Five Hungry Joes – A pictorial archive of the Trashcan Sinatras. Legendary Scottish Band


Express Service
May 9, 2009, 8:28 am
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A rare sample CD from Polydor in Japan.

There’s not much info on this release I’m afraid, but it includes tracks from artists such as The Beautiful South, Happy Mondays, The Soup Dragons, Tha La’s and of course the Trashcan Sinatras.

Two tracks from ‘Cake’ are featured here – ‘Obscurity Knocks’ and ‘Only Tongue Can Tell’.

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Poor Man’s Son
May 3, 2009, 10:20 am
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Originally hailing from Orkney, off the north coast of Scotland, Kris Drever cut his teeth on the Edinburgh traditional music scene in the late 1990s. The son of Ivan Drever, (of Celtic rockers, Wolfstone), Kris has picked up plenty of praise for his work with ‘Britfolk supergroup’, Lau, and his wonderful solo debut ‘Black Water’ made him a deserving winner of the BBC Radio 2 Horizon Award in 2007.

Here, on his single ‘Poor Man’s Son’ he is joined by Eddi Reader, Frank Reader and Roddie Woomble (Idlewild), who all provide harmony vocals.

Track down his album – you don’t have to be a folkie to enjoy it.

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I’m In(to) The Music
April 29, 2009, 8:37 pm
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It’s shiny, it’s new and it’s here. Say hello to ‘In The Music’.

I’ll leave the song reviews for another time and just let you all drool over the packaging.

The Japanese release comes in digi-pak form with the obligatory obi-strip. Inside we have a marvellous fold out lyric sheet with a fantastic montage of band pics on the reverse, and as with all Japanese releases there’s an additional lyric booklet, which kindly explains the band’s thinking behind each song.

Get In(to) The Music – it’s magic!

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Live In Seattle
April 4, 2009, 11:15 am
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KEXP 90.3 FM is a radio station based in Seattle. On the 1st October 2004, the Trashcans paid a visit to the station and recorded a live session in support of ‘Weightlifting’.

Four songs were recorded in this session including ‘All The Dark Horses’, ‘Freetime’, ‘Got Carried Away’ and ‘Weightlifting’ – featured on this CD. Other artists on the CD include Death Cab For Cutie, Bright Eyes, The Wedding Present and Patti Smith.

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Candyfloss And Medicine
April 3, 2009, 3:34 pm
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…was released in 1996 by Eddi Reader.

This Japanese import included the bonus track ‘Sex Lives’ which was written by Frank Reader and Paul Livingston, although it doesn’t appear to be credited on the sleeve notes.

An acoustic track, it was also available on her single ‘Town Without Pity’ (part 2, NEG90CDX/0630151222)

See comments for quick update on this post.

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