Years active 2000–present | Website www.sundaydriver.co.uk | |
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Members Chandrika NathJames ClaytonKat ArneyAmit JogiaRichard BullenSimon RichardsonScot JowettJoe Nicholson (sound technician)Charlie Suarez (backup dancer/cleaning crew) Albums Milk & Cookies for the Reaper, Remixes, More Than Flies Record labels Doghouse Records, Limited Fanfare Records, Milky Bomb Records, Sunday Driver Similar Unextraordinary Gentlemen, The Wind‑Up Birds, Vernian Process, Frenchy and the Punk, Ghostfire Profiles | ||
Sunday Driver are a Cambridge and London based fusion band with English folk and classical Indian influences. In 2009 they became popular within the UK Steampunk scene.
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History
"Sunday Driver" are named after a gene (SYD) originally found in fruit flies.
Sunday Driver were formed in the summer of 2000, though lead singer Chandrika "Chandy" Nath had earlier composed some of the songs whilst monitoring ice floes near the South Pole, during a field trip in Antarctica, collecting data for the British Antarctic Survey.
An Arts Council grant back in 2004 paid for training workshops with renowned sitarist Baluji Shrivastav.
In 2009, Sunday Driver were the opening band at the first Asylum Steampunk Festival, held at The Lawn Asylum, Lincoln, the same year they opened the Cambridge Folk Festival. They also played the steampunk festival in 2010 and headlined the main Ball there in 2011.
Albums
Songs
Mechanical AngelThe Mutiny · 2012
Concubine WaltzThe Mutiny · 2012
Clockwork TigerThe Mutiny · 2012