wanted to put this out for now,
im still working on it but felt like its time for a demo.

dirty hands demo.mp3

Appalachian Verdict

Strange Town

Coping with the Runs in Mexico Blues by George (and friends).
From Volume I Side A of the Band of Georges.

Music by G. Davies.
Lyrics by N. Glandville/S. Miller/D. Leach/J. Kneebone/G. Davies.
Composed (possibly) 7th or (probably) 14th July 1982.

Recorded May 1986.
Mixed October 1986.
Lifted from cassette March 2025.

Copyright © 1982 Explicit Music.
Copyright ℗ 2025 Wud Records.

Fun Facts:
This song was performed live by Rough Terrain on many occasions.
It was composed on the teacher's balcony that overlooks the main school hall at King's School, Ottery St Mary during Project Week, 1982.
It started with the blues riff in G and Naomi kicked things off with "Woke up this morning..."
The rest of the lyrics were a collaborative effort between Jon, Dave, Simon and George.
The guitar plays a blues riff in G, and the phrase ends with a turnaround of F and Dm7.

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

Volume I Side A

Coping With the Runs in Mexico Blues

Downloads

Band of Georges: Coping with the Runs in Mexico Blues

Guilty Secrets by George.
From Volume VIII Side A of the Band of Georges.

Music and lyrics by G. Davies.
Composed 7th November 1986, 09:50 pm-ish to 10:30 pm-ish.
Recorded February 1987.
Mixed April 1987.
Lifted from cassette July 2025.

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

Fun Facts:
Guilty Secrets is a song in the key of B minor.
It never formed part of the set of any band.
It remained unheard until its release on SoundCloud.
George wrote this song when he knew the precarious situation he found himself in could not last for long.

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

Volume VIII Side A

Guilty Secrets

Band of Georges: Guilty Secrets

Live Cover of the Gorillaz Feel Good Inc. Performed at Duke St studios recorded by Meirion Townsend 

Feel Good Inc.

Project Terminated by Dark Company.
From CD 1, 'SNAFU', of the triple CD album 'A for Acronym'.

PROJECT TERMINATED
Crimson schizoid hollow man
Twenty first century airport scan
Marked flood upon the shore
Apocalyptic foreign war
Greed has come and the money’s gone
Now we pay for others' wrongs

Atlas says he’s getting tired
The trouble is he can’t be fired
More and more the souls pile on
Already things begin to go wrong
The prophecies of theosophy
Says voices shout “You’re killing me”

Let me tell you of all my fears
You got to listen so you can hear
I worry when I seem to know
More than that they say is so
Truth is thought no longer right
“Certainly” becomes “maybe”, “might”

Nostradamus said so much
Reached from history with his touch
He spoke of the end of the human race
Now it’s staring us in the face
We can no longer steer the ship
It’s gone too far to stop the trip

Lyrics by P. Greatorex January 12th 2011.
Music by G. Davies/P. Greatorex

This arrangement by Dark Company.
Copyright © 2011 D & G Music/Explicit Music.

Cover Art:
“Give It All You've Got!” by Peter Greatorex.
See: https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/artists/dark-company/original-artwork-by-peter-greatorex/original-artwork-by-peter-greatorex-gallery-2/

Performers:
‘Speedy’ Pete Greatorex – vocals
Barry Bridges – guitar
Maxx Damage – bass
Sven Stiglund – drums

Copyright ℗ 2025 Wud Records.

FUN FACTS:
* Pete bought a funny purple plastic loudhailer toy from Maplins on the way to the studio one day.
* He proclaimed, among other things, "Project Terminated!" into it a few times, on its most Daleky setting, which was tremendous fun.
* The lyrics for this song were written 12th January 2011.
* This was another of the most stand-out and immediate demo tracks.
* Zakk has not yet recorded his guitar part for this song.
* The guitar is not quite in tune, sadly.
* Barry's guitar is in standard tuning, tuned down to D standard.
* That makes the key of the song C.

See also:
https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/artists/dark-company/
https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/artists/dark-company/a-for-acronym-cd-1-snafu/
https://linktr.ee/dark.company
https://www.explicitmusic.co.uk/lyrics-information/dark-company/a-for-acronym/project-terminated

A for Acronym CD 1: SNAFU

Project Terminated

Dark Company: Project Terminated (demo)

Committed by Dark Company.
From CD 1, 'SNAFU', of the triple CD album 'A for Acronym'.

COMMITTED
Play strange games with what makes you real
What you need to close the deal
In weird ideas the difference is there
But there is no one to really care
To peculiar needs you have to succumb
Or you'll never do what needs to be done

You'll see scenery you don't understand
Just a desert with peculiar sand
You'll see tunnels without any ends
Filled with messages that no one sends

Think odd thoughts about where you have gone
Chase the memories lingering on
In some places are wonders that walk
Stones that fly, walls that talk
To these visions your mind commits
There in your head the knowledge it sits

You'll see scenery you don't understand
Just a desert with peculiar sand
You'll see tunnels without any ends
Filled with messages that no one sends

Porcelain pictures of mantle decor
That is all they can be for
In hidden shades the secrets they sit
But that is where hammer blows hit
And weird ideas are given birth
Grown in the richness of your earth

You'll see scenery you don't understand
Just a desert with peculiar sand
You'll see tunnels without any ends
Filled with messages that no one sends

Play strange games with what makes you real
What you need to close the deal
In weird ideas the difference is there
But there is no one to really care
To peculiar needs you have to succumb
Or you'll never do what needs to be done

You'll see scenery you don't understand
Just a desert with peculiar sand
You'll see tunnels without any ends
Filled with messages that no one sends

Lyrics by P. Greatorex 9th December 2010.
Music by G. Davies/P. Greatorex.

This arrangement by Dark Company.
Copyright © 2010 D & G Music/Explicit Music.

Cover Art:
“Holes in My Reality 2” by Peter Greatorex.
See: https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/artists/dark-company/original-artwork-by-peter-greatorex/original-artwork-by-peter-greatorex-gallery-2/

Performers:
‘Speedy’ Pete Greatorex – lead vocal
Zakk Black – guitars, vocal
Maxx Damage – bass
Sven Stiglund – drums

Vocals and rhythm guitar recorded at Wud Records Studio One, Exeter, 2015.
Everything else recorded at Wud Records Studio One, Europe, 2020.
Engineered, mixed and produced at Wud Records Studio One, Central Europe, 2024.

Copyright ℗ 2025 Wud Records.

Fun Facts:
* The lyrics for this song were written 9th December 2010.
* This is a song that Pete never sang a proper studio version of and his vocals were lifted from the demo and cleaned up a bit.
* Well, quite a lot actually. 🙂
* It was during the editing of this track that the main studio computer suddenly decided to mangle itself beyond all recognition, causing weeks of delay and expensive replacement parts to be bought.
* Fortunately no data was lost due to our cunning back-up strategies.
* When we made the original demo of this song, it just had a chugging guitar to keep Pete in key and on time.
* In the demo version the bass continued on for a time after the vocal and guitar, playing the gappy riff and the rhythms.
* The ‘chug’ was replaced here by the twin lead parts, which together with the bass make up the major and minor triads that form the original chord progression (more or less).
* The original had an electronic kit which needs to make a reappearance somewhere.
* The lyric to this suggests the perspective of an older person looking back at his life and the pains associated with that.
* Perhaps the older we become, the better we can relate.

See also:
https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/artists/dark-company/
https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/artists/dark-company/a-for-acronym-cd-1-snafu/
https://linktr.ee/dark.company
https://www.explicitmusic.co.uk/lyrics-information/dark-company/a-for-acronym/committed

Committed

Dark Company: Committed (alpha mix)

Helping Hands by Dark Company.
From CD 1, 'SNAFU', of the triple CD album 'A for Acronym'.

HELPING HANDS
Rhyming time in vacuumed lines
I hear the verses soaring
On angels' breath the words of death
Like fingers they’re exploring
I feel the beat of racing wings
I understand all these things
Yet they are gone by morning

Dreaming scenes in deadbeat schemes
All are on back burners
Spirit words that just I heard
Said all the souls are learners
I know the touch of tender love
I also know it’s not enough
You need the ground that’s firmer

Corporate kings and financial things
Beyond our understanding
You can’t own the open sky
Not even by demanding
I like to think of hands in prayer
Though they’re just another layer
No one is left commanding

Livid sky mirrored in my eye
White cloud billows floating
When I look round there is no sound
The silence it is choking
Oh see me, hear me, give me signs
Let me feel them in my mind
Tell me, lead me to Heaven’s end
Where all that’s left is hoping
Where all that’s left is hoping
Where all that’s left is hoping
Where all that’s left is hoping

Lyrics by P. Greatorex 27th January 2013.
Music by G. Davies/P. Greatorex.

Copyright © 2013 D & G Music/Explicit Music.

Cover Art:
“Hand Held” by Peter Greatorex
See: https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/artists/dark-company/original-artwork-by-peter-greatorex/original-artwork-by-peter-greatorex-gallery-3/

Performers:
‘Speedy’ Pete Greatorex – lead vocal
Zakk Black – guitars
Maxx Damage – bass
Sven Stiglund – drums

Vocals and rhythm guitar recorded at Wud Records Studio One, Exeter, 2015.
Everything else recorded at Wud Records Studio One, Europe, 2020.
Engineered, mixed and produced at Wud Records Studio One, Central Europe, 2024.

Copyright ℗ 2025 Wud Records.

FUN FACTS:
* This is a song that Pete never sang a proper studio version of.
* His vocals were lifted from the very rough demo and cleaned up a bit.
* Well, quite a lot actually. :)
* This song is a piece of classic rock in a Britpop style.
* It is in the key of E at 91 BPM.
* All the guitars were played on Nicodemus, with a big painful hole in the thumb of the player.
* The chords in the verses are E B E C#m A E F# A Am6 E.
* In the third verse Pete (accidentally) introduces an unexpected key-change.
* There the chords are E B E Ebm G# Ebm F# A Am6 E.
* The chords in the instrumental section are E C/G D/A.
* Right at the very end it is E C7 E.
* The bass part from the last verse to the end is far more challenging to play than it sounds
* This produced a surprised "Huh? How did THAT happen?!" face on the player.
* Helping Hands is one of those magikal Dark Company songs that can invoke goosebumps in the listener, perhaps slightly surprisingly.

See also:
https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/artists/dark-company/
https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/artists/dark-company/a-for-acronym-cd-1-snafu/
https://linktr.ee/dark.company
https://www.explicitmusic.co.uk/lyrics-information/dark-company/a-for-acronym/helping-hands

Helping Hands

Dark Company: Helping Hands (demo)

Conspiracy by Dark Company.
From CD 1, 'SNAFU', of the triple CD album 'A for Acronym'.

CONSPIRACY
Sticks of certain sizes
Propped against the walls
Measuring the sunlight
As down on us it falls
Stoney lonesome statues
Rising from the ground
Hidden in the woods and sand
They speak without a sound

Coral babies reefshine
Growing through the sea
Hiding cunning fishes
Hiding away from me
I caught the careful current
That eddies through the town
I use a Baja surfboard
So I can get around

Sleeping fabled monsters
Waking just to eat
Scooping all the brains out
Of every skull they meet
Chalking up the numbers
On cave wall lists of stone
To be re-found down the ages
On the world called home

Every ancient people
Have legends of the stars
Of those who came to visit
And made us what we are
Every race and tribe does have
Symbols for the Gods
That came down from the Heavens
In living breathing pods

Lyrics by P. Greatorex 10th July 2010.
Music by G. Davies/P. Greatorex.

This arrangement by Dark Company.
Copyright © 2010 D & G Music/Explicit Music.

Cover Art:
“Species 4” by Peter Greatorex.
See: https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/artists/dark-company/original-artwork-by-peter-greatorex/original-artwork-by-peter-greatorex-gallery-7/

Performers:
‘Speedy’ Pete Greatorex – vocals
Zakk Black - guitars
Josh Reynes - synthesizers
Maxx Damage – bass
Sven Stiglund – drums

Copyright ℗ 2025 Wud Records.

FUN FACTS:
* The lyrics for this song were written 10th July 2010.
* This is a song that Pete never sang a proper studio version of.
* His vocals were lifted from the very rough demo and cleaned up a bit.
* Well, quite a lot actually. :)
* Dark Company never got a full take of Pete's vocal for this.
* We are hoping to find someone with the right kind of voice to fill in the gaps.

See also:
https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/artists/dark-company/
https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/artists/dark-company/a-for-acronym-cd-1-snafu/
https://linktr.ee/dark.company
https://www.explicitmusic.co.uk/lyrics-information/dark-company/a-for-acronym/conspiracy

Conspiracy

Dark Company: Conspiracy (alpha mix)

Since I Last Saw You (Janice Long BBC Wales Isolation Session | 28/5/20)

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