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OK.  If this show lands on target many of our listeners will be driving in the sun, strolling on a white rocky beach or recovering from last night's paella and that extra shot of herbs…  So with that in mind i'm going to keep this short.  Welcome to the long-mooted and strategically timed Finders Keepers Balearic Especial. A show that does exactly what it says on the tin. Made from strictly indigenous secret ingredients with little need for preservatives or technological enhancements. 

For our fourteenth feature-length attempt at "Making Global Sound Local" regular Finders Keepers office dwellers and co-hosts Andy Votel, Pete Mitchell, Doug Shipton and Lee Janda use their unique brand of wax-anorak-geekery, dubious dad jokes and mountainous mispronunciations to unveil two hours of lesser-spotted Balearic uber-classics. From the islands and islets that link Majorca, Minorca, Ibiza and Formentera and continue to unite folk, funk, farmers, free-thinkers, fine food and fauna, The Finders Keepers radio hosts unearth a small selection of mid-Med microgroove discs with a trail of crumbs pointing back to the days when the first hippie communes welcomed jazzers, artists, actors and activists to those mythical retreats over 50 years ago. Including our all of our regular rigged competitions (!) and magazine features Finders Keepers also invite special guest and Manc blues prophet Victor bros who regales stories of the early days on Ibiza in the presence of a pre-Velvet Underground Nico while namedropping Don Cherry and the first free music ensembles and DJs to hit those unknown shores in the early 1960s.

Finders Keepers Radio Show - Balearic Special

SWEAT THE SUNSHINE IN!

Ideal for short breaks, long road trips, tall drinks and wide-screen couch potato salads your Finders Keepers holiday reps Andy Votel, Pete Mitchell and Doug Shipton manage to string entire sentences together while juggling exotic fuzz-ridden phonograms in celebration of sunstroke psychedelia, South American soap operas, pseudo Samba and the greatest ancient sporting festival of all time. Behold Olympic fever.

Rio is our muse this month and with a lukewarm Gulf Stream between their Mancunian tootsies the guardians of the Keepers Cottage take the sacred torch and shine it on a bunch of Italian sports library LPs, some anthemic Athenian psych and twenty tonnes of Brazilian obscurities uniting São Paulo's 50c bargain bins with record fair wall pieces. Peppered with token doses of tenuous sports terminology and the usual magnetic blend of the irreverent and the irrelevant the sunshine soldiers you have learned to love, cherish and tolerate aim to sooth, groove and prove that hockey sticks and drum sticks ain't that dissimilar if you squint your ears!

Finders Keepers Radio - Brazil Special

Unheard and unreleased tracks by Suzanne Ciani, Jane Weaver's Fenella, Gerry & The Holograms (and more!) make up this silver tray of sonic hors d'oeuvres magnetising you to the mountains of North Wales for this special September annual event.  Just in time for our annual omni-presence at Festival No Six your faithful guardians of the Keepers Cottage, Andy Votel, Pete Mitchell and Doug Shipton provide an aural tour guide to the many Finders Keepers Records' curated events over the weekend. 

For a festival held in the actual filming location of Patrick Magoohan's inimitable 1960's TV thriller, the B-Music brigade assemble their nearest and dearest to keep the commune cosmic, providing off-kilter treats for both the eye-drums and ear-balls. Also serving as a fine 2 hour road trip, this show cherry picks the best accompaniments for your journey into the depths of the Welsh valleys and also serves as another multifarious magnetic musik magazine for those who can't make it to the festival itself but will surely join us in spirit!  Be seeing you!?

Finders Keepers Radio - Festival No 6 Tour Guide

With a loud creak it rises from the old black casket and sits upright, wide eyed and thirsty for its next terrified victim... The Finders Kreepers Hallowe'en special is back! It's that time of year again where the B-Music crew's combined record collection of global ghoulisms sounds more relevant that ever. Complete with decapitated disharmony, maledictus melody, frankensteiner filled fuzz and our unique brand of humour which is literally dead in the water. Your faithful fantoms Vampire Votel, The Petergeist Mitchell and Grave Dug Shipton are joined, live in the tomb, by post punk 3D effigy Gerry H. Hologram, devil music expert Victor Brox and the mysterious Were-Worm. As if that wasn't enough to make your ears bleed, Finders keepers are also proud to present an exclusive meeting between Christopher Lee and Vincent Price. There'll also be a lot of medium rare vinyl and records that had previously vanished into thin air. I could sit here typing this sh*t all day to be honest, so in danger of not missing added trivia about Manc horror film director Cliff Twemlow and the Hells Angel of Sweden (courtesy of Alberto y Lost Trios Paranoias' CP Lee) we'd advise you to unleash your talismans and tune in your ouija boards. Tis the season to be screamin'.

Les Demons

The Second Inquisition

Finders Keepers Radio - Halloween Special

Summer is a coming in, loudly sing cuckoo! Yes, indeed!  Faithful and patient patrons of the Keepers cottage, summer is well and truly upon us and what better way to celebrate the sunstroke season than to crank up your metaphysical motor vehicles and hit the open road in search of dusty needle nirvana.  Join your faithful tour buddies Votel, Mitchell and Shipton, abetted by hard rock hitchhiker Stan Chow, on one of their regular cross continental record raid road trips combining the kind of vehicular vinyl cuts used in Votel's very own Cock Diesel biker psych nights and adding global doses of two-stroke funk, Gallic  gas guzzlers, freewheeling folk and psycho-manic soundtracks (amongst many more mutant micro-genes).

Ideal for feature-length road trips, channel crossings, festival freeloading or family fleets of fancy, this show was bought to you by the letter's D, R, I, V, and E and the colours green for GO because there is no time for pit stops or bog breaks when Finders Keepers (fuzz) pedals hit the metal. So throw away your A to Zs as well as your MP3s and your seedy CDs because this voyage is virtually vinylcentric to the core (except for that one sticky cassette) and when you cover as much ground as the FK Radio shows and their infectious brand of B-Music you'll find that A roads home are simply no longer an option.  Check the breaks!  It's a Gasssss!

Finders Keepers Radio - Vinyl Vacation Road Trip

As a spezial Finders Keepers / Dead-Cert / Pre-Cert Hallowe'en treat here's an upload of the medium-rare Applehead mix-tape made from ten-tons of psuedo giallo witchy wax and global glum-rock. Originally released as 69 red cassettes in clamshell cases at a time when people who spent all their money on (physical)music still drove cars with built-in cassette players. Enjoy / Endure at will!

Applehead (Andy Votel) - Crepaxian Interligne Mixtape

Andy Votel - To The Davul A Daughter

Within the confines of this calendar month Saxonic inhabitants will experience a full moon, a Friday 13th and, as always, a glut of Hallowe'en parties officially making 2017 the host to the scariest October of all time. The add salt to the wound The Finders Keepers Records Radio Show trump this horrific hat-trick by bringing you a truly bloodcurdling display of vampyric vinyl, psychotic psychedelia, freakshow funk and a unique brand of zombified humour that would make the most stoic stand-up comedian literally die on stage. Yes it's that bad! Andy "The Axe Minister" Votel and Doug "The Diabolical" Shipton are left under the parental supervision of Pete "The Mummy" Mitchell while they attempt a radiophonic seance to resurrect the Morte Vivante of European horror pop and obscure curios from the belly of the B-Music beast. Putting a combined 75 years of well-polished professionalism to one side these three absolute losers present what they consider to be their worst ever show and even a visit from Lancaster's (genuinely proficient) poetic-power-drinkers The Lovely Eggs isn't going to sooth the gaping graze that this show will leave on your tolerance for years to come. With all the usual tenuous magazine features that allow us to stitch this Frankenstein-a-like bastard together this show is a nightmare. So, tune in and let Finders Keepers summon up the same jokes we did last year and feel the pain as your favourite reissue album subliminally brainwashes you all with attempts to eat your living bank balance from the inside out! Dead air? Viva la muerte!

Finders Keepers Radio - Halloween Special Part Three

In a desperate bid to muster some Russia 2018 Word Cup enthusiasm, while also attempting to shed some timber after 6 weeks of BBQ fever, Finders Keepers gym buddies Andy Votel and Doug Shipton flex their muscles by digging in the mixtape vault to bring you this lost party pack of latter day wax workouts from the Russian based label Melodiya. Featuring a wide range of Soviet psych and synth pop this mix from 2013 kicks off with an instant RED card, multiple handballs and even comes complete with a discoid Russian aerobics work-out before you hit the pitch(at +8). Take advantage of this exclusive cassette-tape upload free-ball while its hot and be sure to head to finderskeepersrecords.com for even more global goodness to accompany this years most anticipated international event (apart from Utrecht record fair).

Andy Votel & Doug Shipton - Polivox Orthodox

Stepping out of a six month hibernation with our best foot forward, Finders Keepers Records Radio Show returns from our beauty sleep to a breakfast of French toast, croissants, strong coffee and a refreshing pint of petrol with-a-rag-stuffed-in-the-top! Marking 50 years exactly since the Mai 68 riots in Paris, your faithful hosts take you on a two hour journey in recognition of the huge and immediate cultural shift in French art, literature and music including  the rise of forward-thinking, philosophical, thematic pop music which made France the forerunners and undisputed maverick masters of the concept album. Discussing a genre that arguably peaked with Serge Gainsbourg and Jean-Claude Vannier's notorious Histoire De Melody Nelson, your faithful FKRR hosts,  Andy Votel, Doug Shipton and Pete Mitchell dig much much deeper into their vintage vinyl vaults to trace the sonic origins of feature-length French Psychedelia while they attempt to authenticate the first French concept album and trace a bloodline of existential spoken word French Funk and gritty fuzz-fuelled symphonic rock which would go-on to shape the future sound of all French pop and its inimitable sprawling legacy. Punctuated with tracks from the insanely rare Popera Cosmic LP (an LP devised by teenagers Francois Wertheimer and Jean-Michel Jarre) which formed the foundations of the Gallic galactic narrative psychpop phenomena, this two hour special hopes to open your eyes and ears to a world you always wanted to explore, but perhaps never knew existed, with an interchangeable cast and family tree that eventually branched out to the start of French cosmic disco and synth pop while influencing the sampled sound of progressive European pop music for almost a semi-century. 

From science fiction to malediction... From astrology to astronomy... From hypnosis to psychosis... via stone faces to cabbage heads...this show hears a fine return to form for Finders Keepers, celebrating controversial lost-pop and a bygone political hotbeds which they might call their perfect comfort zone. It's gonna be hard to cram it all in into one show but "The Revolution Will Not Be Sequelised". Ceci n'est pas une POP.

Finders Keepers Radio -  French Concept Album Special

An all vinyl hour long collage of tracks from the Nurse With Wound List assembled by Andy Votel and Steve Stapleton. Originally broadcast in August 2019 on Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone"on BBC Radio 6 Music to coincide with the release of Strain, Crack & Break: Music From The Nurse With Wound List Volume One now available on double vinyl and download on Finders Keepers Records.

Finders Keepers - https://tinyurl.com/y4fxxhvm
Bandcamp - https://tinyurl.com/yytvakak

Andy Votel & Steve Stapleton - Nurse With Wound List Mixtape

Archive Mixtape... Andy Votel and Sean Demdike (Blurs & Slurs) play plastic punk, squat-pop and DIY vinyl-only, recorded at their Stanza Nera night in Italy in 2016. ---  !!! NEXT Blurs & Slurs event ---- 2ND NOVEMBER 2019 at The Golden Lion in Todmorden, Yorks, UK (following Golden Lion events with Jarvis Cocker, David Holmes and Andrew Weatherall). Featuring live noise from TOOLSHED.

Andy Votel & Sean Demdike - Blurs & Slurs (Italy, June 2016)

AND THEY SAID IT SHOULDN'T BE DONE... Just when you thought it was safe to break the seal on the Baileys, The Finders Keepers Radio Show returns to sour the cream and spike the punch with this spontaneous seasonal shindig. Exactly 18 months since our last episode, our faithful "Keepers Cottage" janitor Pete Mitchell invites us back to his festive buffet table for over two hours of cheeseboard chatter and freakish festive phonograms as a special end-of-year gift for one and all. Enlisting Andy Votel to assist with Santa's sack of seasonal psych and festive folk-funk the Finders Keepers Radio Crew try desperately to not repeat our previous XMAS shows without scraping the barrel and prove that there's plenty more musical mulled wine on tap (arguably). 

Featuring  brand-new and forthcoming FK releases by Occitan singer Miquela, Catalan cosmonaut JM Pagan and totally unheard Moomin music (alongside lesser known tracks from Peter Thomas, Joseph Byrd and Jean-Jacques Perrey) Andy and Pete also invite phone-calls from James Pianta from Roundtable Records and Clair Person from Mum&Dad (Twisted Nerve) to share their Xmas favourites before a massive (anti)climax thanks to a long lost cylindrical visitor of the Cestoda variety. Stitched together at record speed and totally unedited, we cordially invite you once-agin to see how long you can last in the company of the Finders Keepers Radio Christmas Special. Enjoy / Endure at will. Seasons Gratings!

Finders Keepers Radio - Christmas Special 2019

First half on extensive two-part anthology of production and remix work for various artists by Andy Votel (Finders Keepers / Twisted Nerve) between 1995 and 2020. Rare physical release was strictly limited to 70 hand-made box-sets containing 3 neon cassettes. (Part two also available on Soundcloud). All tracks edited / segued. 
TRACK LIST FOLLOWS.

ANDY VOTEL - AVVVA VOLUME ONE  (Andy Votel Vs Various Artists)
(Production / Remixes 1995-2020)

1. Jane Weaver Septième Soeur - Noctilumina (2010)
2. Halo Maud - Des Bras (2019)
3. The Other Two (New Order) - Super Highways (1999)
4. Gruff Rhys And Andy Votel - Shark Ridden Waters (2010)
5. Jimi Goodwin (Doves) - Terracotta Warrior (2014)
6. Death In Vegas - Dirge (1999)
7. Pram - Last Astronaut (2001)
8. Badly Drawn Boy - Once Around The Block (1999)
9. Sundowners - Horizon (2017)
10. Andy Votel - Doe Eyed (2000)
11. Dave Tyack's Dakota Oak - The Story Of Bear (2001)
12. Mr.Scruff - Sea Mammal (1995)
13. Badly Drawn Boy - My Friend Cubilas (1998)
14. Jane Weaver - Don't Take My Soul (2014)
15. Gruff Rhys - Allweddellau Allweddol (2014)
16. Custom Blue - So Low (2002)
17. Mellow - Instant Love (1999)
18. Votel - Spooky Driver (1996)
19. Texas - Say What You Want (1997)
20. Boozoo Bajou - Same Sun (2009)
21. Lamb - B-Line (1999)
22. The Coral - Holy Revelation (2016)
23. Schwab - DJ's In A Row (2005)
24. Jane Weaver - You Are Dissolved (2015)
25. Badly Drawn Boy - Stone On The Water (2000)
26. Jane Weaver - La Pomme D'Argent (2015)
27. Aim - The Girl Who Fell Through The Ice (2002)
28. Andy Votel - November (1999)
29. Kate Rogers - Not Ten Years Ago (2004)

AVVVA Volume One  - Andy Votel Versus Various Artists (1995 - 2020)

Second half on extensive two-part anthology of production and remix work for various artists by Andy Votel (Finders Keepers / Twisted Nerve) between 1995 and 2020. Rare physical release was strictly limited to 70 hand-made box-sets containing 3 neon cassettes. (Part one also available on Soundcloud). All tracks edited / segued. 
TRACK LIST FOLLOWS.

ANDY VOTEL - AVVVA VOLUME TWO (Andy Votel Vs Various Artists)
(Production / Remixes 1995-2020)

30. The Unloved - Lee (with Jane Weaver) (2019)
31. Andy Votel - De La Motte (1998)
32. Andy Votel And Tracy Elizabeth - Hazelwood (1998)
33. Elbow - Powder Blue (2001)
34. Tim Burgess - Hours (2012)
35. Chanteuse & The Crippled Claw - Are You One? (w/ Jane Weaver)         (2010)
36. Andy Votel - Archipelagogo OST - Reader In The Rain (2018)
37. Andy Votel - Blind Mice (1997)
38. The Avalanches - Thankyou Caroline (2001)
39. Jane Weaver - Argent (2014)
40. Alfie - Make No Bones (2001)
41. Ian Brown - Love Like A Fountain (2000)
42. Shirokuma - Moonlight In The Afternoon (2003)
43. Andy Votel & Jane Weaver - Girl On A Goped (2000)
44. Badly Drawn Boy & Andy Votel - Kerplunk By Candlelight (1998)
45. Quannum - I Changed My Mind (1999)
46. Andy Votel - Diode (2000)
47. Badly Drawn Boy - Another Pearl (2000)
48. Long-View - I Would (2003)
49. Stained Glass Heroes - Turkish Wedding (2009)
50. Broadcast - The Booklovers (1999)
51. Andy Votel - Building For Books (2003)
52. Badly Drawn Boy - Stockport (2004)
53. Dave Tyack's Dakota Oak - Sing (2001)
54. Andy Votel - Hemlocka (1996)
55. Andy Votel & Jane Weaver - Kitten (2000)
56. Badly Drawn Boy & Andy Votel - Whirlpool (1999)
57. Jane Weaver - The Architecht (2017)
58. Badly Drawn Boy - The Blossoms (2004)
59. Andy Votel - Slavonice Steps (2003)

AVVVA Volume Two  - Andy Votel Versus Various Artists (1995 - 2020)

...AND THEY SAID IT SHOUDN'T BE DONE !!!!

Andy Votel's Midlfe Crisis Disco Mixtape

If you've not heard Andy Votel's monthly RANDOMONIUM show on NTS Radio then this episode is not a bad place to start. Records picked off the shelves of Andy's record collection at absolute random, sometimes picked by special guests (if not his kids or neighbours). ALL 43 shows are archived and easy to steam on the NTS radio website NOW.

Andy Votel's RANDOMONIUM (Episode 43. April 2020)

"THE LOST GOOD FRIDAY" The collective known as B-Music were SUPPOSED to start a new regular party this weekend (Good Friday 10th April 2020)on the rooftop, in the SUN at YES in Manchester, but, like many events, due to THE VIRUS it had to be postponed. So at the request of the good people at YES... and to make up for the loss of a much needed party, Doug, Andy, Sean and Ben have put together a THREE HOUR mutant mix-tape which pretty much reflects what we were GOING TO PLAY... and also the kind of music we INTEND to play when the world retakes its regular shape. Thanks for glistening. Keep Safe. xxxxx

The Lost Good Friday - B-Music (VOTEL / SHIPTON / HATTON / CANTY) Yes Lockdown Jam!

LOCK DOWN? HOUSE BOUND? Let's go for a headphone road trip to Germany with Andy Votel. Celebrating the 2002 "shoe-gazing" excursion to The Dusseldorf Footwear Fair that lead to the birth of the Oi-Polloi clothes shoppe in Manchester.

Andy Votel - Plight Of The Hunter (Oi Polloi Road Trip 2002)

LOCK DOWN? HOUSE BOUND? Here's another headphone road trip from the archives. Taken from the COCK DIESEL cinema nights that B-Music DJ's (mainly Sean Demdike and myself at the time) did in Manchester / Barcelona / Melbourne / Los Angeles using countless motorcycle themed records and VHS footage.

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