Idle Thought: Did anyone ever hear the "lentilmas" Sex Pistols christmas flexi?

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let alone have it onto/from p2p...

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 22 March 2004 10:07 (twenty-two years ago)

one year passes...

I have no idea what this is. Is it something to do with Crass?

― everything, Thursday, 3 November 2005 17:50 (twenty years ago)

Some googling suggests this was a Virgin records flexi giveaway featuring the Pistols. Allegedly. No-one seems to have heard it.

Sounds like bullshit to me.

― Soukesian, Thursday, 3 November 2005 23:22 (twenty years ago)

There's a piece about it in the December issue of Record Collector. It was flexi given to some journalists in 1977, some came with a signed Christmas card which was mocked up to look like a tabloid newspaper. Some of the sigantures were done by Virgin's press officers.

It sold on ebay for £1500.50.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Friday, 4 November 2005 00:49 (twenty years ago)

Thanks for the revival. So, for this xmas, can it be found, or will it have to wait until another J.Peel box is found?

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 4 November 2005 10:22 (twenty years ago)

It's the formidable Lyntone label, catalogue number LYN 3261.

Other artists who released stuff on Lyntone: Madness, T'Pau, The Beatles, T-Rex, Toyah, New Order, Depeche Mode, The Jam, The Springfields, Adam and the Ants, XTC, Barry Gibb, Associates, Deep Purple, Anti-Nowhere League, Buck's Fizz, Black Sabbath, Bauhaus, Melanie, Gillan, Druitti Collumn, Blondie, Haircut 100, Genesis, Alice Cooper, Nick Cave, John Foxx, Status Quo and Geordie!

― everything, Friday, 4 November 2005 23:22 (twenty years ago)

Lyntone were the people who pressed flexis is England therefore nearly everything is 'on' them but not really.

― Raw Patrick (Raw Patrick), Friday, 4 November 2005 23:31 (twenty years ago)

True. They also did real records too. though. I've got the Action Man single.

― everything, Friday, 4 November 2005 23:36 (twenty years ago)

I'm 99.9% sure they didn't press the Sub-@ctive flexi, so they can't have been the only English / UK flexidisc pressers

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Saturday, 5 November 2005 00:54 (twenty years ago)

Fwiw I have a very vague recollection of having heard somewhere that the "Lentilmas" flexi (or at least the 'Pistols contribution to / involvement with it) was actually an outtake or something similar that came from the same recording sessions that subsequently yielded "Justifiable Homicide"; which was credited to Dave Goodman & Friends, who apparently comprised Dave Goodman (legendary "Spunk" 'Pistols demos etc. producer, who apparently also played bass with Steve & Paul on "Substitute", "Great Rock & Roll Swindle", "Rock Around the Clock" and percussion on Sid's rendition of "My Way") on vocals, with Ben Brierly (Marianne Faithful's husband, later briefly in the Vibrators), Steve Jones on guitar, Paul Cook on drums, Ian Woodcock (Eater) on bass, as well as Martyn Hayles & Jammie Wilde (Les McKeowan of the Bay City Rollers' twin brother, apparently!)

Obviously this would have been anthologised by now if it was of any real value - and it would almost certainly have been filed long ago where it belongs under "who gives a fuck?", along with all of Dave Goodman's other blatant attempts at cashing in on his 'Pistols connection - which include The Ex Pistols' "Land Of Hope & Glory (which apparently did actually feature Glen Matlock and Steve Jones); The Cash Pussies' "99% Is Shit" (which was created around a few tape fragments of Sid Vicious being interviewed and by a strage coincidence is described with 99% accuracy by it's title); The Friendly Hopeful's "Tribute To The Punks of '76" (just more irredeemable and inexcusable shit); etc. - were it not for it's evidently phenomenal scarcity value.

There's a vague nagging sensation at the very back of my mind that's suggesting that maybe paying vast amounts of money to obsessively collect this sort of detritus really isn't exactly consistent what punk was supposed to be about,

At all.

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Saturday, 5 November 2005 01:55 (twenty years ago)

"Cash From Chaos"

"The only notes that really count are the ones that come in wads"

etc

― everything, Saturday, 5 November 2005 02:15 (twenty years ago)

Well, absolutely. It was just that one thing that made me think "Well, what is it really?" xpost.

― mark grout (mark grout), Saturday, 5 November 2005 20:52 (twenty years ago)

six years pass...

http://www.freewebs.com/scatz/photos/june09/lentilmas1.jpg

http://soundcloud.com/rick-chafen/lentilmas

― Mark G, Tuesday, 30 October 2012 15:01 (thirteen years ago)

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