Filed under: Related | Tags: Hard-to-Find, Trashcan Sinatras, Video promo, Videos Lost & Found
…were a couple of video compilations released around 1997-98. ‘Official’ bootlegs, they included promo videos, TV appearances, band footage, etc.
Luckily my old VCR is in perfect working order, so it was good to take a wee stroll down memory lane to watch such delights as ‘Hayfever’ on the Beavis & Butthead show, ‘Looking Better Every Beer’ from the Arches in Glasgow, ‘Spooktime’ and who could forget their appearance on Square Meals – the Scottish TV programme which featured the Trashcans at their Shabby Road studios showing off their culinary skills. Magic!
Most, if not all, of these videos – and much, much more – are available on the wonderful YouTube. Click here or here.
Videos Lost…
Videos Found…
Another video compilation was available a year or so earlier. A single video, it included similar content which would eventually appear on the ‘Lost & Found’ set. Thanks to Sharon Linta for sending these over.
1996 – 1998 Videos Lost & Found
Filed under: Related | Tags: Cassette, Hard-to-Find, Les Inrockuptibles, The Smiths Is Dead, Trashcan Sinatras
The Smiths Is Dead was compiled by the French art criticism magazine Les Inrockuptibles and released to celebrate the 10th anniversary of The Smiths’ 1986 album ‘The Queen Is Dead’.
Here’s the 4-track promo cassette which includes the Trashcan’s version of ‘I Know It’s Over’.
1996
Filed under: Related | Tags: Hard-to-Find, Spooktime, Trashcan Sinatras, Video promo
Preferably an old one. A really old one. One that’s so old, it’ll allow me to play this CD-ROM that was given away free by Creative Review Magazine. (I’m talking about a computer by the way, but you knew that didn’t you?)
Creative Review magazine, or CR as it’s sometimes known, was launched in London in 1980 with the aim of inspiring, informing and stimulating debate in graphic design, advertising, digital media, illustration, photography and all other fields of visual communication worldwide.
The June 1996 edition included four free CD-ROMs, one of which, included a sneak preview of the now infamous TCS short film, ‘Spooktime’, which I’m sure you know all about. If not, you can find out a wee bit more here.
The CD-ROM also gives a brief rundown as to what ‘Spooktime’ is all about…
Fourteen-and-a-half gritty minutes long and with all the narrative clarity of a Glaswegian pub crawl, John MacFarlane’s film is strong on effects if week on plot. The reason is that its script is drawn from song lyrics written by the wonderfully-named Scottish indie band The Trash Can Sinatras. Really it’s a pop promo masquerading as a movie. From aphrodisiac beginning to abrupt conclusion it bounces between a series of crises in the lives of men, women and a mustachioed child whose obsessive attempts to buy a pint of Tennent’s are as puzzling as they are doomed. Audiences south of Berwick-on-Tweed may want to wait for the subtitled version.
June 1996 Creative Review Magazine CD-ROM
Filed under: Related | Tags: CD, Hard-to-Find, Import, KDXH Radio, Music, Trashcan Sinatras
KDHX is an award-winning independent, non-commercial radio station in St. Louis, Missouri, US of A. Since 1987 it has broadcast music, public and cultural affairs and is a non-profit organisation supported by the local community.
As part of their American tour in 2009, the Trashcans popped in to play a couple of tunes, one of which, was included on this CD (thanks Mr DiMaria) – a fine version of ‘I Hung My Harp Upon The Willows’.
From the KDHX website: “…featuring exclusive in-studio performances you won’t find anywhere else, Live at KDHX, Vol. 8 spotlights a wide array of artists and genres. From the old-time blues of the Carolina Chocolate Drops to the cinematic rock of Monahans, from the brash indie pop of White Rabbits to the riveting storytelling of Jason Isbell, from the working class punch of the Bottle Rockets to the timeless Scottish folk of the Trash Can Sinatras, from the old school country of James Intveld to the soul-soaked ska of Westbound Train, this collection is the soundtrack for your eclectic, music-loving life.”
You can have a wee listen here.
2009 KDHX / Copycats Hi-Fi Media KDHX 0015 (US)
Filed under: Press | Tags: Album Reviews, NME Magazine, Trashcan Sinatras
Not the best review of second album, ‘I’ve Seen Everything’ from NME’s Paul Moody.
But it could have been worse I suppose – he could have been reviewing The Bluebells.
29 May 1993 NME
Five Hungry Joes - A pictorial archive of the Trashcan Sinatras. Legendary Scottish Band 