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...
Technicolour Dreaming had a rest this week, as it was time for Three D Radio'sTop 100+1 countdown, which is held on the Australia Day public holiday each year, and features 12 hours of the most-played new releases for 2015, and interviews with local bands. Three D announcers get to choose the music that they play, as there are no set playlists, so the countdown features a very diverse range of musical styles, and a very high proportion of local Adelaide artists.
So it was into this musical maelstrom that I was thrown, with co-announcer Jamie (from Thursday's excellent drive-time show "Follow the Sound") at the controls, to interview 11 of the 16 bands that fell into our 2-4pm time-slot. Much chaos and hilarity ensued, with a revolving door of musicians coming and going - before we knew it, our 2 hours was over, and it was time for a well deserved beer!
I've included clips for as many of the Adelaide bands that I can find - some aren't for the song that we played, but will give you an idea of their style of music. Enjoy!
38: William Street Strikers - No Surrender ("Nothing's Going On" 2015 Adelaide, Australia)
37: The Clangers - I Live My Life That Way ("The Clangers" 2015 Adelaide, Australia)
36: Goldstein - King Muck ("Playing Dog" 2015 Adelaide, Australia)
34: Andy and Marta - She's Coming Home ("Dressed in Blue" 2015 Adelaide, Australia)
33: The Violet Crams - We Drip From the Mezzanine ("Cram It In Ya" 2015 Adelaide,
Australia)
32: Rule of Thirds - Pleasure Hive ("Rule of Thirds" 2015 Adelaide, Australia)
31: Squeaker - Solitude ("In Love / In Madness" 2015 Adelaide, Australia)
30: Thee Oh Sees - Withered Hand ("Mutilator Defeated at Last" 2015 Los Angeles, USA)
29: Fiendish Cavendish - Junkyard Dog ("Aim Low and Hit" 2015 Adelaide, Australia)
28: The Dagoes - Kids Got Style ("Supreme" [reissue with bonus tracks] 2015 Adelaide,
Australia)
27: Thanes -Kingdom of the Nobots ("Let All The Poisons That Lurk In The Mud Hatch Out" 2015 Adelaide, Australia)
26: Courtney Barnett - Dead Fox ("Sometimes I Sit and Think, Sometimes I Just Sit" 2015 Melbourne, Australia)
25: Flangipanis - Getting Shit for Free ("Gouge Out Your Eyes" 2015 Brisbane, Australia)
24: The Saucermen - Voodoo Stomp / Black Sheep ("Fangs" 2015 Adelaide, Australia)
23: Rapid Transport - Dolatov's T ("In Transit" 2015 Adelaide, Australia)
And for the full listing of the chart, as well as photos of the fun and mayhem had by all at the Top 100+1, take a look at Three D Radio's Facebook page . Thanks also to Spoz, ranter about Adelaide music extraordinaire, for a couple of the clips that I've used this week.
And to finish things off, here's a photo of a very sun-burnt Megan Cat, and the back of Jamie's head, interviewing The Clangers. Thanks to Michael Hunter for the picture!
I always try to cover as much ground, globally-speaking, as possible -
this week's offerings included music from Israel, Japan, Russia, France, Iceland,
and the Netherlands, and of course the USA, UK, and Australia,
including several tracks from the home of Three D Radio,
Adelaide, Australia.
So here's the play-list, plus quite a few clips for your visual edification...
The Churchills - So Alone Today / Debka ("Churchills" LP 1969 Tel Aviv, Israel)
David Bowie - Speed of Life ("Low" LP 1977 UK)
Subtract-S - Mb Ph ("Love From Outer Space" 2012 Adelaide, Australia)
Nuvo Bloc - Western Drugs (demo 1981 Adelaide, Australia)
Exhibit A - Confusion (demo 1982 Adelaide, Australia)
Kikagaku Moyo - Streets of Calcutta ("Forest of Lost Children" LP 2014 Japan)
Sun Dial - Let It Go ("Fazer" EP 1992 UK)
Polska Radio One - Time Eternity ("Cosmos Inside" 2013 Yekaterinburg, Russia)
White Fence - Wolf Gets Red Faced ("For the Recently Found Innocent" 2014 Los Angeles UK)
Soft Hearted Scientists - At Night the Quarry Glows Like A Mother Ship
("Uncanny Tales From the Everyday Undergrowth" 2016 UK)
Liverpool Scene - Batpoem ("Amazing Adventures Of..." LP 1968 UK )
Jacques Dutronc - Hippie Hippie Hourrah (7" single 1968 France)
Balthazar - La Marche Des Travailleurs (7" single 1968 France)
Jane et Julie [Barry Green]- Notre homme a moi (7"single b-side [to "Boomerang"] 1972 France)
Mandrake Paddle Steamer - Strange Walking Man (7" single 1969 UK)
The Brian Jonestown Massacre - Mandrake Handshake ("Thingy-Wingy" Mini-Album 2015 USA)
Dead Skeletons - Dead is God ("Orð" 2012 Reykjavík, Iceland)
Royal Chant - Dick Move ("War Cry of Failure" 2015 Sydney, Australia)
Tooth and Tusk - Nothing Makes Sense (CD Single 2015 Melbourne, Australia)
David Bowie - Pictures of Lily ("Substitute -The Songs of the Who" compilation 2001 UK)
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - Paper Mache Dream Balloon ("Paper Mache Dream Balloon" 2015
Sydney, Australia)
The Mynd Gardeners - Where Tomorrow Lands ("The Acyd Raindrop Umbrella" 2012 Adelaide, Australia)
The Salt - Lucifer (7" single 1968 USA)
Moon Duo - Mazes ("Mazes" 2011 San Francisco USA)
Frowning Clouds - Do Like Me ("Listen Closlier" 2009 Geelong, Australia)
The Mops - Inside Looking Out ("Psychedelic Sounds in Japan" LP 1968 Japan)
The Molting Vultures - It's What I Wanted ("Drop In and Go" 2009 Adelaide, Australia)
Adjeef the Poet - Iekk! (Eek!), I'm a.... Freak (7" single 1967, The Netherlands)
The Sand Pebbles - All My Life (I Love You) ("Ghost Transmissions" 2004 Australia)
The Break - Cylinders ("Church of the Open Sky" 2010 Australia)
Just when you think that the recent spate of musical heroesdeparting this earth has abated, along comes a very big lightning bolt from the blue - David Bowie has joined them. Not a promising start for the year, but a fitting reason to re-listen to Bowie's collected works, and play some favourites on the radio. Indeed, on the day in question, by the time 1pm had rolled around, there had been a massive 29Bowietracks aired, with not a single repetition amongst them! Just goes to show that Bowie's different stylistic twists and turns appealed to a very wide range of fans over the years. Sadly, so many inspirational musicians are approaching an age where their mortality is becoming more and more apparent - as a friend recently wrote, someone should go find Keith Richards and roll him up in bubble-wrap, pronto!
..and here's the playlist for this week's show, clips and all...David Bowie - Scream Like a Baby ("Scary Monsters" LP 1980 UK)
Vespero - Scream thy Last Scream [Pink Floyd] ("A Momentary Lapse of Vinyl" 2014 Russia)
Soft Hearted Scientists - Mount Palomar ("Uncanny Tales from the Everyday Undergrowth" 2015 reissue Wales UK)
Wild Pink Yonder - Two of a Kind [Syd Barrett] ("A Momentary Lapse of Vinyl" 2014 UK)
Crystal Jacqueline - Somebody to Love [Jefferson Airplane] ("Sun Arise" 2015 UK)
Soft Hearted Scientists - Diving Bell ("Uncanny Tales from the Everyday Undergrowth" 2015reissue Wales UK)
