Technicolour Dreaming

This week I featured some of the bands that are taking part in the Wintersteady Festival, presented by Adelaide's Going Steady Music at the Crown and Anchor on Saturday July 23rd. I played tracks by headliners Demon Parade, as well as The Dandelion, The Dunes, and Trappist Afterland, who are playing at a pre-party at the Exeter on July 22nd. For more info on the festival, take a look at https://www.facebook.com/goingsteadymusic/  And take a look at the 2-part October Country movie at the end of the blog - classic!

So here's the playlist...

Marc Almond - Late Night  ("The Madcap Laughs Again!" compilation 2010 UK)

Cool Ghouls - And It Grows  ("A Swirling Fire Burning Through the Rye" 2014 San Francisco USA)

Nozmo King - Hold On  ("Big Beat Cellar Scene" 2016 Adelaide, Australia)

Demon Parade - Cut My Ties  ("Chameleon EP" 2012 Melbourne, Australia)

The Dandelion - In The Shadow of Light  ("Seeds Flowers and Magical Powers of the Dandelion" 2015 Sydney, Australia)

The Dunes - Mountain  (Digital single 2016 Adelaide, Australia)

Trappist Afterland - The Penitents Rail  ("Like a Beehive, the Hill Was Alive" 2013 Melbourne, Australia)

October Country  - My Girlfriend is A Witch  ("October Country" LP 1968 LA, USA)

Gnoomes - Myriads  ("Ngan!" 2015 Perm, Russia)

The Pasternak Progress - Flower Eyes  (7" single [b-side to "Cotton Soul"] 1967 LA, USA)

Frantic Chant - Mushroom Jim  (Demo from "The Glass Factory" to be released 2016 Glasgow, Scotland UK)

Espectrostatic - The Corridor  ("Silhouette" 2016 Austin, Texas USA)

Sundays and Cybele - Time Mirror  ("Heaven" 2016 Tokyo, Japan)

The Resonars - Here's the Frenzy  ("That Evil Drone" 2008 Austin, Texas USA)

Sudden Death of Stars - Supernovae  ("Getting Up, Getting Down" 2011 Rennes, France)

Coloured Clocks - Green Lights  ("Particle" 2016 Melbourne, Australia)

Barbarellatones - Dark Thing  (demo 2016 Hawaii, USA)

Tommy - Love  ("Astonishing Soundshow Stories Vol 2" compilation 2016)
Deano's Hose - Henry for Judith  ("Astonishing Soundshow Stories Vol 2" compilation 2016 UK) 

Dodson and Fogg - Watch the Skies  ("The Call" 2013 Leeds, UK)
Electric Alice - Coffin Joe  ("The Electric Alice Xperiment" 2013 Edinburgh, Scotland UK)
Lord Gammonshire - Tundra  ("Lord Gammonshire's Guide to Everyday Sounds" 2009 Bristol, UK)
Martha - Lost Without You  (7" single 2013 Durham, UK)
Mouses - Psycho  ("The Mouses Album" to be released September 2016 Manchester UK) 

Rainsmoke - Mean Meanwhile  (CD Single 2015 Leeds, UK)
Soft Candy - Song for Ellie May  ("Chelsea Boots + Violet Eyelids" 2012 Chicago, USA) 

Lenguas Largas - No Wrong No Right  ("Dune Drift 2" compilation 2013 Tucson, Arizona USA)

The October Country movie - a short film shot in 1967 when the band October Country was seeking a record deal, in 2 parts

Technicolour Dreaming

Very sad to hear that another two legendary 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)

Technicolour Dreaming

It was one of those weeks when our P.O. box was inundated with new releases and a few older goodies so we had lots to choose from to play for you. From amongst this pile of CDs and vinyl we selected new tracks from the UK’s Wicked Whispers, Three Minute Tease [featuring Anton Barbeau], Eternal Tapestry and the brilliant triple-CD from New Orleans’ Chef Menteur, plus songs from the Wands, Surf School Dropouts and Japan’s Sundays & Cybele amongst others. Our featured compilation series this edition was Northern Star Records’ excellent double-CD “Psychedelica” series, beginning with Volume One in 2006 and ending with volume 5 in 2013, and featuring a plethora of both known and obscure modern bands throughout, with many of the tracks unavailable elsewhere. Most of the issues are ‘sold-out’ but can be found on sites such as Discogs and eBay et al. if you search them out. We’ll be playing more of our new ‘incomings’ next week, so until then.....

..... here is the playlist with some visuals to divert.....

Surf School Dropouts - Ebb and Flow      ("Second Nature" 2015 Denmark)

Sundays and Cybele - Waiting for You      ("Gypsy House" 2014 Hokkaido, Japan)

the Murlocs - Adolescence      (digital single 2015 Geelong, Australia)

Tyrannosaurus Rex - Knight      ("My People Were Fair and Had Stars in their Hair ...But Now they're Content to Wear Stars on their brows" LP 1968 UK)

Dungen - Jamna Plagor      (b-side from "Panda" CD single 2005 Stockholm, Sweden)

the Wicked Whispers - I'd Follow You Anywhere      ("Maps of the Mystic"  2014 UK)

Three Minute Tease - Coffee That Makes the Man Go Mad      ("Bite the Hand" 2015 UK)

the Wands - Get it Out of Your System / Don't You Wanna Feel alright      ("The Dawn" 2015 Denmark)

les Liminanas - Salvation      ("Crystal Anis" 2012 France)

House of Fire - The Morning Light      ("The Morning Light" EP 2012 Pennsylvania, USA)

Chef Menteur - Il obstrue ma vue de Venus / Terpsichore       ("Chef Menteur III : [disc 1] East of the Sun & West of the Moon”  2015 New Orleans USA)

Holy Wave - Star Stamp       ("Relax" 2013 Texas, USA)

West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band - Shifting Sands      ("Volume 3: A Child's Guide to Good and Evil" LP 1968 USA)

Compilation of the Week :

Northern Star Records’  "Psychedelica" series no. 1 - 5

Brian Jonestown Massacre - Anenome       (originally from "Their Satanic Majesties' Second Request" 1996 USA – taken from "Psychedelica Volume 1" 2006 UK)

Singapore Sling – Godman       (originally from "Perversity, Desperation and Death" LP 2009 Reykjavík Iceland – taken from "Psychedelica 4" 2011)

the Deaths -May Queen       (originally from “Choir Invisible” 2006 Canada – taken from "Psychedelica 2" 2007)

the Urges - In the End      ("Psychedelica 5" 2013)

Youngteam - Sunny Sunday Afternoon      ("Psychedelica 3" 2008)

the Silhouettes - All A Lie      (originally on “the Silhouettes” LP 2013 Netherlands – taken from "Psychedelica 5" 2013)

Eternal Tapestry - Wild Strawberries     ("Wild Strawberries" 2015 Portland, USA)