Whoa! 14 years! That's a good innings! They are/were a great band - my wife & I saw them about 3 or 4 years ago on their first visit here to Adelaide - small, tightly-packed soldout gig - they were just AWESOME!!! - That show ranks as one of my all-time f... moreWhoa! 14 years! That's a good innings! They are/were a great band - my wife & I saw them about 3 or 4 years ago on their first visit here to Adelaide - small, tightly-packed soldout gig - they were just AWESOME!!! - That show ranks as one of my all-time favourite gigs, and I've seen plenty over the years, all around the world!
Still... we have fo...
Peter Brat von StabenHey all! Finally got re-registered with the Hideout - it looks really great from what I've seen so far... now all I have to do is find where I saved my old 'Friends' list.
Anyway, feel free to check out our playlists of our radio show, Technicolour Dreami... moreHey all! Finally got re-registered with the Hideout - it looks really great from what I've seen so far... now all I have to do is find where I saved my old 'Friends' list.
Anyway, feel free to check out our playlists of our radio show, Technicolour Dreaming, here in Adelaide, Australia on 3D Radio 93.7fm..... and if you're a band with a garage/psych/surf/etc sound, send us some of your music and we'll expose it to our audience.
Cheers
Bio
Musician/writer/radio DJ ...known publicly as PETER BRAT
Bands include RASHAMRA (1971-1973), HARD ROCK THEATRE (1973)with ex-Masters Apprentices/Throb/Rashamra members, the BRATS (1979-1980), EXHIBIT A (1980-1984) with members (past & future) of the Moodists, the Church/Brats,Thug/Salamander Jim, Blow Monkeys, etc... plus session/live work on keyboard/vocals with various bands and musicians... basically, lots of stuff over the years... as long as it stayed fun!
Recently released a 7" vinyl split-single on SMASHED RECORDS ... PETER BRAT & the MOLTING VULTURES "Life On The Dole" b/w the MOLTING VULTURES "Drop In & Go!"
Radio stuff: Currently presenting "Obscured by..." and "Technicolour Dreaming" shows on 3D RADIO in Adelaide (www.threedradio.com) on FM, digital and live stream... playing psych, surf, garage, punk, electro, gothabilly, Krautrock etc etc Check out our playlist blog...
Favorite Music
60's beat/garage, psychedelic, punk, post-punk, glam, surf, Krautrock, gothabilly, drone, electro etc etc etc etc... obviously eclectic tastes! Ranging from the Stooges to the Easybeats, the Seeds to Black Ryder, the Sun Blindness to the Black Hollies, from Love to the Throb to the Cramps to Davie Allan & the Arrows, from Scott Walker to the Sonics to Sparks, from the Acid Drops to the Brogues to the Molting Vultures, the Count 5 to Kamikaze to the Kinks, Bowie to the Beach Boys to brillig, from T.Rex to the 13th Floor Elevators and Nico to Fluffy, from Clinic to the New York Dolls to the Asteroid Belt... from the Pretty Things to Sigue Sigue Sputnik to the Zombies to David Sylvian to Black Cab, from the Velvet Underground to Espers and the Frowning Clouds to the Last Poets... from Tiny Tim to the Spazzys and the Outsiders to the Hoa Hoas, the Brood to the Third Bardo and Bauhaus to the Nomads, the Jefferson Airplane to Digger & the Pussycats and the Brian Jonestown Massacre to Roxy Music, Laika & the Cosmonauts to Total Control and the UV's to Golden Triangle and Balloon Farm, United States of Existence to the Go Go Haunters to Messer Chups, Sun Dial to Devo to ? and the Mysterians, the Prisoners to the Clash and Vibrasonic to Laibach ... and from ATV to XTC, X Ray Spex to NFI, SAHB to Zolar X, and PIL to Q65, the MC5 to Thee Oh Sees to 3D TV... ahhhhh, I could go on for pages... and these were just bands that sprung to mind... and I didn't even get to all-time faves like Plasticland or Wooden Shjips or the Sex Pistols or Patti Smith or the Standells or Nina Hagen or the Electric Prunes or Captain Beefheart or Siouxsie& the Banshees or the Ramones or Metal Urbain or the Black Angels or DieselWitch or the Small Faces...or even the Monks AND the Monkees, the Beatles AND the Rolling Stones... but I'm sure you get the picture...! These are just a few of my favourite bands... listen in to our radio shows on 3D Radio, Adelaide [categorised by iTunes under "eclectic" radio stations (how right they are!) and listed just near 'Trekky Radio'... ha! ha! Appropriate, oui?] and you'll hear all of these and many many MANY more!!!!
Favorite Movies
Bladerunner, Dig!, Barbarella, If!, Clockwork Orange, Riot on Sunset Strip, PsychOut (and all those other 60's movies etc etc), Night of the Living Dead, Suburbia, HELP!, Don Lett's 'Punk Attitude', Head, Velvet Goldmine, Straight to Hell, Shadow of the Vampire, Apocalypse Now, Moon, Flesh for Frankenstein/Blood for Dracula (and Warhol movies in general), spaghetti westerns, sci-fi,... basically lots!
TV stuff like 'Star Trek' and other sci-fi series such as 'Lexx', 'Galactica' and 'Farscape', 60's English shows such as 'the Prisoner' [all-time favourite!], 'Adam Adamant', and 'the Avengers', 'the Monkees', 'the Wire', 'Spooks', 'Deadwood', 'Kolchak: the Night Stalker', 'TrueBlood', original UK version of 'Being Human', 'Outcasts', etc etc etc plus documentaries esp. history, weird & predictive science, good expose-news such as 'Four Corners' etc we occasionally get here in Australia on the ABC or on SBS which has stuff from Europe and the BBC... again, dare I say it, eclectic!
Other Hobbies/Interests
Hanging out with friends at home/out for dinner/at gigs or movies/at 3D Radio...
Playing games on PS3 and Xbox 360, esp. RPGs, strategy and 'stealth' shooters etc...
Reading (fiction esp. sci-fi e.g. Charles Stross, Iain M. Banks et al and non-fiction esp. history [ancient/Rome/Byzantium/medieval] and politics [of a humorous yet incisive 'left-libertarian', expose-type perspective generally] and 'space science', music histories, 'beat' stuff, etc etc... our bookcases are a diverse selection)
... living with my beautiful wife & partner-in-music, Megan (aka 'the Cat'), cooking, playing with our 2 dogs [a German Shepherd/Kelpie X and a Siberian Husky], and bush or beach walking with them (we live and work in rural South Australia on the coast .... beautiful place!)
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