News

Dark Company have been in the studio recording some tracks for the Benign Inquisition album from 2000. All the guides are done and Pete has been busy singing the vocal parts. Today he did DOS Capital and Mirror Mirror on the Wall (from Noir), and recently he has finished Damaged, Deadwood, Falling Down and Care in the Community. We plan to upload the alphas of these soon, when the others have been done.

The Bastard Sons of Dennis have been working on some original material and plan to record it soon in our studios. Andy’s songs Good Times, Sometimes and Smile are all coming together very well and were all performed live during their long performance at the Hole in the Wall recently. Good Times and the jammed Pancake Blues were also performed live at the Black Horse on Thursday and their previous Black Horse performance allowed them to debut the song Where Is the Furniture of My Brother.

There are some more BSoD originals on the way as well. These include Andy’s songs Pieces of Me and The Cruellest Dream, George’s horribly mad instrumental Second Act and the recent creation from both Bastards, Where Is the Furniture of My Brother. Keeping up the Blue Oyster Cult theme, the songs Subhuman and Career of Evil are also swirling around the melting pot.

The Bastard Sons of Dennis have now played numerous shows at various venues and will be returning to them all at various points when they are holding open mic nights. These include The Amber Rooms and The Oddfellows (Mondays), The Hole in the Wall (Tuesdays), The Black Horse and The Angel (Thursdays) and The Rusty Bike (Sundays). We hope that you will keep a lookout for them.

We have done some preliminary mastering of Dark Company’s Bad Habits album to see how things are going so far, and all in all the results are fairly pleasing. We plan to master the whole album soon, along with remastering Signmaker and Rage in Heaven.

Meanwhile, back in the studio, Pete has recorded some more of his vocal parts. Meat Grinder from the Noir album was completed along with some of the vocals from the Benign Inquisition album, including the verses for Damaged and the rest of Heavy Touch. Pete will be back in the studio on Tuesday.

Over at the Explicit Music site, we have updated some of the lyrics and information for Dark Company’s songs. The Rage in Heaven and Alien Heat albums have both received the full makeover treatment. More will be added there soon.

The Bastard Sons of Dennis performed live at the Black Horse again tonight. This time, as there were relatively few musicians in the bar, they were invited to play two sets. The first set was Redcap, Cities on Flame, Wings Wetted Down and Teen Archer and they returned later to play Dominance and Submission and Where Is the Furniture of My Brother. The final song was only written a couple of weeks ago and has never been rehearsed, never mind performed live before, and it seemed to go reasonably well.

The Black Horse’s open mic night is now a weekly fixture, so next week the Bastard Sons of Dennis plan to play at the Hole in the Wall on Tuesday and the Black Horse again on Thursday. Hopefully we will see some of you there again! Big up to everybody who came along tonight and made it fun.

Dark Company have been reasonably active in the studio since the site rebuild. We have just uploaded the pre-master mix of Road Tripped to their Bad Habits album, and can now give you a full update on what Dark Company have been doing recently.

As well as Road Tripped, More or Less has also been completed to pre-mastering stage and was uploaded to the Bad Habits collection during the time that the site was being rebuilt.

Ghost of the Art has been completed to alpha stage and all of the songs from that album are now available to be heard on Dark Company’s Ghost of the Art page. These include Dolls House, White Bird on Ivory and Reasons, none of which had been uploaded before the site rebuild.

The band have been laying down guides for the Benign Inquisition album from 2000. So far they have done TNT, Bright Monsters, Colt 44, Care in the Community, Falling Down and the verses for Heavy Touch. We hope to be able to make some of these tracks available for you to hear soon.

And that’s not all! We have made some progress with their Noir album as well. Pete recorded the vocals for Dead Young, FBI and Mainstream Man. Pete has been searching around for some sound samples that he likes for Code Red, although we have not done the vocals for that song yet.

In another news post we mentioned that some of the &co material had been remastered and uploaded to the Old Hands page. Now that we have located more of such material we plan to remaster and complete that collection before remastering Signmaker and Rage in Heaven. By then it should be time to master and launch Bad Habits.

Tomorrow we will strap Pete securely to the mic and make him wear his ear goggles again, so there will probably be more news soon.

Professor Fooog Dinboffin has now left Brighton and has moved to Honiton, from where he plans to base himself for the time being. As he is now in closer proximity to all of us here, we believe that there may be some action on the Alchemeon front at some point in the vaguely near future.

The Professor also hopes that he will be able to record some of the acoustic songs that he has written and performed recently. We will let you know more about this soon.