Filed under: 1990-1991 Cake, Press | Tags: Music, Press, Trashcan Sinatras
Full page advertisement to promote debut album ‘Cake’, taken from the NME 30 June 1990.
30/6/90 NME (New Musical Express) UK
A review of Eddi Reader’s reissued album ‘The Songs of Robert Burns: Deluxe Edition’, from the February 2009 issue of Q magazine. This re-packaged album brings together the original album with seven new songs and features her version of ‘Wild Mountainside’, a song written by John Douglas.
Q Magazine / February 2009
Filed under: Press | Tags: Press, Rabbie Burns, Scottish Comedy, Trashcan Sinatras
‘No Holds Bard’ was a 60-minute comedy aired on BBC Scotland for the 250th Anniversary of the birth of Robert Burns It was a kind of mocumentary which followed the lives of five people as they prepared to vie for the 2009 Cup O’Kindness – the trophy awarded to the champion in Burns recital.
Now I’m taking a flyer on this one and if I’m wrong, someone please correct me.
As the credits roll, a snippet of new song ‘I Hung My Harp Upon The Willows’ plays. The song may be written about Richard Brown, a friend of Burns. Brown was born in Irvine, where Burns met him in the autumn of 1781 and they became fast friends, so far as women and poetry were concerned.
This would explain its use in the programme – I hope!
Below is a press cutting review from Scotland’s Daily Record and also a video still from the programme credits.
Quick update:
This wee story may well be the inspiration for the song.
25 January 2009 – No Holds Bard – BBC Scotland
Filed under: Related | Tags: CD, Hard-to-Find, Import, Music, Trashcan Sinatras
Not an official release. This is a later version of double CD ‘On A B Road’.
There are 42 tracks on this release, as opposed to 46 on the earlier 2001 version. I have no idea why. Most of the tracks are pretty much the same. The booklet has a brief description and history of each of the songs.
The paintings on the front and back cover are by John Douglas.
Nice!
Quick update: This version was a revision of the 46 track release with a couple of low quality live songs removed at the band’s request. Some live songs were also replaced with the original recorded versions. ‘Leave Me Alone’ was excluded as this was being re-recorded for the ‘Weightlifting’ album.
Although the BoBame releases are ‘unofficial’, the band were involved in all of them, from track listings to liner notes to artwork.
2003/2004 BoBame Recordings BOBAME004 (US)
Filed under: Related | Tags: CD, Hard-to-Find, Import, Music, Trashcan Sinatras
Not an official release. ‘On A B Road’ is a limited CD of b-sides and cover songs which was available from I think, the end of 2000 or around the beginning of 2001.
The double CD includes most of the songs that appeared on the single version of ‘On A B Road’, ‘On A B Road…Again’ and the ‘Aberrations’ compilations. Some of the original songs have been replaced with better or different versions from various sources.
The picture on the left at the very bottom of this post, is a still from the film ‘Spooktime’.
The CDs were titled ‘Heaven Av’ and Irvine St’ which are taken from the ‘Useless’ lyric ‘Some are born in heaven/Some are born in Irvine’.
Lucky old me was born in Irvine.
2000 BoBame Records International BOBAME002
Five Hungry Joes - A pictorial archive of the Trashcan Sinatras. Legendary Scottish Band 