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Despite his horrible finger injury, Andy has managed to rehearse some songs with George recently in the world of The Bastard Sons of Dennis. In fact, rather like Winston Churchill turning his walking stick into a prop to be used for glory, Andy has even discovered a few cunning slide guitar moves that he can perform with his finger in its cast. They are hoping to perform live during the forthcoming Sidmouth Folk Festival.

Andy’s cast will be removed in the middle of August if all goes well.

There may be a chance that the band Alchemeon will make an appearance at the Sidmouth Folk Festival, although Jim is not available at present. We hope to give more news on this in the next few days.

Studio One at Wud Records has been dismantled for an upgrade, so nothing will be produced there for a week or so as new parts are being installed. The results will be well worth the wait and we hope to be able to bring you a few more pre-mastering mixes from Dark Company’s forthcoming Bad Habits album soon after the upgrade is complete. Studios Two and Three remain fully functional.

We are sad to report to fans of The Bastard Sons of Dennis that Andy has suffered a terrible injury to a finger whilst cycling, or perhaps to be more precise, crashing. He will be out of action for another eight weeks at least as a tendon needs to reattach itself. We all hope it does this as it will have a serious impact on his guitar playing. It didn’t look too good when we saw him last Wednesday. We all wish him a speedy and complete recovery.

While our engineers toil and sweat, incarcerated as they are in small gloomy hot recording studios, putting the finishing touches to Bad Habits, we have kept Pete busy by beginning work on some more old Dark Company material. Now that Mind Dance is sounding reasonably sorted for vocals, we have turned our attention to the Alien Heat album. Pete has so far recorded the vocals for Abnormal and Ship to Shore and we anticipate Where Are You and Jigsaw will be done later this week.

Pok has added a guest vocal to one Mind Dance song, Number 6, taking the part of The Navigator. We will select three other humans to play the respective roles of The First Mate, The Engineer and The Captain. Martin read the talkover in his own superb style earlier this year. All will become clear if you check out the lyrics at explicitmusic.co.uk.

As far as Bad Habits goes, Whiskey Priest and Pale Sky are now largely finished and will be uploaded to Dark Company’s Bad Habits page later this week. We have taken the steps necessary to upgrade Studio One and are waiting delivery and installation of superior silicon before doing final mixes of these two. Asmodeus, who supplies almost all of our studio equipment, has assured us that delivery will be no later than Friday. In Studio 2, the Atari mouse has developed a problem with its tail which means it now requires two hands to operate, or one hand and a foot if one decides to rest one’s leg on the desk. It really is a pain in the unmentionables.

Finally, a word in praise of the mighty Paul Collingwood. Didn’t he do a fantastic job? :)

The new design for Explicit Music is up! Hooray!! Aside from one or two minor things needing small adjustments, we now have Explicit Music Version 4.0!

We hope you like the new look and new features, such as the site’s own search engine. Big thanks to Dan and his team at Darfuria for all their hard work in making this happen. :)