Sunday Trivia

This page holds (almost) everything you really did not want to know about the sundays, but may have got someone else to ask for you anyway. A lot of this stuff is heresay, things said through friends of friends, or at worst through the media and music press (most unreliable :-) ). So whatever you do, don't take all of the following information as being 100 percent fact.
If you have anything to add to these, feel free to mail them to me, and I shall put them up here.

  • Harriet was born on the 26th June 1963, David's birthday was 4th April 1963, Paul - 6th November 1963, and Patrick - 4th March 1966.
  • The Sundays first ever live performance was at The Falcon "Vertigo Club" in Camden Town in London on the 20th August 1988.
  • Harriet and David's first baby daughter "Billie" was born in February 1995, coming in at 7 pounds and 4 ounces.
  • Paul and Patrick were friends with David and Harriet before the group was formed.
  • Harriet and David both went to the Bristol University, and it is there that they first met.
  • Harriet studied English literature, and David studied Spanish and French at university.
  • Harriet was brought up in a small town near Reading, England.
  • David grew up in Wembley, London.
  • Harriet's middle name is Ella and David's is Richard.
  • The name "The Sundays" was chosen because they wanted something simple that suited their music, and "The Sundays" was the only name the whole group could remotely agree on.
  • The Sundays are good friends with the Cocteau Twins and The Beautiful South
  • The Sundays first outside performance was on a makeshift stage in the courtyard of a hotel on the outskirts of Sacramento, California. This was a result of the original planned venue catching fire and causing the show to be moved at the last minute.
  • Harriet and David took the pictures used for the "Blind" and "Goodbye" covers. In one instance they happened across a doll, thought it looked cool and decided to take photo's of it. The hand used for "Goodbye" is David's, used after they noticed how prominent and interesting the hollow in it was.
  • The Sundays cover of the Rolling Stones "Wild horses" was included on the "Blind" album in the USA, but was only available as a b-side to "Goodbye" in Europe.
  • "Wild horses" was first started when Harriet and David were drunk, they also decided that the original was too long when sung just with guitars, and so cut it down slightly.
  • The British press did not appreciate the cover version of the Rolling Stones song.
  • "Wild horses" features in a Budweiser beer commercial and the film "Fear".
  • "Here's where the story ends" features in the film "Blown Away".
  • Onstage David usually plays the guitar with his eyes closed while swaying to the music.
  • Between the European and US tours in 1993 The Sundays went to Thailand for a break.
  • Paul and Patrick often go unrecognised by fans.
  • The Sundays cancelled the end of their last US tour due to exhaustion and homesickness.
  • The Sundays recorded the theme tune to the BBC comedy series "Newman and Baddiel in Pieces", for a close friend connected to the show.
  • David and Harriet don't really like the wild life and prefer hanging out at home with a few close friends.
  • When David first met Harriet, he thought she was a bit fat.
  • Unsurprisingly David is known as Dave to his friends.
  • David plays a Takimine acoustic and a Fender telecaster with the pick-ups replaced through a Vox AC-30 amp and an Alesis Quadraverb.
  • He occassionally tunes his guitar to an open E major.
  • He and Harriet are the principal songwriters, they give Patrick drum machine parts to learn.
  • The Sundays really do get their fan mail.
  • The unreleased song often played live is called "Turkish" and supposedly just never really got finished.
  • Patrick really likes the band "jellyfish."
  • David and Harriet smoke cigarettes occasionally although Harriet has admitted that she really shouldn't.
  • They get a lot of tapes submitted to them which they hardly ever listen to (though they'd like to in theory). After playing music all night, the last thing you want to hear is more music!!!
  • When they performed in Salt Lake City in 1993, Harriet chastised the crowd for not dancing around enough.
  • BUT....at Marin, California in 93, some people were dancing a little TOO much, slam dancing, etc....and Harriet told them to settle down, telling them: "Don't be so fucking stupid."
  • In San Francisco in 90 or 91 for the RWA tour. When they were finished with their set, with a couple of encores, the crowd was still going wild for more. They didn't have any more songs rehearsed, so they just played Here's Where the Story Ends again.
    A lot of this information has been obtained from various postings to the arithmetics mailing list, as well as from various magazine articles and reviews. So special thanks must go to everyone on the list and especially Cynthia who knows everything.