I couldn’t agree more.
This eight track custom CD sampler was released via Patio Music – a music and lifestyle company that over the years have brought attention to an eclectic genre of music not usually heard on radio.
Here, keeping company with artists as diverse as N.E.R.D. and Courtney Love, we find the Trashcans and ‘All The Dark Horses’ from the BoBame release ‘Weightlifting EP’.
A song fit for any patio in my opinion.
2006 Patio Music 038-PATCO (US)
…Everywhere I look around, Love is in the air, Every sight and every sound – so sang John Paul Young way back in the late 70s.
The new Trashcan Sinatras’ album, ‘In The Music’ is a record full of love and now Scotland’s national treasure, Eddi Reader, has joined in with her new album ‘Love Is The Way’.
A fantastic album and in my opinion her best collection of songs yet. Three of the songs on this copy feature the mighty talents of Mr John Douglas and his ukelele – ‘I Won’t Stand In Your Way’, ‘New York City’ and the forthcoming single ‘Roses’. As this is the promo release, there are no credits, but I believe Stephen Douglas makes an appearance on the album too.
‘New York City’ was originally written for ITM but fell at the final hurdle, but has thankfully been beautifully resurrected here.
Love is definitely in the air.
Can you spot John? Oh, there he is – snug as a thug in the doorway
2009 Rough Trade Records Ltd RTRADCD454
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A rare sample CD from Polydor in Japan.
There’s not much info on this release I’m afraid, but it includes tracks from artists such as The Beautiful South, Happy Mondays, The Soup Dragons, Tha La’s and of course the Trashcan Sinatras.
Two tracks from ‘Cake’ are featured here – ‘Obscurity Knocks’ and ‘Only Tongue Can Tell’.
1990 Polydor Records/London Go! Discs DCI-3025 (Japan)
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Originally hailing from Orkney, off the north coast of Scotland, Kris Drever cut his teeth on the Edinburgh traditional music scene in the late 1990s. The son of Ivan Drever, (of Celtic rockers, Wolfstone), Kris has picked up plenty of praise for his work with ‘Britfolk supergroup’, Lau, and his wonderful solo debut ‘Black Water’ made him a deserving winner of the BBC Radio 2 Horizon Award in 2007.
Here, on his single ‘Poor Man’s Son’ he is joined by Eddi Reader, Frank Reader and Roddie Woomble (Idlewild), who all provide harmony vocals.
Track down his album – you don’t have to be a folkie to enjoy it.
2006 Reveal Records, Cat. No. Reveal 18P
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‘Select’ was a UK music magazine of the 1990s which was particularly known for covering Britpop. The magazine launched in October 1990 and folded a decade later in 2000, mirroring the rise and decline of the Britpop scene with which it became synonymous.
Here’s a cassette given away free with the May 1996 issue, which includes a track from the Trashcans – the mislabeled ‘Pop Palace’.
Note: All bands – with the exception of the Trashcans – are printed on the front cover.
Typical eh?
SELECT Magazine May 1996
Five Hungry Joes - A pictorial archive of the Trashcan Sinatras. Legendary Scottish Band 