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Virtuoso guitarist, composer, session musician and Classical Guitarist of the Year award-winner Stephen Yates will be holding some electric guitar workshops in Exeter. Any guitarist from intermediate to super-advanced will want to take part in his masterclasses as he is a unique talent with a vast knowledge base to share and can improve the technique of even the most proficient musicians. Tickets for these workshops are likely to go fast so you should make sure you book early to avoid disappointment.

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.

Clonk! were played on Phonic FM last night as part of the Hum’s Night Inn show. This was their first appearance on the show and the song Don’t Even Try was the one chosen.

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.

The Bastard Sons of Dennis have published to Bastard TV1, their video channel at YouTube, several new videos of themselves perfoming songs live at The Oddfellows, Exeter on 26th May, 2011.

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

Happy New Year! :-)

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 Dark Company album Alien Heat has had two more songs added to it. Crash and Prisoner have both been produced to alpha stage and fitted into the mp3 player where they belong.

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.

Following yesterday’s upload of a new song by The Bastard Sons of Dennis, we now have exactly 100 songs for sale at our shop at Bandcamp.

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. :-)