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The Bastard Sons of Dennis will be performing live at two Exeter venues next week. Tuesday 2nd February will be their debut performance at The Hole in the Wall, Castle Street, Exeter. Thursday 4th February will be their return to The Black Horse, Longbrook Street, Exeter. Hopefully we’ll see some of you there!

Last night The Bastard Sons of Dennis worked on some original material from their early days, specifically Andy’s songs Good Times, Sometimes, Smile and The Cruellest Dream. The Cruellest Dream George plays with the guitar tuned down to standard tuning in D with a drop-C! These old songs can be heard here in their Flamplayer In Session collection from 1998. They have also been putting together a version of Led Zeppelin’s Kashmir which they hope to be able to add to their live set soon.

Track three of Dark Company’s Ghost of the Art album has now been uploaded. The song is called Happy Hour and is a rather beautiful wistful thing full of allegory, which speaks of Harlequin and Pierrot. There are three more songs to upload to complete the Ghost of the Art alphas and we hope to achieve that later this week.

Like all of the others on this collection at the moment, Happy Hour is only an alpha mix and is far from being finished. We uploaded it as we know there are some of you out there who would love to hear it already, even in its fledgling state.

Once Ghost of the Art is fully recorded to alpha stage, we will do some more work on Noir and begin working on Benign Inquisition.

We also hope to upload some of the &co material to the Old Hands page before much longer. Unfortunately some of that material has gone missing from the archives. We are looking into the possibility of borrowing a sniffer walrus from the zoo.

Professor Dinboffin has just returned to Brighton, and during his visit to Wudland indicated that there may in fact be a reasonable possibility that he will perhaps be returning to Devon on a more permanent basis at some point in the vaguely foreseeable future. He also indicated an interest in rekindling the fire in the Alchemeon furnaces once more. Although all of this information is steeped in a fair amount of uncertainty and topped with a good dollop of ambiguity, it is a curious and rather delightful thought nevertheless. Watch this space.

The Bastard Sons of Dennis have a new page with a couple of youtube videos from their recent performance at The Black Horse on December 17th. The first three minutes or so of the first one is of largely tuning up and so on, so you can skip all of that if you wish.

We have also embedded their Twitter stream into their homepage so you can follow them easily if you wish. By following them on Twitter (they have the doubly profane name BastardSoD) you can hear from the duo directly.

Andy’s finger is almost as good as new now, so that is a blessing. It is not certain when they will be making their next live appearance although we can confirm that it will be fairly soon and we shall keep you updated here.

Another alpha mix from the Ghost of the Art by Dark Company has been uploaded for you to enjoy. This song is Stuck on You, and is perhaps the most challenging song on the album from a vocal perspective. There are a number of things that are not right with it yet and the quality of the upload is fairly poor but it gives a rough idea of where this one is going. Only four more songs to complete the Ghost of the Art album and we hope to achieve that target next week.

Two more songs have been uploaded to Dark Company’s Ghost of the Art collection, those being Desperado and Mighty Diamond. These are alpha mixes in the early stages of finalisation, although we thought you might enjoy hearing them. We hope to add another one or two tomorrow.