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
That’s how I’d describe Eddi Reader’s ‘Live In Japan’ album.
Recorded at Billboard Live shows, Japan in September of 2009, this CD covers a wide selection of her career highs, from Fairground Attraction’s, ‘Perfect’, all the way to the recent Love is the Way. It’s a great album with stunning and haunting vocals and the crowd participation is worth the purchase fee alone. In fact, the album closes with a Japanese children’s song, Usagi, sung a cappella with the audience.
Eddi is joined by regular band members Roy Dodds, Boo Hewerdine, Alan Kelly, Kevin McGuire and I have it on good authority that the Trashcans John Douglas is ‘all over it’.
Magical!
2010 Eddi Reader ERCD01
Now, write it out a hundred times!
Ah, takes me back to my school days when I was chucked out of art class for allowing the word ‘fuck’ to pass through my lips. My teacher proceeded to give me a lecture on said word and gave me 100 lines as well – I wouldn’t have minded that much, but I was in 5th year at secondary school! Crazy hippy teacher!
Anyhow, here’s a small advert which appeared in the NME to promote 9th single, ‘To Sir, With Love’
December 1996 NME Magazine Follow @fivehungryjoes
Filed under: 1990-1991 Cake | Tags: Hard-to-Find, Music, Promo, Trashcan Sinatras, Vinyl
No help required!
Here’s the very rare 12″ promo for debut single, ‘Obscurity Knocks’. A very simple piece with a big letter A on one side of the white labels – good effort Go! Discs.
The plain black sleeve comes complete with a promo label. And that’s about it really.
Except to say that the A side is inscribed with the legend, ‘Youthenasia’
1990 Go! Discs GODX34
Five Hungry Joes - A pictorial archive of the Trashcan Sinatras. Legendary Scottish Band 