Celebrating the label’s tenth year of “Making Global Sound Local” the Finders Keepers record label bring their motto to the masses returning to Festival No 6 with a huge bag of foreign fuzz records and a multilingual live line-up of pocket punk, femme fronted psych, freak funk, homemade synth pop and commune folk for what looks set to be their most exciting prog-ram yet! Curated by label heads Andy Votel and Doug Shipton, the UnMutual Stage is very excited to bring Portuguese/Anglo/Venezuelan/Dutch punk funk powerhouse band Fumaça Preta to the festival who will, throughout the day, find kindred spirits in the arkestral manoeuvres of Graham Massey’s Toolshed (with special guest TBC) and the exciting debut performance from the mythical T.R.A.S.E project (based on a school made synthesiser by a 16-year-old in 1981). The UnMutual line-up also boasts husband and wife wordy punk duo The Lovely Eggs sharing a bill with Cardiff’s fuzzed-out femme fronted sonic tantrum Tender Prey while Welsh language kosmische pop newborns Anelog make their festival debut. Manchester’s very own Una Baines founder of the original The Fall will also bring her communal feminist agit-folk group The Fates to the stage performing songs from her ultra rare 1984 LP Furia in collaboration with members of the Folklore Tapes collective while extra fuzz comes from Liverpool’s dedicated sunshine psych combo The Sundowners. Compered throughout the day by Votel, Shipton and radio DJ veteran Pete Mitchell Finders Keepers promise extra festival surprises including visiting DJ guests, exclusive merchandise and a grassy dance floor crescendo featuring the FK DJs and B-Music regular Chris Geddes (from Belle & Sebastian) “Making Old Records Feel Young”.
In addition to The UnMutual music stage Finders Keepers will also host their audiovisual equivalent on Friday with the Speedlearn Separado! Cinema tent in which Votel and Shipton team up with Gruff Rhys (Super Furry Animals) to screen a giant patchwork of VHS video footage, lost TV and unreleased future freak film classics. loosely based around the 150th anniversary Welsh settlers arriving in Patagonia this multilingual psychedelic cinema programme with be punctuated with live translations, Q&A sessions, half-baked competitions, live rescores and much much less. Being ten at six promises to be the highlight of an eventful year for Finders Keepers Recordswww.festivalnumber6.com
