Chords for The Sundays - interview [1990]

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Welcome back to One Twenty, we're with the Sundays, [Bb] vocalist Harriet Wheeler
and guitarist David Gavarin.
Now, where did you come up with the name, The Sundays?
_ In the sitting room, I think.
That's where we came up with it.
I was thinking it might be somewhere like that.
We had a gig the next day, and it's the old story of
wanting to [E] find a name quickly, and that was the only one
that we could all even remotely agree on, I think.
[Bb] _ So it wasn't from some strange book or anything.
I read that you wanted a [F] name that wasn't larger than the [Gb] music.
Is that right?
Yeah.
_ The music's pretty large, and The Sundays is not a very long name.
Yeah, the music's enormous. _
_ _ There's no [E] particular significance in it.
It was just something fairly neutral for the name,
[D] because the name's an extra, really.
The music, for us, is obviously more important,
and it seems that there are some bands that have names that,
I don't know, like 10,000 Maniacs or something,
that you hear the name and it [Gb] conjures up something
before you've even heard the music.
Well, we didn't want [E] that.
I think that's a good name,
but it wasn't [Bb] what we wanted for us.
So the idea is you can't tell what the music's going to sound like
before you hear it just from the name.
Yeah, that's right.
_ Now, [A] your new album is called Reading, [F] Writing and Arithmetic.
Are you going to say where did you get that from?
[Bb] _
No, I'm not.
I'm going to ask about the producer,
an even more original question.
[N] It's Ray Shulman, who worked with the Sugar Cubes also, right?
That's right.
Ex of Gentle Giant as well.
Just for the [Bb] curious viewer out there.
Yeah, [B] he's a really good [Bb] bloke.
We worked with him on the single as well,
and we were keen to work with him again, _
just cos he was really easy to work with
and wasn't bossy and, oh, let's have another chorus here.
He knew more about the technical side of the studio than we do,
which isn't hard. _
So he was perfect, really, for that.
Well, your new album just came out, and your new video is called Joy.
What's that song about?
_ It's about Ray Shulman. _ _
[Bm] _ The songs aren't really about anything specific.
We don't [F] start out with subject matter
and think we're going to write a song about this
or we're going to write a [E] love song or whatever.
[Gb] It's just [Fm] images and impressions or whatever,
just all bundled [E] together with the music.
[Bb] It's sort of memories, if anything,
but they're not like stories, our songs,
so it's hard to describe them in under a minute.
So we probably better not start.
Well, let's just watch the video [Bm] instead.
This is The Sundays With Joy, and we'll be back with more of The Sundays. _
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How much did that video cost to make?
_ I reckon about £6,000, [E] something like that.
£6,000, which is about 10,000 bucks, I guess.
Cos I really like it.
It's a great example of what you can do on a low budget.
[Bb] With toilet rolls.
That's right, yeah, toilet [N] rolls. _
Peter Scammell directed it, and he's sort of done_
I don't know if you saw, there was the Wolfgang Press Kansas video,
which was really, really good, and he's a good lad, Peter Scammell.
He's a really nice guy.
He knows what to do with £6,000.
_ He's good at working with low budgets.
We should give him a job here at MTV.
We're going to be back with [Bb] more of The Sundays in the second 60 of [D] 120 Minutes. MUSIC _ _ _ _ PLAYS _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ [Eb] 120 meets The Sundays, Harriet Wheeler and David Gavarin.
Where did you guys meet? _
We met in Bristol years, years and years ago.
Oh, many years ago.
We were at college there for a while, [Bb] and _ _ that's it, really.
That's where we met?
Yeah, we met, and that's where we were.
Did you form the band [B] there?
Yeah, we started [E] writing.
Well, us two, we did, us two of us,
just piddling around with guitar and singing [N] stuff.
And a little four-track recorder.
And then we ended up writing songs that you'd need more than two people to play them,
[Gb] and so we got a couple of friends to join us, and that was it.
And now you're being billed as Britain's great new pop hope.
_ _ Only by our parents.
Yeah, quite right, and grandparents.
They're the only ones that count.
Did it happen quickly for you?
[B] Yeah, it happened really, really quickly.
I mean, it was incredibly lucky, [N] basically,
because we sent off a tape to get a gig,
and fully expecting no one to listen to it,
because they don't listen to tapes when you send them off to venues,
but luckily One Bloke did, and they offered us this gig
where we were the first band on a three, and we went and did it.
It was our first gig in London, and it got reviewed by all the major music papers
who'd actually come to review the main band on.
Who was that?
Which was an independent band called The Caretaker Race.
And, you know, just sort of the next day, [Gbm] basically,
the phone was ringing [E] from all these sort of companies, and that was it, really.
_ Do you like what _ comes with the success, the trappings of it, [N] and the expectations?
The wine, the women, the sort of_
I mean, well, we haven't really seen any of it so far, and we're having a good time.
_ We're not really particularly interested in the flashier aspects of it,
but it's great to be here, to be doing something like this,
coming to New York, having a look round on the streets.
Yeah, seeing all the tall buildings.
I don't think we need a lot more than that, really.
Is it your first time here in New York?
Second time.
It's the second time.
First time at MTV.
And the buildings are still as big as the first time?
They're slightly bigger.
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[Bb] Do you have any tour plans?
_ [Gb] _ Yeah, we've actually going to be doing, you know, what we like to refer to as our world [Dm] tour.
We've got an opportunity to go to Japan in June,
and then we're going to be coming on here [Bb] in late June, early July, so that's [E] the plans now.
We've just been [Gb] round Europe [D] and done, obviously, a tour [E] in Britain.
_ Great.
Well, thanks very much for coming by, and we'll look forward to that.
The Sundays, Harriet and David.
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