Biography
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Years Active
2000 – present (24 years)
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Members
- Kat Arney
There are two bands by the name of Sunday Driver. One is a Rock/Alternative/Post-Hardcore band from Miami, FL formed up in 1995 that has put out 2 releases on Doghouse Records. The other 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.
Sunday Driver (USA 1995-2010): Alex Martinez (guitar, and vocals) and Arnold Nese (bass) formed the Miami Florida quartet, Sunday Driver in 1995. Sunday Driver began playing the local Miami scene with bands like New Found Glory, The Vacant Andys, Strongarm, Shai Hulud, and other Miami emo and hardcore bands. In 1997 Sunday Driver added second guitarist Charlie Suarez, and in 1999 they met drummer Paul Trust, thus completing the line up know today as Sunday Driver. The band soon began work on a 5 song EP for Doghouse Records. Sunday Driver’s debut release, Third Place Prize, came out in October of 2001. Sunday Driver's debut LP, "A Letter to Bryson City" was released on March 25, 2003 on Doghouse Records, boasting the single and video for "Forever Again".
Sunday Driver (UK): 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 UK Steampunk Festival, held at The Lawn Asylum, Lincoln, the same year they opened the Cambridge Folk Festival.
They are named after a gene (SYD) commonly found in mice.
Official site: http://www.sundaydriver.co.uk/
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