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"a true musical kaleidoscope - 10/13" Jim Ody - Roomthirteen.com
"An act to watch for the future... " Pathaan (BBC Asian Network) for I-DJ Magazine
"utterly gorgeous" - bigchill.net
"breathtakingly cool and stunningly compelling....In The City Of Dreadful Night' is a fantastic album that's diverse and tantalising; beautifully conceived, stunningly executed and just such an absolute joy to behold. " - Toxic Pete
"This tune is one of those you put on when you want to forget about the world and transfer yourself to a different reality." - London Music Directory
"....positively pulchritudinous and vital. The single, taken from their album In the City of Dreadful Night oozes conflagrant energy." - audioscribbler.co.uk
"Chandrika Nath is a commanding presence as band leader ..... the instrumentalists cook like a band that have taken their chemistry to another level" - Music-Zine
"The result is a remarkable album that comes across as a street festival distilled into music in a genuinely innovative way." - Fatea
"This kaboom of fusion listening is most certainly worth the pennies" - Plum Woodward - The Brighton Hussy
"Unique and sophisticated. A must see." - Jamie Turner
"..... bringing together the innocence of English folk and shimmering vibrancy of Eastern influences" - bbc online
"Leading the way in world music" - Phil Pethybridge, Hope Street Music
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Album Recorded!
We've finished recording the tracks for our album!! "In the City of Dreadful Night"M Will be launched17th October 2008 - At the Junction 2 Theatre in Cambridge!**************************************************
Inspired producer wanted to remix our music!
We will be recording an album Feb 08. All individual takes from tracks will be available for use by producers who would like to remix our music.If you would like to be considered please get in touch.****************************************************
Cash!!
In October 2007 Sunday Driver recieved a tidy grant from the Arts Council to record an album and improve their PR (Hence finally reopening their Myspace)Sunday Driver will be recording the yet untitled Album spring 2008 - this will be the first recording that they have had the luxury of spending time and money on !
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The Band
The secret of a band’s success lies in its name.A band’s name should encapsulate the mood of its music. A band name should be cool. But there is an exception to every rule. “Sunday Driver†is – you guessed it! – named after a gene commonly found in mice. It may not evoke our “eclectic fusion of eastern and western stylesâ€.
We started out quite sometime ago after Chandy had just returned from a field trip in Antarctica, collecting data for the British Antarctic survey. Five months living off dried carrots at -40 C and no toilet had left her determined to be a singer – the prospect of hot sweaty music venues and scantily clad screaming fans being a perfect antidote to life in the deep freeze.
After a summer of exchanging of handwritten notes and TDK cassettes (e-mails and mp3 just can’t compete!) Chandy hooked up with guitarist Joel, bassist Mel and the multi-talented Kat. Originally they were aiming for a gentle blend of Chandy's own dulcet tones to a backdrop of harp and guitar. That can still be heard even in our more recent songs like “Sweet Dreams†which was recently included on a community project CD supported by the Big Chill, and featured on Chill radio. Its reviews are far more flattering than Joel’s original synopsis of Chandy's singing: “an Indian version of Charlotte Churchâ€.
As their ranks have swelled over the years to include lead guitarist Chemise, and tabla player Matthew Sarkar, thier music has become increasingly experimental. An arts council grant back in 2004 paid for training workshops with renowned sitarist Baluji Srivastav. This sparked our interest in Hindustani classical music and inspired Joel to take up the sitar. Two years on, his skill had outstripped even George Harrison’s – he composed the melody to “Bol and Spoon†which formed the soundtrack for our award winning BBC Radio 4 show on ‘Leprosy: a Forgotten Disease’. And Joel’s notoriety on the gourd reached its zenith last year with a unique performance “Norwegian Wood†on the sitar for BBC Radio Cambridgeshire.
Sunday Driver have played well over 100 gigs together over the years, and have almost – but not quite – earned enough to cover the cost of tea and biscuits at band practices. Favourite "notches on the band bedpost" include the Cambridge Folk Festival, the Secret Garden Festival and a gig with the Grand Union jazz orchestra at the Cambridge Corn Exchange. As well as a slightly surreal appearance on Mel and Sue's BBC London radio show and numerous appearances on BBC Radio Cambridgeshire. We’ve also been played on Classic FM’s Chiller Cabinet.
But our favourite haunts remain the Portland Arms in Cambridge, and Cambridge’s Living Room – which features the best of the local music scene as well as artists from further afield. Antarctic *** “Trip†can be found on Hope Street Music’s Living Room Live CD (available via iTunes).
The band continue to learn valuable lessons from thier time together which they are happy to share with other bands desperate to “make it smalltimeâ€:
At awkward moments, carefully timed flatulence will diffuse band tension.
Knitting is a great way of filling in empty time during gigs and practices. However, it can interfere with playing an instrument.
A wet heel (saliva will do) provides a non-slip surface on which to play the sitar .
Female band members look better in corsets than male.
Hunger is never sated by a single samosa, no matter how well intended