Technicolour Dreaming

Cherry Red's new 3 CD box-set "Another Splash of Colour: New Psychedelia in Britain 1980-1985" was a welcome surprise when I arrived at Three D Radio this week, box-sets being a particular weakness of mine, and The Brat was very fond of them, too - there's quite a collection at home! It features lots of familiar names, like Julian Cope, who I opened the show with, but plenty of forgotten about, or just plain obscure bands, so I'm going to enjoy delving into it's treasures over the coming weeks. Cover versions also abounded on this week's show - can't resist a good cover when it's dangled before me... so to work out who played what, peruse the playlist below..

Julian Cope - Sunspots  ("Another Splash of Colour: New Psychedelia in Britain 1980-1985" compilation 2016 UK)

Wild Rocket - I'm Not like Everybody Else [Kinks]  ("Daisy Dream" 2015 Adelaide, Australia)

Topos Locos - Come On Back ("The Great British Psychedelic Trip Revisited" 2016 UK)

Hugo - Girl In The Garden  (7" single 1969 Adelaide, Australia)

The Flower Machine - Digging Flowers  ("Marmoset Meadow" EP 2008 Los Angeles, USA)
Belles will Ring - It's Only Goodbye  ("Mood Patterns" 2007 Sydney, Australia)
Mort Garson - Taurus-The Voluptuary  ("The Zodiac: Cosmic Sounds" LP 1967 USA)

The She Creatures - Radar  ("The She Creatures Invade" 2009 UK)

Almost Numan - Factory  ("Depth Charge 11" compilation 2012 Adelaide, Australia)
El Goodo - Information Overload  ("Coyote" 2010 UK)

Le Mat - Waltz of the Fool  ("Another Splash of Colour: New Psychedelia in Britain 1980-1985" compilation 2016 UK)

Gothic Chicken - Pitta Bread Man  ("Lift the Cobweb Veil" 2016 UK)
The Nice - Flower King of Flies  ("The Thoughts of Emerlist Davjack" LP 1967 UK)

Raindrop - Home  ("Crowded Brain" EP 2015 Sydney, Australia)

Squadra Omega - Sepolto dalle Sabbie del Tempo  ("Arti Occhi ci Guardano" 2015 Italy)
Bamboo Shoot - Fox Has Gone to Ground  (7" single 1968 UK)

Diamond Incarnation - Ocean's Daughter  ("Arenaceous Flowersouls" EP 2014 Taiwan)
Laure Briand - Laure  ("Sur la Piste de Danse" [to be released June 2016] France)
Octopus Syng - Bright Trees and Symbolic Keys  ("Birds of Morning are Never Late" 2013 Helsinki, Finland)
Otomne - Ce Garcon  ("Semi-Vol 3 La Souterraine Sampler" 2016 Paris, France)
The Red Plastic Buddha - I Had Too Much To Dream Last Night [Electric Prunes] ("The Psychedelic Sounds of The Blog That Celebrates Itself" 2013 Chicago USA)

The Barbarellatones - Priscilla and the Pyronauts ("Glitter Train" 2016 Hawaii USA)
Psychlops Eyepatch - Nuclear Bombora  ("Paranoise" 2013 Sydney, Australia)

The Citradels - Track 39  ("The Citradels" 2011 Melbourne, Australia)

The Dig - 4th of July  (digital single 2015 New York, USA)

normA - Fantasma  ("Siguente" 2015 La Plata, Argentina)

Sonic Jesus - Somebody To Love [Jefferson Airplane]  ("The Psychedelic Sounds of The Blog That Celebrates Itself" 2013 Italy)

The Sorry Shop - Venus In Furs [Velvet Underground]  ("The Psychedelic Sounds of The Blog That Celebrates Itself" 2013 Brazil)

Technicolour Dreaming

Sometimes this blog comes together so easily, other times it is exceptionally testing. This is one of those testing times! So I might just let the tunes from last week (and the clips that have managed to work) speak for themselves, so I don't delay posting this any longer....next weeks Technicolour Dreaming will feature some pre-release goodies from Kind Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, The Luck of Eden Hall, Kikagaku Moyo and Elephant Stone, so tune in on Tuesday at 2pm (Australian Central Standard Time) on Thee D Radio 93.7fm, or listen to the live stream at www.threedradio.com. You know you want to!

→ ↑ → (Tch Tch Tch) - Pop Art  (7" split single [with "Man and Machine"] 1979 Melbourne, Australia)

La Femme - Telegraphe  ("Le Podium #1" EP 2010 Paris, France)

Brain Washington - L.S.D.  (7" single 2012 London, UK)

Sonic Jesus - Triumph  ("Neither Virtue Nor Anger" 2015 Doganella di Ninfa, Italy)

New Candys - Overall  ("New Candys as Medicine" 2015 Venice, Italy)

The Luck Of Eden Hall - This Weather's Better for Velvet Clothes  ("Butterfly Revolutions Vol 1" 2011 Chicago, USA)

The Smoking Trees - Moving Picture ("The Smoking Trees" EP 2012 Los Angeles, USA)
Jacco Gardner  - Where Will You Go  (7" single 2013 Zwaag, Netherlands)

Blondi's Salvation - Mother Cloud  ("Songs of the New World Order" 2013 Nantes, France) 

The Clangers - Unguarded Moment [The Church]  ("The Clangers" 2016 Adelaide, Australia)

The Dandelion Seeds - Soul Thing  ("The Dandelion Seeds" 2014 Iceland)


Fruit Machine - I'm Alone Today  (7" single 1969 London, UK)


Eartha Kitt - Hurdy Gurdy Man [Donovan]  ("Sentimental Eartha" LP 1970 USA)

The Nice - Flower King of Flies  ("The Thoughts of Emerlist Davjack" LP 1967 UK)

The Blue Giant Zeta Puppies - Steppin' Stone [the Monkees]  ("Active Listener Presents: The Great British Psych Trip Revisited" 2016 UK)

Brainticket - Black Sand  ("Cottonwood Hill" LP 1970 Belgium/Switzerland)

The Shivas - Peele's Perfumed Garden  ("Where Have You Gone To?" 2009 Portland, Oregon USA)

The Chances Are - Fragile Child  (7" single 1967 UK)

Craig and Michael - Drifty (7" single 1966 USA)

The Ethics - It's O.K.  (7" single [b-side to "She's a Deceiver"] 1967 Oregon, USA)


The Locomotive - Mr Armageddon  ("We Are Everything You See" LP 1970 Birmingham, UK)



The Timebox - Gone is the Sad Man  (7" single [b-side to "Girl Don't Make Me Wait"] 1968 Lancashire, UK)

The Lundons - It's Gonna Be Alright  (7" single [b-side to "I Love You So"] 1966 USA)

The Yo Yo's - Crack in My Wall  (7" single [b-side to "The Raven"] 1966 New York USA)

The Sweet Acids - That Creature  (7" single 1967 USA)


Moorpark Intersection - I Think I'll Just Go and Find Me a Flower (7" single 1968 USA)

Sidewalk Skipper Band - (Would You Believe) It's Raining Flowers in my House  (7" single [b-side to "Seventeenth Summer"] 1968 USA)


Greg McCarley - Shoo Shoo Shoo Fly  ("Feeling High -The Psychedelic Sound of Memphis" compilation 2012 USA)


Changin' Tymes - Hark the Child  ("Feeling High -The Psychedelic Sound of Memphis" compilation 2012 USA)

The Tamborines - The Great Division  (7" single [b-side to "What Took You So Long"] 2006 London UK)
The Mops - Omae No Subete O  ("Psychedelic Sounds in Japan" LP 1968 Japan)

Technicolour Dreaming

We had some new compilations to share with you this week, dear 3D Radio listeners, including a double-CD of Syd Barrett/Pink Floyd covers, which was an end-of-the-year bonus from the lovely people at Fruits de Mer Records in the UK, as well as another fine Active Listener compilation, “Forever Changing – A Tribute to Love’s Forever Changes LP”, both of which we shall certainly be plundering over the months ahead. There were new tracks by artists from various parts of the globe including Tasmania’s Violet Swells, Spain’s My Expansive Awareness and Canada’s Elephant Stone plus some older ones from the likes of Cheval Sombre, Wire, Sons of Adam and Russia’s excellent Polska Radio One. Then there was our “Artiste of the Week”.... Scotland’s own Jim Noir, whose four albums and plethora of singles and EPs gave us lots to choose from, starting with a track from his brilliant new album “Finnish Line”. We realise we say this about our feature artists each week but that doesn’t make it less true.... you should investigate the Jim Noir back-catalogue – you won’t be sorry!! To finish the show, we dug out one of our all-time faves, the 2011 album by Dark Ocean Colors and with that, we’ll leave you until next week.....

..... so here is the playlist, with visual additives.....

the Green Tambourine Band – Maybe the People Would Be the Times or Between Clark and Hilldale [Arthur Lee cover]      (recorded 2013 UK for "The Active Listener Presents...Forever Changing - A Tribute to Love's ‘Forever Changes’ LP" compilation 2014 New Zealand)

Ghost - Water Door, Yellow Gate      ("In Stormy Night" 2007 Japan)

the Smoking Trees - Calling      ("Acetates" 2013 Los Angeles, USA)

Rupert Angeleyes - Jealousy      ("Young Sunset" 2013 Los Angeles, USA)

Wire - Start to Move      ("Pink Flag" LP 1977 UK)

My Expansive Awareness - Lysergic Waltz      (digital single 2014 Zaragoza, Spain)

Asteroid #4 - Oubliette      ("The Windmill of the Autumn Sky" EP 2013 Philadelphia, USA)

Cheval Sombre - She Went Walking in the Rain      ("Mad Love" 2013)

Oakapple Day - Oceans of Fire      (7" single b-side [to No Face, No Name, No Number] 1969 Perth, Australia)

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

Elephant Stone - Motherless Child (Love is Not For War)      ("Three Poisons" 2014 Canada)

the Nice - Flower King of Flies     ("The Thoughts of Emerlist Davjack" LP 1967 UK)

Larry Page Orchestra - All Day and All of the Night  [Kinks cover]      ("Kinky Music - The Larry Page Orchestra plays the Music of the Kinks" LP 1965 UK)

Sons of Adam - Feathered Fish      (7" single 1966 San Francisco, USA)

the Triptides - Colors      ("Colors" EP 2014 Indiana, USA)

Violet Swells - Here Comes Yesterday      (CD single 2104 Tasmania, Australia)

the Citradels - Slow Burn      ("Nepenthe" 2104 Melbourne, Australia)

   ###   “Artiste of the Week” – Jim Noir   ###

Jim Noir – The Broadway Jets     ("Finnish Line" 2014 Scotland, UK)

Jim Noir - The Cheese of Jim's Command      ("Jimmy's Show" 2012 Scotland, UK)

Jim Noir - Don't You Worry      ("Jim Noir" 2007 Scotland, UK)

Jim Noir - I Me You I'm Your      ("Tower of Love" 2005 Scotland, UK)

Polska Radio One - To the Delta of Aquarius     ("Cosmos Inside" 2013 Yekaterinburg,Russia)

the Chemistry Set - See Emily Play [Pink Floyd cover]      (recorded 2014 UK for “Fruits de Mer presents: A Momentary Lapse of Vinyl” compilation 2014 UK)

Vespero - Scream Thy Last Scream [Syd Barrett cover]      (recorded 2014 Russia for “Fruits de Mer presents: A Momentary Lapse of Vinyl” compilation 2014 UK)

the Magic Mushroom Band - Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun [Pink Floyd cover]      (12” single b-side [to Magick Eye] 1992 UK – taken from “Fruits de Mer presents: A Momentary Lapse of Vinyl” compilation 2014 UK)

Dark Ocean Colors - The Other Line      ("Dark Ocean Colors" 2011 USA)

Obscured By...

Another sad farewell this week, this time to Australian rock stalwart Darryl Cotton who passed away a few days previously.  A number of related rarities from a few of his musical endeavours were therefore found and played to start the show.  Another lesser known death was that of Geoff Ratz, bass player with 60s Melbourne band The Pink Finks, best known for introducing Ross Wilson & Ross Hannaford (Daddy Cool) to the world.   Other material included some "new" Joey Ramone, 60s European pop with The Golden Earrings and Jacques Dutronc, 80s Irish post punk and all the other styles and locales listed below.  Not many performance videos could be found for this week's collection - brought to you by all three "dots" - but they should still be of interest, eg the clip of Zoot's "The Freak" contains stills from their cruise ship reformation performance in 2011.  

 

the Zoot – Coke advertisement     (radio ad, circa 1969, Australia)

the Zoot – 1x2x3x4     (7”single 1969 Adelaide, Aust.)

Frieze – Jimmy & Jessie      (‘1972 B.C.’ LP 1972 Aust.)

Cotton, Lloyd & Christian – I Go to Pieces     (7”single 1975 Aust/USA)

Burns, Cotton & Morris – Will I     (‘Burns, Cotton & Morris’ 1996 Aust.)

the Zoot – The Freak     (7”single 1971 Aust.)

Ash Ra Tempel – Daydream      (‘Starring Rosi’ LP 1973 Germany)

Tangerine Dream – No Man’s Land     (‘Hyperborea’ LP 1983 Germany)

the Nice – Country Pie/Brandenburg Concerto No.6     (‘Five Bridges’ LP 1970 UK)

the Pink Finks – Untie Me     (7”single 1965 Aust.)

the Groove – Soothe Me [Sam Cooke cover]     (7”single 1968 Melbourne, Aust.)

Ray Brown & Moonstone – Run, Sylvie, Run     (‘Mad House’ LP 1970 Aust.)

Little Gulliver & the Children – I Was Bewitched      (‘Little Gulliver & the Children‘ EP 1966 Aust.)

Tony Worsley & the Fabulous Blue Jays – Tell Me Why     (‘Raining In my Heart’ EP 1966 Aust.)

PH – Last days      (recorded 1983 Ireland – taken from ‘Strange Passion: Explorations in Irish Post Punk, DIY and Electronic Music 1980-83’ compilation 2012)

Major Thinkers – Avenue B     (12”single 1981 Ireland/USA)

the Jigsaw Seen – Winterland’s Gone     (‘Winterland’ 2011 USA)

Joey Ramone – Life’s a Gas     (‘...Ya Know?’ 2012 USA)

Hugh Cornwall & Robert Williams – Losers in a Lost Land     (‘Nosferatu’ LP 1979 UK)

126 – Mailbox Execution System     (7”single 1978 Norway)

the Golden Earrings – That Day     (7”single 1966 Holland)

the Bonniwell Music Machine – Astrologically Incompatible     (7”single b-side [to Bottom of the Soul] 1967 USA)

the Tokens – How Nice?     (‘It’s a Happening World’ LP 1967 USA)

Noel Harrison – Sign of the Queen     (7”single b-side [to Mrs Williams Rose] 1967 Hollywood, USA)

Jacques Dutronc – L’Augmentation     (‘Jacques Dutronc’ [aka’Comment elles Dorment’] LP 1967 France)

Judy Nylon & Crucial – Jailhouse Rock [Elvis cover]     (‘Pal Judy’ LP 1982 UK)

the B-52’s – Dirty Back Road     (‘Wild Planet’ LP 1980 Athens, Georgia, USA)