News

Pete recorded some Dark Company vocals for The Joker earlier and it’s sounding great. All of the Alien Heat collection is now at alpha stage, even the extremely daunting and difficult Alpha Omega with its changes of tempo and its various time signatures. It’s just after 6am and we are very chuffed to announce this, so hooray! And now it’s time for a warm cup of cocoa, a blood transfusion and some sleep. :)

Andy’s recent visit to the doctor revealed some rather unfortunate facts for The Bastard Sons of Dennis. His finger does not seem to be healing so well after all. The ligaments are not re-attaching themselves properly and he may need an operation to help fix it. We all hope he recovers soon and will keep you updated.

Work on the Alien Heat album by Dark Company has been progressing at a reasonable rate in between the other things going on in the Wud universe. It is almost 20 years since Alien Heat formed as a band, so we are hoping to release Dark Company’s Alien Heat collection as a 20th Anniversary Special Edition before June 2010. Much of the sequencing has been salvaged now and about half of the album is at Alpha stage.

We’ve uploaded the fourth song of the Bad Habits collection from Dark Company, Buick Visions. It was never uploaded before, unlike some of our teasers. This is a bluesy funky rock song with a subtle Latino twist about a strange mythical mystical journey. Pete cites Bob Dylan as his inspiration for the rather splendid lyrics and blows his harp like a banshee that trapped its thumb in the mangle. Enjoy! :)

Mr Lijkkes of The Bastard Sons of Dennis was told by his medical boffins that he would be able to remove the cast from his finger for a short while from time to time now as the tendons are healing fairly well. In order to celebrate the good news he appeared at Wud Records and removed the thing and started to play a little guitar (actually, the guitar was a fairly normal size, but you know what I mean). Although the cast had to go back on after a short while, it is looking more and more like a full recovery is likely, so we are all highly relieved.

It would appear that the band may be able to perform live sometime towards the end of September. So far their set of Blue Oyster Cult covers includes Cities on Flame, Teen Archer, Astronomy, Last Days of May and Wings Wetted Down.

We’ve uploaded two more songs to Dark Company’s Bad Habits collection. Whiskey Priest is a rock/reggae/disco/funk song which examines the meaning of life in a somewhat humourous yet poignant style. Pale Sky is a hard rock number concerning observations of the political state of the world in which we all lived at the time it was written, which was 7th May 2008. We hope you will like them!