The Sundays Interview 1997

Interview with Harriet and David and live performance of "When I'm Thinking About You"

[@aliasoma]

Her voice literally saved my life when I was a teen. I didn't know anyone could sound that beautiful.

[@gabrielphelps1555]

Really relate to that indeed.

[@hamblyl]

@@martin_minimalwave they are a pair apart, for sure

[@dannydorko7075]

this is my first time hearing her speaking voice. I didn't expect it to sound like this at all, i thought it would be much higher haha

[@sixesfullofnines]

@@martin_minimalwave Oh mY GOD!!!!!!! Wtf, I am speechless, I feel the same!!!!!

[@Marie-eg5hs]

I started listening to them recently they are also starting to save me in many ways :)

[@stephen3511]

I was 17 when their first album was out. I still often listen to it…. And even after several hundred listens it’s still sounds just as wonderful. I’d love them to reform, but part of their magic should stay as it was. Charming people who made beautiful music.

[@wlouisharris]

I was lucky to see them live twice. Her voice sounded amazing. The 97 show was one of the best shows I've ever seen.

[@chriskoch7794]

I'm so jealous.

[@wildbird78]

"when you're searching your soul, when you're searching for pleasure, how often pain is all you find. But when you're coastin' along and nobody's tryin too hard, you can turn around and like where you are". These words shaped my life. I'll never forget them.

[@murrij]

Harriet (and by default her partner and band mates) have gotten me through a lot of bad times. I hope they're happy, healthy and so are their kids wherever they are. They released a load of positive energy out in the world and I do hope they come back. Heaven knows we could use some more positive energy right now.

[@sumeetsinghal8451]

Can't believe they'd built a studio by 1997 ready to pile out more stuff. for nothing to happen. they will always have a market and fan base. I love them as much aged 44 as I did aged 17 and so it seems does everyone else

[@JosephHF]

Perhaps we're just not worthy and they don't need the hassle or the money any longer, who knows? I do believe they've fulfilled their contract with Geffen. Perhaps they now only write and sing for their children and friends these days. In any case, good God, what a great live act they were. I'll never forget those experiences, as long as I live.

[@joachim595]

Yeah. That's really funny. Researching how to create a good studio, and then disappear 😂. I wonder if it's still there or they had to turn it in to a nursery or something.

[@elCaxi1971]

+Sumeet Singhal .. oh how i wish Harriet would sing Every song ever written.. and that Sundays would tour the world.... I think i love them even more aged 46 than i did aged 19 when Reading, writing and arithmetic came out in 1990.. Her voice still gives me chills down my spine and brings tears to my eyes

[@rvufo]

Hopefully they let other musicians use the studio and that’s how they make money... they could use their last album as advertisement for the potential of the studio for the sake of recordings.

[@richardroberson2564]

@@rvufo I've heard they moved houses and no longer have a home studio

[@pepecohetes492]

Great music, miss this band terribly!

[@SXI96]

+pepe cohetes I know what you mean, i really miss that time and era :(

[@jenw8130]

I saw them perform in Portland in the early 90s … pure amazement. A guy jumped up on the small stage and grabbed Harriet and kissed her. The bouncers were too slow and she was stunned. Wish they would make more music.

[@danielli-g3334]

I think things like that is what prompted them into early retirement.

[@Stephaneaux]

Hopefully he had a knuckle sandwich.

[@arrow4749]

that’s exactly why she hated performing live…

[@ianthefist]

My favourite band. 2023 and still i am hoping they release some more music. Surely their nippers must have flown the nest by now?

[@paullazarro4295]

I'm 70 and their music still sounds fresh. Harriet's voice brings a tear to my eyes.

[@asr070568]

"It's probably not the most well-advised commercial venture to wait such a long time." - Harriet Wheeler (1997)

[@sosila]

I miss the Sundays. Never saw an interview with them before. They're funny.

[@focusedfreebird]

their music very ethereal..loved the blind album!

[@stephenwest673]

Oh man that voice, it’s like liquid gold ❤️

[@elchoya100]

harriet is sooooo lovely.

[@veryonlineman]

Harriet is just something else

[@user-tk5wt9xh8y]

I still go back to 'Summertime'. The more I listen to it, the more I like it! Still..

[@kenpudsey6435]

Harriet's voice is superb,what a talent!

[@DinSC]

Oh how I miss their beautiful music

[@andrewhowe1309]

Harriet's voice and the swirl of David's guitar playing encouraged me through some moments of loss of a relationship (I was at a really loose end). The other guys in the band possibly didn't get the recognition in the press they deserved (mainly because of the fact that David and Harriet were an item, also there are few bands who promote the bassist or drummer), but as a band they were all fantastic. I'm still in love with the song Goodbye, so well crafted and played. I notice Harriet has a Bristol accent when singing (e.g. "Am I cold or just a little bit waaarm"), she studied in Bristol at the same time as David, so perhaps that's a factor.

[@Boudosaved]

COME BACK!!!! The music world needs you badly!!! Please!!! I've had your debut CD in my car since the early 90s. For many years, I played it EVERY day.

[@brunohebert1351]

So every day is a Sunday... (sorry couldn't resist, trust me that first album runs regularly for me too)

[@Boudosaved]

@@brunohebert1351 Just ask Morrissey...

[@lovetroublecat]

Absolutely

[@pseudonymlifts2]

I have a lot of respect for artists who find themselves in a position of success after producing something great, but recognise that they want to move on from the music biz and explore other parts of life. I'm sure they loved making music but it does become work in the business and that can kill your enthusiasm. It's hard to make inspired music when the passion isn't there. To keep it alive you have to make big sacrifices and be completely obsessed and driven. I bet the home studio was an attempt to reduce the sacrifice required but it just didn't solve the fundamental problem. Making things more convenient doesn't help when at the end of the day your heart isn't in it any more. On top of that, you age, fashions change, life happens. Props to them for recognising it was time to move on. It's a dignified and mature decision to make and they already gave us enough.

[@eshim3961]

For the love of God, PLEASE come back, Sundays!!!

[@charmingmanb9717]

I heard the Sundays back in 1990. Saw them in 98. They were awesome. Still love their music. If any of the band members are reading this, please make some more music!

[@amazingmoran8701]

I heard that they might be reuniting soon.

[@dubUhoo]

AmazingMoran dry land is NOT a myth...I've seen it!

[@finosuilleabhain7781]

@@amazingmoran8701 Did your source have any update on that?

[@njb1126]

@@finosuilleabhain7781 they probably read it in the American Airlines interview done in 2014. It was a short interview and they mentioned it in passing. Patrick hannan the drummer did an interview in 2020 on the podcast the C86 show. I haven’t listened to it completely yet but he did mentioned that it was a growing possibility. How much so I don’t know.

[@finosuilleabhain7781]

@@njb1126 Thanks, yep ended up downloading that podcast myself but from what I remember there was nothing solid. And now it's 2022. Still, would we want it to happen anyway? (Yes, yes.)

[@thetiggytree]

When i was busking once an older gentleman informed me my voice sounded like Harriet Wheeler and Ive never felt so complimented in my life 😅 now a die hard fan

[@mondaymelancholy]

You should do a Sundays cover then 😉

[@livempire]

she´s perfect

[@dogdaybreak3157]

My goodness. What talent.

[@disnukka79]

I found out about these guys 12 years ago and been a fan ever since and have never seen a moving picture of any of them.

[@Ghadente]

❤ The Sundays... Always hoping they will return to us and grace the world with more beautiful music

[@GamingGrandma50]

I'll never understand how these groups make it in the industry and then just decide to disappear...sometimes at the height of their fame. I mean so many try and never make it. It's too bad, we lost so many years of her beautiful voice, how sad.

[@njb1126]

A bittersweet ending but they had a noble reason. I would rather hear they raised a happy family than sacrificing their family for fame. They made the right choice.

[@RossMcL1961]

Á wonderful, hauting performance, no frills, plug in, mike up, simple guitar and vocals... and what vocals !

[@morleychallenged]

Apartment-dressing music. So irrepressibly motivational.

[@outfield1988]

Miss them so much 1990 some of the best times in my life. Please come back please

[@user-od7lf5yh1y]

Some of the best times of my life as well. Those years have been on my mind a lot lately for some reason?......

[@veryonlineman]

I watch this video every time youtube thinks i should watch it again and recommends it to me

[@richardroberson2564]

Same

[@KJ-je9pm]

In love with Harriet

[@jeffreyvonstetten5852]

Such an amazing band with such beautiful music. I hope the get more out there

[@richardmiller2049]

David wrote for his muse,his lovely talented wife. Just great music.

[@davidgodoy9561]

I wish that I could have caught The Sundays live! I was born in late '87, so I was just a toddler when they released 'Reading Writing & Arithmetic.'

[@EGJ89]

I'm so happy to hear that they're working on new material. Let's just hope it actually sees the light of day!

[@totalmink]

Please release new material - the world needs it 🙌🙌🔥🔥🔥🙌😃😍😍😍

[@Vebinz]

Grrrrrr! That Dave married my teenage crush!

[@eypcervantez5450]

LOVE ALL ALBUM MUSIC....The Sundays!!!!!

[@thirdfound]

loved this so much. thank you!

[@ahahhahafuckthis]

I miss this band so much

[@faunoram]

back in 2013, i think, they were interviewed, and they said that they were working in new music again and it seemed that they were coming back, but now after 5 years of silence we dont have any notice from them...

[@getit9066]

I had no idea until recently what a powerful message is contained in "Summertime," such a beautiful sounding song.

[@olikat8]

Last summer had my 9 year-old daughter in the car (ironically a black '90's VDP Jag) cruising past some of the horse farms/ranches in the valley and she starts singing along to "Summertime." It was a weird 'time warp' moment for sure...

[@robwright1286]

Ayy that must have been trippy, she's got good taste though you have to give her that

[@applescruff1969]

Very sweet. You're daughter's got great taste!

[@olikat8]

@@applescruff1969 thanks- she is still a character today.

[@applescruff1969]

@@olikat8 I wish you and her a ton of good years ahead!

[@olikat8]

@@applescruff1969 appreciate that, best wishes to you as well. She just spent half the summer in Tokyo and was interning at Duke on a fungal research program and a study on animal sensory perception...she is doing great for a 16 year-old. Awesome kid

[@michaelmoraga2926]

💜💜💜💜💜 ...since '89

[@nickh8297]

We've been spoiled with 3 really good albums , can they muster up a 4th one that they'll be happy enough with to release? or even a farewell tour? or even a video of them performing at home? or at the very least wave at us from a moving bus.. give us some closure and we are prepared to sacrifice Bono..... figuratively of course.

[@blackmore4]

I'm prepared to sacrifice him literally.

[@ryansams1268]

At least they released a few albums, unlike The La's.

[@veryonlineman]

The interviewer is kind of awkward but very likeable. Strange setting but i guess thats just a British thing. Harriet and David are brilliant together. Harriet seems more like a laid back slightly blunt person and david more friendly and shy. Its perfect really

[@hereswhatmyseeingeyedogsez7745]

She's everyone's sweetheart.

[@chriskoch7794]

She is an absolute doll.

[@buzzracer69ify]

Please come back, it's 2023 and you are missed !!.I will buy a new album

[@r3d5ive87]

6 months about to be 30 years

[@totalmink]

God I love them both - cool as fuck

[@BobSiefken]

Aaaaaaaagh!!!! Give us more!

[@ohitbe3616]

Wish they would come back 😪

[@brandonrobertson9753]

Why did they stop? My guess is Harriet lost her singing voice. I saw them perform on Friday December 5, 1997 and Saturday December 6, 1997 at the Variety Playhouse in Atlanta. Both shows were awesome but I later noticed in recordings of the tour that Harriet was having issues hitting the high notes in the songs. After the Friday show, I hung around until David and Harriet came out to see the 20 or so members of the Sundays Mailing list that wanted to meet them. The list admin was there and one fan flew in from San Fran. We had no idea if they would show and security tried but didn't get us to leave. Harriet was pleasant but one thing I noticed immediately about her was that she had a very deep voice. Later I read she was a smoker and well, we all know what that does to a voice. There was a beer incident- Harriet balanced a beer on a chair armrest and it fell and broke. Someone picked up a bottle fragment and said it was for their collection. During our conversations they let it leak that Saturday morning they were doing a Toy For Tots benefit show, to be announced Saturday morning on radio station 99X. So we heard it first, and I was at Toy-R-Us at 7:30am finding a toy to donate (that was the admission fee). It was packed for Friday's show, but on Saturday there was a bit more room and I was able to get right up to the stage. I still vividly remember David playing that guitar and getting goosebumps from Harriet singing those beautiful songs.

[@applescruff1969]

Probably is a contributing factor, but i always heard that they quit the music business because they wanted to focus on raising their kids.

[@stevesebaoun6555]

Harriet losing her voice that’s your speculation, I clearly heard they didn’t care about fame but wanted to focus on raising their kids , anyway Harriet with a “weaker” singing voice would still sound way better than the mediocre talentless cash cows of today !

[@AdrenalineConcept]

That's a cool story with the gigs man! The band called it a day to raise a family. It's quite well documented now. Listening to their final gigs her voice certainly wasn't shot. They continued to write music but raising a family was priority, and time went by and the desire to share the songs probably wore thin. The other band members stayed active in the industry - one as a musician, the other in a part of the music industry. I understand their kids are both at Bristol Uni now. Being nearly 30 years since their last gig it would seem unlikely they'd return. Seemed to be a band sceptical of fame and risk compromising their value system as people. Throw in the pressure of writing new music for a fan base 3 albums in - living a low key life as they've successfully managed to for nearly 3 decades seems logical to continue on doing. David and Harriette can enjoy their lives as a couple with safety and privacy this way too.

[@vgovger4373]

Wow they were planning more music in 6 months, and it's been 23 years now?

[@JQBMusicandTutorials]

"bit of support" for radiohead lol

[@tickedoffnow]

I'd eat everything there, lol, this video is making me hungry

[@nigelbevan8449]

Harriet has the voice like melting chocolate..... That's a compliment by the way.....

[@sharonlee4773]

Blimey she looked exactly the same from 1987 to at least 1997!

[@mplsmark222]

I love the Sunday’s music and they seem like really nice people. However, whoever thought having an interview show where the host and guests eat during the interview? Bad idea, glad it didn’t becoming a normal thing.

[@coffeeandcigarettes2885]

Of course Harriet has a beautiful voice and her husband is the consummate musician and arranger . Its a good bet they were forced to make a comeback . The record companies, most managers, all sorts of middleman and lawyers in the music and entertainment business are predators . Through dodgy contracts they signed when they were young were probably filled with all sorts of legalese to rip them off . These scumbags will try to squeeze every bit of life and money out of artists and bands . Badfinger a band in 1970 were great yet these middlemen and in particular their manager screwed them out of almost all their earnings . Two of the band members wrote a song Without You which Harry Neilson recorded and sold a million records. Its been recorded and performed by many till this day . the songwriters didn't recieve a penny from it . both committed suicide . Badfinger is probably the rule and not the exception , without that many suicides but most entertainers end up broke and not from their own overspending . again the entertainment business is a monster which will eat you up and spit you out .

[@NFSDC2024]

I cant believe I didnt buy this album. I feel lame. 😂

[@jat4958]

90's version of Hot Wings or Hot Ones or whatever that youtube channel is called 🤣

[@CS-dw4kw]

aw and they never released another album ugghh whyyy???

[@TheSundaysLive]

Favorite video, special 9:15

[@dubUhoo]

youtube is so great.

[@andrewhowe1309]

Also she once said she can't sing - hold on a minute, yes you can

[@richardjalabhay5586]

i love the interviewer. RE the song, when did they become american?

[@JangianTV]

04:55 That sneaky curse! 😂

[@sweetkarma1345]

It’s a carrot reaction

[@kontoculai6301]

At the beginning I thought there are two Harriets there

[@djskeedledoo]

she is hot. i wish i could find a lady like her

[@iancrombie8862]

They seem.like decent chaps...

[@P.Whitestrake]

Where are they now?

[@GM-fh5jp]

Harriet and The Sundays are awesome...the interviewer however makes you want to set yourself on fire rather than listen to another word.

[@jeffkaufman9875]

@GM Drama much?…😂

[@aqeiwwrgunaug4ne3]

why are there two of her

[@willritter4076]

Despite what David says here about their home recording studio, Harriet & David never made another album after Static & Silence, and the Sundays have been dark for 25 years. My impression is that the 3rd album wasn't at the same standard of the first two, and perhaps they made it with the express intent of cashing out and retiring...

[@Wout.vlmnck]

What's the name of the interviewer?

[@xfactorcritic]

Paul Tonkinson

[@itsme853]

Gffhg

[@tommywiseau6684]

Drew.P.Nutsak

[@Wout.vlmnck]

@@xfactorcritic Thanks! :)

[@NigelFortune]

Terrible interviewer! Great band though i still miss them..

[@richardroberson2564]

I liked the interviewer 😥

[@michaeld.williamsiii9026]

@@richardroberson2564 Lol me too, he wasn’t “horrible” I’ve seen worst interviewers nowadays. 😐

[@greatbungblaster]

This is pathetic, I love the sundays , and this , is just .... nevermind........

[@gibaudrac1]

What an asinine interviewer. The Sundays deserve far better.

[@nobbilc]

Actually,I like him and they do too. They're all running off one another and look like they're having fun.

[@heppolo]

That was the MTV of the 90s. In comparison to the current ones seems like he wasn't the worst

[@joachim595]

What do you mean "deserve"? They are just people. Don't deserve any better treatment than anyone else.

[@CupofCloud]

I found the interviewer to be a great match for the two. Although most likely he wasn't a fan of the Sundays and probably hadn't listened to much Sundays other than what was being played around in public at the time, he took a series of very basic questions that he was assigned to ask and ended up getting much more information out of Harriet and David than on any of the other YT uploaded Sundays interviews I've seen. I'd say as a trio, the interviewer and the two songwriting Sundays hit the ball out of the park for munchy-themed softball interview format.

[@AyeTV1]

Horrible interview

[@Iggytommy]

the talk about their baby made me think about Harriet's breast milk. my bad.

[@user-od7lf5yh1y]

I think about her breasts a lot. 😂👍

[@ShunyamNiketana]

The first step to recovery is admitting you have a problem.

[@edp3202]

😔😐 🥛🍼

[@loopskratch6065]

😐

[@CallMeConnorYT]

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