Sunday Driver (band)

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.[1]

This article is about the UK band. For other uses, see Sunday Driver (disambiguation).
Sunday Driver
Chandy Nath on stage in Lincoln, 2011
Background information
OriginLondon, UK
GenresFolk
Carnatic
Steampunk
Years active2000–present
Websitewww.sundaydriver.co.uk
MembersChandrika Nath
James Clayton
Kat Arney
Amit Jogia
Richard Bullen
Simon Richardson
Scot Jowett
Joe Nicholson (sound technician)
Charlie Suarez (backup dancer/cleaning crew)

History

"Sunday Driver" are named after a gene (SYD) originally found in fruit flies.[2] [3]

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.[4]

An Arts Council grant back in 2004 paid for training workshops with renowned sitarist Baluji Shrivastav.[2]

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) [5]
  • Flo (2014) (EP)

See also

References
  1. Libby Bulloff (12/11/2009). "Yr Doin' It Right #1 - Sunday Driver". Steampunk Workshop. Retrieved 2010-04-26. Check date values in: |date= (help)
  2. Sunday Driver Myspace page. 10.03.2010 http://www.myspace.com/sundaydriverinuk. Check date values in: |date= (help); Missing or empty |title= (help)
  3. Bowman, Aaron B.; Kamal, Adeela; Ritchings, Bruce W.; Philp, Alastair Valentine; McGrail, Maura; Gindhart, Joseph G.; Goldstein, Lawrence S.B. (01.05.2011). "Kinesin-dependent axonal transport is mediated by the sunday driver (SYD) protein". Cell. 103 (4): 583–94. doi:10.1016/S0092-8674(00)00162-8. PMID 11106729. Check date values in: |date= (help)
  4. D.M.P. (2010-01-16). "Beyond Victoriana: #10 An Interview with Sunday Driver". Tales of the Urban Adventurer.
  5. "Pop, rock & jazz, April 22". The Sunday Times. 22 April 2012.
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