The Sundays: One of the MOST HYPED BANDS of the EARLY 90’s!
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The Sundays shared some similarities with the band Mazzy Star. While The Sundays were british and mazzy star were American, Both groups were fronted by women and the attention of the bands, rested on the vocalist and guitarist. Both groups took long hiatuses were also known for being press-shy. That’s where the story ends. After only a handful of shows, the Sundays were getting splashed on the front covers of the british weeklies and were being heralded as the next big thing They weren’t part of any particular scene and literally came out of nowhere, but then, they disappeared. It was fitting that frontwomen Harriet Wheeler and guitarist david gavurin’s favourite movie was Stranger Than Paradise, a perfect metaphor because there are long stretches where nothing happens.. Today let’s take a look at whatever happened to the british group the sundays.
The history of the Sundays begins with guitarist and founding member David Gaverin, the son of an accountant. He grew up in Wembley and started playing guitar in high school telling Florida Today “i was part of the adolescent post--punk anyone in high school can be in a band phenomenon ” His high school bands ultimately went nowhere and and stopped playing guitar while when he started attending bristol university to study French and Spanish in the mid 80’s.. While attending the university he met his better half Harriet Wheeler, the daughter of an architect and teacher who was studying english literature. The first twenty years of there life, they grew apart, David is from wembley while harriet is from Reading. They would be introduced to each other through mutual friends and started dating. Wheeler would tell Billboard “i’m sure we annoyed our neighbours sitting on garden walls talking about all the absurd things you talk about when youre in your 20s and drinking too much and smoking an inordinate amount of roll ups.
Wheeler had went through a similar phase like Gaverin, playing in high school bands. One of her earliest influences was the Jackson 5 whom she used to sing along to, tinking she was michael jackson.. It was the tail end of their time at Bristol that Gaverin once again picked up the guitar. The idea was just to create music for something to do. He also thought that maybe he could be a working musician so he wouldn’t have to deal with getting a real job, but rock superstardom or a record deal was the furthest thing from his mind. He would tell the American press ” ‘we were unsure of ourselves in the beginning of whether we really had something. That’s maybe why people who work with us call us perfectionists.”
The pair soon invested in a drum machine, a bass guitar and a four track recorder and began writing and recording songs. ' Next, they turned their attention to playing live shows, but they needed to find two musicians to replicate their recordings. Gavarian would recall “We picked friends of ours we weren’t looking for people to contribute musically . we didn’t want to put ads in music papers saying we wanted anybody to play with us.” They would enlist fellow bristol students bassist Paul Brindley and drummer Patrick Patch Hannan..
The Sundays music was dreamy and ethereal and by their own admission full of unusual rhythms Gavurian would tell Florida Today “we set out to write songs that don’t feel like every other songs you’ve ever heard. They aren’t completely conventional. We tend to follow slightly unusual rhythms. ”
As for the lyrics Gaburian would add "I'll put down a lyric and Harriet will write the next line," "I admit it's kind of weird, since I don't know how many other writers work that way. But it works for us."We like that a perso