News

More than a quarter of a century has passed since the day when we made this recording of Lemming Meringue, way back on 20th January 1985. It has now been recovered from deep within the Wud Records archives and uploaded here for you to enjoy, or remember, or cringe at, or be bemused by, or ignore. A reasonably comprehensive history of the recording has also been included.

We have uploaded eight of Jeff the Bass’s dance remixes of Dark Company songs to the & co Drifting Stars page. These tracks were salvaged from cassette and remastered in the Wud Records studio. There are a few more to join this collection which we shall add in due course and we plan to announce a new album of Dark Company remixes under the & co banner soon.

The Bastard Sons of Dennis have been busy playing at various venues and adding new material to their set. There have been two performances at The Hole in the Wall, the second of which was rather prolonged and allowed the band to play their entire set. This included debut performances of songs such as Workshop of the Telescopes and three BSoD originals, all penned by Andy. These songs were Smile, Good Times and Sometimes.

Other recent performances include a triumphant return to the Black Horse and a debut performance at The Oddfellows, which was a lot of fun and featured a split-level stage arrangement. The plan is to return to both venues soon.

The Bastard Sons of Dennis plan to record some of their original material soon. We will keep you informed when there are further developments. They also worked on a tune by George called Second Act which has a ludicrous amount of time signature changes and is rather challenging to play, and wrote a song in Spanish about the losing and finding of a family member’s furniture. This was done in the style of a Spanish phrasebook. The band may have discovered an entirely new genre of music quite by accident!

We hope that some of you might be able to come along to their next performance. It will be at The Hole in the Wall, Castle Street, Exeter on Tuesday 23rd March. There were some there last time who were familiar with our website, so thanks for coming! The boys also plan a return to the Black Horse in early March, which we will give details of nearer the time.

“…disappearing into the woods with the vicar’s wife’s left leg over his shoulder, and… what? This microphone? It’s on? Oh, aha. I see. Ahem.”

We’re back! The new site design for Wud Records is up and running and most things seem to be working reasonably well. We hope you like it! There may be one or two issues and we’ll fix those as soon as possible.

Many thanks to Dan and his team at Darfuria for all the hard work they put into making this happen. Next stage: total global domination!

We shall bring you all the latest news of our various bands soon. :)

Right now we are in the process of uploading the new design for the Wud Records website. Hooray!

During this period of transition, you may find that various parts of the site may have become inoperable or invisible. We apologise for any inconvenience suffered by our visitors and hope that everything will be fully functional again, complete with the new look of the site, within the next couple of days.

We anticipate that there may be a few bugs in the system here and there after the changeover and we shall try to fix these quickly when they become manifest.

We have uploaded two more songs to Dark Company’s Ghost of the Art collection, those songs being Dolls House and White Bird on Ivory. As with the others, these are only alpha mixes to allow Dark Company’s fans to hear updates to these old songs. The only song that remains to be added to this album is Reasons, which we hope to do next week.