News

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.

If you would like to download or listen to the 2002 Flicker album At Least 1000 Words as it stands right now, you can do so by clicking here.

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 Blue Oyster Cult covers, you can do so by clicking here.

If you would like to listen to or download their original songs, you can do so by clicking here.

Eleven upgraded Old Hands alpha mixes have been uploaded to the Dark Company Old Hands collection. There are maybe three more songs still to be added to the collection, including One-2-One, which is currently being disassembled and reconstructed.

This is the last collection of old songs from Dark Company’s back catalogue to be uploaded, so their entire anthology is becoming – sort of – complete.

These mixes are still very rough, e.g. there is not a lot of actual drumming going on and you can hear the click tracks. Obviously there is a lot more work to be done to make these rough diamonds into shiny polished jewels. Much as with other ongoing Dark Company collections, this will happen in due course and we shall let you know about further updates in the Wud Records News section.

We shall soon be remastering the 2002 Flicker album At Least 1000 Words. This process will take place in three stages.

The first stage is to put all of the audio and data files in one place. This stage is done. Hooray!

The second stage is to conduct an analysis of all of those audio and data files to select the optimum version of each track on the album.

The third stage will be the remastering itself.

We shall keep you updated regarding the progress of this task through the news feed here at Wud Records and hope to bring you the spanking shiny new remastered At Least 1000 Words album in the reasonably near future.

In the meantime you can download the old version of At Least 1000 Words from Bandcamp at a price you can name yourself, which includes free. Anyone who downloads the album for 89% or more of the price we set for the final album will be sent the upgraded mp3 files free of charge.

If you would like to listen to At Least 1000 Words, please click here.

Some misnomer anomalies have been fixed with regard to the naming of various Dark Company and & co albums.

The Dark Company album that was previously known here as Drift of Stars is in fact an album that should have been called Old Hands.

The & co album that was previously known here as Old Hands is in fact an album that should have been called Drifting Stars.

We are happy that these anomalies have now been rectified throughout the Wud Records and Explicit Music websites. In technical parlance, this is what is known as a balls-up of epic proportions. We offer our humble apologies to anyone who may have been or may continue to be confused by these inaccuracies.

If you would like to visit Dark Company’s Old Hands page, you can do so by clicking here.

If you would like to visit & co’s Drifting Stars page, you can do so by clicking here.