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...
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)
The first few songs played this
week showed the way for the following two hours – a mix featuring a fair
smattering of 80’s oddities and faves such as the
Leopards and the Prisoners, some 60’s
goodness from, for example, Australia’s Oak Apple
Day and the Looking Glasses, seasoned
with a plethora of recent tunes from the likes of Switzerland’s Balduin, Wheat Fields,
Sky Picnic and the Red
Plastic Buddha to name but a few. Then there was our “Band of the Week”
... the Hollies are too often dismissed as
an “oldies radio staple” while the duration, variety and sheer brilliance of
their 60’s output is ignored... along with the
Beach Boys they were THE supreme harmonisers and, like the Beatles, seemed able to keep effortlessly
throwing out pop masterpieces - so yes, we salute the Hollies! So, until next
week, let’s all ponder the VanillaFudge’s timeless query – “Where
Is My Mind?”......
..... here is the
playlist, with a few diverting images while you ponder.....
Permanent Clear Light – Higher Than the Sun(“Beyond
These Things” 2013 Finland)
the Leopards – Psychedelic Boy(“Magic
Still Exists” LP 1987 USA)
Oak Apple Day plus the Deadly
Pair –
Moonshot(7”single b-side [to Let’s Do It On The Moon] 1969 Australia)
Red Plastic Buddha – She’s an Alien(“Songs
For Mara” 2014 Chicago, USA)
