Technicolour Dreaming

We’ve been playing songs by the prolific Victorian band, the Citradels, for several years now, so we were pleased to be able to do a phone interview with singer/guitarist/sitarist Tom de Vries, one of the three main songwriters in the group, on the eve of their upcoming show here in Adelaide this weekend – the first time they’ve ever played here! He gave us a ‘potted history’ of the band, as well as discussing their recording methods, their upcoming releases and their live performances, giving Adelaide listeners an idea of what to expect on Saturday night at the Crown& Anchor Hotel gig. Of course it wouldn’t be a Cat& Brat interview, though, without digressions and we enjoyed quite a few – ranging from their use of sitars on-stage and thus onto travels in India, to lamenting the end of Thee Oh Sees and the impact of their brilliant Australian performances over the years, and so forth. We trust that you, the listeners, enjoyed our chat as much as we did... and hopefully also, it inspires you to head on down to the Cranka on Saturday night and catch this great band ‘live’, with able support from Adelaide bands, the Dunes and Black Coral – a great lineup! But of course there was also a lot of other fine music featured on the show this week, including songs by the Violet Swells, the Jason Tryp Experience and Jacco Gardner, plus new singles by  the Allah-Las and Ride Into The Sun as well as older tracks by the likes of Scars, Dog Age, Normie Rowe and the Millennium.....

..... so here is the playlist plus some vital visuals.....

Violet Swells – Jupiter’s Garden      (7”single pre-release 2014 Tasmania, Australia)

the Jason Tryp Experience – Deceive      (“The Many Colours of Tryp” EP 2013 California, USA)

Lene Lovich – Bird Song      (7”single 1979 UK)

Pugwash – Black Dog      (“Jollity” 2005 Ireland)

TNT – 99^th Floor [Moving Sidewalks cover]      (recorded 1974 USA – taken from “Mod, Psych & Power Pop from Central Pennsylvania : the Complete Studio Recordings 1974-76” compilation 1994 USA)

the Auras – The Holy Mountain      (“The Auras EP” 2012 Toronto, Canada)

BrightBlack Morning Light – Everybody Daylight      (“BrightBlack Morning Light” 2006 USA)

the See See – Sweet Hands      (7”single 2012 UK)

Ride Into The Sun – Johnny Bloom      (mp3 download 2014 Adelaide, Australia)

Dog Age – Sleep      (“Sigh No More” LP 1991 Norway)

the Blondi’s Salvation – Go Truth      (“Frenchedelia Vol.1” compilation 2013 France)

the Millennium – Suspended Animation      (recorded 1968 USA – taken from “Pieces” anthology 2010 USA)

Holy Wave – Star Stamp       (“Holy Wave” LP 2013 USA)

the Citradels – Chrysalis      (“Droned & Rethroned” 2014 Melbourne, Australia)

                 #    Phone interview with Tom from the Citradels, who will be playing a show in Adelaide this Saturday, 12^th April with the Dunes and Black Coral [more info here]    #

the Citradels – It’s Only a Northern Indian Song      (“Droned & Rethroned” 2014 Australia)

Golden Animals – All Your Life      (“Hear I Go” LP 2013 USA)

Scars – Your Attention Please!      (“Author! Author!” LP 1981 UK)

Crystal Thoughts – The Primitive Gospel      (“1435 Miles” LP 2012 Greece)

the Allah-Las – Had It All      (7”single 2014 California, USA)

the Frowning Clouds – Propellors      (“Whereabouts” 2014 Geelong, Australia)

Normie Rowe & the Playboys – She Used to Be Mine      (“It Ain’t Necessarily so, But It Is.... Normie Rowe” LP 1965 Melbourne, Australia)

Marty Rhone & the Soul Agents – Every Minute of You      (7”single b-side [to Nature Boy] 1966 Australia)

Svensk – Dream Magazine      (7”single 1967 UK)

Jacco Gardner – The Ballad of Little Jane      (“Cabinet of Curiosities” 2013 Netherlands)

Technicolour Dreaming

As always, the music this week ranged far & wide.... through tracks by the likes of Billy Nicholls and ? and the Mysterians from five decades ago, via Truth [a late incarnation of Them], Roxy Music, Dog Age and Galaxie 500 in the succeeding years, to the latest releases of Doug Tuttle and the Citradels, and scattered across both hemispheres, from the northern climes of Iceland, the abode of the Dandelion Seeds, to the southern reaches of Tasmania, from whence come the Green Mist. Whenever or wherever, we hope you enjoyed the ride.....

..... so here is the playlist, with the occasional visual accompaniment .....

Dog Age – Here Comes the Summer      (“Good Day” LP 1989 Norway)

Truth – Archimedes’ Pad      (recorded 1971 USA/UK – taken from “Of Them & Other Takes” anthology 2008 USA)

Brigitte Bardot – Contact      (7”single b-side [to Harley-Davidson] 1968 France]

Wooden Shjips – Contact [Brigitte Bardot cover]      (12”single 2009 San Francisco, USA)

Galaxie 500 – Submission [Sex Pistols cover]      (recorded live on BBC Peel Session 1990 UK – taken from bonus disc of “On Fire” reissue 2010 USA)

Doug Tuttle – Forget the Days      (“Doug Tuttle” 2014 USA)

the Daylight Braves – The Absent Ground      (“Liquid Sun” EP 2011 Adelaide, Australia)

? and the Mysterians – 96 Tears      (7”single 1966 USA)

the Green Mist – The Rumbler      (“Next Stop Antarctica” LP 2007 Tasmania, Australia)

the Movements – Deserted Town      (10”split-EP [with Angry Dead Pirates] 2012 Sweden]

the Horrors – I Can See Through You      (“Skying”2011 UK)

Roxy Music – For Your Pleasure      (“For Your Pleasure” LP 1973 UK)

the Citradels – Dervish      (“Droned & Rethroned” 2014 Melbourne, Australia)

Black Coral – Swollen      (demo EP 2013 Adelaide, Australia)

the Dunes – A Thousand Crimes      (“La Musique Nouveau” 2013 Adelaide, Australia)

the Asteroid #4 – Dead Blues      (”TheWindmill of the Autumn Sky” EP 2013 USA)

the Coral – 1000 Years      (“Butterfly House” 2010 Scotland, UK)

Soft Hearted Scientists – Mountain Delight      (“Wandermoon” 2011 Wales, UK)

Billy Nicholls – Daylight Girl      (“Would You Believe” LP 1968 London, UK)

the Apricot – Mind Your Head      (“A Forestful of Threes” 2011 Norway)

the Dandelion Seeds – Al Azif      (“The Dandelion Seeds” 2014 Iceland)

Psychic Ills – Drop Out       (“One Track Mind” 2012 USA)

the Avengers – Midnight Visitations       (“Medallion” LP 1968 New Zealand)

Dean & Britta – Silver Factory Theme      (“13 Most Beautiful :Songs for Andy Warhol’s Screen Tests” 2010 USA)

Technicolour Dreaming

The Scientists are in Adelaide this week so we thought we’d feature one of their classic songs, albeit one originally released as a single b-side, and this kind of set the tone for the rest of the show. Yes there were some recent releases, including songs from Pinkunoizu, the Luck of Eden Hall and Temples and even pre-releases from the Barbarellatones and the Dandelion Seeds, but the bulk of rest were from all over the place, with tracks from artists such as Chad & Jeremy, John Foxx, nick nicely, the Good, the Bad & the Queen, This Mortal Coil and the Frantics, with Mordecai Smyth finishing off on a suitably British psych-pop note.....

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

Pinkunoizu – Necromancer      (“The Drop” LP 2014 Denmark)

 

nick nicely – 49 Cigars      (7”single b-side [to Hilly Fields (1892)] 1981 UK – taken from “Psychotropia” anthology 2010 UK)

the Arnold Corns (aka David Bowie) – Hang On To Yourself      (7”single b-side [to Moonage Daydream] 1971 UK)

Soft Hearted Scientists – Westward Leading      (“Wandermoon” 2011 Wales, UK)

John Foxx – Endlessly      (7”single 1982 UK)

the Scientists – Swampland      (7”single b-side [to Happy Hour] 1982 Perth, Australia)

King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard – Alluda Majaka      (“Oddments” 2014 Melbourne, Australia)

The Good, the Bad & the Queen – Herculean      (CD-single 2006 UK)

This Mortal Coil – Strength of Strings [Gene Clark cover]      (“Filigree & Shadow” LP 1986 UK)

the West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band – In the Arena/Suppose They Give a War and No One Comes      (“Vol. 2” LP 1967 USA)

the Frantics – Just For a While      (7”single 1968 USA – taken from “Relax Your Mind” anthology LP 1994 USA)

the Luck of Eden Hall – The Collapse of Suzy Star      (“Victoria Moon” LP 2014 Chicago, USA)

the Dandelion Seeds – Crazy Sun      (“Dandelion Seeds” LP 2014 Iceland)

Chad & Jeremy – Rest In Peace/The Gentle Cold of Dawn      (“Of Cabbages & Kings” LP 1967 UK/USA)

the Amazing – Kirwan Song      (“The Amazing” 2010 Sweden)

Temples – Move With The Season      (“Sun Structures” 2013 UK)

the Sun Blindness – Velvet Apple      (“Far Arden” 2011 Australia)

the Barbarellatones – Then the Sausage      (mp3 demo 2014 California, USA)

the Black Hollies – Toy Boat Toy Boat Toy Boat      (7”single b-side [to Benevolent Beacon] 2011 USA)

Mordecai Smyth – I’ve Been So Tired      (“Sticky Tape & Rust” LP 2011 UK)

Technicolour Dreaming

This week’s edition was bookended with tracks by Welsh band Soft Hearted Scientists, who have rapidly wormed their way into our “fave band list” since we discovered their 2013  album “False Lights” and then began working our way through their back-catalogue. Then there were our “just-arrived-in-the-mail” features, the first of which, “The Drop” LP by Denmark’s Pinkunoizu, came in a very cool gatefold sleeve and has barely been off the turntable all week. Though it was released late last year and has taken us a while to get our own copy, we found it to be a brilliant slice of modern psychedelia and well worth the wait – thoroughly recommended! The other new arrival was the debut album from Doug Tuttle, formerly of Cat & Brat faves, MMOSS, whose two albums have frequently reverberated around our house over the past year or so. Now recording under his own name this album finds him further refining his idiosyncratic take on psychedelic music, with a textured 60’s pop feel more evident than in the past. Catchy yet woozy with lots of his trademark reverb and effects, it, like the afore-mentioned Pinkunoizu, keeps insinuating itself into your mind more with each hearing –we’ll definitely be playing more tracks from both albums for you in coming weeks! Also featured were tracks from the Citradels, Slingshot Dragster and Bronco Bullfrog, new mp3s from both the Red Plastic Buddha and the Luck of Eden Hall plus cuts from Schnauser, Dark Ocean Colors, the High Learys and many more.....

..... so here is the playlist with attendant visuals.....

Soft Hearted Scientists – Panorama       (demo 2012 Wales, UK)

the Red Plastic Buddha – Little White Pills      (mp3 download 2014 USA)

the Wise Dude’s Revolver – Hide & Run      (“The Wise Dudes EP” 2013 France)

Diane Coffee – Tale of a Dead Dog      (“My Friend Fish” 2013 California, USA)

 Walter Ghoul’s Lavender Brigade – Frumpy & the Strange Machine      (recorded 1999 UK – taken from “Retrospectoscope : 1966-1970” faux-anthology 2007 UK)

Pinkunoizu – Moped      (“The Drop” LP 2013 Denmark)

the Barracudas – I Saw my Death in a Dream Last Night      (“Drop Out with the Barracudas” LP 1981 UK/USA)

the Matadors – Get Down from the Tree      (7”single 1967 Czechoslovakia)

the High Learys – Down Time      (“Here Come the High Learys” 2014 Perth, Australia)

Slingshot Dragster – Tatiana      (“Bite the Bullet” 2014 Adelaide, Australia)

the Citradels – It’s Only a Northern Love Song       (“Droned & Rethroned” 2014 Melbourne, Victoria)

Sky Picnic – Universal Mind Decoder      (“Farther In This Fairytale” 2010 USA)

the Byrds – Space Odyssey      (“The Notorious Byrd Brothers” LP 1968 USA)

Dark Ocean Colors – Temporary Man      (“Patches and Patterns” EP 2012 USA)

the Black Tambourines – Cat Days       (“Chica” EP 2011 France)

the Luck of Eden Hall – You Asked About Water on Mars      (mp3 download 2014 Chicago, USA)

Bronco Bullfrog – Rocking Horse Mender      (7”single b-side [to Time Waits for Norman] 2014 UK)

Schnauser – Buddy      (“The Missing Link” 2009 UK)

Doug Tuttle – Turn This Love      (“Doug Tuttle”  2014 USA)

Mark Fry – The Witch      (“Dreaming With Alice” LP 1972 UK/Italy)

Delphine – La fermeture éclair [We The People cover]      (7”single 1967 France)

Soft Hearted Scientists – The Caterpillar Song      (“Take Time To Wonder In A Whirling World” 2007 Wales, UK)