Andrew Shallcross, known by his stage name Andy Votel, is an electronic

Electronic music

Electronic music is music that employs electronic musical instruments and electronic music technology in its production. In general a distinction can be made between sound produced using electromechanical means and that produced using electronic technology. Examples of electromechanical sound...

 musician

Musician

A musician is an artist who plays a musical instrument. It may or may not be the person's profession. Musicians can be classified by their roles in performing music and writing music.Also....* A person who makes music a profession....

, DJ and record producer

Record producer

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, co-founder of Twisted Nerve Records

Twisted Nerve Records

Twisted Nerve Records is a Manchester, England-based record label. It is most well known for being the home of the singer-songwriter Badly Drawn Boy, who co-founded the label with Andy Votel.-Musical artists:...

 and the reissue

Reissue

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 label Finders Keepers Records. He is also a founder member of the B-Music collective alongside David Holmes

David Holmes (musician)

David Holmes is a Northern Irish DJ, musician and composer.-Career:Holmes began djing in Belfast from the age of 15. His first hit was the song "DeNiro", with Ashley Beedle, in 1992. In the early to mid 1990s he ran two club nights in the Belfast Art College known as Sugar Sweet and Shake Yer Brain...

, Bob Stanley

Bob Stanley (Saint Etienne)

Bob Stanley is a UK musician, film producer and journalist.-Saint Etienne:Stanley is best known as a member of the pop/dance group Saint Etienne for which he co-writes songs and produces...

, Belle And Sebastian, Cherrystones and Gerald Short.

Votel has been the curator

Curator

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 of a number of events including the 2006 event at the Barbican Centre

Barbican Centre

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 celebrating the music of Jean-Claude Vannier

Jean-Claude Vannier

Jean-Claude Vannier is a French musician, composer and arranger. He was born during a bomb scare in Courbevoie, Hauts-de-Seine. Self-taught, he began playing the piano at age 18, later arranging for Michel Magne and Alice Dona, his first notions of orchestration taken from the books of the "Que...

 and Serge Gainsbourg

Serge Gainsbourg

Serge Gainsbourg, born Lucien Ginsburg was a French singer-songwriter, actor and director. Gainsbourg's extremely varied musical style and individuality make him difficult to categorize...

. This event reunited musicians who played on the albums Histoire de Melody Nelson

Histoire de Melody Nelson

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and L’enfant Assassin des Mouches. It also featured a number of contemporary artists as guest vocalists including Jarvis Cocker

Jarvis Cocker

Jarvis Branson Cocker is an English musician and frontman for the band Pulp. Through his work with the band, Cocker became a figurehead of the Britpop movement of the mid-1990s. Following Pulp's hiatus Cocker has led a successful solo career...

, Badly Drawn Boy

Badly Drawn Boy

Damon Gough is an English alternative music singer/songwriter. He was born on 2 October 1969, in Dunstable, Bedfordshire. He grew up in the Breightmet area of Bolton, Lancashire, England....

, Brigitte Fontaine

Brigitte Fontaine

Brigitte Fontaine, born in 1939 in Morlaix in the Brittany region of France, is a singer of avant-garde music. During the course of her career she has employed numerous unusual musical styles, melding rock and roll, folk, jazz, electronica, spoken word poetry and world rhythms...

, The Bad Seeds’ Mick Harvey

Mick Harvey

Michael John Harvey , is an Australian rock musician, composer, arranger and record producer. He is best known for his long-time collaboration with the singer and songwriter Nick Cave...

 and the lead singer from Super Furry Animals

Super Furry Animals

Super Furry Animals are a Welsh rock band that lean towards psychedelic rock and electronic experimentation. Since their formation in Cardiff, Wales in 1993, the band has consisted of Gruff Rhys , Huw Bunford , Guto Pryce , Cian Ciaran and Dafydd Ieuan Super Furry Animals are a Welsh rock band...

, Gruff Rhys

Gruff Rhys

Gruffydd Maredudd Bowen Rhys is a Welsh musician, performing solo and with several bands, including Super Furry Animals who obtained mainstream success in the 1990s. He also most recently formed the electro-pop outfit Neon Neon with Boom Bip. Their album Stainless Style was nominated for the 2008...

.

Votel is also a remix

Remix

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er of compilation CDs, including Music To Watch Girls Cry and Vertigo Mixed, a compilation of rare tracks from the Vertigo Records

Vertigo Records

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 catalogue.

He is from Marple Bridge

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 in Stockport

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. His image features on the cover art of Have You Fed the Fish?

Have You Fed the Fish?

Have You Fed the Fish? is an album released by Badly Drawn Boy in 2002. The album's title originates from the question which Gough asks his daughter each day "to the point where it got to sound like one of those words you say too many times and it sounds silly."Also included with the album's...

by singer-songwriter

Singer-songwriter

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 Badly Drawn Boy

Badly Drawn Boy

Damon Gough is an English alternative music singer/songwriter. He was born on 2 October 1969, in Dunstable, Bedfordshire. He grew up in the Breightmet area of Bolton, Lancashire, England....

. Votel is also a graphic designer.

Singles

• If Six Was Nine (12", Grand Central Records
  Grand Central Records
  Grand Central Records was an independent record label based in the Northern Quarter of Manchester, UK. It was started in 1995 by DJ Mark Rae . Rae started out working as manager of the Fat City Records' store...
  
  , 1996)
• Canter (7", Sluts Small, 1999, split single with Add N to X)
• Whirlpool (Twisted Nerve Records
  Twisted Nerve Records
  Twisted Nerve Records is a Manchester, England-based record label. It is most well known for being the home of the singer-songwriter Badly Drawn Boy, who co-founded the label with Andy Votel.-Musical artists:...
  
  )
• The Amazing Transplant EP - with Cherrystones (12", Stark Reality, 1999)
• Girl On A Go-ped / Return Of The Spooky Driver (Twisted Nerve Records
  Twisted Nerve Records
  Twisted Nerve Records is a Manchester, England-based record label. It is most well known for being the home of the singer-songwriter Badly Drawn Boy, who co-founded the label with Andy Votel.-Musical artists:...
  
  )
• Girl On A Go-ped (Remix) (Twisted Nerve Records
  Twisted Nerve Records
  Twisted Nerve Records is a Manchester, England-based record label. It is most well known for being the home of the singer-songwriter Badly Drawn Boy, who co-founded the label with Andy Votel.-Musical artists:...
  
  )

Albums

• Styles of the Unexpected (Twisted Nerve Records
  Twisted Nerve Records
  Twisted Nerve Records is a Manchester, England-based record label. It is most well known for being the home of the singer-songwriter Badly Drawn Boy, who co-founded the label with Andy Votel.-Musical artists:...
  
  , 2000)
• All Ten Fingers (Twisted Nerve Records
  Twisted Nerve Records
  Twisted Nerve Records is a Manchester, England-based record label. It is most well known for being the home of the singer-songwriter Badly Drawn Boy, who co-founded the label with Andy Votel.-Musical artists:...
  
  , 2002)

Compilations

• Music To Watch Girls Cry (2003)
• Folk Is Not a Four Letter Word (2005)
• Vertigo Mixed (2005)
• Songs In The Key Of Death (2005)
• Songs Of Insolence (2005)
• Welsh Rare Beat (2005)
• Prog Is Not a Four Letter Word (2006)
• One Nation Under a Grave (2007)
• Vintage Voltage (2010)