Technicolour Dreaming

Beginning with a track from the latest LP by Germany’s Vibravoid, the Cat & the Brat once again this week weaved a tenuous path through the labyrinths of their collective archives of favourite tunes, to bring you an assortment of sounds by bands as diverse as the Long Ryders, Death In June, Amon Düül, Melody’s Echo Chamber, Plasticland and the brilliant Espers, plus solo efforts from the likes of Cate Le Bon, Eric Ghardin and Chris Bell, before finishing on a ‘1-2 knockout’ with the Seeds and the Sufis. We confess to rather long and verbose introductions to a couple of our latest acquisitions, namely the wonderful second album from the UK’s Beaulieu Porch and the debut by young Dutch psychstar Jacco Gardner – both artists have rapidly won a high spot in our ‘all-time fave’ list! Have a listen....

..... so here is the playlist plus some clips.....

Vibravoid – Listen, Can’t You Hear?      (‘Delirio Dei Sensei’ 2013 Germany)

Chris Bell – I Am the Cosmos      (7”single 1978 USA)

Stiff Little Fingers – Bloody Dub      (‘Nobody’s Heroes’ LP 1980 UK)

Espers – Dead Queen       (‘Espers 11’ 2006 USA)

Death In June – We Drive East      (‘Heaven Street’ 12”EP 1981 UK – taken from ‘Lesson 1: Misanthropy’ anthology reissue 2006 UK/Australia)

Death in June - We Drive East (1982) by riton23

Beaulieu Porch – Limestone Head of the Year      (‘we are beautiful’ 2013 UK)

Traffic – Paper Sun      (7”single 1967 UK)

Gary Walker & the Rain – Magazine Woman      (‘Album No.1’ LP 1968 UK/Japan)

Black Box Recorder – Rock’n’Roll Suicide [Bowie cover]      (CD-single b-side [to Art of Driving] 2000 UK – taken from ‘Worst of Black Box Recorder’ anthology 2001 UK)

David Bowie – Joe the Lion      (‘Heroes’ LP 1977 UK/Germany)

Amon Düül – Hymn For The Hardcore      (‘Fool Moon’ LP 1989 Germany)

Cate Le Bon – Fold The Cloth      (‘Cyrk’ 2012 Wales, UK)

Melody’s Echo Chamber – Quand Vas Tu Rendrer       (‘Melody’s Echo Chamber’ 2012 France/Australia)

Dickens – Genocide      (‘Royal Incarnation’ LP 1969 France)

Eric Ghardin – Amour Limité Zéro      (7”single 1967 France)

Ted Mulry - Remember Me       (7”single b-side [to Memories] 1972 Australia/UK)

the Long Ryders – Lookin’ for Lewis & Clarke      (7”single 1985 Los Angeles, USA)

the Daily Flash – Jack of Diamonds      (7”single 1966 USA)

Jacco Gardner – Clear the Air      (‘Cabinet of Curiosities’ 2013 Netherlands)

Assemble Head In Sunburst Sound – Drunken Leaves      (‘When Sweet Sleep Returned’ 2009 USA)

Plasticland (featuring Twink) – Iris of the Waterfall      (7”single test-pressing b-side [to Seize the Time] 1989 USA – collected on ‘Make Yourself a Happening Machine’ anthology 2006 USA)

Children of the Mushroom – You Can’t Erase a Mirror      (7”single b-side [to August Mademoiselle] 1968 USA)

the Gripweeds – Love’s Lost On You      (‘Summer of a Thousand Years’ 2001 USA)

the Seeds – Two Fingers Pointing at You      (‘Psych-Out’ soundtrack LP 1968 USA)

the Sufis – Where Did She Go?      (‘the Sufis’ 2012 Nashville, USA)

 

Technicolour Dreaming

We began this week’s edition with a tribute to the Doors’ keyboardist Ray Manzarek, who passed away last week, by playing ‘Crystal Ship’, a classic example of a brilliant single b-side, before moving off on an exploration of location, era and genre under the (often tenuous) shadow of ‘the psychedelic’, with artists as diverse as Psychic Ills, Jacques Dutronc, the Murlocs and the Koobas, plus a great new cover  of Tyrnaround’s classic ‘Colour Your Mind’ by Germany’s Vibravoid. Later in the programme the Cat & the Brat were joined in the studio by Mark from the Arch Menaces, to talk about their album launch this weekend at the Enigma Bar here in Adelaide... during the interview we also discussed all things ‘power-pop’ and a mutual admiration for ‘the Medway Sound’, as well as playing some selections he’d brought in by bands such as the Len Price 3, the Happy Hate Me Nots and an obscure 60’s Australian single by the Familiars extolling the virtues of ‘the hula hoop’... so go see them if you can, it should be a great show!

.....and here is the full playlist plus some moving pictures.....

the Doors – Crystal Ship      (‘The Doors’ LP 1967 USA)

 

Mark Fry – Mandolin Man      (‘Dreaming with Alice’ LP 1972 UK/Italy)

Jacques Dutronc – L’idole      (7”single 1967 France – taken from ‘Et Moi Et Moi Et Moi: Jacques Dutronc 1966-1969’ anthology 2009 France/UK)

 

Deerhunter – Neon Junkyard      (‘Monomania’ 2013 USA)

 

Palms – This Last Year      (cd-single 2013 Sydney, Australia)

Vibravoid – Colour Your Mind [Tyrnaround cover]      (‘Delirio Dei Sensi’  2013 Germany/Italy)

 

the Pretty Things – Bracelets of Fingers      (‘S.F.Sorrow’ LP 1968 UK)

Inside Looking Out – Long Live Sivinanda      (7”single 1969 Adelaide, Australia)

 

Splashh – Headspins      (‘Comfort’ 2013 Aust./NZ/UK)

Psychic Ills – Drop Out      (‘One Track Mind’ 2012 USA)

the Tolpuddle Martyrs – Social Cell      (7”single b-side [to Time Will Come] 1967 Australia)

the Happy Hate Me Nots – You’re an Angel      (7”single 1985 Aust.)

 

the Parasites – When I’m Here With You      (‘Punchlines’ 1994 New Jersey, USA)

 

the Len Price 3 – She’s Not Really There      (‘Rentacrowd’ 2007 UK)

the Familiars – Go-Go Hula-Hoop      (7”single 1966 Australia)

the Arch Menaces – Not In My World/the Link      (‘Primitive Germs’ 2013 Adelaide, Aust.)

 

          Interview with Mark from the Arch Menaces

 

the Lighthouse Keepers – Seven Years      (7”single 1985 Aust.)

the Dukes of Stratosphear [aka XTC] – 25 O’Clock      (’25 O’Clock’ mini-LP 1985 UK)

Giobia – Jaws      (7” EP 2010 Milan, Italy)

the Arch Menaces – Hearing the Sounds      (‘Primitive Germs’ 2013 Adelaide, Aust.)

the Prisoners – Whenever I’m Gone      (‘The Last Fourfathers’ LP 1985 UK)

the Moods – Rum Drunk      (7”single 1966 Melbourne – taken from ‘Down Under Nuggets: Original Australian Artyfacts 1965-1967’ compilation 2012 Australia)

John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers – I’m Your Witchdoctor      (7”single 1965 London, UK)

the Murlocs – Rattle the Chain      (cd-single 2013 Melbourne, Aust.)

 

the Rolling Stones – The Last Time      (‘Out Of Our Heads’ LP 1965 London, UK)

the Koobas – Barricades      (‘The Koobas’ LP 1969 UK)

 

Moon Duo – Sleepwalker      (‘Circles’ 2012 San Francisco, USA)

 

Technicolour Dreaming

Again this week we indulged our fondness for ‘suites’, this time by playing all the tracks from side 2 of DeWolff’s latest album ‘IV’, which are collectively entitled “A Mind Slip” – in our opinion, the best thing they’ve yet done! There were also songs from current bands such as Pugwash, Vibravoid, Youngteam and Clue to Kalo plus the debut recording by Melbourne psychsters Flyying Colours, as well as a selections from the past by luminaries such as the Adverts, Johnny Young, Naz Nomad & the Nightmares and the gloriously-named Frumious Bandersnatch. Finally, we featured a mystery song whose unknown provenance has been commented on by the ‘arch-drood’ himself – Julian Cope – who noted: “the track ‘A Walk Down Emily Lane’ by The Unexplained, I was informed by a pretty reliable source, ... was an 80's studio creation by a mystery group that was recorded exclusively for the album, so don't waste your time trying to find the record, I don't think it exists”  ..... http://www.headheritage.co.uk/unsung/review/1731/  

..... so here is the playlist, with some moving pictures.....

Pugwash – Even I        (‘Jollity’ 2005 Ireland)

Steve Hillage – It’s All Too Much [George Harrison cover]         (‘L’ LP 1976 UK)

A Little Bit of Sound – Incense and Peppermints [Strawberry Alarm Clock cover]         (7” single 1967 California, USA)

Clue to Kalo – What Went Down Around         (‘Lily Perdida’ 2008 Adelaide, Australia)

the Mecki Mark Men – Free         (‘The Mecki Mark Men’ LP 1967 Sweden)

Flyying Colours – Wavygravy         (CD single 2013 Melbourne, Aust.)

Crocodiles – Hollow Hollow Eyes         (‘Sleep Forever’ 2010 USA)

Manfred Mann – A “B” Side         (7” single b-side [to Ragamuffin Man] 1969 UK)

Nazz Nomad and the Nightmares – Cold Turkey [Big Boy Pete cover]         (‘Give Daddy the Knife, Cindy’ LP 1984 UK)

Henri Salvador – Carnaby Street         (‘Pikabou’ 7” EP 1967 France)

the Adverts – One Chord Wonders         (7” single 1977 UK)

the Times – Glad Not Sad         (live recording, unreleased – taken from ‘Devil’s Children: Vol.2’ compilation 2000 Australia)

Johnny Young and Kompany – Caralyn [Strangeloves cover]         (7” single b-side [to Step Back] 1966 Australia)

 

the Apple – The Otherside         (‘An Apple a Day’ LP 1969 Cardiff, Wales)

the Unexplained – A Walk down Emily Lane         (‘Chocolate Soup for Diabetics Vol. 1’ compilation LP 1980 UK – taken from the ‘Chocolate Soup for Diabetics’ 5-CD boxset 2010 UK)

DeWolff – A Mind Slip [suite]   i Devil on a Wire   ii The Telephone   iii Black Hole Raga   iv Sixth Dimension Blues   v The Telephone Pt.2   vi Astral Awareness   vii Vicious Times      (‘DeWolff IV’ 2013 Limburg, Netherlands)

Vibravoid – The Politics of Ecstacy      (‘The Politics of Ecstacy’ 2006 Germany)

Pink Floyd – Come In Number 51, Your Time Is Up      (‘Zabriskie Point’ soundtrack LP 1970 USA/Italy)

Youngteam – Daydreamer      (‘Daydreamer’ 2011 Sweden)

Southwest F.O.B. – Smell of Incense [West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band cover]      (7”single 1968 Texas, USA) 

the Higher State – Levitation [13^th Floor Elevators cover]      (‘Texas’ EP 2010 UK)

the Rising Sons – Take a Giant Step [Monkees cover]      (recorded 1966, unreleased – taken from ‘LA Nuggets - Where the Action Is: 1965-1968’ compilation boxset  2009 USA)

the British North-American Act – Don’t Run Away      (‘In the Beginning...’ LP 1968 Canada)

Frumious Bandersnatch – Hearts to Cry      (‘Frumious Bandersnatch’ EP 1968 San Francisco, USA)