Technicolour Dreaming

Former Obscured by... and now occasional Technicolour Dreaming co-host, Michael Hunter, joined Peter Brat in the studio this week [while the Cat was away...] and brought in some obscure treats for our aural enjoyment, including a compilation of 70’s European glam and another of 60’s garage punk from Sacramento which included a 1966 version of ‘She’s a Mod’, which in Australia & New Zealand was a big hit for Ray Columbus in 1965. The name of the band doing this version? The Mods, of course! He also dredged up an instructional promo for the ARP synthesiser company, narrated by Roger Powell, who went on to play with Todd Rundgren’s Utopia amongst others. Then of course there were some newer goodies to play, including recently released mp3 tracks from the See See and the Barbarellatones plus a cool new song from the legendary Petula Clark, now in her 80^th year – great stuff! As well there was a song from Dutch band DeWolff who are touring Australia in March and one from the latest album by Irish psych-poppers, Pugwash. Throw in a few Australian tracks from the 70’s, some Paul & Linda McCartney [enjoy the doco about RAM from 1971 we’ve included] and a surfeit of other good sounds, finishing with Eternal Tapestry, whose new album should be in our hands by next week... and then it was over! Sadly, this was the last edition to be broadcast from our long-time studios in the iconic "brownstone house in Stepney". From next week onwards, we will be bringing you our show from the new 3D Radio studios in leafy suburban St Peters.... so stay tuned!

..... and so here is the playlist.....

DeWolff – Silver Love Machine         (‘Strange Fruits and Undiscovered Plants’ 2009 Netherlands)

Snibbo – Bazooka        (7”single 1973 Canberra, Australia)

Plague, Ltd – So Cold         (7”single 1966 Sacramento, USA)

Gear One – Alimony         (7”single 1966 Sacramento, USA)

the Mods – She’s A Mod        (7”single 1966 Sacramento, USA)

the Unfolding – Prana         (‘How to Blow Your Mind and Have a Freakout Party’ LP 1967  USA)

Paul & Linda McCartney – Smile Away        (‘Ram’ LP 1971 UK)

Roger Powell & The ARP Family – instruction disc        (‘The ARP Family of Synthesisers’ promotional LP  1972 USA)

the Monkees – Daily Nightly         (7”single 1967 USA)

Pugwash – There You Are        (‘The Olympus Sound’ 2012 Ireland)

Ant-Bee – Love Is Only Sleeping [Monkees cover]         (‘Lunar Muzik’ 1996 USA)     

Petula Clark – Cut Copy Me         (mp3 single 2012 UK)

Blue Vamp – Jolly Dolly         (7”single 1974 France)

Tears – Ooh Lah        (7”single 1974 Sweden)

the Killer – Say Goodbye         (7”single 1975 Netherlands)

Revolver – I’m Down [Beatles cover]        (7”single b-side [to Imagine] 1969 Israel)

Ram and Sel (aka Ramases & Selket -?) – Screw You        (7”single 1970 UK)

Status Quo – Lonely Night          (7”single b-side [to Break the Rules] 1974 UK)

Headband – Stay With Me         (7”single b-side [to Country Lady] 1973 Adelaide, Australia)

Dr Feelgood – Going Back Home       (‘Stupidity’ LP 1976 UK)

the Barbarellatones – Baby Wants a Corndog         (mp3, 2012 USA)

the See See – The Rain and the Snow         (mp3, 2013 UK)

the Grip Weeds – Edge of Forever         (orig. from ‘House of Vibes’ LP 1994, remixed in 2007 – taken from ‘Infinite Soul: the Best of the Grip Weeds’ 2012 USA)

the Turtles – Guide for the Married Man         (7”single 1968 USA)

the Turtles – Chevrolet Camero Commercial         (recorded 1968 USA)

Eternal Tapestry – Prism Light Traveller         (rec. 2012 USA – taken from ‘Yeti 7’ magazine cover-mount CD 2012 USA)

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Regular listeners to our shows will be aware that we are rather fond of boxsets and compilations of obscurities and this week we had a couple of new ones to plunder. We were excited to find a new addition to the wonderful ‘Electric Psychedelic Sitar Headswirlers’ series, now up to Volume Eleven, playing tracks from disparate locales such as Indonesia, the USA and Holland. We also got our hands on the new 5-CD boxset edition of the long-running ‘Electric Sound Show’ compilation LP series featuring obscure psychedelia found worldwide from the 1960’s (plus a few from the early 70’s) for our delectation! We only got it last week and have yet to hear it all, but played a few of the songs which have grabbed our attention so far, particularly tracks such as the very odd, lone single by Me Myself & Eye... very strange indeed! For our penultimate track, we played Adelaide’s own Fluffy as a ‘taster’ for 3D Radio’s annual TOP 101 which is being held on Monday 28^th January, with the Cat & the Brat hosting the 2-4pm slot... so tune in and hear the most played artists heard on 3D Radio in 2012, the bulk of whom are local Adelaide talent...

..... until then, here is the playlist for the 22^nd January edition of Technicolour Dreaming.....

the Hollies – Water on the Brain      (‘Evolution’ LP 1967 UK)

Sir Richard Bishop – Sidi Masour      (‘The Freak of Araby’ LP 2009 USA)

Eternal Tapestry – Galactic Derelict      (‘Beyond the 4^th Door’ 2011 Oregon, USA)

Jason Lytle – Your Final Setting Sun      (‘Dept. of Disappearance’ 2012 USA)

Sparkspitter – Fearsplishing      (cd-single 2012 Adelaide, Australia)

FEARSPLISHING from sparkspitter on Vimeo.

Earth – The Rakehead      (‘Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light II’ LP 2012 USA)

Fripp & Eno – Swastika Girls [excerpt]      (‘(No Pussyfooting)’ LP 1973 UK)

the Flower Machine – Blown      (‘Lavender Lane’ 2010 Los Angeles, USA)

Gary Knight – World, 2000      (7”single b-side [to Greta Green Grass] 1967 UK – taken from ‘Electric Sound Show: an Assortment of Antiquities for the Psychedelic Connoisseur’  5-CD boxset compilation 2012 UK)

Paisley Patterns – Doomsday Plus One      (7”single 1968 Hollywood, USA)

Owl – Aunt Cate is Dead      (7”single b-side [to The World Keeps Turning] 1971 Massachusetts, USA)

Me Myself & Eye – I Come from the Andromeda Galaxy [A Pioneer in Celestial Music]      (7”single 1969 California, USA)

Oxford Watchband – Diagnosis (One Way Empty and Down)      (7”single 1969 Rochester, USA)

the Panbers- Rock & the Sea      (‘Sound 2’ LP 1972 Sumatra, Indonesia – taken from ‘Electric Psychedelic Sitar Headswirlers, volume eleven’ compilation 2012 UK)

the David – People Saying, People Doing      (7”single 1967 California, USA)

the Whatt Four – Dandelion Wine      (7”single 1967 California, USA)

Sagittarius – Glass      (‘Present Tense’ LP 1968 Los Angeles, USA)

Shocking Blue – Acka Raga      (‘Scorpio’s Dance’ LP 1970 Holland)

the Spazzys – Dissolution [is the only solution]      (‘Dumb Is Forever’ 2012 Melbourne, Australia)

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

the Len Price 3 – Mourn, My Health      (‘Rentacrowd’ LP 2008 UK)

Ty Segall – The Hill      (‘Twins’ 2012 California, USA)

Blank Realm – Working on Love      (‘Go Easy’ 2012 Brisbane, Australia)

Useless Eaters – Addicted to the Blade      (7”single 2012 USA)

Smith Westerns – Weekend      (‘Dye It Blonde’ 2010 USA)

the Psychedelic Furs – Mack the Knife [Kurt Weill cover]      (7”single b-side [to Pretty In Pink] 1981 UK)

Tin Tin – She Said Ride      (‘Toast & Marmalade For Tea’ LP 1971 Australia)

Paul Roland – The Puppet Master      (recorded 1980 Denmark – released on ‘The League of Psychedelic Gentlemen’ split-EP 2012 UK)

the Unspoken Things – Puppets      (‘Bourbon Eyes’ cd-EP 2005 Adelaide, Australia)

the Green Mist – Roadside Graves      (‘Next Stop Antartica’ LP 2007 Australia/Spain)

Fluffy – Textas & Chocolate Cake      (‘A Rock’n’Roll Opera’ cd-EP 2012 Adelaide, Australia)

Zacharias & the Tree People – We’re All Paul Bearers [Part 1]      (‘I Buried Paul’ compilation 2005 USA) 

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The third show of the year and we’re getting a feel for this ‘amalgamation of two shows into one’ thingee! There was current stuff from bands such as the Surf Zombies, Earth and Japandroids, a selection of 60’s music ranging from the Byrds to Svensk to the Brain [a pre-Giles, Giles & Fripp project by the Giles brothers], and a plethora of tracks in between from artists such as Echo & the Bunnymen, Wooden Shjips, Suede, Tyrnaround, Jennifer Gentle, Custard and T.Rex. Our feature this week was a 7”EP from the Fruits de Mer label called The League of Psychedelic Gentlemen, consisting of a track each by four such gentlemen, including nick nicely and Anton Barbeau... we’ll be playing the other two next week! We finished the show with the 1999 single by Jason Falkner which, in a just world, would have been a huge hit, but in this one was torpedoed by ‘major label’ shenanigans... his back catalogue is well worth checking out as he writes and plays great pop music, in the classic sense of the word!

.....So here is the playlist and a few clips to whet your interest.....

Jennifer Gentle – Couple in Bed by a Green Flashing Light      (‘Funny Creatures Lane’ LP 2002 Italy – taken from ‘Ectoplasmic Garden Party’ anthology 2003 Italy)

Tyrnaround – Carroll by Candlelight      (‘Colour Your Mind’ EP 1986 Australia)

Svensk – Dream Magazine      (7”single 1967 UK)

Procession – Mind Magician      (‘Procession’ LP 1968 Australia/UK)

the Dave Miller Set – Mr Guy Fawkes      (7”single 1969 New Zealand/Australia)

the Brain – Nightmares in Red      (7”single b-side [to Kick the Donkey] 1967 UK)

Earth – Father Midnight      (‘Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light, Vol.1’ 2011 USA)

Custard – A View to a Kill [Duran Duran cover]      (‘Undone: Songs of Duran Duran’ compilation 1999 Australia)

British Sea Power – Tugboat [Galaxie 500 cover]      (‘Rough Trade - Stop Me If You’ve Heard This One Before’ compilation 2003 UK)

Melody’s Echo Chamber – I Follow You      (‘Melody’s Echo Chamber’ 2012 France/Australia)

 

Rhubarb Rhubarb – Rainmaker      (7”single 1968 UK)

Timberjack Donaghue – Dahli Mohammed      (7”single 1970 New Zealand)

the Byrds – Natural Harmony      (‘The Notorious Byrd Brothers’ LP 1968 USA)

the Surf Zombies – Flat Black      (‘Lust For Rust’  2012 Iowa, USA – taken from ‘Continental Magazine #20’ cover-mount CD 2012 USA)

the Dead Rocks – La Terrible Maldicion de Tutenkamon      (‘One Million Dollar Surf Band’ 2008 Sao Carlo, Brazil)

Y Niwl – Dauddegpump      (‘Y Niwl 4’ EP 2012 Gwynned, Wales, UK)

 Japandroids – For the Love of Ivy [Gun Club cover]      (‘Celebration Rock’ 2012 USA)

 

T.Rex – Ripoff      (‘Electric Warrior’ LP 1971 London, UK)

the Barbarellatones – White Light, White Heat [Velvet Underground cover]      (‘The Sound of Love’ 2012 USA)

nick nicely – Rosemary’s Eyes      (‘The League of Psychedelic Gentlemen’ split-EP 2012 UK/USA/France)

Wooden Shjips – Out of my Head      (recorded 2009 – taken from ‘Yeti 7’ magazine cover-mount CD 2009 USA)

the House of Love – Christine      (‘House of Love’ LP 1988 UK)

Suede – The Drowners      (‘Suede’ LP 1993 UK)

Echo & the Bunnymen – Crocodiles      (‘Crocodiles’ LP 1980 UK)

Crocodiles – My Surfing Lucifer      (‘Endless Flowers’ 2012 USA)

Anton Barbeau & the Three Minute Tease – When I Was 46 [In The Year 13]      (‘The League of Psychedelic Gentlemen’ split-EP 2012 UK/USA/France)

Jason Falkner – Holiday      (7”single 1999 USA)

 

Technicolour Dreaming

Some new, some old, some local, others from....Iceland? Yes, another trip into the psychedelic, the garage, the punk and even the ‘80’s from anywhere/anytime with the Cat & the Brat on this week’s show. Of particular note were new albums from Clinic, Toy & Melody’s Echo Chamber – all no doubt will be receiving further examination in weeks to come! And as today was the birthday for Elvis, Bowie and Dot from Almost Numan, we naturally had to give them a celebratory spin... especially with the news of a new record from David being imminent at last. On a sadder note, we noted the passing of Lee Dorman, bassist with Iron Butterfly during their prime, so just had to play a song from their oft-overlooked early period. Throw in a few covers, some ‘previously unreleased’ gems [including the full version of the theme song from an iconic Australian surf movie], and lots more... and that’s Technicolour Dreaming for another week!  Check out the clips we’ve found, and dig in......

...... here’s the playlist for 8^th January.....

the Sunsets – Hot Generation [full soundtrack version]       (rec. 1967 but unreleased – taken from ‘Down Under Nuggets: Original Australian Artyfacts 1965-1967’ compilation 2012 Australia)

Marty Rhone & the Soul Agents – Every Minute of You      (7”single 1966 Brisbane, Australia)

the Showmen – So Far Away      (7”single 1965 Sydney, Aust.)

Colin Buckley – Little Egypt [Elvis Presley cover]      (7”single 1966 Aust.)

David Bowie – Five Years      (‘Ziggy Stardust & the Spiders From Mars’ LP 1972 UK)

Almost Numan – We Are So Fragile [Gary Numan cover]      (‘Almost Numan : “OFF” side-1: covers’ 2011 Adelaide, Aust.)

Iron Butterfly – Unconscious Baby      (‘Heavy’ LP 1968 USA)

Melody’s Echo Chamber – Be Proud of Your Kids      (‘Melody’s Echo Chamber’ 2012 France/Australia)

Tenniscoats – Karogari Mario      (‘All Aboard!’ 2012 Japan)

Cosmic Dead – The White Rabbit      (rec. live in Scotland 2010 Iceland)

Fursaxa – Tyranny      (‘Amulet’ 2005 USA)

Clinic – See Saw      (‘Free Reign’ 2012 UK)

the Black Angels – Entrance Song (Rain Dance version)      (‘Phosgene Nightmare’ 10”EP 2011 Texas, USA)

the Sisters of Mercy – This Corrosion      (7”single 1987 UK)

Toy – Motoring      (‘Toy’ 2012 UK)

Beach House – Lazuli      (‘Bloom’ 2012 USA)

Marc Almond – Late Night [Syd Barrett cover]      (‘Mojo: the Madcap Laughs Again’ – Mojo magazine covermount-cd 2009 UK)

Gravenhurst – Only a Northern Song [Beatles cover]      (‘Mojo: Yellow Submarine ReSurfaces’ – Mojo magazine covermount-cd 2012 UK)

Suzi Chunk – Got Any Mantras?      (‘Girl From the Neck Down’ LP 2012 Wales, UK)

Knowbody Else – Secret Storm      (rec. 1967 but unreleased – taken from ‘Feeling High : the Psychedelic Sound of Memphis’ compilation 2012 USA)

July – Dandelion Seeds      (7”single 1967 UK)

the Chosen Few – Is This a Dream      (7”single 1966 Adelaide, Aust.)

the Sunnyboys – You Need a Friend      (7”single 1982 Sydney, Aust.)

the Church – Almost With You      (‘The Blurred Crusade’ LP 1982 Aust.)

Tommy Boyce & Bobby Hart – Words [demo]      (rec. 1965 but unreleased – taken from ‘Where the Action Is!  Los Angeles Nuggets 1965-1968’ compilation boxset 2009 USA)

Woods – Cali in a Cup      (‘Bend Beyond’ 2012 USA)