Sunday Driver (band)

{{Infobox musical artist

| name = Sunday Driver

| background = group_or_band

| image =Chandrika_Nath,_Sunday_Driver,_Lincoln_2011.jpg

| caption = Chandy Nath on stage in Lincoln, 2011

| origin = London, UK

| genre = {{Flatlist|

| years_active = 2000–present

| label =

| website = [http://www.sundaydriver.co.uk/ www.sundaydriver.co.uk]

| current_members = Chandrika Nath
James Clayton
Kat Arney
Amit Jogia
Richard Bullen
Simon Richardson
Scot Jowett
Joe Nicholson (sound technician)
Charlie Suarez (backup dancer/cleaning crew)

}}

Sunday Driver are a Cambridge and London based band that fuses English folk and classical Indian influences. In 2009 they became popular within the UK steampunk scene.{{cite web

| title = Yr Doin' It Right #1 - Sunday Driver

| author = Libby Bulloff

| url = http://steampunkworkshop.com/yr-doin-it-right-1-sunday-driver

| publisher = Steampunk Workshop

| date = December 11, 2009

| accessdate = 2010-04-26}}

History

"Sunday Driver" are named after a gene (SYD) originally found in fruit flies.{{cite news

|url= http://www.myspace.com/sundaydriverinuk

|work= Sunday Driver Myspace page

|date= c. 2010

|title= Sunday Driver (UK) | Listen and Stream Free Music, Albums, New Releases, Photos, Videos

|url-status=live

|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130928131909/https://myspace.com/sundaydriverinuk

|archive-date=2013-09-28

}}{{cite journal

|pmid= 11106729

|date= November 10, 2000

| doi=10.1016/S0092-8674(00)00162-8

|volume=103

|issue=4

|title=Kinesin-dependent axonal transport is mediated by the sunday driver (SYD) protein

|journal=Cell

|pages=583–94

|last1= Bowman

|first1= Aaron B.

|last2= Kamal

|first2= Adeela

|last3= Ritchings

|first3= Bruce W.

|last4= Philp

|first4= Alastair Valentine

|last5= McGrail

|first5= Maura

|last6= Gindhart

|first6= Joseph G.

|last7= Goldstein

|first7= Lawrence S.B.

|doi-access= free

}}

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.{{cite news

|url= http://dmp.dreamwidth.org/9727.html

|work= Tales of the Urban Adventurer

|title= Beyond Victoriana: #10 An Interview with Sunday Driver

|author= D.M.P.

|date= 2010-01-16

}}

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.

Discography

=Albums=

Sacred Cow / The Man from Bombay (2001) (Demo Compilation)
More than Flies (2002) (EP)
Underground (2003) (EP)
In the City of Dreadful Night (2008) (Debut Full Length Album)
The Mutiny (2012) {{Cite news

|title=Pop, rock & jazz, April 22

|url=http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/culture/music/pop_and_rock/article1019388.ece

|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140513011301/http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/culture/music/pop_and_rock/article1019388.ece

|url-status=dead

|archive-date=May 13, 2014

|journal=The Sunday Times

|date=22 April 2012

}}

Flo (2014) (EP)
Sun God (2022)
Devils (2024) (Single)

References

External links

[http://www.sundaydriver.co.uk Sunday Driver website]
[http://www.myspace.com/sundaydriverinuk Sunday Driver Myspace site]
[http://www.sundaydriver.co.uk/facebook Sunday Driver Facebook fan page]

Category:Steampunk music