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...
Tuesday, March 22, 2016
Technicolour Dreaming
Well, this is the 350th post on The Cat and The Brat blog, which has been going since January 2011, with early posts only consisting of a playlist, but gradually with video clips, and full release details being added along the way. Except for the short period when the Brat was unable to do the show, and until my return to radio after his passing, the Brat and I posted every week since that first attempt, with co-hosts Michael Hunter and Harry keeping things going when I've had to take a rare week off.
My silent current co-host, Harry, seems to have an uncanny knack of picking tracks for the second half of the show, that I was intending to play the following week, making my job all the trickier, but increasing your listening pleasure! It's always interesting to see whatHarry will come up with (Harry doesn't like pronouncing French and Swedish track names, hence the silence)...but I digress... anyway, here is the playlist for this week's show - and enjoy your Easter break, if you get one!
Tara King th - Il en aura du temps ("Hirondelle Et Beretta" 2013 France)
Tara King th - Pretty Mess ("Extravagant, Grotesque and Nonchalant" 2008 France)
Sky Picnic - 14 Hour Technicolour Dream [The Syn] ("Active Listener: Nuggets II Revisited" 2015 Brooklyn, New York USA)
Sudden Death of Stars - Why Won't You Try ("All Unrevealed Parts Of The Unknown" 2014 Brittany, France)
Sultan Bathery - Fog ("Manimal-Lingam" 7" EP 2012 Vicenza, Italy)
Paul Roland - Born in the 60's ("Bitter and Twisted" 2015 UK)
The Buzzcocks - Autonomy ("Another Music in a Different Kitchen" 1978 Manchester, UK)
Jerome and the Psychics - No Stone Unturned ("Money Is Violence" 2014 Brazil/Nashville, USA)
The Citradels - Getting Bloody with the Virgin Mary ("Are They Still Here?" 2016 Melbourne, Australia)
Sir Psych - Out There ("The Sir" 2013 Los Angeles, California USA)
Frequent Seahorse - The Rabbitman Show ("For Mu(sic) Lovers" 2006 Adelaide, Australia)
The Honey Pot - White Rabbit [Jefferson Airplane] ("The Honey Pot Live in London" 2016 UK)
The Moving Sidewalks - I Wanna Hold Your Hand (7" single 1968 Houston, Texas USA)
The Loose Enz - The Black Door (7" single 1968 York, Pennsylvania USA)
Ron Wray Light Show - Speed (7" single 1970 USA)
The Besnard Lakes - Towers Sent Her To Sheets of Sound ("A Coliseum Complex Museum" 2016 Montreal, Canada)
Mt Mountain - FX-My Love ("Mt Mountain" EP 2014 Perth, Australia)
The Red Crayola - Hurricane Fighter Plane ("The Parable of Arable Land" LP 1967 Houston, Texas USA)
School of Seven Bells - Wired for Light ("Alpinisms" 2008 New York USA)
Thee Wylde Oscars - All For Naught ("Right, Yeah" 2010 Melbourne, Australia)
The Black Hollies - Bruised Tangerines ("Casting Shadows" 2008 New Jersey, USA)
Syd Barrett - Octopus (7" single 1969 Cambridge, UK)
Richard In Your Mind - Tear Filled Ocean ("Sun" 2011 Sydney, Australia)
The Wylde Mammoths - Help That Girl ("Help That Girl" 7" EP 1988 Stockholm, Sweden)
Esko Affair - Morning Dull Fires (7" single [b-side to "Salt and Pepper"] 1968 Philadelphia, USA)
The Shag - Stop and Listen (7" single 1967 Milwaukee, Wisconsin USA)
The Golden Dawn - Starvation ("Power Plant" LP 1968 Austin, Texas USA)
Azitis - The Prophet ("Help" LP 1971 Sacramento, California USA)
Eric Burdon and the Animals - Coloured Rain ("Love Is" LP 1968 UK)
And an extra clip that I thought I'd throw in - Tara King th's "It's Hard To Be A Cat" Indeed.
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