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.
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. :-)
A new song from The Bastard Sons of Dennis has been completed and uploaded to their pages here and our shop at Bandcamp for you to download. This new song is called She’s as Beautiful as a Foot and has been added to the Cosy Lube Turtle collection as well as the Wud Records default music player.
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.
Remastering work continues on the Flicker album At Least 1000 Words. All of the audio files have now been analysed and selected.
A few minor repairs are needed for about four or five of the files and some of the mixing could have been done better back in 2002, but we are where we are and generally what we have is quite pleasing and promising. So far we have done some trial masters of Farsight and have managed to improve the sound considerably.
More news updates on Flicker and the remastering of At Least 1000 Words will be posted here to the Wud Records news pages soon, along with an update on their forthcoming HappySad album.
Those Bastard Sons of Dennis have announced two more shows that we thought you might like to know about.
First up it’s tonight – December 7th 2011 – at the NBI, or the North Bridge Inn, in St Davids Hill, Exeter. The Bastard Sons of Dennis have not played there for some time so they are hoping there might be one or two who still remember them. Apparently the highly recommended Orange Bastard will be available for drinkage, which is a good thing. This will be a relatively short performance as it is an open mic show. If you are unable to make it along, there are some videos at Bastard TV1 on YouTube which show the boys playing there back in the spring.
The second show they have announced is a full feature-length performance at The Oddfellows, New North Road, Exeter. This will take place on Thursday 22nd December starting at 9pm and will be a great chance for anyone suffering from an overdose of the commercialism of the season to forget their worries and enjoy a few beers and a great evening’s entertainment from these fine musicians.
We are all hoping that The Bastard Sons of Dennis will be playing a few more shows in some further-flung locations during 2012 as well as continuing to record songs for their two part-finished albums. All news of such matters will be posted in our news pages, or The Bastard Sons of Dennis will post such news on their Facebook page or Twitter feed, which you can ‘like’ or ‘follow’ with a simple click above.
If you would like to listen to or download their original songs, you can do so by clicking here.
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