Filed under: 1995-1996 A Happy Pocket | Tags: CD, Import, Promo, Trashcan Sinatras, Vinyl
‘Twisted and Bent’. The second single released from third album ‘A Happy Pocket’.
The song – originally called ‘Remember Phil’ – started off being written about a guy Paul met one night at a disco but soon evolved into something different, which explains the title change.
1996 Go! Discs Ltd GOD147 850 560-7 (7-inch single)
This is the 4-track CD release. I have included the promo stickered version although the packaging and CD are exactly the same as the regular release.
Below and to the right show the packaging differences between the UK and European release. This one is from Germany and doesn’t have the catalogue number GODCD147 printed, with the exception of the CD. There are, if you look closely, slight differences on the insert card – namely on the spine and some changes on type layout.
1996 Go! Discs Ltd GODCD147 850 561-2
Filed under: 1990-1991 Cake | Tags: Hard-to-Find, Music, Press, Promo, Trashcan Sinatras, Vinyl
12-inch white label test pressing of debut EP ‘Obscurity Knocks’ complete with press release letter.
This copy has a handwritten label with partially ripped sticker. The inner ring of the same side has the inscription ‘!!Youthenasia!!’ which can partly be seen on the bottom right corner of the photograph.
Note the track error on the letter for ‘The Best Man’s Fool’.
1990 Go! Discs Ltd GODX34
No printed labels. No handwritten titles. Just a simple sticker. That’s yer lot for this one.
3-track white label 12-inch promo for ‘Only Tongue Can Tell’. Includes ‘Useless’ and ‘Tonight You Belong To Me’ with custom stickered die-cut black card sleeve.
The inner ring of one side is inscribed with the legend ‘Mingle, mingle little star, how I wonder who you are’.
1990 Go! Discs Ltd GODX41
Filed under: 1995-1996 A Happy Pocket | Tags: CD, Promo, Trashcan Sinatras
4-track promo sampler, which is considered to be the promo for ‘To Sir, With Love’. The fourth track ‘Born Free’ was recorded for the stage version of Irvine Welsh’s ‘Maribou Stork Nightmares’.
The ‘Spooktime’ film review on the back cover is an excerpt from the NME.
Some copies of this release were promo stickered – like this one…
1996 Go! Discs TSWL-1
Filed under: 1995-1996 A Happy Pocket | Tags: CD, Hard-to-Find, Promo, Trashcan Sinatras
A soundtrack EP to ‘Spooktime’ – a fifteen minute short film inspired by characters who appear on the album ‘A Happy Pocket’.
‘Spooktime’ was written and conceived by Scottish director, John McFarlane, along with Paolo Hewitt (Oasis and Paul Weller biographer) and Tony Crean (Go! Discs’ Head of Marketing). The songs on the CD provide a musical backdrop to the film which is crammed full of drugs, violence, sex and murder.
The film also played at the Cannes Film Festival in France.
1996 Go! Discs Ltd SPOOK1
Five Hungry Joes - A pictorial archive of the Trashcan Sinatras. Legendary Scottish Band 