Filed under: Press | Tags: Concert, Gig, Music, Music Poster, Piper Ferguson, Press, Rock Poster, Trashcan Sinatras
…these guys are serious – particulary Mr Mulhearn.
Tour poster promoting the Scottish dates of the 2009 UK tour.
Photography by the wonderfully named Piper Ferguson, who has worked with a host of other famous people. Take a look at her website.
It’s magic!
November 2009
Filed under: Press | Tags: Concert, Gig, Homecoming Scotland, Kilmarnock Tartan Tidings, Music, Press, Rabbie Burns, Trashcan Sinatras
Homecoming Scotland 2009 was a series of events designed to attract people of Scottish ancestry to visit Scotland.
The Homecoming started on 25 January 2009 (Robert Burns night) and ran until 30 November 2009 (St Andrews Day). Throughout this period there was a long list of events, including several well-established attractions like Celtic Connections, Glasgow International Comedy Festival, Royal Highland Show, Edinburgh International Film Festival, Edinburgh Military Tattoo and the Belladrum Tartan Heart Festival.
Another Homecoming celebration though, was Kilmarnock’s Tartan Tidings – a low-key affair combining musical entertainment from local ‘heroes’ culminating in some Z-list celebrity switching on the town’s Christmas Lights.
The 2009 event had an array of talent including the Donnie Munro Band, Andrew Merry(?), A Gospel Choir, Peatbog Faeries and the Trashcan Sinatras.
Now you’re probably wondering why the Trashcans were mingling with the Z-listers, but if you know your history – which I’m sure you do – then you’ll know that Kimarnock was the band’s home for several years, so it seemed appropriate for the organisers to ask some real heroes to return for the event.
Frank, last week…
28 November 2009
Filed under: Press | Tags: Concert, Gig, Magazine, Music, Press, Record Mirror, Trashcan Sinatras
Here’s a review of an early TCS gig – April 1990 to be precise – which appeared in Record Mirror magazine.
21 April 1990 Record Mirror Magazine
Filed under: Press | Tags: Brel Glasgow, Gig, Music, Press, Trashcan Sinatras
Following their 5 star Oran Mor, Glasgow and Cabaret Voltaire, Edinburgh gigs, the Trashcans announced 2 intimate acoustic shows for Monday 23 and Wednesday 25 November 2009 in the conservatory of Glasgow’s Brel Bar – the venue where they played a series of never to be forgotten concerts in 2003.
Limited to around 80 tickets each night, those in attendance witnessed the band on top form playing tracks from the ‘I’ve Seen Everything’ era through to fifth album ‘In The Music’. What? No Cake?
Highlights included a rare outing of ‘Hammertime’, Mink De Ville’s ‘Spanish Stroll’, ‘To Sir, With Love’ and a spellbinding ‘Send For Henny’ with Eddi Reader joining the band on stage to sing backing vocals.
Here’s the promo poster…
A five-star review from the Scottish Sunday Mail’s Jo Kelly…
23 & 25 November 2009
Filed under: Press | Tags: Concert, Daily Record, Gig, Magazine, Press, Trashcan Sinatras
Excellent review from the Daily Record’s Paul English for the Trashcans gig at Glasgow’s Oran Mor on Thursday 12 November 2009.
4 out of 5 ain’t bad – although I’m not sure how Frank will feel about the Hank Marvin comparison.
20 November 2009 Scottish Daily Record
Five Hungry Joes - A pictorial archive of the Trashcan Sinatras. Legendary Scottish Band 