Blue Sky by Laughing Sun

Words and music by S.Miller This arrangement by Laughing Sun Recorded 4th September 1985 at 31 Cowick Lane, Exeter, UK

Pok: vocals, electric guitar George Davies: electric guitar, vocals Ken Staple: acoustic guitar Marc Greatorex: bass

IT’S A BLUE SKY DON’T HOLD NO RAIN We came across some bones of men Scattered in the rust So many good souls turned to dust Within their shattered husks And these people had worn jewels And their heads had been held high Speckled foreheads touched the sky Behold the sparkling in their eye

Don’t you know it’s a blue sky Don’t hold no rain Don’t hold your love in vain ‘Cos we’ve still got some loving to do

Some time ago the white man came Bringing bible books and swords Bound them up in twining cords In the name of their great lord They slew down the Aztec Inca Ibu Masai Now we hide in concrete lies So to my Mammon side I cry

What have we done To the Mother Goddess Gaia Why can’t we nestle in her Warm aching bosom

Now the world’s a spinning ball Two thirds with none to eat So while we chew our scrawny meat Can you hear those big bells beat?

What have we done To the Mother Goddess Gaia Why can’t we nestle in her Warm aching bosom

Copyright (c) Wud Records 1985, (p) Pok Songs 1983.

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Laughing Sun - Cander (1985)

Cander is the name of the earliest surviving recording of Laughing Sun. It is a Wud Dictionary term meaning ‘a meeting of friends after a long time apart’.

Here are the considered musings of the Pokstar on the subject of Cander:

“These recordings document a September 1985 cander between Pok, then Simon or Fooog Dinboffin and George a.k.a. Fedax Si-Hulmin. These are sessions where songs written down a couple of years by then were given an arrangement, however primitive our attempts to capture them.

These are teenage ravings at the centre of Pok’s world view, about girls (She’s Beautiful), decadance, paranoia and teachers (We Know You Well), vision and fragility mission statement (Wanted to be a Singer), the loss by genocide of the native Americans and general early eco lament directive for that generation written 1983 (It’s a Blue Sky Don’t Hold No Rain):

“What have we done to the Mother Goddess Gaia? Why can’t we nestle in her warm aching bosom?”

Indian Summer is a delicate evocation of its subject by George and our friend Ken. Ken sings and George plays acoustic guitar while Simon Pok plays idiosyncratic bongo then lead on Ken’s black Shaftesbury electric.

This was the start of collaborations becoming Laughing Sun, which shone briefly through 1985 and 1986, doing a few gigs around Devon and the Glastonbury ’86 Travellers’ Stage followed by early Ozric Tentacles (Jumping Jon remembers this!).

This period is where we are finding our sounds, following a scent or something, heading for what would become. The simple, pretty uni-chordal We Know you Well is a Mark Drower rhythm style rendition that pursues its theme relentlessly but continuously changing and it is a gas to hear it again.

More early formulations to come.”