Filed under: Press | Tags: Cake, Magazine, Music, Obscurity Knocks, Press, Record Mirror, Trashcan Sinatras
According to Record Mirror’s Tim Southwell, the Trash Can Sinatras could’ve been the ‘Flyweight Pop Champions of the World’ – and who could disagree.
Here’s his review of debut single, ‘Obscurity Knocks’ from the February edition.
24 February 1990. Record Mirror Magazine.
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Filed under: 1992-1993 I've Seen Everything, Press | Tags: Album Reviews, Anagrams, Concert, Gig, I've Seen Everything, Press, Select Magazine, Trashcan Sinatras
Select Magazine from June 1993 turned out to be a bumper issue for fans of the Trashcan Sinatras.
Live review, Album review, Anagrams ‘n’ Adverts – it was all there…
Select Magazine June 1993. Trashcan Sinatras
Follow @fivehungryjoesPromotional poster from the Trashcan’s short tour of Australia in August 2006 taking in New South Wales, Victoria and Western Australia.
“Their songs are rife with inexplicable magic” – (Filter)
No argument here.
2006 Trashcan Sinatras
Follow @fivehungryjoesFiled under: 1995-1996 A Happy Pocket | Tags: A Happy Pocket, Last Night From Glasgow, Music, Trashcan Sinatras, Vinyl
Black, Blue, White or Pink – take your pick.
The Trashcan Sinatras’ third album, ‘A Happy Pocket’ has been reissued and remastered by the lovely folks over at Last Night From Glasgow.
Now expanded to a double album it includes the popular B-sides No Gasoline, Save Me, Claw, A Boy and a Girl, Jane’s Estranged and Aberration. And, that’s not all – the first 250 copies in pink also includes a limited edition flexi-disc with the song, ‘Foolin’.
Hop on over to LNFG and get your copy. Still a few left.
Some extra Irvine – make yourself at home…
The editon exclusive to Japan came with special liner notes and an original postcard. The liner notes were written by B-Flower’s frontman, Hideshi Hachino. Formed in the late 1980s, B-Flower are considered to be one of the oldest Neo-acoustic bands in Japan and have been running through almost the same period as the Trashcans. In his notes he talks quietly and passionately about the Trashcans and the Happy Pocket era.
2023 Trashcan Sinatras / Last Night From Glasgow
Follow @fivehungryjoesFiled under: 1995-1996 A Happy Pocket | Tags: A Happy Pocket, Book, Craig McAllister, Fanzine, Last Night From Glasgow, Magazine, Stephanie Gibson
Here’s a wee visual history of A Full Pocket – the second of Craig McAllister’s books about the Trashcan Sinatras, this time focusing on third album, ‘A Happy Pocket’.
A definitive guide so to speak summed up by Craig as thus: akin to more than a fanzine but not quite a book. It’s A4. It’s set in the same font as the tracklisting on the album. It’s packed full of archival photographs and artefacts. And it features all 5 band members and the occasional outside influence talking about the album and its associated b-sides track by track, story by story.
Words by Craig. Spadework by yours truly.
You can read more about it here.
The majority of pages started off quite differently from the finished article…
Spadework…
The cover image, produced by Stephanie Gibson – who’s photographs appear in Craig’s, ‘The Perfect Reminder’ book – is a Cyanotype print which uses paper coated with light sensitive chemicals. It was then developed on her window ledge – magic, eh?
Beechams headache-free factory…
Five Hungry Joes - A pictorial archive of the Trashcan Sinatras. Legendary Scottish Band 