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The Lecher is an old song by Pok that has been freshly recorded and uploaded to a new page of songs here at Wud Records. We have also released The Lecher for download at our shop at Bandcamp.

The Lecher was written in the music rooms at The King’s Grammar School, Ottery St. Mary in the spring of 1982. It is essentially just a riff and some jamming. It is no longer certain which lecher in particular this song was about.

When we finish more of Pok‘s early songs we will add them to the page we have simply titled Anthology and let his fans know through our ‘News’ service and through social media such as Facebook and Twitter.

This album is under construction and new songs will be added when they are finished. Cover art is also under construction and will be worked on at some time in the future.

Anybody who downloads a song or the album for 89% or more of the eventual sales price will be sent free mp3 updates by email. This is like an investment in the album and means the investor will have rare ‘unfinished’ tracks when Anthology is finalised.

If you would like to listen to or download The Lecher, you can do so by clicking here.

Yesterday was the first day back in the Wud Records Studios for Pok, as the recording of his new album begins with an old song called The Lecher. The Lecher was originally created in 1982 when we were all still at school.

This new album from Pok will feature many wonderful songs from the ancient days, moving forwards to more recent times. It is difficult to say how long it will be or when this work will be completed as we are all rather busy, but to actually begin this great work is very pleasing.

We are still in the very early stages and this work has no title or artwork or release date or anything like that yet. We shall be keeping all of Pok‘s fans updated with the latest developments through our ‘News’ service.

If you would like to visit Pok’s pages here at Wud Records, you can do so by clicking here.

If you would like to visit his blog, The Pook of Pok, you can do so by clicking here.

Stephen Yates is organising his electric guitar workshops. The first will be 11am to 1:30pm (two one-hour sessions with a half hour break) on Saturday 3rd March 2012 and will take place at the Sound Gallery in the Phoenix Arts Centre, Gandy Street, Exeter. He is hoping these sessions will prove popular. Anyone interested please come along.

The Joker and Wonderlust have been added to the Alien Heat collection by Dark Company. These were the last two songs in need of a sonic upgrade to take them to full alpha status. This means that all of the songs for Alien Heat have now been uploaded to Dark Company‘s Alien Heat page!

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 have created a new page in the Archive section of Wud Records for guitarist and composer Stephen Yates. There are four electric guitar pieces there from a 2001 collection of demos he made. These pieces are all hosted with permission.

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.

It’s time once more to change the Wud Records recommended albums at Bandcamp. There are so many great albums there and we have a lot of friends with their goodies for sale at that site so we have to rotate every so often.

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.