Paul Fairweather
Director
Paul has been collecting vinyl and memorabilia since he was a teenager and in 2010, decided to give up his career as an ACA Chartered Accountant, to turn his passion into his job. With his knowledge and enthusiasm combined with his down to earth, personable approach, Paul has developed the business to rapidly become a well known name worldwide for the sale of memorabilia and vinyl. Over that period, his enthusiasm has never waivered. In a role where every day is different and one never knows what is going to come through the door, he still gets excited when a big collection comes in and can be found sifting through boxes well into the night to discover the rarities. Paul is often on the road to appraise collections from all over the UK and Europe (or occasionally on an aeroplane to the USA). He manages the team of experts who work on the sorting, cataloguing and photography of lots and is the chief auctioneer on auction days.
Outside of work, he loves the great outdoors and can regularly be found cycling, running, hiking, climbing or abseiling amongst the mountains of the Lake District.
Karen Fairweather
Director
Karen heads up client services and manages all of the office and administration team, putting all wrongs to right and ensuring that the whole operation runs as a well oiled machine, from back office systems, pre-auction, auction day and post-auction processes, website development/management and business development. With responsibility for marketing, Karen works hard to ensure that we gain maximum exposure in order to maximise prices for sellers. Take a look at our press page to see some of the national and international press coverage obtained...
Outside of work, Karen dreams of having more time to enjoy hobbies, which include walking, cycling, playing tennis and travelling.
Dan Hampson
Director of Operations and Consignments
Dan brings a wealth of knowledge and enthusiasm to the team. He has worked in music for most of his career, from concert promoting to venue management and music journalism. He’s a keen cyclist and intrepid traveller outside of the auction room. Dan was made director of operations and consignments at Omega in early 2026, reflecting his near 10 years here, working across almost all aspects of the business and leading the Memorabilia team.
Pat Duckworth
Auction Administrator & Photographer
Administration specialist Pat Duckworth is one of our longest serving employees. Pat is the friendly voice on the end of our phone and first on the scene post auctions to handle payments and shipping enquiries. Alongside her admin role, Pat’s the chief photographer of our vinyl sales - making sure even the dustiest of matrix numbers are snapped in perfect clarity. Outside of work, Pat enjoys socialising with friends, and will take any opportunity to get on the dancefloor.
Luke Sperry
Auction Assistant & Photographer
Luke is a key part of the team here at Omega, leading on our memorabilia and collectables photography and social media, whilst also playing a role in cataloguing and appraising our rapidly growing music equipment section. Outside of work he’s a runner and a busy dad to Elli, known within the office for his ability to carry a tune! Sadly a follower of LFC – though no one is perfect.
Lewis Olsen
Vinyl Cataloguer & Auction Assistant
Lewis has grown into a senior role within our vinyl department, bringing his ever-cheery approach to appraisals, cataloguing and now even auctioneering.
Outside of the office he’s busy making and performing excellent dance-able psych-pop-balearic beats under his Psychederek alias and you can catch him at plenty of festivals and bars over the summer months. Check them out here > https://psychederek.bandcamp.com/
Jonathan 'Goff' Wild
Auction Assistant
Jonathan ‘Goff’ Wild has been with Omega since the very early days. His serene presence and hugely impressive knowledge of the whole gamut of musical genres has guided us through consignments of hundreds of thousands of records; picking, sifting and sorting consignemnts in into the well thought out and sellable lots that end up leaving our door post-auction. Goff’s the man that you’ll see working as hard behind the scenes on auction day, heading up the picking team to ensure that everyone ends up with their lots as soon as possible after each sale. He’s a ubiquitous presence around the Manchester music scene, DJing regularly from his enviable personal collection and is well known to collectors and buyers of records, memorabilia, antiques and collectibles all over the North West. Famously unable to resist mid-century Italian glassware!
Jamie Lewis
Auction Assistant
Jamie has come on-board at Omega and has proved invaluable in leading on our very popular 'CD Auctions' as well as our successful run of 'Steiff and R. John Wright' auction of bears and figurines. The Omega staff member with the most hobbies by far, Jamie can be found jetting around Newton Le Willows with his running-club, heading to Manchester for D&D meets and writing about Bandcamp obscurities on his blog.
Connor White
Auction Assistant
Connor has been buying and selling vinyl and collectables long before his start with us here at Omega and his keen eye has proven invaluable to us over recent years. A Wisbech native, he can still be found making the long trip home to make sure he is attending as many car boot sales as is humanly possible in one weekend.
Elliot Hutchinson
Vinyl Cataloguer & Auction Assistant
Elliot joined us from Liverpool institution Dig Vinyl and immediately settled into a position within our vinyl team, appraising, sorting and cataloguing. He brings a wealth of experience and recently applied his expertise to a lifetime collection of Bollywood and Indian classical vinyl with superb results. Sadly, Elliot is a Leeds Utd fan, though we try not to hold that against him.
Alex Varley
Auction Assistant
New recruit Alex is quickly learning the ropes, working on cataloguing and assisting across all auction day processes. Away from the desk – Alex is a keen champion of independent record shops, live music in small venues and (unfortunately) Tottenham Hotspur.
Molly Woodcock
Auction Administrator
Our newest recruit, Molly's professionalism and calm demeanour has impressed us all and as well as invoicing, processing payments and managing all of the international shipping, she is already taking big strides to assist in several other areas across the business, from photography to logistics to cataloguing. A keen gig goer, bass player and Beatles expert - with a Masters in the Fab Four!
Alex Abramovici
Courier
Alex is a very familiar face to many of our clients. He's been travelling the length and breadth of the UK (and sometimes overseas) for us for several years now, delivering lots and collecting consignments - covering a huge distance on a weekly basis and garnering so many rave reviews from satisfied customers that we felt he deserved his spot on the website, as whilst he works for himself, we very much view him as one of the team here.
Grace Fairweather
Auction Assistant
In between college and gymnastics training, during holidays Grace comes in to lend a hand. From photography, auction console operator, picking lots on auction day, researching/pricing records and making tea/coffee. Much to Connor's dismay she knocks him off the top spot of youngest team member when she is in!
Archie
Security
By far the cutest member of our team. Questionable work ethic and toilet training. Yet to prove himself adept at cataloguing or grading rare records. Sleeps more than Luke!
