Simon Dine – who ‘discovered’ the Trashcans – is the man behind Noonday Underground.
Described as ‘Grace Slick wailing over the Bullitt soundtrack’, the album ‘Surface Noise’ sees Frank Reader lending his vocal chords to a couple of songs. ‘Windmills’ and ‘Barcelona’ are both filled with various loops, strings and are very down-tempo which works perfectly with his vocal delivery. Magic stuff.
Other notable contributors include Paul Weller and Peter Rose.
There are still copies of this album kicking around, maybe not on vinyl but certainly on CD – seek and ye shall find.
2002 Setanta Records SETLP109
Filed under: 1995-1996 A Happy Pocket | Tags: Hard-to-Find, LP, Trashcan Sinatras, Vinyl
In some circles this record could be described as something of a Holy Grail.
A 14-track vinyl LP with full colour picture sleeve complete with original picture/lyric inner. For me, this album just ebbs and flows with a wonderful variety of songs, and I think if I were to introduce someone to the TCS, I would sit them down and play them this.
If you do ever find this album, buy it – it’ll be worth whatever you spend on it.
1996 Go! Discs 828 696-1
‘Wild Mountainside’ 3-track EP with promo stickered sleeve. Seems to be just the regular release with no indications of being a promo CD.
‘Freetime’ and ‘What Women Do To Men’ are both live tracks, recorded at the Howden Park Centre, Livingston in 2005.
The front cover photograph – the location I’m unsure about – was by Martin Gray. View more of his work here.
The US version released on BoBame is much the same…
2005 Picnic Records PIC EP 003
BoBame Recordings bobame007 (US)
Filed under: 2004-2006 Weightlifting | Tags: CD, Promo, Trashcan Sinatras
1-track CD promo distributed to radio and press to promote the UK release of the album ‘Weightlifting’.
Card inlay housed in a stickered jewel case. The sticker – note the spelling mistake – has a release date of 8th November, whilst the inlay card has the correct date of 18th October.
2004 Picnic Records
2-track bootleg 7-inch single that, I think, accompanied some copies of the TCS fanzine, “Autopsy”.
This fanzine was published by TCS mailing list members Sarah Frederiksen and Chris Dooley. Running to approximately 20 pages it included lyrics, a discography, a band history, trivial facts and biographies. There were around 250 copies printed. The ‘Iceburg’ single, according to official sources, had no connection with Sarah or Chris, so I am unsure as to who actually produced it.
The two tracks are ‘Iceburg’ on the A-side and ‘Remember Phil’ on the flip side, which is, of course ‘Twisted and Bent’.
The uncredited cover photographs are, on the front, some penguins and a ship’s Captain on the reverse. No idea who the Captain is but the handwritten note underneath states ‘Look after my best girl, but don’t flirt with her”.
An unofficial release that is extremely hard-to-find.
1993 POIT Records POIT01 L-43877 (USA)
Five Hungry Joes - A pictorial archive of the Trashcan Sinatras. Legendary Scottish Band 