‘The Main Attraction’ single. 4-track CD backed with ‘Stainless Stephen’, ‘Charlie’s Atlas’ and ‘Jane’s Estranged’.
The cover has the words “Engaged” instead of “Vacant”, which was on the 7-inch single cover, but you’ll know that, won’t you?
1996 Go! Discs Ltd GODCD141 850-477-2
Filed under: 1995-1996 A Happy Pocket | Tags: CD, Hard-to-Find, Import, Music, Trashcan Sinatras
Very rare ‘A Happy Pocket’ CD from Japan.
The Japanese approach to CD packaging is elaborate and sometimes excessive – but you do get your money’s worth. This CD includes the famous ‘obi-strip’. The term is derived from the name of the piece of wide fabric – the obi – that a geisha woman would wear around her waist over the traditional Kimono dress (you learn something every day).
On the CD itself, it is marked ‘sample’ – which seems to be quite common in Japan – although this is not a promo. This release includes a fold-out lyric booklet which is printed in the ~kana script – which are syllabic Japanese scripts commonly used to write words of foreign origin.
1996 Polydor Records POCD-1223 (Japan)
Filed under: 1995-1996 A Happy Pocket | Tags: Music, Trashcan Sinatras, Vinyl
…you bleedin’ well ask proper!” So said Lulu in the film ‘To Sir, With Love’ – or did she shout?
A classic cover version backed with 3 other tracks, ‘Claw’, A Boy And A Girl’ and ‘You Only Live Twice’.
‘You Only Live Twice’ appeared on the soundtrack to Irvine Welsh’s stage production of ‘Maribou Stork Nightmares’.
This is the 7-inch vinyl format…
1996 Go! Discs Ltd GOD157 850774-7
Filed under: 1995-1996 A Happy Pocket | Tags: Music, Trashcan Sinatras, Vinyl
Third single from ‘A Happy Pocket’ was ‘How Can I Apply…?’
Just two tracks on this 7-inch single – both magic.
The girl on the front cover is reportedly a one-time girlfriend of Colin Dunsmuir, the band’s photographer at the time.
1996 Go! Discs Ltd GOD151 850650-7
Filed under: 1995-1996 A Happy Pocket | Tags: Hard-to-Find, Music, Trashcan Sinatras, Vinyl
‘The Main Attraction’ EP was the first single from third album ‘A Happy Pocket’, and was released in limited quantities (possibly 2,000).
According to a posting on the TCS mailing list, the idea behind releasing this single as a limited format was to increase awareness of the band after such a long period out of the public eye.
With TMA not being an obvious single choice for the band, they let their record label ‘get on with it’ so to speak, before releasing a properly distributed record a couple of months later.
This is the 4-track 7-inch release…
Not known at this address.
1996 Go! Discs Ltd GOD141 850476-7
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