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‘Chewing A Brick’ is a 39-track double CD of live tracks.
An un-official release, it consists of two main shows from Queens’ College, Cambridge UK on March 3 1993, and from Club Quattro in Tokyo Japan on September 22 1996. There are three additional songs from Club Quattro from September 21st of the same year.
Both recordings are excellent quality, coming from soundboard tape and DAT.
You’ll notice that the spine of the CD includes the final piece of the anchor image which accompanied the ‘I’ve Seen Everything’ releases. The liner notes give a brief history of the band including a ‘TCS Family Tree’.
The CD’s are named ‘Over The Moon’ and ‘Under The Influence’ – taken from the song ‘Easy Read’.
1999 BoBame Recordings BOBAME001 (US)
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22-track CD-R which was released exclusively to members of the TCS mailing list.
This was made available around the summer of 1998 and was a follow-up release to the single ‘On A B Road’ compilation from 1996. The original B-Road compilation had 21 tracks and the packaging was nearly identical.
Only 21 of the tracks are listed on the insert, the omitted track being ‘Aberration’.
Although this is a CD-R, it was made with the permission of Go! Discs, who quite kindly ‘looked the other way’.
1998 (US)
…’Ostle Bay’ is the work of Peter Rose.
Peter Rose was co-engineer on the ‘Cake’ album and also fronted the band ‘Johnson’.
John, Paul and Stephen play on this album, as does Grant Wilson and ‘In The Music’ collaborator and long time associate, Jody Stoddart.
2002 Play Records PLAYCD008 (UK)
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‘The Sound Of Purple’ compilation brought together several local bands and others from around the UK, as part of a business project for Ayr College.
There were 17 tracks on the CD including ‘Duty Free’ – a new song at the time of release – by the ‘Cat Protection League’ otherwise known as the Trashcans.
It is believed the Cat Protection League refers to the number of homeless cats that used to prowl around the vicinity of Shabby Road Studios.
1998 Purple Records PUR001
The ‘Dream Reality’ CD was released around July 1997 to raise money for the charity Children 1st (The Royal Scottish Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Children).
Eighteen of the best Scottish artists and bands including Annie Lennox, Eddi Reader, Simple Minds, BMX Bandits, The Silencers and the Trashcan Sinatras contributed songs to the album.
The version of ‘Stainless Stephen’ was the alternate take which appeared on both the ‘On A B Road’ double CD compilations (BoBame 002/004).
It is titled ‘Stainless Steven’ on this compilation.
1997 CHFCD 1000 (UK)
Five Hungry Joes - A pictorial archive of the Trashcan Sinatras. Legendary Scottish Band 