Lock Tones proudly presents: Doug Shipton (Finders Keepers, Delay 68) along with the Keep Up! residents playing you funky records you'd probably like.

Sunday 30 October, Canalside Bar, Lock 17 Camden Lock, London, 5pm-late. FREE ADMISSION!

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When you pick out a Don Cooper LP he really does look the part. Sat by a lake, on a hill at sunset or in the middle of a forest. Acoustic guitar wielding and suede-tunic wearing, Don is Folk before you've even dropped the needle on the record or read the sleevenotes.

Demoted to the bargain bins of yesteryear along with the vast and endless stream of obscure mid-American rock and folk records by unfamiliar artists who, for one unfathomable reason or another, never quite made it big in the music business, Don Cooper's original blue-grass and folk revival influences, coupled with a vivid imagination and a veritable poetic palette carve his name into the bark of folk-rock's branchy tree.

Compiled by Andy Votel (Twisted Nerve) and Chris McBride (45 Kings), 'Howlin' At The Moon: A Best Of' is out soon, and can be pre-ordered here.

Andy Votel and Dom Thomas discovered Welsh music by mistake... (so did Cherrystones, Lee Brady and Doug Shipton). Gruff Rhys (from Super Furry Animals) has never been able to escape from it. Over the past 12 months we have attempted to listen to every Welsh rare record ever made looking for the 'perfect beat' on your behalf... so that's why we have called the first of our new Welsh music compilations (to coin a John McCready phrase) "WELSH - RARE - BEAT".

Compiled by Gruff Rhys (Super Furry Animals), Andy Votel and Dominic Thomas, 'Welsh Rare Beat' is out in August. Pre-order your copy now from Finders Keepers Records.

Delay 68's Doug Shipton and B-Music stalwarts Andy Votel, Cherrystones and Dominic Thomas will be making a special DJ appearence at this year's Green Man Festival in August.

Also playing are Voice of the Seven Woods, featuring long-time friend of Delay 68 / B-Music / Finders Keepers, Rick Tomlinson.

More information:
thegreenmanfestival.co.uk
voiceofthesevenwoods.com

A fuzzed-out educational multicultural psych-rock opera from 1971. Proto-psychedelic hip hop with overweight drumbeats and basslines! Available now on Finders Keepers Records.

For more information visit resonancefm.com.

Long-lost 1972 Gallic treasure from the arranger of Serge Gainsbourg's "Histoire De Melodie Nelson" available now from the Delay 68 Shop on Finders Keepers Records.

Friday 4th February, 8.00pm-1.30am
Cornerhouse, 70 Oxford Street, Manchester
FREE ADMISSION!

Featuring special guest DJ BADLY DRAWN BOY joining resident DJs Andy Votel (Twisted Nerve), Dominic Thomas (Finders Keepers) along with guest Doug Shipton (Delay 68) to celebrate the release of Andy Votel's new compilation "Folk Is Not A Four Letter Word".

Folk Is Not A Four Letter Word is released 24th January 2005.

Folk-Funk? Electric Folk? Hippy-Rock? Acid Folk? Sunshine-Pop? Folk-Fusion? Folksploitation? Once again music lovers struggle to bridge the deep & wide gully where another hybrid genre wanders lonely amongst the vinyl ghosts of yesteryear's ethereal love songs.

Let us introduce a flock of unsung songbirds who flutter between rocks and hardened pastures too commercial to be traditional - not successful enough to be credible - from the wrong side of town - on the other side of the globe.

Here are some of the would-be folk legends that you didn't read about, they never played the festivals and you never heard their records... until today.

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Folk Is Not A Four Letter Word is released 24th January 2005.

Thursday 3rd February
Heavenly Social, Little Portland Street, London W1.
8pm-12am and FREE ADMISSION!

With resident DJs Andy Votel (Twisted Nerve), Dominic Thomas (Finders Keepers), Cherrystones (13 Amp), Doug Shipton (Delay 68) plus a very special guest.

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