Dormant Period
Despite wide critical acclaim for its acts and a dedicated fanbase, Jeepster nevertheless found itself financially troubled by 2002, largely due to increasing recording and marketing costs, and difficulty cultivating the images of their acts in the eye of the general public. This forced the label into a corner, and they had no choice but to decline renewal of the contracts of their most successful artists in order to continue producing the catalogue they had already built up. While they were neither able to retain their signed artists for this period, nor to consider signing new acts, the next few years nevertheless marked several additions to the catalogue. At this point, the running of the label came into the hands of Jo D'Andrea and Kay Heath.
The label released a Belle & Sebastian DVD in 2003, entitled 'Fans Only', and, in 2005, Push Barman to Open Old Wounds, a compilation comprising all of Belle & Sebastian's single and EPs released under Jeepster. This was followed in 2006 by re-releases of 'Songs for Polarbears' and 'When It's All Over We Still Have to Clear Up', including as-before unseen bonus tracks.
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