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To celebrate the remastering of the 1985 Daylight Demo by Wud we are offering it for sale at Bandcamp for just £2 until the end of June. You can click here to visit Wud’s Daylight Demo page at Bandcamp.

This collection of four songs still sounds crispy and fresh, and full of youthful energy and innocence. Ian Dent at Daylight Recording Studios in Honiton did a splendid job on the desk and it required very little tweaking other than the removal of the cassette noise.

The Daylight Demo was created when Wud were still a duo. Ken Staple was on vocals and George Davies played guitars. Later other members of the band came and joined in the fun. Ken’s voice is still legendary and everyone who saw and were fond of the old Wud band will remember him.

You can click here to visit the Wud pages here at this website. Lyrics and information about the songs are published at Explicit Music, which you can reach by clicking here. We have also added the songs to our default music player, which is set to random play and is free to enjoy at all of our non-band-specific pages.

The Bastard Sons of Dennis’s cover of Blue Oyster Cult’s ODd on Life Itself was played on Ahum’s Night Inn on Phonic FM last night. This was recorded on 18th May 2011 at the NBI by Hum, and a noisy old night it was too.

Ahum’s Night Inn is always good fun. You can listen online from anywhere in the world simply by visiting the Phonic FM site and clicking the ‘listen’ button in the top right corner to stream their broadcast straight to your computer.

This particular version of ODd on Life Itself is being synced up to the video footage we have and we shall be posting the Bastard Sons of Dennis videos to our YouTube channel in July, after the dust has settled from Monkeyfest. We shall also be adding some of their songs from the 18th May show to The Bastard Sons of Dennis Live and Direct page, which you can visit by clicking here.

After discovering all manner of old Wud photos in an obscure place on an old hard drive, we have uploaded them all to the various galleries where they belong. Most of these photos were scanned and stored to be put up at the old Wud site but this never happened for various reasons, mostly discommunication, disorganisation and general untogetherness.

The galleries which have been extended include the miscellaneous gallery and the galleries for Wud, Pyg, Laughing Sun, Sirius Rising and The Addled Eggs. You can visit any of those galleries by clicking on the bands’ names as they are all links.

We are especially pleased with rediscovering the Wud photos as some of the pictures are extremely iconic, such as the photo of Ken and George in the tree, and the bodies spelling out W-U-D, and the prison blap series. We hope that you will enjoy seeing all of these old photographs.

The Alien Heat collection that we named Essential is now for sale at Bandcamp. You can buy your copy or individual tracks by clicking here.

Essential is Alien Heat live and at their most raw. The recordings were made during their rehearsals at Bandspace. Some of the playing is perhaps not as polished as it might be, but the power and energy of the music is undeniable.

This collection features nine of their best-loved songs arranged in chronological order of when they were composed. The raw metal power of songs such as Easy Street and Wonderlust are a contrast to the more progressive rock sounds of the beautiful Abnormal and Ship to Shore. Odd is a funktastic bass-driven blast, and the mellower AOR grooves of Jigsaw and Asylum Child are a counterpoint to the spiky angular Badass Boogie and Dancing in the Dark. Pete’s dark allegorical lyrics are all available to read and follow at Explicit Music which you can see by clicking here.

Pyg were a kick-ass folk band similar in some ways to The Levellers. Pyg played all over Devon around the turn of the century and coined the caustic folk genre.

Here we have their 1999 album Tracks, which we have added to the archive pages here at Wud Records. The album has eight songs including a bare remix of Let’s Dance without the dulcimer that Martin built himself. You can go to the page and listen to the album by clicking here.

In the spring of 1995 The Ug Brothers recorded an album of their songs and named it Cute But Weird. There are two Cute But Weird pages here at Wud Records – the full album and the Ugstrumentals. If you would like to buy tracks from the album or even the whole nine-track album, you can visit our shop at Bandcamp by clicking here.