News

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.

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