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Jangly guitars File under Brian Links to radio docs on early REM/The Go-Betweens, The Blue Nile, & The Trashcan Sinatras on linktree https://linktr.ee/Kensweeney website Kensweeney.net
Great talking with Dion Fanning at The Currency about my book Roll Away The Stone - When Journalism Was The Best Job In The World. thecurrency.news/articles/243...
How journalism used to work: Declan Lynch on when the mavericks were kings - The Currency
It was Tennessee Williams who said that the only complete person was a complete idiot. Roll Away the Stone: When Journalism was the Best Job in the World is Declan Lynch’s memoir of a life in journali...
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The Go-Betweens inspired the Smiths, REM and Nick Cave. Why did they fall apart? As their golden-period albums from the late 1980s are reissued, the former bandmates talk about what happened www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/cdd8275...
The Go-Betweens inspired the Smiths, REM and Nick Cave. Why did they fall apart?
As their golden-period albums from the late 1980s are reissued, the former bandmates talk about what happened
telegraph.co.uk
Parents in England and Wales could be fined or jailed for child’s crimes, minister says
Parents in England and Wales could be fined or jailed for child’s crimes, minister says
Jake Richards says changes would be part of ‘carrot-and-stick’ approach to try to turn around young offenders Parents whose children commit crimes could lose their benefits, face fines and even be jailed, a minister has said. Jake Richards said the youth justice system “should hold parents to account in a proportionate way for ensuring that they play their role in keeping communities safe”. Continue reading...
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Big fan of this. Former jobs of a superb team. Excerpt @IrishTimes Ticket review ‘Fearless ! Vincent Browne’s Magill and Ireland in the 1980’s @NewIslandBooks
The Trashcan Sinatras’ unassuming, emotive songs won hearts as they struggled against the tides of Madchester, grunge and Britpop” John McNair @MOJOmagazine on John Douglas 1963 - 2026 on.soundcloud.com/y67KAtVHmtFb...
Fantastic TV “chance, disappointment, happiness, ageing and mortality”. But they all end up at age 70, saying spending time with family the most important thing…. @ITVX__ #70up
The Frank and Walters play @electricpicnic.bsky.social Salty Dog stage at 10pm (Sat) but they’ll need to be in good voice to out-sing The Timahoe Voice Choir #ep26 #ElectricPicnic #lads
Very much looking forward to The Orchids marvellous Unholy Soul (plus singles) being reissued towards the end of next month by the lovely folks at Circuitry Recordings (who did the super Lyceum reissue last year).
Our 2024 @trashcansinatras.bsky.social radio doc which ends with John recounting his previous brush with death and spotting a flower growing outside the studio window, talking about how wondrous life seemed to him now. John Douglas 1963- 2026 on.soundcloud.com/y67KAtVHmtFb...
The Trashcan Sinatras
Silver Winner at IMRO Ireland’s National Radio Awards 2024. Documentary maker Ken Sweeney travels to the West Coast of Scotland to tell the story of The Trashcan Sinatras, featuring recollections fro
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The Kinks lost BBC recordings found after 57 Years thestrangebrew.co.uk/two-lost-kin...
Two Lost Kinks Recordings From BBC's Where Was Spring? Resurface After 57 Years - The Strange Brew
Two recordings by the Kinks, have surfaced . "Let's Take Off Our Clothes" and "Darling, I Respect You" were taped off-air from Where Was Spring?, the 1969 sketch show for which Ray Davies composed fiv...
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John Douglas @trashcansinatras.bsky.social obituary by author John Niven @heraldscotland.bsky.social subscriptions www.heraldscotland.com/subscribe/
John Douglas obituary in @heraldscotland by John Niven subscriptions www.heraldscotland.com/subscribe/ www.heraldscotland.com/news/health/...
John Douglas, the beating heart of the Trashcan Sinatras, by John Niven
Beating heart of the Trashcan Sinatras on a mission to other than what was expected
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RTE weather malfunction. Graphics guy must knocked off early. (just now after 930 news)
A lovely listen, absorbing even if, like me, you only knew The Trashcan Sinatras from their lovely cover of To Sir, Wth Love. soundcloud.com/ken-sweeney-...
The Trashcan Sinatras
Silver Winner at IMRO Ireland’s National Radio Awards 2024. Documentary maker Ken Sweeney travels to the West Coast of Scotland to tell the story of The Trashcan Sinatras, featuring recollections fro
soundcloud.com
@kensweeney@kensweeney.bsky.social · 3mo agoWill forever be grateful John Douglas told me his story in Trashcan Sinatras, from record deal to touring US, getting dropped, losing studio & being declared bankrupt, ending up busking on London tube. It’s all in this 2024 radio doc with John playing his acoustic on.soundcloud.com/y67KAtVHmtFb...
@thescotsman.bsky.social @trashcansinatras.bsky.social “With the announcement of the death of guitarist John Douglas, the album stands as a tribute to elegant brotherhood” #EverTheOptimist
“The outpouring following his death early on Monday morning has been universal in the notion that here was a man who was nothing but genuine, unassuming and decent”. @trashcansinatras.bsky.social biographer Craig McAllister on his 40 year friendship with John Douglas wp.me/p2LOK-5fR
Will forever be grateful John Douglas told me his story in Trashcan Sinatras, from record deal to touring US, getting dropped, losing studio & being declared bankrupt, ending up busking on London tube. It’s all in this 2024 radio doc with John playing his acoustic on.soundcloud.com/y67KAtVHmtFb...
The Trashcan Sinatras
Silver Winner at IMRO Ireland’s National Radio Awards 2024. Documentary maker Ken Sweeney travels to the West Coast of Scotland to tell the story of The Trashcan Sinatras, featuring recollections fro
soundcloud.com
Tribute to John Douglas of Trashcan Sinatras by Donald Erskine in @herald today.
Glenn Hansard & John Douglas…what a f**king week!😞😞😞🇮🇪🏴RIP💔
Love to the Trashcans and all who loved John Douglas. Lovely human. Great musician. "through t-shirt breezes walking home from work county kilburn sun weekends we'd just wash away the dirt of busy, hazy london"
John Douglas 1963-2026. Sending all my love to Eddi, Frank, Stephen, Paul, Davy and all of John's co-travellers in life.
“Robert Burns said, ‘You’ve got to rivet words together just to hear them clang.’ That always stuck with me.” John Douglas (1963-2026) | Pete Paphides
Oh God. Not John? Surely not John? To the best of my knowledge John had never done anything as shocking, anything as dramatic as this. Low-k
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Scottish musician John Douglas has died at 63. As the guitarist and songwriter for indie pop band Trash Can Sinatras, he had a hand in writing such gems as “Obscurity Knocks” and “Hayfever” in the early pre-Britpop 1990s. #RIPJohnDouglas m.youtube.com/watch?v=QezU...
The Trash Can Sinatras - Obscurity Knocks
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Shocked to hear the news of the passing of John Douglas of The Trashcan Sinatras. Humble, lovely man ..memories of driving in Scotland with him and John coming over to Ireland to talk more about his life and adventures making our 2024 Trashcans radio doc youtu.be/CjPzyhgcDZM?...
Trashcan Sinatras radio documentary
YouTube video by BrianOneManBand
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‘Jimmy Eadie The Fella That (Nearly) Killed Thom Yorke’ #Radiohead @thomyorke.wastehq.social #AdrianBorland #IntoParadise open.substack.com/pub/jimmy211...
Thanks to @kensweeney.bsky.social for the grand chat and kind words about In Another World on Radio Nova 100's Guestlist last week. Anyone interested can listen back via YouTube [begins around 26 mins in] www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2ks...
Ken Sweeney, Nova Guestlist, Radio Nova.ie 19.07.26 part 3
YouTube video by Pete Cole
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Pete Buck “And unlike every other band in the world other than The Smiths, we (R.E.M) are not going to be doing the famous album reunion tour or any of that crap. It’s just not going to happen” www.loudersound.com/bands-artist...
"I don’t need the money and I’ve had enough applause to last 10 lifetimes." R.E.M. guitarist Peter Buck insists that the band will never, ever properly reform
"Everyone has their memories and they’re sacrosanct"
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