NIXIE’S, Les Ateliers Claus and Finders Keepers Records present

Angels Die Hard (Live)

Psychedelic Thai Biker Surf

In 2011 the three members of Angels Die Hard met for the first time at the Moroccan Zoo in Rabat right in front of the cage of the last living ‘black-beaked unga dunga’. While talking to each other they found out that they shared a passionate love for exotic birds. This, however, does not affect their music at all.

As a notorious underground make-up dealer, Thomas was in Rabat looking for a rare dark coloured mascara, while Rob was there studying the habits of the black-beaked unga dunga. Alex however, being the son of Morocco’s biggest Jetski club owner, who in the late 60’s served as an extra in the biker movie “the wild angels”, had no reason to be there at all.

While watching two Asian falcons mate, they started to talk intensely about wrestling, thai food and head injuries. They ended up playing all night on found instruments in an abandoned snake pit.

Some songs on the album are a tribute to Alex’ father’s biker movie past. Other songs are evocative of Thomas’ strange travels deep into the dark heart of Asia searching for the perfect mascara. And if you listen very carefully to the record you might discover some field recordings of long thought extinct birds made by Rob in the jungle of Ceylon.

DJs

Andy Votel
Doug Shipton
Boney Votel
Lee Janda
The Wild (Daptunes)
Shazzula (BE)
Sofa (BE)
Nixie (BE)

Over the past few months Finders Keepers Records and Manchester’s Dancehouse Theatre have been experimenting with a number of alternative cinema events in their Mancunian hometown attempting to open inquisitive and creative minds to a new world of lost cinema and film music which has seldom, if ever at all, made it to UK theatres in the past. Combining niche genres such as werewolf Hells Angels vs. satanic Aussie biker cults or Czech witchcraft for kids, Finders Keepers has gathered modest audiences in an attempt to bring something unique to fans of alternative cinema while providing a wider perspective to the previously unreleased soundtrack albums we have spent almost a decade remastering and releasing for the loyal global fan base that keeps our cogs turning in these times of uncertain prospects for the independent music, film and art industries. For those who have chose to join us to watch films, listen to our DJs soundtrack collections and drink beer thus far we are very grateful and happy that there is still a community of hopeless cultural escapologists who thirst for unknown pleasures expands beyond the comfort zones of pre-packaged pop and spoon-fed Hollywood designer drivel. The outsiders, the unknowns, the unpolished and the over politicised. Banned, canned and critically slammed. The lost films that make up the Hocus Focus monthly schedule in many cases have simply had nowhere else to go in the last 40 years and the selection at our latest and probably greatest installment will be no exemption. You’re certainly not going to see these films anywhere else anytime soon.

Tuesday 11th March – Case Of The Bloody Iris (Italy, 1973)
DJ sets from Sean Demdike, Andy Votel and Doug Shipton

Tuesday 15th April – The Incredible Shrinking Woman (USA, 1981)
Neotanktrik DJ set (TBC)

Tuesday 13th May – All The Colours Of The Dark (Italy, 1972)
w/ the award winning short Yellow

Tuesday 17th June – The Devil (Poland, 1972)
w/ N. Racker (Live)

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