A lovely night fire vibe in this tune, nicely done!

Flicker is... the flame in your heart.

“A picture is worth a thousand words. Well, there is a picture in you. And not even a thousand words can describe it.” – Maharaj Ji.

At Least 1000 Words is Flicker's first album.

Project directed by George Davies.

Recorded at The Old Mill Studios, Silverton; Clark's Cottage, West Putford; and Chiseldon House, Exeter.
Recording assistants: Dan Davies, Greg Daniels and Tim Boswell.

Engineered, produced, mixed and mastered by Dave Danielli, assisted by George Davies.
Remastered at Wud Records Studio One (uk) 2012.
Remastered again at Wud Records Studio One (EU) August 2023.

Originally released 31st July 2002.
First re-release 12th May 2012.
Second re-release 1st September 2023.

Copyright © 2023 Wud Records.
Copyright ℗ 2002 Explicit Music.

Flicker Personnel: George Davies and Dave Danielli.
Extra musicians: Lucy Welsman (cello, piano), Emma Williams (flute). 

Photography: Cliff Smith and The Hubble Telescope.
Graphic design by Wud Records.

Album download package includes the artwork for a CD jewel case backing tray and a double-sided four page CD card insert, all of which you can preview in Flicker's gallery at Wud Records here: http://www.wudrecords.co.uk/artists/flicker/gallery

For tracks which list The Plank amongst its instruments:
The Plank is an old, heavy and mighty Antoria jazz bass. It has many customisations and is always tuned very low, mostly B-E-A-D. It has pylon wires and battleship chains for strings.

See also:
https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/artists/flicker
https://www.explicitmusic.co.uk/lyrics-information/flicker/at-least-1000-words
https://www.redbubble.com/people/flickermusic/shop
https://www.facebook.com/flickermusic
https://twitter.com/flickermusic
https://twitter.com/WudRecords
https://linktr.ee/flickermusic

Music is the language of the soul. It has a huge vocabulary, and you have to make up the meaning yourself. Perhaps that’s why people love it so much.

Orignally there to be 18 tracks on At Least 1000 Words. At the time of the album’s release, CDs were limited to 74 minutes. This required some things to be edited back quite brutally. One track, It Starts Right Here, was dropped entirely and shuffled along to open Flicker’s second album, HappySad.

It Starts Right Here would have been the opening track on Side Two of the album, as it were, or track number nine, sliding in between Welcome to the Family and Blown Away. One Place was originally slated to appear between Aeroplane and Serendipity.

Side One of the album is made up of musical pieces that were created before November 2000. Side Two consists of pieces composed from November 2000 onwards.

Download

Flicker: At Least 1000 Words

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

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

Downloads

Band of Georges: Guilty Secrets

Another Star in the Sky by Flicker.
Album: At Least 1000 Words

Music by G. Davies/D. Danielli/L. Welsman.

Performers:
George: guitars, keys, synths, percussion
Dave: Plank, drums
Lucy: cello

Project directed by George Davies.

Drums recorded at Clark’s Cottage, West Putford, North Devon.
Strings, synths and percussion recorded at Chiseldon House, Exeter.
Stratocaster solos recorded by Dan Davies.

Engineered, mixed, produced and mastered by Dave Danielli.
Remastered at Wud Records Studios (uk) 2012.
Remastered again at Wud Records Studios (EU) August 2023.

Originally released 31st July 2002.
First re-release 12th May 2012.
Second re-release 1st September 2023.

Copyright © 2023 Wud Records.
Copyright ℗ 2000 Explicit Music. 

Fun Facts:
* Another Star in the Sky is dedicated to George’s father, who passed away around the time of its creation.
* He never heard it.
* In the evening of the day when Mr Davies senior died, the sky was cloudy and only one star could be seen.
* Another Star in the Sky was almost named Another Scar in the Sty due to an outburst of mispronunciation.
* This would have been appropriate in some ways, because George (bass) and Dave (drums) were playing in a kick-ass folk band called Pyg at the same time.
* Pyg’s live performances could be a bit hit-or-miss, due to some of the dynamics within the band.
= Some of Pyg’s songs can be heard in the Archives section of the Wud Records website.
* Another Star in the Sky is based around the acoustic guitar part.
* It is in 6/8 time at a sedate 75 BPM.
* The key is G# minor, and it ends on a B major.
* Lucy’s cello copies the acoustic’s melody.
* George’s son Dan helped with the recording of the Stratocaster solos.
* Dan took up playing guitar that day and has now become a fabulous and accomplised player.
* No real horn players could be found at the time, so those parts were played using MIDI.
* The horn parts are actually quite amusing and rather scrappy.
* One of the guitar parts was made by setting the old Marshall to the most horrible sound possible, with maximum overdrive, presence and treble, and no mid or bass.
* The idea for this came from a track by Tindersticks, called Vertrauen II, from their second album.
* Dave was wincing as if to say “This just isn’t gonna work!”
* The part was dropped back in the mix and treated to a little reverb and it was “just right”.
* The idea for the simple yet distinct piano came from a piece George used to play on piano as a boy of about nine.
* It was from Forest Fantasies by Walter Carroll.
* Full details here: https://www.explicitmusic.co.uk/lyrics-information/flicker/at-least-1000-words/another-star-in-the-sky

See also:
https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/artists/flicker/
https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/artists/flicker/at-least-1000-words/
https://wudrecords.bandcamp.com/track/another-star-in-the-sky
https://www.explicitmusic.co.uk/lyrics-information/flicker/at-least-1000-words
https://www.discogs.com/release/17114565-Flicker-At-Least-1000-Words
https://www.redbubble.com/people/flickermusic/shop
https://twitter.com/flickermusic
https://www.instagram.com/wudrecords/
https://www.facebook.com/flickermusic
https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/archives/pyg-2/
https://twitter.com/WudRecords
https://linktr.ee/flickermusic

At Least 1000 Words

Another Star in the Sky

Flicker: Another Star in the Sky

One Place by Flicker.
Album: At Least 1000 Words

Music by G. Davies/D. Danielli/L. Welsman.  

Performers:
George: guitar
Dave: tabl, maracas
Lucy: cello

Project directed by George Davies.

Recorded at Chiseldon House, Exeter.

Engineered, mixed, produced and mastered by Dave Danielli.
Remastered at Wud Records Studios (uk) 2012.
Remastered again at Wud Records Studios (EU) August 2023.

Originally released 31st July 2002.
First re-release 12th May 2012.
Second re-release 1st September 2023.

Copyright © 2023 Wud Records.
Copyright ℗ 1997 Explicit Music. 

Fun Facts:
* One Place was another piece written in Prague.
* Its birth took a few weeks.
* It finally came together under an archway, opposite the entrance to a bar called Chapeau Rouge, just behind Staroměstská.
* Originally a solo guitar piece, the cello is a nod to Phil.
* The little drum is an acknowledgment of the Czech and Irish drummers who were present when the arrangement finally became manifest.
* One Place uses the tuning DADGAD.
* It was inspired by a Polish drinking game, where one must stare intently into both eyes of the other player at the same time and observe any unusual effects.
* It is also dedicated to the idea of music, art of any type, and even sport being a place, and accessing that place when one is ‘in the zone’.
* Every place in space and time can be reached in the mind in an instant.
* One Place can be considered a relative of Farsight, in a way.
* One Place was to be track #4 on the album as it was the fourth oldest composition.
* It was decided by the band and the label that it should be separated from Aeroplane, which is a similar track.
* All of the tracks are organised in a roughly chronological order, from the oldest (Farsight) to the newest (Hair and Eyes).
* The first eight tracks on At Least 1000 Words are all older than the band.
* Tracks nine to 17 were all composed after Flicker had formed.
* If At Least 1000 Words were a two-sided vinyl or cassette album, One Place would end side one and Blown Away would begin side two.
* Full details here: https://www.explicitmusic.co.uk/lyrics-information/flicker/at-least-1000-words/one-place

See also:
https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/artists/flicker/
https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/artists/flicker/at-least-1000-words/
https://wudrecords.bandcamp.com/track/one-place
https://www.explicitmusic.co.uk/lyrics-information/flicker/at-least-1000-words
https://www.discogs.com/release/17114565-Flicker-At-Least-1000-Words
https://www.redbubble.com/people/flickermusic/shop
https://twitter.com/flickermusic
https://www.instagram.com/wudrecords/
https://www.facebook.com/flickermusic
https://twitter.com/WudRecords
https://linktr.ee/flickermusic

Video of George playing the acoustic guitar part, with out-takes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yt-cdo-Vt4k

One Place

Flicker: One Place

Serendipity by Flicker.
Album: At Least 1000 Words

Music by G. Davies/D. Danielli.

Performers:
George: guitars, synths
Dave: Plank, drums

Project directed by George Davies.

Drums recorded at Clark’s Cottage, West Putford, North Devon.
Strings and synths recorded at Chiseldon House, Exeter.

Engineered, mixed, produced and mastered by Dave Danielli.
Remastered at Wud Records Studios (uk) 2012.
Remastered again at Wud Records Studios (EU) August 2023.

Originally released 31st July 2002.
First re-release 12th May 2012.
Second re-release 1st September 2023.

Copyright © 2023 Wud Records.
Copyright ℗ 1999 Explicit Music. 

Fun Facts:
* After George returned from the Czech Republic to the uk, it was not long before he became involved in the music scene again.
* One of the bands he worked with at that time was Search Party.
* George’s role was sound engineer and manager.
* Soon afterwards the band was signed to indie promotors Masswick.
* Search Party were a favourite band of the party scene from around 1997 onwards.
* Serendipity was inspired by a Search Party song called One Direction
* Serendipity was composed in honour of the band Search Party and their wider entourage.
* A search may lead to serendipity, after all.
* A little Search Party material is available to be heard in the Archives section at the Wud Records website.
* George didn’t have any of the lead guitar part worked out until the record button was pressed.
* Dave’s astonished face when he heard it for the first time was a picture!
* He scratched his head and said “Wow, that’s a completely different tune to the one I thought it was!”
* The backwards acoustic guitar was a substitute for an acid trumpet, a player for which could not be found.
* The lead at the start is handled by Nicodemus with the acoustic and the Ice Maiden doing the rhythm.
* After a time, the electric guitars swap roles.
* The swoopier lead and high notes moves to the Ice Maiden while Nicodemus takes the heavier rhythm.
* The ‘verses’ are an F# major chord rooted on the second fret, with the B and hi-E strings open, then E minor.
* Chords involving fretted notes with harmonics are F#11 and E minor.
* Although Serendipity starts in the key of F# (the very first note is E), it ends on a B minor.
* The tempo is a determined 136 BPM.
* Full details here: https://www.explicitmusic.co.uk/lyrics-information/flicker/at-least-1000-words/serendipity

See also:
https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/artists/flicker/
https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/artists/flicker/at-least-1000-words/
https://wudrecords.bandcamp.com/track/serendipity
https://www.explicitmusic.co.uk/lyrics-information/flicker/at-least-1000-words
https://www.discogs.com/release/17114565-Flicker-At-Least-1000-Words
https://www.redbubble.com/people/flickermusic/shop
https://twitter.com/flickermusic
https://www.instagram.com/wudrecords/
https://www.facebook.com/flickermusic
https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/archives/search-party/
https://twitter.com/WudRecords
https://linktr.ee/flickermusic

Serendipity

Flicker: Serendipity

Aeroplane by Flicker.
Album: At Least 1000 Words

Music by G. Davies/D. Danielli/P. Jones/L. Welsman.

Performers:
George: guitars
Dave: Plank, drums, synth, keys
Lucy: cello

Samples:
thewavplace.com

Project directed by George Davies.

Drums recorded at Clark’s Cottage, West Putford, North Devon.
Strings, percussion and synths recorded at Chiseldon House, Exeter.

Engineered, mixed, produced and mastered by Dave Danielli.
Remastered at Wud Records Studios (uk) 2012.
Remastered again at Wud Records Studios (EU) August 2023.

Originally released 31st July 2002.
First re-release 12th May 2012.
Second re-release 1st September 2023.

Copyright © 2023 Wud Records.
Copyright ℗ 1996 Explicit Music. 

Fun Facts:
* Aeroplane is a guitar piece in a non-standard tuning – DADFCE.
* A man called Hum showed George this tuning at party in Exeter in about 1994 or 1995.
* Lovely as it was, George found it very hard to write something within its confines until late 1996.
* Aeroplane was the first tune George wrote upon moving to Prague, near the Pražského Povstání metro station.
* He says “There wasn’t too much else to do when I first got there, with just an acoustic and the World Service for company.”
* Phil the Fiddle played some lovely soaring thermals during the frequent Doctor Watson performances on Karlov Most.
* When it was time to record Aeroplane, no fiddle player was available.
* Lucy stepped in and did much the same kind of thing on her 150-year-old blonde cello, which shook the whole room with its magnificence.
* George drew inpiration for this piece from his first ever flight, looking down on London and the clouds for the first time.
* He describes the flight as “being on this big metal thing that I couldn’t possibly lift, held in the sky with magic.”
* Aeroplane is dedicated to Jana “Sweet Jane” Koubova, who helped with the Czech language and was George’s first native Czech friend.
* Full details here: https://www.explicitmusic.co.uk/lyrics-information/flicker/at-least-1000-words/aeroplane

See also:
https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/artists/flicker/
https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/artists/flicker/at-least-1000-words/
https://wudrecords.bandcamp.com/track/aeroplane
https://www.explicitmusic.co.uk/lyrics-information/flicker/at-least-1000-words
https://www.discogs.com/release/17114565-Flicker-At-Least-1000-Words
https://www.redbubble.com/people/flickermusic/shop
https://twitter.com/flickermusic
https://www.instagram.com/wudrecords/
https://www.facebook.com/flickermusic
https://twitter.com/WudRecords
https://linktr.ee/flickermusic

Video of George playing the acoustic guitar part, with out-takes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuJayOjRlfc

Aeroplane

Flicker: Aeroplane

Week Five by Flicker.
Album: At Least 1000 Words

Music by G. Davies/D. Danielli.

Performers:
George: guitars, samples
Dave: bass, dums, djembe, clave, EDP Wasp 

Samples:
The Prague Metro 1997

Project directed by George Davies.

Drums recorded at Clark’s Cottage, West Putford, North Devon.
Strings, percussion and synths recorded at Chiseldon House, Exeter.

Engineered, mixed, produced and mastered by Dave Danielli.
Remastered at Wud Records Studios (uk) 2012.
Remastered again at Wud Records Studios (EU) August 2023.

Originally released 31st July 2002.
First re-release 12th May 2012.
Second re-release 1st September 2023.

Copyright © 2023 Wud Records.
Copyright ℗ 1996 Explicit Music. 

Fun Facts:
* Week Five is a tune that George wrote around the time of his TESOL course in the spring of 1996.
* It was a four week course, so Week Five is all the stuff that happens to you as a teacher after completing that initial course of training.
* The sound of the train was recorded on the cassette recorder George hauled around Prague for teaching.
* He left it running on a journey from his room at the Hotel Opatov to the office of his school, English House, in Albertov, in order to capture some ambient sounds of the city.
* Week Five is essentially a two-chord tune – F# minor and E.
* The tempo is 135 BPM.
* There are five ‘verses’ to Week Five, one for each week.
* As the piece progresses, each ‘verse’ becomes a little more intense than the previous one.
* The fourth and fifth verses are slightly longer than the first three.
* The fourth week involved a great deal of work, so that deserved an extra few bars.
* The fifth week represents the rest of one’s life after the course is finished, which hopefully is longer than four weeks.
* Week Five is dedicated to the guinea-pig students at Sidmouth International School in Spring 1996 – Sandi, Tammi, Keiko, Myrtle and Dilek, and tutor Vincent, as well as the other trainees, tutors and students.
* A little credit must go to Adi Celestine for defining the ending.
* In a perfect world this tune would have been 5:05 minutes in length.
* 505 was the number of the night bus, or the “magic bus”, that would take George back to Opatov after a night of revelry in Prague.
* The acoustic guitar rhythm gives the tune a train-ish vibe.
* The percussion and latin feel were intended to make the piece appear more cosmopolitan.
* Due to lack of space on the CD, the soundscape at the beginning was drastically curtailed.
* This was a shame as it took ages to make the panning and editing just right.
* Pražského Povstání was chosen because that metro station was very close to where George lived to begin with, before moving out to Opatov.
* Full details here: https://www.explicitmusic.co.uk/lyrics-information/flicker/at-least-1000-words/week-five

See also:
https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/artists/flicker/
https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/artists/flicker/at-least-1000-words/
https://wudrecords.bandcamp.com/track/week-five
https://www.explicitmusic.co.uk/lyrics-information/flicker/at-least-1000-words
https://www.discogs.com/release/17114565-Flicker-At-Least-1000-Words
https://www.redbubble.com/people/flickermusic/shop
https://twitter.com/flickermusic
https://www.instagram.com/wudrecords/
https://www.facebook.com/flickermusic
https://twitter.com/WudRecords
https://linktr.ee/flickermusic

Week Five

Flicker: Week Five

Farsight by Flicker.
Album: At Least 1000 Words

Music by G. Davies/D. Danielli/G. Barbe/N. Board.

Performers:
George: guitars, synths, keys, samples
Dave: bass, drums, samples 

Samples:
Maharaj Ji, Jonathan Agnew, stinsv.com

Project directed by George Davies.

Drums recorded at Clark’s Cottage, West Putford, North Devon.
Strings recorded at Chiseldon House, Exeter.

Engineered, mixed, produced and mastered by Dave Danielli.
Remastered at Wud Records Studios (uk) 2012.
Remastered again at Wud Records Studios (EU) August 2023.

Originally released 31st July 2002.
First re-release 12th May 2012.
Second re-release 1st September 2023.

Copyright © 2023 Wud Records.
Copyright ℗ 1995 Explicit Music.

Fun Facts:
* Farsight is the oldest piece on the album At Least 1000 Words.
* It is a piece that George wrote around March 1995, during the days of The Ug Brothers.
* Any recordings of the original have been lost to the vortices of time and the land of refugee cassettes – the Tape Void, as the Ug drummer Graham used to call it.
* Originally there were words for it too.
* These lyrics described the kingdoms of the mind, those inner spaces, places and temples; the mythology of the self that begins in early childhood, a mysterious and magical place that is a sanctuary where only you can go, a place that is reachable in the blink of an eye yet can be so far, far away in space, time and reality.
* This place never really allows any other individual, however close a relationship and understanding they may have with you, ‘access all areas’ – perhaps for the best, as we all need our own castle to retreat to occasionally.
* Farsight is dedicated to that very world that exists within all of us, our private fantasy space, where we go in our dreamtime, and the place from where art comes or is filtered through to us from the farside perhaps, and the zone you are in when you are ‘in the zone’.
* Dave then wrote some other more Ug-like words.
* The only two that can be recalled are “wondering why”.
* The Ug Brothers disbanded before the song was ever performed live.
* This was a great shame as Farsight was one of the band’s collective favourites and one of the last new pieces they worked upon.
* We have been unable to dig up any Ug Brothers recordings of Farsight.
* Natalie, the Ug singer, came up with a vocal melody for the lost lyrics penned by Dave.
* A small fragment of that melody remains, in the very beginning of the lead guitar part, the rest again vanished forever to the realms of nilspace.
* This instrumental version of Farsight seemed to be a convenient resolution.
* In as many ways as possible it is largely true to the original Ug Brothers version.
* The piece begins in G minor but ends in C major and runs at 120 bpm.
* That was exactly the speed of the rhythm of the bridge on the USS Enterprise in the first Star Trek series, a sound which we used from the website www.stinsv.com, and just seemed perfect by its synchronicity.
* As the piece begins you can hear a Klingon door opening, from the same site – to let you in.
* Flicker tried to get the sound of a motor race into the soundscape, but it didn’t work so was left out.
* The percussion is probably not so different from the original played by Graham, again lost to the mists of time.
* Dave certainly delayed coming in with the full drumkit to the exact same point as The Ug Brothers.
* Dave’s beautifully expressive and critically acclaimed bassline, played on the Fender, was what drove and made the piece distinct.
* All the guitar parts are played on the Ice Maiden apart from the lead line, which was recorded using Nicodemus.
* Full details here: https://www.explicitmusic.co.uk/lyrics-information/flicker/at-least-1000-words/farsight

See also:
https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/artists/flicker/
https://www.discogs.com/release/17114565-Flicker-At-Least-1000-Words
https://www.redbubble.com/people/flickermusic/shop
https://twitter.com/WudRecords
https://linktr.ee/flickermusic

Farsight

Flicker: Farsight

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)

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