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The Bastard Sons of Dennis wish to announce their forthcoming second debut performance at the Amber Rooms, Sidwell Street, Exeter on Monday 16th November 2009. It’s their second debut as they have not appeared live on stage since 1994.

We hope that some of you lovely people will be able to attend and we shall let you know how it all went. The boys are planning to perform at several open mic venues in the area, so keep an eye on our news updates for more information.

What a day. Received an email from Rob at emulatorarchive.com and he had kindly sent some patches for the old Procussion which we have been after for about 18 months. During the upgrade to the Studio 1 computer, the software to upload the patches to the Procussion had gone astray so downloaded it again. It didn’t send a thing.

Wondered if it was the newer Beta software rather than the old software that was the problem. Downloaded the old software. Uploaded the files. Nothing.

Went on an extensive search for more software, all of which proved useless. Uttered bad words and poked around with torch at the back of the Procussion.

Discovered the MIDI lead was plugged into the ‘out’ not the ‘in’. Cursed a little more at own foolishness and plugged lead in correctly. Uploaded files and bingo! Just what we’ve been after all this time!

So we are chuffed to bits here and enjoying a celebratory cup of tea. Many, many thanks and major kudos to Rob at emulatorarchive.com for helping us out with this problem which has been the curse of Studio 2 for ages! There is a very happy Wud posse in the universe today. :)

Also, much love to our friends in Germany celebrating 20 years since the Berlin Wall came down. It’s a day I remember well, staring at the TV with Ruth (Dark Company Pete’s elderly mother) and the Alien Heat boys, with my jaw down by my knees and a great feeling of hope burning in my heart. We’ll be raising a glass to you all tonight.

Pick It Up has now been added to Dark Company’s Bad Habits collection. This is a funk/reggae number with a suitable sprinkling of strangeness. We hope you like it! :)

Knowing, We Are by Dark Company has been uploaded to the Wud Records site for your enjoyment. There are two versions of the song. The single mix is on the homepage playlist and the album mix is in the Bad Habits collection.

Knowing, We Are is a dark, pseudo-scary tongue-in-cheek rock song played at high tempo. It was the first Dark Company collaboration for many years and the first Bad Habits song to be written. The album version has the long instrumental outro and the single version fades out after the final outburst from Pete.

Following some more successful rehearsing and a spot of recording to hear how things are sounding (great!), The Bastard Sons of Dennis will be looking to perform live next week. They describe themselves as ‘arguably one of the best acoustic Blue Oyster Cult cover duos in the EX4 area (excluding Pinhoe)’. More news on this to follow.

Dark Company have joined Twitter, so you can read all of the latest gossip directly from the band themselves by becoming a follower. You can send tweets to them @Dark_Company and see the ten latest tweets at their homepage here (see the link to the left). So far the band have been posting updates regularly.

Expert lensman Phil Vee again photographed Dark Company earlier today down by the river Exe. It was a lot of fun and the shoot was made more unusual by Pete gushing blood from his nose and upper lip where he’d had an accident with his razor and George gushing blood from his thumb after he tripped and fell over in comedy fashion. Despite their wounds, the shoot was a success and we hope to have some photos up in a week or so.

Meanwhile, back in the studio, the band have been hard at work. The song Knowing, We Are from the Bad Habits collection is nearing completion after sorting out all of its layers, re-recording all of George’s guitar tracks and introducing a new compression system to Studio 1, which is simply fabulous.

Due to a poorly Atari in Studio 2, Pete has managed to record the voices for five songs we were not expecting to do this week. They were Mister Dream from the Alien Heat collection and We All Lite Up, Zero Heroes, Spiritual Remission and Exstacy from the Can of Worms collection. There are only two more songs needing vocal parts recording on the Alien Heat collection (Traveller and Dancin’ in the Dark) before we can start mixing it.