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)
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)
This week’s show featured a journey
around the current world of psychedelia,
plus assorted oddities and a side-trip back in time to the first pop psych
explosion. So much music to play, and only two hours each week to squeeze it
all into! We recently acquired a copy of the brand new addition to Born Bad Records’ wonderful “Wizzz!Psychorama francais 1966
– 71” compilations, Volume 3, making this series a serendipitous
choice for our Compilation of the Week, mais oui! Back in the present, we
played new tracks from the Wands, Pretty Lightning, Jacco
Gardner, the Noble Krell and the Barbarellatones latest demo (love the lyrics!),
fitted in some surf from Chile and Denmark, and some 60’s faves such as Gary Walker and the Rain’s much covered classic, “Francis”. And we finished up with Vibravoid’s ode to the Fuzztones organ player Deb
O’Nair, which can be found on the just-reissued and re-mastered edition
of their classic “2001” LP, complete with extra tracks and quite stunning packaging
– it certainly gets our seal of approval! So.....
..... until next week, here
is the playlist plus associated visuals.....
Sula
Bassana - My
Blue Guitar ("Dreamer –10th Year Anniversary Edition” 2012
Germany)
We began this week’s edition with a
tribute to the late Ian McLagan,
keyboard-player extraordinaire with the Small Faces,
and, later, the Faces.... plus appearing on a
plethora of other bands’ records as an ‘in-demand’ sessioneer and playing ‘live’
until now, being about to tour with Nick Lowe. I was fortunate enough to see him play with the Small Faces during their notorious Australian
tour with the Who... it was one of the first
concerts I went to and, as a piano-player myself, his commanding style certainly
made a big impression! A brilliant
career – he will be missed! We continued our 60’s venture for a while with the Twilights and Ultimate
Spinach, plus a great version of the “Avengers’
Theme” by Icarus Peel, before
returning to present day Adelaide with the Archers
and then veering off into our usual forage through the world of psychedelia and
associated obscurities. Towards the end of the show we featured King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard as our “Band of the Week”... they are a great band whose
career we have followed since the early days in Geelong until their recent
successes in Europe and the UK, where they have been signed by the prestigious “Heavenly” label for the release of their
much-anticipated new album. Good on ‘em!! We finished with Brittany
psychedelecists Sudden Death of Stars whose
latest album rewards with each listening – a gem, and certainly a contender for
our “releases of 2014” list. Until next week then.....
..... here is the
playlist, with some attendant visuals.....
the Small Faces - Afterglow [of your love]
("Odgen's Nut Gone Flake" LP 1967 UK)
Icarus Peel - The Avengers’ Theme [John Barry cover] ("Postcards
from the Deep" flexi-disc box-set 2014 UK)
the Twilights - Devendra ("Once
Upon a Twilight" LP 1967 Adelaide, Australia)
Ultimate Spinach - (Ballad of) the Hip Death
Goddess ("Ultimate Spinach" LP
1968 Boston, USA)
the Archers - Nobodies
(digital single 2013 Adelaide – taken from "Going Steady Mixtape # 4 –
Hillside Fest" compilation 2014 Adelaide, Australia)
the Dandelion - On a June Morning (rec.
2014 Sydney – taken from "Going Steady Mixtape # 5 – Sydney Psych Fest"
compilation2014
Adelaide, Australia)
Slight - Spirit School
(7"single 2104 Quebec, Canada)
Beaulieu Porch - Carmelite Divine
(7"single [b-side to Golden Face]
2014 UK)
Allah-Las - Buffalo Nickel ("Worship
the Sun" 2014 LA, USA)
the Black Angels - Indigo Meadow ("Live
in San Francisco 2013" EP 2014 Austin, Texas USA)
Jouis - All That Is and Is
One ("Dojo" LP 2014 UK)
Rick Nelson - Marshmallow Skies
("Another Side of Rick" LP 1967 USA)
Del Shannon - I Think I Love You ("The
Further Adventures of Charles Westover" LP 1968 USA)
the Byrds - Change Is Now ("The
Notorious Byrd Brothers" 1968
Los Angeles, USA)
the Paperhead - Eye for Eye ("Africa
Avenue" 2014 USA)
Soft Hearted Scientists -
The Up and Downs ("The Slow Cyclone"2014 Wales, UK)
Quilt -
I Sleep In Nature ("Held in
Splendour"2014 USA)
Halasan Bazar - Am I Blind ("Space
Junk"2013 Denmark)
Christine Pilzer - Champs Elysees (“Cafe Creme" EP 1967 France)
Delphine - Le Fermeture Eclair [cover of "In the Past" by We the People] (7”single
1967 Belgium)
