Filed under: Related | Tags: Hard-to-Find, Music, Trashcan Sinatras, Vinyl
…were a moody sounding Nick Cave/Scott Walker-esque 5-piece fronted by Peter Rose – co-engineer on ‘Cake’ and also the mainman behind ‘Ostle Bay’, a collaboration with TCS.
Johnson released a total of four singles, three of which are included here.
The first of these singles, ‘Tripping With The Moonlight’ was a limited 7-inch release of around 500 copies and was recorded and produced by Frank Reader at Shabby Road Studios in Kilmarnock…
1999 Play Records PLAY001 (UK)
The second single, ‘Savoury Body Show’ featured Stephen Douglas on drums and backing vocals.
Limited to 500 copies this 7-inch release again, was recorded and produced by Frank Reader at Shabby Road…
1999 Play Records PLAY002 (UK)
Third single ‘Skin & Gold’ was again limited to 500 copies and features Stephen Douglas on drums. ‘Skin & Gold’ was recorded and produced by Frank Reader, whilst the B-side ‘Paradise’ was recorded by John Douglas, both at Shabby Road…
1999 Play Records PLAY003 (UK)
All singles were released on their own ‘Play’ imprint.
The label was also home to ‘Heirloom’ – another TCS related artist – who at one time included Jody Stoddart. John, Paul and Grant Wilson have all played with them along the way and Davy Hughes’ brother Neil played bass.
Filed under: Related | Tags: CD, Concert, Gig, Hard-to-Find, Live Recording, Music, Trashcan Sinatras
‘Chewing A Brick’ is a 39-track double CD of live tracks.
An un-official release, it consists of two main shows from Queens’ College, Cambridge UK on March 3 1993, and from Club Quattro in Tokyo Japan on September 22 1996. There are three additional songs from Club Quattro from September 21st of the same year.
Both recordings are excellent quality, coming from soundboard tape and DAT.
You’ll notice that the spine of the CD includes the final piece of the anchor image which accompanied the ‘I’ve Seen Everything’ releases. The liner notes give a brief history of the band including a ‘TCS Family Tree’.
The CD’s are named ‘Over The Moon’ and ‘Under The Influence’ – taken from the song ‘Easy Read’.
1999 BoBame Recordings BOBAME001 (US)
Filed under: 1998-2003 | Tags: CD, Import, Music, Promo, Trashcan Sinatras
This double CD is a collection of demos and sessions of released and some unreleased songs, recorded between 1986 and 1997.
The songs were taken from various sources with varying degrees of quality. They were then compiled by the band and there’s a brief history of each in the liner notes.
There were three different pressings of this release. The initial pressing (this one) had some tracking errors, whilst later reissues resolved these errors. Get the full story here.
I like the signed Frank Sinatra photograph on this one.
2003 BoBame Recordings BOBAME003 (US)
Filed under: Related | Tags: CD, Hard-to-Find, Import, Music, Trashcan Sinatras
22-track CD-R which was released exclusively to members of the TCS mailing list.
This was made available around the summer of 1998 and was a follow-up release to the single ‘On A B Road’ compilation from 1996. The original B-Road compilation had 21 tracks and the packaging was nearly identical.
Only 21 of the tracks are listed on the insert, the omitted track being ‘Aberration’.
Although this is a CD-R, it was made with the permission of Go! Discs, who quite kindly ‘looked the other way’.
1998 (US)
This CD was the third single from debut album ‘Cake’.
‘Circling The Circumference’ was backed with ‘My Mistake’ and ‘White Horses’ – an interpretation of the 1960’s ‘The White Horses’ TV series theme tune.
The solo on the title track is a cracker.
1990 Go! Discs Ltd GODCD46 / 869 177-2 (UK)
Five Hungry Joes - A pictorial archive of the Trashcan Sinatras. Legendary Scottish Band 