Filed under: 2008-2010 In The Music | Tags: Hard-to-Find, Music, Music DVD, Promo, Trashcan Sinatras, Video promo
People. There’s millions of us. We go about our business everyday, sometimes happily, sometimes not but we’re mostly all, oblivious to others around us.
But one sunny autumn Sunday afternoon, John Douglas captured a few minutes of joy on his trusted old Super8, that would eventually become the official video for ‘People’, the second single from the Trashcan Sinatras album ‘In The Music’.
It’s filmed in Los Angeles, New York, Tokyo, Nagoya and Buchanan Street, Glasgow, where by chance two girls were giving free hugs to the punters of Glasgow. John happened to be in the vicinity and captured it for us all to see.
The hug girls, Olivia and Katherine, were eventually tracked down sometime after the video was made and were guests of honour at the two Brel acoustic gigs in November of 2009.
Great story. Great tune .
Here’s Olivia and Katherine (although I’m not sure who’s who)
November 2009 Lo-Five Records
Filed under: 2004-2006 Weightlifting | Tags: CD, Hard-to-Find, Import, Music, Promo, Trashcan Sinatras
Released in the Summer of 2004 this was a single track promo CD sent to hip and cool radio stations for a wee spin before the release of fourth album ‘Weightlifting’.
There’s not much to it, just the plain old CD and a photocopied insert.
It’s rare!
2004 spinART Records – Catalogue no. unknown
Filed under: Related | Tags: CD, Hard-to-Find, Import, Live Recording, Music, Promo, Trashcan Sinatras, Westwood One Radio
…of world domination? Mmmm, perhaps not.
One of my earlier posts will give you all the info you need on the Westwood One Radio Networks.
This is another rare CD which includes the tracks ‘Iceberg’ and ‘Remember Phil’. The latter, as you well know, is in fact ‘Twisted And Bent’ – but when this acoustic session was recorded the song had no official title. It is introduced by Frank as a ‘world exclusive’ and is rather good.
Both tracks eventually appeared on the 7-inch vinyl bootleg which accompanied some copies of the Autopsy fanzine. More on both of these here and here.
1993 Westwood One Entertainment (US)
Filed under: Related | Tags: CD, Hard-to-Find, Import, Live Recording, Music, Promo, Trashcan Sinatras, Westwood One Radio
Westwood One is America’s No.1 Radio Network and in 1991 the Trashcans paid them a visit to record a live session.
The show – called The Vault – had 6 segments from different artists featuring a short intro and outro from the announcer and then a live song.
On this CD we have an excellent acoustic version of ‘Only Tongue Can Tell’ from their debut long player ‘Cake’. These CDs are extremely rare and hard to find radio shows with only a limited number made for radio stations that would play this type of music and stations that subscribed to the Westwood One radio network services.
Other artists on the show – which was broadcast in February 1997 – included Devo, Midnight Oil, Living Colour and eh, Culture Club.
Magic!
1997 Westwood One Entertainment (US)
Filed under: 2008-2010 In The Music | Tags: CD, Hard-to-Find, Music, Promo, Trashcan Sinatras
Released on Monday 9 November, here’s the promo CD of ‘People’ – the second single from 5th album ‘In The Music’.
When ITM was released, ‘People’ appeared to be much maligned and wasn’t the most popular among you Trashcan fans (if you read the official forum you’ll know where I’m coming from) – but I think it’s a belter.
If you haven’t heard it and your mibbee doon in the dumps, then you could do worse than getting yourself over to YouTube and watchin’ the video, shot by none other than Mr John Douglas himself.
It’ll put a smile on yer face.
Why so serious…?
9 Nov 2009 Lo-Five Records L05009
Five Hungry Joes - A pictorial archive of the Trashcan Sinatras. Legendary Scottish Band 