Technicolour Dreaming

Covers and Comps (cover versions and compilations, that is...) pretty much sums up this week's show, with both in abundance! And especially those of the Australian variety, such as "Tomorrow Is Today: A Tribute to the Australian Psychedelic Scene 1966-70" and "Burn Your Fingers On The Sun", two classic double-CD psych comps which are now pretty hard to lay your hands on, unless you get lucky in the second-hand bins. The former release also features a disc of current (at the time) bands covering sixties Australian songs ... details of which can also be found in the accompanying book (of the same title) by Iain McIntyre, which also covers fashion, youth culture and society at large, and is still available from Wakefield Press. Unfortunately not many clips of these bands exist, so in some cases I've included an alternative song to give you an idea, in case you missed the show.

Marc Almond - Late Night [Syd Barrett]  ("The Madcap Laughs Again!" 2010 UK)

The Orange Drop - Juniper Pearl  ("Stoned In Love" 2016 Pennsylvania, USA)
Steve and the Board - The Giggle-Eyed Goo  ("The Complete Steve and the Board" 2016 Sydney, Australia)

6 Feet Under - Inspiration in My Head  ("6 Feet Under - In Retrospect [1969-70]" USA)

Jacques Du Tronc - Le Responsible  (7" single 1969 France)

The Legends - High Towers  ("The Legends - High Towers [1965-1973]" USA)

Christine Pilzer - Ah Hem Ho Hu Err  ("Cafe Creme" 7" EP 1967 France)

Peter Pan and the Good Fairies - Kaleidoscope  ("Garageaholic! Psychedelic! Outsider Music! (Arf Arf Audio Relic sampler)" 2008 (recorded 1968) USA)

biG GRunt - The Strain  (12" EP 2016 (recorded March 1970 on the John Peel Show) UK)

biG GRunt - Cyborg Signal (12" EP 2016 (recorded March 1970 on the John Peel Show) UK)
C.A. Quintet - Cold Spider  ("Trip Thru Hell" LP 1969 Minneapolis, Minnesota USA)

Die Dancing Bears - New York Valentine  (7" single 1982 Adelaide, Australia)

The Brats - We Love You [Rolling Stones]  ("Demo 1980 [Live at the Port Elliot Hotel]" 1980 (unreleased) Adelaide, Australia)
The Laurels - Turn on Your Mind  ("Mesozoic" 2011 Sydney,  Australia)

Intercontinental Playboys - Just Turn On  ("Just Turn On" 7" EP 2002 Sydney, Australia)

The Frantics - Farfisa  ("Antipodean Screams" 2003 Australia)

Blue Sunshine Minds - How Does it Feel?  ("Burn Your Fingers On The Sun" 2007 Australia)

The Great Apes - Sebastopol Street [Procession]  ("Tomorrow Is Today: A Tribute to the Australian Psychedelic Scene 1966-70" 2006 Melbourne, Australia)
Mid State Orange - Moving in A  Circle [The Executives]  ("Tomorrow Is Today: A Tribute to the Australian Psychedelic Scene 1966-70" 2006 Melbourne, Australia)
The Black Ryder - Rise  ("Buy the Ticket, Take the Ride" 2009 Sydney, Australia)

Thee Pink Stainless Tail - Gottzar  ("The Sky's A Soft Target" 2003 Melbourne, Australia)

Sand Pebbles - A Thousand Flowers  ("Atlantis Regrets Nothing" 2006 Melbourne, Australia)

Green Circles - Given Time  ("Brass Knobs and Bevelled Edges [And in 23 Different Positions]" 2003 Adelaide, Australia)

Richard In Your Mind - The New Sun  ("The Future Prehistoric" 2007 Sydney, Australia)

Thee Psycho Delmatics - Whoopee-Do  ("Lush, Plush and Flush" 2000 Australia)

Belles Will Ring - Lantern Of Black Light  ("Burn Your Fingers On The Sun" 2007 Sydney, Australia)

3DTV - The Neon Distortion  ("Tomorrow Is Today: A Tribute to the Australian Psychedelic Scene 1966-70" 2006, Australia)
The Alohas - Kooksville  ("Get Leid With" 2000 Sydney, Australia)

The Sun Blindness - A Trip In The Painted World  ("Like Pearly Clouds" 2008 Melbourne, Australia)

Ian Wettenhall - Pirate Lies  ("Antipodean Screams" 2003 Australia)

Technicolour Dreaming

Beginning with the MC5’s clarion call, this week’s edition, hosted by a solo Peter Brat, ranged from local drone specialists Beige Abrasions through the electro-pop of new Australian band Total Control, Finnish surf from Laika and the Cosmonauts, classic 60’s psych from the Balloon Farm, iconic punk from X-Ray Spex, recent Australian garage from the Frowning Clouds and the Intercontinental Playboys, an Iggy cover by the Church, some Monkees, a nod to Star Trek from Spizzenergi and lots more, before finishing with a cut from the current ‘Album of the Month’ by local surf twangers DIESELWITCH.....

.....so here is the full playlist.....

MC5 – Kick Out The Jams     (‘Kick Out The Jams’ LP 1969 USA)

Wooden Shjips – Looking Out     (West 2011 USA)

Beige Abrasions – Splash of White     (demo 2011 Adelaide, Australia)

Metal Urbain – Lady Coca-Cola     (7”single 1978 France : played from Anarchy in Paris anthology CD)

Total Control – Love Performance      (Henge 2011 Aust.)

the Intercontinental Playboys – Journey to the Centre of my Dirty Mind     (Sonic Seducers 2005 Aust.)

the Church – The Endless Sea [Iggy Pop cover]     (Box Of Birds 1999 Aust.)

Mondo Phase Band – Equaliser     (split 7”single [with Nothing People] 2011 Adelaide, Aust./USA)

Sweatmaster – I am a Demon and I love Rock’n’roll     (‘Pushing Scandinavian Rock to the Man Vol.3’ compilation)

The Weirdos – We Got The Neutron Bomb     (7”single 1978 USA)

Spizzenergi – Where’s Captain Kirk?     (7”single 1979 UK)

X-Ray Spex – Identity     (‘Germfree Adolescents’ LP 1978 UK)

Klark Kent – Don’t Care     (7”single 1978 UK)

Siouxsie and the Banshees – Metal Postcard (Mittageisen)     (‘The Scream’ LP 1978 UK)

Golden Triangle – Rollercoaster     (Double Jointer 2010 USA)

Thee Oh Sees – Chem-Factor     (Carrion Crawler 2011 USA)

Laika and the Cosmonauts – The Ipcress File     (Cosmology: 1988-2008 Anthology Finland)

the Surfacers – The Russian     (from ’Continental’ magazine #11 bonus CD 2004 USA)

the Frowning Clouds – Do Like Me     (The Frowning Clouds 2010 Aust.)

the Rolling Stones – It’s Not Easy     (‘Aftermath’ LP 1965 UK)

Die Dancing Bears – N.Y. Valentine     (7”single 1982 Adelaide, Aust.)

the Monkees – Zam and Zor     (‘The Birds, the Bees and the Monkees’ LP 1968 USA)

the Twilights – Time and Motion Study Man     (7”single b-side 1967 Adelaide, Aust.)

the Balloon Farm – A Question of Temperature     (7”single 1967 USA)

DieselWitch – Find Your Own Way Home     (DieselWitch Will Kill You 2011 Adelaide, Aust.)   #

        #   “Album Of The Month”  

Technicolour Dreaming

Once again this week, Peter Brat was the sole presenter on the show... but the Cat is returning soon! As usual I played a number of 60’s bands, such as the Nazz and the West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, as well as a very cool psych track by the Bee Gees from their second album, a few new tracks [my favourite being one from the great new album by the Barbarellatones] and various points in between, including a bunch of singles and album tracks by some of Australia’s finest like the Lipstick Killers, God, the Moodists and the Dagoes... I finished with another track from our current “Album of the Month” by Sydney band, the Laurels...

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

the Beach Boys – Hang on to your Ego     (out-take from ‘Smile’ sessions – taken from ‘The Trip’ compilation)

Blue Sunshine Minds – How does it feel     (‘Burn Your Fingers On The Sun’ – psych. compilation 2009 Aust.)

the Intercontinental Playboys – Exit Sign      (Sonic Seducers)

the Scoundrelles – Why doesn’t someone take this goddamn girl away from me     (Organic Molecules In Action!)

Eric Burdon & the Animals – Paint It Black     (‘Winds of Change’ LP 1967 UK)

God God Dammit Dammit – Harry     (The Very First Day Of The Sunshine)

God – My Pal     (7”single 1988 Aust.)

the Lipstick Killers – Hindu Gods [of Love]      (7”single 1979 Aust.)

the Moodists – The Disciples Know     (‘Thirsty’s Calling’ EP 1982 Aust.)

Tyrannosaurus Rex – She was born to be my unicorn     (Bolan Boogie)

the West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band – Smell of Incense     (‘Vol. 2’ LP 1967 USA)

the Nazz – Open My Eyes     (7”single 1968 USA)

the Bee Gees – The Earnest of Being George     (‘Horizontal’ LP 1967 Aust/UK)

the New Vague – Luv Her To Death     (CD single 2008 Adelaide, Aust.)

the Yard Apes – Goin’ South     (Devil’s Road)

the Barbarellatones – Bad Vibes     (Confessions of a Teenage Prostitute)

Dieselwitch – Forbidden Purple City     (Surfadelica)

Colin Buckley – Little Egypt     (7”single 1965 Aust.)

the Dagoes – We Sell Soul [13^th Floor Elevators cover]     (Supreme

Siouxsie & the Banshees – The Staircase (mystery)     (7”single b-side 1978 UK)

Die Dancing Bears – New York Valentine     (7”single 1982 Adelaide, Aust.)

the Laurels – Merry Go Round     (Mesazoic)  #

    # ‘Album of the Month’