The Sundays were formed by guitarist David Gavurin and vocalist Harriet Wheeler, both from London, in the summer of 1988. The two songwriters had met while at university in Bristol and, while romance blossomed, the pair spent the remainder of their university years experimenting with simple guitar and vocal songs (makes a change from the usual drink and drugs!). After graduation, there followed a short period on the dole, before bassist Paul Brindley and drummer Patrick Hannan, both from Bristol, were asked to join the couple in a band.
Thus, the Sundays were born.
The Sundays first ever gig at the Vertigo Club in Camden Town, London resulted in many record companies fighting to sign them. At a time when British music was still reeling from the loss of the Smiths, the Sundays were seen as a replacement for the lost kings of the sullen indie world. In the end, the record company which succeeded in signing them was Rough Trade, perhaps unsurprisingly former home of the Smiths. Under Rough Trade, and Geffen in the U.S., the Sundays released their first album "Reading, Writing and Arithmetic". Several years past between that release and their second album "Blind", in which time they left the then sinking Rough Trade and signed for Parlophone (EMI).
The Sundays are finally due to release their long awaited third album, entitled "Static and Silence", in September 1997. Why has it taken so long? Well David and Harriet are, as they put it, "very slow" at working on such things, but over the last couple of years they have become proud parents to a baby girl named Billie, so perhaps we can excuse them for having a little time off.
