the trash can sinatras have been very busy boys lately. their fifteen minute short spooktime has been providing the summer's film-goers with a tasty teaser before the blood simple main bill revival while their soundtrack to marabou stork nightmares will fill theatres later this year. on the more staple musical front their third album, and the follow-up to 1993's i've seen everything, a happy pocket is, um, in the can, but let's save the most bizarre for last.
they have contributed a track to the vinyl/cd/cassette celebration of a decade of the smiths' the queen is dead, where they canoodle in the listing with the likes of the boo radleys, therapy and supergrass. 'it's a pretty strange one that,' admits guitarist and paintbrush (it says here), john douglas. 'when we got asked to do it there were only three songs left so we chose i know it's over' which was quite a bit of a challenge. it's still quite long but we've changed the instrumentation and totally revamped it.'
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they may never have set the music world ablaze but still bunkered up in their kilmarnock homebase and recording at the local shabby road studios, the band are more than content with their lot. 'in a perfect world we knew what kind of band we wanted to be,' states douglas. 'and it's ok, we're kind of getting there. it's really just a whole learning process.'
and with the new album, that process continues apace. full of whimsy and grace, light and shade, the fourteen track collection takes its title from an old friend who died recently. 'it was a guy who worked for us,' recalls douglas. 'every time he got his wages, he'd say "a full pocket is a happy pocket," so it's just a wee tribute to him.'
trash can sinatras play the cathouse, glasgow, sunday sep 8; venue, edinburgh, monday sep 9. a happy pocket is out on monday sept 2.
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