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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 groovy Brigitte 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)

DeWolff - Wicked Moon  ("Strange Fruits and Undiscovered Plants" 2009 Netherlands)

The Paisleytones - Devil Stole my Surfboard  ("Happening" 2006 Adelaide, Australia)

The Revillos - Scuba Boy Bop  ("Rev Up!" LP 1980 Edinburgh, UK)

The Black Angels - Yellow Elevator #2  ("Phosphene Dream" 2009 USA)

Brigitte Bardot - Contact  (7" single [b-side to "Harley Davidson"] 1967 France)

Bonniwell Music Machine - Astrologically Incompatible  ("The Bonniwell Music Machine" LP 1968 Los Angeles, USA)

The Love Explosion - Black Pollen  ("Mood Processors" 2014 Sydney, Australia)

Shinkiro - Formula For Eternal Life  ("Ceremonial Ride" Barcelona, Spain 2015)

The Coathangers - Sex Beat [Gun Club]  (digital single 2015 Atlanta, Georgia USA)

The Underground Youth - The Girl Behind  ("Haunted" 2015 UK)

Lenguas Largas - Si Es Sierto  ("The Rest of the Enchilada" 2016 Tucson, Arizona, USA)

Veronica Falls - Beachy Head (7"single 2010 UK)

Cheval Sombre - You've Got to Hide Your Love Away [Beatles]  (7" split single [with Füxa] 2013 New York, USA)

Algae and Tentacles - Little Bodies  ("TOPAZ Dune Drift 1" compilation 2013 Arizona, USA)

Ohioan - No Favourites  ("TOPAZ Dune Drift 1" Arizona, USA)

Mohair Sweets - Green Light  ("Astonishing Sound Show Stories Vol 2" 2016 Canada)
Death By Raygun - Danny  ("The Clifford Hoyt Experience" 2012 Japan)

Big Safari - New Felt Hat  ("Astonishing Sound Show Stories Vol 2" 2016 Liverpool/Sydney)

King Claw - Save Your Mind  ("Astonishing Sound Show Stories Vol 2" 2016 Nottingham)

Summer Flake - Make Your Way Back To Me  ("Hello Friends" 2016 Adelaide/Melbourne, Australia)

Mt Mountain - Frieda  ("Cosmos Terros" 2016 Perth, Australia)

Pond - Greens Pool  (7" single 2010 Perth, Australia)

Otherly Love - Aroma  (" 5+5=X " 2012 Tucson, Arizona USA)

A MARC Train Home - Taste The Floor [Jesus and Mary Chain]  ("Psychocandy Revisited" 2015, Washington DC, USA)

MIMICO - The Serpent  ("MIMICO" 2013 Toronto, Canada)

The Six Ten - The Night  ("Astonishing Sound Show Stories Vol 2" 2016 Nottingham, UK)

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Firstly we’d like to begin by saying congratulations to Cat & Brat faves, Chicago’s the Luck of Eden Hall, for achieving their Kickstarter campaign to raise over $14,000 to help pay for their tour of the UK and Europe later this year. They had the bookings but not much cash so we are pleased to announce that Curvey and his merry band of psychsters achieved their goal – they are still ‘travelling on the cheap’ so it gives some idea of the logistics and cost of a relatively small band to take their music overseas..... there are many Australian musicians who can no doubt relate. Anyway, we wish this very cool band all the best and so just had to play a track from their most recent LP, “Victoria Moon”. We did get a bit nostalgic on this show and played some older tracks by a few of our favourite bands, such as Temples, All Night Radio, Dark Ocean Colors and the Dandelion, as well as recent ones from the likes of the Black Ryder, Moon Duo and Melbourne’s Ben Mason. The 60’s were not forgotten either, with songs from the Rolling Stones and Mike Furber leading up to our compilation of the week, “Psychedelia : an herbal mixture of psychedelic remedies and freakbeat fantoms”, a 5-CD boxset of rarities from that era. Four of the sides were originally issued on vinyl in the 1990s by the UK’s “Tiny Alice” label with the fifth being the intended but unreleased final release – now it’s a CD boxset compilation and a great find if you are into late-60’s pop-psych rarities from Europe and the UK. So, until next week, we bid you “adieu”.....

..... and leave you with the playlist and some visual accompaniment.....

Temples - Sand Dance      ("Sun Structures" 2013 UK)

nick nicely - 49 Cigars      ( 7" single 1980 UK – taken from "Psychotropia” anthology 2010 UK)

the Rolling Stones - Sing this all together (see what happens)    ("Their Satanic Majesties' Request" LP 1967 UK)

Mike Furber - You      (7" single 1966 Australia)

the Steve Miller Band - The Beauty of Time Is That It's Snowing [Psychedelic BB]      ("Children of the Future"  LP 1968 California USA)

the Luck of Eden Hall - The Collapse of Suzy Star      ("Victoria Moon"  LP 2014 Chicago USA)

the Black Ryder -  The Seventh Moon      ( "The Door Behind The Door" 2015  Aust. / USA)

the Dandelion - Borderline Originality Disorder      ("Strange Case of the Dandelion" LP 2014 Australia)

Moon Duo - Night Beat      ("Shadow of the Sun" 2015 California, USA)

Jack - The End of the Way It’s Always Been      ("The End of the Way It’s Always Been" 2002 Cardiff, Wales)

All Night Radio - Fall Down 7      ("Spirit Stereo Frequency" 2004 USA)

DeWolff - Silver Lovemachine      ("Strange Fruits and Undiscovered Plants" 2012 Holland)

Dark Ocean Colors - Alone with Candy      (“Dark Ocean Colors” 2011 USA)

High Dials - Chinese Boxes       (“Anthems for Doomed Youth” 2010 Canada)

               COMPILATION OF THE WEEK

“Psychedelia : An herbal mixture of psychedelic remedies and freakbeat fantoms”  

Orange Machine - Dr Crippen's Waiting Room       (7" single b-side (to You Can all Join In) 1969 Dublin, Ireland – taken from “Psychedelia : An herbal mixture of psychedelic remedies and freakbeat fantoms” 5-CD compilation box set  2015 UK – Disc 3)

 

Cape Kennedy Construction Company - Armageddon      (7" single b-side (to First Step on the Moon) 1969 UK – taken from “Psychedelia....” Disc 1)

the Executives - Moving in a Circle   (7" single b-side (to It's a Happening World) 1968 Australia – taken from “Psychedelia....” Disc 2)

the Gibsons - City Life    (7" single b-side (to Night and Day) 1967 Australia – taken from “Psychedelia....” Disc 1)

No to Co - Saturday to Sunday      ("So What" LP 1970 Poland – taken from “Psychedelia....” Disc 5)

the Mirage - I see the rain      (7" acetate 1970 Hertfordshire UK– taken from “Psychedelia....” Disc 3)

Edwick Rumbold - Boggle Woggle      (7" single b-side (to Shades of Grey) 1966 UK– taken from “Psychedelia....” Disc 2)

Ben Mason - Esmerelda      ("She'd Need a Heart" pre-release 2015 Melbourne, Australia)

Sun Dial - Out of Space, Out of Time       (7" single 2002 USA)

the Peoples Temple - (the) Forest Speaks       ("More for the Masses" 2012 USA)

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It’s the 1^st show of the year and we had a large pile of new vinyl and CDs to play and thus begin as we intend to go on..... with a “kerrang”, as it were! Apart from all the formerly forgotten ‘lost’ classics from the past that are again seeing the light of day and finding appreciative audiences due to the dedication of ‘re-issue’ labels making them affordable again rather than just the preserve of a few well-heeled ‘collectors’, there is a rising swell of new, young bands from all over the world who are building on these roots and creating a plethora of new psychedelic sounds – 2014 promises to be another interesting year for psychedelia and associated sounds! So, without further ado.....

..... here is the debut 2014 playlist plus, of course, accompanying visual goodies.....

Sendelica – Something in a Grain of Sand      (“The Kaleidoscopic Kat & It’s Autoscopic Ego” 2013 Wales, UK)

Chris & Craig – Isha      (7”single 1966 Los Angeles, USA)

Penny Arkade – Color Fantasy      (recorded 1967 – taken from “Not The Freeze” anthology 2004 USA)

We All Together – Children      (“We All Together” LP 1973 Peru)

Sudden Death Of Stars – Space      (bonus track on “Getting Up, Going Down” 2013 Brittany, France)

Groep 1850 – A Point In This Life      (“Agemo’s Trip To Mother Earth” LP 1967 Netherlands)

the Future Primitives – 1-2-5 [Haunted cover]      (“Songs We Taught Ourselves” 2013 South Africa)

Mystic Brew – Don’t Cry No More      (7”single 2013 Russia)

the Brian Jonestown Massacre – Revolution Number Zero      (“Revolution Number Zero” EP 2013 USA/Germany)

Toy – It’s Been So Long      (“Join The Dots” 2013 UK)

Zane Armstrong – The Otherside [Apple cover]      (“Pull Up the Paisley Covers” compilation 2002 UK)

Crystal Jacqueline – Cousin Jane [Troggs cover]      (“A Fairytale” EP 2013 UK)

the West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band – As The World Rises & Falls      (“Vol.3 – A Child’s Guide to Good & Evil” LP 1968 California, USA)

October Country – Cowboys and Indians      (7”single 1968 California, USA)

the Smoke – October Country       (“The Smoke” LP 1968 USA)

the Dukes of Stratosphear [aka XTC] – The Mole From The Ministry      (“25 O’Clock” EP 1986 UK)

Jacco Gardner – How To Live Again      (“Trouble In Mind Records : Liverpool Psych Fest 2013”  compilation 2013 USA)

the Limiñanas – BB      (“Costa Blanca” 2013 Perpignan, France)

the Warlocks – Endless Drops      (“Skull Worship” 2013 USA)

Maston – Young Hearts      (“Shadows” 2013 USA)

Espectrostatic – Smokeface Appears      (“Espectrostatic” LP 2013 USA)

the UFO Club – My Love Is Waiting      (12”split-EP [with Night Beats] 2013 Texas, USA)

the Dead Skeletons – Odaudleg Ord      (recorded 2012 – taken from “ORD” EP 2013 Iceland)

the Dandelion – All Seeing Eye Syndrome      (“Strange Case of the Dandelion” 2013 Australia)

the Barbarellatones – Dead Man’s Curve [Jan & Dean cover]      (“Confessions of a Teenage Prostitute” 2011)

DeWolff – Gold & Seaweed      (cd-single b-side [to ‘Crumbling Heart’] 2014 Netherlands)

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We played tracks from several new albums that have rapidly wormed their way into our ‘faves of 2013’ this week, beginning with the excellent newie from King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard. I know we’ve said it before, but they are fast becoming one of our all-time favourite bands – they keep producing diverse and intriguing new sounds with each release... in a just world they’d be famous! Another stunner is the latest album by California’s Lumerians – how can we not love a band who, having taken their name from Star Trek aliens, are making some of the most interesting psychedelic music on this planet! And then there are the young Irish teenagers, the Strypes, who, while in thrall to 60’s R&B, have managed to make it their own ‘now-sounds’ as their debut LP amply demonstrates. Then there are the Walking Who from Wollongong whose new EP ‘Mansions’ adds to their growing list of fine releases – you may remember their cool version of Jacques Dutronc’s ‘Et Moi Et Moi Et Moi’ from the recent ‘Mélodie Française’ compilation on Australia’s Original Matters label – as well as Ben Mason’s faithful but solo reproduction of the Zombies’ ‘Odessey & Oracle’ on an extremely limited vinyl LP release. Of course, older music was not neglected on the show, with tracks by Neo-Maya and the Byrds through to T.Rex, the Stranglers and Siouxsie & the Banshees, right up to more recent songs by faves such as Pugwash and Sula Bassana. So much music, so little time... so until next week.....

..... here is the playlist with a smattering of eye-candy.....

King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard – Float Along-Fill Your Lungs      (‘Float Along – Fill Your Lungs’ 2013 Melbourne, Australia)

the Human Expression – Optical Sound      (7”single b-side [to Calm Me Down] 1967 USA)

Pugwash – Hope We Go Around Again      (‘The Olympus Sound’ 2012 Ireland)

Siouxsie & the Banshees – Lunar Camel      (‘Kaleidoscope’ LP 1980 London, UK)

the Stranglers – Just Like Nothing on Earth      (‘The Gospel According to the Meninblack’ LP 1981 UK)

Neo-Maya – UFO      (7”single b-side [to I Won’t Hurt You] 1967 UK)

Lumerians – The Bloom      (‘The High Frontier’ 2013 California, USA)

Ben Mason – Butcher’s Tale (Western Front 1914) [Zombies cover]      (‘The Odessey Odyssey’ LP 2013 Melbourne, Australia)

the Walking Who – Pollen of the Hour      (‘Mansions’ EP 2013 Wollongong, Australia)

DeWolff – Devil’s Due      (‘DeWolff IV’ 2013 Limburg, Netherlands)

Jacco Gardner – The Ballad of Little Jane      (‘Cabinet of Curiosities’ 2013 Netherlands)

T.Rex – Cosmic Dancer      (‘Electric Warrior’ LP 1971 London, UK)

 

MGMT – Your Life is a Lie      (‘MGMT’ 2013 USA)

Twink aka the Aquarian Age – 10,000 Words in a Cardboard Box      (7”single 1968 UK)

the Damned – Grimly Fiendish      (‘Phantasmagoria’ LP 1985 UK)

the Strypes – Mystery Man      (‘Snapshot’ 2013 Ireland)

Wonderboy – Some Kinda Love      (‘New Centre of the Universe, Vol.2’ compilation 2013 Geelong, Australia)

the Selfish Cales – Psychedelic Eyes      (‘Selfish Cales II’ EP 2011 Italy)

the U-Bombs – The Legend of the Unknown Irving      (‘Second Coming’ EP 2013 Adelaide, Australia)

the Strawberry Alarm Clock – Black Butter - Present      (‘Wake Up... It’s Tomorrow’ LP 1968 USA)

the Amboy Dukes – Psalms of Aftermath      (‘The Amboy Dukes’ LP 1967 USA)

Sula Bassana – Bright Nights      (‘Dark Days’ LP 2013 Germany)

the Byrds – What’s Happening?!?!      (‘Fifth Dimension’ LP 1966 USA)

Painted Hills – Kaleidoscope Eyes      (‘Painted Hills’ LP 2010 USA)

the Dedikation – Greenburg, Glickstein, Charles, David Smith & Jones [Cryan Shames cover]      (‘The Dedikation’ LP 1969 New Zealand)

Mandrake Paddle Steamer – Strange Walking Man      (7”single 1969 UK)

McGough & McGear – So Much To Love      (‘McGough & McGear’ LP 1969 UK)