News

The lyrics from two Dark Company songs have been published in the latest edition of Reflections magazine. The songs that have been printed are Tilt and Now or Never, both from the forthcoming Noir album. If you would like to hear some demos of the Noir album, you can do so by clicking here.

Beautiful Wings from the album At Least 1000 Words by Flicker has been used as the soundtrack to a short film about a horse. It adds a lot of atmosphere to the images and gives the film an emotional context of being from the distant past, whereas the movie was actually shot on the weekend just gone. If you would like to see the video, please click here.

The horse in the film, Vivian, is in fact for sale right now, so if you like horses and would like to play with and care for this one she is near Regensburg in Bavaria. You can contact Vivian’s owner by clicking here.

Beautiful Wings is also on sale at Bandcamp! You can download a copy by clicking here and you can download the entire album At Least 1000 Words by clicking here.

If you would like to see a video of George playing the acoustic guitar part for Beautiful Wings, complete with out-takes at the end, you can do so by clicking here.

We have sent the first three songs from the forthcoming Dark Company album Bad Habits to the BBC so that the band can be exposed on air. That is to say, have their songs played on the radio, rather than being stripped naked in front of a large audience of the general public. Ewww… :-o

Whilst we are on the subject of double meanings and in order to clarify our slightly contentious headline, we cannot confirm or deny whether or not the BBC indulge excessively in smoking, spitting, swearing, nose picking, masturbation, gambling, drug abuse, poor personal hygiene or other such behaviour.

We have sent the Bad Habits songs to be played on Introducing with Tom Robinson on BBC 6 Music and our local Introducing show at BBC Cornwall. The songs we sent were Tip the Rest, Whisky Priest and Pale Sky, the first three songs from the Bad Habits album.

When we have a few more of these songs mastered we shall upload them to the Bad Habits page here at Wud Records and the Bad Habits page at Bandcamp. There will also be numerous special mixes of each song to allow musicians to play along with Dark Company on their instrument of choice.

Eight songs from the wonderful post-punk sonic assault of snowboarding maestros Goodstaff have been added to our archives. If you would like to hear these songs, you can do so by clicking here. Please play them loud as that was how they were meant to be heard!

Drift of Stars is the only collection of songs by Dark Company for which we have not yet uploaded any material, not even any dodgy alpha material! Recently Dark Company have been recording some loose versions of the songs for the Drift of Stars album. Pete’s vocals for several of the songs are now done and we hope to be able to bring you some alpha mixes as previews to the completed album before long.

In other Dark Company news, we are still working away at finishing off the Bad Habits album. This is still some way from being finished, but at least things are moving in the right direction. So far the first three songs have all been finished and mastered and are sounding fantastic.

All of the Bad Habits songs will have a number of extra mixes for fans to join in with on their microphone and guitar, or even hairbrush and tennis racquet. By stripping away different instruments it is also possible to hear some of the more subtle touches within the music that one would normally only notice if they were not there at all. Each instrument is removed from the different mixes so bass players and drummers can join the fun too, even keyboard players and horn sections where appropriate. If you are a musician, you can be the star with Dark Company as your backing band!

The remastering of the Rage in Heaven album is also coming along. So far this process has reached the halfway point with five of the ten original songs on the album now remastered. We are looking into the possibility of adding some bonus tracks to the remastered album, much as we did with Signmaker. There will be more news on this to come sometime soon.

Pete has been busy making more of his visual creations and we shall upload the latest batch of these to his gallery in the next few days.

Five new live tracks have been added to the Live and Direct page for The Bastard Sons of Dennis. These songs were all recorded at the North Bridge Inn, Exeter on 18th May 2011. The recordings were made by Hum and then they were mastered in our studios at Wud Records. If you would like to hear these five new tracks, you can do so by clicking here.

The songs in question are the last five tracks added to the Live and Direct collection – namely: ODd on Life Itself, Transmaiacon MC, The Subhuman, Veteran of the Psychic Wars and Seven Screaming Diz-Busters.

There is also some video footage of this performance and we hope that in the fairly near future we will be able to publish this footage both here and at our channel on YouTube.