With That Sword      (mp3 demo 2012 Melbourne, Aust.)
Buried Feather – Maybe      (7”single b-side [to Time It Takes] 2012 Melbourne, Aust.)
Radioactive Sandwich – Sullen Choirboy      (‘Mirage’ 2012 Philadelphia, USA)
Nico – Saeta      (12”single 1979 UK)
Jory Nodland & Harry Slottag – Theory of Colour      (‘Bess Rothman’s Charm with Cents’ LP 1960’s? [date unknown] USA)
David Arvedon – Eliot Ness      (‘In Search of the Most Unforgettable Tree We Ever Met [1967-‘74]’ anthology 1996 USA)
Moving Parts – Anti-Aircraft Warning       (‘Wrong Conclusion’ LP 1978 USA)
the Space Negros – Happenings Ten Years Time Ago (Revisited) [Yardbirds cover]      (‘The Space Negros Go Commercial’ EP 1984 USA)
the Space Negros – Man To Man      (‘The Space Negros Dig Archaeology Vol.2 [1975-‘86]’ anthology 1992 USA)
Naz Nomad & the Nightmares – The Trip [Kim Fowley/Fire Escape cover]      (‘Give Daddy The Knife Cindy’ LP 1984 UK)
the Golden Earrings – That Day      (7”single 1966 Holland)
the Pussycats – The Craftsmen      (7”single 1966 Norway)
the Motions – For Another      (7”single 1965 Holland)
the Amen Corner – Gin House Blues      (orig. 7”single 1967 Wales, UK – ‘live 1965’ version taken from ‘The Very Best of...’ anthology 1999 UK)
the Cyrkle – Turn Down Day      (7”single 1966 USA)
the Metronomes – Psychotic reaction [Count Five cover]      (recorded 1982, unreleased – taken from ‘Ash Wednesday & Friends- Love & Other Numbers 1980-1984’ anthology 2012 Aust.)
White Fence – Balance Your Heart      (‘White Fence and Family/Perfume Vol. 1&2’ 2012 California, USA)
the Searchers – Umbrella Man      (7”single 1968 UK)
Dave Christie – Penelope Breedlove      (7”single 1968 UK)
Ladies W.C. – I’m Gonna Be      (‘Ladies W.C.’ LP 1969 Venezuala)
Singapore Sling – Roadkill      (‘The Curse of Singapore Sling’ 2003 Iceland)
the Leathercoated Minds – Psychotic Reaction [Count Five cover]      (‘A Trip Down The Sunset Strip’ LP 1967 California, USA)
Chetarca – Diary      (‘Chetarca’ LP 1975 Melbourne, Aust.)