News

The Essential and Red Rug Demo collections from Alien Heat are scheduled for remastering following on from our recent and extensive digging through the archives. All of the Alien Heat material that we have has now been fed into the machines and will be processed soon. There may be some new material made available as a result of this.

Fans of Alien Heat who bought their songs whose contact details we have will be sent upgraded sound files and new CDs free of charge when the work has been completed. Once we have finished the remastering, all of the song files both here at Wud Records and at Bandcamp will be upgraded and we shall let you all know about this in our news feed.

We will offer all the current Alien Heat downloads at a discount price until the remastering is finished, although we will not be sending free upgrades to Alien Heat fans who buy songs during this discount period (d’oh!). :-)

Over the past couple of days we have raided the archives for some material from Sirius Rising. We believe we may now have fully exhausted all the possibilities in the archives for Sirius Rising material.

The next job is to process it through the special machines and to find out what is good – or at least reasonable if nothing is particularly good. We shall let you know when the machines have done their work.

There are three other old Wud Records bands that still have no music available to listen to here. They are Fooog Dinboffin and the Release, Now, and The Masters of Drone. We will take the necessary steps to fix this in the near future.

Some of the Now material has been fed into the machines. The Masters of Drone‘s material is proving harder to find. We have located some material by Fooog Dinboffin and the Release and it is still waiting to be assimilated.

Smile, one of the oldest songs from The Bastard Sons of Dennis, has been completed and added to their Cherry Smoke Empire album, which you can hear by clicking here. We have also included Smile in our default music player, which is available on many pages at the Wud Records website.

Smile is also available as a single download or as part of the (incomplete) Cherry Smoke Empire collection at Bandcamp. If you would like to support the band by downloading their new song, you can do so by clicking here.

Smile was originally written and recorded by Terry Bickers and his band Levitation on their 1992 album Need For Not. Mr Lijkkes and Mr Bickers were at university together and there was some collaboration in the creation of Smile. Mr Nejsan had never previously heard the Levitation version and created his guitar parts independently.

We love this wonderful song and hope that you will enjoy listening to it too.

The Bastard Sons of Dennis have uploaded eight new videos to their Bastard TV channel at YouTube. All eight of these videos come from a show they performed at the NBI, St Davids Hill, Exeter on 18th May 2011. Links to each video and notes will follow below. To subscribe to Bastard TV, please click here.

Video 1 – tuning up backstage: http://www.youtube.com/user/BastardTV1#p/u/7/huTsUmq_lJU

Video 2 – gribulage and tomfoolery as the band take to the stage: http://www.youtube.com/user/BastardTV1#p/u/6/VfQuQAnxxhk

Video 3 – O.D.’d on Life Itself: http://www.youtube.com/user/BastardTV1#p/u/5/hRGS6rS–JA

Video 4 – Transmaiacon MC: http://www.youtube.com/user/BastardTV1#p/u/4/mf5HO8OG9mE

Video 5 – The Subhuman (part 1): http://www.youtube.com/user/BastardTV1#p/u/3/tg3CUkfi_pI

Video 6 – The Subhuman (part 2): http://www.youtube.com/user/BastardTV1#p/u/2/yf_WC3DAdTw

Video 7 – Veteran of the Psychic Wars: http://www.youtube.com/user/BastardTV1#p/u/1/x_xhpyS8aRM

Video 8 – Seven Screaming Diz-Busters: http://www.youtube.com/user/BastardTV1#p/u/0/M93gHi3DNFM

The Bastard Sons of Dennis have launched their own TV channel at YouTube, Bastard TV. This is separate from our Wud Records TV Channel and is an unofficial channel which Wud Records does not necessarily endorse.

We would like to wish the band the very best of luck with their new channel and we will keep every one of our visitors here at the Wud Records website informed of future developments with their Channel in our news bulletins.

At present there is only the one video uploaded there, and that is of a soundcheck at The Oddfellows, Exeter on 26th May 2011 – a test video, as it were. If you would like to visit their channel, where you can subscribe if you wish, please click here.

Bad Habits, the all new album from Dark Company, is continuing to take shape. We have the first four tracks all finished, mixed, mastered and sounding absolutely fantastic.

We have decided to produce a number of special mixes of each song on the Bad Habits album. These special mixes will feature various different missing instruments. This is so that musically inclined fans of Dark Company can play along on their own instruments and it will allow listeners deeper inside to hear some of the wonderful stripped-down details of Dark Company’s beautifully crafted songs. Similar to Radiohead and Frank Zappa, attention to detail is something Dark Company do superbly and is a real trademark of their music. We believe you will love listening to – and in some of your cases, playing along with – these special mixes.

In order to allow fans of the band special pre-release listening privileges, we will be constructing a special password-protected web page for Bad Habits here at Wud Records. Dark Company will then communicate the password directly to their fans through Facebook and Twitter.

You can join the Dark Company fan page at Facebook by clicking here: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Dark-Company and follow them on Twitter by clicking here: http://twitter.com/#!/Dark_Company

We will be removing the Beta mixes from the current Bad Habits page in due course.