Technicolour Dreaming

Little ol' Adelaide has quite a musical heritage, which is probably why it was formally recognised by UNESCO in 2015 as a designated "City of Music", and one of only 116 cities around the globe recognised for their musical culture (OK, 116 is actually quite a few...!) So ahead of next week's Radiothon, I played a broad selection of Adelaide bands ranging from the 1960's to 2003, with some more recent examples expected to surface on the show on the 23rd (ie tomorrow). The eagle-eyed amongst you will probably notice that some of the Adelaide video clips don't match the actual song played (as the clips don't exist - yet), but I've included them as an example of the type of music (for strictly historical reasons - of course). And stop the presses, next week will be an extra special, one-off, "Obscured by ... Technicolour" with the inimitable Mr Michael Hunter returning as co-host - expect some, shall we say, unusual music on the Radiothon show. Playlist and video clips? See below...

Prince Rupert's Drops - Plague Ride  ("Run Slow" 2012 New York, USA)

The Blue Giant Zeta Puppies - Martians Don't Surf  ("12 Theories of Time Travel" 2015 UK)
Toyland - Night Flight Over Palestine  ("Toyland" 12" EP 1983 Adelaide, Australia)

The Lumerians - Xulux  ("Transmalinnia" 2011 San Francisco, USA)

The Stonefish - Cement Head  ("From 20,000 Fathoms" 12" EP 1986 Perth, Australia)

The Cure - Primary  ("Faith" LP 1981 UK)

Nuvo Bloc - Atomic Fiction  (7" single 1980 Adelaide, Australia)

The Liminanas - Zippo  ("Malamore" 2016 France)

The Third Eye - Pass Myself  (7" single 1982, UK)

Karova's Milkshake - Purple Sun of Glastonbury  ("In the Shade of the Purple Sun" 2015 Russia)

The Garden Path - Times Out Of Mind  ("Five Reasons" LP 1986 Adelaide, Australia)

Mystic Brew - Yesterday's Sky  ("Something More Than Dream" LP 2015 Russia)

Julian Cope - Sunspots ("Fried" LP 1984 UK)

The Prisoners - Hurricane  ("The Wisermiserdemelza" 1983 UK)

The Unheard - One Day  ("Burn Your Fingers on the Sun" compilation 2007 Wollongong, Australia)

3D TV - A Summation of All these Burdens  ("Burn Your Fingers on The Sun" compilation 2007 Sydney, Australia)

Zoot - Little Roland Lost  (7" single [b-side to "Monty and Me"] 1969 Adelaide, Australia)

The Music Machine - The People In Me  (7" EP 1966 USA)

The Bad Poets - Rocks and Sand  (demo 1980 Adelaide, Australia)

The Human League - Being Boiled  ("Travelogue" LP 1980 Sheffield, UK)

Baby Doll - Swamp Surfing  (demo 2003 Adelaide, Australia)

The Spikes - Pass Myself [The Third Eye]  (7" single [b-side to "River of Love"] 1986 Adelaide, Australia)

The Balloon Farm - A Question of Temperature  (7" Single 1967 USA)

Travis Wellington Hedge - Hey Bulldog [The Beatles]  (7" single 1969 Adelaide, Australia)

Captain Sensible - The 4 Marys Go Go Dance All Night At The Groovy Cellar  (7" single [b-side to "There Are More Snakes Than Ladders"] 1984 UK)

Pink Floyd - A Saucerful of Secrets ("A Saucerful of Secrets" LP 1968 UK)

Tyrnaround - Suicidal Flowers [The Crystal Chandelier]  ("Colour Your Mind" 12" EP 1986 Brisbane, Australia)

Technicolour Dreaming

I always try to cover as much ground, globally-speaking, as possible -

this week's offerings included music from Israel, Japan, Russia, France, Iceland, 

and the Netherlands, and of course the USA, UK, and Australia,

 including several tracks from the home of Three D Radio,

Adelaide, Australia. 

 So here's the play-list, plus quite a few clips for your visual edification...

The Churchills - So Alone Today / Debka  ("Churchills" LP 1969 Tel Aviv, Israel)
 

David Bowie - Speed of Life  ("Low" LP 1977 UK)
 

Subtract-S - Mb Ph  ("Love From Outer Space" 2012 Adelaide, Australia)
Nuvo Bloc - Western Drugs  (demo 1981 Adelaide, Australia)
Exhibit A - Confusion  (demo 1982 Adelaide, Australia)
 

Kikagaku Moyo - Streets of Calcutta  ("Forest of Lost Children" LP 2014 Japan)
 

Sun Dial - Let It Go  ("Fazer" EP 1992 UK)
 

Polska Radio One - Time Eternity  ("Cosmos Inside" 2013 Yekaterinburg, Russia) 
 

White Fence - Wolf Gets Red Faced  ("For the Recently Found Innocent" 2014 Los Angeles UK)
 

Soft Hearted Scientists - At Night the Quarry Glows Like A Mother Ship

 ("Uncanny Tales From the Everyday Undergrowth" 2016 UK)
 

Liverpool Scene - Batpoem  ("Amazing Adventures Of..." LP 1968 UK )
 

Jacques Dutronc - Hippie Hippie Hourrah  (7" single 1968 France)
 

Balthazar - La Marche Des Travailleurs  (7" single 1968 France)
 

Jane et Julie [Barry Green] - Notre homme a moi  (7"single b-side [to "Boomerang"] 1972 France)
 

Mandrake Paddle Steamer - Strange Walking Man  (7" single 1969 UK)
 

The Brian Jonestown Massacre - Mandrake Handshake  ("Thingy-Wingy" Mini-Album 2015 USA)
 

Dead Skeletons - Dead is God  ("Orð" 2012 Reykjavík, Iceland)
 

Royal Chant - Dick Move  ("War Cry of Failure" 2015 Sydney, Australia)

Tooth and Tusk - Nothing Makes Sense  (CD Single 2015 Melbourne, Australia)
 

David Bowie - Pictures of Lily  ("Substitute -The Songs of the Who" compilation 2001 UK)
 

King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - Paper Mache Dream Balloon  ("Paper Mache Dream Balloon" 2015

 Sydney, Australia)
 

The Mynd Gardeners - Where Tomorrow Lands  ("The Acyd Raindrop Umbrella" 2012 Adelaide, Australia)
 

The Salt - Lucifer  (7" single 1968 USA)
 

Moon Duo - Mazes  ("Mazes" 2011 San Francisco USA)
 

Frowning Clouds - Do Like Me  ("Listen Closlier"  2009 Geelong, Australia)

The Mops - Inside Looking Out  ("Psychedelic Sounds in Japan" LP 1968 Japan)
 

The Molting Vultures - It's What I Wanted  ("Drop In and Go" 2009 Adelaide, Australia)
Adjeef the Poet - Iekk! (Eek!), I'm a.... Freak  (7" single 1967, The Netherlands)
The Sand Pebbles - All My Life (I Love You)  ("Ghost Transmissions" 2004 Australia)
The Break - Cylinders  ("Church of the Open Sky" 2010 Australia)

Technicolour Dreaming

There was a definite German flavour to the show this week, with Vibravoid, Klaus Nomi, and Can featuring (lots and lots of Can, certainly more of an airing than ever before, and very likely, ever again!) The latter two bands were choices of fill-in co-host Mike G, who certainly put a different spin on the second half of Technicolour Dreaming! A smattering of local Adelaide bands also featured, with The Dunes, Wild Rocket, Blood Plastic and an old but good one from Nuvo Bloc thrown in for good measure. The rest of the show was the usual mix of old and new from round the world … and following the Australian Playboys’ “Sad” with The Social Outcasts’ “Mad” was totally unintentional!

So here’s the playlist, with clips galore…..

Trappist Afterland - Penitents Rail     (“Like a Beehive, The Hill Was Alive” 2014 Melbourne, Australia)     

The Magnetic Mind - Stay Away from the Door     (“Active Listener Sampler No.8” compilation 2013 London, UK) 

Dark Ocean Colors - When Both Our Worlds Collide     (“Patches and Patterns EP” 2014 USA) 

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

Rolling Stones - In Another Land     (“Their Satanic Majesties Request” LP 1967 UK) 

Electric Prunes - Vox Wah Wah Pedal commercial     (“Acid Dreams: Epitaph” compilation 1967 Los Angeles, USA)

The Regiment - My Soap Won’t Float     (7” single 1967 USA) 

The Mystery Trend - Johnny Was a Good Boy     (7” single 1967 San Francisco, USA)  

The Australian Playboys - Sad     (7” single [b-side to “Black Sheep RIP”] 1967 Australia)

The Social Outcasts - Mad     (7’’ Split single [with Ronnie and the Renegades] 1959 USA)

Vibravoid - Hole in My Shoe [Traffic]     (“The Stepping Stone EP” 7” 2015 Dusseldorf, Germany)

Nuvo Bloc - Equal Education     (Demo 1980 Adelaide, Australia) 

The Dunes - End of the Beginning     (“Live at the Sound Lounge 2015” 2015 Adelaide, Australia) 

Can - One More Night / Vitamin C     (“Ege Banyasi” LP  1972 Germany) 

Clutch - White's Ferry     (“From Beale Street to Oblivion” 2007 Washington DC, USA) 

LoneLady - (I Can See) Landscapes     (“Hinterland” 2015 Manchester UK) 

The Dunes - Door to the Mind     (“Live at the Sound Lounge 2015” 2015 Adelaide, Australia)  

Can - I'm So Green     (“Ege Banyasi” LP  1972 Germany)  

Blood Plastic - King Blood     (“Blood Makes Fantastic Plastic” 2014 Adelaide, Australia) 

Klaus Nomi - I'm Wasting My Time     (“Klaus Nomi” LP 1981 Germany) 

Blood Plastic - Round Around      (“Blood Makes Fantastic Plastic” 2014 Adelaide, Australia)  

Can - Moonshake     (“Future Days” LP 1973 Germany) 

LoneLady - Army     (“Nerve Up”  2010 Manchester UK ) 

Wild Rocket - Year of the Snake     (“Daisy Dream” 2015 Adelaide, Australia) 

Klaus Nomi - The Nomi Song     (“Klaus Nomi” LP 1981 Germany) 

David Bowie - Sweet Thing     (“Diamond Dogs” LP 1974 UK) 

David Bowie - Big Brother     (“Diamond Dogs” LP 1974 UK) 

King Crimson - 21st Century Schizoid Man     (“In the Court of the Crimson King (An Observation by King Crimson)” LP 1969 UK)

…and an extra treat - The Rolling Stones, with the instrumental track (take 9) from “In Another Land”, together with some great photos from the “Their Satanic Majesties….” sessions - 

  

Obscured By...

It was a largely Australian show today, beginning with our regular selection of 60’s and early 70’s sounds by artists as diverse as Barrington Davis, Love Machine and Adelaide’s the Hergs, and including the weird single from an equally weird yet iconic Aussie movie, Stork. Then it was time for some examples of the particularly Antipodean take on post-punk which flourished here after 1977, featuring, amongst others, the Fabulous Marquises, Tactics, the Moodists and Ugly, Ugly, Ugly. Then it was overseas to Germany, the USA and even Japan, where we heard a long piece from Terahara Taka’aki, better known as J.A.Caesar, taken from the wonderful ‘Electric Psychedelic Sitar Headswirlers’ series... and not forgetting the UK, which provided a couple of songs from the very cool reissue of the first 3 albums by the Bee Gees, which was our featured boxset. We finished with our “Letter of the Week” segment, diving blindly into the C sections of the 3D library and finding... Colostomy Bag Lady, for instance! Great stuff! All these rarities and forgotten gems presented for you this week by the Cat and the Brat.....

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

White Spirit – Going Away     (‘Scene : ABC-TV’ LP 1970 Tasmania, Australia)

Love Machine – May My Heart Be Cast Into Stone [Toys cover]     (7”single b-side 1969 Aust.)

Hans Poulsen – Stork’s Theme     (7”single from ‘Stork’ soundtrack 1971 Aust.)

the Meating – Back Home     (7”single b-side 1970 Aust.)

18CQ – I’m Gonna Treat You Good     (7”single 1965 Aust.)

Frog Hollow – Slowish One     (‘Over Under Sideways Down’ EP 1972 Aust.)

the Hergs – Style of Love     (7”single 1966 Adelaide, Aust.)

Barrington Davis – Raining Teardrops     (7”single 1966 Aust.)

the Limit – Happy Life     (7”single 1967 Adelaide, Aust.)

the Jetsonnes – Newspaper     (7” split-single [with International Exiles] 1980 Aust.)

the Fabulous Marquises – Honeymoons     (7”single 1980 Melbourne, Aust.)

Nuvo Bloc – Never Mind     (“5MMM’s Compilation Album of Adelaide Bands 1980” LP 1980 Adelaide, Aust.)

the Moodists – Six Dead Birds     (‘Double Life’ EP 1985 Aust. – taken from ‘Two Fisted Art’ anthology 2005)

the Sunday Painters – Rebel, Rebel [Bowie cover]     (7”single b-side 1981 Wollongong, Aust.)

the International Exiles – Let’s Be So     (7”split single [with the Jetsonnes] 1980 Aust.)

Ugly, Ugly, Ugly – Pride     (‘Et in Arcadia ego’ EP 1983 Aust.)

Tactics – Watch My Hands     (‘Long Weekend’ EP 1979 Aust.)

Amon Duul ll – Wie Der Wind Am Ende Einer Strasse     (‘Wolf City’ LP 1972 Germany)

Faust – It’s a rainy day sunshine girl     (‘So Far’ LP 1972 Germany)

J.A. Caesar – A Psychedelic Opera... excerpts     (live 197? Japan - taken from Vol. 9 of ‘Electric Psychedelic Sitar Headswirlers’ boxset: for more information see  http://jrs.paullee.ru/jrsb2c10.htm )

Black Sabbath – Behind the Wall of Sleep     (‘Black Sabbath’ LP 1970 UK)

            “The Bee Gees : The Studio Albums: 1967–1968” boxset  (2007 UK/Aust.)

 

  the Bee Gees – Mrs Gillespies’ Refridgerator     (unreleased 1968 – bonus track on reissue of ‘Horizontal’ LP 1968)

  the Bee Gees – Craise Finton Kirk, Royal Academy of Arts     (alt. version – bonus track on reissue of ‘Bee Gees 1^st’ LP 1967)

the Smoke – Cowboys and Indians     (7”single 1968 USA)

 Colours – Lovin’      (7”single 1968 USA)     #

Colostomy Bag Lady – diGESTiCiDe     (‘Electro-convulsive Therapy for All’ 2006 Adelaide, Aust.)     #

cooperblack – Spanish Waltz     (‘My Art Is Bleeding’ 2008 Adelaide Aust.)     #

     #  “Letter of the Week”

Technicolour Dreaming

This week it was the Cat... without her Brat... presenting Technicolour Dreaming! The show featured some new releases, including ones from local Adelaide bands such as Friends and D.D.Divine & Psycho Green, and a track from the new “Rats, Thieves & Liars” EP by Ride Into The Sun... plus, from the US and the UK, songs from the new Thee Oh Sees and the Horrors albums, respectively. Naturally, there was a smattering of older faves ranging from the 60’s sounds of Toni McCann and the Human Expression, to local 80’s electro-punk outfit, Nuvo Bloc, through to the Black Angels, Joy Zipper and Russia’s Messer Chups, and finishing with the final spin of the Laurels as the current “Album of the Month”... hmmm, what will be the August selection?

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

Tyrnaround – Colour Your Mind     (12” EP 1987 Brisbane, Australia)

the Horrors – I can see through you     (Skying)

the Lovetones – Was I there in your future?     (Meditations)

Dios Malos – You got me all wrong     (Dios Malos)

Thee Oh Sees – Corrupted Coffin     (Castlemania)

Tim Whitt – The Litany [LeighStarDust cover]     (‘If I Dress Up: A Tribute to LeighStarDust’ comp. 2006 Adelaide, Aust.)

Messer Chups – Diabolik Boogie     (Crazy Price)

The Revillos – Rev Up     (‘Rev Up’ LP 1979 UK)

Caleb – Baby your Phrasing is bad     (7”single 1967 UK)

 the Human Expression – Optical Sound     (7”single 1966 US)

the Rolling Stones – 2000 Light Years from Home     (‘Their Satanic Majesties’ Request’ LP 1967 UK)

Joy Zipper – Drugs/Dosed & Became Invisible     (American Whip)

Siouxsie & the Banshees – Israel     (7”single 1980 UK)

the Black Angels – Manipulation     (Passover)

Nuvo Bloc – Atomic Fiction     (7”single 1980 Adelaide)

Roxy Music – Both Ends Burning     (‘Siren : the Fifth Roxy Music Album’ LP 1975 UK)

Ride Into The Sun – Run to the Hills     (‘Rats, Thieves & Liars’ cdEP 2011 Adelaide)

D.D.Divine & Psycho Green – Higher Dreams     (demo 2011 Adelaide)

Friends – Honey, I Lost the Dog     (demo 2011 Adelaide)

the Chocolate – I’m an Animal     (7”single 1967 Adelaide)

Toni McCann – Saturday Date     (7”single 1965 Brisbane, Australia)

the Laurels – What she does to me     (Mesozoic)   #

     #  ”Album of the Month”

Obscured By...

Peter Brat was the lone ‘DOT’ this week on “Obscured by...” and focused primarily on 1960’s music, though a few more recent tracks (...well, 80’s anyway!) were also played, including the version of ‘Greggary Peckory’ by Siouxsie & the Banshees’ drummer Budgie, taken from the British TV series, “Play for Today”, as well as a song from Adelaide post-punk band, Nuvo Bloc. But back to the 60’s... a smattering of local and Australian talent started the show, including a couple of live TV performances; one by Procession, the other featuring Wendy Saddington singing in a rare duo performance with Jeff St John... both sang with the band, Copperwine, but not in the same line-ups. I also played the full 17 minute suite, “In Held Twas In I”, from the second Procol Harum LP, the theme song from the classic “Bedazzled” movie by Peter Cook & Dudley Moore, plus a selection from the new “Circus Days: Pop/Psych Obscurities 1966-70” six cd boxset put out by UK label ‘Past&Present’, including a couple of “mystery tracks” contained therein.... hmmmm!?

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

the Vacant Lot – Don’t let me sleep too long (7”single 1967 Australia)

Wendy Saddington [with Jeff St John] – Don’t Get Me Wrong (live on ‘GTK’ TV 1970 Australia)

Procession – Up, Up & Away/Happy Times (live on ‘UpTight’ TV 1967 Aust.)

Freshwater – Hello Sunshine (7”single 1971 Aust.)

Lynne Randell – Wasn’t It You (7”single 1968 – US-only release)

Magic – I Want to Fly (7”single 1969 Aust.)

Headband – Stay With Me (7”single 1973 Adelaide, Aust.)

Jim Sullivan – Jerome (UFO)

the Walker Brothers – Child of Flames (Nite Flight [written & sung by the late John Maus])

Hawkwind – Paranoia [Pts 1&2] (Hawkwind)

Mad River – Wind Chimes (‘Ah Feel Like Ahcid’ : US 60’s comp.)

Budgie – Greggary Peccary (‘Play for Today’ BBC-TV 1982 UK)

Procol Harum – In Held Twas In I (Shine On Brightly)

‘promo’ – Psych-Out (ad for the 1967 US movie)

Peter Cook & Dudley Moore – Bedazzled (theme from 1967 UK movie)

Russell Morris – Into Paper Walls [the Real Thing: Part 3] (7”single 1969 Aust.)

? – (my dream world?)? (‘mystery track’ from ‘Circus Days: Pop/Psych Obscurities 1966-1972’ Vol 2 – UK comp.)

the Scots of St James – Eiderdown Clown (1967 single: taken from ‘Circus Days...’ Vol 6)

Alex Harvey – Dance of the Seven Scarabs (1967 acetate: from ‘Circus Days...’ Vol 2)

Shy Limbs – Reputation (1969 single: from ‘Circus Days...’ Vol 3)

Bent Frame – Fairy Lights (1971 single: from ‘Circus Days...’ Vol 4)

Cecil McCartney – Liquid Blue (1968 single: from ‘Circus Days...’ Vol 5)

? – ? (‘mystery track’ from ‘Circus Days...’ Vol 4)

the Triffids – Family Name (from their self-released 1983 ‘Dungeon Tape’, Perth, Aust.)

Seems Twice – Look at It (‘Non-Plussed’ EP 1980 Aust.)

Nuvo Bloc – Equal Education (demo 1978 Adelaide Aust.)