The fourth album from UK guitarist John Byrne touches Blues, Jazz, Rockabilly and even African guitar music, This is a tighter collection of tracks trimmed down and focused on the emotion of the instrument.

Recorded with a Les Paul Standard, USA Strat, PRS Custom 24, Jazz Bass, JamStik MIDI guitar and more.

The Standard

the book - 04:10:2024, 22.26 - take 1 (demo)

the twentieth century

I Dont Feel the Same - Demo

Growing Up by George.
From Volume VI Side B of the Band of Georges.

Music and lyrics by G. Davies
Composed 13th January 1986.

Recorded November 1986.
Mixed April 1987.
Lifted from cassette May 2025.

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

Fun Facts:
Growing Up is a song in the key of A.
There are several different sections and feels in the song.
It was written on the day of his younger sister's 10th birthday.
She had a birthday party and George did a solo performance of three songs for the girls.
It went surprisingly well.

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

Volume VI Side B

Growing Up

Downloads

Band of Georges: Growing Up

Walking Over That Same Old Stony Ground by George.
From Volume VI Side B of the Band of Georges.

Music and lyrics by G. Davies
Composed 17th December 1985, 04:45 - 05:23am.

Recorded November 1986.
Mixed April 1987.
Lifted from cassette May 2025.

Copyright © 1987 & 2025 Wud Records.
Copyright ℗ 1985 Explicit Music.

Fun Facts:
Walking Over That Same Old Stony Ground was a late addition to The Concept Album.
The Concept Album was originally conceived in the spring and summer of 1983.
Much of the music for that album was composed in 1983, although not many of the songs were actually finished at that time.
George's girlfriend at this time, who was a fan of his musical compositions but not his lyrics, said that this song was a "much needed level-up" in lyric writing.
There is a different Ug Brothers version of this song on their Live in Session 20.11.1986 album.
This recording features Marc Greatorex on bass and Graham Barbe on drums.
This is a recording of The Ug Brothers.
That band first formed and then disbanded around the end of 1986.
They reformed, with some success, in 1994.

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

Walking Over That Same Old Stony Ground

Band of Georges: Walking Over That Same Old Stony Ground

Overture #113 by George.
From Volume VI Side B of the Band of Georges.

Music and lyrics by G. Davies
Composed 20th December 1985, 6:36 - 06:53 pm.

Recorded November 1986.
Mixed April 1987.
Lifted from cassette May 2025.

Copyright © 1987 & 2025 Wud Records.
Copyright ℗ 1985 Explicit Music.

Fun Facts:
Overture #113 was also a late addition to The Concept Album.
The Concept Album was originally conceived in the spring and summer of 1983.
Much of the music for that album was composed in 1983, although not many of the songs were actually finished at that time.
The talkover is performed by George's Dad, Peter.
The beginning was supposed to be the sound of someone walking along a busy promenade onto a beach and then starting to strum an acoustic guitar.
George attempted to record this at the Sidmouth International Folk Festival.
Unfortunately it was a bit busy and he collided with a couple of other festivalgoers, which put the guitar out of tune.
When he sat on a rock and played the first C-chord, it sounded hideous.
It was very funny, albeit not particularly successful.
The #113 comes from the song being the 113th song in George's chronological list.

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

Overture #113

Band of Georges: Overture #113

Aquarian Spirit by George.
From Volume VII Side A of the Band of Georges.

Music and lyrics by G. Davies
Composed 21st February 1986, 03:20 - 03:50 am.

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

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

Fun Facts:
Aquarian Spirit is a song George wrote for his friend Graham.
It was a part of the set of The Masters of Drone.
Aquarian Spirit was also part of the set of the first incarnation of The Ug Brothers.
This was the very first song that George wrote after his teenage years had ended.

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

Aquarian Spirit

Band of Georges: Aquarian Spirit

Fool in the Sea of Sharks by George.
From Volume VII Side A of the Band of Georges.

Music and lyrics by G. Davies
Composed 23rd January 1986, 01:25 - 02:55 am.

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

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

Fun Facts:
Fool in the Sea of Sharks was the last song George wrote as a teenager.
This song was about his experiences in the music industry.
He was already a veteran of many different bands.
None of them had lasted long enough to reach a satisfactory level of being.
This song is about his determination to continue.
It also succinctly summarises the nature of some of the unreliable characters he had encountered along the way.
Fool in the Sea of Sharks was attempted by The Masters of Drone, but that band didn't last very long either.
Shortly afterwards, the Tascam portastudio arrived and George struck out on his own for a while.

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

Fool in the Sea of Sharks

Band of Georges: Fool in the Sea of Sharks

'My Wicked Mind' is the The Frisbys' third E.P. It's due for release on 26/06/20 via Dantobaccus Records.

My Wicked Mind

5. You Are

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

DECIDE TO RIDE
Reaction to refraction, a bent-stick water view
Administer situations to part of Heaven's crew
Stand smartly dressed against the rail
Uniforms with matching sails
Should we go along with you
Now should we go along
Should we go along with you
Now should we go along
Should we go along with you
Now should we go along
Should we go along with you
Now should we go along

Inspected kinetics moving minds around
Archetypal archetypes esoteric sounds
Take a stand now on the stairs
Under signs saying "On The Air!"
Should we go along with you
Now should we go along
Should we go along with you
Now should we go along
Should we go along with you
Now should we go along
Should we go along with you
Now should we go along

Checkerboard collectors, gamers of rare delights
Whale bone dice believers gifted with second sight
Braided caps placed there just so
Each one ready to stay or go
Should we go along with you
Now should we go along
Should we go along with you
Now should we go along
Should we go along with you
Now should we go along
Should we go along with you
Should we go along
Should we go along
Should we go along
Should we go along

Lyrics by P. Greatorex 15th December 2012.
Music by G. Davies/P. Greatorex.

Copyright ℗ 2012 D & G Music/Explicit Music.

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.

Cover Art:
“Thing 2” by Peter Greatorex
See: https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/artists/dark-company/original-artwork-by-peter-greatorex/original-artwork-by-peter-greatorex-gallery-5/

Copyright © 2024 Wud Records.

Performers:
‘Speedy’ Pete Greatorex – vocals
Zakk Black – guitar
Josh Reynes – piano, synths, trumpets
Maxx Damage – bass
Sven Stiglund – drums

Fun Facts:
* This is a song that Pete never sang a proper studio version of and his vocals were lifted from the very rough demo and cleaned up a bit.
* Well, quite a lot actually. :)
* The VST plugins didn't make the right kind of piano sound somehow so this is from the TG33.
* The guitar part is played on the Stratocaster.
* The trumpets come from the Akai S900 and a VST plugin called DSK Brass.
* There is an argument between the bass, which plays a C, and the piano and guitar, which play a C#, which has a wonderful emotive quality but which ceases to work when anything else is present.

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/decide-to-ride

A for Acronym CD 1: SNAFU

Decide to Ride

Dark Company: Decide to Ride (alpha mix)

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