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...
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Aah, this was the day when everything went wrong... a few minutes into the show and the computer had a hissy-fit, leading to several people pulling plugs in and out, and scrambling around under the desk, trying to find the on/off switch. Needless to say, by the time everything was up and running again, my programming was totally out the window, but at least the music went to air! These are the perils of Community Radio, but on the upside, when everything is operating as it should, we're very lucky to be able to play whatever we fancy (and without endless commercials interrupting the flow), which benefits you, the listener. As a result of the above-mentioned malfunctions, I ended up unintentionally relying on 2 very good compilations (as you'll see below, they feature very strongly in the playlist): Fruits de Mer Records'"Strange Fruit and Veg"compilation, and "Wild About You: A Tribute to the Australian Rock Underground 1963 - 1968". Both releases are collections of cover versions, and very good versions they are too! So here's the playlist, but with limited clips this week...
The 49th Parallel - Close the Barn Door (7" single (b-side to "Twilight Woman") 1969 USA)
The Green Telescope - I'm a Living Sickness [The Calico Wall] ("Strange Fruit and Veg" compilation 2015 Edinburgh, Scotland UK)
Oxford Circle - Foolish Woman (7" single 1966 California, USA)
ZX+ - She's a Rainbow [Rolling Stones] ("Strange Fruit and Veg" compilation 2015 UK)
The Mint - We're Friends ("Endless Journey: Reverberation III" compilation 1971 Texas)
The Dragons - Heart Transplantation (7" single 1969 Bonn, Germany)
The Hergs - Style of Love (7" Single 1967 Adelaide, Australia)
The Dukes - The Dentist (7" single (b-side to "Vera Petruschka") 1969 Sauerland, Germany)
M.P.D. Limited - No Regrets (7" single 1966 Melbourne, Australia)
The Telephones - Hummmingbyrd (7" single 2014 UK)
Mauve La Biche and Cary Grace - Archangel Thunderbird [Amon Duul] ("Strange Fruit and Veg" compilation 2015 UK)
Mark Fry - The Witch ("Dreaming WIth Alice" LP 1972 UK)
The Crawlin' Hex - Who Do You Love? ("Strange Fruit and Veg" compilation 2015 Fylde Coast, UK)
The Lords of Gravity - Black [The Throb] ("Wild About You: A Tribute to the Australian Rock Underground 1963 - 1968" 2002 Australia)
The Gruntled - Drivin' Me Insane [Missing Links] ("Wild About You: A Tribute to the Australian Rock Underground 1963 - 1968" 2002 Australia)
Ninetynine - It's A Hard Life [The Atlantics] ("Wild About You: A Tribute to the Australian Rock Underground 1963 - 1968" 2002 Melbourne Australia)
The Double Agents - I Want, Need, Love You [The Black Diamonds] ("Wild About You: A Tribute to the Australian Rock Underground 1963 - 1968" 2002 Australia)
The Cants - Saturday Date [Toni McCann] ("Wild About You: A Tribute to the Australian Rock Underground 1963 - 1968" 2002 Australia)
Arirang - 10:15 Saturday Night [The Cure] ("The Cure In Other Voices" 2016 Milan, Italy)
The Skating Party - Metal Baby [Teenage Fanclub] ("TBTCI Loves TFC" 2016 Pennsylvania, USA)
Champanes - The Concept [Teenage Fanclub] ("TBTCI Loves TFC" 2016 Washington, USA)
T Rex - Truck On (Tyke) [full-length master version] ("Shadowhead" 2001 UK)
Frankie and the Witch Fingers - Thinking About You ("Sidewalk" 2013 California, USA)
Jeffertitti's Nile - Midnight Siren (7" single 2011 California, USA)
Sidewalk Society - If Only ("Venus, Saturn and the Crescent Moon" 2012 Long Beach, California USA)
Os Noctambulos - Watching You (7" single [b-side to "Outsider"] 2015 Paris, France)
Dusty Mush - Sometimes Good Guys Don't Wear White ("Psychotic Reaction" compilation 2015Île-de-France, France)
Wow, how time flies when you have to catch up on blog entries ... I'm so far behind it's not funny! But catch up I will, so enough of my dribbling, here's the show from way back in early October... and onto the next one, post-haste...!
KAK - Trieulogy - I. Golgotha II. Mirage III. Rain ("KAK" LP 1969 Davis, California USA)
The Animated Egg - Sock It My Way ("Animated Egg" LP 1968 USA)
Sullivan - Hashish Faction (7" single 1966 France)
Les Papyvores - Le Papyvore (7" single 1967 France)
Stu Phillips - Skip To My Mary Lou ("Hell's Angels on Wheels" LP 1966 USA)
Crimson Shadows - Even I Tell Lies (7" single 1985 Vallingby, Sweden)
Dolkows - Silent Woods ("Story of Robi & The Nudes" LP 1987 Sweden)
In an effort to get this long-overdue playlist posted, I'll skip the long, drawn-out intro, and let the music, and the moving pictures, do the talking. The eagle-eyed among you will notice that I played a couple of the same selections from last week - accidentally, I assure you! So until next week...
The Beachnuts- Cycle Annie ("The Velvet Underground - Etc" LP 1979 USA)
The Sunnyboys - Show Me Some Discipline (7" single 1983 Sydney, Australia)
The Wands - War ("The Dawn" 2014 Copenhagen, Denmark)
Loose Tooth - Bites Will Bleed ("Saturn Returns" EP 2016 Melbourne, Australia)
Plasticland - Alexander [The Pretty Things] ("Plasticland" LP 1984 Wisconsin, USA)
The Flower Machine - I am the Coelacanth ("Chalk Dust Dream of the Tea Cozy Mitten Company" 2004 Los Angeles, USA)
Pony Face - Silver Tongue ("Hypnotised" 2012 Melbourne, Australia)
Mugwump Establishment - Mondo Hollywood Freakout ("Monday Hollywood OST" LP 1967 USA)
The Brats - Hoodlums (demo 1980 Adelaide, Australia)
The Carnaby - Jump and Dance (7" single 1965 UK)
Jacques Dutronc - L'Augmentation, 7" single [b-side to "Il Est Cinq Heure, Paris S'Eveille"] 1968 France)
Jacques Dutronc - Hippie Hippie Hourrah (7" EP 1967 France)
Aquaserge - La Femme De Tahiti ("MOSTLA-mix-SERGE-tape" 2013 France)
Balduin - I See Rainbows ("Rainbow Tapes" 2009 Switzerland)
As promised a few weeks ago, this show featured some more selections from the excellent hard-back book and double CD set "A Seance At Syd's", which has now sold out, unfortunate indeed if you wanted to buy a copy, but great for Mega Dodo Records, who released the package. The 300-page book, which was written by Dave Thompson, is described as "an anthology of modern acid-folk-haunt-psych-prog-space-kraut-radiophonic-rock etc quotes, words, wit and wisdom." Over 80 different performers, bands, record label heads and artists participated in the project, and it's a very entertaining read about life in the music industry, among other topics, with the 40 tracks across the 2 CD's acting as a soundtrack to your reading experience. A pleasure to listen to and read, with some fantastic discoveries, and re-discoveries made in the process!
Another new favourite that's just popped up on my radar, is Orgasmo Sonore, aka Frank Rideau, via his track "Turkish Psych" which appeared on the last Active Listener compilation. His latest release "Revisiting Obscure Library Music" is the most recent in a series of 4 LP's of interpretations of obscure soundtracks and other instrumentals, with the track I played taken from the upcoming LP "Themes International" due out any week now. Check him out, you won't be sorry! So here's the playlist, with moving pictures and stuff...
Roxy Music - In Every Dream Home A Heartache ("For Your Pleasure" LP 1973 UK)
The Balloon Farm - A Question of Temperature (7" single 1967 New Jersey, USA)
The Music Machine - You'll Love me Again ("Bonniwell Music Machine" LP 1968 [2014 reissue bonus track] Los Angeles, USA)
The Barbarellatones - Psychedelic Freakout ("Glitter Train" 2016 Hawaii, USA)
Midwich Youth Club - A Mind Made Of ("A Seance at Syd's" [hardback book + 2 CD set] 2015 Birmingham, UK)
David Devant and His Spirit Wife and the Mystery Fax Machine Orchestra - Miracles Happen (Worshiping in Silence) ("A Seance at Syd's" [hardback book + 2 CD set] 2015 Brighton, UK)
The Aurapool - Furry Fury Tango ("The Earth Above the Sky Below: Your Psych Tunes Vol 3" compilation 2007 Fort Lauderdale, Florida USA)
The Hare and the Moon - Bard of Eve ("Wood Witch" 2015 UK)
Vibravoid - What You Want ("Psychedelic Blueprints: An Introspection of the Years 2000-2013" 2016 Dusseldorf, Germany)
Les Annees - Catherine Fields ("Les Annees" 2009 Melbourne, Australia)
Balduin - Wind in the Willows ("Rainbow Tapes" 2009 Switzerland)
The Creatures Of The Golden Dawn - It Will All End in Tears anyway ("Tripping" 2016 Pennsylvania, USA)
Diamond Incarnation - Spacespin ("Scorpio 15" EP 2014 Taipei, Taiwan)
Los VV's - Fancy Cars ("Los VV's" digital EP 2015 Paris, France)
Sometimes this blog comes together so easily, other times it is exceptionallytesting. This is one of those testing times! So I might just let the tunes from last week (and the clips that have managed to work) speak for themselves, so I don't delay posting this any longer....next weeks Technicolour Dreaming will feature some pre-release goodies from Kind Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, The Luck of Eden Hall, Kikagaku Moyo and Elephant Stone, so tune in on Tuesday at 2pm (Australian Central Standard Time) on Thee D Radio 93.7fm, or listen to the live stream at www.threedradio.com. You know you want to!
→ ↑ →(Tch Tch Tch) - Pop Art (7" split single [with "Man and Machine"] 1979 Melbourne, Australia)
La Femme - Telegraphe ("Le Podium #1" EP 2010 Paris, France)
Brain Washington - L.S.D. (7" single 2012 London, UK)
Sonic Jesus - Triumph ("Neither Virtue Nor Anger" 2015 Doganella di Ninfa, Italy)
New Candys - Overall ("New Candys as Medicine" 2015 Venice, Italy)
The Luck Of Eden Hall - This Weather's Better for Velvet Clothes ("Butterfly Revolutions Vol 1" 2011 Chicago, USA)
The Smoking Trees - Moving Picture ("The Smoking Trees" EP 2012 Los Angeles, USA)
Jacco Gardner - Where Will You Go (7" single 2013 Zwaag, Netherlands)
Blondi's Salvation - Mother Cloud ("Songs of the New World Order" 2013Nantes, France)
The Clangers - Unguarded Moment [The Church] ("The Clangers" 2016 Adelaide, Australia)
The Dandelion Seeds - Soul Thing ("The Dandelion Seeds" 2014 Iceland)
Fruit Machine - I'm Alone Today (7" single 1969 London, UK)
Eartha Kitt- Hurdy Gurdy Man [Donovan] ("Sentimental Eartha" LP 1970 USA)
The Nice - Flower King of Flies ("The Thoughts of Emerlist Davjack" LP 1967 UK)
The Blue Giant Zeta Puppies - Steppin' Stone [the Monkees] ("Active Listener Presents: The Great British Psych Trip Revisited" 2016 UK)
Brainticket - Black Sand ("Cottonwood Hill" LP 1970 Belgium/Switzerland)
The Shivas - Peele's Perfumed Garden ("Where Have You Gone To?" 2009 Portland, Oregon USA)
The Chances Are - Fragile Child (7" single 1967 UK)
Craig and Michael - Drifty (7" single 1966 USA)
The Ethics - It's O.K. (7" single [b-side to "She's a Deceiver"] 1967 Oregon, USA)
The Locomotive - Mr Armageddon ("We Are Everything You See" LP 1970 Birmingham, UK)
The Timebox - Gone is the Sad Man (7" single [b-side to "Girl Don't Make Me Wait"] 1968 Lancashire, UK)
The Lundons - It's Gonna Be Alright (7" single [b-side to "I Love You So"] 1966 USA)
The Yo Yo's - Crack in My Wall (7" single [b-side to "The Raven"] 1966 New York USA)
The Sweet Acids - That Creature (7" single 1967 USA)
Moorpark Intersection - I Think I'll Just Go and Find Me a Flower (7" single 1968 USA)
Sidewalk Skipper Band - (Would You Believe) It's Raining Flowers in my House (7" single [b-side to "Seventeenth Summer"] 1968 USA)
Greg McCarley - Shoo Shoo Shoo Fly ("Feeling High -The Psychedelic Sound of Memphis" compilation 2012 USA)
Changin' Tymes - Hark the Child ("Feeling High -The Psychedelic Sound of Memphis" compilation 2012 USA)
The Tamborines - The Great Division (7" single [b-side to "What Took You So Long"] 2006 London UK)
The Mops - Omae No Subete O ("Psychedelic Sounds in Japan" LP 1968 Japan)
I really must apologise for the appallingly long time between posts, as well as the gaps in shows appearing on the blog. Been having some “technical difficulties” lately with a new system being used at Three D for the logging of songs played on the show, and it’s compatibility with Blogger, so if the formatting is all a bit skewed, you’ll know why. The missing shows from the past few weeks will be appearing as soon as I can get them sorted out.
So without further ado, here’s what was played…
Daughters of Albion - John Flip Lockup (medley) (“Daughters of Albion” LP 1968 USA)
Allah Lahs – Artifact (“Worship the Sun” 2015 Scotland, UK)
Halasan Bazar - Scroll Down (“How to be Ever Happy” 2012 Copenhagen, Denmark)
Fogbound - Whispering Corridors (7" single 2014 Spain)
