We have uploaded the 2001 mini-album Gruntings by Devon caustic folk band Pyg to Pyg’s pages in the Archive section of Wud Records.
Although the band itself is no longer with us, the songs live on for your enjoyment here at Wud Records. You can visit the Gruntings page to listen simply by clicking here.
Following recent radio play we have been working towards the finalisation of the Bad Habits album by Dark Company. We are pleased to say that the first two tracks of the album, Tip the Rest and Whisky Priest, have been beautifully mixed and mastered.
In addition to the standard mixes, we are also making special mixes of each song with different instruments missing from each separate mix so that fans of the band who are musicians can play along on drums, bass, guitar, voice and so on.
Tip the Rest has one of the great classic rock riffs and is a song of praise, camaraderie and admiration. Whisky Priest is a tongue-in-cheek yet wistful look at the meaning of life with a great backbeat.
At present only the beta versions of these songs are published here at Wud Records and those beta versions will all be removed in the fairly near future. If you wish to hear the beta versions you will have to hurry and visit the Bad Habits page often in the coming days as that page will change. Many of the individual parts of these songs have been re-recorded since the beta mixes were uploaded so all of the songs will have a new crispy precision to them.
We are delighted to say that June 2011 has exceeded May 2011’s record traffic figures for visitors to the Wud Records website. Traffic continues to grow month by month and has increased by more than 500% on this time last year.
We would like to thank all of our visitors for coming here as you make our jobs worthwhile. As long as you keep on visiting we will keep on adding new material and features to the site. A big Wud blessing goes out to you all and we hope that even more of you will visit in July and buy music from our shop 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.
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