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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.

Dark Company’s Rage in Heaven album is for sale at Bandcamp at a discount price of just £4.99. The album will soon be remastered and the artwork redesigned. If you would like an old copy, it will still be available for a few more days before the upgraded version goes on sale instead. Individual tracks are also reduced for now. You can go directly to Dark Company’s Rage in Heaven page at Bandcamp by clicking here.

Due largely to a number of enquiries about songs by The Bastard Sons of Dennis being for sale anywhere, we have put all of their studio works for sale up at Bandcamp. There are only four songs at the moment – three Blue Oyster Cult covers in the Cosy Lube Turtle collection, and one original and slightly profane song in the Cherry Smoke Empire collection. The question is, can one actually have a collection of just one song? Hmmm… Anyway, ignoring the semantics, that is what we have done and we hope you will click here for the Cosy Lube Turtle collection and here for the Cherry Smoke Empire, uh… collection.

These collections of songs will be growing in the fairly near future as we have been busy recording Yuri’s guitar parts for Sometimes and Smile, both of which will go to the Cherry Smoke Empire collection, and Wings Wetted Down which is another Blue Oyster Cult cover for the Cosy Lube Turtle collection.

More recordings are planned for the near future and we will tell you about these in all the usual channels, such as on The Bastard Sons of Dennis’s Facebook page or their Twitter feed.

We have some more original lyrics to publish to the Cherry Smoke Empire pages at Explicit Music as well and these will be going up soon

In other BSoD news, the dynamic duo have played a number of stonking shows recently and will soon have some videos up from those shows at the Wud Records channel at YouTube. Kwim is away for much of the rest of June so we don’t anticipate there being many more shows in the immediate future. However, there are more live performances planned and we shall be releasing details of these soon. Whilst Kwim is away we hope to record more of Yuri so you can enjoy music from The Bastard Sons of Dennis on your mp3 player and eventually on some CDs which we shall release.

Kwim and Yuri would like to extend their special thanks to the people who came along to their recent shows and joined in with the silliness, and special thanks go to Dan and Kim for their video work.

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Flicker’s first album, At least 1000 Words, is for sale at our new shop on Bandcamp. You can buy individual tracks or the whole album for digital download by clicking here.