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Two more songs have been added to Dark Company’s Bad Habits collection. They are One Heart, a gothic definition of life, and More or Less, which is a punk/pop/rock promise to be nice… Also, a slightly mellower remix of A Pocket Full of Rye has been uploaded, replacing the previous rather deafening version. Enjoy!

Dredged from out of the archives there is some new material by The Subterraineans to enjoy at Wud Records. This collection, live from a rehearsal in November 1986, is somewhat rough and rugged, and occasional yelled directions can be heard from George to the other musicians. Not exactly great quality, but interesting and fun to hear nevertheless.

This evening Andy and George, otherwise known as The Bastard Sons of Dennis,  have been rehearsing a few Blue Oyster Cult covers and plan to play at some of the open mic nights around the area. More news on this to come soon.

Various works have been going on behind the scenes both here at Wud Records and at Explicit Music. The shop is largely built and just needs some shelves, a broom and a till. A couple of minor design changes to the menus have also been implemented. More Dark Company song information has been added to the Explicit Music site, along with a few design changes.

Today the forums had their first ban on the grounds of spamming. We have now erected a large concrete haddock (in bright beige) which will consume any further spam with glee and relish. So there.

Two new Dark Company songs have been added to the Bad Habits collection. A Pocket Full of Rye is a short acoustic pondering of bizarrity and Pick It Up is a reggae number that’s got enough funk to give you a nosebleed.

There is a also a remix of Way to Go, and Days Like These has been removed for further fiddlings.

As the erection of the Wud Records shop has been taking shape over the last few days, our regular visitors will no doubt notice one or two changes to some of the musical pages. These changes are likely to manifest across the entire site over time and make finding lyrics and song information much more straightforward when listening to music here.

There are one or two test pages about the place as well, although sadly Thudge seems to have crawled back into his shell of steaming slime. You can ignore test pages if you wish, or make comments on them in the forums. Build #3 of this site is looking like it’s coming up, so a hard hat and a strong awareness of gaping holes in the ground might be useful when navigating the site at present.

A whole heap of stuff has been added to the Explicit Music site, including all the information you’ll ever need concerning Dark Company’s Signmaker album.

Our technical department have concluded that the attempted re-run of The Blaze Tape was too glitchy to be used, as was a recording of a Lemming Meringue demo made at the notorious Flat D. So it’s back to the grinder once more for those sonic items.

On a more glorious note, the Search Party Demo songs that previously failed their quality control check have been repaired and reloaded to their proper page. Also uploaded to the Dark Company ‘out-takes’ page is a dodgy demo of Dark Company’s and Alien Heat’s Where Are You made by George one afternoon in 2001 on his old Tascam 244.

After the re-release of the Red Rug Demo, Alien Heat’s Essential is coming close to a re-release with new CD artwork. We have also discovered another band called Alien Heat! They come from Finland. The Wud Records team would like to shout out a big ‘HELLO!’ to all our new Finnish friends.