Technicolour Dreaming

Stormy weather here in South Australia over the past week or so, and a fallen tree knocking over powerlines in downtown Stepney, caused 3D Radio to go off-air for a while during this week’s show. What? No back-ups we hear you ask? Errrr, well, they failed also.... so it was a truncated edition alas, yet we still managed to fit in some new music, including a song from the Aves brand new EP [recorded in New York] and the soon-to-be-released vinyl single from Buried Feather [their launch show with TD faves the Sun Blindness at the Old Bar in Melbourne on October 27^th sounds like the place to be if you’re in the vicinity!] plus an as-yet-unreleased track from the Citradels. There was also a song from the new White Fence double LP (produced by Ty Segall) plus of course some 60’s gems... but then all too soon, it was time for our “Band of the Month”, the Dukes of Stratosphear, and the end of the show! Hopefully we’ll be powering back to full length next Wednesday.....

..... so here is the playlist..... 

Singapore Sling – Overdriver      (‘The Curse of Singapore Sling’ 2003 Iceland)

X-Ray Spex – I am a Poseur      (‘Germ-Free Adolescents’ LP 1978 UK)

the Electric Prunes – I       (‘Underground’ LP 1967 USA)

the Beatles – Blue Jay Way      (‘Magical Mystery Tour’ double EP 1967 UK)

                 Off-Air   [Power Failure / Blackout in Stepney]

the Church – The Unguarded Moment      (7”single 1980 Australia)

Buried Feather – Time It Takes      (7”single 2012 Melbourne, Aust.)

the Aves – In Vogue      (‘Anywhere Else’ EP 2012 Adelaide, Aust.)

King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard – Sam Cherry’s Last Shot      (’12 Bar Bruise’ 2012 Melbourne, Aust.)

the Murlocs – Tee Pee      (‘Tee Pee’ EP 2012 Melbourne, Aust.)

the Syssys – Jump Back      (7”single 1966 Adelaide, Aust.)

the Hergs – Cadillac [Vince Taylor cover]       (7”single 1967 Adelaide, Aust.)

the Citradels – John Cage, Play Nice With That Sword      (mp3 2012 Melbourne, Aust.)

White Fence – Waking Up Is Confusing      (‘White Fence and Family/Perfume Vols.1&2’ double LP 2012 California, USA)

the Dukes of Stratosphear (XTC) – Mole from the Ministry      (’25 O’Clock’ EP 1986 UK)   #

     #   “Band of the Month”

Technicolour Dreaming

Beginning with the MC5’s clarion call, this week’s edition, hosted by a solo Peter Brat, ranged from local drone specialists Beige Abrasions through the electro-pop of new Australian band Total Control, Finnish surf from Laika and the Cosmonauts, classic 60’s psych from the Balloon Farm, iconic punk from X-Ray Spex, recent Australian garage from the Frowning Clouds and the Intercontinental Playboys, an Iggy cover by the Church, some Monkees, a nod to Star Trek from Spizzenergi and lots more, before finishing with a cut from the current ‘Album of the Month’ by local surf twangers DIESELWITCH.....

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

MC5 – Kick Out The Jams     (‘Kick Out The Jams’ LP 1969 USA)

Wooden Shjips – Looking Out     (West 2011 USA)

Beige Abrasions – Splash of White     (demo 2011 Adelaide, Australia)

Metal Urbain – Lady Coca-Cola     (7”single 1978 France : played from Anarchy in Paris anthology CD)

Total Control – Love Performance      (Henge 2011 Aust.)

the Intercontinental Playboys – Journey to the Centre of my Dirty Mind     (Sonic Seducers 2005 Aust.)

the Church – The Endless Sea [Iggy Pop cover]     (Box Of Birds 1999 Aust.)

Mondo Phase Band – Equaliser     (split 7”single [with Nothing People] 2011 Adelaide, Aust./USA)

Sweatmaster – I am a Demon and I love Rock’n’roll     (‘Pushing Scandinavian Rock to the Man Vol.3’ compilation)

The Weirdos – We Got The Neutron Bomb     (7”single 1978 USA)

Spizzenergi – Where’s Captain Kirk?     (7”single 1979 UK)

X-Ray Spex – Identity     (‘Germfree Adolescents’ LP 1978 UK)

Klark Kent – Don’t Care     (7”single 1978 UK)

Siouxsie and the Banshees – Metal Postcard (Mittageisen)     (‘The Scream’ LP 1978 UK)

Golden Triangle – Rollercoaster     (Double Jointer 2010 USA)

Thee Oh Sees – Chem-Factor     (Carrion Crawler 2011 USA)

Laika and the Cosmonauts – The Ipcress File     (Cosmology: 1988-2008 Anthology Finland)

the Surfacers – The Russian     (from ’Continental’ magazine #11 bonus CD 2004 USA)

the Frowning Clouds – Do Like Me     (The Frowning Clouds 2010 Aust.)

the Rolling Stones – It’s Not Easy     (‘Aftermath’ LP 1965 UK)

Die Dancing Bears – N.Y. Valentine     (7”single 1982 Adelaide, Aust.)

the Monkees – Zam and Zor     (‘The Birds, the Bees and the Monkees’ LP 1968 USA)

the Twilights – Time and Motion Study Man     (7”single b-side 1967 Adelaide, Aust.)

the Balloon Farm – A Question of Temperature     (7”single 1967 USA)

DieselWitch – Find Your Own Way Home     (DieselWitch Will Kill You 2011 Adelaide, Aust.)   #

        #   “Album Of The Month”  

Technicolour Dreaming

Beginning with the likes of Spacemen 3 and Adelaide’s Asteroid Belt, the Cat and the Brat played some 60’s garage from the Chocolate Watchband and the Plague, some 70’s punk from X Ray Spex and France’s Metal Urbain (the very first single ever to be released by the UK’s Rough Trade Records), a selection of recent releases including Adelaide’s Isomer and DieselWitch and much, much more... all in all, the regular Technicolour Dreaming.....

..... and so here is the playlist.....

Gun – Take Off     (‘Gun’ LP 1970 UK – played from ‘Sweet Floral Albion’ compilation cd)

Spacemen 3 – Revolution     (‘Playing with Fire’ LP 1989 UK)

the Asteroid Belt – Incantations      (demo 2009 Adelaide, Aust.)

Thee Oh Sees – Destroyed Fortress Reappears     (Help)

the Hoa Hoas – Intensity     (Pop/Drone/Pedals)

The Plague – The Face of Time     (7”single 1966 Canada)

The Chocolate Watchband – Don’t need your lovin’     (‘Riot on Sunset Strip’ soundtrack compilation LP 1967 USA)

DieselWitch – I Set Bugs on Fire    (pre-release from forthcoming album 2011 Adelaide)

the Sand Pebbles – Occupied Europe (take me across the water)     (Dark Magic)

Black Cab – Ghost Anthems     (Call Signs)

Clinic – Baby     (Bubblegum)

Dean and Britta – Not a Young Man Anymore [Velvet Underground cover]     (Andy Warhol’s 13 Most Beautiful)

Ladytron – Sugar     (Witching Hour)

Isomer – Poison the Well     (Face Toward the Sun)

Metal Urbain – Paris Maquis [fasciste!]     (7”single 1977 France/UK)

X Ray Spex – Identity     (‘Germ Free Adolescents’ LP 1978 UK)

Thee Stag Knights – Come On     (‘Wild About You’ CD compilation 2004 Australia)

Rebecca and the Sunnybrook Farmers – What do you think of the War     (‘Birth’ LP 1969 UK – played from ‘Electric Psychedelic Sitar Headswirlers Vol. 10’ compilation CD)

Plasticland – Mink Dress     (7”single 1980 USA)

Eddy Current Suppression Ring – We got the Beat [Go-Go’s cover]     (So Many Things)   

Technicolour Dreaming

We played a lot of 60s garage and psych goodies this week as we often do, as well as some current coolies and more. Sad to hear of the passing of Poly Styrene from X-Ray Spex... Peter Brat was lucky enough to see them in 1978 at ‘the Roundhouse’ in London – a great show, which also featured [‘Dirk wears White Sox’-era] Adam & the Ants and the Adverts! We also decided on our May “Album of the Month”... and it’s “Meat the Zombeatles” by the Zombeatles! It’s the first album from “the Fab Gore”, the “undead pop combo” who are purveyors of the “No-Mercybeat Sound” and you can see a trailer for their new movie on youTube! Are they the Rutles of the 21^st century? You decide! And of course we finished this week’s show with the Monkees ‘Song of the Week’...

...so here is the playlist...

the Frantics – Just for a While (Green Crystal Ties Volume 6 : US compilation)

the Blues Magoos – Ain’t got Nothin’ Yet (Kaleidoscope Compendium)

Marty Rhone – Every Minute of You (Pretty Ugly : Aust. comp.)

the Syssys – Cadillac (Devil’s Children Volume 3 : Aust. comp.)

the Tolpuddle Martyrs – Time Will Come (It’s a Kave-In : Aust. comp.)

Johnny Young – Hold On (Surprises LP 1968 Aust. [recorded in UK])

the Mourning Reign – Satisfaction Guaranteed (San Francisco Nuggets - ‘Love is the Song We Sing’ : US comp.)

the DrabDooRiffs – Hot Tanya (Postcards from Uranus!)

DieselWitch – Lost in the Desert (demo 2010 Adelaide, Aust.))

Thee Wylde Oscars – White Light, White Heat (Right, Yeah)

the Stranglers – Something Better Change (The UA Singles: 1977 – 1982)

the Molting Vultures – Insane Jane (Drop In and Go)

the Systemaddicts – You Make Me (Live at the 3D Radio ‘Sound Lounge’ Dec.2010 Adelaide)

Fluffy – Nya Nya (Fluffy Loves You ... In the Baddest way)

the Zombeatles – Brain (Meat the Zombeatles) #

the Residents – A Day in the Valley of the Life (The Third Reich and Roll)

Zombina and the Skeletones – Nobody Likes you [when you’re dead] (demo 2005 USA)

Zombie Ghost Train – Girl U Want (Glad Rags and Body Bags)

Roxy Music – Amazona (Stranded)

T Rex – Ballrooms of Mars (The Slider)

X-Ray Spex – Identity (Germ Free Adolescents) R.I.P. Poly Styrene 2011

Love – 7 and 7 is (‘Forever Changes Concert’ 2005 UK)

the Monkees – Daydream Believer (Monkees Music Box) *

# May ‘Album of the Month’

* ‘Monkees Song of the Week’