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...
Very sad to hear that another twolegendary musicians have joined the Supergroup in the Sky - and coincidentally on the same day - Jefferson Airplane members Signe Anderson, the original vocalist, and guitarist/vocalist/songwriter Paul Kantner. This intro is rapidly becoming a list of who has died, rather than what I've played on the show - hopefully at least a week will go by without any more major losses....
So here's the playlist for the week, and amazingly with a clip for every song! Enjoy...
Vibravoid - Playing with Beuys ("The Politics of Ecstasy" 2009 Dusseldorf Germany)
Procul Harum - Shine on Brightly ("Shine on Brightly" LP 1968 UK)
Billy Nicholls - Girl From New York ("Would You Believe" LP 1968 UK)
Jefferson Airplane - Wooden Ships ("Volunteers" LP 1969 San Francisco USA)
Pinkunoizu - I Said Hell, You Said No ("The Drop" 2013 Copenhagen, Denmark)
Sundays and Cybele - Waiting for You ("Gypsy House" LP 2015 Hokkaido, Japan)
The Who - Armenia City in the Sky ("The Who Sell Out" LP 1967 UK)
Moodoid feat. Melody's Echo Chamber - Le Lac d'or (CD single 2015 France)
Octopus Syng - Listen to the Moths ("Reverberating Garden No 7" 2014 Finland)
Dean Allen Foyd - Lovely Sort of Death ("The Sounds can be So Cruel" 2012 France
Ghost - Water Door Yellow Gate ("In Stormy Nights" 2007 Tokyo, Japan)
Holy Wave - Son of Sound ("Relax" 2013 Austin, Texas USA)
Elephant Stone - Child of Nature (Om Namah Shivayah) ("The Three Poisons" 2014 Montreal Canada)
The Tremolo Beer Gut - While Squaresville is Watching From Afar... ("From the Vinyl Archives of..." mini-album 2001 Denmark)
Turbonegro - Suffragette City [Bowie] (7' single 1997 Norway)
The Royal Beat Conspiracy - Had To Be a Woman ("Music to Rock the Nation" 10" LP Gothenburg, Sweden
The Cush - The Vigilant Ones ("Between the Leaves" 2009 Fort Worth, Texas USA)
Pineapples From the Dawn of Time - Freaky Acid Planet / Too Much Acid ("Shocker" LP 1987) Brisbane, Australia
Fast Camels - 50 Things on Your Mind ("The Magic Optician" 2007 Glasgow, Scotland)
West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band - Smell of Incense (7" single 1968 USA)
Tom Northcott - Who Planted Thorns in Miss Alice's Garden (7" single b-side [to "Sunny Goodge Street"] 1967 Canada)
The Misunderstood - Never Had a Girl (Like You Before) (7" single 1969 USA/UK)
Jefferson Airplane - And I Like It (alt version prev unreleased) ("Takes Off" LP 1966 USA)
There
was a plethora of 1960’s goodness in this edition of TechnicolourDreaming with the centrepiece
being our featured Compilation of the Week,"2131 South
Michigan Avenue: 60's Garage and Psychedelia from U.S.A. and
Destination Records", a
double-CD from America released in 2009
by Sundazed Records, certainly one of the
leading, and most interesting, reissue labels around today. This particular
compilation features a few bands you may recognise, such as the Cryan’ Shames and Park
Avenue Playground, but many you probably don’t but should – for example
the excellent Daughters of Eve and the Lost Agency – and that’s the fun of these type
of ‘rarities’ compilations, finding great bands you’ve not heard before.
Zooming to current releases, we played a tracks from the long-awaited and finally soon-to-be-released new album
from Dutch psych hero, Jacco Gardner and the “Crocodilians” LP by the UK’s Moth Effect, plus recent releases from bands such
as Psychic Ills, My
Expansive Awareness, Vibravoid and
France’s Moodoid, amongst a bunch of other
delights. So, until next week.....
..... here is the playlist, complete
with sundry visuals.....
Wall of Voodoo - Ring of Fire [Johnny
Cash cover] ("Wall of Voodoo" EP
1980 USA)
Moodoid [featuring Melody's Echo
Chamber] - Le lac
d'or (digital single 2105 Paris, France)
Southern Gentlemen - I Want You Back Again
(7" single 1966 Adelaide, Australia)
We All Together - Tomorrow [Paul
& Linda McCartney cover] ("We All
Together" LP 1972 Peru)
Psychic Ills – Come Around(recorded 2014 USA – taken from “Psych
For Sore Eyes 2” compilation 2014 Germany)
Boeing Duveen and the Beautiful
Soup -
Jabberwock (7" single 1968 UK)
Eternal Tapestry - When I Was In Your
Mind ("A World Out Of Time" 2012
Portland USA)
Palace of Light - Books (7" single
b-side [to Catherine] UK - 2015
reissue of 1991 release)
the Left Banke - Shadows Breaking Over My
Head ("Walk Away Renee/Pretty
Ballerina" LP 1967 USA)
James McKeown and the Negative
Drivers - I See
The Rain Again [Marmalade cover]
("Active Listener : Record Store Day 2013" compilation 2103 New Zealand)
Compilation of the Week
"2131
South Michigan Avenue : 60's Garage and Psychedelia from U.S.A. and
Destination Records" – double-CD pack
the Shady Daze - I'll Make
You Pay (7”single b-side [to Love is a Beautiful Thing] 1967 USA –
taken from "2131 South Michigan Avenue : 60's Garage and Psychedelia from
U.S.A. and Destination Records"compilation 2009 USA - disc 1)
Lord of the Flies - You Made a Fool of
Me (7"single Indiana, USA – taken from
disc 2)
the Cryan' Shames - Ben Franklin's Almanac(7”single b-side [to Sugar & Spice] 1966 USA taken from disc
1)
the Daughters of
Eve - Help Me Boy [Animals cover](7”single 1967 USA – taken from disc 2)
the Lost Agency - Time to Dream (7”single 1967 USA – taken from disc 1)
Park Avenue
Playground - The
Trip (7”single b-side [to I Know] 1968 USA – taken from disc 2)
[the Daughters
of Eve Radio Spot 1967] (taken from disc
2)
White Manna - Acid Head ("White
Manna" 2012 California, USA)
Bleeding Knees Club - It's-A-Happening [Magic Mushrooms cover] ("Nuggets:
Antipodean Interpolations of the First Psychedelic Era" double-LP
compilation2012 Australia)
Traffic - Paper Sun
(7" single 1967 UK)
Moth Effect - Ghosts Afraid of the
Dark ("Crocodilians" 2015 UK)
White Noise - Black Mass: [Electric Storm in Hell]
("An
Electric Storm" 1969 UK)
