Finders Keepers Records

Returning to the comfort of Dr. Pete Mitchell's king size psychiatrist couch, FK UK's pointed-head-honcho's Andy Votel and Doug Shipton top and tail in this second consultation of radiophonic regressive therapy. Recounting fuzzy facts, figures and fables from Finders Keepers ongoing cross-continental pop pilgrimage AV, DS and PM start their second vinyl voyage in 1970's Hungary taking a scenic route through Iran, Pakistan, Australia, Germany, Spain, France, America and bonny Scotland crossing-off catalogue numbers from FKR017 to the rather apt "33rd" release in the process. MARVEL at little-known facts about lesser-known acts! HEAR untold tales about unsold sales! JOIN the search party for lost pop archaeology! TUNE IN to the untuned! CHANGE the way you use your ear'oles! In an age where the Western pop industry cultivates musical metathesiophobia and readily rewards airhead repeaters Finders Keepers continues to release risky records without checking passports or birth dates. With this in mind the reco

After our long capricious summer temporarily leaving the keepers cottage in the hands of the local freakish fauna, our radio show regulars Andy Votel, Pete Mitchell and Doug Shipton return from Northern volks festivals, Balearic knolls and other earthly plains to rewire our minds, erect the mast and paint the town metallic. With a show packed with enough analog electro machinery to send Gwynedd's electric mountain into overdrive we present our oft mooted synthesiser spezial complete with an entire network of vintage voltage vinyl spanning continents and copper components while transcending decades between 1956 and 2167 recurring. Trapped in our magnetic current we have special guest appearances from Andy (T.R.A.S.E) Popplewell and the return of ferric annelid Tape Worm accompanied by a rather disharmonious guest who all help inspect the history of electronic chamber music, tape manipulation, electro acoustic musings, domestic synth pop and too much rare library music (if there could ever be such a thing).

Art Decade? Despite the fact that the 200 release deep discography of the label technically spans over 60 decades of music AND the experience of both the labels head chefs counts for just about 50 years combined record nerd experience between them, it's actually hard to believe that Finders Keepers Records is only ten years old. But that's no reason to keep a party in a jar. “How exactly have Andy Votel and Doug Shipton managed to cram it all in?” I hear you ask. A totally self-sufficient independent anti-label releasing lost pop and foreign fuzz without subtitles on obsolete formats while combining the roles of detectives, designers, dramatists and disc jockeys and stacking the chairs at the end of the day? How does Finders Keepers exist? This is a tale of studio butchery, tape bakeries and burning candles at both ends (see what we did there?) and to explain the full story, with musical accompaniment it would take more than one late night at the bar/campfire/sauna/racetrack/dentists chair/safari park... but

And The Sun Also Rises! As holiday season starts to distract us and it’s no longer safe to leave record bags in the hot boot, the residents of The Keepers Cottage decide to take a sonic vacation in this bonus edition of The Finders Keepers Radio Show with episode NUMBER SIX (cue Ron Grainer). What better numeric than the smallest positive integer to celebrate our love for all things related to The Prisoner/Portmeirion and the inimitable Festival No 6 at which Finders Keepers continue to play an integral role. Two short months in advance of our mass exodus to this North Wales nirvana our regular hosts Andy Votel, Pete Mitchell and Doug Shipton reveal line-ups for our three daily stages at the September 3rd-6th long weekender and play a varied crate of multilingual records spanning old and new prior to their festival live performances. Combining cosmic pop, pocket punk, foreign fuzz and soundtrack psych, this episode boasts exclusive debuts of brand new tracks by Gruff Rhys and David Holmes both of whom will p

Let's cut to the chase for once... This month’s Finders Keepers Radio Show features GEORGE CLINTON and DENNIS COFFEY in person!!!! If you feel the need to read any further, on our fifth edition we ask Dr. Funkenstein himself about his favourite horror films and quiz him on the first Afro-American occult LP! Then we get "the white Jimi Hendrix" to tell us about the more obscure Sussex artists like Paul Parrish and Priscilla Coolidge while discussing his cassette only rap collection and dropping some heavyweight Coffey-breaks in between. Add a sprinkle of overused sound-effects, some O-Level amateur dramatics, tenuous micro-genres and a world record Rotary Connection namedrop count your faithful presenters Andy Votel, Pete Mitchell and Doug Shipton put a lively cast of characters in a big purple box and tie a paisley bow around it with a card that reads PSYCHEDELIC SOUL. These days the indulgent funk records that many of the Finders Keepers crew bought as teenagers are collectively worthy of their own rec

With general election fever looming over our tiny island this month, the members of the B-Music assembly retreat to the Keepers Cottage to grunt, snarl, manipulate the truth, talk over the top of each other and make creative promises they cannot keep. Welcome to Arty Political Broadcasts. This month The Finders Keepers Radio Show looks at art school pop in all its guises - from DIY punk to flamboyant rock excursions; from punk poetry to opinionated pop via agit new wave, visiting theatre, sleeve art and a whole host of global artistic pop funk gestures along the way. Gathered for this one-off special message stalwarts Votel, Shipton, Mitchell do there utmost best to cram too many opinions into one space and overwhelm the listener in true parliamentary style joined throughout the show by original B-Music honcho, writer and closet situationist obsessive John McCready. Sporadic visits from extra special guests Graham Gouldman from 10cc, poetic spokesman John Cooper Clarke and Jane "Silver Globe" Weaver make t

With the wake of a new season the third episode of Finders Keepers monthly radio magazine returns to your devices ushering musical lost property, foreign fuzz and multiple micro-genres via our regular cosmic conduits at the radio chronic workshop known only as the Keepers Cottage. This month’s episode is punctuated by the concept “Jazz Is Not A Four Letter Word” - a ten-year-old title that was original earmarked for part of a series of releases on Doug and Andy's hibernating Delay 68 label. Alongside other quadratic genres folk, prog and glam, jazz was once a misunderstood section known to polarise tastes like marmite and mustard sushi burgers but as many hapless vinyl junkies will testify the j word forms the backbone to some of the best record collections in the world and it obviously doesn't take a bunch of Saxonic nerds from Blighty (such as our guest Graham Massey from Biting Tongues/808 State) to fight its corner... but let's do it anyway. Expect some of the finest skronk platters from all corners of th

This time our hungry wax detectives return to one of their most familiar feeding grounds and spotlight some of their favourite freak funk , cosmic concept LPs and Parisian prog from Gallic magnetic pastures and beyond with this French vinyl special. Our Keepers Cottage residents Andy Votel, Pete Mitchell and Doug Shipton are graced with sporadic visits from Silver Globalist Jane Weaver, Lee Janda and the tapeworm and are also joined by ex-Stereolab legend Laetitia Sadier and her band to discuss the recurring themes of madness in French pop and try and work out the meaning the mysterious post-68 No-No movement. With regular magazine features, tedious in-jokes, prizeless competitions, Olympic standard mispronunciations and music that you're unlikely to hear anywhere else, part deux of our ongoing cross continental pop pilgrimage is now online to electrify your camembert and fry your cabbage heads.

After a decade of airwave truancy and dog eating homework excuses the Finders Keepers Records family finally commit their unique blend of niche humour, obscure record knowledge, half-baked opinion, lighthearted slander and Olympic scale mispronunciations to a regular feature-length radio broadcast available to stream online and via global airwave syndicators. Soundtracked by a combined collection of the usual lost pop, misplaced foreign funk and experimental mayhem that has come to shape the ten year old label Andy Votel and Doug Shipton have joined forces with award-winning wireless veteran and local hardman Pete Mitchell (The Pete & Geoff Show) who will celebrate, vindicate and mediate between a host of likeminded guests, brave and foolish enough to grace the Keepers Cottage studio with their presence. With regular visitations from the likes of Laetitia Sadier (Stereolab), Graham Massey (Biting Tongues/808 State) and Jane Weaver (The Silver Globe) and in house japes and judgments from FK office props Lee