John Douglas @trashcansinatras.bsky.social obituary by author John Niven @heraldscotland.bsky.social subscriptions www.heraldscotland.com/subscribe/
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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-...
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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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@kensweeney@kensweeney.bsky.social · 2w 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
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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...
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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?...
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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
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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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Watched ep1 and lovin’ it. . “Diane Morgan and Sue Johnston’s fresh, funny robot comedy is just wonderful. “. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
Ann Droid review – Diane Morgan and Sue Johnston’s fresh, funny robot comedy is just wonderful
It’s silly, singular and occasionally tearjerking: this tale of a mechanical companion to an elderly widow is shot through with love and care
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More real than anything you’ll see scrolling’: the radical resurgence of UK fanzines, 50 years after punk www.theguardian.com/music/2026/j...
‘More real than anything you’ll see scrolling’: the radical resurgence of UK fanzines, 50 years after punk
Five decades since punk bible Sniffin’ Glue, DIY magazines are in rude, rich health. Their creators talk fandom, community-building and resisting the algorithm
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This genuinely made this Englishman laugh. Love Glasgow, too.
Happy Peter Lorre's birthday! [photographed for Vanity Fair by Anton Bruehl]
I’ve had lots of lovely feedback since In Another World was published a fortnight ago. I particularly enjoyed this post, which acknowledges the degree of folly/peril I always understood was inherent to the entire enterprise, while concluding that – hopefully – there was some worth in doing it anyway
Polite reminder that I'll be doing a writing masterclass on 12 September in Derry City library. An extremely rare thing for me to do but I think it will be an interesting session. Do come! irishwriterscentre.ie/courses/writ...
Writers in the Regions: Writing, a masterclass with Rónán Hession (Derry) - Irish Writers Centre
This masterclass will focus on the writing, editing and publishing of novels of creative literary fiction with Ronan Hession in Derry
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I’m filling in as host of #NovaGuestlist from 6pm on @radionova100 Chatting to author of book on Stuart Adamson Big Country & @trashcansinatras.bsky.social on new album - movie ‘Power Ballad’ & playing new Irish LP Sentimental Tourists Without Love We Expire listen nova.ie
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via @remhq “How did the college football town in Athens, Georgia spawn the B-52s, R.E.M., etc gardenandgun.com/athens-georg... via @gardenandgun
The Inside Story of the Athens Music Scene
How did the college football town spawn the B-52s, R.E.M., and Widespread Panic, to name just a few? The maestros and misfits who led Athens’s rise to one of the world's most influential and improbabl...
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Ben Gibbard: "I didn't want to write another break-up record" | Interview
Two decades into a celebrated career, Death Cab for Cutie's Ben Gibbard has abandoned the role of the aggrieved narrator and found a new acceptance of his past and the band's legacy.
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We fear where our son will go when we die as State is failing disabled people #RememberUs www.thesun.ie/news/1700955...
We fear where our son will go when we die as State is failing disabled people
PARENTS of adults with disabilities have voiced their concerns over a lack of State provision for their loved ones after they die. The HSE currently places a person with a disability whose parents …
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