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Just a quick reminder to you all that the Bastard Sons of Dennis will be performing live at the Black Horse, Longbrook Street, Exeter on Thursday 17th December. We hope that some of you will be able to come along and enjoy their show.

Their previous set at this venue was Dominance and Submission, Wings Wetted Down, Before the Kiss a Redcap and Last Days of May. They also did a very short protest song. It was a fun performance enjoyed by the crowd and the band.

There will be new material performed live on Thursday, so make sure you are there to hear it. Ladies may need to bring a spare pair of panties as theatrical props. All will become clear on the night… :)

In order to allow Dark Company’s fans to hear what we’ve been working on for the last while, we’ve uploaded a whole heap of alpha mixes for you to enjoy. They are the complete albums of Can of Worms, Mind Dance and Noir. :)

Can of Worms is a collection of rather splendid older songs that tended to be largely ignored by the band during their first two incarnations, although there are a couple of exceptions that Jeff and George developed a little on the Atari during the days of Dark Company II. Mind Dance was only ever demoed with Sammi singing as well as Pete in Dark Company’s third incarnation. Noir is the very newest collection of Dark Company’s songs which we hope to finish and release in 2010. This is your very first opportunity to hear the Noir songs. There is plenty of fabulous material contained within these three albums and we’re sure that you’ll find some of your own personal favourites among them.

All of these albums are in the relatively early stages and we will endeavour to update and upload whenever possible. At the moment Pete is concentrating on recording Ghost of the Art and Noir before his medical issues slow his progress. George is working mostly on Bad Habits and Sven is almost at the end of Mind Dance.

Max recently gave us a CD of all the photos she took of the band earlier this year and there are some excellent shots among them. We shall be uploading them soon, along with the ones taken by Phil last month. Firstly however we plan to reorganise the Dark Company galleries a little during the forthcoming upload of the new site design as they have grown to a vast sprawling mass. It will be easier to locate all the images once this has been done.

We are hoping that Dark Company may be making an appearance on BBC Radio 5 Live’s Up All Night programme with Dotun Adebayo and Jamie Stangroom. Make sure you check back regularly for all the latest news.

The Bastard Sons of Dennis have added some more songs to their set, those being Redeemed, Workshop of the Telescopes and She’s as Beautiful as a Foot. Redeemed came about due to the forthcoming Christmas special at the Black Horse on December 17th, which should be a good night.

The boys hope to debut Redeemed and possibly one or two more at the Black Horse. It will probably be the next time that they will be able to perform live.

Today Pete recorded the vocals for Reflector from the Can of Worms album by Dark Company. These were the last vocal parts he needed to record to complete his parts on this album. We will try to upload some alpha mixes for you soon. Hooray!

He also laid down the vocal for Change the Light from Noir. This song is about the ancient race of Nephilim and features no drums at all to allow Sven to indulge in a little pillaging and burning of coastal villages.

Next week Pete will be starting on the Ghost of the Art album. There are twelve songs on that particular collection and we will be interspersing them with more recordings from Noir.

Another successful performance by the Bastard Sons of Dennis took place last night at the Amber Rooms. This time the set was Before The Kiss A Redcap, Teen Archer, Last Days of May and Cities on Flame. The highlight was probably during Last Days of May when Andy sang ‘Now and then a duck’ instead of ‘Now and then a truck’. It was hilarious!

Their next show will be at The Black Horse, Longbrook Street, Exeter on Thursday 3rd December, followed by probably another trip to the Amber Rooms next Monday 7th December.

The Bastard Sons of Dennis plan to return to the Amber Rooms, Sidwell Street, Exeter for their open mic night later tonight, Monday 30th November. They also plan to perform live at The Black Horse, Longbrook Street, Exeter on Thursday 3rd December. We hope to see some of you there.