There is still a fair amount of work that Dark Company need to do to finish these songs, which are starting to take shape. A lot of fine-tuning, tweaking and improved playing performances will be required, along with final mixing and mastering to complete production.

When we have some completed artwork in place we will release the Alien Heat album at our shop at Bandcamp. Anybody who downloads the songs for 89% or more of the price we set for them when the album is done will be sent upgraded song files as and when they become available. This means that by buying the songs or the album early you will have some of the rare non-finalised Dark Company tracks after the full album is released!

We will let you know about all further developments to this album in our ‘News’ section.

If you would like to listen to Wonderlust or The Joker, or indeed the whole of the Alien Heat album by Dark Company, you can do so by clicking here.

We are hoping to be able to co-host one of his steel-string albums as well sometime soon, and will let you know about the forthcoming guitar clinic workshops he plans to hold in the Exeter area when more details emerge.

If you would like to hear or see video of Stephen performing his music, you can do so at his site which you can visit by clicking here.

Here are the links to the old recommended albums. Just click on the text for each and they will open in a new window:
The Coffin Collectors: Leopardskin Tales
Owl Parliament: Rip Through Her Sky
Bright Lights, Big Zombie: Bright Lights, Big Zombie

Here are our new recommended Bandcamp albums. Again, just click on the text for each and they will open in a new window:
Grice: Propeller
Karl Zumar: My Guitar
Xidus Pain: Know Pain, Know Gain

Karl Zumar has a new website all of his own as well and you can visit it by clicking here. We have also added a link to it in our ‘Links’ section.

If you have recorded works at Bandcamp and would like to share recommendations, by all means contact us by email to info@wudrecords.co.uk and we will add you to our rotation list.

If you would like to hear our songs that are avaialble for name-your-own-price (including free!) download at Bandcamp, you can do so by clicking here.

Stephen Yates also plans to perform live concerts at a number of village halls throughout the south-west of England as he feels they are under-used venues. He plans to offer free wine during the intervals of these perfomances.

We are hoping to add some of the electric guitar music of Stephen Yates to the Archive section here at Wud Records in the near future. His pieces are unique, complex, challenging and wonderful all at once, and we feel sure that many of our visitors will enjoy his music very much.

At this moment we have very few details of these upcoming events. We shall be sure to keep you updated as these details become apparent.

If you would like to visit the website of Stephen Yates, clicking on this paragraph will take you to the page where you can see him perform three of his steel-string compositions – Mr Hyde’s Hop, Mosaic and Summers Spent, and from there you can explore the rest of his site if you wish.

DJ Hum always plays great music on his show, which runs every other week from midnight until 02:00 on Tuesday night/Wednesday morning. We recommend that you tune in. You can find a link to Phonic FM in our ‘links’ page.

The Bastard Sons of Dennis are often played on Hum’s Night Inn, and last night he played the song Wings Wetted Down. To hear or download this song, you can click here.

If you would like to visit and ‘like’ the Facebook page for the radio show, you can go to it by clicking here.

If you would like to subscribe to their channel at YouTube, you may do so by clicking here and then clicking ‘subscribe’ in the window that opens.

Below are links to the different songs that The Bastard Sons of Dennis have uploaded.

Blue Oyster Cult Covers:
Then Came the Last Days of May
She’s As Beautiful As A Foot
Workshop of the Telescopes

BSoD originals:
Ten Years Later
Sometimes

Our fully collated Top 100 Chart for sales, downloads and plays has been published to the Wud Records forums. If you would like to see our chart for the whole of 2011, you can do so by clicking here.

We have changed the format slightly of how we publish our charts in the forums. Each chart will now be a separate topic in a new forum that has been created specially for charts. This will allow visitors to the site forums to comment on the charts we post.

The Alien Heat album by Dark Company is a collection of the songs played or at least partly composed by the band Alien Heat, from which Dark Company were formed. It still needs a lot of work to finish these songs, especially where it comes to mixing Prisoner as that one has over 90 tracks of audio! The entire Alien Heat album is now approaching full alpha status, with just two more songs – Wonderlust and The Joker – remaining to be added.

Crash is the digitally sequenced version of the song that appeared on Dark Company’s Signmaker album and takes a tongue-in-cheek prod at the TV genre of soap opera in general.

Prisoner is a collection of dark, philosophical wanderings and meanderings through the film set scenery of the beautiful and allegorical 1982 film by Jim Henson and Frank Oz, Dark Crystal.

If you would like to hear Crash, Prisoner, or indeed the rest of the Alien Heat album in its current state, you can do so by clicking here.

All of our songs have been available at ‘name-your-own-price’, which includes free. Since we changed our pricing structure thusly, sales have increased. We were going to review the situation after 111 downloads, and as that happened within a few days we shall keep to this current policy for now and review it in due course.

Customers who download songs or albums for 89% or more of the price we set for each will receive upgraded files for free by email when they become available. We hope to be able to add a lot more of our bands’ songs to the Wud Records catalogue at Bandcamp in the coming weeks.

We would like to say a big ‘thank you’ to everybody who has supported our work by paying for downloads. :-)

She’s as Beautiful as a Foot is a cover of a song by Blue Oyster Cult from their eponymous 1972 album and is one that The Bastard Sons of Dennis rarely perform live due to the need for Mr Nejsan to retune his guitar to DADGAD, which is made more tricky by the tiny pieces of tin foil that reduce the worst of the effects of the fret buzz. All of the songs on the Cosy Lube Turtle album are Blue Oyster Cult covers.

If you would like to listen to She’s as Beautiful as a Foot at Bandcamp, where you can name your own price for a download, please click here. If you would like to listen to it at their Cosy Lube Turtle page here at Wud Records, please click here.