In April of 2015 (or around that time anyway), something popped up on one my socials about a subscription service where, for £20 a month each subscriber would receive a box of five brand new 7” inch singles. Well, in June of that year, the first of those singles boxes dropped through my letter box and for the next six years, a new box would be on the door matt waiting for me.
This would continue until 2021 when supply chain issues, Brexit and Covid made producing those box sets became increasingly difficult for the company to produce so they decided to stop production. So, in the 76 boxes that did come out and the 400 plus artists that featured on there, a lot of excellent music was produced by bands that I may never had heard of otherwise.
To celebrate the ten years since the foundation of Flying Vinyl, I have deiced to produce a series of sample records. Unlike the samplers I made for Blood Records, there is no way I could feature every artist that featured on this singles, so I had a couple of criteria. One was that the song has not already featured on the podcasts I made celebrating the label. I only did the first two years so that would not be too difficult. The second was that the songs had to be available on Spotify so the artist would hopefully earn some money from this, however pitiful the royalty rate is.
What was interesting was finding that even though these songs are available on that streaming service, some of them are not available in the same version as on the single. What would be interesting to know if these versions were only available on the Flying Vinyl singles? As there was so many good records, I have followed the Blood Records Sampler template and made this a double album.
Side A
- Misty Maker Stomp – Jouris
- Saviour – Groves
- Made Of Concrete – Cagoule
- Something In The Water – The Amazons
- Fly – Meadowlark
Side B
- Eureka Moment – The Big Moon
- Shaking Hands – B.Miles
- All My Love – Trudy & The Romance
- Shalala – Moses Gunn Collective
- Ladybird – Beach Baby
- World’s Too Fast – The Jar Family
Side C
- Father Of The Universe – Venice Trip
- Joy In A Small Wage – Asylums
- Dove In Your Mouth – Eaves
- Voices – The Belligerents
- Go – Pleasure Beach
Side D
- Hold Me Closer – Lanka
- Booored – Magic Potion
- Time Won’t Leave – The Temperance Movement
- Water’s Fall – Oh So Quiet
- Oslo – Holy Esque
The front cover is based on the logo that Flying Records had when they first launched.