"World Record"
The World Record for breaking the most number of records
Transcription of the Event:
"Good evening everyone at the Portland Arms in Cambridge
[UK]....[yelps and audience cheers].... I am standing in a room and today is my 33 1/3 birthday, the 12th November 2003! I am about to create a brand new World Record... for breaking the most number
of records that I can with my bare hands - solo. Officially called 'Vinyl Record Smashing' by
the Guinness Book of Records only 100% vinyl can be used in any size... So I decided yesterday to collect
old LP's of Traditional 'World Music' from India, Japan, Pakistan, Italy, etc and of course Ireland,
the home of Guinness. My adjudicators can now inspect each disc to check I have not tampered with
them... ... I now only have 30 seconds, so let's see what happens. I have not rehearsed
this at all, but let's face it ... 'Records are made to be broken!!'... [chuckles]... so count me through
it... Yippeeeeee! It's a new World Record... [Audience goes wild,
cheers whistles etc]... |
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Officially approved & entered into
'The Guinness Book of World Records'
The LP above just wouldn't break, it was too young and
bendy!
The LP below worked much better, you can
see the previous one flying off the table.
In addition to the BBC Cambridge local radio interview
on
the 'Drive Time show' there were two articles in the Cambridge Evening news,
one before and this one after on
21/11/03.
Finally, many thanks to Dave, Jo and Andrew
from Bad Timing
for organising and hosting the evening, and also to Cos, Chris and Michele
for
being the officials for this event.
We had a smashing night out...! Oh and applologies for so many puns!
Forthcoming Releases
'World Record' The record will
come with a CD with the complete audio recordings from the project. |
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