Technicolour Dreaming

After last week’s ‘technical difficulties’, it was a pleasure to have a veteran of the Adelaide music scene, Vic Conrad [aka Mr V] join us in the studio for a chat about Gray Packham’s new album ‘La La Land’, the latest release from one of his ventures, Walking Bird Records. The album will be launched at the Grace Emily Hotel on Sunday afternoon with performances by most of the musicians involved, both individually and playing Gray’s songs, and should prove to be one of this year’s live musical highlights, so get along if you can. We also featured a number of other Australian releases including those of Melbourne psychedelicists the Grand Rapids, Davey Lane’s new E.P. and the latest compilation from Geelong’s prolific Anti-Fade Records. We also played the A-side of the debut single by our Finnish faves Permanent Clear Light on the wonderful vinyl-only Fruits De Mer label, presented in a 3D pic-sleeve [glasses included!] as well as a slice of dreamy pop from the UK’s Amor De Dias plus, as always, a bunch of 60’s psychedelic rarities from bands such as Pisces, the Golden Dawn and Austria’s Hide & Seek. So, until next week.....

..... here is the playlist plus some eye-candy.....

the Locked Ward – Breaker of Lives & Souls      (“Voyages into the Inner Psych of the Locked Ward” 2011 UK)

Bruner [aka Pisces] – Sam      (7”single 1968 USA – taken from “Pisces: A Lovely Sight” anthology 2012 USA)

the Wondermints – Truth or Consequences      (recorded 1992 – taken from “Kaleidoscopin’: Exploring Prisms of the Past” anthology 2009 USA)

the Strange Flowers – Mars Behind Your Eyes      (“Ortoflorovivaistica” 2006 Italy)

Hide & Seek – Riven Street      (7”single b-side [ of The Beggar of St. Pair] 1970 Austria)

Gift of Love [aka the Atlantics] – Flowers      (7”single 1967 Australia)

the Intercontinental Playboys – Can’t Find My Mind [Cramps cover]      (7”vinyl split-E.P. with “Larsen Magazine #19”  2004 France)

Davey Lane – You Got Me On Side      (“The Good Borne of Bad Tymes” EP 2013 Australia)

Jacco Gardner – Help Me Out      (“Cabinet of Curiosities” 2013 Holland)

Rasputin & the Mad Monks – Too Much to Dream Last Night [Electric Prunes cover]      (7”single 1968 Massachusetts, USA)

the Grand Rapids – Blow Up      (“Great Shakes” 2013 Melbourne, Australia)

Demons of Negativity – Resurrection      (7”single 1988 Boston, USA)

Sic Alps – Drink Up!      (“Sic Alps” 2012 USA)

the Deep Six – What Would You Wish from the Golden Fish?      (7”single 1966 California, USA)

White Fence – Run Run Run [Velvet Underground cover]      (“The Velvet Underground & Nico by Castleface Records and Friends” tribute compilation LP 2012 California, USA)

Permanent Clear Light – Higher Than The Sun      (7”single 2013 Finland)

the Golden Dawn – Starvation      (“Power Plant” LP 1968 Texas, USA)

Tommy James & the Shondells – Crystal Blue Persuasion      (“Crimson & Clover” LP 1969 USA)

Fantastic Zoo – Light Show      (7”single 1967 California, USA)

the Baroques – Musical Tribute to the Oscar Meyer Weiner Wagon      (7”single 1967 Chicago, USA)

the Jigsaw Seen – Choreography Killed the Cat      (“Bananas Foster” 2010 USA)

the Stevens – Elpho Beach      (“New Centre of the Universe Vol.2” compilation 2013 Geelong, Australia)

the Apples in Stereo – Behind the Waterfall      (7”single b-side [to Everybody Let Up] 2000 USA)

Amor De Dias – Viento del Mar      (“The House at Sea” 2013 USA)

Gray Packham – Lincoln Told Me / The Way I Am      (“La La Land” 2013 Adelaide, Australia)