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: Related | Tags: CD, Hard-to-Find, Import, Music, Trashcan Sinatras
Over the years the Trashcans have appeared on numerous compilations – some good, some not so – but this one from Greece is possibly the worst.
‘Escape’ appears to be an online lifestyle and culture magazine – a sort of what’s on in Greece type of thing. At one stage in it’s history, before going digital, it was accompanied by a free CD like the one below.
‘I’ve Seen Everything’ by the Trashcans is here amongst an amazing mix of artists including New Order, Dodgy, James Taylor Quartet and er, Incognito.
Whoever put this one together was obviously on some sort of medication as I cannae quite imagine myself listening to ISE whilst weaving my merry way down the French Alps.
Crazy!
1996 Polygram Records/Escape Magazine CD372-2 (Greece)
Filed under: Related | Tags: Hard-to-Find, Import, Music, Music DVD, spinART Records, Trashcan Sinatras, Video promo
Short sighted is more like it, if you ask me.
spinART Records – in the beginning – sounded like a decent business proposal for the Trashcans. A reputation for signing up-and-coming bands preceded them, with great claims to providing great support to their artists. Artists like The Sunshine Fix, The Dears, Apples In Stereo and of course the Trashcan Sinatras.
But sadly it was not to be and the label went tits up towards the end of 2007. This left most of the bands on their roster without a home, but more importantly, without much-needed finance, whilst Jeff Price (spinART’s founder) escaped relatively unscathed and went on to form another company – no doubt with all the band’s money.
Not the work of a far sighted visionary record label I’m sure you’ll agree. There’s more opinions on this story here and here.
Anyhow, back to the matter in hand. Here’s a promo DVD from spinART which includes the aforementioned artists and has the Trashcans performing ‘It’s A Miracle’ from their live session at KCRW – the DVD of which is available on the deluxe version of fourth album ‘Weightlifting’.
It’s magic.
The credits for the picture below should in fact read ‘…Morning Becomes Eclectic…’
2005 spinART Records (US)
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
Filed under: Press | Tags: Concert, Gig, Glasgow Herald, Magazine, Music, Press, Trashcan Sinatras
The Glasgow Herald’s Stuart Morrison gives a five-star review of the Trashcans’ recent Oran Mor gig on Thursday 12 Novemebr 2009.
Here’s the review in full…
Candidates for the Kevin McDermott award for bands who should be a lot bigger than they are, Trashcan Sinatras arrived onstage at Oran Mor with a new album to show off and on this evidence, a very bright future indeed.
The album, In The Music, is a beautiful thing and got a good airing here. I Wish You’d Met Her opened proceedings and set the tone for the evening, loping along, as it did, in typically laid-back fashion. And whilst they can be almost too laid back for their own good sometimes, In The Music is their fifth studio album in nineteen years, there is something indefinably right about them. Certainly, they sit neatly in the softer end of the indie market, alongside the likes of Travis and Belle and Sebastian, but underpinning their songs is, not only superb musicianship, but also beautiful arrangements. You can hear that the lengthy gaps between releases have not been wasted.
Of course, they were playing to the converted. The West End was out in force and Oran Mor was packed with people who knew all the songs and had, clearly, loved this band from the start. And whilst the new album dominated the set, the back catalogue yielded the likes of I’ve Seen Everything and the lovely Weightlifting.
The stand out, for me, though, was their tribute to the late Syd Barrett, Oranges and Apples. It’s a wonderfully lazy, psychedelic tribute to Pink Floyd’s founder and in one song, summed up everything the Trashcans do so well.
16 November 2009 Glasgow Herald
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