Filed under: 1992-1993 I've Seen Everything, Press | Tags: Billy Sloan, Glasgow Herald, I've Seen Everything, Last Night From Glasgow, Press, Trashcan Sinatras
Early Trashcan songs were full of clever wordplay – not that their most recent stuff isn’t – but it was interesting to discover that, ‘The Wee Stinker’, a crossword in Scotland’s Glasgow Herald became the inspiration for some of their lyrics.
Read on to find out more…
22 August 2021 The Herald on Sunday
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Here’s a clipping from late 1995 which appeared in The List Magazine in the run up to the release of third album, ‘A Happy Pocket’.
The List Magazine Issue 266 3 November 1995
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Produced in 1997 by David Anderson, a fan from Kilwinning in Ayrshire, the fanzine consisted of 44 pages and included a 16 page pull-out on mainly recent – ’95 & ’96 – local and national press material, a 2 page article on the famous email list, contributed by original list member Diane Gleim from Los Angeles, California, Kenny Gan’s original discography, a gigography of concerts played by the band since July ’95, numerous set lists and finally a selection of unseen photographs by ‘official’ band photographer Colin Dunsmuir.
It’s very good and all for the bargain price of £3…
Desktop Tales…
1997 Trashcan Sinatras
Filed under: Press | Tags: Concert, Gig, King Tut's, Setlist, Trashcan Sinatras
Here’s John’s guitar settings/setlist for the Trashcans gig at Glasgow’s King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut in July 2001.
Thanks to Mr. Plain or Pan for the image.
5 July 2001 King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut, Glasgow.
Here’s a few Go! Discs postcards from the ‘I’ve Seen Everything’ and ‘A Happy Pocket’ eras. One each for singles, ‘I’ve Seen Everything’, ‘The Main Attraction’ and ‘To Sir, With Love’.
First class!
1993-1996 Trashcan Sinatras, Go! Discs
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