Technicolour Dreaming

It was the Radiothon ’14 edition of Technicolour Dreaming this week – chaos abounded with the phones ringing, the picking and organising of ‘bribe-to-subscribe’ giveaways, subscribers coming into the station, payments being made, volunteers running about and, unusually for us, lots of air-breaks and chatter and.... did I mention chaos? But it was all in a good cause – our annual Radiothon where we ask listeners to help keep us on-air by becoming valued 3D Radio subscribers! We won’t go into all the details – you can go to the 3D Radio website here and see how to pay [yes we do PayPal], the form to fill out, what you get for your bucks [including this year’s DepthCharge CD compilation which ONLY subscribers are given] and details of the major prizes you are in the running for when you do subscribe - all for the low price of $60.... it doesn’t matter if you live in Adelaide or Athens, the USA or Uruguay, anyone can be a 3D Radio subscriber and help us keep this unique music community radio station broadcasting every day of every week, and of course letting us, the Cat and the Brat, play all the wonderfully diverse psychedelia [and associated obscurities] that we love to share with you every Tuesday afternoon on this show. Normal broadcasting will resume next week of course [whew!] but in the meantime.... dig deep, go to the 3DRadio website and SUBSCRIBE people!

..... anyway, here are all the tracks we played during the show, with some nice pictures ta boot.....

the Green Tambourine Band – Aum [Part A]      (“...Let Yourself Be / AUM” double-LP 2013 Edinburgh, Scotland)

the Beatles – I Am The Walrus      (“Magical Mystery Tour” double-EP 1967 UK)

the Electric Prunes – I Had Too Much To Dream [Last Night]      (7”single 1966 USA)

Holy Wave – Night Tripper      (“Relax” 2013 USA)

Kelley Stoltz – All That Jazz [Echo & the Bunnymen cover]      (“Crockodials” 2002 USA)

Robyn Hitchcock – The Ghost In You [Psychedelic Furs cover]      (“The Man Upstairs” 2014 UK)

Les Big Byrd – Indus Waves / Tinitus Aeternum      (“They Worshipped Cats” 2014 Sweden)

Dean Allen Foyd – Please, Pleaze Me      (“The Sounds Can Be So Cruel” 2012 Sweden)

Love – 7 and 7 Is      (7”single 1966 Los Angeles, USA)

the Sand Pebbles – Sunshine to Burn [Long Grass cover]      (“Tomorrow Is Today : a tribute to the Australian Psychedelic Scene 1966-70” compilation 2007 Australia)

the Chemistry Set – A House Is Not A Motel [Love cover]      (recorded 2014 UK – taken from “Fruits de Mer label:‘7 and 7 Is’” vinyl 7”singles box-set 2014 UK)

 

Tara King Th. – Magnetic Bounds      (“Uncoloured Past [Part 1 & 11]” cassette 2012 Lyons, France)

Jeff St John & the Id – Eastern Dream      (7”single b-side [to Black Girl] 1966 Sydney, Australia)

Mt Mountain – She Runs       (“EP” 2014 Perth, Australia)

Invisible Ships – Lucy Dream      (mp3 single 2013 Faversham, UK)

            ###  “BAND of the WEEK” – Soft Hearted Scientists  ###

Soft Hearted Scientists – The A470 Song      (“Take Time to Wonder in a Whirling World” 2007 Wales, UK)

Soft Hearted Scientists – Robots Remember      ([from the pre-release of] “The Slow Cyclone” 2014 Wales, UK)

Soft Hearted Scientists – The Trees Don’t Seem To Know Its September      (“Wandermoon” 2011 Wales, UK)

Soft Hearted Scientists – Seeing      (“False Lights” 2013 Wales, UK)

Oak Apple Day plus the Deadly Pair – Moon Shot      (7”single b-side [to Let’s Do It On The Moon] 1969 Australia)

New Electric Ride – All Who You Know      (mp3 single 2014 UK)

the Fast Camels – Kelvin      (“Deadrooms and Butterfly Dreams” 2014 Scotland, UK)

the Sunchymes – Free Rider      (“Shifting Sands” 2009 UK)

Morgan Delt – Backwards Bird Inc      (“Morgan Delt” 2013 California, USA)

Obscured By...

This week’s edition, hosted by the Cat & the Brat, seemed to come in batches.... beginning with a b-side from Bitch [the band were formerly known as the Cleves and it’s under that name that we have featured them before] we moved into our customary start-up of Australasian 60’s-70’s rarities, including a live TV version of Fraternity’s ‘Seasons of Change’ and the sole single from the Harts. Then we moved up a decade or so with a bunch of mostly unreleased Australian demos from the likes of Adelaide’s legendary Speedboat and Melbourne’s Tlot Tlot [taken from a ‘Fast Forward’ cassette magazine], before going all over the world for some proggy psych goodness, ranging from Switzerland’s Krokodil to Seoul’s Jang Hyun. Then it was New Zealand’s turn – for such a small country they certainly turned out an impressively large quantity of excellent pop-psych in the late 60’s, even continuing into the early 70’s – so it was only fair that we featured some of the more prominent acts such as the Fourmyula, Quincy Conserve and House of Nimrod, before paying tribute to the late Neil Armstrong by playing Dizzy Limits’ “Mare Tranquility” and Oak Apple Day’s classic “Moonshot” singles. A few other obscurities along the way, such as Deep Feeling’s version of “I Put a Spell on You” from 1966 and a psychobilly classic from Sunglasses After Dark, then it was all over – until next time.....

..... so here’s the full playlist for your perusal.....

Bitch – House Where I Live       (7”single b-side [to Laughing] 1971 New Zealand/Australia/UK)

Glass Web – Two Faced Woman     (7”single b-side [to In a Year or So] 1971 Adelaide, Aust.)

Fraternity – Seasons of Change      (Live on ‘GTK’ ABC-TV 1971 Aust.)

Inside Looking Out – HMS Buffalo       (7”single 1970 Adelaide, Aust.)

Ticket – Gypsy Rover       (‘Let Sleeping Dogs Lie’ LP 1972 New Zealand)

the Harts – Little Girl      (7”single 1967 Adelaide, Aust.)

Equal Local – Lamp That       (demo – released on ‘Fast Forward’ cassette magazine 1982 Melbourne, Aust.)

Nuvo Bloc – Never Mind      (demo – released on ‘5MMM’s Compilation of Adelaide Bands 1980’ LP 1980 Aust.)

Tubby Justice – The Laugh      (demo 1990 Adelaide, Aust.)

Tlot Tlot – Love Potion #9 [Clovers/Searchers cover]      (demo 1992 Melbourne, Aust.)

Just Kidding – Get up off the Fence      (demo 1986 Adelaide, Aust.)

Speedboat – The Monk      (demo 1982 Adelaide, Aust.)

Kollektiv – Rambo Zambo      (‘Kollectiv’ LP 1973 Germany)

Jang Hyun – Sunset      (‘Jang Hyun 2’ LP 1972 Seoul, South Korea)

Krokodil – Sunlight’s Beautiful Daughter      (‘Swamp’ LP 1970 Switzerland)

Kuni Kawachi & the Flower Travelling Band – Graveyard of Love      (‘Kirikyogen’ LP 1970 Japan)

Wizards of Time – 2^nd Son      (‘Will The Soft Curse Plague On?’ 2012 USA)

the Fourmyula – Mr Whippy      (7”single b-side [to Forever] 1969 New Zealand – taken from ‘Best of the Fourmyula’ anthology 1999 NZ)

Shane & Quincy Conserve – San Francisco Girls      (backing tracks recorded 1969/vocals recorded 2005 – taken from ‘A Day In My Mind’s Mind, Vol.3’ compilation 2008 NZ)

Tom Thumb – If I were a Carpenter [Tim Hardin cover]      (7”single 1969 NZ)

the Top Shelf – Time Beyond       (7”single b-side [to Baby, the World Really Turns] 1969 NZ)

the Gremlins – Kingsforth Hemmingseem      (7”single 1968 NZ)

House of Nimrod – Slightly Delic      (7”single 1967 NZ)

Dizzy Limits – Mare Tranquility      (7”single b-side [to Alone] 1970 NZ)

Oak Apple Day [plus the Deadly Pair] – Moonshot      (7”single 1969 Aust.)

the Peppermint Trolley Company – 9 O’Clock Business Man      (7”single 1968 USA)

Deep Feeling – I Put A Spell On You [Screamin’ Jay Hawkins cover]      (recorded 1966 – released on ‘Pretty Colours’ anthology 2008 UK)

Sunglasses After Dark – Swamp Baby      (7”single 1984 UK)