Filed 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 – a privilege to have contributed.
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…
Filed under: 1995-1996 A Happy Pocket | Tags: CD, Hard-to-Find, Music, Trashcan Sinatras
…Music Archive Collection was set up to bring back to life some long lost, out of print classic albums. Albums by artists such as ABBA, Big Country, The Style Council, The Jam and eh – one of Paul’s favourites – Wet Wet Wet.
Back in 2004, ‘A Happy Pocket’ by the Trashcan Sinatras was also given the nod to be re-released – it is a classic after all.
Most of these releases were interactive CD’s. Pop them into your Mac or PC and some additional material was available for you to peruse while listening to the audio. Don’t know what’s wrong with my copy but it disnae work.
It’s a very clever idea and may have been a godsend if you’d been searching for what was once, one of the elusive Trashcan albums. Not so, if you were the band. I can’t imagine they would’ve seen any of the proceeds from the sale of this edition.
John gets all the credit (or Stephen perhaps)…
2004 Polygram Records/Universal Music Company 80100947
Filed under: 1995-1996 A Happy Pocket | Tags: Hard-to-Find, John McFarlane, Music, Spooktime, Trashcan Sinatras, Video
Ever wondered what the ‘Spooktime’ video looks like?
Well, here it is.
I’m sure you know all about this film, but if you don’t (shame on you), here’s a quick synopsis. ‘Spooktime’ is a fifteen minute short film inspired by characters who appear on the album ‘A Happy Pocket’. It was written and conceived by Scottish director, John McFarlane, along with Paolo Hewitt and Tony Crean. The Trashcans provide a musical backdrop to the film which is crammed full of drugs, violence, sex and murder – just a normal night out in Glasgow then.
The cassette also includes the ‘To Sir, With Love’ video, and some copies came with a 6 question contest to “Win a luxury two night stay in Scotland”. Questions included easy ones like ‘Which songs are featured in “Spooktime”?’ to more difficult ones like ‘What was the number plate of the taxi?’.
1996 Go Discs Ltd in association with MTP
Filed under: 1995-1996 A Happy Pocket | Tags: Cassette, Hard-to-Find, Import, Trashcan Sinatras
This cassette from Turkey is quite different from the regular UK release, as you’d expect, but the inner J-card is much the same.
Delightful.
1996 Go! Discs Ltd/Polygram/RaksMusik 828696-4 (Turkey)
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