Filed under: Related | Tags: CD, Hard-to-Find, Import, Music, Trashcan Sinatras
POPnews is a popular French based webzine that sporadically releases CD compilations which include some truly fantastic tracks.
POPvolume#2 is no exception, with the wonderful Astrid, Lambchop, Orwell and the Trashcans included. John Douglas used to go busking and the track, ‘In Capitals’, which features on this CD, was written about those days.
On the POPnews website the following accompanies the CD review…
“Kilmarnock must be a very very remote city so that the news of Trash Can Sinatras arrives to us also sporadically. It must also be a splendid city if the songs reflect their geographical origins. After 3 albums received by enthusiastic critical greeting but timid public reactions the TCS have returned (finally! shout the despaired fan) and give us (in exclusivity) the fruit in their long studio work. Misty like the plains of Scotland the melody escapes slowly from a crystal guitar. It feels great to hear them again”.
Very deep Monsieur.
2001 POPnews PNW002 (France)
The Borderline is a bit of a subterranean Soho music venue which has played host to numerous big name acts in its 14 year history – Oasis, R.E.M. and Blur to name but a few.
It’s a bit wee and intimate, but at least a decent view of the stage is guaranteed – if you steer clear of the massive pillar in the middle of the room that is – and the eclectic line-up which encompasses all musical styles, makes it one of London’s most exciting small venues.
This flyer was for an early TCS performance whilst they were stuck at the bottom rung of the music industry ladder.
As you know, world domination soon followed.
24 April 1990
Filed under: 2008-2010 In The Music | Tags: CD, Hard-to-Find, Music, Promo, Trashcan Sinatras
Promo copy of debut single ‘I Wish You’d Met Her’, taken from the Trashcans’ 5th studio album ‘In The Music’
I think I like her.
Some copies – like this one – came with a promo letter from Manilla PR, which gives an insight into the band and how the new songs and album came about…
2009 LO5008 Lo-Five Records
An excellent double-CD compilation which included the Trashcans’ cover version of ‘To Sir, With Love’
Other artists on this release included Teenage Fanclub, Primal Scream, Radiohead and The La’s.
1997 Polygram TV/Polygram Records 553 295-2
Local newspaper article describing how the band’s hometown of Irvine was the inspiration for a couple of songs on new album ‘In The Music’.
2 July 2009 Irvine Herald
Five Hungry Joes - A pictorial archive of the Trashcan Sinatras. Legendary Scottish Band 