News

As some of you know already, the Wud Records emails system became somewhat unreliable towards the end of last year and a number of emails from you were lost in the vortices of nilspace, or at best, took an absurdly long time to arrive. This has now been rectified and we are using an entirely new email system, one which seems to work just fine. Hooray!

We have streamlined the email addresses that we use as well, with a lot of our old and no longer active bands coming together under one email, and our active artistes retaining their independent addresses. A new email has been created to deal with archive material.

The ‘Contact’ page at Wud Records has been updated to show all of this and if you wish to get in touch with us, everything should be in order.

If you contacted us some time ago and are still waiting to hear from us, it is likely that your communication was lost so please send it again if possible and accept our apologies.

After a rather prolonged sabbatical to allow babies to be born and grow a little and to do dull and irrelevant things like day jobs, Wud Records plan to return to action in the very near future and have developed a number of new things for you, all of which are in the pipeline.

Behind the scenes many things have continued to take shape with Flicker, Dark Company and Pok the Bard in action in our studios on occasions over the past few months.

There will be more news on all of this and more soon.

It’s been a very busy time and we shall be back more frequently in about two months. Meantime, Happy Solstice and enjoy the winter festivities!

:-)

Here is our collated top 20 download/playlist chart for July 2014 for all the tracks available from the Wud Records shop at Bandcamp.

Everything you click on is linked to open in new tabs for your enjoyment. :-)

July 2014
1. The Bastard Sons of Dennis: The Furniture (part 1: overture) (Cherry Smoke Empire)
http://wudrecords.bandcamp.com/track/the-furniture-part-1-overture

2. Alien Heat: Odd (Essential)
http://wudrecords.bandcamp.com/track/odd-2

3. Pok: Summer ’83 (Anthology)
http://wudrecords.bandcamp.com/track/summer-83

4. The Bastard Sons of Dennis: She’s as Beautiful as a Foot (Cosy Lube Turtle)
http://wudrecords.bandcamp.com/track/shes-as-beautiful-as-a-foot

5. The Bastard Sons of Dennis: Then Came the Last Days of May (Cosy Lube Turtle)
http://wudrecords.bandcamp.com/track/then-came-the-last-days-of-may

6. The Bastard Sons of Dennis: The Furniture (Epilogue) (Cherry Smoke Empire)
http://wudrecords.bandcamp.com/track/the-furniture-epilogue

7. The Bastard Sons of Dennis: Smile (Cherry Smoke Empire)
http://wudrecords.bandcamp.com/track/smile

8. Pok: The Lecher (Anthology)
http://wudrecords.bandcamp.com/track/the-lecher

9. Pok: Young Light (Anthology)
http://wudrecords.bandcamp.com/track/young-light

10. Rough Terrain: Same Old Road Again (Exit Stage Deaf)
http://wudrecords.bandcamp.com/track/same-old-road-again

11. Pok: Fooog’z Bloooz (Anthology)
http://wudrecords.bandcamp.com/track/fooogz-bloooz

12. Dark Company: Medicines (Rage in Heaven)
http://wudrecords.bandcamp.com/track/medicines

13. Flicker: It Starts Right Here (HappySad)
http://wudrecords.bandcamp.com/track/it-starts-right-here

14. Dark Company: Last Train to Heaven (Rage in Heaven)
http://wudrecords.bandcamp.com/track/last-train-to-heaven

15. Flicker: Farsight (At Least 1000 Words)
http://wudrecords.bandcamp.com/track/farsight

16. Alien Heat: Badass Boogie (Essential)
http://wudrecords.bandcamp.com/track/badass-boogie-2

17. Dark Company: Armed & Dangerous (Signmaker)
http://wudrecords.bandcamp.com/track/armed-dangerous

18. Dark Company: Killer (Signmaker)
http://wudrecords.bandcamp.com/track/killer

19. Alien Heat: Abnormal (Essential)
http://wudrecords.bandcamp.com/track/abnormal-2

20. Flicker: Week Five (At Least 1000 Words)
http://wudrecords.bandcamp.com/track/week-five

Two more songs, Colt 44 and DOS Kapital, have been added to Dark Company‘s Benign Inquisition page. These two recently upgraded mixes share a dark, evocative feel.

Both Colt 44 and DOS Kapital are fully upgraded to alpha status, meaning they are beginning to sound something like the way they will be when finished, even though they are still in the early stages of finalisation. All of the strings and some of the vocals need to be recorded properly as the tracks you can hear are merely guides to hang the synths and drums upon. Much of the synth and drum parts will need to be finely adjusted, edited, mixed and mastered properly before these songs are finished and release-ready.

If you would like to listen to Colt 44 or DOS Kapital, or indeed the whole Benign Inquisition album by Dark Company as it stands at the moment, you can do so by clicking here.

If you would like to hear an early demo version of Colt 44 recorded during the last days of DC3 in the spring of 2000, there is one to listen to on Dark Company‘s Demos page, which you can reach by clicking here.

More Benign Inquisition upgrades will be following on soon.

Pok has announced two new events at which he will be performing live.

First come the Gnomic Gladiatorial Games. These take place at the Green Gathering next to Chepstow Racecourse, behind the Speakers’ Forum. The games start on Saturday 2nd August and continue until Sunday 3rd August. Anyone can come along and join in the fun, so if you are in the area please stop by and take part.

The second event will take place at The Beehive, Dowell Street, Honiton, EX14 1LZ. The show begins at 8pm. It will be “a soiree of Bardic ballade, conveyed upon instruments various with voice muse-honeyed to invoke myth, mystery and history of this realm and beyond.” Tickets are £5 and can be purchased from the box office (01404 384050).