Filed under: 1992-1993 I've Seen Everything | Tags: CD, Hard-to-Find, Import, Music, Trashcan Sinatras
This Japanese release of second album ‘I’ve Seen Everything’ will be a rare sight to most as not too many of them were pressed.
The packaging is almost identical to the standard US and European releases apart from the obvious record label details. It also comes with a fold-out Japanese lyric sheet.
Very nice it is too.
1993 Polydor/Go! Discs Ltd POCD-1094 (Japan)
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
Another free compilation CD. This time from The Sunday Times Scotland.
Includes the Trashcans with ‘Leave Me Alone’ alongside other artists including Teenage Fanclub, 1990s, Ocean Colour Scene and Jo Mango – who recently supported the band at the beginning of their 2009 tour at Glasgow’s Oran Mor and who is also signed to their UK record label, Lo-Five Records.
2007 The Sunday Times Scotland
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)
Five Hungry Joes - A pictorial archive of the Trashcan Sinatras. Legendary Scottish Band 