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  • Cosmic Dancer (acoustic)
    Laughing Sun Live in Session Autumn 1985 came from a cassette of Laughing Sun recorded sometime before performing their first ever show at Exeter College. It was recorded at Cowick Lane in Exeter.
    Numerous musicians deserve a mention for their part in the makings of this. Simon sings and plays guitar, Marc plays bass and bongos, Graham plays bongos and bass, George plays guitar and fur drum, Cliff plays guitar and Senga sings. Thanks also to Dave, Suzy and Peter.
    There are all manner of curiosities taking place between as well as during the songs. There is blapping in places.
    This differs from the standard collection because of the inclusion of all of the extras. These includes the moments of gribulage that take place when songs finish and before the next one starts.
    It also includes the recordings that were unmarked on the cassette. The Thing is a composition by Graham that is being jammed. It may in fact have some completely different name, although we are not sure what that might be as of this moment.
    Performers:
    Pok - vocals, guitar
    George Davies - guitar, vocals, bass, percussion
    Marc Greatorex - bass, percussion
    Graham Barbe - percussion, bass
    Senga Steel - vocals
    Cliff Smith - lead guitar
    Also present - Suzie, Dave the Parrot.
    10 min
  • Gribulage 4
    Laughing Sun Live in Session Autumn 1985 came from a cassette of Laughing Sun recorded sometime before performing their first ever show at Exeter College. It was recorded at Cowick Lane in Exeter.
    Numerous musicians deserve a mention for their part in the makings of this. Simon sings and plays guitar, Marc plays bass and bongos, Graham plays bongos and bass, George plays guitar and fur drum, Cliff plays guitar and Senga sings. Thanks also to Dave, Suzy and Peter.
    There are all manner of curiosities taking place between as well as during the songs. There is blapping in places.
    This differs from the standard collection because of the inclusion of all of the extras. These includes the moments of gribulage that take place when songs finish and before the next one starts.
    It also includes the recordings that were unmarked on the cassette. The Thing is a composition by Graham that is being jammed. It may in fact have some completely different name, although we are not sure what that might be as of this moment.
    Performers:
    Pok - vocals, guitar
    George Davies - guitar, vocals, bass, percussion
    Marc Greatorex - bass, percussion
    Graham Barbe - percussion, bass
    Senga Steel - vocals
    Cliff Smith - lead guitar
    Also present - Suzie, Dave the Parrot.
    3 min
  • Gribulage 6
    Laughing Sun Live in Session Autumn 1985 came from a cassette of Laughing Sun recorded sometime before performing their first ever show at Exeter College. It was recorded at Cowick Lane in Exeter.
    Numerous musicians deserve a mention for their part in the makings of this. Simon sings and plays guitar, Marc plays bass and bongos, Graham plays bongos and bass, George plays guitar and fur drum, Cliff plays guitar and Senga sings. Thanks also to Dave, Suzy and Peter.
    There are all manner of curiosities taking place between as well as during the songs. There is blapping in places.
    This differs from the standard collection because of the inclusion of all of the extras. These includes the moments of gribulage that take place when songs finish and before the next one starts.
    It also includes the recordings that were unmarked on the cassette. The Thing is a composition by Graham that is being jammed. It may in fact have some completely different name, although we are not sure what that might be as of this moment.
    Performers:
    Pok - vocals, guitar
    George Davies - guitar, vocals, bass, percussion
    Marc Greatorex - bass, percussion
    Graham Barbe - percussion, bass
    Senga Steel - vocals
    Cliff Smith - lead guitar
    Also present - Suzie, Dave the Parrot.
    2 min
  • Master of the Universe
    Laughing Sun Live in Session Autumn 1985 came from a cassette of Laughing Sun recorded sometime before performing their first ever show at Exeter College. It was recorded at Cowick Lane in Exeter.
    Numerous musicians deserve a mention for their part in the makings of this. Simon sings and plays guitar, Marc plays bass and bongos, Graham plays bongos and bass, George plays guitar and fur drum, Cliff plays guitar and Senga sings. Thanks also to Dave, Suzy and Peter.
    There are all manner of curiosities taking place between as well as during the songs. There is blapping in places.
    This differs from the standard collection because of the inclusion of all of the extras. These includes the moments of gribulage that take place when songs finish and before the next one starts.
    It also includes the recordings that were unmarked on the cassette. The Thing is a composition by Graham that is being jammed. It may in fact have some completely different name, although we are not sure what that might be as of this moment.
    Performers:
    Pok - vocals, guitar
    George Davies - guitar, vocals, bass, percussion
    Marc Greatorex - bass, percussion
    Graham Barbe - percussion, bass
    Senga Steel - vocals
    Cliff Smith - lead guitar
    Also present - Suzie, Dave the Parrot.
    8 min
  • The Thing #2
    Laughing Sun Live in Session Autumn 1985 came from a cassette of Laughing Sun recorded sometime before performing their first ever show at Exeter College. It was recorded at Cowick Lane in Exeter.
    Numerous musicians deserve a mention for their part in the makings of this. Simon sings and plays guitar, Marc plays bass and bongos, Graham plays bongos and bass, George plays guitar and fur drum, Cliff plays guitar and Senga sings. Thanks also to Dave, Suzy and Peter.
    There are all manner of curiosities taking place between as well as during the songs. There is blapping in places.
    This differs from the standard collection because of the inclusion of all of the extras. These includes the moments of gribulage that take place when songs finish and before the next one starts.
    It also includes the recordings that were unmarked on the cassette. The Thing is a composition by Graham that is being jammed. It may in fact have some completely different name, although we are not sure what that might be as of this moment.
    Performers:
    Pok - vocals, guitar
    George Davies - guitar, vocals, bass, percussion
    Marc Greatorex - bass, percussion
    Graham Barbe - percussion, bass
    Senga Steel - vocals
    Cliff Smith - lead guitar
    Also present - Suzie, Dave the Parrot.
    4 min
  • The Bastard Sons of Dennis: Smile
    Smile by The Bastard Sons of Dennis, from their album Cherry Smoke Empire.
    Smile was one of the earliest Bastard Sons of Dennis songs, first coming to light in their sand dune sessions on Exmouth beach in the summer of 1994 and was first performed live at The Cavern in Exeter that same summer.
    The song originally appeared on the 1992 Levitation album Need For Not, released by Rough Trade. Terry Bickers of the band Levitation and Q.Wim were at university together and collaborated on a number of musical delights, including this.
    Yuri was completely unaware of the band Levitation and created his own lead guitar parts independently having never heard the original recording until this track was about to be released.
    In their one-off spontaneous 1998 session, the Bastard Sons of Dennis played Smile again, with Scott on balalaika providing the high ostinato and Yuri on bass.
    There are three consecutive guitar solos towards the end of the song, capturing the way the duo performed it live. Yuri takes the first and third solos and Q the middle one.
    SMILE
    Smile, for the experience is here
    Smile
    Wash away your tears today, smile
    And if you find time
    And if you find time
    Smile
    I pick up all the pieces that I left lying around
    I cast them to the wind, yeah
    There is no sound
    Instinct, revelation
    Your life starts here
    And how many tomorrows can I see
    In the cauldron of worn ideas
    How many might follow this lost feeling
    Instincts, revelation
    Your life stops here
    And how many tomorrows can you see
    I pick up all the pieces that I left lying around
    I cast them to the wind, yeah
    There is no sound
    Instincts, revelation
    Your life starts here
    And how many tomorrows can I see
    Smile
    Smile
    Smile
    So let me take you there
    They're going to strip you bare
    Smile, for the experience is here
    Smile
    And if you find time
    And if you find time
    Smile
    I pick up all the pieces that I left lying around
    I've cast them to the wind, yeah
    There is no sound
    Instinct, revelation
    Your life starts here
    And how many tomorrows can I see
    Smile
    Smile
    Smile
    So let me take you there
    They're going to strip you bare
    Smile, for the experience is here
    Smile
    Wash away your fears today, smile
    And if you find time
    If you find time
    Smile
    I pick up all the pieces that I left lying around
    I've cast them to the wind, yeah
    There is no sound
    Instinct, revelation
    Your life starts here
    And how many tomorrows can I see
    I pick up all the pieces that I left
    Pick up all the pieces that I left
    I pick up all the pieces that I left lying around
    I've cast them to the wind, yeah
    There is no sound
    Words and music by T. Bickers/A. Richardson.
    This arrangement by The Bastard Sons of Dennis.
    This recording is copyright © 2011 Wud Records.
    The intellectual property of this song is copyright ℗ 1992 Rough Trade Recordings Ltd.
    Recorded, engineered, mixed and mastered at Wud Records Studio One.
    Artwork by Blueprint Studios.
    Performers:
    Q.Wim Lijkkes - vocals, guitar
    Yuri Nation - guitar
    9 min
  • The Bastard Sons of Dennis: Sometimes
    Sometimes by The Bastard Sons of Dennis, from their album Cherry Smoke Empire.
    Sometimes was one of the earliest Bastard Sons of Dennis songs, first coming to light in their sand dune sessions on Exmouth beach in the summer of 1994. Sometimes was first performed live by the duo at The Cavern in Exeter that same summer.
    The song originally appeared on the 1992 Levitation album Need For Not, released by Rough Trade. Terry Bickers of the band Levitation and Q.Wim were at university together and collaborated on a number of musical delights, including this.
    Yuri was completely unaware of the band Levitation and created his own lead guitar parts independently having never heard the original recording until this track was about to be released.
    In their one-off spontaneous 1998 session, the Bastard Sons of Dennis played Sometimes again, with Scott on balalaika and Yuri on bass.
    Mr Lijkkes tells a short ad lib tale at the start of this song that is different every time. Usually it is a rather dark-humoured and grizzly tale about Spiderlings.
    Sometimes is called Resist on Levitation's Need For Not album.
    This track was recorded before Yuri's battered old guitar was repaired. The slight distortion you hear on his guitar is actually the way the instrument sounded, with an assortment of rattles at the nut end, rather than a level that was too hot.
    SOMETIMES
    Read it young and so it spun
    A web of madness on my screen
    Expressions led me to a place
    It's not the world I'd intended to be in
    Sometimes I feel like everyone knows
    People believe in your lies
    People believe in all our our lies
    And who we are the Fates did ask
    Can't believe the sentence passed
    Sometimes I feel like everyone knows
    Sometimes I feel like everyone knows
    People believe in your lies
    People believe in all our lies
    Read it young and so it spun
    A web of madness on my screen
    Expressions led me to a place
    It's not the world I'd intended to be in
    Sometimes I feel like everyone knows
    People believe in all our our lies
    People believe in my lies
    Sometimes... I feel like everyone knows
    Sometimes... I feel like everyone knows
    Sometimes... I feel like everyone knows
    Sometimes... I feel like everyone knows
    Words and music by T. Bickers/A. Richardson.
    This arrangement by The Bastard Sons of Dennis.
    This recording is copyright © 2011 Wud Records.
    The intellectual property of this song is copyright ℗ 1992 Rough Trade Recordings Ltd.
    Recorded, engineered, mixed and mastered at Wud Records Studio One.
    Artwork by Blueprint Studios.
    Performers:
    Q.Wim Lijkkes - vocals, guitar
    Yuri Nation - guitar, vocals
    8 min
  • The Bastard Sons of Dennis: Losing Feeling
    Losing Feeling by The Bastard Sons of Dennis, from their album Cherry Smoke Empire.
    !! Beware !! Strong language !!
    Losing Feeling is not what it may seem at first. Everything starts out quite gently and pleasantly, and then in the third verse an overwhelming quantity of entropy begins to become manifest, as the 'feeling' becomes well and truly 'lost'. The song ends in disharmony and apparent chaos. Beware of carpets that are suddenly yanked from under one's feet!
    LOSING FEELING
    So I lost that feeling
    I don’t know what I can do now
    Losing feeling
    I don’t know what I could have done
    To stop me feeling
    I’m losing the feeling I love
    I don’t even know your name
    It’s backwards and forwards the same
    I’m falling backwards again
    And so I
    Lost that feeling
    I don’t know what I could have done
    Losing feeling
    I don’t know what I can do now
    To stop me feeling
    I’m losing the feeling I love
    You don’t even know my name
    It’s backwards and forward the same
    And I’m falling backwards again
    Why don’t you get over yourself
    There’s not enough hours in the day
    Why don’t you get over yourself
    Leaving the last words unsaid
    There’s simply a hole in your heart
    Try to let somebody in
    And so I got to thinking
    I’d better go home instead
    Have a wank and some biscuits
    And then I’ll get pissed with my friends
    And we’ll talk of Eastenders
    And who won X-Factor in the end
    You don’t even know my name
    It’s backwards and forwards the same
    And I’m falling backwards again
    Words by A. Richardson.
    Music by A. Richardson/G. Davies.
    This recording is copyright © 2010 Wud Records.
    The intellectual property of this song is copyright ℗ 2010 Explicit Music.
    Recorded, engineered, mixed and mastered at Wud Records Studio One.
    Artwork by Blueprint Studios.
    Performers:
    Q.Wim Lijkkes - vocals, guitar
    Yuri Nation - guitar, vocals
    6 min
  • Dark Company: Animal House
    Animal House by Dark Company.
    Album: Signmaker
    ANIMAL HOUSE
    I don’t truck no garden stones
    Ain’t got a lawn full of little old gnomes
    Don’t grow roses round my gate
    No alarm clock rings cos I sleep real late
    Savings and loan sharks aren’t for me
    Ain’t got a boat floating on the sea
    All I wanna do is just be me
    I ain’t got a number two car
    Ain’t even bought the first so far
    Watching TV I don’t get to do
    Ain’t got a tube in my room with a view
    Don’t whack balls with a little bitty stick
    Only drink brandy when I’m sick
    You can call me slow but don’t call me thick
    Habitat furniture ain’t got in my home
    Telephone table’s no good with no phone
    Suits and ties from the charity store
    I help the aged more and more
    First class travel means you’re keeping dry
    My hotel roof is a piece of sky
    And it ain’t no good to ask me why
    And it ain’t no good to ask me why
    And it ain’t no good to ask me why
    And it ain’t no good to ask me why
    ★
    Lyrics by P. Greatorex.
    Music by G. Davies/P. Greatorex.
    Performers:
    Peter Greatorex – vocals, harmonica
    George Davies – guitars, bass, Boss DR220A drum machine
    Recorded, mixed and produced by George Davies at Silent Running Studios, Exeter, Autumn 1991.
    Remastered at Wud Records Studios 2010.
    Originally released 19th December 1991.
    First re-release March 1992.
    Second re-release June 2000.
    Third re-release 16th December 2010.
    Cover Art:
    Anteaters and Hedgehogs by Peter Greatorex
    Copyright ℗ 1989 D & G Music.
    Copyright © 2010 Wud Records.
    Fun Facts:
    * This song is in the key of E major.
    * It received highly positive acclaim from the Guild of International Songwriters and Composers.
    * In order to produce the ‘banjo’ effect, George tied a soft cloth around the strings of Nicodemus and pushed the cloth right up to the bridge to kill all the sustain.
    * Don Wills played a track of slide guitar that was not used in the final mix.
    * The slide guitar track that was used was recorded on Marcus’s Arbiter guitar which had a particularly high action and a very thin body.
    * This instrument was tuned to an open D major chord.
    * All the guitars were plugged straight into the desk.
    * Due to unfamiliarity with the gear, the DBX on the TSR-8 was switched off for the recording, causing a most horrendous amount of hiss.
    * The red LED meant the DBX was 'off', not 'on'.
    * This was later fixed with cunning use of gates and aural exciters.
    * Originally Animal House was going to be an Alien Heat song but the band never managed to get around to it.
    * The main riff in the intro is stolen from a song that George wrote about a girlfriend who caused him disgruntlement.
    * In order to squeeze all the drum beats that were needed into this song, the drum machine had to be run at 214BPM
    * The true tempo is probably nearer 107BPM.
    * When Astrologer was released as the second single from Signmaker, it was backed with & co's Astrologer (Kiddies' TV from Hell RMX) and Animal House.
    * This song has a certain autobiographical quality about the nutty lyrics.
    * It was played at Pete's graveside during his funeral in 2016.
    See also:
    http://www.wudrecords.co.uk/artists/dark-company
    http://www.explicitmusic.co.uk/lyrics-information/dark-company/signmaker/animal-house
    https://twitter.com/Dark_Company
    https://www.facebook.com/Dark-Company-154909774522910/
    https://www.instagram.com/wudrecords/
    https://twitter.com/WudRecords
    3 min
  • Dark Company: Second Sight
    Second Sight by Dark Company.
    Album: Signmaker
    SECOND SIGHT
    Suicide swords of Samurai awarded for mistakes
    Give blessed absolution if you’ve got what it takes
    Certain kinds of solitude with memories are fused
    Valleys filled with shadows will dream up an excuse
    He’s a charismatic man
    He’s a Judas in a can
    He’s a pocket-prophet poppet
    With dreams made out of sand
    Jagged edge of jealousy, green-eyed prize of hate
    Grants a spiky shelter that mustn’t go to waste
    And the weapons of the warriors, priceless with their pain
    Make cutting out a heart an easy change of game
    He’s a charismatic man
    He’s a Judas in a can
    He’s a pocket-prophet poppet
    With dreams made out of sand
    Charismatic man, Judas in a can
    Charismatic man, Judas in a can
    The labours of great Hercules weigh down many books
    Blindness to their meaning is no excuse not to look
    In ancient days a shaman made a watch out of the sun
    These days more important that he knows how to use a gun
    He’s a charismatic man
    He’s a Judas in a can
    He’s a pocket-prophet poppet
    With dreams made out of sand
    ★
    Lyrics by P. Greatorex.
    Music by G. Davies/P. Greatorex.
    Performers:
    Peter Greatorex – vocals, harmonica
    George Davies – guitars, bass, Boss DR220A drum machine, EDP Wasp
    Recorded, mixed and produced by George Davies at Silent Running Studios, Exeter, Autumn 1991.
    Remastered at Wud Records Studios 2010.
    Originally released 19th December 1991.
    First re-release March 1992.
    Second re-release June 2000.
    Third re-release 16th December 2010.
    Cover Art:
    Pearleye by Peter Greatorex
    Copyright ℗ 1991 D & G Music.
    Copyright © 2010 Wud Records.
    Fun Facts:
    * The lyrics for this song were written in September 1991.
    * The key is C minor and the tempo is 116 BPM.
    * This song was the second song that Dark Company finished recording.
    * Second Sight received highly positive acclaim from the Guild of International Songwriters and Composers.
    * Due to unfamiliarity with the gear, the DBX on the TSR-8 was switched off for the recording, causing a most horrendous amount of hiss.
    * The red LED meant the DBX was 'off', not 'on'.
    * This was later fixed with cunning use of gates and aural exciters.
    * The original guitar solo had a minim, a longer note, at the end of each phrase.
    * Pete and Rowena however preferred it to be full on.
    * Outvoted, George re-recorded it without the longer notes to end each phrase.
    * It was during the recording of this song that we discovered how unreliable the timekeeping of the EDP Wasp’s random sample hold function was.
    * Killer was the first single released by Dark Company from the Signmaker album.
    * It was backed with Second Sight and the digital remix of Killer.
    See also:
    http://www.wudrecords.co.uk/artists/dark-company
    http://www.explicitmusic.co.uk/lyrics-information/dark-company/signmaker/second-sight
    https://twitter.com/Dark_Company
    https://www.facebook.com/Dark-Company-154909774522910/
    https://www.instagram.com/wudrecords/
    https://twitter.com/WudRecords
    4 min

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