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We have added eight songs by legendary Exeter bluesmen The Chillun to our archive section. We are sure that many people will remember the mighty splendour of a Chillun performance from their popular residency at the Port Royal in Exeter, among other places. Now you can enjoy eight of their recorded songs from back in the early 1980s simply by clicking here.

If there are any more recordings of The Chillun or information about the band out there in the universe at large, we would love to hear from you so we might host more of their material here. If you can email info@wudrecords.co.uk and put ‘Chillun’ in the subject bar, one of our Wud Records team will reply.

We have given the Alien Heat album by Dark Company a sonic upgrade from how it was before. This includes better quality recordings of the songs and updated versions of the recorded performances. This brings the songs uploaded there to full alpha stage, as before they were very bare and of poor quality and little more than bleeegls.

So far eight of the songs have been given the upgrade treatment and there another eight to work on and upload. We shall let you know when we have done this, although the best way to stay in touch with all the latest news from Dark Company is to follow their Twitter feed, which you can do by clicking here.

The songs we have upgraded are Abnormal, Ship to Shore, Where Are You, Dancin’ in the Dark, Alpha Omega, Jigsaw, Mister Dream and Traveller. You can hear all of these upgraded songs right now by clicking here.

As these are only alpha mixes, they require a fair bit more work to make them finished and radio-friendly. We shall continue with this work in time and post news of results to the News section here at Wud Records.

The songs that still need to be upgraded and added back to the Alien Heat collection are The Winds of Heaven, Asylum Chid, Easy Street, Wonderlust, Crash, Prisoner, Bodyfire and The Joker.

We have now uploaded the photos from the second part of the evening of 1st August 2011 to the gallery for The Bastard Sons of Dennis. These show Mr Lijkkes and Mr Nejsan in action at The Sorry Head, Exeter, following on from their earlier show at The Oddfellows. The photos were all taken by Kim and we particularly like the way the lights make Mr Nejsan’s guitar look like it might be several different colours. If you would like to see these new pictures you can do so by clicking here.

In other BSoD news, the song Sometimes, which will appear on the Cherry Smoke Empire album, has been prodded a little more and is approaching mixing stage.

Mr Lijkkes has been working on writing a couple of new songs which the duo plan to rehearse and perform soon. We’ve heard them and they are fantastic!

The Bastard Sons of Dennis also have a full feature-length performance coming up at The Oddfellows, New North Road, Exeter, on Thursday 25th August 2011 at 8:30pm, so this is a great opportunity to hear them playing a lot of their songs live all in one hit. Admission is free and you are advised to take a duck and some spare underwear. All will be revealed, apparently. We are hoping that the spare underwear won’t be used for some sort of bizarre onstage cabaret underwear-swapping shenanigans as revealing all may not be the best option…

We have archived some live songs from the wonderful Guernsey rock trio of the early noughties, Guarana. We are sure that there will be a number of our visitors who will remember this band and their beautiful songs. If you would like to enjoy a live set by the mighty Guarana, you can do so by clicking here.

Some time soon we will add some more of their music from the studio. If more Guarana material becomes manifest from anybody who happens by our website, we will be happy to include any extras.

We have added a lot of new photos to the BSoD Gallery here at Wud Records from the performance by The Bastard Sons of Dennis at The Oddfellows on 1st August 2011. All photos were taken by Kim. To view the updated BSoD gallery, click here.

We are very pleased to announce that the traffic figures for Wud Records are up again! July 2011 surpassed the previous best figures from June 2011 by just over 3%. We would like to thank all of our visitors, especially those that bought music from our shop, and we hope you will continue to visit and support Wud Records and Explicit Music.

We have all kinds of exciting developments in the pipeline including TV shows, live streaming and more upgrades to the sites, as well as the development and release of more new and archive material. We shall keep you informed of all such developments via our news page, to which you are invited to subscribe, and our brand new Twitter feed, to which you can subscribe by clicking here.

Our plan for total global domination is exceeding expectations. Soon the entire planet will have been well and truly wudded.