Technicolour Dreaming

On this, our final show of 2014, we’d hoped to complete our “Best of the Year” picks in the categories of album, single, anthology, re-issue, compilation and boxset, which we started last week.... but because there are so many, we’ll probably be adding some more on our first show of 2015, because it truly was a great year for psychedelia. Indeed the past few years are now being hailed as “the third wave of psychedelia”, with a world-wide upsurge of young [and some not-so-young] musicians re-inventing and experimenting with their influences to make music that is all their own, not just a pale copy of the original 60’s garage/acid-punk/psych template, and a growing audience who are discovering these sounds, past and present, as witnessed by the popularity of “psych fests” around the world, while some bands such as Temples and Ty Segall [coincidentally our “Artiste of the Week”] are even gaining “mainstream” acceptance with commensurate record sales. So 2014 was an exciting year for new psychedelic music, which is reflected in the difficulty we had trying to play all of our favourites, as we mentioned at the start, because there were simply so many brilliant releases.  

So, all the best for 2015 to you from the Cat & the Brat and 3D Radio 93.7fm and let’s see if this “third psychedelic wave” continues to gather force in this coming year....

..... so here is the playlist, with some associated visuals.....

Red Plastic Buddha - Little White Pills      ("Songs for Mara" 2014 Chicago, USA)

the Rainbow Ffolly - Sun Sing      ("Sallies Forth" LP 1968 UK)

the Velvet Underground - All Tomorrow's Parties     ("The Velvet Underground and Nico" LP 1967 New York - taken from 2014 re-issue/boxset)

Psychic Ills - Come Around      ("Psych for Sore Eyes 2" compilation 2014 USA)

Sagittarius - In My Room [Brian Wilson cover]      ("The Blue Marble" LP 1969 California, USA)

Andrew Douglas Rothbard  - Indigo      ("Abandoned Meander" 2006 Canada)

the Monks - Complication      ("Black Monk Time"  LP 1966 Germany USA)

Les Big Byrd - Back to Bagarmossen      ("They Worshipped Cats" 2014 Sweden)

Marianne Faithfull - Sister Morphine     (7"single b-side [to Something Better] 1969 London, UK)

the High Dials - Our Time is Coming Soon      ("War of the Wakening Phantoms" 2005 Montreal, Canada)

Groep 1850 - Mother No-Head      (7"single 1967 Netherlands)

the Expression - Quicksand      (7"single 1970 Melbourne, Australia – taken from "Upside Down - Coloured Dreams from The Underworld Vol 1:1966 - 1970" compilation 2014 UK )

the Twilights - Time and Motion Study Man      (7"single [b-side to Young Girl] 1967 Adelaide, Australia)

Nonesuch - Ride the Wind Away     (7"single 1968 Australia – taken from "Upside Down - Coloured Dreams from The Underworld Vol 1:1966 - 1970" compilation 2014 UK)

Paul Messis - Nightmares      (7"single 2014 Kent, UK)

    ###  “Artiste of the Week”   TY SEGALL   ###

Ty Segall - Manipulator      ("Manipulator" 2014 California, USA)

Ty Segall - She Don't Care     ("Sleeper" 2013 California, USA)

Ty Segall and White Fence - The Black Glove/Rag      ("Hair" 2012 California, USA)

Ty Segall - Children of Paul      (“I Can't Feel It” EP 2011 USA)

Dodson and Fogg - Entrepreneur In the Garden      ("In A Strange Slumber" 2014 UK)

the Dunes - Badlands      ("Bad:Lands" EP 2014 Adelaide, Australia)

the Apricot - Aristocratic Appetite      ("A Forestful of Threes" 2011 Norway)

New Electric Ride - I Can't Help But Smile      ("Balloon Age" 2014 UK)

Halasan Bazar and Tara King th. - TK16  Part 2      ("8"  LP 2014 Denmark/France)

Balduin - Mirror, Mirror      ("All in a Dream" LP 2104 Switzerland)

the See See - As The Morning      ("Days, Nights and Late Morning Lights" anthology 2014 UK)

Lorelle Meets the Obsolete - Sealed Scene       ("Chambers" 2014 Guadalajara, Mexico)

Technicolour Dreaming

There were lots of “cover versions” on the show this week, including ones by bands such as MMOSS, Pesky Gee and the Scientists, to celebrate the arrival of the promo-CDs for the Fruits de Mer Records upcoming ‘September Collection’, centring on their “7 & 7 Is” boxset of seven vinyl 7”singles, featuring current bands each doing ‘covers’ of their favourite songs by a particular US 60’s band. For example, we played one side of the single by King Penguin who chose a pair of songs by the Byrds, and another by the Chemistry Set, who picked Love to cover – we’ll be playing further selections over coming weeks [for more details about upcoming releases check out the FdM website here] Another part of the new collection is the debut single release of Simones “Majic Ship” which we also played – it’s previously only been available on limited edition LPs so hopefully this great song will gain wider exposure now as a single. Amongst other releases we were pleased to be able to share was “Balloon Age” by New Electric Ride, a young UK band who are currently doing a major UK & European tour and getting great reviews in the process. The album is “on high rotation” in our house, as is the brilliant “We Worshipped Cats” LP by Swedish psychedelecists Les Big Byrd – both are serious contenders for “Best Album of 2014”! Another contender, and a welcome surprise in the P.O. box, was a pre-release copy of the latest Soft Hearted Scientists album “The Slow Cyclone”, which is due for release at the end of September; this Welsh band are a “Cat & Brat all-time fave” and yet they just keep getting better and better, so have a listen to them – you won’t be disappointed! Then there was this edition’s “Band of the Week” – the Red Plastic Buddha – who hail from Chicago in the US and who have been making great music for nearly ten years, with their latest LP, “Songs For Mara”, about to be released and hopefully gaining them new fans – one of the tracks we featured, “Little White Pills” is easily one of the catchiest songs we’ve heard all year and features Curvey [from fellow Chicagoans, the Luck of Eden Hall] guesting on guitar – great stuff! And don’t forget that next week is our annual “Radiothon” so please open your hearts and wallets and help support 3D Radio [and, of course, our show Technicolour Dreaming] by subscribing to this great all-volunteer community music radio station – we’ve got a sort of “best of...” show planned for you plus some cool giveaways as “bribes to subscribe”, so until then.....

..... here is the full playlist, plus assorted visuals.....

the Psychedelic  Furs – India         (“The Psychedelic Furs” LP 1980 UK)

Sky Picnic – Upon Further Reflection        (“Her Dawn Wardrobe” 2014 USA)

Simones – Majic Ship         (recorded & released for “Balloon Ride”[private-press-LP 1999 Purple Phrogg Records USA] – re-issued as 7”single 2014 UK)

Quilt – Milo         (“Quilt” 2011 USA)

Fogbound – Whispering Corridors         (7”single 2014 Spain)

the Fast Camels – Penny Pinching Debt Collector         (“Deadrooms and Butterfly Dreams” 2014 Scotland, UK)

White Fence – Fear         (“For the Recently Found Innocent” 2014 USA)

King Penguin – 5D (Fifth Dimension) [Byrds cover]         (recorded 2014 New York, USA – taken from “Fruits de Mer label:‘7 and 7 Is’” vinyl 7”singles box-set 2014 UK)

the Gaye Blades – Ruby Tuesday [Rolling Stones cover]         (7”split-single [with the Girls at Dawn] 2010 New York, USA)

Violet Swells – Miracles of a Clockwork Kingdom         (“The Soft Focus EP” 2014 Tasmania, Australia)

the Scientists – You Only Live Twice [John Barry(James Bond theme) / Nancy Sinatra cover]         (orig. 7”single 1985 Perth, Australia - taken from "Weird Love" LP 1986 Australia)

Soft Hearted Scientists – Drifting Away         (“The Slow Cyclone” 2014 Wales, UK)

MMOSS – Cathy’s Clown [Everly Brothers cover]         (“Trouble In Mind Record Store Day 2013 Covers Split-EP” compilation EP 2013 USA)

Les Big Byrd – They Worshipped Cats         (“They Worshipped Cats” 2014 Sweden)

the Chemistry Set – Live and Let Live [Love cover]        (recorded 2014 UK – taken from “Fruits de Mer label:‘7 and 7 Is’” vinyl 7”singles box-set 2014 UK)

Paul Messis – Nightmares         (7”single 2014 UK)

Jason Crest – Teagarden Lane         (recorded 1968 UK, unreleased – taken from “Love, Poetry and Revolution: A Journey Through the British Psychedelic and Underground Scenes 1966-72” compilation boxset 2013 UK)

New Electric Ride – Ode to a Bumblebee / Here Comes the Bloom        (“Balloon Age” 2014 UK)

Pesky Gee – Where Is my Mind? [Vanilla Fudge cover]         (7”single 1969 UK)

the Black Angels – The Occurrence at 4507 South Third Street         (“Clear Lake Forest” EP 2014 USA)

        #   BAND OF THE WEEK   –   the Red Plastic Buddha   #

the Red Plastic Buddha – Daisy Love         (“All Out Revolution” 2011 Chicago, USA)

the Red Plastic Buddha – Little White Pills      (“Songs For Mara” 2014 USA)

the Red Plastic Buddha – I Had Too Much to Dream (Last Night) [Electric Prunes cover]      (“All Out Revolution” 2011 USA)

the Byrds – Why?      (7”single 1966 USA – taken from “the Byrds : There Is A Season” cd/DVD anthology boxset 2006 USA)