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  • Band of Georges: I Want
    I Want by George.
    From Volume II Side B of the Band of Georges.
    Music and lyrics by G. Davies.
    Composed 13th January 1983, 8:30 - 9:00pm.
    Recorded June 1986.
    Mixed October 1986.
    Lifted from cassette March 2025.
    Copyright © 1983 Explicit Music.
    Copyright ℗ 2025 Wud Records.
    Fun Facts:
    The wonderful shimmery guitar effect is made by the EHX Electric Mistress.
    It's an Ibanez Roadstar II into an HH 5-Channel PA.
    This song in A minor never made it to the set of any band and remained as a piece personal therapy for its composer's aching soul.
    See also:
    https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/miscellaneous/band-of-georges/
    https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/miscellaneous/band-of-georges/volume-ii-side-b/
    https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/news/band-of-georges-release-permission-granted/
    https://linktr.ee/wudrecords
    7 min
  • Band of Georges: Teel: A Mistaken Identity
    Teel: A Mistaken Identity by George.
    From Volume II Side A of the Band of Georges.
    Music and lyrics by G. Davies.
    Composed 22nd November 1982.
    Recorded May 1986.
    Mixed October 1986.
    Lifted from cassette March 2025.
    Copyright © 1982 Explicit Music.
    Copyright ℗ 2025 Wud Records.
    Fun Facts:
    The rhythm guitar is the source of the song and is played through a Hohner HFX Instant Funk pedal.
    This song is based on a true story involving the wrong girl at a school disco.
    At a school disco in the autumn of 1982, George was a gatecrasher because he had just left school and started at Exeter College.
    Simon was rather fond of a particular girl called Kate.
    George found Kate, took her by the hand with a cheeky smile, and persuaded her to sit on Simon's knee and give him a snuggle.
    Unfortunately, it was the wrong Kate.
    The name 'Teel' comes from the last two letter of the name Kate and the first two letters of the wrong girl's surname.
    The name 'Lert' came from an occasion when several people were signing a 'thank you' card for a teacher using fictitious names and scribbled signatures.
    Chords are ||: Em - Bm/D - Em - Bm/D - A - G - A - Am - D7 :|| - Em - D6 - Em.
    The lead guitar parts are definitive and composed.
    See also:
    https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/miscellaneous/band-of-georges/
    https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/miscellaneous/band-of-georges/volume-ii-side-a/
    https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/news/band-of-georges-release-permission-granted/
    https://linktr.ee/wudrecords
    5 min
  • Band of Georges: In The Snow
    In The Snow by George.
    From Volume II Side A of the Band of Georges.
    Music and lyrics by G. Davies.
    Composed 24th November 1982.
    Recorded June 1986.
    Mixed October 1986.
    Lifted from cassette March 2025.
    Copyright © 1982 Explicit Music.
    Copyright ℗ 2025 Wud Records.
    Fun Facts:
    This is a song in D minor, the saddest of all keys.
    The clean guitar is fingerpicked.
    The dirty guitar has some extreme settings on the HM2 dirt pedal.
    See also:
    https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/miscellaneous/band-of-georges/
    https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/miscellaneous/band-of-georges/volume-ii-side-a/
    https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/news/band-of-georges-release-permission-granted/
    https://linktr.ee/wudrecords
    5 min
  • Band of Georges: Julia
    Julia by George.
    From Volume II Side A of the Band of Georges.
    Music and lyrics by G. Davies.
    Composed 3rd December 1982.
    Recorded June 1986.
    Mixed October 1986.
    Lifted from cassette March 2025.
    Copyright © 1982 Explicit Music.
    Copyright ℗ 2025 Wud Records.
    Fun Facts:
    That wonderful flanger is the EHX Electric Mistress.
    This was another song George wrote for Mark's production of George Orwell's 1984, which never went ahead in the end.
    Julia was performed live by Wud and Lemming Meringue.
    Much of the lead guitar is composed rather than improvised.
    See also:
    https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/miscellaneous/band-of-georges/
    https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/miscellaneous/band-of-georges/volume-ii-side-a/
    https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/news/band-of-georges-release-permission-granted/
    https://linktr.ee/wudrecords
    4 min
  • Band of Georges: Slark Lywilsbie
    Slark Lywilsbie by George.
    From Volume II Side A of the Band of Georges.
    Music by G. Davies.
    Composed circa 8th November 1982.
    Recorded May 1986.
    Mixed October 1986.
    Lifted from cassette March 2025.
    Copyright © 1982 Explicit Music.
    Copyright ℗ 2025 Wud Records.
    Fun Facts:
    Slark Lywilsbie is a jolly instrumental piece in the key of F major.
    It received its first airing in the days of Now.
    Simon always referred to it as "Jack Rabbit".
    Slark Lywilsbie was performed live many times by Rough Terrain.
    Laney made up a funny dance to go with it.
    Rough Terrain recorded Slark Lywilsbie at Daylight studios in Honiton in 1988.
    You can hear the full version and the stripped back 'bare' remix on their Exit Stage Deaf album.
    Lywilsbie is pronounced "Lie" (the opposite of truth) - "Wills" - "Bee", with the stress on the second syllable.
    Slark is a utopian city from a fantasy world and Lywilsbie is made up from the beginnings and ends of the names of two girls who George used to know.
    See also:
    https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/miscellaneous/band-of-georges/
    https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/miscellaneous/band-of-georges/volume-ii-side-a/
    https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/news/band-of-georges-release-permission-granted/
    https://linktr.ee/wudrecords
    2 min
  • Band of Georges: Wishful Thinkingcrime
    Wishful Thinkingcrime by George.
    From Volume II Side A of the Band of Georges.
    Music and lyrics by G. Davies.
    Composed 1st December 1982.
    Recorded June 1986.
    Mixed October 1986.
    Lifted from cassette March 2025.
    Copyright © 1982 Explicit Music.
    Copyright ℗ 2025 Wud Records.
    Fun Facts:
    The most peculiar thing happened the day George wrote this song.
    He phoned Simon to tell him he had written a new song for the 1984 play that Mark Drower was planning to present.
    Simon had also written a song the same evening.
    Both of their songs had the exact same chord progression - G D F C.
    Simon's song was Johnny Wake Up, which was later performed by the two of them on Sidmouth Seafront for the local TV station, which was when Ken and Simon Knagg first appeared.
    Mark didn't go through with putting on the play and nothing ever happened with this song.
    See also:
    https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/miscellaneous/band-of-georges/
    https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/miscellaneous/band-of-georges/volume-ii-side-a/
    https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/news/band-of-georges-release-permission-granted/
    https://linktr.ee/wudrecords
    3 min
  • Band of Georges: Frog
    Frog by George.
    From Volume II Side A of the Band of Georges.
    Composed circa 8th November 1982.
    Music by G. Davies/S. Miller.
    Accidental lyrics by M. Drower/P. Rippin.
    Frog noises by M. Greatorex.
    Recorded May 1986.
    Mixed October 1986.
    Lifted from cassette March 2025.
    Copyright © 1982 Explicit Music.
    Copyright ℗ 2025 Wud Records.
    Fun Facts:
    Frog is a fun instrumental in the key of G major.
    The idea for the frog noises came from Marc.
    Simon composed the lead guitar part.
    During a jam of this song in what were then the 'new' school music rooms, Pete Rippin handed Mark Drower a cigarette he had just rolled.
    Perfectly timed in a gap between a 'verse' and a 'chorus', the tape machine picked up Mark's "Mmmm, thanks!"
    That particular exclamation remained a part of Frog ever after.
    Frog was later performed live a great many times by Rough Terrain.
    It is the second track on Rough Terrain's Howell Road Demo, and their Exit Stage Deaf compilation.
    See also:
    https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/miscellaneous/band-of-georges/
    https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/miscellaneous/band-of-georges/volume-ii-side-a/
    https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/news/band-of-georges-release-permission-granted/
    https://linktr.ee/wudrecords
    3 min
  • Band of Georges: Baby Mine
    Baby Mine by George.
    From Volume I Side B of the Band of Georges.
    Music by G. Davies.
    Composed 4th November 1982.
    Recorded May 1986.
    Mixed October 1986.
    Lifted from cassette March 2025.
    Copyright © 1982 Explicit Music.
    Copyright ℗ 2025 Wud Records.
    Fun Facts:
    Baby Mine was never played by any band.
    This song was written after the final performance of Everyone, when the whole show was restaged at Exeter Cathedral.
    The acoustic 12-string is the Ibanez that belonged to Dean from The Addled Eggs and The Subterraineans, who were busy trying to form a live set at the time this song was recorded.
    A very simple song for absent friends, one in particular.
    See also:
    https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/miscellaneous/band-of-georges/
    https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/miscellaneous/band-of-georges/volume-i-side-b/
    https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/news/band-of-georges-release-permission-granted/
    https://linktr.ee/wudrecords
    5 min
  • Band of Georges: Flashback
    Flashback by George.
    From Volume I Side B of the Band of Georges.
    Music by G. Davies/S. Miller/R. Holloway.
    Lyrics by G. Davies/S. Miller.
    Composed 21st and 24th September 1982 and then circa 6th November 1982.
    Recorded May 1986.
    Mixed October 1986.
    Lifted from cassette March 2025.
    Copyright © 1982 Explicit Music.
    Copyright ℗ 2025 Wud Records.
    Fun Facts:
    This is in fact Flashback Part 1.
    The original lyrics for Flashback Part 1 became Flashback Part 3.
    Flashback Part 2 was celled Hard Times.
    Both Hard Times and Flashback Part 3 appear in subsequent volumes of songs by the Band of Georges.
    Simon wrote new words for Flashback, and they are here.
    George changed one word - 'Judas' for 'Manda', and ever onwards from some years later, regretted doing so.
    Flashback (Part 1) was performed by many different bands.
    A recorded version by Fooog Dinboffin and the Release was when Simon create the beautiful guitar melody at the start of the instrumental.
    We hope to be able to release that version sometime this year.
    Flashback was recorded in 1985 by Wud and appears on the Daylight Demo, with Ken singing.
    Rough Terrain performed it live many, many times.
    In addition to those bands, Flashback was also part of the set of Now, Sirius Rising, Lemming Meringue, The Addled Eggs and The Subterraineans.
    During the days of Sirius Rising, Richard created a flute part.
    On this particular recording of Flashback, the flute part was played on the EDP Wasp, and sounds nothing at all like a flute.
    See also:
    https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/miscellaneous/band-of-georges/
    https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/miscellaneous/band-of-georges/volume-i-side-b/
    https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/news/band-of-georges-release-permission-granted/
    https://linktr.ee/wudrecords
    9 min
  • Band of Georges: Take Her Away
    Take Her Away by George.
    From Volume I Side B of the Band of Georges.
    Music by G. Davies.
    Composed 6th October 1982 around 9:50pm.
    Recorded May 1986.
    Mixed October 1986.
    Lifted from cassette March 2025.
    Copyright © 1982 Explicit Music.
    Copyright ℗ 2025 Wud Records.
    Fun Facts:
    A song about wonderings, and trying to move on from pain.
    Verse chords are ||: G - Bm - Em - A - Em - C - D :|| C - G - C - B7
    Chorus chords are Em - D - C - Em - G - C - D - Bb dim - B7
    See also:
    https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/miscellaneous/band-of-georges/
    https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/miscellaneous/band-of-georges/volume-i-side-b/
    https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/news/band-of-georges-release-permission-granted/
    https://linktr.ee/wudrecords
    5 min

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