Do you think I’m flexi?
Thursday, August 27th, 2009
Crinkly Bottom, Crackly Vinyl
If you’ve read my other blog (Because Midway Still Aren’t Coming Back…) you’ll know I bloody love flexi disks; those weird promo records that were popular until they were killed off by CDs and mp3s, so you can imagine how excited I was to discover a flexi disk called “Noel Edmonds asks the questions about Barclays Bank” amongst a load of old 7″s I inherited recently.
Well, I say excited. I was certainly interested to find out what seering and insightful questions the tidy-bearded one could ask of a major bank in, well, I don’t even know what year. According to Discogs, the Lyntone label produced flexi disks from before 1964 to possibly after 1982; and this recording LYN2931 seems to drop in somewhere between David Bowie (sometime in the early 70s possibly) and The Karibs (1974).
So, what does household name Noel have to say? I’ve no idea unfortunately. My magic machine that copies these things just can’t get a decent copy. You can hear Noel in his smuggest voice talking about something and there’s mention of a restaurant, but that’s it. I was hoping for some sort of awful rant that I could use to blackmail him, but no, it’s just a bit of plastic.
I might just stick it in the post to him for his collection. Does he still live at Crinkley Bottom?