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...
Lots of new and soon-to be released music tracks found their way onto this latest playlist - a sneak preview of Lorelle Meets the Obselete's new one,"Balance"; Volume 2 in the "Big Beat Cellar Scene" compilation series of 1960's Adelaide bands (sorry, no videos for these tracks); the latest pop-acid-folk musings of Dodson and Fogg's Chris Wade on "Walk On"; and the Netherlands' Eerie Wanda with "Hum", among others. Also featured were a selection of Melbourne bands, care of the "Magic Mixtapes from Melbourne". Just a normal show, really. Enjoy!!!!
The Assassins - Kill The Prime Minister (12" split single [with Ian List and the UV's] 1990 Adelaide, Australia)
The Good the Bad and the Queen - Herculean ("The Good, The Bad and the Queen" 2007 UK)
Brigitte Bardot and Serge Gainsbourg - Bonnie and Clyde ("Bonnie and Clyde" LP 1968 France)
The Force - You Keep Me Hanging On ("Big Beat Cellar Scene Vol 2" Adelaide, Australia)
Some old 60's Aussie favourites, a few new discoveries, and the usual suspects - this week's show had it all. I particularly liked the track by Sir Robin and the Longbowmen, who hail from Dresden in Germany - can't believe that I hadn't come across this band before! Somehow I also managed to miss the latest release from The Selfish Cales, which came out last year - more psych goodness from these natives of Torino, Italy. Speaking of which, I've also included (at the end of the blog) a groovy promo clip that I came across, of the 2014 Psych Out 25 Degrees festival in Italy - the things you find on YouTube. Enjoy! Zoot - Turn Your Head (7" single (b-side to "Eleanor Rigby") 1970 Adelaide, Australia)
Joel Jerome - Strawberry Fields Para Siempre (digital single 2014 Los Angeles, USA)
Pesky Gee! - Where is My Mind? ("Exclamation Mark" LP 1969 UK)
Espectrostatic - Carpe Nacht ("The Daemonum" EP 2014 Texas, USA)
The Glass Menagerie - Frederick Jordan (7" single 1968 Manchester UK)
Go-Go Sapien - Sick Love ("This Body Is Wrong for Us" 2011 Melbourne, Australia)
Marty Rhone - Every Minute of You (7" single (b-side to "Nature Boy") 1966 Melbourne, Australia)
Icarus Peel - Auntie Powders Her Nose ("Icarus Peel vs Mordecai Smyth Barnburner" 10" EP 2014 UK)
Mike Furber - Watch Me Burn (7" single (b-side to "I'm on Fire") 1969 Sydney, Australia)
Mt Mountain - Chantry (7" single 2014 Perth, Australia)
Jon - Upstairs Downstairs (7" single 1966 Brisbane, Australia)
Dino, Desi and Billy - The Rebel Kind (7" single 1965 Hollywood, California USA)
Ultraviolet - Ocean Rain ("Gods Will Be Gods: A Reverence to the Bunnymen" 2016 Austin, Texas USA)
Psychedelic Trips to Death - Bang Bang [Nancy Sinatra] ("The Psychedelic Sounds of The Blog That Celebrates Itself Vol 2" 2013 Greece)
Sir Robin and the Longbowmen - I Would Like ("Active Listener Sampler #34" 2015 Dresden, Germany)
The David - Light of Your Mind (7" Single 1969 UK)
Demontre - The Vale Of Health Part 2 ("Masculin/Feminin" 2010 UK)
The Citradels - Every Christian Lion Hearted Man Will Show You [Bee Gees] ("The Psychedelic Sounds of The Blog That Celebrates Itself Vol 2" 2013 Melbourne, Australia)
The Who - Armenia City In The Sky ("The Who Sell Out" LP 1967 UK)
The Selfish Cales - See Tomorrow's Shores ("Throw Your Watch to the Water" 2015 Torino, Italy)
Sundays and Cybele - Almost Heaven ("Heaven" 2015 Japan)
Josephines - The Cutter ("Gods Will Be Gods: A Reverence to the Bunnymen" 2016 Rio Grande, Brazil)
Felius Andromeda - Meditations (7" single 1967 UK)
The Mushroom Club - Into Something Good [Herman's Hermits] ("The Psychedelic Sounds of The Blog That Celebrates Itself Vol 2" 2013 Glasgow, UK)
Shapes Have Fangs - Dinner In The Dark ("Dinner in the Dark" 2011 USA)
Pin Ups - Some Candy Talking [Jesus and Mary Chain] ("Psychocandy Revisited" 2015)
The Baudelaires - Colour Mary (digital single 2015 Melbourne, Australia)
Trabants - Mecca ("Freakout" 2015 Los Angeles, USA)
Some old 60's Aussie favourites, a few new discoveries, and the usual suspects - this week's show had it all. I particularly liked the track by Sir Robin and the Longbowmen, who hail from Dresden in Germany - can't believe that I hadn't come across this band before! Somehow I also managed to miss the latest release from The Selfish Cales, which came out last year - more psych goodness from these natives of Torino, Italy. Speaking of which, I've also included (at the end of the blog) a groovy promo clip that I came across, of the 2014 Psych Out 25 Degrees festival in Italy - the things you find on YouTube. Enjoy! Zoot - Turn Your Head (7" single (b-side to "Eleanor Rigby") 1970 Adelaide, Australia)
Joel Jerome - Strawberry Fields Para Siempre (digital single 2014 Los Angeles, USA)
Pesky Gee! - Where is My Mind? ("Exclamation Mark" LP 1969 UK)
Espectrostatic - Carpe Nacht ("The Daemonum" EP 2014 Texas, USA)
The Glass Menagerie - Frederick Jordan (7" single 1968 Manchester UK)
Go-Go Sapien - Sick Love ("This Body Is Wrong for Us" 2011 Melbourne, Australia)
Marty Rhone - Every Minute of You (7" single (b-side to "Nature Boy") 1966 Melbourne, Australia)
Icarus Peel - Auntie Powders Her Nose ("Icarus Peel vs Mordecai Smyth Barnburner" 10" EP 2014 UK)
Mike Furber - Watch Me Burn (7" single (b-side to "I'm on Fire") 1969 Sydney, Australia)
Mt Mountain - Chantry (7" single 2014 Perth, Australia)
Jon - Upstairs Downstairs (7" single 1966 Brisbane, Australia)
Dino, Desi and Billy - The Rebel Kind (7" single 1965 Hollywood, California USA)
Ultraviolet - Ocean Rain ("Gods Will Be Gods: A Reverence to the Bunnymen" 2016 Austin, Texas USA)
Psychedelic Trips to Death - Bang Bang [Nancy Sinatra] ("The Psychedelic Sounds of The Blog That Celebrates Itself Vol 2" 2013 Greece)
Sir Robin and the Longbowmen - I Would Like ("Active Listener Sampler #34" 2015 Dresden, Germany)
The David - Light of Your Mind (7" Single 1969 UK)
Demontre - The Vale Of Health Part 2 ("Masculin/Feminin" 2010 UK)
The Citradels - Every Christian Lion Hearted Man Will Show You [Bee Gees] ("The Psychedelic Sounds of The Blog That Celebrates Itself Vol 2" 2013 Melbourne, Australia)
The Who - Armenia City In The Sky ("The Who Sell Out" LP 1967 UK)
The Selfish Cales - See Tomorrow's Shores ("Throw Your Watch to the Water" 2015 Torino, Italy)
Sundays and Cybele - Almost Heaven ("Heaven" 2015 Japan)
Josephines - The Cutter ("Gods Will Be Gods: A Reverence to the Bunnymen" 2016 Rio Grande, Brazil)
Felius Andromeda - Meditations (7" single 1967 UK)
The Mushroom Club - Into Something Good [Herman's Hermits] ("The Psychedelic Sounds of The Blog That Celebrates Itself Vol 2" 2013 Glasgow, UK)
Shapes Have Fangs - Dinner In The Dark ("Dinner in the Dark" 2011 USA)
Pin Ups - Some Candy Talking [Jesus and Mary Chain] ("Psychocandy Revisited" 2015)
The Baudelaires - Colour Mary (digital single 2015 Melbourne, Australia)
Trabants - Mecca ("Freakout" 2015 Los Angeles, USA)
As you can see from the playlist below, I have finally received my copy of the "Astonishing Sound Show Stories Volume 2" compilation. Most of the bands are so unknown and obscure that I couldn't find any clips for the songs I played, but there's some great music on this comp, so if you want to get a copy, you'd better get your skates on, as there's under 50 copies left. I've included the quite frankly, strange and bizarre, but entertaining promo videos for this release below. And speaking of strange, I had to include the extremely groovyBrigitte Bardot clip for "Contact", which pretty unusual, even by 1967 standards. Enjoy!
The Seeds - 900 Million People Daily (All Making Love) (7" single [b-side to "Satisfy You" 1968 Los Angeles, USA)
Rolling Stones - Dandelion (7" single 1967 UK)
The Stonefish - Boobalooba Beach ("From 20,000 Fathoms" 12" EP 1986 Perth, Australia)
Baker Knight and the Knightmares - Hallucinations (7" single 1967 Los Angeles, USA)
James Taylor Move - And I Hear the Fire Sing (7" single [b-side to "Magic Eyes"] 1967 Adelaide, Australia)
The Vegetable Garden - Even Stevens (7" single 1969 Perth, Australia)
The first show of winter, and it seems that I was a bit fixated on all things spacey, with bands "Death By Raygun", "Spaceman", "Spacegazer" and "Basement Spaceman" all featuring this week. And I just hadto start the show with a track off Eno's classic"Here Come the Warm Jets" LP, as I've had it on high rotation at home for days, and when a song gets stuck in your head, sometimes the best way to exorcise it from your mind is to play it for the masses - works for me! And here are some other songs that caught my ear or took my fancy this week..check out the playlist below -
Brian Eno - Cindy Tells Me ("Here Come the Warm Jets" LP 1973 UK)
The Onlookers - You Know Everything ("Blue and Green and Tangerine" 2012 UK)
The Magnificent Brotherhood - Lifetime ("The Magnificent Brotherhood" LP 2008 Berlin, Germany)
Circulus - Within You Is The Sun ("Thought Becomes Reality" 2009 UK)
The Outsiders - Daddy Died on Saturday ("CQ" LP 1968 Netherlands)
The Higher State - Know That You Know ("Darker By The Day"2009 Kent, UK)
The Moles - Ginger Tom ("Future Sounds of Ashton" 2010 UK)
Mark Fry - Mandolin Man ("Dreaming With Alice" LP 1972 UK)
Magazine - Shot By Both Sides ("Real Life" LP 1978 Manchester, UK)
Cato Salsa Experience - I Can Give You Everything ("A Good Tip For A Good Time" 2000 Oslo, Norway)
My Expansive Awareness - Liar Liar [The Castaways] ("The Psychedelic Sounds of The Blog That Celebrates Itself Vol III" 2015 Spain)
Algae and Tentacles - Cuddle Up ("Algae and Tentacles" cassette 2015 Tucson, USA)
The Prefab Messiahs - Flight Reaction [The Calico Wall] ("The Psychedelic Sounds of The Blog That Celebrates Itself Vol III"2015 USA )
The Shivas - We Go On ("Freezing to Death" 2010 Portland, Oregon USA)
The Butterscotch Cathedral - Waterfall Parasol ("The Butterscotch Cathedral" 2015 Tucson, USA)
The Coathangers - Stomp Stomp Stompin' ("Scramble" 2009 Atlanta, Georgia USA)
Wight Lhite - Counting Diamonds ("Beyond the Satellites" 2014 Tucson, USA)
Black Vacation - Hold ("Germantown,TN" 2016 Melbourne, Australia)
Death By Raygun - Sheila Comes Back ("The Clifford Hoyt Experience" 2012 Japan)
Dick Diver - Tearing the Posters Down ("Melbourne, Florida" 2015 Melbourne, Australia)
Epsilon One - Sweet Airwaves and TV Spells ("Spirals" EP 2012 Edinburgh, UK)
Spacegazer - Not Your Steppin' Stone [Monkees] ("The Psychedelic Sounds of TBTCI Vol 2", 2013 Paris, France)
