Posters / Photos
...always at the foot of the photograph, that’s me there...




Cool poster given out to VIP guests of the Trashcan Sinatras during their All Night in America tour, 2017.  I really like the photographic effects that they've utilized quite extensively during this and the Wild Pendulum tours.




This poster was pilfered (hey, they were just going to throw them out anyway) from The Chapel, the San Francisco church-turned-into-a-music-venue spot where TCS performed 30 songs as part of the All Night in America tour.  During this tour, they had vowed to play mostly all of the 100-plus songs that they had recorded over the last 30 years--quite an undertaking.




A photograph of two cameras - now that's some backward thinking right there.  The significance of these cameras is that they contain (as of yet) undeveloped photos of the Trashcan Sinatras during the time they were recording their sixth album Wild Pendulum in Omaha, Nebraska in 2016.  Part of the prize package of pledging money to the effort. 

The photos will be developed at some point--it's not so easy to find a nearby convenient place to develop conventional film, and I hate Walmart.  Does Walgreens or Rite-Aid still do this?




This early photograph of the Trashcan Sinatras was used as a promotional item during the Cake days.  What's nice about this is that it was signed by no less than eight members of the band, past (Davey Hughes, George McDaid), present (John Douglass, Stephen Douglass, Paul Livingston, Frank Reader) and occasional (Stevie Mulhearn, Grant Wilson).

Pictured (l - r):  John Douglass, George McDaid, Paul Livingston, Stephen Douglass, Frank Reader




A black and white photograph of the band during the promotion of I've Seen Everything, and while braving the cold weather of Scotland.  Davy Hughes appears to be hiding in Stephen's jacket--perhaps trying out ideas for the future A Happy Pocket album cover?




An early promo photograph during the Cake era, and by the looks of things, the band may have had just enough of picture-taking for the day, thank you very much.




Another Cake promotional shot, this time with the band looking a bit more cheery, save for Frank's rather intimidating stare-down.




Promotional poster from the TCS tour of Scotland in 2009 for In the Music.  Stops included Glasgow, Kelso, Edinburgh and Aberdeen.

Pictured (l - r): Frank DiVanna (touring bass player), Frank Reader, Stephen Douglas, Paul Livingston, Stevie Mulhearn (touring keyboards), John Douglas.




Newspaper advertisement taken from New Music Express (NME) in May of 1993.  TCS' second album I've Seen Everything, which had recently been released, was named "album of the week".  As they claim in the advert, the album is full of "tales of sin, sex and antihistamine".




Promotional poster for the US tour for In the Music during the late spring of 2010.  This particular poster was taken from the Slim's venue on June 1.




Full page advertisement for the Trashcan Sinatras' first album Cake, in the June 30th 1990 issue of New Musical Express (NME).




Very stylish and colorful poster advertising the shows at the Troubadour in Los Angeles in 2003.  This was in conjunction with the promotion of the Trashcan Sinatras' 4th album Weightlifting.




Starting in 2010, the Trashcan Sinatras ventured into the ambitious and courageous territory of performing shows inside people's homes.  This has generally been a successful endeavor, and several posters have been created to document these events.  Here is the poster for the house party in Los Angeles on October 30th, 2010.

Poster created by Shane Locke.




Here is the poster for the very first Trashcan Sinatras house party, in Portland, Oregon on May 30th 2010.  The band autographed the posters for anyone who requested it.  The show was a rousing success and provided lifelong memories for all who attended.

In small print, you can see the names of everyone who came to the party along the perimeter of the poster.

Poster created by Shane Locke.




If it was great the first time, why not do it again?  The second Portland House Party was every bit as successful as the first one, maybe even more so as the band was more relaxed and the audience members were no longer strangers to each other or to the band.  As with the first poster, the second one (also designed by Shane Locke) was autographed by the band if requested, and also had the audience members' names printed along the poster perimeter.




Promotional advertisement for I've Seen Everything, the second album by the Trashcan Sinatras.




Promotional advertisement for In the Music, the fifth album by the Trashcan Sinatras.




This press release was put out as part of the release of Cake, the Trashcans' first album.  Thankfully, TCS did not officially adopt the trashcan logo in the upper-right corner.
Another press notice sent out just prior to the Cake release, this one by Hall or Nothing Press, a public relations firm presumably used to publicize the efforts of the Trashcan Sinatras at this early time in their career.
Here is a press release announcing the release of the Trashcan Sinatras' second album I've Seen Everything.

As the press release states, "'I think we're always gonna be doing this' Livingston concludes.  'Even if everybody started hating us and our record company chucked us off, we'd still write songs and make records for ourselves.'"  This statement still holds true after more than 20 additional years.




This is a photograph sent out as part of a press package promoting the Trashcan Sinatras' second album I've Seen Everything.

Pictured (l - r): Paul Livingston, Frank Reader, Davy Hughes, John Douglas, Stephen Douglas.




Another promo photograph from the Trashcan Sinatras first record label Go! Discs, this one (I think) is from the A Happy Pocket era.  Not exactly sure about that, but my guess is based on the overall look of the band - Frank's Buddy Holly look; Stephen has shorter hair, etc.




The Trashcan Sinatras embarked on a tour through the UK in January of 2005.  This poster was created to promote this tour, which in turn was done to promote TCS' fourth album Weightlifting.




Pictured is a poster promoting the release of Weightlifting, the Trashcan Sinatras' fourth album.  This album was released 8 years after their previous full-length release, prompting the poster to quote from the Weightlifting song of the same name, "welcome back..."




This promotional poster for the Trashcan Sinatras' second album I've Seen Everything also promotes the singles "Bloodrush" and "Hayfever".




Another promotional poster for I've Seen Everything simply depicts the album cover artwork, created by TCS guitarist John Douglas.




This is an 8" x 10" reproduction of the Trashcan Sinatras' first album Cake, used as a magazine advertisement.




After the tragic Indonesian tsunami of December 2004, many Scottish musical artists got together to organize a one-time performance to raise money for the tsunami relief efforts.  This concert, called the Concert for Tsunami Relief, raised £300,000 and spawned a 3 CD recording of the live performance (see the Compilations section).

Here is the poster for that performance.  Note how two guitar fretboards cleverly cross together to make a Scottish flag.




When the Trashcan Sinatras were scheduled to perform at the Magic Stick in Detroit, Michigan, the venue created these small advertisement flyers.  The yellow one if from June 8th, 2010, and the pink one if from September 26th, 2004.




This cool-looking poster was made to promote the U.S. tour in March 2011 for the album In the Music.  This were all acoustic shows, with 18 stops throughout the United States.

Poster created by Shane Locke.




Here is a program poster for the 2009 Fuji Rock Festival that the Trashcan Sinatras attended.  They performed on Saturday, July 25th, the second day of the three-day festival.  Their fifth album In the Music had only been released a few months earlier in Japan, and had yet to be released in the remainder of the world, so exposure in this huge music festival made perfect sense.




Featuring the cover art of the Trashcan's second album I've Seen Everything, this stylish poster was the largest TCS-related piece of art that I own (24" x 18")--that is, until the absolutely huge Obscurity Knocks poster (directly below).




An absolutely enormous poster (60" x 40") on very heavy stock paper (almost like canvas), this poster depicts the cover of the Obscurity Knocks single, with guitarist Paul Livingston trying his hand at skateboarding.  Hard to find a frame for this one.




Here is a full-page advertisement for the first single from I've Seen Everything (TCS' second album), "Hayfever".  Appearing in the April 10 1993 issue of New Musical Express, it cheekily states that the single was "recorded in glorious technicolour".




Small newspaper advertisement for "Only Tongue Can Tell", a single from the Trashcan Sinatras' debut album Cake.




Small newspaper advertisement for "Circling the Circumference", a single from the Trashcan Sinatras' debut album Cake.




A very early article of the band (New Musical Express, June 23 1990).




Here are a series of photographs that my wife and I took at the Cafe du Nord show in San Francisco on July 31, 2009.
Pictures from the first epic Portland House Party (below).  The Trashcan Sinatras have done many such house party shows since this inaugural one on May 30, 2010, but at the time it was uncertain as to whether or not it could be pulled off, and there was some palpable initial anxiety as to how well it would go.  Very quickly, however, it was clear that there would be no concerns about the success of the endeavor--a fantastic time was had by all.
Below are pictures taken at the Eugene, OR house party on May 29, 2016, almost 6 years to the day after the first house party in Portland (above).
I took my daughter to June 6, 2016 TCS show in San Francisco as Slims.  She was 12 at the time and this was her first Trashcans show.