Come to Me by George.
From Volume VII Side A of the Band of Georges.

Music by G. Davies.
Composed 7th April 1986.

Recorded December 1986.
Mixed April 1987.
Lifted from cassette June 2025.

Copyright © 1987 & 2025 Wud Records.
Copyright ℗ 1986 Explicit Music.

Fun Facts:
Come to Me is a song George wrote about his childhood muse.
In 1982 she vanished from his life.
She moved to the midlands with her parents very unexpectedly, which was brutal.
When they were children, there was a time when they lived on opposite sides of the same street.
There was apparently a bizarre incident involving go-karts and itching powder.
This song was never performed by a band.
It was never heard by anyone before it was released here.

See also:
https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/miscellaneous/band-of-georges/
https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/miscellaneous/band-of-georges/volume-vii-side-a/
https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/news/band-of-georges-release-permission-granted/
https://linktr.ee/wudrecords

Volume VII Side A

Come to Me

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Band of Georges: Come to Me

Same Old Road Again by George.
From Volume VII Side A of the Band of Georges.

Music by G. Davies.
Composed 17th May 1986.

Recorded May 1987.
Mixed August 1987.
Lifted from cassette June 2025.

Copyright © 1987 & 2025 Wud Records.
Copyright ℗ 1986 Explicit Music.

Fun Facts:
Same Old Road Again was a song George wrote to express his frustration at some of the unreliable musicians he had worked with.
Most of the guitar is played using fingers, not a pick.
It's not until the solo at the end of the song that he swaps to a plectrum.
This song was the second song Rough Terrain ever played live.
They ran into it from a cover of Steppenwolf's Born to Be Wild.
Rough Terrain performed this song many, many times.
It was also a part of the set of the first incarnation of The Ug Brothers.
This was the first demo to feature the Boss 220A drum machine, instead of the DR55 Dr Rhythm.
It required a much greater time investment in terms of programming.
He also had to add a few judicious extra beats to make some of the flams and fills.
These had to be added live to the drum machine track as it was being recorded. 

See also:
https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/miscellaneous/band-of-georges/
https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/miscellaneous/band-of-georges/volume-vii-side-a/
https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/news/band-of-georges-release-permission-granted/
https://linktr.ee/wudrecords

Same Old Road Again

Band of Georges: Same Old Road Again

White Light by George.
From Volume VII Side B of the Band of Georges.

Music and lyrics by G. Davies.
Composed 7th September 1986, from 04:00ish to 04:55 am.

Recorded November 1987.
Mixed November 1987.
Lifted from cassette June 2025.

Copyright © 1987 & 2025 Wud Records.
Copyright ℗ 1986 Explicit Music.

Fun Facts:
White Light was never performed by any band.
The key is E minor.
White Light may be a song about taking LSD.
It might have been White Lightning.
It might have been a scary and freaky experience, rather than giggly, colourful or detailed, like previous trips.
Saying 'no' is perfectly ok.

See also:
https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/miscellaneous/band-of-georges/
https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/miscellaneous/band-of-georges/volume-vii-side-b/
https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/news/band-of-georges-release-permission-granted/
https://linktr.ee/wudrecords

Volume VII Side B

White Light

Band of Georges: White Light

Light Keep Shining by George.
From Volume VII Side B of the Band of Georges.

Music and lyrics by G. Davies.
Composed 21st July 1986, 03:10 - 03:35 am.

Recorded May 1987.
Mixed August 1987.
Lifted from cassette June 2025.

Copyright © 1987 & 2025 Wud Records.
Copyright ℗ 1986 Explicit Music.

Fun Facts:
This is a song in the key of F major.
George cannot remember exactly who this song was written for.
It was never played by any band.
Light Keep Shining is another of the previously unheard songs among this collection.

See also:
https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/miscellaneous/band-of-georges/
https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/miscellaneous/band-of-georges/volume-vii-side-b/
https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/news/band-of-georges-release-permission-granted/
https://linktr.ee/wudrecords

Light Keep Shining

Band of Georges: Light Keep Shining

Out of His Head by George (and friends)
From Volume VII Side B of the Band of Georges.

Music by G. Davies.
Lyrics by D. Trotter.
Composed 3rd July 1986.

This version was performed by The Subterraineans and can be found on The Subterraineans' Demo.

Performers:
Dean Trotter – vocals
George Davies – guitars, vocals
Jerry Peirce – bass
Graham Barbe – drums

Recorded December 1986.
Mixed January 1987.
Lifted from cassette June 2025.

Copyright © 1987 & 2025 Wud Records.
Copyright ℗ 1986 Explicit Music.

Fun Facts:
* Out of His Head is a song that features a collaboration between George and Dean Trotter.
* This song is in the key of D minor.
* The lyrics were written on 3rd July 1986, according to an original lyric document.
* The guitar part had been composed a few months previously.
* George was very pleased that Dean was able to write some lyrics to complete the song as the guitar part pleased him.
* Dean's melodic wailings towards the end represents the sirens of police cars.
* The drum solo represents the blows from fisticuffs, boots and truncheons that rain down from all sides upon the victims of police brutality.
* Dean wrote these lyrics very shortly after being shocked and horrified to witness his friend Jack the Frag being brutally arrested and beaten in Exeter High Street in broad daylight at around lunchtime for having a blim of hashish in his pocket.
* Dean himself had been attacked and brutally beaten by police whilst travelling to the unofficial 1986 Stonehenge Festival just a couple of weeks before.
* The previous year, the Stonehenge Festival was prevented from happening by the police.
* That incident became known as The Battle of the Beanfield, and the terrible and unnecessary police brutality was documented in the media worldwide.
* The Levellers wrote a song about the incident on their well known album Levelling the Land.
* A few weeks after the Stonehenge battle, in autumn 1985, George was taken into the back yard of Exeter police station and assaulted by an officer for reporting his bicycle stolen.
* Police brutality was commonplace in England in the 1980s.
* A lot of people in those days referred to the police as “Thatcher’s Gestapo”.
* Fortunately the uk police are far better today than they were in the 1980s.
* Due to many years of cassette deterioration, the quality of this recording is not great.
* We have managed to improve a little on what remained.
* Out of His Head continued to live on as a staple of Rough Terrain’s live set after The Subterraineans had folded.

Sadly, Dean took his own life by suicide at the Clifton suspension bridge, Bristol, in 1994. He was just 29 years old.

Dean had no help at all from the uk medical profession or social services for his mental health, addiction and homelessness. If he had had some professional help he would surely still be here with us today.

Rest in peace, Dean.

See also:
https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/miscellaneous/band-of-georges/
https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/miscellaneous/band-of-georges/volume-vii-side-b/
https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/news/band-of-georges-release-permission-granted/
https://linktr.ee/wudrecords

Out of His Head

Band of Georges: Out of His Head

Scattered Memories by George.
From Volume VII Side B of the Band of Georges.

Music and lyrics by G. Davies.
Composed 25th August 1986.

Recorded May 1987.
Mixed November 1987.
Lifted from cassette June 2025.

Copyright © 1987 & 2025 Wud Records.
Copyright ℗ 1986 Explicit Music.

Fun Facts:
Scattered Memories is a song in the key of D.
Quite a lot of the music was repurposed by George for the Dark Company song, Traveller.
Traveller is the final song on Dark Company's Alien Heat album.
The scattered memories described are indeed from many different times and places.
Scattered Memories was never performed by any band.
Aside from it being repurposed for a Dark Company song, it has never been heard previously.

See also:
https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/miscellaneous/band-of-georges/
https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/miscellaneous/band-of-georges/volume-vii-side-b/
https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/news/band-of-georges-release-permission-granted/
https://linktr.ee/wudrecords

Scattered Memories

Band of Georges: Scattered Memories

Starlight Dream by George (and friends)
From Volume VII Side B of the Band of Georges.

Music and lyrics by G. Davies.
Composed 11th July 1986 at around 07:00 am.

This version was performed by Rough Terrain.
It can be found on The Howell Road Demo and the Exit Stage Deaf compilation.

Performers:
Dean Trotter – vocals
George Davies – guitars, vocals
Jerry Peirce – bass
Graham Barbe – drums

Recorded at The Riverside Nightclub and 32 Howell Road, Exeter, by P. Bateman and G. Davies during July and August 1987.
Mixed and produced August 1987.
Lifted from cassette June 2025.

Performers:
Andy Richardson – vocals
George Davies – guitars
Jerry Peirce – bass
Danny Bouget – drums

Copyright © 1987 & 2025 Wud Records.
Copyright ℗ 1986 Explicit Music.

Fun Facts:
This song was written at around 7am on 11th July 1986.
This was after George had been up all night making Subterraineans music with Dean.
He then walked home through the city of Exeter as the sun was starting to rise.
It was a beautiful summer morning in 1986.
A lot of people seemed to like this song and it was usually played as an encore.
The key is Cm.
Jerry’s bassline was perhaps his most melodic of the entire Rough Terrain set.

See also:
https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/miscellaneous/band-of-georges/
https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/miscellaneous/band-of-georges/volume-vii-side-b/
https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/news/band-of-georges-release-permission-granted/
https://linktr.ee/wudrecords

Starlight Dream

Band of Georges: Starlight Dream

To the World by George.
From Volume VII Side B of the Band of Georges.

Music by G. Davies.
Composed 1st/2nd/3rd July 1986.

Recorded May 1987.
Mixed August 1987.
Lifted from cassette June 2025.

Copyright © 1987 & 2025 Wud Records.
Copyright ℗ 1986 Explicit Music.

Fun Facts:
To the World is a song in E major with a funky breakdown towards the end.
As Robert Plant once said, this is a song of hope.
George wrote it when he was considering leaving exeter to live in London.
He felt that exeter was stifling him and that London offered a lot more opportunities for a musician.
To the World is a song about going to the world, and he hoped to take his girlfriend with him.
Things worked out differently in the end.

See also:
https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/miscellaneous/band-of-georges/
https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/miscellaneous/band-of-georges/volume-vii-side-b/
https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/news/band-of-georges-release-permission-granted/
https://linktr.ee/wudrecords

To the World

Band of Georges: To the World

The Warning by George.
From Volume VII Side B of the Band of Georges.

Music and lyrics by G. Davies.
Composed 20th September 1986.

Recorded November 1987.
Mixed November 1987.
Lifted from cassette June 2025.

Copyright © 1987 & 2025 Wud Records.
Copyright ℗ 1986 Explicit Music.

Fun Facts:
This was one of three songs that George wrote on the same day.
The Warning was performed many times live by Rough Terrain.
It appears on their Howell Road Demo and their Exit Stage Deaf compilation.
The Warning was inspired by living in england during the cold war.
It starts on a Bbmaj13 (6X7788) and the first section is quite proggy and melodic.
When the band kicks in, the song has morphed to the key of A.
Digital delay accompanied by a strobe light and a dry ice machine made this song kick.
The Rough Terrain recording featured a wonderful Roland synth that belonged to Freda.

See also:
https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/miscellaneous/band-of-georges/
https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/miscellaneous/band-of-georges/volume-vii-side-b/
https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/news/band-of-georges-release-permission-granted/
https://linktr.ee/wudrecords

The Warning

Band of Georges: The Warning

DJ Terry Askew presents The Radio Haven Vintage Album Chart Show, today featuring tracks from the Top 20 album listings of June 1986.

The Vintage Album Chart Show 30 - 06 - 2023 (June 1986)

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