…after weeks (feels like months) of not posting anything, miraculously, there’s finally something to add to the archive.
The Trashcans made over 75 appearances in 2005, touring in Scotland, England, Ireland, North America and Japan.
Here’s a promo poster for the early part of the UK tour – and very nice it is too.
Ticket stub from the Glasgow show…
January 2005
Filed under: Related | Tags: Hard-to-Find, Import, LP, Novas Tendências, Trashcan Sinatras
…is Portuguese for New Trends, and was a series of radio programmes hosted by José Roberto Mahr. It first began transmitting on September 1984 and aired every Sunday on a dozen or so stations throughout Brazil’s Radio JB network, with the intention of bringing Brazil the best in new music from around the globe.
This Polygram Records compilation was number two in a series of programmes aired in 1991/2, and included various artists from several labels under the Polygram umbrella including Go! Discs, Fontana, London and FFRR. Therefore we have the usual suspects like The La’s, The High, James and the Trashcans – represented here by, ‘Even The Odd’, from debut album Cake.
Very trendy!
Roughly translated as: ‘The first record on vinyl was the EP “Obscurity Knocks” in February 90, which was for several weeks in the independent charts of England. Pointed out as one of the best guitar bands of the year. This music and the album to debut “Cake”.’
A wee footnote: This LP was given a mention in Finn Hartley’s book. ‘Who’s He? an A-Z of The Trash Can Sinatras’
1991 Polygram Records Brazil 845 864-1
Filed under: Related | Tags: Hard-to-Find, Import, Music, Promo, Trashcan Sinatras
This ‘Best of Trashcan Sinatras’ is basically a bootleg CD, albeit a band-approved one, and was put together for USA radio for the March 2011 tour.
There were around 100 made and sent out to various radio stations. The band’s tour manager, Ben Marts and sound guy Sean got together and ‘remastered’ some of the tracks, trimmed some of the songs and changed some levels to fit it all on the disc. To be honest, I can’t tell the difference.
The artwork was put together by Shane Locke, although by his own admission – not to his usual high standards.
A copy of this CD made it onto eBay and was sold for just over $200 – obviously bought by a TCS die-hard – and caused a fair amount of discussion on the band’s forum.
That’s about it really. All the best for now…
2011 BoTSpro-1
To promote the Trashcans’ 2010 US ‘In The Music’ tour, the band launched a tour quiz video. The object of the quiz was to make the connection between the cities that were included within the tour and various images that were shown on the video.
Dead easy? No really. It was pretty difficult, especially if you were on my side of the Atlantic. Needless to say, the winners came from the other side of the water.
In the end there were three joint winners – Randy Schreck, who sent me this picture, was one of them – who were given the opportunity to participate in their own Skype chat with the band and win some autographed items.
The picture is an early promo from the Cake era and includes, from left to right: John, George, Paul, Stephen and Frank. It is also autographed by band members past and present.
Magic!
1990-91 Cake era
Filed under: 2008-2010 In The Music | Tags: CD, Hard-to-Find, Import, Trashcan Sinatras
Here’s the Japanese promo edition of fifth album, ‘In The Music’.
It’s very rare and very nice.
2009 Victor Entertainment Inc. VICP-64691
Five Hungry Joes - A pictorial archive of the Trashcan Sinatras. Legendary Scottish Band 