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...
An appropriate first track - "I Been Gone", cos I certainly have been...The Cat is back!! I've been on-air for the most part during my on-line absence, but the pressures of work, and the Christmas / New Year's "busy season" means that I've had extremely limited time lately to devote to the blog. When you need to weigh up whether you have time for finding more film-clips or making sure you've got clean clothes for work in the morning, which is only a few hours away, somethings gotta give! So here's the first post since late November last year (is it that long already?), with more to come soon- enjoy!
Moon Duo - I Been Gone (Circles 2012 Portland, Oregon, USA)
KAS Product - Mind (Les Punks: The French Connection - The First Wave of French Punk 1977-80 compilation)
The Coathangers - Merry Go Round (Suck My Shirt 2014 Atlanta, Georgia USA)
Metal Urbain - Paris Maquis (Les Punks: The French Connection - The First Wave of French Punk 1977-80 compilation)
Asphyxiation - L'Acrostique D'Amour (12" single which came with the "What is This Thing Called Disco?" LP 1980 Melbourne, Australia)
Alternative TV - Action Time Vision (Action Time Vision- A Story of Independant UK Punk 1976 - 1979 compilation)
The Noble Krell - Never Ever (The First Two Vinyl 45's 2015 Tucson, Arizona USA)
Surfing Arcanis - Tenbrosa Silhouetta (7" single 2015 Chile)
Tangerine Love Puppies - Sleep Walker (digital single 2016 Shrewsbury, UK)
Adam And the Ants - Zerox (Action Time Vision - A Story of Independant UK Punk 1976 - 1979 compilation)
Bryllig and the Nymbol Swabes - Now You're Gone (Psychedelic States: Florida in the 60's compilation, Chattahoochee, Florida USA)
The Fab Phatons - I've Got That Feeling (Psychedelic States: Florida in the 60's compilation Pensacola, Florida USA)
Pure Hell - These Boots Were Made for Walking [Nancy Sinatra] (Action Time Vision - A Story of Independant UK Punk 1976 - 1979 compilation)
8x8 - The Essence (Inflorescence 2016 New York, USA/Kiev, Ukraine)
The Byrds - Psychodrama City (Fifth Dimension LP 1966 USA)
The GTV's - Here's A Thing (Organ Donor 7" single 2015 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania USA)
Singapore Sling - Call Me Trash (Perversity, Desperation and Death 2009 Iceland)
Jim Noir - On A Different Shelf (Jim Noir 2008 UK)
The Hare and the Moon - Cruel Henry (Wood Witch 2015 Edinburgh, Scotland UK)
Without further ado, here it is, the playlist for last week, ONLY a week late...a mixed bag of tracks, with new releases from Moon Duo (album "Occult Architecture Vol 1" due out early next year), Beaulieu Porch, Garden Gate, Lola Colt and Mother Upduff.
Here we go.........!
The Smoke - Utterly Simple (proposed 7" single 1968, never released UK)
Beaulieu Porch - Apollo's Here ("Sarum Sounds" 2016 UK)
Ron Grainer Orchestra - Boy Meets Girl ("Themes Like..." LP 1969 UK)
Nick Nicely - Raw Euphoria ("Space of Second" 2014 UK)
E.L. Heath - Seren ("Tŷ" 2013 Wales, UK)
Nashville Teens - I'm A Lonely One ("The Nashville Teens" LP 1972 Surrey, UK)
Children of Leir - Drowning in Fear ("Children of Leir (3rd Album)" 2016 Leicester UK)
Risque Humour - To The Sea ("Playground" LP 1984 Adelaide, Australia)
Pink Floyd - Scream Thy Last Scream ("Interstellar Overdrive: The Alternate Masters '66-'68" UK)
Groep 1850 - Mother No Head ("Agemo's Trip to The Moon" LP 1968 Netherlands)
Moon Duo - Cold Fear ("Occult Architecture Volume 1" [to be released 2017] USA)
The Dunes - Mountain (digital single 2016 Adelaide, Australia)
The Selfish Cales - See Tomorrow's Shores ("Throw Your Watch To The Water" 2015 Italy)
Garden Gate - Malevolent Thoughtform Dispersal ("Bonfires" 2016 USA)
Heaters - Master Splinter ("Holy Water Pool" 2015 USA)
Lola Colt - Jaguar (digital single 2016 London, UK)
Mother Upduff - Concept and Scope ("The Decay" 2016 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada)
The Jason Tryp Experience - She Creature (From the Deep) ("The Many Colours Of Tryp" 2013 California, USA)
The Disturbed - Don't Look Down ("Astonishing Sound Show Stories Volume One" 2001 Glasgow, UK)
The Smoking Trees - Lifetime Experience ("The Archer and the Bull" 2016 California, USA)
And after an absence of nearly 3 months, The Cat finally returns to the airwaves, though without husband and partner-in-music, Peter Brat, who tragically passed away in July. All those who knew The Brat, whether personally, or by association with Three D Radio’s“Technicolour Dreaming”,“Obscured by …”, or his musical career, will surely agree that his death is great loss to music of all kinds, and especially his particular love, anything that could remotely be construed as psychedelic.
Hats off to Harry and Michael Hunter, who have been keeping the Technicolour Dreaming driver’s seat warm this past couple of months & doing a fine job- the show must go on!
Needless to say, the “comeback show” featured many Cat and Bratfaves from round the world, including The Fast Camels, Jim Noir, Nick Nicely, Thee Oh Sees, Vibravoid and Dolly Rocker Movement from the past decade, Roxy Music and Brian Eno from the 70’s, and many more. Particularly exciting is the news that Moon Duo will finally be playing in Adelaide in November, after their disappointing cancellation as the support for John Spencer Blues Explosion a while back. Hopefully an interview with Riley and Sanae is in the works when they get here - fingers crossed!
So …. until next week, here is the playlist plus associated visuals..... including footage of The Pretty Things performing “SF Sorrow” for the first time in its entirety, at Abbey Road Studios in 1998.
The Atlantics - Take A Trip (“Collectibles” 2011 Australia)
High Learys - Letter to Alice (CD single, 2015 Perth, Australia)
Fast Camels - 50 Things on your Mind ("The Magic Optician" 2007 Glasgow, UK)
Nick Nicely - 49 Cigars ("49 Cigars" EP 2015 UK)
Toy - Conductor ("Join the Dots” 2013 UK)
The Moles - We are the Moles (pt 1) (7" single 1968 UK)
The Dead Heir - Wolves At my Door (CD Single 2015 Melbourne, Australia)
The Who - Armenia City in the Sky (“The Who Sell Out" LP 1967 UK)
Thee Oh Sees - Sticky Hulks ("Mutilator Defeated at Last" 2015 USA)
And as an extra bit of eye candy, The Pretty Thingsperforming their 1968 LP“SF Sorrow”in it’s entirety, at Abbey Road Studios in 1998, narrated by Arthur Brown -
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 thecheap’ 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 freakbeatfantoms”,
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 1968California
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)
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 freakbeatfantoms”
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 freakbeatfantoms” 5-CD compilation box set2015 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)
For our “Compilation of the Week” we decided to go with one
of our favourite Artist Anthologies – Donovan’s “Try for the Sun : The Journey of Donovan”, a 3 CD + 1 DVD box-set
with a 58 page book, released in 2005. It’s housed in a luscious purple faux-velvet box, so we normally keep it
safely locked away to avoid damage, but we couldn’t resist giving it an airing
this week. The DVD features a previously unreleased 1970 documentary titled “There Is An Ocean” about Donovan,
accompanied by family, friends and band mates, cruising around the Greek
Islands on his yacht, stopping to give impromptu performances on the beach to
curious onlookers – we couldn’t find it on youtube
to show you, but maybe you’ll have better luck. Also this week, we featured pre-releases
by California’s Moon Duo and UK band Worthless plus the regular mix of new and old
tracks from both Australia and around the world to share with you. So, until next
week.....
..... here is the
playlist plus some visual aids....
Moon Duo - Night Beat ("Shadow
of the Sun" 2015 California, USA)
Courtney Barnett - History Eraser ("World
Cafe Sessions EP" 2012 Melbourne, Australia)
the Blue Giant Zeta Puppies - Laughing Stock [Love cover] (recorded 2013 Wales, UK –
taken from "The Active Listener presents : Forever Changing - A Tribute to Love's ‘Forever Changes’" compilation
2014 New Zealand)
Ian Skelly - I See You ("Cut
From a Star" 2013 Scotland, UK)
Trolley - The Calico Cat ("Things
That Shine and Glow" 2011 Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA)
Love Affair - Up from the Skies [Hendrix cover – previously unreleased]
(recorded 1968 Melbourne – taken from “A Magical
Mystery Tour – 1967-1971 : The David Fraser Tapes”
compilation 2001 Australia)
the Flower Travelling Band - Satori [Enlightenment]
(“Satori” LP 1971 Japan)
the Twilights - Paternosta Row
("Once Upon a Twilight" LP
1968 Adelaide, Australia)
Forever Pavot - Miguel el Salam (7"single
2015 Paris, France)
Will Z. - Nefle ("New
Start" 2015 Belgium)
Love, Hippies and Gangsters - This is What We
Want ("Sun Over Babaluma" EP 2015 London, UK)
Flyying Colours - Not Today (single
2014 Melbourne Australia)
Beaulieu Porch - To Be Unicorn ("The
Carmelite Divine'"2015 UK)
Buried Feather - Time It
Takes (7”single 2012 Melbourne, Australia)
July - The Way ("July"
LP 1967 UK)
Glass Skies - Spirits ("Glass
Skies" EP 2014 Adelaide, Australia)
The Dunes - Badlands ("Bad:Lands" EP 201 Adelaide,
Australia)
#COMPILATION OF THE WEEK #
"Try
For the Sun - The Journey of Donovan"boxset
Donovan - Sunny South
Kensington (“Mellow
Yellow” LP 1967 USA/UK – taken from "Try
For the Sun - The Journey of Donovan" compilation boxset 2005 UK – Disc 1)
Donovan - Barabajagal[Love is Hot](7”single 1969 UK – taken from "Try For
the Sun - The Journey of Donovan" compilation boxset 2005 UK – Disc 2)
Donovan - Season of
the Witch(“Sunshine
Superman” LP 1966 USA/UK – taken from "Try For the Sun - The
Journey of Donovan" compilation
boxset 2005 UK – Disc 1)
Donovan - Celia of the Seals
(7”single 1970 UK – taken from "Try For the Sun - The Journey of
Donovan" compilation boxset
2005 UK – Disc 3)
Donovan- The Fat
Angel (“Sunshine
Superman” LP 1966 USA/UK – taken from "Try For the Sun - The
Journey of Donovan" compilation
boxset 2005 UK – Disc 1)
Worthless - Pizza Break (from the
pre-release of "All My Friends Are Stone" LP 2015 UK)
White Candles - Tire-moi des mes reves (7"single b-side [to Monolith] 2015 Philadelphia, USA)
