Show Notes
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 we've got to start somewhere.
Basking in flattery after unanimous erect thumbs in response to our monthly bespoke radio show, Finders Keepers' Andy and Doug finally entrust long-running friend and co-host Pete Mitchell with the dubious job of psychedelic psychiastrist as they allow him to pick their maggot brains and explore the inner sanctums of the conjoined noggins that bring you Finders Keepers in all its guises. Providing everybody's done their maths correctly this will take approximately five appointments (episodes), which is a bonus, right? So, with the MULTIPLE mottoes ‘Making Global Sound Local’, ‘Making Old Records Feel Young’, ‘Accidental World Music Label’ and ‘Breaking Boundaries Before Breaking Even’ tattooed across their haggard consciousness, FK UK bring it all back home and give you TMI as you LOL and revel in Krautsploitation, Welsh Rare Beats and Well Hung funk while DS, AV and PM deliver the first course of this tin anniversary/birthday breakfast. Dig IN!!! Find OUT!!!
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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.
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!