Chords for The Sundays: Whatever Happaned To The Band Behind "This is Where The Story Ends" & Harriet Wheeler?
Tempo:
87.85 bpm
Chords used:
A
E
Bm
G#m
C#m
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
Start Jamming...
I had actually seen a few people discussing this band in the comments section of my Mazzy
Starr video that i put out about a month ago.
The link to that video is down below.
Both Mazzy Starr and the Sundays shared some similarities as they were both fronted by
women and the attention of the band mostly rested on the [E] vocalist and the guitarist.
They also took long hiatuses [A] and were known for being press shy.
[C#m] Today let's explore whatever happened to the british group the Sundays.
The Sundays enjoyed modest success in both the UK and America, but after only three albums
they seemed to vanish.
While they were prominent during the early to mid 90's their origins dated back to the
80's when vocalist Harriet Wheeler and guitarist David Gavarin met and started dating at Bristol University.
Gavarin would be messing around with his guitar and would tell the New York Times and i quote
I started mucking about with music.
[E] Then we bought a drum machine, a bass guitar and a four track recorder and began writing
songs for a band, even though there were only the two of us.
He would ask his girlfriend Wheeler to sing on the tracks he was working on and by either
1987 or 88 they soon moved to London where they enlisted bassist Paul Brindley and drummer Patrick Hannon.
They would call themselves the Sundays.
Gavarin would reveal the origin of the band's name telling a 1990 Boston College Independent
student newspaper named the Heights.
We liked the sound and feel of it [E] and because it wasn't a name that was bigger than the music.
Gavarin would cite the Cocteau twins, Joni [A] Mitchell, John Martin and the Indian folk
singer [Bm] Najma as the [E] band's influences.
In the same interview he reflected on the band's lyrics calling them and i quote impressionistic
and going on to say The mood of the music determines the diction of the lyrics.
We don't tell structured [A] stories or have specific matter that can be unlocked with
a magic key.
Our lyrics are more of a jumble of personal impressions.
In the confusion, important feelings get mixed up with completely meaningless garbage.
Gavarin and Wheeler would write most of the band's songs and their writing style was
quite different from their conventional [Am] straightforward musical style with Gavarin revealing to the
morning call newspaper The way we write is I'll put down a lyric and Harriet will write
the next line.
I admit it's kind of weird [E] since I don't know how many other writers work that [B] way,
but it works for us.
We like that a person can be writing a song one way and the other person can take it in
a completely different [A] tangent.
Actually it's the only way we know how to write he'd say.
It was during their time in London that they cut their first demo tapes and Gavarin would
tell the student newspaper the heights.
Harriet and I made all these tapes and sent them everywhere and only one guy listened.
The quartet played their first show only 8 weeks after assembling in August of 1988 opening
for the group caretaker race.
At that gig the Sundays were one of three openers that night and in the audience were
three members of the british press who were there to review the headliner.
Instead they were mesmerized by the Sunday's performance.
The following day their first gig received positive reviews in several music publications
and for the band's second show a number of people from major record labels showed up.
Gavarin would tell the LA Times in 1990 We'd done no gigs, contacted no one, sent out no
tapes and suddenly we had record companies courting us and four firm offers.
Wheeler would add it was very exciting as well as quite stupid.
A few weeks of not sleeping a lot because there was so much to think about.
The Sundays would opt to sign with indie label Rough Trade which was home to the Smiths.
The band's import only copy of the single Can't Be Sure which came [E] out about a year
before their debut album would soon receive rave reviews.
The british press would fawn [A] over the band with Enemy [Bm] magazine putting Wheeler and Gavarin
on the front cover of their first issue of the new [C#] decade calling 1990 and i quote [E] the
year of the Sundays.
Other publications like Melody Maker soon followed declaring they'd discovered the
band a year earlier.
The Sundays would [C#m] spend 1989 writing their debut album [E] reading, writing and arithmetic
with Geffen Records distributing the album across the pond in America.
[A] Released in January of 1990 their debut album moved up the alternative and college rock
charts in the states.
The album's success was spurred by the singles Here's Where the Story Ends which topped
the alternative rock charts and their first single they released Can't Be Sure.
MTV picked up on the band with them [E] appearing on the program 120 Minutes.
At the same time though the Sundays [A] seemed to view fame through a [G#m] lens of suspicion with
Gavarin revealing [A] to the Heights newspaper,
A few years after the group's debut album was released their label Rough Trade Records declared bankruptcy.
The group would be rescued by Parlophone Records in the UK while Geffen would still distribute them stateside.
In 1993 they would release their sophomore record Blind which featured more polish and
layers than their stripped down debut.
Geffen had high hopes for the album throwing a lot of money behind their tour and promotion.
Gavarin would tell the Morning Call in 1993,
[E] The paper would also cite Hollywood actress Winona Ryder [A] as one of the band's high profile [Bm] fans.
The album would feature a cover of the Rolling Stones song Wild Horses [E] with Gavarin telling
the Morning Call,
The last time we were in America, we bought the Stones' Sticky Fingers album.
We obviously knew the song, but after mucking around with it, we decided to play it and
we thought it sounded good.
Some critics though according to the Chicago Tribune criticized the [A] band for recycling
melodies from their first record, but that didn't matter as the album would go gold.
In 1995 Gavarin and Wheeler would have their first child and they went on a hiatus.
Some thought the band was done, but Gavarin recalled to MTV in 1997,
I don't mean to say that we're not ambitious.
We're happy with how many [E] records we've sold.
We'd like to reach more people, but not at the cost of who we are.
The group would [G#m] return in 1997 with their third and final album [A] Static and Silence.
Since it had been almost half a decade since their last release, there was a seismic shift
in the music scene.
While the album was the highest charting of the group's career, it didn't even go gold.
After Static and Silence the couple had their second child and went on a much longer hiatus,
probably spending their time raising their children.
It resulted in some fans digging deep, ok maybe a little too deep to see what the band
members were up to.
In 2014 American Airlines in-flight magazine American Way featured an email interview with
[F#] Wheeler and Gavarin [A] where they revealed they had in fact been working on new music revealing
the contentious bit unfortunately is a reunion gig.
First let's see if the music we're currently writing ever sees the light of day and then
we can get on the enjoyable globetrotting meets concert planning stage.
In the same interview the pair hinted that if they ever played live shows again they'd
like to play locales they've never visited including Aruba, Fiji and the Galapagos rather
than returning to places they've already performed.
During their hiatus the pair had been press shy, but American Airlines scored the exclusive
because interviewer Adam Pitluck was a huge fan of the band and put in a request through
bandmate Paul Brinley who has [Bm] since become an entrepreneur.
He is the CEO of Music Ally who according to Pitchfork is and i quote [A] a London based
company [E] that explores and implements ways in which music and technology can co-evolve.
Brinley passed on his request to the [A] press shy couple who surprisingly agreed to do the interview.
[E] To promote the feature in their in-flight magazine American Airlines put the Sunday
songs on their in-flight playlist for that month.
Then as recently as 2019 there was a fascinating piece written by David Obuchowski on longreads.com
who chronicled his journey to interview a member of the band.
He would be declined by [E] the band members to do an interview and it culminated with him
getting [A] the address of Wheeler and [G#m] Gavron and almost going to their house unannounced
and ringing their doorbell.
He would ultimately decide against doing it.
[A] Patrick Hannon meanwhile was the [E] only remaining member who seemed to [A] play music in the public
eye, playing drums in the band The Audience and becoming a session musician as well as producing.
As recently as last year Hannon gave an interview to provide an update on where the Sundays
are at with new music saying that Harry and David had and i quote never stopped making
music and that there are a number of tracks that he has drummed on, but he cautioned fans
that these recordings may still never see the light of day.
That does it for today's video guys thanks for watching.
Be sure to hit the like button
Starr video that i put out about a month ago.
The link to that video is down below.
Both Mazzy Starr and the Sundays shared some similarities as they were both fronted by
women and the attention of the band mostly rested on the [E] vocalist and the guitarist.
They also took long hiatuses [A] and were known for being press shy.
[C#m] Today let's explore whatever happened to the british group the Sundays.
The Sundays enjoyed modest success in both the UK and America, but after only three albums
they seemed to vanish.
While they were prominent during the early to mid 90's their origins dated back to the
80's when vocalist Harriet Wheeler and guitarist David Gavarin met and started dating at Bristol University.
Gavarin would be messing around with his guitar and would tell the New York Times and i quote
I started mucking about with music.
[E] Then we bought a drum machine, a bass guitar and a four track recorder and began writing
songs for a band, even though there were only the two of us.
He would ask his girlfriend Wheeler to sing on the tracks he was working on and by either
1987 or 88 they soon moved to London where they enlisted bassist Paul Brindley and drummer Patrick Hannon.
They would call themselves the Sundays.
Gavarin would reveal the origin of the band's name telling a 1990 Boston College Independent
student newspaper named the Heights.
We liked the sound and feel of it [E] and because it wasn't a name that was bigger than the music.
Gavarin would cite the Cocteau twins, Joni [A] Mitchell, John Martin and the Indian folk
singer [Bm] Najma as the [E] band's influences.
In the same interview he reflected on the band's lyrics calling them and i quote impressionistic
and going on to say The mood of the music determines the diction of the lyrics.
We don't tell structured [A] stories or have specific matter that can be unlocked with
a magic key.
Our lyrics are more of a jumble of personal impressions.
In the confusion, important feelings get mixed up with completely meaningless garbage.
Gavarin and Wheeler would write most of the band's songs and their writing style was
quite different from their conventional [Am] straightforward musical style with Gavarin revealing to the
morning call newspaper The way we write is I'll put down a lyric and Harriet will write
the next line.
I admit it's kind of weird [E] since I don't know how many other writers work that [B] way,
but it works for us.
We like that a person can be writing a song one way and the other person can take it in
a completely different [A] tangent.
Actually it's the only way we know how to write he'd say.
It was during their time in London that they cut their first demo tapes and Gavarin would
tell the student newspaper the heights.
Harriet and I made all these tapes and sent them everywhere and only one guy listened.
The quartet played their first show only 8 weeks after assembling in August of 1988 opening
for the group caretaker race.
At that gig the Sundays were one of three openers that night and in the audience were
three members of the british press who were there to review the headliner.
Instead they were mesmerized by the Sunday's performance.
The following day their first gig received positive reviews in several music publications
and for the band's second show a number of people from major record labels showed up.
Gavarin would tell the LA Times in 1990 We'd done no gigs, contacted no one, sent out no
tapes and suddenly we had record companies courting us and four firm offers.
Wheeler would add it was very exciting as well as quite stupid.
A few weeks of not sleeping a lot because there was so much to think about.
The Sundays would opt to sign with indie label Rough Trade which was home to the Smiths.
The band's import only copy of the single Can't Be Sure which came [E] out about a year
before their debut album would soon receive rave reviews.
The british press would fawn [A] over the band with Enemy [Bm] magazine putting Wheeler and Gavarin
on the front cover of their first issue of the new [C#] decade calling 1990 and i quote [E] the
year of the Sundays.
Other publications like Melody Maker soon followed declaring they'd discovered the
band a year earlier.
The Sundays would [C#m] spend 1989 writing their debut album [E] reading, writing and arithmetic
with Geffen Records distributing the album across the pond in America.
[A] Released in January of 1990 their debut album moved up the alternative and college rock
charts in the states.
The album's success was spurred by the singles Here's Where the Story Ends which topped
the alternative rock charts and their first single they released Can't Be Sure.
MTV picked up on the band with them [E] appearing on the program 120 Minutes.
At the same time though the Sundays [A] seemed to view fame through a [G#m] lens of suspicion with
Gavarin revealing [A] to the Heights newspaper,
A few years after the group's debut album was released their label Rough Trade Records declared bankruptcy.
The group would be rescued by Parlophone Records in the UK while Geffen would still distribute them stateside.
In 1993 they would release their sophomore record Blind which featured more polish and
layers than their stripped down debut.
Geffen had high hopes for the album throwing a lot of money behind their tour and promotion.
Gavarin would tell the Morning Call in 1993,
[E] The paper would also cite Hollywood actress Winona Ryder [A] as one of the band's high profile [Bm] fans.
The album would feature a cover of the Rolling Stones song Wild Horses [E] with Gavarin telling
the Morning Call,
The last time we were in America, we bought the Stones' Sticky Fingers album.
We obviously knew the song, but after mucking around with it, we decided to play it and
we thought it sounded good.
Some critics though according to the Chicago Tribune criticized the [A] band for recycling
melodies from their first record, but that didn't matter as the album would go gold.
In 1995 Gavarin and Wheeler would have their first child and they went on a hiatus.
Some thought the band was done, but Gavarin recalled to MTV in 1997,
I don't mean to say that we're not ambitious.
We're happy with how many [E] records we've sold.
We'd like to reach more people, but not at the cost of who we are.
The group would [G#m] return in 1997 with their third and final album [A] Static and Silence.
Since it had been almost half a decade since their last release, there was a seismic shift
in the music scene.
While the album was the highest charting of the group's career, it didn't even go gold.
After Static and Silence the couple had their second child and went on a much longer hiatus,
probably spending their time raising their children.
It resulted in some fans digging deep, ok maybe a little too deep to see what the band
members were up to.
In 2014 American Airlines in-flight magazine American Way featured an email interview with
[F#] Wheeler and Gavarin [A] where they revealed they had in fact been working on new music revealing
the contentious bit unfortunately is a reunion gig.
First let's see if the music we're currently writing ever sees the light of day and then
we can get on the enjoyable globetrotting meets concert planning stage.
In the same interview the pair hinted that if they ever played live shows again they'd
like to play locales they've never visited including Aruba, Fiji and the Galapagos rather
than returning to places they've already performed.
During their hiatus the pair had been press shy, but American Airlines scored the exclusive
because interviewer Adam Pitluck was a huge fan of the band and put in a request through
bandmate Paul Brinley who has [Bm] since become an entrepreneur.
He is the CEO of Music Ally who according to Pitchfork is and i quote [A] a London based
company [E] that explores and implements ways in which music and technology can co-evolve.
Brinley passed on his request to the [A] press shy couple who surprisingly agreed to do the interview.
[E] To promote the feature in their in-flight magazine American Airlines put the Sunday
songs on their in-flight playlist for that month.
Then as recently as 2019 there was a fascinating piece written by David Obuchowski on longreads.com
who chronicled his journey to interview a member of the band.
He would be declined by [E] the band members to do an interview and it culminated with him
getting [A] the address of Wheeler and [G#m] Gavron and almost going to their house unannounced
and ringing their doorbell.
He would ultimately decide against doing it.
[A] Patrick Hannon meanwhile was the [E] only remaining member who seemed to [A] play music in the public
eye, playing drums in the band The Audience and becoming a session musician as well as producing.
As recently as last year Hannon gave an interview to provide an update on where the Sundays
are at with new music saying that Harry and David had and i quote never stopped making
music and that there are a number of tracks that he has drummed on, but he cautioned fans
that these recordings may still never see the light of day.
That does it for today's video guys thanks for watching.
Be sure to hit the like button
Key:
A
E
Bm
G#m
C#m
A
E
Bm
I had actually seen a few people discussing this band in the comments section of my Mazzy
Starr video that i put out about a month ago.
The link to that video is down below.
Both Mazzy Starr and the Sundays shared some similarities as they were both fronted by
women and the attention of the band mostly rested on the [E] vocalist and the guitarist.
They also took long hiatuses [A] and were known for being press shy.
[C#m] Today let's explore whatever happened to the british group the Sundays. _ _ _
_ _ _ The Sundays enjoyed modest success in both the UK and America, but after only three albums
they seemed to vanish.
While they were prominent during the early to mid 90's their origins dated back to the
80's when vocalist Harriet Wheeler and guitarist David Gavarin met and started dating at Bristol University.
Gavarin would be messing around with his guitar and would tell the New York Times and i quote
I started mucking about with music.
[E] Then we bought a drum machine, a bass guitar and a four track recorder and began writing
songs for a band, even though there were only the two of us.
He would ask his girlfriend Wheeler to sing on the tracks he was working on and by either
1987 or 88 they soon moved to London where they enlisted bassist Paul Brindley and drummer Patrick Hannon.
They would call themselves the Sundays.
Gavarin would reveal the origin of the band's name telling a 1990 Boston College Independent
student newspaper named the Heights.
We liked the sound and feel of it [E] and because it wasn't a name that was bigger than the music.
Gavarin would cite the Cocteau twins, Joni [A] Mitchell, John Martin and the Indian folk
singer [Bm] Najma as the [E] band's influences.
In the same interview he reflected on the band's lyrics calling them and i quote impressionistic
and going on to say The mood of the music determines the diction of the lyrics.
We don't tell structured [A] stories or have specific matter that can be unlocked with
a magic key.
Our lyrics are more of a jumble of personal impressions.
In the confusion, important feelings get mixed up with completely meaningless garbage.
Gavarin and Wheeler would write most of the band's songs and their writing style was
quite different from their conventional [Am] straightforward musical style with Gavarin revealing to the
morning call newspaper The way we write is I'll put down a lyric and Harriet will write
the next line.
I admit it's kind of weird [E] since I don't know how many other writers work that [B] way,
but it works for us.
We like that a person can be writing a song one way and the other person can take it in
a completely different [A] tangent.
Actually it's the only way we know how to write he'd say.
It was during their time in London that they cut their first demo tapes and Gavarin would
tell the student newspaper the heights.
Harriet and I made all these tapes and sent them everywhere and only one guy listened.
The quartet played their first show only 8 weeks after assembling in August of 1988 opening
for the group caretaker race.
At that gig the Sundays were one of three openers that night and in the audience were
three members of the british press who were there to review the headliner.
Instead they were mesmerized by the Sunday's performance.
The following day their first gig received positive reviews in several music publications
and for the band's second show a number of people from major record labels showed up.
Gavarin would tell the LA Times in 1990 We'd done no gigs, contacted no one, sent out no
tapes and suddenly we had record companies courting us and four firm offers.
Wheeler would add it was very exciting as well as quite stupid.
A few weeks of not sleeping a lot because there was so much to think about.
The Sundays would opt to sign with indie label Rough Trade which was home to the Smiths.
The band's import only copy of the single Can't Be Sure which came [E] out about a year
before their debut album would soon receive rave reviews.
The british press would fawn [A] over the band with Enemy [Bm] magazine putting Wheeler and Gavarin
on the front cover of their first issue of the new [C#] decade calling 1990 and i quote [E] the
year of the Sundays.
Other publications like Melody Maker soon followed declaring they'd discovered the
band a year earlier.
The Sundays would [C#m] spend 1989 writing their debut album [E] reading, writing and arithmetic
with Geffen Records distributing the album across the pond in America.
[A] Released in January of 1990 their debut album moved up the alternative and college rock
charts in the states.
The album's success was spurred by the singles Here's Where the Story Ends which topped
the alternative rock charts and their first single they released Can't Be Sure.
MTV picked up on the band with them [E] appearing on the program 120 Minutes.
At the same time though the Sundays [A] seemed to view fame through a [G#m] lens of suspicion with
Gavarin revealing [A] to the Heights newspaper, _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _
A few years after the group's debut album was released their label Rough Trade Records declared bankruptcy.
The group would be rescued by Parlophone Records in the UK while Geffen would still distribute them stateside.
In 1993 they would release their sophomore record Blind which featured more polish and
layers than their stripped down debut.
Geffen had high hopes for the album throwing a lot of money behind their tour and promotion.
Gavarin would tell the Morning Call in 1993, _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[E] _ The paper would also cite Hollywood actress Winona Ryder [A] as one of the band's high profile [Bm] fans.
The album would feature a cover of the Rolling Stones song Wild Horses [E] with Gavarin telling
the Morning Call,
The last time we were in America, we bought the Stones' Sticky Fingers album.
We obviously knew the song, but after mucking around with it, we decided to play it and
we thought it sounded good.
Some critics though according to the Chicago Tribune criticized the [A] band for recycling
melodies from their first record, but that didn't matter as the album would go gold.
In 1995 Gavarin and Wheeler would have their first child and they went on a hiatus.
Some thought the band was done, but Gavarin recalled to MTV in 1997,
I don't mean to say that we're not ambitious.
We're happy with how many [E] records we've sold.
We'd like to reach more people, but not at the cost of who we are.
The group would [G#m] return in 1997 with their third and final album [A] Static and Silence.
Since it had been almost half a decade since their last release, there was a seismic shift
in the music scene.
While the album was the highest charting of the group's career, it didn't even go gold.
After Static and Silence the couple had their second child and went on a much longer hiatus,
probably spending their time raising their children.
It resulted in some fans digging deep, ok maybe a little too deep to see what the band
members were up to.
In 2014 American Airlines in-flight magazine American Way featured an email interview with
[F#] Wheeler and Gavarin [A] where they revealed they had in fact been working on new music revealing
the contentious bit unfortunately is a reunion gig.
First let's see if the music we're currently writing ever sees the light of day and then
we can get on the enjoyable globetrotting meets concert planning stage.
In the same interview the pair hinted that if they ever played live shows again they'd
like to play locales they've never visited including Aruba, Fiji and the Galapagos rather
than returning to places they've already performed.
During their hiatus the pair had been press shy, but American Airlines scored the exclusive
because interviewer Adam Pitluck was a huge fan of the band and put in a request through
bandmate Paul Brinley who has [Bm] since become an entrepreneur.
He is the CEO of Music Ally who according to Pitchfork is and i quote [A] a London based
company [E] that explores and implements ways in which music and technology can co-evolve.
Brinley passed on his request to the [A] press shy couple who surprisingly agreed to do the interview.
[E] To promote the feature in their in-flight magazine American Airlines put the Sunday
songs on their in-flight playlist for that month.
Then as recently as 2019 there was a fascinating piece written by David Obuchowski on longreads.com
who chronicled his journey to interview a member of the band.
He would be declined by [E] the band members to do an interview and it culminated with him
getting [A] the address of Wheeler and [G#m] Gavron and almost going to their house unannounced
and ringing their doorbell.
He would ultimately decide against doing it.
[A] Patrick Hannon meanwhile was the [E] only remaining member who seemed to [A] play music in the public
eye, playing drums in the band The Audience and becoming a session musician as well as producing.
As recently as last year Hannon gave an interview to provide an update on where the Sundays
are at with new music saying that Harry and David had and i quote never stopped making
music and that there are a number of tracks that he has drummed on, but he cautioned fans
that these recordings may still never see the light of day.
That does it for today's video guys thanks for watching.
Be sure to hit the like button
Starr video that i put out about a month ago.
The link to that video is down below.
Both Mazzy Starr and the Sundays shared some similarities as they were both fronted by
women and the attention of the band mostly rested on the [E] vocalist and the guitarist.
They also took long hiatuses [A] and were known for being press shy.
[C#m] Today let's explore whatever happened to the british group the Sundays. _ _ _
_ _ _ The Sundays enjoyed modest success in both the UK and America, but after only three albums
they seemed to vanish.
While they were prominent during the early to mid 90's their origins dated back to the
80's when vocalist Harriet Wheeler and guitarist David Gavarin met and started dating at Bristol University.
Gavarin would be messing around with his guitar and would tell the New York Times and i quote
I started mucking about with music.
[E] Then we bought a drum machine, a bass guitar and a four track recorder and began writing
songs for a band, even though there were only the two of us.
He would ask his girlfriend Wheeler to sing on the tracks he was working on and by either
1987 or 88 they soon moved to London where they enlisted bassist Paul Brindley and drummer Patrick Hannon.
They would call themselves the Sundays.
Gavarin would reveal the origin of the band's name telling a 1990 Boston College Independent
student newspaper named the Heights.
We liked the sound and feel of it [E] and because it wasn't a name that was bigger than the music.
Gavarin would cite the Cocteau twins, Joni [A] Mitchell, John Martin and the Indian folk
singer [Bm] Najma as the [E] band's influences.
In the same interview he reflected on the band's lyrics calling them and i quote impressionistic
and going on to say The mood of the music determines the diction of the lyrics.
We don't tell structured [A] stories or have specific matter that can be unlocked with
a magic key.
Our lyrics are more of a jumble of personal impressions.
In the confusion, important feelings get mixed up with completely meaningless garbage.
Gavarin and Wheeler would write most of the band's songs and their writing style was
quite different from their conventional [Am] straightforward musical style with Gavarin revealing to the
morning call newspaper The way we write is I'll put down a lyric and Harriet will write
the next line.
I admit it's kind of weird [E] since I don't know how many other writers work that [B] way,
but it works for us.
We like that a person can be writing a song one way and the other person can take it in
a completely different [A] tangent.
Actually it's the only way we know how to write he'd say.
It was during their time in London that they cut their first demo tapes and Gavarin would
tell the student newspaper the heights.
Harriet and I made all these tapes and sent them everywhere and only one guy listened.
The quartet played their first show only 8 weeks after assembling in August of 1988 opening
for the group caretaker race.
At that gig the Sundays were one of three openers that night and in the audience were
three members of the british press who were there to review the headliner.
Instead they were mesmerized by the Sunday's performance.
The following day their first gig received positive reviews in several music publications
and for the band's second show a number of people from major record labels showed up.
Gavarin would tell the LA Times in 1990 We'd done no gigs, contacted no one, sent out no
tapes and suddenly we had record companies courting us and four firm offers.
Wheeler would add it was very exciting as well as quite stupid.
A few weeks of not sleeping a lot because there was so much to think about.
The Sundays would opt to sign with indie label Rough Trade which was home to the Smiths.
The band's import only copy of the single Can't Be Sure which came [E] out about a year
before their debut album would soon receive rave reviews.
The british press would fawn [A] over the band with Enemy [Bm] magazine putting Wheeler and Gavarin
on the front cover of their first issue of the new [C#] decade calling 1990 and i quote [E] the
year of the Sundays.
Other publications like Melody Maker soon followed declaring they'd discovered the
band a year earlier.
The Sundays would [C#m] spend 1989 writing their debut album [E] reading, writing and arithmetic
with Geffen Records distributing the album across the pond in America.
[A] Released in January of 1990 their debut album moved up the alternative and college rock
charts in the states.
The album's success was spurred by the singles Here's Where the Story Ends which topped
the alternative rock charts and their first single they released Can't Be Sure.
MTV picked up on the band with them [E] appearing on the program 120 Minutes.
At the same time though the Sundays [A] seemed to view fame through a [G#m] lens of suspicion with
Gavarin revealing [A] to the Heights newspaper, _ _ _ _ _ _
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A few years after the group's debut album was released their label Rough Trade Records declared bankruptcy.
The group would be rescued by Parlophone Records in the UK while Geffen would still distribute them stateside.
In 1993 they would release their sophomore record Blind which featured more polish and
layers than their stripped down debut.
Geffen had high hopes for the album throwing a lot of money behind their tour and promotion.
Gavarin would tell the Morning Call in 1993, _ _ _ _
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[E] _ The paper would also cite Hollywood actress Winona Ryder [A] as one of the band's high profile [Bm] fans.
The album would feature a cover of the Rolling Stones song Wild Horses [E] with Gavarin telling
the Morning Call,
The last time we were in America, we bought the Stones' Sticky Fingers album.
We obviously knew the song, but after mucking around with it, we decided to play it and
we thought it sounded good.
Some critics though according to the Chicago Tribune criticized the [A] band for recycling
melodies from their first record, but that didn't matter as the album would go gold.
In 1995 Gavarin and Wheeler would have their first child and they went on a hiatus.
Some thought the band was done, but Gavarin recalled to MTV in 1997,
I don't mean to say that we're not ambitious.
We're happy with how many [E] records we've sold.
We'd like to reach more people, but not at the cost of who we are.
The group would [G#m] return in 1997 with their third and final album [A] Static and Silence.
Since it had been almost half a decade since their last release, there was a seismic shift
in the music scene.
While the album was the highest charting of the group's career, it didn't even go gold.
After Static and Silence the couple had their second child and went on a much longer hiatus,
probably spending their time raising their children.
It resulted in some fans digging deep, ok maybe a little too deep to see what the band
members were up to.
In 2014 American Airlines in-flight magazine American Way featured an email interview with
[F#] Wheeler and Gavarin [A] where they revealed they had in fact been working on new music revealing
the contentious bit unfortunately is a reunion gig.
First let's see if the music we're currently writing ever sees the light of day and then
we can get on the enjoyable globetrotting meets concert planning stage.
In the same interview the pair hinted that if they ever played live shows again they'd
like to play locales they've never visited including Aruba, Fiji and the Galapagos rather
than returning to places they've already performed.
During their hiatus the pair had been press shy, but American Airlines scored the exclusive
because interviewer Adam Pitluck was a huge fan of the band and put in a request through
bandmate Paul Brinley who has [Bm] since become an entrepreneur.
He is the CEO of Music Ally who according to Pitchfork is and i quote [A] a London based
company [E] that explores and implements ways in which music and technology can co-evolve.
Brinley passed on his request to the [A] press shy couple who surprisingly agreed to do the interview.
[E] To promote the feature in their in-flight magazine American Airlines put the Sunday
songs on their in-flight playlist for that month.
Then as recently as 2019 there was a fascinating piece written by David Obuchowski on longreads.com
who chronicled his journey to interview a member of the band.
He would be declined by [E] the band members to do an interview and it culminated with him
getting [A] the address of Wheeler and [G#m] Gavron and almost going to their house unannounced
and ringing their doorbell.
He would ultimately decide against doing it.
[A] Patrick Hannon meanwhile was the [E] only remaining member who seemed to [A] play music in the public
eye, playing drums in the band The Audience and becoming a session musician as well as producing.
As recently as last year Hannon gave an interview to provide an update on where the Sundays
are at with new music saying that Harry and David had and i quote never stopped making
music and that there are a number of tracks that he has drummed on, but he cautioned fans
that these recordings may still never see the light of day.
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