News

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!

With all changes to electronic systems there are inevitable hold-ups and technical issues, so we have been working with Dark Company on some of their more recent material, laying down guides and working on arrangements. The names of these latest songs to be recorded are Alarm Clock, All Tomorrow’s Parties, Cable Guy, Change the Light, Code Red, Coloured Drum and Dead Young. They will form some of the album subsequent to Bad Habits. We hope that the various technical difficulties we are having will be fixed soon.

Finally! The assorted technical tomfooleries and accompanying variations of bubonic plague here at Wud Records have been conquered and at long last we have a usable studio once more. There are still some minor technical issues to solve, but what would life be without minor technical issues to solve? We hope to be able to upload some beautiful things for your pleasure very soon.

On the subject of upgrades, we’ve also seen the new design for the Wud Records site. It looks great so far and is undergoing a few tweaks before implementation.

Also, a big shout of ‘HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!’ to Dark Company’s Peculiar Peter, 21 again today. :)

During this period while Studio One has been out of action due to an upgrade (and a horrible disease which has afflicted many of our staff), several things have happened.

All of the existing material for the Alien Heat album from Dark Company has been examined carefully and only one of the synths (the Procussion) needs much reprogramming to finish these. Pete has already recorded some vocal tracks for a few of the songs. As many of them were almost finished during the days of Silent Running Studios, it will not take vast amounts of work to complete this collection.

Pete is still writing new songs at the rate of several a week and with Bad Habits expected to be finished by the end of September, a new album is being planned. Between ourselves and the band we have chosen 18 songs to develop further for a future album. If there is enough material of sufficient quality, we are considering a double album.

It is hoped that we will all be well enough to finish putting Studio One back together again this weekend so that work on Bad Habits can be completed.