Three D Radio announcer, Megan Cat (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 on Three 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, June 21, 2016

Technicolour Dreaming

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)
Borderline Symphony - Rubik's Cube  ("Borderline Symphony" 2016 Switzerland)
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)
The Octopus Syng - Woman  ("Hollow Dust/Rochelle Salt" LP 2016 Helsinki, Finland)

Plus an old promo clip for the 2014 "Psych Out 25 Degrees" festival in Italy:


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