Filed under: 1995-1996 A Happy Pocket | Tags: A Happy Pocket, Book, Craig McAllister, Fanzine, Last Night From Glasgow, Magazine, Stephanie Gibson
Here’s a wee visual history of A Full Pocket – the second of Craig McAllister’s books about the Trashcan Sinatras, this time focusing on third album, ‘A Happy Pocket’.
A definitive guide so to speak summed up by Craig as thus: akin to more than a fanzine but not quite a book. It’s A4. It’s set in the same font as the tracklisting on the album. It’s packed full of archival photographs and artefacts. And it features all 5 band members and the occasional outside influence talking about the album and its associated b-sides track by track, story by story.
Words by Craig. Spadework by yours truly – a privilege to have contributed.
You can read more about it here.
The majority of pages started off quite differently from the finished article…
Spadework…
The cover image, produced by Stephanie Gibson – who’s photographs appear in Craig’s, ‘The Perfect Reminder’ book – is a Cyanotype print which uses paper coated with light sensitive chemicals. It was then developed on her window ledge – magic, eh?
Beechams headache-free factory…
Filed under: Related | Tags: Fanzine, Jord_Division, Music, Trashcan Sinatras
Champions League more like.
Look at these fantastic ‘zines. The super-talented Jordi creates these pocket-sized gems that include interviews, photos, playlists and the like of various artists and the Trashcans were only too happy to answer the call.
They really are works of art…
Easy Read and the accompanying Desktop Tales was the first Scottish-based fanzine dedicated to the Trashcan Sinatras.
Produced in 1997 by David Anderson, a fan from Kilwinning in Ayrshire, the fanzine consisted of 44 pages and included a 16 page pull-out on mainly recent – ’95 & ’96 – local and national press material, a 2 page article on the famous email list, contributed by original list member Diane Gleim from Los Angeles, California, Kenny Gan’s original discography, a gigography of concerts played by the band since July ’95, numerous set lists and finally a selection of unseen photographs by ‘official’ band photographer Colin Dunsmuir.
It’s very good and all for the bargain price of £3…
Desktop Tales…
1997 Trashcan Sinatras
Filed under: Press | Tags: Fanzine, Hard-to-Find, Music, Press, Stephen Maughan, This Almighty Pop, Trashcan Sinatras
…is a legendary music fanzine that was produced between 1988 and 1990. It was is created by Stephen Maughan and during that time he produced four issues which included articles, fan letters and reviews on a host of new and upcoming bands.
This one – Issue Four – included a piece on the Trashcan Sinatras and was issued during the summer of 1990. Each issue was accompanied by a flexi-disc (not included here).
In the Autumn of 2008 – after an 18 year hiatus – Stephen released Issue Five of This Almighty Pop, embracing modern technologies such as colour and CD-Rs.
A great little project.
This Almighty Pop Fanzine Summer 1990
Five Hungry Joes - A pictorial archive of the Trashcan Sinatras. Legendary Scottish Band 