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Due largely to ludicrous volumes of spam and other dubious meat-based products, we are installing more new forum software at the Wud Records website. We believe that it will be more secure and should integrate better with the rest of the site. During this process the forums may be difficult to access.

Everything from the old forums will be shipped across to the new ones and your logins and passwords remain unaffected. We apoligise for the inconvenience and hope everything will be fixed soon.

We have uploaded Tip the Rest to the Bad Habits collection by Dark Company. Tip the Rest is an in-your-face no-nonsense balls-out tongue-in-cheek/serious rock anthem in A major that makes a great overture for the album. More songs will be added soon.

The band plan another photo shoot in the near future. Phil the photographer and Pete went on a location spotting trip earlier this week and have devised a cunning plan.

Pete has also been busy creating new pieces of artwork which have been uploaded to his gallery on the Dark Company page. Some of these may end up being used as album art for Bad Habits.

With the opening of the Wud Records shop coming ever closer we have recently uploaded the cover art of several of our bands’ CDs to their respective galleries. These include Flicker’s At Least 1000 Words, Dark Company’s Signmaker and Rage in Heaven, The Ug Brothers’ Cute But Weird, Alien Heat’s Red Rug Demo and Essential and Wud’s Daylight Demo. More will follow shortly.

Also the Wud Records team would like to shout out “HELLO!” to Rowena who emailed us today. Rowena played beautiful sax and flute on Dark Company’s Signmaker album and made us all some glorious pizzas. :)

During an mp3-based kerfuffle we discovered a collection of songs by Wud that had not been uploaded previously, so we fixed this by adding a new page to Wud. The collection in question is the Cander collection. These songs were recorded just before the beginnings of Laughing Sun and where Laughing Sun’s Cander occupies Side B of the Cander cassette, so this collection of songs by Wud occupies side A of the same cassette.

Piestnia Za, or Песня За as it should be written, is instrumental and features just George and Marc. Fair play to Marc for struggling through this behemoth of a composition on Excaliber, his Kay bass. The two seemed rather chuffed with their efforts judging by the off-mic chat and giggling.

We also scanned and uploaded to the Wud Gallery the cassette cover for the Daylight Demo.

Coincidentally, Ian Dent, the engineer for the Daylight Demo, contacted Wud Records earlier today right out of the blue during the re-recording of Pete’s vocals for Pick It Up which will be on Dark Company’s forthcoming Bad Habits album. It was extraordinary and delightful to speak with the man again after all these years. Ian remembers the occasion of Wud’s visit to his studio well and we spent a little time catching up on the past two decades. It was fantastic!

Our traffic figures would tend to indicate that there may be others out there who have played their part in one or another of our bands or lives at some point in the past. It would be great if you were to make yourselves known, perhaps through the forums or by email if you are too shy to telephone. You know you want to…

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Due to the various changes and developments that are taking place behind the scenes at the Wud Records website, it is likely that in the near future the site will be in ‘Maintenance Mode’ for a few days and as such large parts of it will be inaccessible. We apologise for any inconvenience although the results will make it worthwhile. We hope that you will return when the redesign and shop have been applied.

We found some more of Dark Company Pete’s old pictures and uploaded them along with a few new ones to the ‘Pete’s Art’ gallery. Enjoy!