The roots of Norwegian combo LAUGHING STOCK has got started when Jan Mikael SØRENSEN at the age of 12 met Håvard ENGE in 1978, both of whom were immersed in the rock scene like Tears for Fears, Talk Talk or XTC. In 1986 they started an amateur project under the moniker of Crazy Dogs or Cerumen with Håvard's brother KOLBJØRN, and in 1990 Håvard and Jan Mikael started their first 'professional' band named Again And Again, and recorded three tracks for launching a mini cassette album at a studio where Aha had just recorded their single Move To Memphis. In 1993 Håvard moved to Oslo to study music, and had managed another project Spacewagon in collaboration with Jan Mikael and Jan Mikael's friends Jan Erik Kirkevold NILSEN and Lars M. KRÆMER (ex-Curtwigs) from 1993 until 1996. After Spacewagon disbanded, each of them played in respective projects, and finally in 2016 Håvard, Jan Mikael, and Jan Erik have got crystallized as LAUGHING STOCK, and released their first album "The Island" in 2018 and the second "Sunrise" in 2019.