Feature: Making Global Local: The Best Of Finders Keepers (The Quietus)

An intriguing interview with the lovely Doug Shipton of the extraordinary Finders Keepers label, including a few words by yours truly, in typically verbose form, about the haunting Valerie & Her Week Of Wonders soundtrack.

That's enough adjectives for now, though. Read it all here: http://thequietus.com/articles/04122-finders-keepers-doug-shipton-andy-votel

Feature: Making Global Local: The Best Of Finders Keepers (The Quietus)

Album Review: Frankie Goes To Hollywood's 'Welcome To The Pleasuredome' (The Quietus)

They came, they saw, and then they probably came again: Frankie Goes To Hollywood's debut double album was, for many kids growing up in the 1980s, a seminal moment in their musical growth. To celebrate 25 years since its release, and a new remastered edition with bonus disc, The Quietus commissioned a retrospective look back at the record. "For Thatcher’s Children, a generation too young for punk – and here your correspondent admits he’d never understood the fuss about a band he thought was called The Sex Bristles – this was the real Never Mind The Bollocks..."

Rage hard here: http://thequietus.com/articles/04077-frankie-goes-to-hollywood-welcome-to-the-pleasuredome-20th-anniversary

Album Review: Frankie Goes To Hollywood's 'Welcome To The Pleasuredome' (The Quietus)