Wud: WudSongs at HearThis updated

WudSongs at HearThis has finally been updated. All of the songs, photos and song information there is now complete.

WudSongs is a definitive collection of Wud’s songs, as they were, in the later part of the summer of 1985. We tended to feel that this was the collection of songs which defined them.

Wud showed a great deal of potential, which was sadly never properly fulfilled. The album WudSongs at HearThis demonstrates how they were becoming an exceptional and tight unit.

Wud, the band, dissolved shortly after these recordings. The members of Wud reformed as Laughing Sun, without Ken’s disruptive influence.

As far as we can tell, Ken was never in another band. Shortly after Wud disbanded Ken became a born-again christian and eventually disappeared altogether.

Recently, we started a lengthy project – rescanning and reworking all of the photos the are uploaded to the websites, and the many others that are not.

When the original Wud website was new, tiny files and dialup was the way to go. Now that things have developed and moved on somewhat, we can use much bigger files of much higher quality for such things.

Each track from WudSongs at HearThis has its own photo from back in the day, rescanned and enhanced. We tried where possible to use the most relevant photos.

The songs themselves have been arranged into a different order to how they were recorded. This is mostly for reasons of aesthetics. The songs take up a little more than one and a half 90-minute cassettes and were recorded over the course of five separate sessions.

There are more recordings of Wud in our cassette vault. We shall bring them out into the public in due course. Fans of Wud should be sure to bookmark or favourite our News service, join our Bandcamp Community, and follow us on BlueSky and X (formerly Twitter) to be sure of seeing further Wud-related releases.

To enjoy the WudSongs album here at the Wud Records website, please click here.

To listen to WudSongs at HearThis instead, please click here.

Wud soundchecking before performing at Exeter College in September 1985.