Filed under: Press | Tags: Concert, Gig, Music, Press, Trashcan Sinatras
Here’s a cutting from an edition of Glasgow’s ‘The List’ magazine advertising an early TCS gig, supporting The Thieves at Cumbernauld Theatre.
Only Tongue Can Tell, Funny, Drunken Chorus and Useless were among the setlist that night, which I think, was from late 1988 or sometime early in 1989.
Fascinating facts: The Thieves recorded an album at Shabby Road Studios. It was never released. Also, The Thieves had a certain Daniel Wylie in their ranks, who went on to find a degree of success with the Cosmic Rough Riders in the late 1990s, early 2000s.
1988/89 The List Magazine
Filed under: 2004-2006 Weightlifting | Tags: CD, Hard-to-Find, Import, Music, Promo, Trashcan Sinatras
1-track US promo for ‘All The Dark Horses’.
This CD included 10 bonus tracks from the ‘Fez’ album (the insert states only 9).
2005 SpinART Records Catalogue number unknown (US)
Filed under: 2004-2006 Weightlifting | Tags: CD, Emlyn Firth, Hard-to-Find, Music, Promo, Trashcan Sinatras
Released in the UK only as a 1-track radio promo, ‘All The Dark Horses’ was surprisingly the only single from fourth album ‘Weightlifting’.
Photographs by Martin Gray. Sleeve design by Emlyn Firth.
Some copies, like this one, came with a press release…
2005 Picnic Records PICEP002
Filed under: Related | Tags: Hard-to-Find, Music, Trashcan Sinatras, Vinyl
…were a moody sounding Nick Cave/Scott Walker-esque 5-piece fronted by Peter Rose – co-engineer on ‘Cake’ and also the mainman behind ‘Ostle Bay’, a collaboration with TCS.
Johnson released a total of four singles, three of which are included here.
The first of these singles, ‘Tripping With The Moonlight’ was a limited 7-inch release of around 500 copies and was recorded and produced by Frank Reader at Shabby Road Studios in Kilmarnock…
1999 Play Records PLAY001 (UK)
The second single, ‘Savoury Body Show’ featured Stephen Douglas on drums and backing vocals.
Limited to 500 copies this 7-inch release again, was recorded and produced by Frank Reader at Shabby Road…
1999 Play Records PLAY002 (UK)
Third single ‘Skin & Gold’ was again limited to 500 copies and features Stephen Douglas on drums. ‘Skin & Gold’ was recorded and produced by Frank Reader, whilst the B-side ‘Paradise’ was recorded by John Douglas, both at Shabby Road…
1999 Play Records PLAY003 (UK)
All singles were released on their own ‘Play’ imprint.
The label was also home to ‘Heirloom’ – another TCS related artist – who at one time included Jody Stoddart. John, Paul and Grant Wilson have all played with them along the way and Davy Hughes’ brother Neil played bass.
Filed under: Related | Tags: CD, Concert, Gig, Hard-to-Find, Live Recording, Music, Trashcan Sinatras
‘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)
Five Hungry Joes - A pictorial archive of the Trashcan Sinatras. Legendary Scottish Band 