Technicolour Dreaming

We devoted a chunk of this week’s show to a phone interview with one of our favourite bands... Melbourne’s dulcimer-driven Dandelion Wine, who are in town on June 16 as part of their ‘Light Streaming Down 10th Anniversary Tour’ commemorating the release of their first EP back in 2002. Amongst other things, we spoke to Nicholas about their German record label, Black Rain, the upcoming European tour (their 7^th), favourite toy lobsters and, of course, dulcimers and other exotic string instruments. They are a great live act, so try and catch them next time they are in your locale. Speaking of great live performances, we also played a track from the lovely LeighStarDust who is making her first live appearance in over a year, supporting Dandelion Wine. During the rest of the show there were tracks from new releases by the likes of Gravenhurst and Suzi Chunk from the UK  and Aussie outfits, the Fabergettes and King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard, as well as 60’s gems by Kaleidoscope and Chris Farlowe, 80’s Australian singles by Salamander Jim (Tex Perkins et al) and the Sacred Cowboys, plus local surf tunes from Dieselwitch and GT Stringer, before we finished with our current “Band of the Month”, the Sunnyboys... all this, and more, brought to you by the Cat and the Brat on 3D Radio 93.7fm, Adelaide’s foremost eclectic music station.....

..... and here is the full playlist.....

Wooden Wand – Baby, You’re a Rich Man [Beatles cover]     (‘Mojo: Yellow Submarine Resurfaced’ compilation 2012 UK)

Gravenhurst – The Prize     (‘The Ghost in Daylight’ 2012 UK)

Kaleidoscope – (Further Reflections) In the Room of Percussion     (7”single 1968 UK)

Eric Burdon & the Animals – Anything     (7”single 1966 UK)

the Screaming Tribesmen – A Stand Alone     (7”single 1984 Australia)

the Drab Doo Riffs – Trouble     (‘Postcards from Uranus’ 2010 New Zealand)

Salamander Jim – Hot Cakes For Daddy     (‘Lorne Greene Shares His Precious Fluids’ mini-LP 1984 Aust.)

the Damned & Lemmy – Ballroom Blitz [Sweet cover]     (7”single 1979 UK)

King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard – Bloody Ripper     (CD-single 2012 Melbourne, Aust.)

the Sacred Cowboys – Nothing Grows in Texas     (7”single 1982 Melbourne, Aust.)

Dandelion Wine – Twins      (‘Selected Anachronisms’ EP 2008 Aust.)

       [phone interview with Nicholas from Dandelion Wine]

Dandelion Wine – Found     (‘An Inexact Science’ 2006 Aust.)

Trembling Bells – All Good Men Come Last     (‘Shindig: It’s Happening Vol.2’ compilation 2010 UK)

Houdini Dax – Fizzy Moon     (‘You Belong to Dax, Darling’ 2011 Wales, UK)

the Fabergettes – Ding Dong     (‘the Fabergettes’ EP 2012 Sydney, Aust.)

the Booby Traps – Another Day, Another Man     (‘the Booby Traps’ 2006 Aust.)

Dieselwitch – Surf Wagon     (‘Surfedelica’ 2009 Adelaide, Aust.)

GT Stringer – Nothing Else Matters     (‘Surfrospective’ CD-anthology 2008 Adelaide, Aust.)

the Race Marbles – Like a Dribbling Fram     (7”single 1966 Toronto, Canada)

LeighStarDust – The Moll Song [Matt’s Little Brother cover]     (‘They Make Good Pets But I Don’t Have One’ 2005 Adelaide, Aust.)

Chris Farlowe – Moanin’ [sitar mix]     (7”single 1967 UK – taken from ‘Immediate Mod Box Set’ compilation 2005)

Suzi Chunk – Tripwire     (7”single b-side 2012 UK)

the Sunnyboys – Show Me Some Discipline     (7”single 1982 Australia)   #

     # “Band of the Month”

Technicolour Dreaming

Fellow 3D Radio announcer Bryan (have a listen to his “MellowScream” breakfast show on Tuesdays, 6-9am Adelaide-time!) filled in for us again this week... keeping the sound of our show, but adding his own twist, he dug up some punk classics such as the Toy Dolls and Last Words, a taste of the 80’s with the Lime Spiders, a Beatles’ cover from 60’s Singapore, some recent Australian psych from bands such as the Dolly Rocker Movement, as well as diverse local Adelaide music from bands such as Circle Clan, the Green Circles and the Aves... finishing with a track off the Cat & the Brat’s new “Album of the Month”,  which of course is “West”, by San Francisco’s Wooden Shjips, their first album to be recorded in a “proper studio”, rather than ‘live’ or at their home studio...

..... and here is the full playlist.....

the Amorphous Androgynous  –  Falling Down [Oasis cover]     ( A Monstrous Psychedelic Bubble Exploding In Your Mind [Vol 1. Space Rock])

Cheap Trick – Day Tripper [Beatles cover -Live 1979]     (‘Found All The Parts’ 10” EP 1980 USA)

Shan Kuan Liu Yun – Can’t Buy Me Love [Beatles cover]     ([Singapore 1965]: from ‘The Exotic Beatles  4: Plastic Soul’ – comp. 2011)

the Mops – I Am Just A Mops     (‘Psychedelic Sound in Japan’ LP 1968 Japan)

Mach Pelican – Dance In Chicago     (‘Dance In Chicago’ cdEP 1999 Australia)

the Aves – Grow Up     (CDsingle 2011 Adelaide, Australia)

Lou Reed – Doin’ The Things That We Want To     (‘New Sensations’ LP 1984 USA)

Circle Clan – Stunned Fish     (‘Follow the White Line’ CD 2002 Adelaide)

Almost Numan – Wrong Girl     (Almost Numan –‘On Side’)

Johnny Dowd – Big Wave     (Temporary Shelter)

Russell Morris – Sweet Sweet Love     (7”single 1971 Aust.)

Pink Floyd – Julia Dream     (‘Relics’ LP 1971 UK)

the Dolly Rocker Movement – Gypsy Dancer     (A Purple Journey into the Mod Machine)

Dandelion Wine – Cat Walk Away     (Reunion)

the Sand Pebbles – Dark Magic     (Dark Magic)

Toy Dolls – She Goes to Finos     (7”single 1986 UK)

the Lime Spiders – 25^th Hour     (7” EP 1983 Aust.)

the Green Circles – Bucket Full Of Nothing     (‘Get On the Outside of This’ CD 2003 Adelaide)

Last Words – Animal World     (7”single 1977 Australia... also re-released 1978 [Aust.] and 1979 [UK]!)

the Ransome Brothers – I Feel Like Dancin’     (Whiskey Set)

Dollsquad – Rock’n’Roll Boy     (Lethal In Leather)

Sin City – Summer Love Song     (Hungry For Love)

Wooden Shjips – Lazy Bones     (West)    #

  # “Album of the Month”

      Thanx Bryan!!!